Lyrics –

I can see you’re strugglin’
Promise you’ll find love again
Yeah, it will be alright
Why are you so hard on yourself?
Yeah, why you gotta try so hard?
Counting calories and carbs
Another trip across the world
I go so hard tryna
Make you feel just like a queen
You don’t need a camera to make a scene
You were born like that, no Maybelline
When you first wake up, you’re bad to me
Pop another Addy, no sleep tonight
Can’t push the wheel slow, I’m speedin’ right
Over to the crib ’cause we need to slide
But you take so long makin’ up your mind
Little black dress, Dior bag
Can leave ten times, I’ll take you back
Why you wanna look like someone else?
Why are you so hard on yourself?
I can see you’re strugglin’
Promise you’ll find love again
Yeah, it will be alright
Why are you so hard on yourself?
Try not to fall apart
You’re perfect just the way you are
It will be alright
Why are you so hard on yourself?
Why you gotta compare our lives
To pics you see on your timeline?
Another shot of Hennessy
I try so hard not to
Act like a dick when I’m ’round your friends
Mood swings up and down again
Hollywood Hills, where we play pretend
No one happy, but they’re good at fakin’ it
Pop up in the party, show face tonight
I don’t really smoke, but I need the vibes
She love to get high, she need the flights
Standin’ so high, swear she could fly
And just like that, you get sad
Let’s go home, girl, this party’s so wack
Why you wanna be like someone else?
Why are you so hard on yourself?
I can see you’re strugglin’ (yeah)
Promise you’ll find love again
Yeah, it will be alright (it’ll be alright)
Why are you so hard on yourself? (Yeah)
Try not to fall apart
You’re perfect just the way you are
It will be alright
Why are you so hard on yourself? (Oh)
Girl, when you look in a mirror
I hope you see what I see clearer, yeah
All that I want you to know
Is that you’re perfect the way that you are
Oh, the way you are (oh, the way you are)
Oh-oh, ooh
Oh, why are you so hard on yourself?
I can see you’re strugglin’
Promise you’ll find love again
Yeah, it will be alright
Why are you so hard on yourself?
Try not to fall apart
You’re perfect just the way you are
It will be alright
Why are you so hard on yourself?
Oh-oh, oh-oh (yeah)
Oh-oh, oh-oh, oh

My 2 cents –

I myself have felt like this. on both sides of the song. I am sure that others have too.

Lyrics –

intro
Keep movin′ on

verse
Don’t bother askin′ me to ever give my lady up
Was about five years old, takin’ my first puff
It was love at first light, fell in love the first night
My uncle told me, “Don’t rush, this could be your first crush”
Now I′m on the block with all the homies, and it′s a family affair
17 with a dream, blowin’ smoke in the air
Servin′ fiends, my routine is where I was that year
Avoidin’ ′em fuckin’ pandas in my rearview mirror
County blues, wanna lose shit, I′m with all of my peers
Lookin’ back, I wouldn’t change shit, oh what a career
I used to flip bags with her (yeah), skip class with her (yeah)
She′s comfortable as fuck when I′m tryna smash with her
She got a lotta fans, and they’re always harassin′ us
Ashes to ash to dust, feels like I’m Lazarus
I can′t get past the rush, never pass her up
Who took this bitch worldwide? Nigga, we’re gassin′ up, now is the

chorus
Last dance with Mary Jane, one more time to kill the pain
Even before the fame, she was my Novacane
You know it ain’t gon’ change, ′cause now
I feel summer creepin′ in, and I’m tired of this town again
And if the truth remains that it just ain′t the same
Without my Lois Lane by my side

verse
I’ve seen some things in my life, it feels like ragin′ inside
This time I’m changin′ my mind, I’m sayin’ goodbye to the dangerous side
Sometimes you gotta roll with it, fightin′ fire is a damn cold finesse
Somehow she came in my life
Between the white lines and made it alright (well alright)
And everything she ever told me, knew it from the get-go, yes I did (yes I did)
And if I gotta grab a can of gasoline, strike a match, I′ma burn that bridge
It’s so unfair what she did to me, the way she sparked this epiphany
I tried to walk away, but I′m stumblin’, whole world crumblin′
Some things never change, but now it’s my

chorus
Last dance with Mary Jane (this is my last dance), one more time to kill the pain
Even before the fame, she was my Novacane
You know it ain′t gon’ change, ’cause now
I feel summer creepin′ in (I feel it comin′), and I’m tired of this town again
And yet the truth remains that it just ain′t the same without my Lois Lane by my side

outro
Mm-mm-mm, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Mm-mm-mm, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Keep movin’ on

My 2 cents –

the video is so trippy. I love the original version but I like this one too.

Lyrics –

Born down in a dead man’s town
The first kick I took was when I hit the ground
You end up like a dog that’s been beat too much
Till you spend half your life just covering up

Born in the U.S.A.
I was born in the U.S.A.
I was born in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A.

Got in a little hometown jam
So they put a rifle in my hand
Sent me off to a foreign land
To go and kill the yellow man

Born in the U.S.A.
I was born in the U.S.A.
I was born in the U.S.A.
I was born in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A.

Come back home to the refinery
Hiring man says “Son if it was up to me”
Went down to see my V.A. man
He said “Son, don’t you understand”

I had a brother at Khe Sanh fighting off the Viet Cong
They’re still there, he’s all gone

He had a woman he loved in Saigon
I got a picture of him in her arms now

Down in the shadow of the penitentiary
Out by the gas fires of the refinery
I’m ten years burning down the road
Nowhere to run ain’t got nowhere to go

Born in the U.S.A.
I was born in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A.
I’m a long gone Daddy in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A.
I’m a cool rocking Daddy in the U.S.A.

My 2 cents –

This is one of the most misunderstood songs. I have heard quite a few people lately asking about protest songs, And I can probably do that and nothing else for years, as music is good for expressing reality in a manageable way. So many people see this as a patriotic song…I see it as a lament. Perhaps the antiwar songs will be making my blog more in the future…after all I fear that is the direction that the US is going.

Lyrics –

[Verse 1]
Take me back to old Yazoo
Everything up here is new
I can’t stand it, just must landed
Going back to Old Yazoo

[Verse 2]
Everything you do
People got their eyes on you
It’s compelling, y’have me yelling
Going back to Old Yazoo

[Bridge]
If you don’t like beans and rice
Get your rice and beans
If you don’t like greens and ham
Just get your ham and greens

[Verse 3]
How long will I have you wait?
Standing at the station gate
Broken hearted, gotta get started
Going back to Old Yazoo

[Chorus]
Oh, take me back to Old Yazoo
Everything up here is new
I can’t stand it, just must landed
Going back to Old Yazoo
Everything you do
Peoplе got their eyes on you
It’s compеlling, y’have me yelling
“Take me back to Old Yazoo”

[Post-Chorus]
If you don’t like beans and rice
Get your rice and beans
If you don’t like greens and ham
Just get your ham and greens
Lordy, lordy

[Verse 4]
How long will I have to wait
Standing at the station gate
I’m broken hearted
Gotta get started
Going back to old Yazoo

[Refrain]
Yazoo (Yazoo)
Yazoo (Yazoo)
Yazoo (Yazoo)
Yazoo (Yazoo)
I am going to Yazoo, that’s where I belong
Everything I tell you seems to be all wrong
Yazoo (Yazoo)
Yazoo (Yazoo)

[Vocalizing Interlude]

[Outro]
Going back to old Yazoo
(Going back to old Yazoo)

My 2 cents –

My son felt like this was a silly song. To me it feels like old Jazz. It has a lovely feel to it. And it is different than the music you hear today.

Lyrics –

I know you, I walked with you once upon a dream
I know you, the gleam in your eyes is so familiar a gleam
Yet, I know it’s true that visions are seldom all they seem
But if I know you, I know what you’ll do
You’ll love me at once, the way you did once upon a dream

La-la, la-la, la, ah, ah, ah
But if I know you, I know what you’ll do
You’ll love me at once
The way you did once upon a dream

I know you, I walked with you once upon a dream
I know you, the gleam in your eyes is so familiar a gleam
And I know it’s true that visions are seldom all they seem
But if I know you, I know what you’ll do
You’ll love me at once, the way you did once upon a dream

My 2 cents –

This version has a dreamy feel to it. I love the song overall, but this one suits the song better.

Lyrics –

I shut my eyes
You call but I just cut the line
I know your style
I know that you want one more night
And I’m backsliding
Into this just one more time
Too far from over you
Beams from your M2
Are blowing through my room
And now you
Lay down in my shoes
You dyed your hair blue
Oh, so much déjà vu
And now
I can feel your love
Your temporary touch
It’s a hit and run
You go back there when you’re done
Don’t you want some more
‘Cause I can feel your love
That purple touch
Everyone who sees you falls in love
You eat us up
You live like you’re on camera
You slide on top
A moon to all the juice in us
Too far from over you
Beams from your M2
Are blowing through my room
And now you
Lay down in my shoes
You dyed your hair blue
Oh, so much déjà vu
And now
I can feel your love
Your temporary touch
It’s a hit and run
You go back there when you’re done
Don’t you want some more
‘Cause I can feel your love
Maybe in time
When we’re both better at life
Daylight can open my eyes
And you’ll still be by my side
But meanwhile
I’ve got my contact high
You’ve got your powdered lies
We’ve got these summertime nights
Night by night
I let you eat me alive
I want you to eat me alive
I want you to eat me alive
I can feel your love
Your temporary touch
It’s a hit and run
You go back there when you’re done
I can feel your love
Your temporary touch
It’s a hit and run
You go back there when you’re done
I can feel your love
Your temporary touch
It’s a hit and run
You go back there when you’re done
Don’t you want some more
‘Cause I can feel your love
I can feel your love
I can feel your love
I can feel your love
I can feel your love
I can feel your love

My 2 cents –

my son recommended this to me and it is so powerful.

Lyrics –

Another day in this carnival of souls
Another night settles in, as quickly as it goes
The memories are shadows, ink on the page
And I can’t seem to find my way home
And it’s almost like
Your heaven’s trying everything
Your heaven’s trying everything
To keep me out
All the places I’ve been and things I’ve seen
A million stories that made up a million shattered dreams
The faces of people I’ll never see again
And I can’t seem to find my way home
‘Cause it’s almost like
Your heaven’s trying everything
To break me down
‘Cause it’s almost like
Your heaven’s trying everything
To keep me out
‘Cause it’s almost like
Your heaven’s trying everything
To break me down
‘Cause it’s almost like
Your heaven’s trying everything
Your heaven’s trying everything
To break me down
To break me down
To break me down
Your heaven’s trying everything
Your heaven’s trying everything
To break me down

My 2 cents –

with chronic illness hitting hard and sensory overload setting in because of the weather changes…plus I overloaded my work load…I am feeling this song lately.