Random Lyrics

[Ashley]

This is one of my favorite topics. Just post lyrics to one of your favorite songs! You can post either the whole song or you can just post one verse or post just the chorus if you'd like. I'll go first.

Let the tempest and the flood
shake your soul and spill your blood
like an old soul keep holiding on
let the people laugh at you
call you names and say you're through
never let go keep hanging on
I say hang on, hang on
can you hear me I'm gonna say it again
hang on, just hang on never givin' up
no never givin' in

Hang on every hopeful word
even when it seems absurd
keep holding on
If you triumph when you fail
keep your head when you prevail
be a hero keep a hanging around yeah

hang on, hang on
can you hear me I'm gonna say it again
hang on, just hang on
never giving up no never giving in. Here we go say 'oh'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbHLVaZ4THo

Hang On by Michael W. Smith

 

[Ashley]

In the passion your heart is abused
he is pushing you you have to choose
Oh Rebecca love is never easy anymore
Oh Rebecca so afraid of losing what is yours

Are you giving in to the pressure
holding you again now he tells ya
what it takes to be in love he believes
you're old enough but how you gonna feel
oh tomorrow when the day reveals
what you believe was for the sake of love
don't you think you're old enough to know

you're a freedom few and far between (I think I messed that up)
holding on to your romantic dream
Oh Rebecca love is patient love would understand
Oh Rebecca your decision is your only chance...

repeat chorus.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95T6KN2EWhk

Old Enough to Know by Michael W. Smith

 

[DrLeftover]

OK. Good idea for a thread.

But I like to read the lyrics while the song is playing if you don't mind.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VZ5DfCY6kY

"What A Fool Believes"

He came from somewhere back in her long ago
The sentimental fool don't see
Tryin' hard to recreate
What had yet to be created once in her life
She musters a smile
For his nostalgic tale
Never coming near what he wanted to say
Only to realize
It never really was

She had a place in his life
He never made her think twice
As he rises to her apology
Anybody else would surely know
He's watching her go

But what a fool believes he sees
No wise man has the power to reason away
What seems to be
Is always better than nothing
And nothing at all keeps sending him...

Somewhere back in her long ago
Where he can still believe there's a place in her life
Someday, somewhere, she will return

She had a place in his life
He never made her think twice
As he rises to her apology
Anybody else would surely know
He's watching her go

But what a fool believes he sees
No wise man has the power to reason away
What seems to be
Is always better than nothing
There's nothing at all
But what a fool believes he sees...

Lyric by Michael McDonald and Kenny Loggins.
1978 Release

 

[DrLeftover]

This one is my other favorite, depending on the day

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpCASVFyQoE

"Freewill"

There are those who think that life has nothing left to chance
A host of holy horrors to direct our aimless dance

A planet of play things
We dance on the strings
Of powers we cannot perceive
'The stars aren't aligned
Or the gods are malign...'
Blame is better to give than receive

[Chorus:]
You can choose a ready guide in some celestial voice
If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice
You can choose from phantom fears and kindness that can kill
I will choose a path that's clear
I will choose freewill

There are those who think
That they were dealt a losing hand
The cards were stacked against them
They weren't born in Lotusland

All preordained
A prisoner in chains
A victim of venomous fate
Kicked in the face
You can't pray for a place
In heaven's unearthly estate

[Chorus]

Each of us
A cell of awareness
Imperfect and incomplete
Genetic blends
With uncertain ends
On a fortune hunt that's far too fleet

[Chorus]

Lyrics by Neil Peart
music by Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson

1980 release

 

[Ashley]

Fair enough on the sing along. That would probably even make the thread a bit more fun. I just like doing the lyrics, myself, but you can do it anyway you want.

Give thanks to the Lord
Our God and King
His love endures forever

For He is good, He is above all things
His love endures forever Sing praise...
Sing praise...

With a mighty hand and an outstretched arm
His love endures forever for the life that's been reborn
his love endures forever sing praise sing praise

Forever God is faithful
Forever God is strong
Forever God is with us
Forever.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lPdtqgouCc

 

[Ashley]

Above and below me
before and behind me
in every eye that sees me
Christ Be all Around Me

Your life, your death
your blood was shed
every moment every moment

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOwTaHT8qkA

Christ Be All Around Me by Michael W. Smith from his newest album "Sovereign"

 

[Ashley]

They say we're just playin' games
that it isn't real but it's what we feel
and they say it doesn't make sense
that we're just wasting time and they wonder why

You know we got our own special language
that only we can speak and parents never know
just what it means

They don't understand how we communicate
oh so many things that we do and say
they don't really get what it's all about
no they never can understand Pokemon

I can't explain if they don't know why
you see it's everywhere well they must be blind
Pika-what and Ge-who it just doesn't groove
they don't have a clue

You know we got our own world to live in
and we're so far apart oh yes we are
to make it clear I don't know where to start

They Don't Understand Pokemon Version by Dream Street


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ohwa-4HZQi0

 

[Nebulous's iconNebulous]

Paul Simon - Kodachrome

Lyrics:

When I think back
On all the crap I learned in high school
It's a wonder
I can think at all
And though my lack of edu---cation
Hasn't hurt me none
I can read the writing on the wall

Kodachrome
They give us those nice bright colors
They give us the greens of summers
Makes you think all the world's a sunny day, Oh yeah
I got a Nikon camera
I love to take a photograph
So mama don't take my Kodachrome away

If you took all the girls I knew
When I was single
And brought them all together for one night
I know they'd never match
my sweet imagination
everything looks WORSE in black and white

Kodachrome
They give us those nice bright colors
They give us the greens of summers
Makes you think all the world's a sunny day, Oh yeah
I got a Nikon camera
I love to take a photograph
So mama don't take my Kodachrome away

Mama don't take my Kodachrome away
Mama don't take my Kodachrome away
Mama don't take my Kodachrome away

Mama don't take my Kodachrome
Mama don't take my Kodachrome
Mama don't take my Kodachrome away

Mama don't take my Kodachrome
Leave your boy so far from home
Mama don't take my Kodachrome away
Mama don't take my Kodachrome

Mama don't take my Kodachrome away



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLsDxvAErTU

 

[Ashley]

Young man up on the hillside teaching new ways
each word winning them over each heart a kindled flame
old men watch from the outside guarding their bray
threatened by the voice of the paragon
leading their lambs away leading them far away

Nobody knew His secret ambition
nobody knew His claim to fame
He broke the old rules staked in tradition
he tore the holy veil away
questioning those in powerful position
running to those who called his name
but nobody knew his secret ambition
was to give his life away

His rage shaking the temple
his word to the wise
his hand healing on the seventh day
his love wears no disguise
some say death to the radical
he's way out of line
some say praise be the miracle
God sends a blessed sign
a blessed sign for troubled times

Secret Ambition by Michael W. Smith