list 43 song lyrics that impact on me

Although you think I cope
My head is filled with hope…
Of some place other than here

Although you think I smile
Inside all the while
I’m wondering about my destiny

I’m thinking about
All the things..
I’d like to do in my life

I’m a dreamer
A distant dreamer
Dreaming for hope, from today

Even when you see me frown
My heart won’t let me down..
Because I know there’s better things to come

And when life gets tough
I feel I’ve had enough
I hold on to a distant star

I’m thinking about
All the things..
I’d like to do in my life

I’m a dreamer
A distant dreamer
Dreaming for hope from today

I’m a dreamer
A distant dreamer
Dreaming for hope from today

Yeah, I’m a dreamer

Oooooooh…
Oooooooh…
Oooooooh…

I’m a dreamer
A distant dreamer
Dreaming for hope from today

Yeah I’m a dreamer…

Oooooooh…
Oooooooh…
Oooooooh…

I’m a dreamer

Distant Dreamer

For hearing all my doubts so selectively and
For continuing my numbing love endlessly and
For helping you and myself not even considering
For beating myself up and overfunctioning

To whom do I owe the biggest apology?
No one’s been crueler than I’ve been to me

For letting you decide if I indeed was desirable
For myself love being so embarassingly conditional
And for denying myself to somehow make us compatible
And for trying to fit a rectangle into a hole

To whom do I owe the biggest apology?
No one’s been crueler than I’ve been to me

I’m sorry to myself
My apologies begin here before everybody else
I’m sorry to myself
For treating me worse than I would anybody else

For blaming myself for your unhappiness
And for my impatience when I was perfect where I was
Ignoring all the signs that I was not ready
And expecting myself to be where you wanted me to be

To whom do I owe the first apology?
No one’s been crueler than I’ve been to me

And I’m sorry to myself
My apologies begin here before everybody else
I’m sorry to myself
For treating me worse than I would anybody else

Well, I wonder which crime is the biggest
Forgetting you or forgetting myself
Had I heeded the wisdom of the latter
I would’ve naturally loved the former

For ignoring you my highest voices
For smiling when my strife was all too obvious
For being so disassociated from my body and
For not letting go when it would’ve been the kindest thing

To whom do I owe the biggest apology?
No one’s been crueler than I’ve been to me

And I’m sorry to myself
My apologies begin here before everybody else
I’m sorry to myself
For treating me worse than I would anybody else
I’m sorry to myself
My apologies begin here before everybody else
I’m sorry to myself
For treating me worse than I would anybody else

Sorry To Myself

When you try your best, but you don’t succeed
When you get what you want, but not what you need
When you feel so tired, but you can’t sleep
Stuck in reverse

And the tears come streaming down your face
When you lose something you can’t replace
When you love someone but it goes to waste
Could it be worse?

Lights will guide you home
And ignite your bones
And I will try to fix you

High up above or down below
When you’re too in love to let it go
But if you never try you’ll never know
Just what you’re worth

Lights will guide you home
And ignite your bones
And I will try to fix you

Tears stream down on your face
When you lose something you cannot replace
Tears stream down on your face
And I

Tears stream down on your face
I promise you I will learn from my mistakes
Tears stream down on your face
And I

Lights will guide you home
And ignite your bones
And I will try to fix you

Fix You

I see angels
I see devils in me too

..and yes

I am angry and frustrated too
I’m no different, different than you

And I’ve been hurt
And wounded

..and yes, I’ve been abused

Now I can see you
Holding out your hand
Hoping that, someone will, finally understand

That you’re beautiful
Yes you’re beautiful
You are beautiful
You are beautiful

Deep in the silence, before the dawn
The wounded, the battle scarred
The nicks and the cut

Don’t let it define you, let it all blow away
Reach for the stars, the moon please
Find your way

Don’t you know you’re beautiful
Cause you’re beautiful
Cause you’re beautiful
Cause you’re beautiful

I see angels
I hear devils in me too

..and yes, I am human
And I want nothing from you

Don’t you see you’re beautiful
Yes you’re beautiful
We are beautiful
Yes you’re beautiful

It’s the time to choose, what you want now
It’s the time to declare, who you are now
It’s the time to, reach for the stars now
It’s the time to believe in yourself now

Dream with me now
Dream with me now
Dream with me now
Dream with me now
Dream with me now
Dream with me now

The smell of your skin lingers on me, now
You’re probably on your flight back to your hometown
I need some shelter of my own protection baby
Be with myself in center, clarity, peace, serenity

I hope you know, I hope you know
That this has nothing to do with you
It’s personal, myself and I
We got some straightening out to do
And I’m gonna miss you like a child misses their blanket
But I’ve gotta get a move on with my life
It’s time to be a big girl now
And big girls don’t cry
Don’t cry, Don’t cry, Don’t cry

The path that I’m walking, I must go alone
I must take the baby steps till I’m full grown, full grown
Fairy tales don’t always have a happy ending, do they?
And I foresee the dark ahead if I stay

I hope you know, I hope you know
That this has nothing to do with you
It’s personal, myself and I
We got some straightening out to do
And I’m gonna miss you like a child misses their blanket
But I’ve gotta get a move on with my life
It’s time to be a big girl now
And big girls don’t cry
(Don’t cry, don’t cry, don’t cry)

Like a little school mate in the school yard
We’ll play jacks and UNO cards
I’ll be your best friend
And you’ll be my, valentine
Yes you can hold my hand if you want to
‘Cause I wanna hold yours too
We’ll be playmates and lovers and share our secret worlds
But it’s time for me to go home
It’s getting late and dark outside
I need to be with myself in center, clarity, peace, serenity

I hope you know, I hope you know
That this has nothing to do with you
It’s personal, myself and I
We got some straightening out to do
And I’m gonna miss you like a child misses their blanket
But I’ve gotta get a move on with my life
It’s time to be a big girl now
And big girls don’t cry
Don’t cry, Don’t cry, Don’t cry

Big Girls Don’t Cry

Men walkin’ ‘long the railroad tracks
Goin’ someplace there’s no goin’ back
Highway patrol choppers comin’ up over the bridge
Hot soup on a campfire under the bridge
Shelter line stretchin’ ‘round the corner
Welcome to the new world order
Families sleepin’ in their cars in the Southwest
No home no job no peace no rest
The highway is alive tonight
But nobody’s kiddin’ nobody about where it goes
I’m sittin’ down here in the campfire light
Searchin’ for the ghost of Tom Joad

He pulls a prayer book out of his sleeping bag
Preacher lights up a butt and takes a drag
Waitin’ for when the last shall be first and the first shall be last
In a cardboard box ‘neath the underpass
Got a one-way ticket to the promised land
You got a hole in your belly and gun in your hand
Sleepin’ on a pillow of solid rock
Bathin’ in the city aqueduct

The highway is alive tonight
Where it’s headed everybody knows
I’m sittin’ down here in the campfire light
Waitin’ on the ghost of Tom Joad

Now Tom said “Mom, wherever there’s a cop beatin’ a guy
Wherever a hungry newborn baby cries
Where there’s a fight against the blood and hatred in the air
Look for me mom I’ll be there
Wherever there’s somebody fightin’ for a place to stand
Or a decent job or a helpin’ hand
Wherever somebody’s strugglin’ to be free
Look in their eyes Mom you’ll see me.”

Well the highway is alive tonight
But nobody’s kiddin’ nobody about where it goes
I’m sittin’ down here in the campfire light
With the ghost of old Tom Joad

Mum and Dad and Denny saw the passing-out parade at
Puckapunyal
It was a long march from cadets
The sixth battalion was the next to tour and it was
me who drew the card. We did Canungra, Shoalwater before
we left..

And Townsville lined the footpaths as we marched down
to the quay..
This clipping from the paper shows us young and strong
and clean. And there’s me in my slouch hat with my SLR
and greens..
God help me, I was only nineteen

From Vung Tau, riding Chinooks, to the dust at Nui Dat
I’d been in and out of choppers now for months
But we made our tents a home, VB and pinups on the lockers
And an Asian orange sunset through the scrub

And can you tell me, doctor, why I stil can’t get to sleep?
And night-time’s just a jungle dark and a barking M16?
And what’s this rash that comes and goes, can you tell me
what it means?
God help me, I was only ninteen

A four week operation when each step could mean your last
one on two legs
It was a war within yourself..

But you wouldn’t let your mates down till they had you dusted
off.. So you closed your eyes and thought about something else

Then someone yelled out “Contact!” and the bloke behind me swore
We hooked in there for hours, then a Godalmighty roar
And Frankie kicked a mine the day that mankind kicked the moon,
God help me, he was going home in June

And I can still see Frankie, drinking tinnies in the Grand Hotel
on a thirty-six hour rec leave in Vung Tau
And I can still hear Frankie, lying screaming in the jungle
Till the morphine came and killed the bloody row

And the Anzac legends didn’t mention mud and blood and tears
And the stories that my father told me never seemed quite real
I caught some pieces in my back that I didn’t even feel
God help me, I was only nineteen

And can you tell me, doctor, why I still can’t get to sleep?
And why the Channel Seven chopper chills me to my feet?
And what’s this rash that comes and goes, can you tell me
what it means?
God help me, I was only nineteen

I was only 19

ANZAC Remembrance – Lest We Forget

Spend all your time waiting
For that second chance
For a break that would make it okay

There’s always some reason
To feel not good enough
And it’s hard at the end of the day

I need some distraction
Oh a beautiful release
Memories seep from my veins

It may be empty
Oh and weightless and maybe
I’ll find some peace tonight

In the arms of the angel
Fly away from here
From this dark, cold hotel room
And the endlessness that you feel
You are pulled from the wreckage
Of your silent reverie
You’re in the arms of the angel
May you find some comfort here

So tired of this straight line
And everywhere you turn
There’s vultures and thieves at your back

The storm keeps on twisting
Keep on building the lies
That you make up for all that you lack

It don’t make no difference
Escape them one last time
It’s easier to believe

In this sweet madness
Oh, this glorious sadness
That brings me to my knees

In the arms of the angel
Fly away from here
From this dark, cold hotel room
And the endlessness that you feel
You are pulled from the wreckage
Of your silent reverie
You’re in the arms of the angel
May you find some comfort here

You’re in the arms of the angel
May you find some comfort here

Angel

Dear Mr. President
Come take a walk with me (come take a walk with me)
Let’s pretend, we’re just two people and you’re not
better than me
I’d like to ask you some questions if we can speak honestly

What do you feel when you see all the homeless on the street?
Who do you pray for at night before you go to sleep?
What do you feel when you look in the mirror?
Are you proud?

How do you sleep while the rest of us cry?
How do you dream when a mother has no chance to say goodbye?
How do you walk with your head held high?
Can you even look me in the eye..
And tell me why?

Dear Mr. President
Were you a lonely boy? (were you a lonely boy)
Are you a lonely boy? (are you a lonely boy)
How can you say..
No child is left behind?
We’re not dumb and we’re not blind
They’re all sitting in your cells
While you pave the road to hell

What kind of father would take his own daughter’s rights away?
And what kind of father might hate his own daughter if she were gay?
I can only imagine what the first lady has to say
You’ve come a long way from whiskey and cocaine

How do you sleep while the rest of us cry?
How do you dream when a mother has no chance to say goodbye?
How do you walk with your head held high?
Can you even look me in the eye?

Let me tell you ‘bout hard work
Minimum wage with a baby on the way
Let me tell you ‘bout hard work
Rebuilding your house after the bombs took them away
Let me tell you ‘bout hard work
Building a bed out of a cardboard box
Let me tell you ‘bout hard work
Hard work
Hard work
You don’t know nothing ‘bout hard work
Hard work
Hard work
Oh

How do you sleep at night?
How do you walk with your head held high?
Dear Mr. President..
You’d never take a walk with me

Dear Mr. President

You’ve got a fast car
I wanna a ticket to anywhere
Maybe we can make a deal
Maybe together we can get somewhere
Any place is better
Starting from zero, got nothing to lose
Maybe we’ll make something
Me, myself, I’ve got nothing to prove

You’ve got a fast car
I’ve got a plan to get us out of here
Been working at the convenience store
Managed to save just a little bit of money
Won’t have to drive too far
Just cross the border and into the city
You and I can both get jobs
And finally see what it means to be living

See my old man’s got a problem
Live with the bottle, that’s the way it is
He says his body’s too old for working
His body’s too young, to look like his
When mama went off and left him
She wanted more from life than he could give
I said somebody’s got to take care of him
So I quit school and that’s what I did

You’ve got a fast car
Is it fast enough so we can fly away?
We gotta make a decision
Leave tonight or live and die this way

Say remember when we were driving, driving in your car
Speed so fast it felt like I was drunk
City lights lay out before us
And your arm felt nice wrapped ‘round my shoulder
And I had a feeling that I belonged
I had a feeling I could be someone, be someone, be someone

You’ve got a a fast car
We go cruising entertain ourselves
You still ain’t got a job
Now I work in the market as a checkout girl
I know things will get better
You’ll find work and I’ll get promoted
We’ll move out of the shelter
Buy a bigger house and live in the suburbs

Say remember when we were driving, driving in your car
Speeds so fast it felt like I was drunk
City lights lay out before us
And your arm felt nice wrapped ‘round my shoulder
And I had a feeling that I belonged
I had a feeling I could be someone, be someone, be someone

You’ve got a fast car
I’ve got a job that pays all our bills
You stay out drinking late at the bar
See more of your friends than you do of your kids
I’d always hoped for better
Thought maybe together you and me’d find it
I got no plans and I ain’t going nowhere
So take your fast car and keep on driving

You’ve got a fast car
Is it fast enough so you can fly away?
You gotta make a decision
Leave tonight or live and die this way

Fast Car