My Immortal Music: December 2012

Friday, December 21, 2012

Iris by The Goo Goo Dolls

Goo Goo Dolls - Iris (1998)

And I'd give up forever to touch you
'Cause I know that you feel me somehow
You're the closest to heaven that I'll ever be
And I don't want to go home right now

And all I can taste is this moment
And all I can breathe is your life
And sooner or later it's over
I just don't wanna miss you tonight

And I don't want the world to see me
'Cause I don't think that they'd understand
When everything's made to be broken
I just want you to know who I am

And you can't fight the tears that ain't coming
Or the moment of truth in your lies
When everything feels like the movies
Yeah you bleed just to know you're alive

And I don't want the world to see me
'Cause I don't think that they'd understand
When everything's made to be broken
I just want you to know who I am

And I don't want the world to see me
'Cause I don't think that they'd understand
When everything's meant to be broken
I just want you to know who I am

I just want you to know who I am
I just want you to know who I am
I just want you to know who I am

Source: LyricFind

Songwriters: John T Rzeznik

Iris lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Songtrust Ave

Release Me Karaoke by Wilson Philips

Wilson Phillips - Release Me

Friday, December 14, 2012

Talking About A Revolution By Tracy Chapman

Baby Can I Hold You By Tracy Chapman

Behind The Wall By Tracy Chapman

Place In This World By Michael W. Smith

Thursday, December 13, 2012

She’s Not The Cheating Kind By Brooks and Dunn

You’re Gonna Miss Me By Brooks And Dunn

Friday, December 7, 2012

I woke up cryin' late at night when I was very young
I had dreamed my father had passed away and gone
My world revolved around him, I couldn't lie there anymore
So I made my way down the mirrored hall
And tapped upon his door
And I said, "Daddy, I'm so afraid
How will I go on, with you gone that way?
Don't wanna cry anymore so may I stay with you?"
And he said, "That's my job, that's what I do
Everything I do is because of you
To keep you safe with me, that's my job, you see"
Later we barely got along, this teenage boy and he
Most of the fights it seems were over different dreams
We each held for me
He wanted knowledge and learning, I wanted to fly out west
I said, "I could make it out there if I just had the fare
I got half, will you loan me the rest?"
And I said, "Daddy, I'm so afraid
There's no guarantee in the plans I've made
And if I should fail, who will pay my way back home?"
And he said, "That's my job, that's what I do
Everything I do is because of you
To keep you safe with me, that's my job, you see"
Every person carves his spot and fills the hole with life
And I pray someday I might light as bright as he
Woke up early one bright fall day to spread the tragic news
After all my travel, I settled down within a mile or two
I make my livin' with words and rhymes and all this tragedy
Should go into my head and out instead as bits of poetry
But I say, "Daddy I'm so afraid
How will I go on with you gone this way?
How can I come up with a song to say, I love you?"
"That's my job, that's what I do
Everything I do is because of you
To keep you safe with me, that's my job, you see"
"Everything I do is because of you
To seep you safe with me"

IS THERE LIFE OUT THERE BY REBA

She married when she was twenty
She thought she was ready
Now she's not so sure
She thought she'd done some living
But now she's just wonderin'
What she's living for
Now she's feeling that there's something more

Is there life out there
So much she hasn't done
Is there life beyond
Her family and her home
She's done what she should
Should she do what she dares
She doesn't want to leave
She's just wonderin
Is there life out there

She's always lived for tomorrow
She's never learned how
To live for today
She's dyin' to try something foolish
Do something crazy
Or just get away
Something for herself for a change

There's a place in the sun that she's never been
Where life is fair and time is a friend
Would she do it the same as she did back then
She looks out the window and wonders again

Is there life out there
So much she hasn't done
Is there life beyond
Her family and her home
She's done what she should
Should she do what she dares
She doesn't want to leave
She's just wonderin

Is there life out there

So much she hasn't done
Is there life beyond
Her family and her home
She's done what she should
Should she do what she dares
She doesn't want to leave
She's just wonderin

Is there life out there

Songwriters: Susan Longacre / Richard Giles

FANCY BY REBA MCINTIRE

[Verse 1]
I remember it all very well looking back
It was the summer I turned eighteen
We lived in a one room, rundown shack
On the outskirts of New Orleans
We didn't have money for food or rent
To say the least we were hard pressed
Then mama spent every last penny we had
To buy me a dancing dress
Mama washed and combed and curled my hair
And she painted my eyes and lips
Then I stepped into
A satin dancing dress that had a split on the side clean up
To my hip
It was red velvet trim and it fit me good
Standing back from the looking glass
There stood a woman where a half grown kid
Had stood

[Chorus 1]
She said here's your one chance Fancy
Don't let me down
She said here's your one chance Fancy
Don't let me down

[Verse 2]
Mama dabbed a little bit of perfume on my neck
And then she kissed my cheek
And Then I saw the tears welling up in her troubled eyes
As she started to speak
She looked at a pitiful shack
And then she looked at me and took a ragged breath
She said your Pa's run off and I'm real sick
And the baby's going to starve to death
She handed me a heart shaped locket that said
"To thine own self be true"
And I shivered as I watched a roach crawl across the toe of my high heeled shoe
It sounded like somebody else that was talking
Asking mama what do I do
She said be nice to the gentlemen, Fancy
And they'll be nice to you

[Chorus 1]
She said here's your one chance Fancy
Don't let me down
She said here's your one chance Fancy
Don't let me down

[Chorus 2]
Lord, forgive me for what I do
But if you want out
Well, it's up to you
Now don't let me down now, your mama's gonna
Move you uptown

[Verse 3]
Well, that was the last time I saw my Ma
The night I left that rickety shack
The welfare people came and took the baby
Mama died and I haven't been back
But the wheels of fate had started to turn
And for me there was no way out
And it wasn't very long until I knew exactly
What my Mama had been talking about
I knew what I had to do but I made myself this
Solemn vow that I was going to be a lady someday
Though I didn't know when or how
But I couldn't see spending the rest of my life
With my head hung down in shame, you know
You know I might have been born just plain white trash
But Fancy was my name

[Chorus 1]
She said here's your one chance Fancy
Don't let me down
She said here's your one chance Fancy
Don't let me down

[Verse 4]
It wasn't long after that benevolent man
Took me in off the streets
And one week later I was pouring his tea
In a five room hotel suite (yes she was)
I charmed a king, congressman
And an occasional aristocrat
Then I got me a Georgia mansion
And an elegant New York townhouse flat
And I ain't done bad

Now in this world there's a lot of self-righteous hypocrites
That would call me bad (bad)
And criticize Mama for turning me out
No matter how little we had
But though I haven't had to worry about nothing
For now or fifteen years
Well, I can still hear the desperation in my poor
Mama's voice ringing in my ear