The Golden Harp

Though I like the rhythm in songs, it's the lyrics that grab me and hold me. These are some of my favorite lyrics.

The Best of What's Around, Dave Matthews Band	Time, Hootie & the Blowfish	One Week, Barenaked Ladies
Lullabye (Goodnight My Angel), Billy Joel	Possession, Sarah McLachlan	Total Eclipse of the Heart, Bonnie Tyler
Time in a Bottle, Jim Croche	New York Minute, Don Henley	Never is a Promise, Fiona Apple	Rhyme & Reason, Dave Matthews Band	The Last Resort, Eagles

The Best of What's Around
Dave Matthews Band

Hey my friend
It seems your eyes are troubled
Care to share your time with me
Would you say you're feeling low and so
A good idea would be to get it off your mind

Refrain:
See, you and me
Have a better time than most can dream
Have it better than the best
So can pull on through
Whatever tears at us
Whatever holds us down
And if nothing can be done
We'll make the best of what's around

Turns out not where but who you're with
That really matters
And hurts not much when you're around
And if you hold on tight 
To what you think is your thing
You may find you're missing all the rest
Well she run up into the light surprised
Her arms are open
Her mind's eye
Is seeing things from a
Better side than most can dream
A clearer road I feel
Oh you could say she's safe

Whatever tears at her
Whatever holds her down
And if nothing can be done
She'll make the best of the what's around

Turns out not where but what you think
That really matters (4x)

Refrain

Turns out not where but who you're with
That really matters
And hurts not much when you're around....

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Time
Hootie and the Blowfish

Time... Why you punish me?
Like a wave crashing into the shore
You wash away my years
Time... Why you walk away?
Like a friend with somewhere to go
You left me crying

Refrain:
Can you teach me about tomorrow
And all the pain and sorrow
Running free
‘Cause tomorrow's just another day
And I don't believe in time

Time... I don't understand
Children killing in the streets
Dying for the color of a rag
Time... painted red and blue
Wash them in the ocean, make them clean
Maybe their mothers won't cry tonight

Refrain

Time wasted
Time walking
You ain't no friend of mine
I don't know where I'm going
I think I'm out of my mind
Thinking about time
If I die tomorrow, yeah,
Just lay me down to sleep

Time wasted
Time walking
You ain't no friend of mine
I don't know where I'm going
I think I'm out of my mind
Thinking about time

Time... You left me standing there
Like a tree growing all alone
The wind just stripped me bare, stripped me bare
Time... The past has come and gone
The future's following
An hour only lasts one second, one second

Refrain

You ain't no friend of mine
I don't know where I'm going
I think I'm out of my mind
Walking
Wasted
You ain't no friend of mine
I don't know where I'm going
No, no no no
Time without courage and 
Time without fear is just
Wasted, wasted time

Time... Why you punish me?

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One Week
Barenaked Ladies

It's been one week since you looked at me,
cocked your head to side and said I'm angry
Five days since you laughed at me saying
get that together come back and see me
Three days since the living room,
I realized it's all my fault, but couldn't tell you
Yesterday you'd forgiven me,
but it'll still be two days till I say I'm sorry

Hold it now and watch the hoodwink
As I make you stop, think
You'll think you're looking at Aquaman
I summon fish to the dish, although I like the Chalet Swiss
And I like the sushi cause it's never touched a frying pan

Hot like wasabe when I bust rhymes
Big like Leanne Rimes
Because I'm all about value
Bert Kampfert's got the mad hits
You try to match wits, You try to hold me but I bust through

Gonna make a break and take a fake
I'd like a stinkin achin shake
I like vanilla, it's the finest of the flavours
Gotta see the show, cause then you'll know
The vertigo is gonna grow
Cause It's so dangerous, you'll have to sign a waiver

How can I help it if I think you're funny when you're mad
Tryin' hard not to smile though I feel bad
I'm the kind of guy who laughs at a funeral
Can't understand what I mean? Well, you soon will
I have a tendency to wear my mind on my sleeve
I have a history of taking off my shirt

It's been one week since you looked at me
Threw your arms in the air and said You're crazy
Five days since you tackled me
I've still got the rug burns on both my knees
It's been three days since the afternoon
You realized it's not my fault not a moment too soon
Yesterday you'd forgiven me
And now I sit back and wait till you say you're sorry

Chickity China the Chinese chicken
You have a drumstick and your brain stops tickin'
Watchin X-files with no lights on,
we're dans la maison
I hope the Smoking man's in this one
Like Harrison Ford I'm getting Frantic
Like Sting I'm tantric
Like Snickers, Guaranteed to satisfy

Like Kurasawa I make mad films
Ok I don't make films
But if I did they'd have a Samurai
Gonna get a set a better clubs
gonna find the kind with tiny nubs
just so my iron's aren't always flyin off the back-swing
gotta get in tune with Sailor Moon
Cause the cartoon has got the boom anime babes
that make me think the wrong thing

How can I help it if I think you're funny when you're mad
Tryin hard not to smile though I feel bad
I'm kind of guy who laughs at a funeral
Can't understand what I mean? Well, you soon will
I have a tendency to wear my mind on my sleeve
I have a history of losing my shirt

It's been One Week since you looked at me
dropped your arms to your sides and said I'm sorry
Five days since I laughed at you and said
You just did just what I thought you were gonna do
Three days since the Living Room
We realized we're both to blame, but what could we do?
Yesterday you just smiled at me
Cause it'll still be two days till we say we're sorry.
Birchmont stadium home of the robbie.

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Lullabye (Goodnight, My Angel)
Billy Joel

Goodnight, my angel
Time to close your eyes
And save these questions for another day
I think I know what you've been asking me
I think you know what I've been trying to say
I promised I would never leave you
And you should always know
Wherever you may go
No matter where you are
I never will be far away

Goodnight, my angel
Now it's time to sleep
And still so many things I want to say
Remember all the songs you sang for me
When we went sailing on an emerald bay
And like a boat out on the ocean
I'm rocking you to sleep
The water's dark
And deep inside this ancient heart
You'll always be a part of me

Goodnight, my angel
Now it's time to dream
And dream how wonderful your life will be
Someday your child may cry
And if you sing this lullabye
Then in your hear
There will always be a part of me

Someday we'll all be gone
But lullabyes go on and on...
They never die
That's how you
And I
Will be

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Possession
Sarah McLachlan

Listen as the wind blows
From across the great divide
Voices trapped in yearning
Embers trapped in time
The night is my companion 
And solitude my guide
Would I spend forever here
And not be satisfied

Refrain:
And I would be the one
To hold you down
Kiss you so hard
I'll take your breath away
And after I wipe away the tears
Just close your eyes dear

Through this world I stumble
So many times betrayed
Trying to find an honest word to fight
The truth enslaved
Oh, you speak to me in riddles and
You speak to me in rhymes
My body aches to breathe your breath
Your words keep me alive

Refrain

Into this night I wander
It's morning that I dread
Another day of going down (?)
The path I fear to tread
Oh, into the sea of waking dreams
I follow without pride
‘Cause nothing stands between us here
And I won't be denied

Refrain

I'll hold you down 
Kiss you so hard 
I'll take your breath away 
And after I wipe away the tears 
Just close your eyes

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Total Eclipse of the Heart
Bonnie Tyler

Turn around... every now and then 
I get a little bit lonely and you never come around
Turn around... every now and then 
I get a little bit tired of listening to the sound of my tears
Turn around... every now and then 
I get a little bit nervous that the best of all the years have gone by
Turn around... every now and then 
I get a little bit terrified and then I see the look in your eyes 
Turn around bright eyes... every now and then I fall apart
Turn around bright eyes... every now and then I fall apart

Turn around... every now and then 
I get a little bit restless and I dream of something wild
Turn around... every now and then
I get a litle bit helpless and I'm lying like a child in your arms
Turn around... every now and then
I get a little bit angry and I know I've got to get out and cry
Turn around... every now and then 
I get a little bit terrified but then I see look in your eyes
Turn around bright eyes... every now and then I fall apart
Turn around bright eyes... every now and then I fall apart

And I need you now tonight
And I need you more than ever
And if you only hold me tight
We'll be holding on forever
And we'll only be making it right
‘Cause we'll never be wrong

Together we can take it to the end of the line
Your love is like a shadow on me all of the time (only all of the time)
I don't know what to do
I'm always in the dark
We're living in a powder keg and giving off sparks
I really need you tonight
Forever's gonna start tonight... forever's gonna start tonight

Once upon a time I was falling in love
Now I'm only falling apart
There's nothing I can do, total eclipse of the heart
Once upon a time there was light in my life
But now there's only love in the dark
Nothing I can say, total eclipse of the heart

INSTRUMENTAL

Turn around, bright eyes
Turn around, bright eyes
Turn around, every now and then
I know you'll never be the boy you always wanted to be
Turn around, every now and then
I know I know you'll always be the only boy who wanted me the way that I am
Turn around, every now and then
I know there's no one in the universe as magical and wondrous as you
Turn around, every now and then
I know there's nothing any better, there's nothing that I just wouldn't do
Turn around bright eyes... every now and then I fall apart
Turn around bright eyes... every now and then I fall apart

And I need you now tonight
And I need you more than ever
And if you only hold me tight
We'll be holding on forever
And we'll only be making it right
‘Cause we'll never be wrong

Together we can take it to the end of the line
Your love is like a shadow on me all of the time (only all of the time)
I don't know what to do, I'm always in the dark
We're living in a powder keg and giving off sparks
I really need you tonight
Forever's gonna start tonight... forever's gonna start tonight

Once upon a time I was falling in love
Now I'm only falling apart
There's nothing I can do, total eclipse of the heart
Once upon a time there was light in my life
Now there's only love in the dark
Nothing I can say, total eclipse of the heart
A total eclipse of the heart... a total eclipse of the heart...
Turn around bright eyes... (turn around bright eyes)

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Time in a Bottle
Jim Croche

If I could save time in a bottle
The first thing that I'd like to do
Is to save every day till eternity passes away
Just to spend them with you

If I could make days last forever
If words could make wishes come true
I'd save every day like a treasure
Again, I would spend them with you

Refrain:
But there never seems to be enough time
To do the things you want to do
Once you find them
I've looked around enough to know
That you're the one 
I want to go through time with

If I had a box just for wishes
And dreams that had never come true
The box would be empty except for the memory
Of how they were answered by you

REFRAIN

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The Best of What's Around, Dave Matthews Band	Time, Hootie & the Blowfish	One Week, Barenaked Ladies
Lullabye (Goodnight My Angel), Billy Joel	Possession, Sarah McLachlan	Total Eclipse of the Heart, Bonnie Tyler
Time in a Bottle, Jim Croche	New York Minute, Don Henley	Never is a Promise, Fiona Apple	Rhyme & Reason, Dave Matthews Band	The Last Resort, Eagles

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