Tag: music

Tuesday Tunes

A day for me to discuss music

Lyrics –

Train roll on
On down the line, won’t you
Please take me far away
Now I feel the wind blow
Outside my door, means I’m
I’m leaving my woman at home, Lordy
Tuesday’s gone with the wind
Oh, my baby’s gone, with the wind
And I don’t know
Oh, where I’m going
I just want to be left alone
Well, when this train ends
I’ll try again, oh but I’m
I’m leaving my woman at home, Lordy
Tuesday’s gone, with the wind
Tuesday’s gone, with the wind
Tuesday’s gone, with the wind
My baby’s gone, with the wind
Train roll on
Tuesday’s gone
The train roll on
A many miles from my home, see I’m
I’m riding my blues away, yeah
Well Tuesday, you see
Oh, she had to be free, Lord but
Somehow I got to carry on, Lordy
Tuesday’s gone, with the wind
Tuesday’s gone, with the wind
Tuesday’s gone, with the wind,
oh My baby’s gone, with the wind
Train, roll on, ooh’
Cause my baby’s gone
I’m riding my blues babe
Trying to ride my blues
Ride on train
Ride on train
Ride my blues, babe
Come back to me, babe
Come back to me, oh, train

My 2 Cents –
Lynard Skynard did it first, but I love Metallica’s cover. This is a song from my teens. Considering the fresh passing of the year, I find myself nostalgic. Craving foods from childhood and listening to the music I loved then. I grew up on country, it was all mama would listen to. I went wild. I listen to everything. Classical, classic rock, country, Rhythm and Blues, Bluegrass, rap, heavy metal, pop. you name the genre and I likely have a favorite band. I firmly believe music shows us who a person is…based on their music preferences. That being said…I will listen to just about anything, and give honest opinions. it is unusual for me to prefer the cover, but this is one where I do, What is your favorite song?

Tuesday Tunes

A day for me to discuss music

Lyrics

I live inside my own world of make-believe
Kids screaming in their cradles, profanities
I see the world through eyes covered in ink and bleach
Cross out the ones who heard my cries and watched me weep
I love everything
Fire’s spreading all around my room
My world’s so bright
It’s hard to breathe but that’s alright
Hush
Shh
Tape my eyes open to force reality (oh no, no)
Why can’t you just let me eat my weight in glee?
I live inside my own world of make-believe
Kids screaming in their cradles, profanities
Some days I feel skinnier than all the other days
And some days I can’t tell if my body belongs to me
I love everything
Fire’s spreading all around my room
My world’s so bright
It’s hard to breathe but that’s alright
Hush
Shh
I wanna taste your content
Hold your breath and feel the tension
Devils hide behind redemption
Honesty is a one-way gate to hell
I wanna taste consumption
Breathe faster to waste oxygen
Hear the children sing aloud
It’s music ’til the wick burns out
Hush
Just wanna be care free lately, yeah
Just kicking up daisies
Got one too many quarters in my pockets
Count ’em like the four-leaf clovers in my locket
Untied laces, yeah
Just tripping on daydreams
Got dirty little lullabies playing on repeat
Might as well just rot around the nursery and count sheep

My 2 cents
The problem with being so open minded with music is that choosing just one a week to share is tough. Today I went looking for a song that reflected the confusion in my mind most of the time, the creative draw, the pain, the uncertainty… and I came across this. it made sense. so it got selected to share.

Tuesday Tunes

A day for me to discuss music

Lyrics –

The houses around me
Are filled with people who panic
They hear the noise and the static
And then we all become frantic
We hear the omens and legends
We’re praising gold and our pleasures
We’re looking over our shoulders
Pretend we got it together
Draw the blinds
Check under your bed
Hide your gold
And hold your breath
Feel the ghost
In your chest
Check your pulse
You’re scared to death
Para paranoia
You know what’s coming for ya
Venom in your blood
And there’s no one here to warn ya
Para paranoia
You’ve been here before
Ya can lock up all your doors
But there’s a phantom in your foyer
Para paranoia
Para paranoia
Para paranoia
Controlled by the tension
That’s taking all our attention
To busy with expectations
We’re losing all our convictions
Draw the blinds
Check under your bed
Hide your gold
And hold your breath
Feel the ghost
In your chest
Check your pulse
You’re scared to death
Para paranoia
You know what’s coming for ya
Venom in your blood
And there’s no one here to warn ya
Para paranoia
You’ve been here before
Ya can lock up all your doors
But there’s a phantom in your foyer
Para paranoia
Para paranoia
Para paranoia
Draw the blinds
Check under your bed
Hide your gold
And hold your breath
Feel the ghost
In your chest
Check your pulse
You’re scared to death
Para paranoia
You know what’s coming for ya
Venom in your blood
And there’s no one here to warn ya
Para paranoia
You’ve been here before
Ya can lock up all your doors
But there’s a phantom in your foyer
Para paranoia
You know what’s coming for ya
Venom in your blood
And there’s no one here to warn ya
Para paranoia
You’ve been here before
Ya can lock up all your doors
But there’s a phantom in your foyer
Para paranoia

My 2 Cents-
I asked my daughter for a song for the week, and this was her suggestion. It is a fairly upbeat tune. I like the way the lyrics go. It is not a song I would normally go for admittedly. Still it is not a bad song in all.

Tuesday Tunes

A day for me to discuss music

Lyrics:
I let myself fall into a lie
I let my walls come down
I let myself smile and feel alive
I let my walls come down
No matter how I try I don’t know why
You push so far away
You wrapped your hands tight around my heart
And squeezed it full of pain
With this knife I’ll cut out the part of me
The part that cares for you
With this knife I’ll cut out the heart of me
The heart that cares for you
I can’t believe the way you took me down
I never saw the pain
Coming in a million broken miles
Like poison in my veins
With this knife I’ll cut out the part of me
The part that cares for you
With this knife I’ll cut out the heart of me
The heart that cares for you
The hate and the fear
The nightmares that wake me up
In the tears
The nightmares and (the hate)…

My 2 Cents:
This song gets a bad rap I think. so many see it as emo. It is expressive and poetic. It feels like a song that I can relate to. sometimes that idea of taking a knife and cutting out the heart that wants to hang onto a toxic love…is strong.

Tuesday tunes

A day for me to discuss music

Lyrics –
All gone is here today
Finding room to breathe
Go on beyond your way
And see
And though the sounds of someday
May be home
And though the sounds of someday
May be home
Even the fires on the road
Trying to get away
And all the stars seem on a roll
Out of control today
Though the sounds of someday
May be home
And though the sounds of someday
May be home, yeah
Though the sounds of someday
May be home
Though the sounds of someday
May be home, ay
And though the sounds of someday
May be home, ooh

My 2 Cents –
This song talks of hope…in a world gone crazy it feels like we need hope…in abundance. Jensen has a gorgeous voice, and I need hope…so I went with it.

Tuesday Tunes

Lyrics –

She put him out like the burnin’ end of a midnight cigarette
She broke his heart, he spent his whole life tryin’ to forget
We watched him drink his pain away a little at a time
But he never could get drunk enough to get her off his mind
Until the night He put that bottle to his head and pulled the trigger
And finally drank away her memory
Life is short, but this time it was bigger
Than the strength he had to get up off his knees
We found him with his face down in the pillow
With a note that said, ‘I’ll love her till I die.’
And when we buried him beneath the willow
The angels sang a whiskey lullaby The rumors flew but nobody knew how much she blamed herself
For years and years she tried to hide the whiskey on her breath
She finally drank her pain away a little at a time
But she never could get drunk enough to get him off her mind
Until the night She put that bottle to her head and pulled the trigger
And finally drank away his memory
Life is short, but this time it was bigger
Than the strength she had to get up off her knees
We found her with her face down in the pillow
Clinging to his picture for dear life
We laid her next to him beneath the willow
While the angels sang a whiskey lullaby

My 2 Cents – So this song is sad…and has a very suicidal feeling to it. and this time of year this is something that many of us struggle with. You are important. You are worthy. If you need someone to talk to please reach out.

Tuesday Tunes

Lyrics

[Verse 1]
Creeping eyes from across this masquerade
Feeling scared, every stare will cut like blades
Dead inside, try to hide behind
And shake the tremors

[Verse 2]
Hiding with a smile in a crowded place
Moaning through the lips of a plastic face
Every word just a code that screams
Owned by terror
Are you scared to see what lies beneath
Behind these artificial teeth
Through the guilty strings this mask
Controls it’s wearer

[Chorus]
Trapped in our own disguises
Cut free but soulless still
Our dreams our haunted by the
Ghosts we kill
Identities of silence
In search of cheaper scares
We’re all surrounded by the
Masks we wear

[Verse 3]
Vilified for deeds done in the light
Hiding away within plain sight
These cloaks are keeping safe
The secret faces
Terrified of making one mistake
Narrow mind t’ill the soul begins to break
We are just husks seeking
The world’s false graces

[Chorus]
Trapped in our own disguises
Cut free but soulless still
Our dreams our haunted by the
Ghosts we kill
Identities of silence
In search of cheaper scares
We’re all surrounded by the
Masks we wear

[Verse 4]
Awake within the moment
Asleep throughout our lives
We suffer in this torment
Ensnared in our own lies
In facelessness we’re equal
When we’re not even there
You’re someone underneath this
Behind the mask you wear

[Chorus]
Trapped in our own disguises
Cut free but soulless still
Our dreams our haunted by the
Ghosts we kill
Identities of silence
In search of cheaper scares
We’re all surrounded by the
Masks we wear
Trapped in our own disguises
Cut free but soulless still
Our dreams our haunted by the
Ghosts we kill
Identities of silence
In search of cheaper scares
We’re all surrounded by the
Masks we wear

My 2 Cents

This year has a lot of mask themes. It feels like it is being encouraged more an more to hide who we truly are. I am not sure if I am happy about this. This song expresses that unease at the hiding of self. it makes me feel like I am less of a freak in the fact that I hate the hiding we do,

Tuesday Tunes

A day for me to discuss music

Blue October – Hope you are Happy

Lyrics There will be days when you’re falling down
There will be days when you’re inside out
There will be days when you fall apart
Someone else will break you heart
They’re never gonna hold you back
I’m always gonna have your back
So try to remember that I hope you’re happy
I hope you’re good
I hope you get what you wish for
And you’re well understood And now I’m standing here and looking at you
I wonder what the hell you’re gonna do
With those Dr. Pepper eyes and you bubble gum hair
Yeah, I’m standing right here
I remember how I held you so right
I remember that Saturday night, do you? There will be days when you’re falling down
There will be days when you’re inside out
There will be days when you fall apart
Someone else will break you heart
They’re never gonna hold you back
I’m always gonna have your back
So try to remember that I hope you’re happy
I hope you’re good
I hope you get what you wish for
And you’re well understood
And whatever your progress
I know you’ll be fine
Because I hope you’re happy
Even if you’re not mine I remember when the world was ours to take
I remember you next to me
I remember you with every breath I take
You’ll always have a piece of me
I remember, yeah
Try to remember that I remember every word that we spoke
You right here next to me
I remember how we tried and we tried
I remember everything
Try to remember that
That I hope you’re happy
That I hope you’re happy I hope you’re happy
I hope you’re good
I hope you get what you wish for
And you’re well understood
And whatever your progress
I know you’ll be fine
Because I hope you’re happy
Even if you’re not mine
Try to remember that
I hope you’re happy

my 2 cents I think that everyone has this. that love that even if you can’t have them… you still wish them happy. I have several. so I decided that for today… I hope that you are happy.

Tuesday Tunes

A day for me to discuss music

Alec Benjamin – if we have each other

Lyrics She was 19 with a baby on the way
On the East-side of the city, she was working every day
Cleaning dishes in the evening, she could barely stay awake
She was clinging to the feeling that her luck was gonna change
And, ‘cross town she would take the bus at night
To a one bedroom apartment, and when she’d turn on the light
She would sit down at the table, tell herself that it’s alright
She was waiting on the day she hoped her baby would arrive
She’d never be alone
Have someone to hold
And when nights were cold
She’d say
The world’s not perfect, but it’s not that bad
If we got each other, and that’s all we have
I will be your mother, and I’ll hold your hand
You should know I’ll be there for you
When the world’s not perfect
When the world’s not kind
If we have each other then we’ll both be fine
I will be your mother, and I’ll hold your hand
You should know I’ll be there for you
They were 90 and were living out their days
On the West-side of the city next to where they got engaged
They had pictures on the walls of all the memories that they’d made
And though life was never easy, they were thankful that they stayed
With each other, and though some times were hard
Even when she made him angry he would never break her heart
No, they didn’t have the money to afford a fancy car
But they never had to travel ’cause they’d never be apart
Even at the end
Their love was stronger than
The day that they first met
They’d say
The world’s not perfect, but it’s not that bad
If we got each other, and that’s all we have
I will be your lover, and I’ll hold your hand
You should know I’ll be there for you
When the world’s not perfect
When the world’s not kind
If we have each other then we’ll both be fine
I will be your lover, and I’ll hold your hand
You should know I’ll be there for you
You should know I’ll be there for you
I’m 23, and my folks are getting old
I know they don’t have forever and I’m scared to be alone
So I’m thankful for my sister, even though sometimes we fight
When high school wasn’t easy, she’s the reason I survived
I know she’d never leave me and I hate to see her cry
So I wrote this verse to tell her that I’m always by her side
I wrote this verse to tell her that I’m always by her side
I wrote this verse to tell her that
The world’s not perfect, but it’s not that bad
If we got each other, and that’s all we have
I will be your brother, and I’ll hold your hand
You should know I’ll be there for you
When the world’s not perfect
When the world’s not kind
If we have each other then we’ll both be fine
I will be your brother, and I’ll hold your hand
You should know I’ll be there for you
You should know I’ll be there for you

My 2 cents so much has gone on this year and I needed some happy with the music. so I chose upbeat and happy survival music. rock on.

Tuesday Tunes

A day for me to discuss music

Aviva – E*V*I*L

Lyrics – I’m sorry
Somebody hurt ya
When you were younger
But why’d you take it out on me?
Now you’re over, soon you’ll see
I forgive ya
It’s not your fault you’re
So frickin evil
Spreading lies about you and me
Tore it down, made it seem easy
What’s the way to Heaven?
Now you’ve found a way to sell it
You thought I’d lay down and die
But it’s my turn now to start the fires
You’re E-V-I-L
You burn this place to Hell
But it don’t matter when you’re dead
Won’t save you now ’cause we’re not friends
E-V-I-L, they’re all under your spell
But it won’t matter when you’re dead
Won’t save you now ’cause we’re not friends
E-V, E-V-I-L, E-V, E-V-I-L
But it don’t matter when you’re dead
Won’t save you now ’cause we’re not friends
Your problems are not my problems you’re forgettin’
Cannot change who you are inside
You let it out let your dark run wild
I know it
Wasn’t my fault
I can’t believe though
That you think you have escaped me
I’ll hunt you down, just you wait and see
What’s the way to Heaven?
Now you’ve found a way to sell it
You thought I’d lay down and die
But it’s my turn now to start the fires
You’re E-V-I-L
You burn this place to Hell
But it don’t matter when you’re dead (don’t matter)
Won’t save you now ’cause we’re not friends (don’t matter)
E-V-I-L, they’re all under your spell
But it won’t matter when you’re dead (don’t matter)
Won’t save you now ’cause we’re not friends
E-V, E-V-I-L, E-V, E-V-I-L
But it don’t matter when you’re dead
Won’t save you now ’cause we’re not friends
E-V, E-V-I-L, E-V, E-V-I-L
E-V, E-V-I-L, E-V-I-L (E-V-I-L)
You’re E-V-I-L
You burn this place to Hell
But it don’t matter when you’re dead (don’t matter)
Won’t save you now ’cause we’re not friends (don’t matter)
E-V-I-L, they’re all under your spell
But it won’t matter when you’re dead (don’t matter)
Won’t save you now ’cause we’re not friends
E-V, E-V-I-L, E-V, E-V-I-L
But it don’t matter when you’re dead
Won’t save you now ’cause we’re not friends

My 2 cents – this song has been stuck in my head for 2 weeks now. It has a catchy rhythm to the music. The message behind it is strong.