I rarely like songs on the first listen, but sometimes I get lucky. So I hear the last bit of chorus of a song the other morning in the car, and I like it enough to jot down the lyrics so I go home and find it. Turns out it's "What Hurts the Most" by Rascal Flatts. Whee!

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I can take the rain on the roof of this empty house
That don’t bother me
I ( Read more... )

Look at me
I will never pass for a perfect bride or a perfect daughter
Can it be I'm not meant to play this part.
Now I see that if I were truly to be myself
I would break my family's heart

Who is that girl I see staring straight back at me
Why is my reflection someone I don't know
Somehow I cannot hide who I am though I've tried
When will my reflection ( Read more... )

Shadows fill an empty heart • As love is fading
From all the things that we are • And are not saying
Can we see beyond the scars • And make it to the dawn

Change the colors of the sky • And open up to
The ways you made me feel alive
The ways I loved you
For all the things that never died
To make it through the night
Love will find you

-- From "What About ( Read more... )

I once swore that that line would be etched on my gravestone. I thought I was doing better these days, but maybe not. The song that belongs to that title still resonates with me. It's not entirely appropriate since it's actually about breaking up, and only parts of the lyrics make any sense in describing how I feel. But you know, I don't think ( Read more... )

I´m looking for a place
Searching for a face
Is anybody here I know
´Cause nothing´s going right
And everything's a mess
And no one likes to be alone

Isn't anyone trying to find me?
Won't somebody come take me home?

It´s a damn cold night
Trying to figure out this life
Wont you take me by the hand
Take me somewhere new
I don´t know who you are
But I ( Read more... )

My mother came to Hazard when I was just seven ( Read more... )

What day is it? And in what month?
This clock never seemed so alive
I can't keep up and I can't back down
I've been losing so much time

Look at this stuff, isn't it neat ( Read more... )

I walk a lonely road
The only one that I have ever known
Don't know where it goes
But it's home to me and I walk alone

I walk this empty street
On the boulevard of broken dreams
Where the city sleeps
and I'm the only one and I walk alone

My shadow's the only one that walks beside me
My shallow heart's the only thing that's beating
Sometimes I ( Read more... )

I don't wanna lose you, but I don't wanna use you ( Read more... )