LOVE Johnny Cash, although June Carter Cash wrote "Ring of Fire."

She wrote it with Merle Kilgore (Hank Jr.'s best friend and longtime manager).

A Song for You - Leon Russell

This song actually reminds me of my dad... Not my kids.

Everything she sees
she says she wants.
Everything she wants
I see she gets.

That's my daughter in the water
everything she owns I bought her
Everything she owns.
That's my daughter in the water,
everything she knows I taught her.
Everything she knows.

Everything I say
she takes to heart.
Everything she takes
she takes apart.

That's my daughter in the water
every time she fell I caught her.
Every time she fell.
That's my daughter in the water,
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I lost every time I fought her.
Yea, I lost every time.

Every time she blinks
she strikes somebody blind.
Everything she thinks
blows her tiny mind.
That's my daughter in the water,
who'd have ever thought her?
Who'd have ever thought?
That's my daughter in the water,
I lost everytime I fought her
Yea, I lost every time.

She came on to him like a slow moving cold front ....

--River of Tears, John Hiatt.

Romeo & Juliet is also nice by the Indigo Girls. Kind of changes the flavor.

Love Romeo & Juliet. Also mad props to the Bad Religion poster. Made me think of the Dead Kennedy's...

There are so many. Cannot believe that no one has posted Bob Dylan (so hard to choose). Paul Simon is also another genius song writer. Hard to choose between Graceland or "You can Call me Al" but without further ado:

"The Mississippi Delta was shining
Like a National guitar
I am following the river
Down the highway
Through the cradle of the civil war

I'm going to Graceland
Graceland
In Memphis Tennessee
I'm going to Graceland
Poorboys and Pilgrims with families
And we are going to Graceland
My traveling companion is nine years old
He is the child of my first marriage
But I've reason to believe
We both will be received
In Graceland

She comes back to tell me she's gone
As if I didn't know that
As if I didn't know my own KID [not bed]
As if I'd never noticed
The way she brushed her hair from her forehead
And she said losing love
Is like a window in your heart
Everybody sees you're blown apart
Everybody sees the wind blow

I'm going to Graceland
Memphis Tennessee
I'm going to Graceland
Poorboys and Pilgrims with families
And we are going to Graceland

And my traveling companions
Are ghosts and empty sockets
I'm looking at ghosts and empties
But I've reason to believe
We all will be received
In Graceland

There is a girl in New York City
Who calls herself the human trampoline
And sometimes when I'm falling, flying
Or tumbling in turmoil I say
WHOA [not oh], so this is what she means
She means we're bouncing into Graceland
And I see losing love
Is like a window in your heart
Everybody sees you're blown apart
Everybody feels the wind blow

In Graceland, in Graceland
I'm going to Graceland
For reasons I cannot explain
There's some part of me wants to see
Graceland
And I may be obliged to defend
Every love, every ending
Or maybe there's no obligations now
Maybe I've a reason to believe
We all will be received
In Graceland

Marcie, by Joni Mitchell

Anonymous wrote:All of Thunder Road by Springsteen

It's a town full of losers and we're pulling out of here to win!

LOVE Johnny Cash, although June Carter Cash wrote "Ring of Fire."

Also LOVE Mark Knopfler/Dire Straights "Romeo and Juliet."

A love sick Romeo sings the streets a serenade
Laying everybody low with a love song that he made
Finds a convenient streetlamp, steps out of the shade,
saying something like you and me babe, how about it?

Juliet says Romeo you almost gave me a heart attack
He's underneath my window, she's singing hey la my boyfriend's back
Shouldn't come around here, singing up to people like that
Anyway, what're you going to do about it?

Juliet, the dice was loaded from the start
And I bet and you exploded into my heart
But I forget, I forget
Oh you know the movie song
When are you going to realize
It was just that the time was wrong, Juliet?

Come up on different streets, they both were streets of shame,
Both dirty, both mean, yes and the dream was just the same
And I dreamed your dream for you
And now your dream is real
How can you look at me, as if I was just another one of your deals?

Well you can fall for chains of silver
You can fall for chains of gold
You can fall for pretty strangers
And the promises they hold
You promised me everything
You promised me thick and thin yeah
Now you just say, oh Romeo,
you know I used to have a scene with him.

Juliet, when we made love you used to cry
Said I'll love you like the stars above
I'll love you till I die
There's a place for us
You know, the movie song
When you gonna realize it was just that the time was wrong, Juliet?

I can't do the talk like the talk on the TV
And I can't do a love song
like the way it's meant to be
I can't do everything but I'd do anything for you
Can't do anything except be in love with you

All I do is miss you and the way it used to be
All I do is keep the beat, in bad company
And all I do is kiss you, through the bars of a rhyme
Juliet, I'd do the stars with you, anytime


Juliet, when we made love you used to cry
You said, I'll love you like the stars above,
I'll love you till I die
There's a place for us, you know the movie song
When you gonna realize, it was just that the time was wrong, Juliet?

A lovestruck Romeo, sings the streets a serenade
Laying everybody low with a love song that he made
Finds a convenient streetlamp, steps out of the shade,
Saying something like, you and me babe, how about it?

You and me babe, how about it?

Anonymous wrote:There's a darkness upon me that's flooded in light
In the fine print they tell me what's wrong and what's right
And it comes in black and it comes in white
And I'm frightened by those that don't see it

When nothing is owed or deserved or expected
And your life doesn't change by the man that's elected
If you're loved by someone, you're never rejected
Decide what to be and go be it

There was a dream and one day I could see it
Like a bird in a cage I broke in and demanded that somebody free it
And there was a kid with a head full of doubt
So I'll scream til I die and the last of those bad thoughts are finally out

There's a darkness upon you that's flooded in light
And in the fine print they tell you what's wrong and what's right
And it flies by day and it flies by night
And I'm frightened by those that don't see it

There was a dream and one day I could see it
Like a bird in a cage I broke in and demanded that somebody free it
And there was a kid with a head full of doubt
So I'll scream til I die and the last of those bad thoughts are finally out

There was a dream and one day I could see it
Like a bird in a cage I broke in and demanded that somebody free it
And there was a kid with a head full of doubt
So I'll scream til I die and the last of those bad thoughts are finally out

There's a darkness upon me that's flooded in light
In the fine print they tell me what's wrong and what's right
There's a darkness upon me that's flooded in light
And I'm frightened by those that don't see it

Head full of doubt, Avett brothers

I absolutely LOVE this song. The full title is "Head Full of Doubt, Road Full of Promise."

Anonymous wrote:See I'm a 21st century digital boy
I don't know how to read but I've got a lot of toys
My daddy's a lazy middle class intellectual
My mommy's on Valium, so ineffectual
Ain't life a mystery?
-Bad Religion

It's sad how prescient that song was.

Wow, I didn't expect to find another Bad Religion fan here on DCUM!

We're cut adrift
But still floating
I'm only hanging on
To watch you go down
My love

I disappeared in you
You disappeared from me
I gave you everything you ever wanted
It wasn't what you wanted

Desperation is a tender trap
It gets you every time
You put your lips to her lips
To stop the lie

You don't know if it's fear or desire
Danger the drug that takes you higher
Head in heaven, fingers in the mire

To stay with you, I'd be a fool
Sweetheart, you're so cruel.

---verses from So Cruel by U2

All of Thunder Road by Springsteen

If the businessmen drink my blood
Like the kids in art school said they would
Then I guess I'll just begin again
You say, "can we still be friends? "

If I was scared... I would
And if I was bored... you know I would
And if I was yours... but I'm not

All the kids have always known
That the emperor wears no clothes
But they bow down to him anyway
'Cause it's better than being alone

If I was scared... I would
And if I was bored... you know I would
And if I was yours... but I'm not

Now you're knocking at my door
Saying please come out with us tonight
But I would rather be alone
Than pretend I feel alright

If the businessmen drink my blood
Like the kids in art school said they would
Then I guess I'll just begin again
You say, "can we still be friends? "

If I was scared... I would
And if I was pure... you know I would
And if I was yours... but I'm not

Now I'm ready to start

If I was scared... I would
And if I was pure... you know I would
And if I was yours... but I'm not

Now I'm ready to start

Now I'm ready to start
I would rather be wrong
Than live in the shadows of your song
My mind is open wide
And now I'm ready to start

Now I'm ready to start
My mind is open wide
And now I'm ready to start
You're not sure
You open the door
And step out into the dark

Now I'm ready


Arcade Fire "Ready to Start"

I remember
When we could sleep on stones
Now we lie together
In whispers and moans
When I was all messed up
And I had opera in my head
Your love was a light bulb
Hanging over my bed


U2's "Ultraviolet"

Cause you can't jump the track
We're like cars on a cable
And life's like an hourglass glued to the table,
No one can find the rewind button boys so cradle your head in your hands
And breathe, just breathe, whoa breath just breathe

-Breath (2AM) Anna Nalick