All the Things We Know

Yeah, I can see it coming
Though I’d ask you if it’s true
Everything about us now
Is all the things I knew

Yeah, I can see it coming
Though you didn’t have a clue
Everything you say is black
I tell you, it’s all blue

And when you never saw me
Did I ever fade away?
And when you couldn’t find me
Did I ever lose my way?
When you didn’t hear a word I said
Did my words fall at your feet?
And when you said it wasn’t so
Did you finally see?

Yeah, I know it’s coming
And you’ll say that I won’t go
Everything about this now
Is all the things we know

I can see it coming
Though you didn’t have a clue
You say that it’s all white and black
I tell you, it’s all blue

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What About Us

What about me

Was I what you thought at all

Did I live up to your fantasy

Did I step up to the call

 

What about you

Are you done with me at last

Have I used up your imagining

Your dream of what is past

 

What about us

Have you really seen me yet

Aren’t I someone after all

You never really met

 

What about us

What about us

What about us

 

What about me

Are you ready to let go

Can I wear my true colors now

Can I let my feelings show

 

What about you

Is this all that you have left

Editing realities

That brought us to this edge

 

What about this

Can I just be me again

Can you let me have my happiness

Can you just let us end

 

And what about us

What about us

What about us

 

What about me

Am I more than what you say

Can I tell my own story

Can I write it my own way

 

And what about you

You have your book of dreams

Are you rewriting this chapter

To make it fit the scene

 

What about it

Can I just be me again

Can you let me have my happiness

Can you just let it end

 

What about it

What about us

What about us

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In Your Hands

[So Long; Epilogue]

 

You’re studying

Matching words and dates

Looking for a way

To make it all make sense

 

You’re combing

Catching links and cues

Chasing after trails

That lead me back to you

 

That’s my book

In your hands

That’s the story

You can’t understand

That’s my book

On your shelf

That’s my story

You’ve kept for yourself

 

And I’m just letting you

Now I’m just letting you

 

You’re reading

The pages of my soul

Charting the past

By what you don’t know

 

You’re writing

The chapter of you

Making your mark

With what you can’t prove

 

That’s my book

In your hands

That’s my story

You can’t understand

That’s my book

That you stole

That’s my story

You’ve bought and sold

 

And I’m just letting you

Now I’m just letting

You go

 

Why did it come to this?

What will you do when the line doesn’t fit?

 

You’re reading

The pages of my soul

Mapping the past

You think is your own

 

You’re keeping

The words you can’t hold

Finding the last

Verse that you wrote

 

And I’m letting you

I’m just letting it

Go

 

I’m just a book

On a shelf

I’m just a story

You want for yourself

I’m just a book

In your hands

I’m just words

You can’t understand

 

And I’m just letting

Them go

I’m just letting go

I’m just letting you

Go

I’m just letting

You know

I’m just letting you

Now I’m just letting go

 

 [So Long]

http://oracleofthepearl.wordpress.com/2009/03/12/so-long/

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Heartless

 

Darkness

Calling

Darkly, Hauntingly

Darkness falls on

Broken

Holes in me

Darkness, Heartless

Wanting

Let me in

Darkness, Darkness

Darkness

Let me be

 

Darkness

Taunts me

Tells me ugly

Things

Darkness

Speaks to

Remembered emptiness

Darkness

Whispers

Darkness

Screams

Heartless Darkness

Darkness

Never leaves

 

Darkness

Watching

Darkness

Always sees

Darkness

Falls on

Broken

Holes in me

Darkness, Heartless

Ever following

Darkness, Darkness

Always

Part of me

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Ruby Mountains

Ruby Mountains

Snowy Mountains

Lay your mantle on my back

When I’m leaving

Yes I’m leaving

Will you point me down the path

 

Ruby hold me

Tell me your sorrows

Drop your tears along the road

When I’m leaving

And I’m leaving

Light a candle for us both

 

Ruby Mountain

Ruby Snow

Keep your secrets from me still

When I’m leaving

You know I’m leaving

Keep what I have left you with

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Ghost of Me

Tell me

Tell me

Was it worth it?

Was it everything you thought

It would be?

 

Give me

Give me

A peek inside

The world you run to

When you run from here

 

Is there a shrine

You look to

Where you keep

The Ghost of  Me?

Is she all the ones

Who loved you

Who you could never keep?

 

Tell me

Tell me

Is it Heaven?

Is it perfect there beneath

What’s real?

 

Give me

Give me

Just a little bit

Of what you tell yourself

When you go there

 

Do you keep those pieces

Of me still?

The ones that I let go?

Are they all you pulled

From what you knew

That you could never hold?

 

Tell me

Tell me

Am I worth it?

Do you see me

As I am?

 

Tell me

Tell me

Did you ever feel?

Everything you always think

You can?

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Everything I Am

 

Everything I am

And everything I see

Takes everything I can

Pull out inside of me

Everything I love

And everything I leave

Remains a piece of all

That’s deep in where I live

Whatever’s really yours

Whosever’s wasn’t then

I couldn’t separate the parts

From my own ever again

 

Anyone that’s been

Whatever they would be

When they were mining what

They wanted me to give

Took a little piece

And turned it over so it stood

Naked in the light

They never understood

What it is to hold

This everything I need

This wanting just to know

What always still retreats

 

Everytime I show

You anything you feel

I’ll remember you were always

Hiding it from me

Everything I know

I kept out of my voice

I could never say

You never had a choice

Even if you lost

Your every way to see

You could never tell

Your everything that’s real

 

Anyone that’s been

Whatever they would be

When they were taking what

They wanted me to give

Take a little piece

And turn it over ‘til you see

Me naked in the light

You wouldn’t let me in

What it is to hold

This everything you need

This wanting just to know

The way it still can be

 

I can let you feel

This broken place you hear

Even while I know

You’ll never really feel

Give you what you want

If I can have the rest

Everything you lost

And everything that’s left

Never understand

What it is to hold

This everything I need

This wanting just to know

With everything I breath

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Out of the Woods

In the trees I was walking miles and days

Where nobody goes

Where only I would know

In the wilds I am stalking what I am

What I have never told

What I remember most

 

I have carried this with me

It’s such a heavy load

I don’t have a place to leave it

And I get weary

It’s not easy giving up

And I still keep a hold

 

In the weeds I am laying low

I’m so tired and I still tried

To climb that mountain

Even as I come right down I get the feeling

I can’t fight it

I’ll be up when I can find

My way ain’t ever easy is it?

 

I’m so worn but I’m not worried now

I’ve still got time to lay my burdens out

I can feel it

 

In the night I am dreaming songs in myself again

And I can hear them

In the words and names I say

I’ve been keeping in

This hidden place

Of mislaid dreams and hopes I left behind

But I can see them

What I still believe in

 

I’m so torn but I’m not sorry how

I came to find my way out of the woods

I’m not lost now

 

I’m so worn but I’m not worried now

I’m so near it and I know that I’m not home

But I’m so close

 

I’m out of the woods

 

 

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Bringing Me

Are your eyes open?

 

Even though they are a million miles away

I can see them everyday

I remember how they were watching me

 

So I don’t mind

I don’t mind if you are there

Just making time

Because I have these words to keep

And I can read them

When I feel

When I feel a need

And I still find you bringing me

Bringing me

Bringing me

 

Anytime I have this feeling in my chest

You can still bring me to my knees

Your words about

 Breaking me

Taking me to this edge

Again and again and again

I’m giving you a part of me

That no one’s had

When I can’t see

You anymore

I can still find your eyes again

Just watching me

And making me

Bringing me you’re bringing me

Bringing me release

 

When it gets too much

For me to bear

And I get lonely

I won’t care that you’re out there

Cause you can bring me to tears

With your words

You touch this ache in me

Taking me to this edge

Again and again and again

I’ll give you this part of me

No one’s had

When I can’t feel you anymore

I can find this line again

Touching me

And making me

Bring me to your bringing me

You’re bringing me release

 

Can you still see?

 

If I doubt you

When it’s been so long

And I can’t hear you anymore

I won’t care that you are gone

I can’t help myself

You gave the most away

But I’ve got all the rest

I can bring myself to this

With your words

Just shaking me

Taking me

 Where I’ll give you this part of me

 No one’s ever had and I can hear myself again

Bringing me you bring me

You’re bringing me

 Release

 

Right down on my knees

Now you are bringing me bringing me

You’re bringing me

You bring me this release

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Like the Way I Do

I am not much for posting others lyrics. It’s not what I started this blog for. Yet, sometimes a song speaks so much to me, even hearing it a half a lifetime later it can still give me the chills. And this one did. She said it better than I ever could.

Like the Way I Do

Is it so hard to satisfy your senses
You found out to love me you have to climb some fences
Scratching and crawling along the floor to touch you
And just when it feels right you say you found someone else to hold you
Does she like I do

Tell me does she love you like the way I love you
Does she stimulate you attract and captivate you
Tell me does she miss you existing just to kiss you
Like the way I do
Tell me does she want you infatuate and haunt you
Does she know just how to shock you electrify and rock you
Does she inject you seduce you and affect you
Like the way I do

Can I survive all the implications
Even if I tried could you be less than an addiction
Dont you think I know theres so many others
Who would beg steal and lie fight kill and die
Just to hold you hold you like I do

Tell me does she love you like the way I love you
Does she stimulate you attract and captivate you
Tell me does she miss you existing just to kiss you
Like the way I do
Tell me does she want you infatuate and haunt you
Does she know just how to shock you electrify and rock you
Does she inject you seduce you and affect you
Like the way I do

Nobody loves you like the way I do
Nobody wants you like the way I do
Nobody needs you like the way I do
Nobody aches nobody aches just to hold you
Like the way I do

Tell me does she love you like the way I love you
Does she stimulate you attract and captivate you
Tell me does she miss you existing just to kiss you
Like the way I do
Tell me does she want you infatuate and haunt you
Does she know just how to shock you electrify and rock you
Does she inject you seduce you and affect you
Like the way I do

                                                                                 Melissa Etheridge

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