Filed under: Music, iPod offering | Tags: iPod offering, ready when you are, trapt
September 13th, 2008
Are you having trouble keeping up?
Seeing this thing through?
I want to know who you’re running from,
Me or you?
You’re too confused to open up,
Feel the way I do
I want to know who you’re thinking of
Cause I really have no clue
Another game of charades
Don’t you know everybody plays?
I don’t want to lose to you that way
Maybe we’ll be different this time around
Maybe we’ll be different I don’t know
Don’t want to strangle this, so I’m holding back for now
Calm down, don’t take it too far
I know only time can heal scars
So I’m ready when you are, when you are
I’m ready when you are
Tied down
Don’t want any false starts
I can do without the time apart
So I’m ready when you are, when you are
I’m ready when you are
Are you having trouble keeping up?
You know that I will wait
I wonder if it’s good enough
To make you stay
You’re too confused to open up
You don’t know what to say
Well you can tell me if you think it’s love
I won’t be far away
Another game of charades
Don’t you know everybody plays?
I don’t want to lose to you that way
Maybe we’ll be different this time around
Maybe we’ll be different I don’t know
Don’t want to strangle this, so I’m holding back for now
Calm down, don’t take it too far
I know only time can heal scars
So I’m ready when you are, when you are
I’m ready when you are
Tied down
Don’t want any false starts
I can do without the time apart
So I’m ready when you are, when you are
I’m ready when you are
I want to know if you’re thinking of me
I’ll be counting the hours even though I know I’m free
Too soon to take a chance
No more questions left to ask
I could be anything, but the one thing I’m not sure you want to be
Calm down, don’t take it too far
I know only time can heal scars
So I’m ready when you are, when you are
I’m ready when you are
Tied down
Don’t want any false starts
I can do without the time apart
So I’m ready when you are, when you are
I’m ready when you are
Calm down, don’t take it too far
I know only time can heal scars
So I’m ready when you are, when you are
I’m ready when you are
Tied down
Don’t want any false starts
I can do without the time apart
So I’m ready when you are, when you are
I’m ready when you are
Calm down, I’m ready when you are
August 24th, 2008
These words have been with me since 1989 and they are the most beautiful and haunting collection of nouns, adjectives, verbs and emotions ever placed next to each other. You can see what inspires me here, almost like a magnified glass:
hopelessly drift
in the eyes of the ghost again
down on my knees
and my hands in the air again
pushing my face in the memory of you again
but i never know if it’s real
never know how i wanted to feel
never quite said what i wanted to say to you
never quite managed the words to explain to you
never quite knew how to make them believable
and now the time has gone
another time undone
hopelessly fighting the devil
futility
feeling the monster
climb deeper inside of me
feeling him gnawing my heart away
hungrily
i’ll never lose this pain
never dream of you again
untitled- the cure
Filed under: Music, iPod offering | Tags: brad kooistra, history, iPod offering, Music
August 3rd, 2008
I’m in love with the colors in your eyes
Oh those oceanic eyes
Keeping secrets deep and beautiful
My love for you is a fire
You have confidence in the tried and true
But you doubt promises and I promise you
You got the most amazing way
Of setting aside the roaring waves
When swimming in the river we all shall be
Joyful in the cool of an evening breeze
Out of all the wonders my eyes have seen
I’m just glad to be a part of your history
For three long years I’ve waited on a sign
That I might be your rescuer
But now a wondering vagabond I must be
Just being glad to be a part of your history
And all the lights stuck in your eyes
Believing promises just like a child
Maybe one day you will see
That I’m just glad to be a part of your history
-Brad Kooistra “History”
Hear it here.
Filed under: Emotions, Music, iPod offering | Tags: boys like girls, iPod offering, me you and my medication
July 21st, 2008
Found my way to the highway, I don’t wanna tell you the state I’m in
I’ve had too much to smoke, too much to drink, where have I been?
I feel like the stars are getting closer and the sky is closing in
And I don’t know where to begin
We’re all looking for something, to take away the pain
Me, and you, and my medication
(Making the best of it)
Love is just a chemical creation
(Will it be permanent?)
Synthetic sensation
Me, you, and my medication
The way back to the right track, maybe you can help me find the door
Is it too much to ask, too much too fast, too much to ignore?
It feels like your body’s getting closer but you seem so far away
Medicine make it ok
We’re all looking for someone, to take away the pain
Me, and you, and my medication
(Making the best of it)
Love is just a chemical creation
(Will it be permanent?)
Synthetic sensation
Me, you, and my medication
So can you feel it?
Do you feel it coming down?
You gotta get up
Can you get up off the ground?
Can you hear it?
Can you hear me screaming?
So can you feel it?
Do you feel it coming down?
You gotta get up
Can you get up off the ground?
I wanna hear it
Wanna hear you breathing
We’re all addicted to something, that takes away the pain
Me, and you, and my medication
(Making the best of it)
Love is just a chemical creation
(Will it be permanent?)
Synthetic sensation
Me, you, and my medication
Filed under: Music, iPod offering | Tags: all i can see, brendan james, iPod offering, Music
June 13th, 2008
I want to walk through this doorway
I want to open my mind
I want to pledge my allegiance to all I can find.
I want a car that will crash through the barriers
to a road no one knows.
I want to feel less control,
want to bend and I want to land far from home.
The revolution of the earth around the sun
is the perfect lesson of how it should be.
So if i cannot learn
to journey and return,
to never rest till I’ve seen all I can see…
I want to learn a completely new language,
one I don’t understand.
I want to help someone lost, someone helpless,
with the strength of my hand.
I want to come to the base of a statue built
before they counted the years,
and there i’ll fall with my face in my hands and cry
and feel their hope in my tears.
The revolution of the earth around the sun
is the perfect lesson of how it should be.
So if I cannot learn,
to journey and return,
to never rest till I’ve seen all I can see…
Train rides and pastures colliding…
colors and customs I’ve never seen…
I know I, yes I know I,
I know I will stumble
but time is precious my friend.
Those who journey can easily understand,
the more they see the more they’ll learn,
the more that they will be.
So this I swear to you, and this I swear to me,
I’ll never rest till I’ve seen all I can see.
No, I’ll never rest till I’ve seen all i can see.
I want to know where the strength of a person lies,
in their past or their future.
Is it in the way that they hurt or they love themselves
or is it all an illusion?
I want to crawl from this skin that i’m painted in…
Body, please let it give.
I want to find the creator of all good things
and ask what it means to live
All I Can See
-Brendan James
March 19th, 2008
You’re My Home
-Billy Joel
When you look into my eyes
and you see the crazy gypsy in my soul
it always comes as a surprise
when I feel my withered roots begin to grow.
Well I never had a place
that I could call my very own
but that’s all right my love
cuz you’re my home.
When you touch my weary head
and you tell me everything will be all right.
You say use my body for your bed
and my love will keep you warm throughout the night.
Well I’ll never be a stranger
and I’ll never be alone
wherever we’re together
that’s my home.
Home could be the Pennsylvania turnpike
Indiana’s early morning dew
high up in the hills of California
home is just another word for you.
Well I never had a place that I could call my very own
but that’s all right my love
cuz you’re my home.
If I travel all my life
and I never get stop and settle down
long as I have you by my side
there’s a roof above and good walls all around.
You’re my castle, you’re my cabin
and my instant pleasure dome.
I need you in my house
cuz you’re my home,..
you’re my home.
I was eating a grilled cheese today and this song came on my iPod. There’s really nothing better.
Filed under: Emotions | Tags: Emotions, ipod, iPod offering, sarah mclachlan
January 28th, 2008
Mary walks
Down to the water’s edge
And there she hangs her head
To find herself faded
A shadow of what she once was
She said ’how long have I been sleeping
And why do I feel so old
Why do I feel so cold
My heart is saying one thing but my body won’t let go’
With trembling hands she reaches up
A stranger’s flesh is offered
And I would be the last to know
I would be the last the let it show
I would be the last to go
Take her hand
She will lead you through the fire
Give you back hope
And hope that you won’t take too much
Respecting what is left
She cradled us
She held us in her arms
Unselfish in her suffering she could not understand
That no one seemed to have the time
To cherish what was given
And I would be the last to know
And I would be the last to let it show
I would be the last to go…
Mary walks…
