Re-post

I was thinking of this song today...bits and pieces of it coming to me like dust on a sunbeam. I kept trying to google what I remembered of it, and nothing came up. I thought I had blogged it, but couldn't find that either. Then I remembered the line, "soft like the woman, with the fight of a thousand men" and was able to find the song. I am reposting, as it seems only Lorraine caught it last time :)

♫Lay me down on
shores of the whitest sand
soft like that woman
with the fight of a thousand men

and if you hold the key
would you set me free?
if you hold the key
would you set me free?

I'm screaming to God
‘would you come and save
what you've either forgot
or you're strengthening
I've finally paid the toll
and it's all open road
just trying to find a home
take me home'

Violet iris
and lilies in bloom for spring
enticing—the silence
a song that we all can sing

and if you hold the key
would you set me free?
if you hold the key
would you set me free?

I'm screaming to God
‘would you come and save
what you've either forgot
or you're strengthening
I've finally paid the toll
and it's all open road
just trying to find a home
take me home'

We're tired and changing
heartbeats are fading
our days are numbered
the clocks, they keep ticking
I've been deserted,
my feelings perverted
by a pissed off and ripped off machine cycle circus
when we look in the mirror
it shatters with shame
our faces are bloody
and sour with disdain
I have seen what you are
and I have seen who I am
and we are desperate, we're desperate, we're desperate
for home…
home….

lay me down on
shores of the whitest sand
soft like that woman
with the fight of a thousand men.♫


(I LOVE this song. Matthew Mayfield began as part of the band Moses Mayfield, and he hits me somewhere most artists can't reach.)

when i say take me

now...home...now

it is not a suicidal reckoning

of an irreconcilable sorrow

though surely there have been

those

endured for this...

strengthening

rather an unquenchable desire

for open road

unearthly

teal moonlit path across 

terracotta seas, impossibly glassy

my open road

has always been water

and there is a place

i might walk it

home

.

.

.

.

Eastmountainsouth - Show Me The River

(Sorry about the video. All I had was my choice of two equally sappy videos!)

"I've been a traveler of far away lands
I've got love on my mind, but death on these hands
come homeward angel, show me the way
or will fate leave me dead in the tracks where I lay

show me the river that leads to my home
back to the one that I love
show me the wind that constantly blows
and I will fly away, fly away home

since we were parted I know I have changed
you'll see the blood that was shed in the lines on my face
but now that I've turned my back on the fight
I'm gonna steal back my life like a thief in the night

I come to you through fire and snow
over high rolling hills and the valleys below
with all that I've suffered I'm still on this road
and if I hold you again will never let go."

Rocket Man - Elton John & Ryan Adams

"Mixing the heartfelt angst of a singer/songwriter with the cocky brashness of a garage rocker, Ryan Adams is at once one of the few artists to emerge from the alt-country scene to achieve mainstream commercial success and the one who most strongly refused to be defined by the genre, leaping from one spot to another stylistically while following his increasingly prolific muse." Ahhhh...a musically promiscuous musician!





♫I don’t remember were we wild and young
All that faded into memory
I feel like somebody I don’t know
Are we really who we used to be
Am I really who I was

The lights will draw you in
And the dark will bring you down
And the night will break your heart
But only if you’re lucky now

Waiting outside while you find your keys
Like bags of trash in the blackening snow
City of neon and toes that freeze
We’ve got nothing and nowhere to go
We’ve got nothing and nowhere.♫

Wired All Wrong - Nothing At All Lyrics

I don't want to post the lyrics, but this was the only decent video available and the lyrics aren't even right. *sigh* I really want to make my own videos, but there are only so many hours in the day for the umpteen hobbies I need to fit into whatever time is left over after work. The lyrics of this song really mean nothing to me. But the music hooks me in with the chord changes and unpredictability. It's the one song I really like from Wired All Wrong. The rest are just....wierder...and not in a listening pleasure kind of way.

Their debut album, Break Out The Battle Tapes, came out on September 12, 2006. And that's it! *POOF*, aside from an instrumental album of the same name with same song titles one year later. Hmmmmmm.

Heartstrings - Stephen Fryrear

♫I see you how feel, it's on your face
Heaven only knows this might be the place
Maybe you can find where I lost my grace tonight
Don't you know, I need you now
Hold me close, 'cause I'm losing ground
And I'm hoping you could help me out

There's something in your eyes that reminds me
The worst days of mine are behind me
My heartstrings and yours are winding down
Down, down, down

And baby you speak and your whisper
Heals my mind and you lay down a kiss
Where I need it the most
I need it the most

You don't know what you do to me
Every time you come around
You're making my dreams come true

There's something in your eyes that reminds me
The worst days of mine are behind me
My heartstrings and yours are winding down
Down, down, down

Oh and I can't ask for nothing more
It's almost like I never knew love before
I saw that there's

There's something in your eyes that reminds me
The worst days of mine are behind me
My heartstrings and yours are winding down
Down, down, down ♫


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Not much info on this guy, but I've been listening to this CD for about four months. I love the sound. He has a new single out, "Hands and Feet" that can be previewed on iTunes. He has only put out the one full album so far. Still having a hard time finding women artists that aren't trying so hard to be sexy that they've blocked their soul. It's almost invisible behind the hype.