Good
music
and good lyrics make a powerful combination. Here's just a
small
selection of lyrics that I can identify with, both in
my own life and in others. Some of these words are
rather dark, but I've come to understand that every shadow within us is
a doorway to a hidden light, we just need to have the courage and the
strength to face it instead of ignoring
or suppressing it.
This can be a tremendous challenge, but the rewards make it an
extremely worthwhile and empowering process.
Jamie
Click here to listen to a
selection of these tracks
Well it's got nothing to
do with anything that is real
You just believe in it
and it's true
You can sooth like an
angel or sigh like a saint
You can dream it and see
it through
You will live to see a
sea of lights
Sparking on the face of
a pearl
Climb your own peak
Find a new streak
Get yourself along to
the world party
Now you've
been building for yourself a cool place in the sand
You're thinking that
it's mighty fine
You've got dust in your
eyeballs, you got mud in your mouth
But it's your head, it
ain't mine
I've got a madman of my
own to contend with
Cursing in the cave of
my skull
Turn the other cheek
Find a new streak
Get yourself along to
the world party
Well I
heard a rumour of a golden age
Somewhere back along the
line
Maybe I dreamed it in a
whisper or heard
it in a spell
It was something to do
with the sign of the times
And the only thing that
I remember
Is a summer like a
pretty girl
Who shimmers and shines
Moving in time
Shaking to the beat of
the heart of the world party
-
The Waterboys (World Party)
In high
places
Shining through
In all things
In everything we do
There's a
reason
There's a place to come to
And when I find this peace
I'm
trusting in you
Trusting in you
Yeah, I lay my life
down
I lift you up
I let you go
And I give you up
I lay my life
down
I lift you up
I let you go
And I give you all
In high
places
Shining through
In all things
In everything we do
In high places
Shining though
In all things
In all things
When the battle
comes
When the rain is pouring down
When darkness shadows the sun
What
have we done?
Where do we go from here?
And over barriers
we cross
Reaching for something lost
And from this we rise
To higher
places
As in all things
We must go on
- Leahy (High Places)
Now the mist across the window hides the lines
But nothing hides the
colour of the lights that shine
Electricity so fine
Look and dry your eyes
We are young but getting
old before our time
We'll leave the TV and
the radio behind
Don't you wonder why
we're blind
Steppin' out tonight
-
Joe Jackson (Steppin' Out)
May you never lay your
head down without a hand to hold
May you never make your
bed out in the cold
May you never lose your
temper if you get hit in a bar room fight
May you never lose your
woman over night
-
John Martyn (May You Never)
Sometimes I see your face
The stars seem to lose
their place
Why must I think of you?
Why must I?
Why should I?
Why should I cry for you?
Why would you want me to?
What would it mean to say
I loved you in my
fashion?
- Sting (Why Should I
Cry For You)
Our conscious lives run
deep
You cling onto your mountain while we sleep
This way of life is part of me
The is no price so only let me be
And should the children weep
The turning world will sing their souls to sleep
When you have sunk without a trace
The universe will suck me into place
-
Sting (We Work The Black Seam Together)
I'm scared of swimming
in the sea
Dark shapes moving under
me
Every fear I swallow
makes me small
Inconsequential things
occur
Alarms are triggered, memories stir
...It's not the way it has to be...
I'm afraid of what I do
not know
I hate being
undermined
I'm afraid I can be
devil man
And I'm scared to be
divine
Don't mess with me my
fuse is short
Beneath this skin these
fragments caught
...When i allow it to be...
It has no control over me
I have my fears
But they do not have me
Walking through the undergrowth to the house in the woods
The deeper I go the
darker it gets
I peer through
the window
Knock at the door
And the monster I was so afraid of lies curled up on the floor
He's curled up on the
floor just like a baby boy
I cry until I
laugh
- Peter Gabriel (Darkness)
Much more than this way beyond imagination
Much more than this beyond the stars
With my head so full so full of fractured pictures
And i'm all there right next to you
So much more than this there is something else there
When all that you had
has all gone
More than this i'm alone feeling so connected
And i'm all there right
next to you
More than this
-
Peter Gabriel (More Than This)
Sometimes you're stormy
water on
which I pour my oil
In each other's shadow the
roots reach into the soil
All these knots so
tightly
tied we
could not uncoil
In lovetown
No place to
settle down
And do those teeth still
match the wound
Take a good look around
In lovetown
- Peter Gabriel
(Lovetown)
I cry the way that babies cry
The way they can't deny
The way it feels
Words, they climb all
over you
'Til they uncover you
From where you hide
And in this moment, I
need to be needed
When my self-esteem is
sinking, I like to be liked
In this emptiness and
fear,
I want to be wanted
'Cause I love to be loved
I love to be loved
-
Peter Gabriel (Love To Be Loved)
Man I'm losing sound and
sight of
all those who can tell me wrong from right
When all things
beautiful and bright sink in the night
Yet there's still
something in my heart that
can find a way
To make a start
To turn up the signal
Wipe out the noise
-
Peter Gabriel (Signal To Noise)
Life
carries on in
the people I meet
In everyone
that’s out on the street
In all the dogs and cats
In the flies and rats
In the rot and the rust
In the ashes and the dust
Life carries on and on
and on and on
Life carries on and on
and on
It’s just the
car that we ride in
A home we
reside in
The face that we hide in
The way we are tied in
And life carries on and
on and on and on
Life carries on and on
and on
-
Peter Gabriel (I Grieve)
Another
time it might have been so different
Oh if only we could do
it all again
But now it's just
another fading memory
Out of focus, though the
outline still remains
So far away, away,
fading distant lights
Leaving us all behind,
lost in a changing world
And you know that these
are the days of our lives
So remember
Like the
story that we wish was never ending
We know sometime we must
reach the final page
Still we carry on just
pretending
That there'll always be one more day to go
So far away, away, fading
distant lights
Leaving us all behind,
lost in a changing world
And you know that these
are the days of our lives
So remember
-
Genesis (Fading Lights)
Got me writing lyrics on
postcards
Then in the evenings
looking at stars
But the brightest of the
planets is Mars
What has happened to
love?
(Rufus
Wainwright - Go Or Go Ahead)
Cause I know that feeling when you've tried so hard to make your way
out
Nothing mends
So you search for the breed of the problems there
lying deep down in the soul
Even if they never end
There's a whole
bunch of reasons trying to get out
But they can't make it out of the
door
Ohh, I know the reason I'm not enough
There's nothing more
But if I chant for happiness maybe that will make me feel better
I
can't change my ideals, I can't put out the fire
Oh if I chant for
happiness maybe that will bring us together for the better
I can't
changes my ideals, I can't lose my desire
(Seal - Newborn friend)
I'm a man with a clear
destination
I'm a man with a broad
imagination
You fog the mind, you
stir the soul
I can't find no
control...
Wait...
Did you hear that?
Man this is sure
stirring up some ghosts for me
She said "The one thing
you've got to learn is
not to be afraid of it."
I said "No, I like it. I
like it, it's good."
She said "You like it
now but
you'll learn to love it later."
- Robbie Robertson (Somewhere Down The Crazy River)
White star in the black sky
Tell me of my future
Will I be a rich man or a poor man whose dreams have deserted him
It's you
It's love
All I need
All I need
One wish would you grant me
'Cause I am just a man with great expectations
One prayer could you answer
'Cause I am just a man with great expectations
It's you
It's love
All I need
All I need
- Darshan Ambient (It's You)