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LipGlossQueen9
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I heard this in "Walk the Line", and I thought it was so interesting that I thought I'd create a forum post about it.
God Forbid this happens to any of you lovely people, but hypothetically...
If you were in a horrible car accident....
And you were lying in a ditch, dying, and with your last few breaths you could sing any song that would send out the message you would want to send to the world, and to "God"....
what would you sing?
God
by John Lennon
God is a concept
By which we measure our pain
I'll say it again
God is a concept
By which we measure our pain
Pain, yeah
I don't believe in magic
I don't believe in I-Ching
I don't believe in The Bible
I don't believe in Tarot
I don't believe in Hitler
I don't believe in Jesus
I don't believe in Kennedy
I don't believe in Buddha
I don't believe in mantra
I don't believe in Ghitta
I don't believe in yoga
I don't believe in King(s)
I don't believe in Elvis
I don't believe in Zimmerman
I don't believe in Beatles
I just believe....
In Me
Yoko and me, that's reality.
The dream is over, what can I say?
The dream is over.
Yesterday, I was the dreamweaver, but now I'm reborn.
I was the walrus, but now I'm John.
And so, dear friends, you'll just have to carry on.
The dream is over...
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| May 25, 2007 @ 12:47 AM |
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blueyes101
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Kinda  , but I once had a motorcycle accident, while wearing headphones, and while I was laying on my back, in a cornfield, feeling the muffler burn a hole in my leg.
Boston was still jamming on the radio, and the song was more than a feeling..  So, that comes to mind first,  , I'm sure I can think of something I would rather listen too...... 
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| May 25, 2007 @ 1:02 AM |
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KAOS2007
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Simple Plan wrote this song when one of their band members died in a car crash... it has stuck with me ever since....
I open my eyes
I try to see but I'm blinded by the white light.
I can’t remember how
I can’t remember why
I'm lying here tonight
And I can’t STAND the pain
And I can’t make it go away
No I can’t STAND the pain
How could this happen to me
I've made my mistakes
got nowhere to run
The night goes on as I’m fading away
I'm sick of this life
I just wanna scream
How could this happen to me
Everybody’s screaming
I try to make a sound but no one hears me
I’m slipping off the edge
I’m hanging by a thread
I wanna start this over again
So I try to hold
On to a time when
Nothing mattered
And I can’t explain
What happened and I can’t erase the things that I’ve done
No I can’t
How could this happen to me
I've made my mistakes
got nowhere to run
The night goes on as I’m fading away
I’m sick of this life
I just wanna scream
How could this happen to me
I've made my mistakes
got nowhere to run
The night goes on as I’m fading away
I’m sick of this life
I just wanna scream
How could this happen to me
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| May 25, 2007 @ 1:04 AM |
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kattsmeow
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I am going to have to think about this one. So many songs mean so much to me!
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| May 25, 2007 @ 8:10 AM |
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enigmasrook
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Jeff Buckley's cover of Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah
I heard there was a secret chord
that David played and it pleased the Lord
but you don't really care for music do you
Well it goes like this the fourth the fifth
the minor fall and the major lift
the baffled king composing hallelujah
Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah
Well your faith was strong but you needed proof
you saw her bathing on the roof
her beauty and the moonlight overthrew you
she tied you to her kitchen chair
she broke your throne and she cut your hair
and from your lips she drew the hallelujah.
Hallelujah,hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah
Baby I've been here before
I've seen this room and I've walked this floor
You know, I used to live alone before I knew you
And I've seen your flag on the marble arch
and love is not a victory march
it's a cold and it's a broken hallelujah
Hallelujah,hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah
Well there was a time when you let me know
what's really going on below
but now you never show that to me do you
but remember when I moved in you
and the Holy dove was moving too
and every breath we drew was hallelujah
Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah
Well maybe there's a God above
but all I've ever learned from love
was how to shoot somebody who outdrew you
And it's not a cry that you hear at night
it's not somebody who's seen the light
it's a cold and it's a broken hallelujah
Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah
Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah
Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah
Hallelujah
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| May 25, 2007 @ 8:15 AM |
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7times196
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Won't post the words because there is a couple of songs.
Please Remember Me -- Tim McGraw
The Dance -- Garth Brooks
a couple more but those will do
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| May 25, 2007 @ 10:31 AM |
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Loreli
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I love those songs, 7. Especially The Dance in the 9/11 tribute.
And, If tomorrow never comes:
Sometimes late at night
I lie awake and watch her sleeping
Shes lost in peaceful dreams
So I turn out the lights and lay there in the dark
And the thought crosses my mind
If I never wake up in the morning
Would she ever doubt the way I feel
About her in my heart
(chorus)
If tomorrow never comes
Will she know how much I loved her
Did I try in every way to show her every day
That shes my only one
And if my time on earth were through
And she must face the world without me
Is the love I gave her in the past
Gonna be enough to last
If tomorrow never comes
cause Ive lost loved ones in my life
Who never knew how much I loved them
Now I live with the regret
That my true feelings for them never were revealed
So I made a promise to myself
To say each day how much she means to me
And avoid that circumstance
Where theres no second chance to tell her how I feel
*chorus*
So tell that someone that you love
Just what youre thinking of
If tomorrow never comes
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| May 25, 2007 @ 2:32 PM |
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sciurusniger
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DANTE'S PRAYER
Words and music by Loreena McKennitt
When the dark wood fell before me
And all the paths were overgrown,
When the priests of pride say there is no other way
I tilled the sorrows of stone
I did not believe because I could not see,
Though you came to me in the night.
When the dawn seemed forever lost
You showed me your love in the light of the stars.
Cast your eyes on the ocean,
Cast your soul to the sea.
When the dark night seems endless,
Please remember me.
Then the mountain rose before me
By the deep well of desire,
From the fountain of forgiveness
Beyond the ice and fire.
Cast your eyes on the ocean,
Cast your soul to the sea.
When the dark night seems endless,
Please remember me.
Though we share this humble path, alone,
How fragile is the heart.
Oh give these clay feet wings to fly
To touch the face of the stars.
Breathe life into this feeble heart,
Lift this mortal veil of fear.
Take these crumbled hopes, etched with tears,
We'll rise above these earthly cares.
Cast your eyes on the ocean,
Cast your soul to the sea.
When the dark night seems endless,
Please remember me.
Please remember me....
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| May 25, 2007 @ 3:29 PM |
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ISSUESWOPTIONS
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I think I will marry the woman who knows how to sing Madonna's "Rain"
it would cause me to sing this song if something like the above listed ever happened...
Queensryche.....Silent Lucidity
Hush now dont cry
Wipe away the teardrop from your eye
Youre lying safe in bed
It was all a bad dream
Spinning in your head
Your mind tricked you to feel the pain
Of someone close to you leaving the game of life
So here it is, another chance
Wide awake you face the day
Your dream is over...or has it just begun?
Theres a place I like to hide
A doorway that I run to in the night
Relax child, you were there
But only didnt realize it and you were scared
Its a place where you will learn
To face your fears, retrace the tears
And ride the whims of your mind
Commanding in another world
Suddenly, you hear and see
This magic new dimension
Chorus
I-will be watching over you
I-am gonna help you see it through
I-will protect you in the night
I-am smiling next to you...in silent lucidity
If you open your mind for me
You wont rely on open eyes to see
The walls you built within
Come tumblng down, and a new world will begin
Living twice at once you learn
Youre safe from pain in the dream domain
A soul set free to fly
A round trip journey in your head
Master of illusion, can you realize
Your dreams alive, you can be the guide but...
Chorus
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| May 25, 2007 @ 3:32 PM |
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grumblebear
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this one strikes home for me...
Superman
Five For Fighting
I can’t stand to fly
I’m not that naive
I’m just out to find
The better part of me
I’m more than a bird...I’m more than a plane
More than some pretty face beside a train
It’s not easy to be me
Wish that I could cry
Fall upon my knees
Find a way to lie
About a home I’ll never see
It may sound absurd...but don’t be naive
Even heroes have the right to bleed
I may be disturbed...but won’t you concede
Even heroes have the right to dream
It’s not easy to be me
Up, up and away...away from me
It’s all right...you can all sleep sound tonight
I’m not crazy...or anything...
I can’t stand to fly
I’m not that naive
Men weren’t meant to ride
With clouds between their knees
I’m only a man in a silly red sheet
Digging for kryptonite on this one way street
Only a man in a funny red sheet
Looking for special things inside of me
Inside of me
Inside me
Yeah, inside me
Inside of me
I’m only a man
In a funny red sheet
I’m only a man
Looking for a dream
I’m only a man
In a funny red sheet
And it’s not easy, hmmm, hmmm, hmmm...
Its not easy to be me
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| May 25, 2007 @ 7:30 PM |
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Pinkpassion35
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This song would be the one...means so much to me..my mother used to sing it lots...very well too...can imagine her greeting me with it when my time comes 
After the Gold Rush
Well, I dreamed I saw the knights in armor
comin’
Sayin’ something about a queen.
There were peasants singin’ and drummers
drummin’,
And the archer split the tree.
There was a fanfare blowin’ to the sun
That was floating on the breeze.
Look at Mother Nature on the run in the 1970s,
Look at Mother Nature on the run in the 1970s.
I was lyin’ in a burned-out basement
With the full moon in my eyes.
I was hopin’ for replacement
When the sun burst through the sky.
There was a band playin’ in my head,
And I felt like getting high.
I was thinkin’ about what a friend had said,
I was hopin’ it was a lie.
Thinkin’ about what a friend had said,
I was hopin’ it was a lie.
Well, I dreamed I saw the silver spaceships
lyin’
In the yellow haze of the sun.
There were children cryin’ and colors flyin’
All around the chosen ones.
All in a dream, all in a dream,
The loading had begun.
Flyin’ Mother Nature’s silver seed to a new
home in the sun,
Flyin’ Mother Nature’s silver seed to a new
home.
Neil Young 1970 I think, however covered by many...one of my favourites is Prelude...very emotional
[Edited on 5/25/2007 7:43 PM]
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| May 25, 2007 @ 8:29 PM |
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jamminjerry
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i think the song is "thinking about you" sung by england dan and john ford coley ya did good kid. 
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| May 25, 2007 @ 8:38 PM |
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Gallows_Humor
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And you were lying in a ditch, dying, and with your last few breaths...
first thought would be...
now I lay me down to sleep...and pray the lord my soul to keep...
but as to the world....
hmm....  maybe this one 
The jig is up, the news is out
They finally found me
The renegade who had it made
Retrieved for a bounty
Never more to go astray
The judge'll have revenge today
On the wanted man
no..I'm not wanted by the law...
yeah this one...
I close my eyes
Only for a moment, then the momen't gone
All my dreams
Pass before my eyes, a curiosity
Dust in the wind
All they are is dust in the wind Same old song
Just a drop of water in an endless sea
All we do
Crumbles to the ground, though we refuse to see
Dust in the wind
All we are is dust in the wind, ohh Now, don't hang on
Nothing lasts forever but the earth and sky
It slips away
And all your money won't another minute buy
Dust in the wind
All we are is dust in the wind
All we are is dust in the wind Dust in the wind
Everything is dust in the wind
Everything is dust in the wind
The wind
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| May 25, 2007 @ 8:43 PM |
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sealacamp
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Yoko and me, that's reality.
The dream is over, what can I say?
Somewhere in the distance I hear the bells ring
Darkness settles on the town as the children start to sing
The lady 'cross the street she shuts out the night
There's a cast of thousands waiting as she turns out the light
But it's too late, too late, too late
Too late for love
Yes it's too late too late, too late
Too late for love
London boys are staring as the girls go hand in hand
With a pocket full of innocence, their entrance is grand
And the Queen of the dream stands before them all
She stretches out her hand as the curtains start to fall
Standing by the trapdoor aware of me and you
Are the actor and the clown their waiting for their cue
And there's a lady over there she's acting pretty cool
But when it comes to playing life she's always playin' the fool
S
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| May 25, 2007 @ 9:29 PM |
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thegoodideaman
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well.. if I was a Hobo, I'd sing this song.
Because it sounds Like Hobo Heaven... 
One evening as the sun went down and the jungle fire was burning
Down the track came a hobo hiking and he said boys I'm not turning
I'm headin for a land that's far away beside the crystal fountains
So come with me we'll go and see the Big Rock Candy Mountains
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains there's a land that's fair and bright
Where the handouts grow on bushes and you sleep out every night
Where the boxcars are all empty and the sun shines every day
On the birds and the bees and the cigarette trees
Where the lemonade springs where the bluebird sings
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains all the cops have wooden legs
And the bulldogs all have rubber teeth and the hens lay soft boiled eggs
The farmer's trees are full of fruit and the barns are full of hay
Oh, I'm bound to go where there ain't no snow
Where the rain don't fall and the wind don't blow
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains you never change your socks
And the little streams of alcohol come a-trickling down the rocks
The brakemen have to tip their hats and the railroad bulls are blind
There's a lake of stew and of whiskey too
You can paddle all around 'em in a big canoe
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains the jails are made of tin
And you can walk right out again as soon as you are in
There ain't no short handled shovels, no axes saws or picks
I'm a goin to stay where you sleep all day
Where they hung the jerk that invented work
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains
I'll see you all this coming fall in the Big Rock Candy Mountains
it's Hobo~licious !!!
and a 1/3 fewer Calories than yer Regular Hobo songs !!! 
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| May 25, 2007 @ 11:17 PM |
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your_princess
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grumble that is by far one of my most favorite songs period! the first song that came to mind though was Wind beneath my wings....dunno why.
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| May 26, 2007 @ 5:29 PM |
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luneib
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Don't want to lose you now, by the Backstreet Boys.
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| May 26, 2007 @ 5:45 PM |
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LBIGAL
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this is a tough one , but the first thing that comes to mind is an old Peter, Paul and Mary song, sung by Mary Traverse:
Follow me where i go, what i do and who i know
make it part of me
to be a part of you....
and a prayer....
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| May 26, 2007 @ 10:11 PM |
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JimNastics
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"I'm never giving up"
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| May 26, 2007 @ 10:15 PM |
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JimNastics
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"Stairway to Heaven"
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