List: Songs For Inspiration

Some of my favourite songs (for inspiration):


"Silent Lucidity" - Queensryche

Hush now, don't you cry
Wipe away the teardrop from your eye
You're lying safe in bed
It was all a bad dream
Spinning inside 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?
There's a place I like to hide
A doorway that I run through in the night
Relax child, you were there
But only didn't realise it and you were scared
It's a place where you will learn
To face your fears, retrace the years
And ride the whims of your mind
Commanding in another world
Suddenly, you hear and see
This magic new dimension
I....will be watching over you
I....am going to 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 won't rely on open eyes to see
The walls you built within
Come tumbling down, and a new world will begin
Living twice at once you learn
You're 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 realise
That your dream's alive, you can be the guide but....
I....will be watching over you
I....am going to help you see it through
I....will protect you in the night
I....am smiling next to you...in silent lucidity


"Room With A View" - Carolyn Dawn Johnson

They gave you a corner room on the fifth floor
The city's lights were like candy to a kid in a store
Like a king you'd lay in your bed so statefully
So thankful they gave you a room with scenery

You were always so healthy, so full of life
So seeing you so helpless just didn't seem right
How you kept your head so high I'll never know
I guess you knew you had a better place to go

(Chorus)
Now you've got a room with a view
A window to the world
You always had your sights set high
Now that you're gone, your memory lives on
I see you smiling in my mind
With angels as visitors dropping by
Your room with a view

I'll always miss you, I'll always feel the loss
I have to remind myself that you're better off
I gotta believe even through these tears of mine
Wherever you are there's a sun that always shines

(Repeat Chorus to fade)


"On The Way Up" - Elisa Fiorillo

(I'm on the way up, look out!)
People tell me I can't have everything
But still I want to have it all
They say I cannot succeed in life
That I'll get so far and then I'll fall
I don't need no negative outlook
I don't need nobody putting me down
Don't they know that talk is useless
Nothing's gonna keep my feet on the ground

(Chorus)
Because I'm on the way up
I got it all together
Nothing's gonna hold me back
Yeah I'm on the way up
I'm only getting better
Now tell me what you think about that (look out!)

If and when you make it
All kinds of people come around
Some of them in your corner
Some of them put you down
But the one thing they all agree on
Is that you are gonnna change
When all along they're the only ones
Who never ever remain the same
Now tell me which one of us has changed?

Only fools don't take chances
If you wanna be on top
You gotta work every single moment
'Cause another's after your spot
All the suckers scream and shout
They don't know what it's all about
This is my world
And I'm sorry, but this table is reserved

(Repeat Chorus)
(Instrumental, then Repeat Chorus)


"All The Difference In The World" - Living In A Box

Hand in hand we wave goodbye to each other
Kept apart by our big brother
Look at yourself
Read the book and not the cover
Don't be afraid of what you discover
No man alive can tell me what we're all searching for

(Chorus)
All the difference in the world
Plus or minus, black and white
Why can't we all stand together?
All the difference in the world
Sons and daughters turn to fight against themselves

It's easier to make a friend from outer space
Than touch the heart of the human race
Don't turn your back on the next generation
We can't work in isolation
No man alive can tell me what we're all searching for

(Repeat Chorus)

'Til every child in every nation
Feels the beat of every human heart
All the difference in the world
No man alive can tell me what we're all searching for

(Repeat Chorus)


"River Of Fire" - Robertson Brothers

The night lights up the ghosts in my heart
I watch them burn as I stare in the dark
Wrestling emotions I'm drawn to the flame
Caught in the shadows that call out your name

I'm searching for some kind of escape
I found my way right here to this place
Where the night has no end

All of my life my dreams run wild
Now I stand alone in this river of fire
Through days of despair and nights of desire
I wait for you in this river of fire

I still remember that look in your eyes
I wish I knew then that it was goodbye
I try to fight it but I know I can't win
Sometimes your dreams just get lost in the wind

But something beyond all time and space
Leads me right back here to this place
At the edge of the world

All of my life my dreams run wild
Now I stand alone in this river of fire
Through days of despair and nights of desire
I wait for you in this river of fire

I burn for you


"Rest Stop" - Matchbox 20

Just three miles from the rest stop
And she slams on the breaks
She said I tried to be but I'm not
And could you please collect your things
I don't wanna be cold
I don't wanna be cruel
But I gotta find more
Than what's happening with you
If you'd - open up the door

(Chorus)
She said - while you were sleeping
I was listening to the radio
And wondering what you're dreaming
When it came to mind that I didn't care
So I thought - hell if it's over
I had better end it quick
Or I could lose my nerve
Are you listening - can you hear me
Have you forgotten

Just three miles from the rest stop
And my mouth's too dry to rage
The light was shining from the radio
I could barely see her face
But she knew all the words that I never had said
She knew the crumpled-up promise
Of this broken down man
And as I opened up the door

(Repeat Chorus)


"Masterpiece" - Carolyn Dawn Johnson

There were forty little houses in a place
They called High River
And everyone knew Tim since the day he was born
He was a little different some might call him slow
But when Nellie moved to town
She saw his heart of gold
They found each other and never spent
Another day apart
Who ever would have dreamed
In his quiet eyes she'd find the piece
To make her life complete

(Chorus)
Oh you could say it was a work of art
Like someone took a brush
And painted their hearts
Together they made such a beautiful thing
Oh if there was anything that they could do right
Was painting love in the perfect light
So we could see
That love is a masterpiece

Tim always had a little trouble
With letters and numbers
So Nellie paid all the bills
And read all the mail
No one worked harder for miles around
Tim was the best farm hand
And Nellie was proud
A year went by of saving their nickles and dimes
They had a little boy
They named him Daniel
And he became their pride and joy

(Repeat Chorus)

Everybody said that they were so close to heaven
That they didn't have far to go
Somehow it all made sense
That they all went together
That night on that dirt road

Oh you could say it was a work of art
Like someone took a brush
And painted their hearts
Together they made such a beautiful thing
Oh if there was anything that they could do right
Was painting love in the perfect light
So we could see
That love is a masterpiece


"Unloved" by Jann Arden

There will be no consolation prize
This time the bone is broken clean
No baptism, no reprise
And no sweet taste of victory
All the stars have fallen from the sky
And everything else in between
Satelites have closed their eyes
The moon has gone to sleep

unloved unloved unloved unloved

Here I am inside a hotel
Choking on a million words I said
Cigarettes have burned a hole
And dreams are drunk and penniless
Here I am inside my father's arms
All jagged bone and whiskey dry
Whisper to me sweetly now
And tell me I will never die

unloved unloved unloved unloved

Here I am an empty hallway
Broken window, rainy night
I am nineteen sixty-two
And I am ready for a fight
People crying Hallelujah
While the bullet leaves the gun
People falling, falling, falling
And I don't know where they're falling from
Are they?

unloved unloved unloved unloved

Hoping that the kindness
Will lead us past the blindness
And not another living soul will ever have to feel
unloved unloved unloved
unloved unloved unloved

"Nearest Distant Shore" by Karen Lynne(Australian Folk Singer)

You fight for every breath
Caught without a ship
In this sea of neglect
The one you swore to love
Is pulling you down
You're in over your head
Chilled to the bone
By the waters you tread
Chart a course to land
Before you drown

(Chorus):
Swim to the nearest distant shore
There's only so much a heart can endure
You gave it your best, forgive yourself
You can't hold on anymore
It's not as far as it might seem
Now it's time to let go of old dreams
Every heart for itself
Swim to the nearest distant shore

He said for you'd he'd change
Then he let you down
And let you take the blame
Trapped between his lies
And the great unknown
You vowed you wouldn't fail
But this ain't success
It's a living hell
There's nothing left to lose
You're aready alone

(Repeat chorus)

Every heart for itself
Swim to the nearest distant shore

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