two songs. and the order in which i present them matter. enjoy.


someday they'll find your small town world
on a big town avenue
gonna make you like the way they talk
when they're talking to you
gonna make you break out of your shell
'cause they tell you to
gonna make you like the way they lie
better than the truth
they'll tell you everything
you wanted someone else to say
they're gonna break your heart, yeah

from what i've seen
you're just one more hand me down
'cause no one's tried to give you
what you need
so lay all your troubles down
i am with you now

somebody oughta take you in
try to make you love again
try to make you like the way they feel
when they're under your skin
never once do you think that they would lie
when they're holding you
then you wonder why they haven't called
when they said they'd call you
you'll start to wonder
if you're ever gonna make it by
you'll start to think
you were born blind

i'm here for the hard times
the straight to your heart times
when living ain't easy
you can stand up against me
and maybe rely on me
and cry on me, yeah

oh no, no, no

someday they'll open up your world
shake you down to the drawing board
they'll do their best to change you
they still can't erase you

lay them down on me
oh yeah
you're just one more hand me down
nd all those nights
don't give you what you need
so lay all your troubles down
on me


-matchbox twenty, hand me down




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i know a girl
she puts the color inside of my world
she's just like a maze
where all of the walls all continually change
and i've done all I can
to stand on her steps with my heart in my hands
now i'm starting to see
maybe it's got nothing to do with me

fathers be good to your daughters
daughters will love like you do
girls become lovers who turn into mothers
so mothers be good to your daughters too

oh, you see that skin?
it's the same she's been standing in
since the day she saw him walking away
now she's left
cleaning up the mess he made

fathers be good to your daughters
daughters will love like you do
girls become lovers who turn into mothers
so mothers be good to your daughters too

boys, you can break
you'll find out how much they can take
boys will be strong
and boys soldier on
but boys would be gone without warmth from
a woman's good, good heart

on behalf of every man
looking out for every girl
you are the god and the weight of her world

so fathers be good to your daughters
daughters will love like you do
girls become lovers who turn into mothers
so mothers be good to your daughters, too
so mothers be good to your daughters, too
so mothers be good to your daughters, too


-john mayer, daughters

simply put but amazingly heart-felt. e-mail me if you want translations.




tooku tooku ano hikari made todoite hoshii


hitori bocchi ga setsunai yoru hoshi wo sagashiteru
ashita kimi ga ina kya komaru komaru
gomi ni narisouna yume bakari kutsu mo odoreteru
ashita kimi ga ina kya komaru komaru


tooku tooku hateshinaku tsutzuku michi no uekara
tsuyoi omoi ano hikari made todoite hoshii


subete wo kirau osanasa wo kakushi motta mama
tadashiku kazarareta sekai de sekai de
ichido kiri no makyuu wo nagekomu netsu no mukou he to


naite waratte doro ni mamireta dorama no ato de
akasarete iku himitsu nani ka owari mata hajimari


arifureta kotoba ga karada chuu wo megutte tsubasa ni naru


hitori bocchi ga setsunai yoru hoshi wo sagashiteru
ashita kimi ga ina kya komaru komaru


- spitz, stargazer

this is simply brilliant. it washes a little bit of nostalgia into me.


i'm standing
i'm waiting
i'm falling more in love with you
every time i find myself here
and what i feel for you
it can't be contained
and how i long for you to come
i want to get carried away by you

and everything i want is everything you are
everything i am is yours
it's yours and yours alone
everything i want you are

i've got nothing to lose except myself
i can do without cause i'll just get in your way
so here i am i know it's not a lot
but all of it is yours
and by letting go i felt so much more

everything i want is everything you are
everything i am is yours
it's yours and yours alone
everything i want is everything you are
and everything i am is yours
it's yours and yours alone
it's yours and yours alone
it's yours and yours alone
it's yours and yours alone

i am standing
i am waiting
i'm following
with hopes of
getting closer
i'd do anything
i am running
not sure where i'm going
and going as fast as i can
and i'm trusting
that you'll lead me
and carry me the rest of the way

everything i want is everything you are
everything i am is yours
it's yours and yours alone
everything i want is everything you are
and everything i am is yours
it's yours and yours alone
it's yours and yours alone
it's yours and yours alone
it's yours and yours alone
yours and yours alone

everything i want is everything you are
everything i am is yours
it's yours and yours


- lifehouse, may

i'm cracked from my head down to my spine
ready to self-destruct at any time
and i'm trying to convince myself
that the way i feel is all i have
it could take a lifetime
to realize that you're all right

but she said
i'd know when you would come back
it's been a summer

it's burning up in here
even though the bed is cold on your side
i'd rather die
then spend this night here without you
jow it's burning up in here
even though the bed is cold on your side
i'd rather die
then spend this night here without you
without you

i would try to fix these flaws of mine
if i could just see you for one more time
and i'm trying to convince myself
that the way i feel is all i have
i don't believe in sure things
there's pain in what the truth brings

but she said
i'd know when you would come back
it's been a summer

it's burning up in here
even though the bed is cold on your side
i'd rather die
then spend this night here without you
now it's burning up in here
even though the bed is cold on your side
i'd rather die
then spend this night here without you
without you

i'd be the first one to know
if it's smart for me to just let it go
i'll be the laughing stock of all time
person most likely to find
deciding if it's fate that made you aviod me to this day

i'd know when you would come back
it's been a summer

it's burning up in here
even though the bed is cold on your side
i'd rather die
then spend this night here without you

now it's burning up in here
even though the bed is cold on your side
i'd rather die
then spend this night here without you
without you


- new found glory, it's been a summer

wow. the lyrics are amazing.




some things can never be explained
why every sky still looks the same
and i wonder how my world would look without you

some things can never be explained
like how our scars remain the same
and i wonder how the sky would look without my star
sleep seems a dream away
and a year too late
words that can't be spoken
stream off my face

i want to be selfish
i want to be selfish
i want to be selfish you're my everything

some things can never be explained
why does your love remain unchanged?
cause i know it wouldn't be the same without you
sleep seems a dream away
and a year too late
words that can't be spoken stream off your face

i want to be selfish
i want to be selfish
i want to be selfish you're my everything

please don't forget my name
and take me with you when you leave
i've got a lot to lose
i've got to let it go

please don't forget my name . . .


- the juliana theory, constellations

i guess you could say i'm a little afraid,
i'm a little afraid
what if you go away?
i've seen it before,
i've been here before.
if i have to love myself,
tell me how to love myself.
what's there to love about myself?
i just want to see that as a person you want me.

but i'm feeling the pain of all these bags in the way,
and i'm thinking you're just gonna run away,
and i can't catch you.

i guess I would say that i want you to stay,
that i want you to stay.
'cause you have this strange knack,
adds glow to my black as you chase it all away.
and i hope that you can see,
i will someday leave these things.
i am waiting to be free.

but i'm feeling the pain of all these bags in the way,
and i'm thinking you're just gonna run away,
and i can't catch you.
oh, i want to catch you.


sixpence none the richer, i can't catch you

there's a song that's inside of my soul
it's the one that i've tried to write over and over again
i will wake in the end when it calls
but you sing to me over and over and over again

so i lay my head back down
and i lift my hands and pray to be only yours
i pray to be only Yours
i know now you're my only hope

sing to me of the song of the stars
of your galaxy dancing and laughing and laughing again
when you feel like my dreams are so far
sing to me of the plans that you have for me over again

and i lay my head back down
and i lift my hands and pray to be only yours
i pray to be only yours
i know now you're my only hope

i give you my apathy
i'm giving you all of me
i want your symphony
singing in all that i am
at the top of my lungs i'm giving it back

and i lay my head back down
and i lift my hands and pray to be only yours
i pray to be only yours
i pray to be only yours
i know now you're my only hope


- switchfoot, only hope

and she takes another step
slowly she opens the door
check that he is sleeping
pick up all the broken glass and furniture on the floor

been up half the night screaming now it's time to get away
pack up the kids in the car
another bruise to try and hide
another alibi to write

another ditch in the road
you keep moving
another stop sign
you keep moving on
and the years go by so fast
wonder how i ever made it through

and there are children to think of
baby's asleep in the backseat
wonder how they'll ever make it through this living nightmare
but the mind is an amazing thing

full of candy dreams and new toys and another cheap hotel
two beds and a coffee machine
but there are groceries to buy
and she knows she'll have to go home

another ditch in the road
you keep moving
another stop sign
you keep moving on
and the years go by so fast
wonder how I ever made it through

another bruise to try and hide
another alibi to write
another lonely highway in the black of the night
but there's hope in the darkness
you know you're going to make it

another ditch in the road
you keep moving
another stop sign
you keep moving on
and the years go by so fast
silent fortress built to last

wonder how i ever made it

-savage garden, two beds and a coffee machine

"i had nothing to say
and i'd get lost in the nothingness inside of me"

- linkin park, somewhere i belong




"i'm here without you, baby,
but you're still on my lonely mind.
i think about you, baby,
and i dream about you all the time.
i'm here without you, baby,
but you're still with me in my dreams.
and tonight, it's only you and me."

- 3 doors down, here without you