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

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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New York Minute
Don Henley

Harry got up
Dressed all in black
Went down to the station
And he never came back
They found his clothing
Scattered somewhere down the track
And he won't be down on Wall Street in the morning

He had a home
The love of a girl
But men get lost sometimes
As the years unfurl
One day he crossed some line
And he was too much in this world
But I guess that doesn't matter anymore

Refrain:
In a New York Minute
Everything can change
In a New York Minute
Things can get pretty strange
In a New York Minute
Everything can change
In a New York Minute

Lying here in the darkness
I hear the sirens wail
Somebody going to emergency
Somebody's going to jail
If you find somebody to love in this world
You better hang on tooth and nail
The wolf is always at the door

REFRAIN

And in these days
When darkness falls early
And people rush home
To the ones they love
You better take a fool's advice
And take care of your own
One day they're here;
Next day they're gone

I pulled my coat around my shoulders
And took a walk down through the park
The leaves were falling all around me
The groaning city in the gathering dark
On some solitary rock
A desperate lover left his mark,
"Baby, I've changed. Please come back."

What the head makes cloudy
The heart makes very clear
The days were so much brighter
In the time when she was here
But I know there's somebody somewhere
Make these dark clouds disappear
Until that day, I have to believe,
I believe
I believe

REFRAIN

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Never is a Promise
Fiona Apple

You'll never see — the courage I know
Its colors' richness won't appear within our view
I'll never glow — the way that you glow
Your presence dominates the judgments made on you

But as the scenery grows, I see in different lights
The shades and shadows undulate in my perception
My feelings swell and stretch; I see from greater heights
I understand what I am still too proud to mention — to you

You'll say you understand, but you don't understand
You'll say you'd never give up seeing eye to eye
But never is a promise, and you can't afford to lie

You'll never touch — these things that I hold
The skin of my emotions lies beneath my own
You'll never feel the heat of this soul
My fever burns me deeper than I've ever shown — to you

You'll say Don't fear your dreams, it's easier than it seems
You'll say you'd never let me fall from hopes so high
But never is a promise and you can't afford to lie

You'll never live the life that I live
I'll never live the life that wakes me in the night
You'll never hear the message I give
You'll say it looks as though I might give up this fight

But as the scenery grows, I see in different lights
The shades and shadows undulate in my perception
My feelings swell and stretch, I see from greater heights
I realize what I am now too smart to mention — to you

You'll say you understand, you'll never understand,
I'll say I'll never wake up knowing how or why
I don't know what to believe in, you don't know who I am
You'll say I need appeasing when I start to cry
But never is a promise and I'll never need a lie

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Rhyme & Reason
Dave Matthews Band

Oh well oh well so here we stand
But we stand for nothing
My heart calls to me in my sleep
How can I turn to it
‘Cause I'm all locked up in this Dark place -
And I do not know 
My head aches -
Warped and tied up
I need to kill this pain

Refrain:
My head won't leave my head alone
And I don't believe it will
Until I'm dead and gone
My head won't leave my head alone
And I don't believe it will
Until I'm six feet under ground

How long I'm tied up
My mind in knots -
My stomach reels
In concern for what I might do or
What I've done
It's got me living in fear
Well I know these voices must
Be my soul
I've had enough 
I've had enough of being alone
I've got no place to go

Refrain

In my grave
Lying wired, shut and quiet in my grave
Leave me
Leave it to me to waste here

So young and here I am again
Talking to myself
The T.V. blares
Oh man
Oh how I wish I didn't smoke
Or drink to reason with my head
But sometimes this thick confusion
Grows until I cannot bear it at all
Needle to the vein
Needle to the vein
Take this needle from my vein my friend
I said

Refrain

...in my grave
Lying,
Lying, cold in my grave
The reason -
My reason
Take my head off this terror
The fearing won't come back
I can't see
My mind's all wiped
The needle
Make my great escape
I seem caught in time
My head leaves me behind
Body fall cold
And I see heaven

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The Last Resort
The Eagles

She came from Providence
One in Rhode Island
Where the old world shadows hang
Heavy in the air
She packed her hopes and dreams
Like a refugee
Just as her father came
Across the sea
She heard about a place
People were smiling
They spoke about the red man's way
How they loved the land
They came from everywhere
To the great divide
Seeking a place to stay
Or a place to hide

Down in the crowded bars
Out for a good time
Can't wait to tell them all
What it's like up there
They called it paradise
I don't know why
Somebody laid the mountains low
While the town got high

Then the chilly winds blew down
Across the desert
Through the canyons, over the coast
To the 
Where the pretty people play
Hungry for power
Tonight their neon way
Give them things to do
So much men came and raped the land
Nobody caught them
Put up a bunch of ugly boxes
And Jesus, people bought them
They called it paradise
The place to be
They watched the hazy sun
Sinking in the sea

You can leave it all behind
And sail to the 
Just like the missionaries did
So many years ago
They even brought a neon sign
‘Jesus is coming'
Brought the white man's burden down
Brought the white man's reign
We will provide the grand design
What is yours and what is mine
‘Cause there is no more new frontier
We have got to make it here
We satisfy our endless needs
Justify our bloody deeds
In the name of destiny 
And in the name of God

And you can see them there
On Sunday morning
Stand up and sing about
What it's like up there
They call it paradise
I don't why
You call some place paradise
Kiss it goodbye

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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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