i got tagged
You are supposed to post your 5 favorite songs and the lyrics. Now I have a zillion favorite song. They change to fit my mood. I have my happy favorite songs, my sad favorite songs, my angsty favorite songs, my in love favorite songs and on it goes. Right now I am angsty. So here are my 5 favorite angsty songs. These are my theme songs (especially Freedom!!!) I named my dog after Grace in the last song. Oh yeah, I am an angsty chick
Somehow We Get There
Melissa Ferrick
Well I'm searching for somethin'
That I can't reach
So I whisper your name
In my sleep
N' time it isn't giving me
The space that I need
But you know at this pace
I don't think
I can
Pull into the lead
Forgiving myself is too simple too hard
There's got to be another way
To stop this car
But you know
Somehow we get there
Through the blind night
We got the while lines flashing past the tip of our headlights
Somehow we get there
From whatever we are
Somehow we get there
No matter how far
'Cause I can't
Carry this around anymore
It's getting heavier with age
It is the boulder in my stomach
It's the avalanche in my veins
So let's leave it behind
I want to bury it beside the road
I will sit there until it comes out of me
I'll be freezing in the summer desert cold
But you know
Somehow we get there
Through the blind night
We got the white lines flashing past the tips of our head lights
Somehow we get there
From wherever we are
Somehow we get there
No matter how far
So hold my head
While I rock
Myself back to sleep
And I tell you that I am not easy
And you tell me that I am
Sweet
so what
Ani
who's gonna take the call
when you find out that the road ahead
is painted on a wall
and you're turned up to top volume
and you're just sitting there in pause
with your feral little secret
scratching at you with its claws
and you're trying hard to figure out
just exactly how you feel
before you end up parked and sobbing
forehead on the steering wheel
who are you now
and who were you then
that you thought somehow
you could just pretend
that you could figure it all out
the mathematics of regret
so it takes two beers to remember now
and five to forget
that i loved you so
yeah, i loved you, so what
how many times undone
can one person be
as they're careening through the facade
of their favorite fantasy
you just close your eyes slowly
like you're waiting for a kiss
and hope some lowly little power
will pull you out of this
but none comes at first
and little comes at all
and when inspiration finally hits you
it barely even breaks your fall
who were you then
and who are you
now that you can't pretend
that you can figure it all out
subtract out the impact
and the fall is all you get
so it takes two beers to remember now
and three more to forget
that i loved you so
yeah, i loved you, so what
i loved you
so what
going once
Ani
going once, going twice
sold to the girl
who ignored all the advice
of all the people who knew her better
she just stood there
on the front porch
waiting for her will
to come and get here
she was packed
she had a suitcase
full of noble intentions
she had a map
and a straight face
hell bent on reinvention
and she was ready
for the lonely
she was in it for
it only
going once, going twice
down the road less taken
with her diary and her WD40
and her swiss army knife
and her beer
and there was always
someone there to say
why don't you just stay
and hang your hat here
but she was packed
she had a suitcase
full of bungles and near misses
and she was swinging
through a jungleof last calls and first kisses
and she was learning
about please
and huge humilities
then one day she looked around her
and everything up til then was showing
and she wondered how did i get here
without even knowing where i was going?
now there's no getting out of this
and there is no going back
and it all seems so odd sometimes
and the odds all seem stacked
going once, going twice
sold to the girl
who ignored all the advice
of all the people who knew her better
she just stood there
on the front porch
waiting for her will
to come and get here
she was packed
she had a suitcase
full of noble intentions
she had a map
and a straight face
hell bent on reinvention
and she was ready
for the lonely
she was in it for
it only
Freedom
Melissa Ferrick
sadness finds its way onto me
ya on any given day
and i just end up feelin guilty
and i don't know how many times i've told you
i do not know how i ended up this way
it's as if sometimes i have just halted
yeah i stopped dead in my tracks
life it just seems to cover me
and it's in these moments that i feel trapped
so i claim freedom
i claim my freedom
so what is it exactly that you want from me
oh yeah you want me to stay
even though i am terrified
to let myself end up this way
yeah i'm afreaid of feeling
of feeling nothing at all
and i'm afraid of settling down
into a love that 'ain't love at all
so I claim my freedom
I claim freedom
so take this brain out and hang it on the line
take this chair out back and burn it
'cause i can't get any work done from in here
you know this hole i dug myself in
has got me buried up to helpless
and i'd like to call you liar
yeah but that's what you
what you likd to called me
yeah i'd like to call you a liar
liar
yeah but that's what you
isn't that what you always called me
so I claim my freedom
yeah I claim my freedom
freedom freedom freedom
freedom freedom freedom
i know this bar
Ani
i know this bar
with a jukebox full of medicine
and christmas lights blinking
around a clouded mirror
it's not that far
from old voelkers bowling alley
just go up there and turn right
it's about four blocks from here
you'll probably find grace
her shift starts at happy hour
she's got this sweet face
easy as tea leaves to read
you gotta know what to look for
you gotta know what's there to find
but then i guess
you don't really know her
so nevermind
i used to hang out a lot around there
in that part of town
where all the white kids
still have feathered hair
i know this song
with this one really killer line
i don't remember it exactly
but it slays me everytime
it's on the jukebox there
i know it's number 5403
go put that song on for me won't you
and make gracie think of me
Now you go
Somehow We Get There
Melissa Ferrick
Well I'm searching for somethin'
That I can't reach
So I whisper your name
In my sleep
N' time it isn't giving me
The space that I need
But you know at this pace
I don't think
I can
Pull into the lead
Forgiving myself is too simple too hard
There's got to be another way
To stop this car
But you know
Somehow we get there
Through the blind night
We got the while lines flashing past the tip of our headlights
Somehow we get there
From whatever we are
Somehow we get there
No matter how far
'Cause I can't
Carry this around anymore
It's getting heavier with age
It is the boulder in my stomach
It's the avalanche in my veins
So let's leave it behind
I want to bury it beside the road
I will sit there until it comes out of me
I'll be freezing in the summer desert cold
But you know
Somehow we get there
Through the blind night
We got the white lines flashing past the tips of our head lights
Somehow we get there
From wherever we are
Somehow we get there
No matter how far
So hold my head
While I rock
Myself back to sleep
And I tell you that I am not easy
And you tell me that I am
Sweet
so what
Ani
who's gonna take the call
when you find out that the road ahead
is painted on a wall
and you're turned up to top volume
and you're just sitting there in pause
with your feral little secret
scratching at you with its claws
and you're trying hard to figure out
just exactly how you feel
before you end up parked and sobbing
forehead on the steering wheel
who are you now
and who were you then
that you thought somehow
you could just pretend
that you could figure it all out
the mathematics of regret
so it takes two beers to remember now
and five to forget
that i loved you so
yeah, i loved you, so what
how many times undone
can one person be
as they're careening through the facade
of their favorite fantasy
you just close your eyes slowly
like you're waiting for a kiss
and hope some lowly little power
will pull you out of this
but none comes at first
and little comes at all
and when inspiration finally hits you
it barely even breaks your fall
who were you then
and who are you
now that you can't pretend
that you can figure it all out
subtract out the impact
and the fall is all you get
so it takes two beers to remember now
and three more to forget
that i loved you so
yeah, i loved you, so what
i loved you
so what
going once
Ani
going once, going twice
sold to the girl
who ignored all the advice
of all the people who knew her better
she just stood there
on the front porch
waiting for her will
to come and get here
she was packed
she had a suitcase
full of noble intentions
she had a map
and a straight face
hell bent on reinvention
and she was ready
for the lonely
she was in it for
it only
going once, going twice
down the road less taken
with her diary and her WD40
and her swiss army knife
and her beer
and there was always
someone there to say
why don't you just stay
and hang your hat here
but she was packed
she had a suitcase
full of bungles and near misses
and she was swinging
through a jungleof last calls and first kisses
and she was learning
about please
and huge humilities
then one day she looked around her
and everything up til then was showing
and she wondered how did i get here
without even knowing where i was going?
now there's no getting out of this
and there is no going back
and it all seems so odd sometimes
and the odds all seem stacked
going once, going twice
sold to the girl
who ignored all the advice
of all the people who knew her better
she just stood there
on the front porch
waiting for her will
to come and get here
she was packed
she had a suitcase
full of noble intentions
she had a map
and a straight face
hell bent on reinvention
and she was ready
for the lonely
she was in it for
it only
Freedom
Melissa Ferrick
sadness finds its way onto me
ya on any given day
and i just end up feelin guilty
and i don't know how many times i've told you
i do not know how i ended up this way
it's as if sometimes i have just halted
yeah i stopped dead in my tracks
life it just seems to cover me
and it's in these moments that i feel trapped
so i claim freedom
i claim my freedom
so what is it exactly that you want from me
oh yeah you want me to stay
even though i am terrified
to let myself end up this way
yeah i'm afreaid of feeling
of feeling nothing at all
and i'm afraid of settling down
into a love that 'ain't love at all
so I claim my freedom
I claim freedom
so take this brain out and hang it on the line
take this chair out back and burn it
'cause i can't get any work done from in here
you know this hole i dug myself in
has got me buried up to helpless
and i'd like to call you liar
yeah but that's what you
what you likd to called me
yeah i'd like to call you a liar
liar
yeah but that's what you
isn't that what you always called me
so I claim my freedom
yeah I claim my freedom
freedom freedom freedom
freedom freedom freedom
i know this bar
Ani
i know this bar
with a jukebox full of medicine
and christmas lights blinking
around a clouded mirror
it's not that far
from old voelkers bowling alley
just go up there and turn right
it's about four blocks from here
you'll probably find grace
her shift starts at happy hour
she's got this sweet face
easy as tea leaves to read
you gotta know what to look for
you gotta know what's there to find
but then i guess
you don't really know her
so nevermind
i used to hang out a lot around there
in that part of town
where all the white kids
still have feathered hair
i know this song
with this one really killer line
i don't remember it exactly
but it slays me everytime
it's on the jukebox there
i know it's number 5403
go put that song on for me won't you
and make gracie think of me
Now you go