“Mother, the ribbons of your love are woven around my heart.”
a little late for mother’s day but none the less, here it is… Mommy, I love you and without you I wouldn’t be alive, so to be without you, I’d rather just die.
Selah Sue [Mommy]
Once a day your voice is everything I need and all the things you’ve done, gave me power to succeed. I fell so many times but you pulled me through, but in time I’ll find myself, I hope you see that too.
’Cause when I feel scared, sometimes I do and when I feel scared, it seems that life is harder than I ever knew. When I feel scared, you are the only one who knows just what to say. So here am I to thank you.
Hey there little girl, wake up and see and take your time to grow, that is what you really need. And I cried so many times but you pulled me through. And I know it sounds cliché, but I can’t live without you.
Jafa [Ella Fitzgerald - Angel Eyes Lyrics]
Try to think that love’s not around but, it’s uncomfortably near. My old heart ain’t gaining no ground, because my angel eyes ain’t here.
Angel eyes, that old devil sent, they glow unbearably bright. Need I say that my love’s misspent, misspent with angel eyes tonight.
Pardon me but I got to run the fact’s uncommonly clear. Got to find who’s now number one and why my angel eyes ain’t here.
So drink up all you people. Order anything you see. Have fun all you people. The drink and the laughs on me.
Excuse me while I disappear.
I cry when I hear this song… I cry when I sing this song… but these tears are protesting for my happiness, reminding me that I’m not quite there yet… so it’s okay to cry. It’s alright.
So what if it hurts me? So what if I break down? So what if this world just throws me off the edge, my feet run out of ground? I gotta find my place. I wanna hear my sound. Don’t care about all the pain in front of me, cause I’m just trying to be happy.
Leona Lewis [Happy]
Someone once told me that you have to choose, what you win or lose, you can’t have everything. Don’t you take chances, might feel the pain. Don’t you love in vain cause love won’t set you free. I can’t stand by the side and watch this life pass me by. So unhappy, but safe as could be.
So what if it hurts me? So what if I break down? So what if this world just throws me off the edge my feet run out of ground? I gotta find my place. I wanna hear my sound. Don’t care about all the pain in front of me cause I’m just trying to be happy.
Holding on tightly, just can’t let it go, just trying to play my role. Slowly disappear, but all these days, they feel like they’re the same, just different faces, different names, get me out of here. I can’t stand by your side, and watch this life pass me by.
So any turns that I can’t see, like I’m a stranger on this road but don’t say victim, don’t say anything.
Cause as much as you lead, you know that I’ll follow. If today you come running, I know that tomorrow, you could walk away from me in a second flat, but if I ever left you I’d always come back.
‘Cause I’m that kind of woman and you’re that kind of man.
The Regulars feat. Leonie [Adele/To Make You Feel My Love] Reggae Remix
When the rain is blowing in your face and the whole world is on your case, I could offer you a warm embrace, to make you feel my love. When the evening shadows and the stars appear and there is no one there to dry your tears, I could hold you for a million years, to make you feel my love.
I know you haven’t made your mind up yet but I would never do you wrong. I’ve known it from the moment that we met, no doubt in my mind where you belong.
I’d go hungry. I’d go black and blue. I’d go crawling down the avenue. No, there’s nothing that I wouldn’t do, to make you feel my love. The storms are raging on the rolling sea and on the highway of regret. Though winds of change are throwing wild and free, you ain’t seen nothing like me yet.
I could make you happy, make your dreams come true. Nothing that I wouldn’t do. Go to the ends of the Earth for you, to make you feel my love.
Lex Land [As Much As You Lead]
Well I always get my hopes up a palm’s length too high. With every step I get closer, I’m still stuck one step behind. Yeah, but we’re just too good at never getting our timing right. So for right now I’ll have to keep putting my loving on standby…
‘Cause as much as you lead, you know that I’ll follow. If today you come running, I know that tomorrow, you could walk away from me in a second flat, but if I ever left you I’d always come back, cause I’m that kind of woman and you’re that kind of man.
It’s a long lonesome circle of us coming and staying and going our opposite ways. At least the quiet nights are easier than these sunny empty days. ‘Cause at least when I’m sleeping I can dream of you keeping me safe, or of a Someday so far that when I asked you, you’d finally stay.
This little Orange Days on Lemon Street binge is ending, I just can’t believe studio versions of her songs are so hard to find on YouTube, (such a shame!) but this album, the lyrics, and the voice is impossible not to share (on my part)…
Lex Land [Favorite]
It’s almost as though the minute I forget your name, you call me on the phone and I have to stutter through another pointless conversation with you. And then when it ends, silence ensues, cause neither of us knows, what more to say or do. Will you never be real with me again, now that we have to just go on pretendin’ that we’re friends?
Said I was your Favorite, and that of all loves, ours would surely make it. That I was your Favorite lover, have you gone now and found another?
Lately I’ve been tryin’ hard to just get by, you know, doing what I’ve got to do to get you off my mind. Don’t feel too much anymore, but isn’t that what sex is for? Lose myself in fighting all the heartbreak that’s in store, and when the morning comes, and your arms are empty, and sunlight’s crashing on your sheets, are you reminded of me? Or do you wake to face the day without a second glance at where your loving lady used to lay?
Said you were my Favorite, and that of all loves, ours would surely make it. That you were my Favorite lover. Did you appreciate it?
So I press my ear near to your voice, ’cause it’s as close as I can get. You ask me if I’m seeing anyone and I tell you that “I’m not ready yet.” And for all the times I cried, there must have been once that you dried my eyes. I miss how we used to play. I miss hearing you say: That I’m your Favorite of all your loves, and that ours is gonna be the one that makes it. That I’m your Favorite lover, and that there could never be another.
Lex Land [Bonnie Raitt - I Can’t Make You Love Me]
Turn down the lights, turn down the bed
Turn down these voices inside my head
Lay down with me, tell me no lies
Just hold me close, don’t patronize
‘Cause I can’t make you love me, if you don’t
You can’t make your heart feel something it won’t
Here in the dark, in this final hour
I will lay down my heart and feel the power if you want
I‘ll close my eyes then I won’t see,
The love you don’t feel when you’re holding me.
Morning will come and I’ll do what’s right,
Just give me till then to give up this fight.
