Moonflower - Carlos Santana

Moonflower - Carlos Santana

Hoy - Gloria Estefan

Hoy
Gloria Estefan & Emilio Estefan Jr.

Tengo marcado en el pecho,
In my heart, I have written
todos los días que el tiempo
all of the days that time
no me dejó estar aquí.
did not let me be here.

Tengo una fe que madura,
I have a faith that matures,
que va conmigo y me cura
that goes with me and cures me
desde que te conocí.
since I first saw you

Tengo una huella perdida
I have a hidden footprint
entre tu sombra y la mía,
somewhere between your shadow and mine
qe no me deja mentir.
that will not let me lie.

Soy una moneda en la fuente;
I am a coin in the fountain
tú mi deseo pendiente
(and) you are the enduring wish
mis ganas de revivir.
that I long to relive

Tengo una mañana constante
I have a constant tomorow
y una acuarela esperando
and an watercolor waiting
verte pintado de azul.
to see you painted of blue

Tengo tu amor y tu suerte
I have your love and your luck
y un caminito empinado.
and a steep path
Tengo el mar del otro lado:
I have the sea of the other side
tú eres mi norte y mi sur
you are my north and my south

(Coro)
Hoy voy a verte de nuevo
Today I am going to see you again
voy a envolverme en tu ropa,
I am going to wrap myself in your clothes
susúrrame en tu silencio
whisper myself in your silence
cuando me veas llegar.
when you see me arrive.

Hoy voy a verte de nuevo,
Today, I will see you again
voy a alegrar tu tristeza:
I am going to lighten up your sadness
vamos a hacer una fiesta
we will celebrate
pa' que este amor crezca más.
so that this love grows even more

Tengo una frase colgada,
I have a phrase that hangs
entre mi boca y mi almohada,
between my mouth and my pillow
que me desnuda ante ti.
that leaves me defenseless before you.

Tengo una playa y un pueblo
I have a beach and a people
que me acompañan de noche
that guide me by night
cuando no estas junto a mí.
when you are not here with me.

Tengo una mañana constante
I have a constant tomorrow
y una acuarela esperando
and an watercolor waiting
verte pintado de azul.
to see you painted of blue.

Tengo tu amor y tu suerte
I have your love and your luck
y un caminito empinado.
and a steep path.
Tengo el mar del otro lado:
I have the sea at the other side
tú eres mi norte y mi sur.
you are my north and my south.

(Repetir coro)

Shower the People - James Taylor

Shower the People
James Taylor

You can play the game and you can act out the part
Though you know it wasnt written for you
But tell me, how can you stand there with your broken heart
Ashamed of playing the fool
One thing can lead to another; it doesnt take any sacrifice
Oh, father and mother, sister and brother
If it feels nice, dont think twice

Just shower the people you love with love
Show them the way that you feel
Things are gonna work out fine if you only will
Shower the people you love with love
Show them the way you feel
Things are gonna be much better if you only will

You can run but you cannot hide
This is widely known
And what you plan to do with your foolish pride
When youre all by yourself alone
Once you tell somebody the way that you feel
You can feel it beginning to ease
I think its true what they say about the squeaky wheel
Always getting the grease.

Better to shower the people you love with love
Show them the way that you feel
Things are gonna be just fine if you only will
Shower the people you love with love
Show them the way that you feel
Things are gonna be much better if you only will

Shower the people you love with love
Show them the way that you feel

Youll feel better right away
Dont take much to do
Sell you pride
They say in every life
They say the rain must fall
Just like pouring rain
Make it rain
Make it rain
Love, love, love is sunshine.
Oh yes
Make it rain
Love, love, love is sunshine
Yeah, all right
Everybody, everybody
Shower the people you love with love

Like a Rock - Bob Seger

Happy Birthday David

Like a Rock

Bob Seger

Stood there boldly
Sweatin' in the sun
Felt like a million
Felt like number one
The height of summer
Id never felt that strong
Like a rock

I was eighteen
Didn't have a care
Working for peanuts
Not a dime to spare
But I was lean and
Solid everywhere
Like a rock

My hands were steady
My eyes were clear and bright
My walk had purpose
My steps were quick and light
And I held firmly
To what I felt was right
Like a rock


Like a rock, I was strong as I could be
Like a rock, nothin' ever got to me
Like a rock, I was something to see
Like a rock

And I stood arrow straight
Unencumbered by the weight
Of all these hustlers and their schemes
I stood proud, I stood tall
High above it all
I still believed in my dreams

Twenty years now
Where'd they go?
Twenty years
I don't know
Sit and I wonder sometimes
Where they've gone

And sometimes late at night
When I'm bathed in the firelight
The moon comes callin' a ghostly white
And I recall
Recall

Like a rock. standin' arrow straight
Like a rock, chargin' from the gate
Like a rock, carryin' the weight
Like a rock

Like a rock, the sun upon my skin
Like a rock, hard against the wind
Like a rock, I see myself again
Like a rock

Happy Birthday America - Who'll Stop the Reign?

Who'll Stop the Rain?
Creedence Clearwater Revival

Long as I remember the rain been comin' down.
Clouds of mystry pourin' confusion on the ground.


Good men through the ages, tryin' to find the sun;
And I wonder, still I wonder, who'll stop the rain.


I went down Virginia, seekin' shelter from the storm.
Caught up in the fable, I watched the tower grow.


Five year plans and new deals, wrapped in golden chains.
And I wonder, still I wonder who'll stop the rain.


Heard the singers playin', how we cheered for more.
The crowd had rushed together, tryin to keep warm.


Still the rain kept pourin', fallin' on my ears.
And I wonder, still I wonder who'll stop the rain.

VOTE OR DIE

Breathe [2AM] - Anna Nalick

2 AM and she calls me 'cause I'm still awake,
"Can you help me unravel my latest mistake?,
I don't love him. Winter just wasn't my season"
Yeah we walk through the doors, so accusing their eyes
Like they have any right at all to criticize,
Hypocrites. You're all here for the very same reason

'Cause you can't jump the track, we're like cars on a cable
And life's like an hourglass, glued to the table
No one can find the rewind button, girl.
So cradle your head in your hands
And breathe... just breathe,
Oh breathe, just breathe

May he turn 21 on the base at Fort Bliss
"Just a day" he said down to the flask in his fist,
"Ain't been sober, since maybe October of last year."
Here in town you can tell he's been down for a while,
But, my God, it's so beautiful when the boy smiles,
Wanna hold him. Maybe I'll just sing about it.

Cause you can't jump the track, we're like cars on a cable,
And life's like an hourglass, glued to the table.
No one can find the rewind button, boys,
So cradle your head in your hands,
And breathe... just breathe,
Oh breathe, just breathe

There's a light at each end of this tunnel,
You shout 'cause you're just as far in as you'll ever be out
And these mistakes you've made, you'll just make them again
If you only try turning around.

2 AM and I'm still awake, writing a song
If I get it all down on paper, it's no longer inside of me,
Threatening the life it belongs to
And I feel like I'm naked in front of the crowd
Cause these words are my diary, screaming out loud
And I know that you'll use them, however you want to

But you can't jump the track, we're like cars on a cable,
And life's like an hourglass, glued to the table
No one can find the rewind button now
Sing it if you understand.
and breathe, just breathe
woah breathe, just breathe,
Oh breathe, just breathe,
Oh breathe, just breathe.

The City of New Orleans - Willie Nelson

The City of New Orleans 
by Steve Goodman

Riding on the City of New Orleans,
Illinois Central Monday morning rail
Fifteen cars and fifteen restless riders,
Three conductors and twenty-five sacks of mail.
All along the southbound odyssey
The train pulls out at Kankakee
And rolls along past houses, farms and fields.
Passin' trains that have no names,
Freight yards full of old black men
And the graveyards of the rusted automobiles.

CHORUS:
Good morning America how are you?
Say, don't you know me I'm your native son,
I'm the train they call The City of New Orleans,
I'll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done.

Dealin' card games with the old men in the club car.
Penny a point - ain't no one keepin' score.
Pass the paper bag that holds the bottle
Feel the wheels rumblin' 'neath the floor.
And the sons of pullman porters
And the sons of engineers
Ride their father's magic carpets made of steel.
Mothers with their babes asleep,
Are rockin' to the gentle beat
And the rhythm of the rails is all they feel.

CHORUS

Nighttime on The City of New Orleans,
Changing cars in Memphis, Tennessee.
Half way home, we'll be there by morning
Through the Mississippi darkness
Rolling down to the sea.
But all the towns and people seem
To fade into a bad dream
And the steel rails still ain't heard the news.
The conductor sings his song again,
"The passengers will please refrain
This train's got the disappearing railroad blues."

Good night, America, how are you?
Say, don't you know me I'm your native son,
I'm the train they call The City of New Orleans,
I'll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done.

©1970, 1971 EMI U Catalogue, Inc and Turnpike Tom Music (ASCAP)

Try - Nelly Furtado

Try
Nelly Furtado

All I know
Is everything is not as it's sold
but the more I grow the less I know
And I have lived so many lives
Though I'm not old
And the more I see, the less I grow
The fewer the seeds the more I sow

Then I see you standing there
Wanting more from me
And all I can do is try
Then I see you standing there
Wanting more from me
And all I can do is try
Try

I wish I hadn't seen all of the realness
And all the real people are really not real at all
The more I learn, the more I learn
The more I cry, the more I cry
As I say goodbye
to the way of life
I thought I had designed for me

Then I see you standing there
Wanting more from me
And all I can do is try
Then I see you standing there
I'm all I'll ever be
But all I can do is try
Try

All of the moments that already passed
We'll try to go back and make them last
All of the things we want each other to be
We never will be
And that's wonderful, and that's life
And that's you, baby
This is me, baby
And we are, we are, we are, we are
Free
In our love
We are free in our love

God Only Cries for the Living - Diamond Rio

God Only Cries for the Living
Diamond Rio

On an icy road one night
A young man loses his life
They marked the shoulder with a cross
An' his family gathers round
On a piece of Hallowed ground
Their hearts are heavy with their loss
As the tears fall from their eyes
There's one who'll always sympathize.

God only cries for the living
'Cause it's the living that are left to carry on
An' all the angels up in Heaven
They're not grieving because they're gone
There's a smile on their faces
'Cause they're in a better place than, mmm, baby, than, oh
God only cries for the living
'Cause it's the living that are so far from home.

It still makes me sad
When I think of my Grand-dad
I miss him each and every day
But I know the time will come
When my own grandson
Wonders why I went away
Maybe we're not meant to understand
Till we meet up in the Promised Land.

God only cries for the living
'Cause it's the living that are left to carry on
And all the angels up in Heaven
They're not grieving because they're gone
There's a smile on their faces
'Cause they're in a better place than, oh, baby, than oh
God only cries for the living
'Cause it's the living that are so far from home
Yeah, we're so far from home, Mmmm, Mmmm

Dixie Chicks Win x5!

Winning all five Grammys you were nominated for?

Hmm - I suppose that makes you country stars regardless of the hell some of those hicks gave you.

It looks like America is more country than Bush & Company had anticipated after all. It just goes to show; you don't have to be a fool to be country moreover, those assholes running the country music stations have shown their true neoconservative colors. Regardless of their censorship, you came out on top - despite their concerted efforts to punish you for rightfully speaking out against the attack on Iraq.

Ain't America great?

Congratulations ladies - your victories are well deserved. Dubya along with his fascist, flag-waving retards can now kiss your ass - officially.


Revenge truly is a dish best served cold.

If Everyone Cared Lyrics - Nickelback

If Everyone Cared Lyrics
Nickelback

From underneath the trees, we watch the sky
Confusing stars for satellites
I never dreamed that you'd be mine
But here we are, we're here tonight

Singing Amen, I'm I'm alive (I'm alive)
Singing Amen, I'm alive

If everyone cared and nobody cried
If everyone loved and nobody lied
If everyone shared and swallowed their pride
Then we'd see the day when nobody died

And I'm singing

Amen I, Amen I, I'm alive
Amen I,Amen I, Amen I, I'm alive


And in the air the fireflies
Our only light in paradise
We'll show the world they were wrong
And teach them all to sing along

Singing Amen I, I'm alive (I'm alive)
Singing Amen I, I'm alive

And as we lie beneath the stars
We realize how small we are
If they could love like you and me
Imagine what the world could be

If everyone cared and nobody cried
If everyone loved and nobody lied
If everyone shared and swallowed their pride
Then we'd see the day when nobody died


We'd see the day, we'd see the day
When nobody died
We'd see the day, we'd see the day
When nobody died
We'd see the day when nobody died

Sunday Kind of Love - Etta James

Happy Birthday Miss Etta

Sunday Kind of Love
Etta James
b. 25 January 1938

I want a Sunday kind of love
A love to last past Saturday night
And I'd like to know it's more than love at first sight
And I want a Sunday kind of love
Oh yea yea

I want a - a love that's on the square
Can't seem to find somebody
Someone to care
And I'm on a lonely road that leads to no where
I need a Sunday kind of love

I do my Sunday dreaming, Oh yea
And all my Sunday scheming
Every minute, every hour, every day


Oh I'm hoping to discover
A certain kind of lover
Who will show me the way

And my arms need someone
Someone to enfold
To keep me warm when Mondays and Tuesdays grow cold
Love for all my life to have and to hold
Oh and I want a Sunday kind of love
Oh yea yea yea

I don't want a Monday, Tuesday, or Wednesday, or Thursday, Friday or Saturday
Oh nothing but Sunday oh yea
I want a Sunday Sunday
I want a Sunday kind of love
Oh yea

Sunday, Sunday, Sunday kind of loooove

Last Kiss - Alabina - Prayer

Last Kiss

Alabina - the voice of Ishtar

Desert has called out my name.
I should go out there again
so I could hear somebody pray,
and prayers will follow me yes.

Ya hawa mali m' dounya
[***Oh air (passion) I'm not concerned about the world]
Wessnin wannaa mashya
[And the years and I are going on]
Hayranna fill sahara
[Wandering in the desert]

Annaa...

Chorus:
Would you carry me
Faithfully over the seas
I'll open the sky
To kiss you goodbye
Fly…

You gave up and you sacrificed
You wanted to be with the stars
so no one can read in your eyes
but have you said all your goodbyes?

Ya hawa mali m' dounya
[Oh air (passion) I'm not concerned about the world]
Wessnin wannaa mashya
[And the years and I are going on]
Hayranna fill sahara
[Wandering in the desert]

Annaa...

Won't you carry me
..carry me...
Faithfully over the seas
...faithfully...
I'll open the sky
To kiss you goodbye
Fly…

Ya hawa oohh…
[Oh air (passion)]
… ayyy mashya
[going on]

Would you carry me
faithfully, over the seas
I'll open the sky
to kiss you goodbye
Fly…

[Repeat]

Kiss you goodbye,

Fly...

***Thank you Nasra al Adawi - Iamnasra for your translation.

Nights in White Satin - Moody Blues

Nights in White Satin
Moody Blues

Nights in white satin
never reaching the end.
Letters I've written
never meaning to send.
Beauty I'd always missed
with these eyes before.
Just what the truth is
I can't say anymore


'Cause I love you,
yes I love you,
oh, how I love you.

Gazing at people
some hand in hand
just what I'm going though
they can't understand.

Some try to tell me
thoughts they cannot defend
just what you want to be
you'll be in the end.

And I love you,
yes I love you,
oh, how I love you.

Nights in white satin
never reaching the end.
Letters I've written
never meaning to send.
Beauty I'd always missed
with these eyes before.
Just what the truth is
I can't say anymore


'Cause I love you,
yes I love you,
oh, how I love you.


'Cause I love you,
yes I love you,
oh, how I love you...

Takin' it to the Streets - Michael McDonald

Takin' it to the Streets
Michael McDonald

You don't know me but I'm your brother
I was raised here in this living hell
You don't know my kind in your world but,
fairly soon the time will tell...


You, telling me the things you're gonna do for me.
Well, I ain't blind and I don't like what I think I see.
Takin' it to the streets. Takin' it to the streets,
Takin' it to the streets. No more need for runnin',
Takin' it to the streets. Oh no no,


Take this message to my brother
You will find him everywhere
Wherever people live together
Tied in poverty's despair



Oh you, telling me the things you're gonna do for me.
I ain't blind and I don't like what I think I see.
Takin' it to the streets. Takin' it to the streets,
Takin' it to the streets. No more need for runnin',
Takin' it to the streets. Takin' it to the streets.
Takin' it to the...

[instrumental]



Oh you, telling me the things you're gonna do for me - yeah how
I ain't blind and I don't like what I think I see.


Takin' it to the streets. Takin' it to the streets,
Takin' it to the streets. No more need for runnin',
Takin' it to the streets. Hey Yeah.
Takin' it to the streets. Takin' it to the streets.
Takin' it to the streets. We'll discuss it further.
Takin' it to the streets. Oh now.
Takin' it to the streets. Takin it, takin it .
Takin' it to the streets. Hey yeah now
Takin' it to the streets. Takin it to the streets.


Takin' it to the streets. No more need for runnin'.
Takin' it to the streets. No more need for violence.
Takin' it to the streets. Hey yeah yes.
Takin' it to the streets. No now.
Takin' it to the streets. Yeah yeah.
Takin' it to the streets. Takin' it, takin' it.
Takin' it to the streets. Ahh.
Takin' it to the streets. Takin' it now.
Takin' it to the streets. Oh no more.

Finish Each Day - Emerson

Gabriel's Message

The angel Gabriel from heaven came,
His wings as drifted snow, his eyes as flame;
'All hail', said he, "thou lowly maiden Mary,
Most highly favour'd lady,
Gloria!

'For known a blessed Mother thou shalt be,

All generations laud and honour thee,
Thy son shall be Emmanuel, by seers foretold,
Most highly favour'd lady,
Gloria!

Then gentle Mary meekly bowed her head,

'To me be as it pleaseth God', she said,
'My soul shall laud and magnify His holy name,
Most highly favour'd lady,
Gloria!


Of her, Emmanuel the Christ, was born,

In Bethlehem, all on a Christmas morn,
And Christian folk throughout the world
will ever say:
Most highly favour'd lady
Gloria!

Cómo Me Duele Perderte - Gloria Estefan

Cómo Me Duele Perderte
Gloria Estefan

Cómo duele el dìa nublado!
cómo el tiempo es tan pesado! sí
porque a diario pienso en ti.
qué bien grita el silencio!
qué bien duelen los recuerdos! sí
porque todo habla de ti.

qué delicia tu sensualidad!
qué locura cuando te sentia muy de cerca,
y ahora que estas lejos hasta el universo ha muerto!

cómo fue que tu dejaste de querer?
te olvidaste del ayer,
de nuestras miradas de nuestra piel?
no te duele asi perder
lo que fue perfecto y acordado fiel?

lo que me queda por decir
es cómo duele perderte ay! ay! ay!
cómo me duele...

qué pequeño se hace el cielo!
qué humillante es el deseo, sí
porque ya no estás aqui!

qué sincero se hace el frío
como hiel mi sufrimiento!
ya no se lo que es vivir!

qué delicia tu sensualidad!
qué locura cuando te sentia muy de cerca,
y ahora que estas lejos hasta el universo ha muerto!

cómo fue que tu dejaste de querer?
te olvidaste del ayer,
de nuestras miradas de nuestra piel?
no te duele asi perder
lo que fue perfecto y acordado fiel?

lo que me queda por decir
es cómo duele perderte ay! ay! ay!
cómo me duele perderte!

qué delicia tu sensualidad!
qué locura cuando te sentia muy de cerca,
y ahora que estas lejos hasta el universo ha muerto!

cómo fue que tu dejaste de querer?
te olvidaste del ayer,
de nuestras miradas de nuestra piel?
no te duele asi perder
lo que fue perfecto y acordado fiel?

lo que me queda por decir
es cómo duele perderte ay! ay! ay!
cómo me duele perderte!

The Impossible Dream

The Impossible Dream
[from MAN OF LA MANCHA - 1972]
music by Mitch Leigh & lyrics by Joe Darion
sung by - Luther Vandross

To dream the impossible dream
To fight the unbeatable foe
To bear with unbearable sorrow
To run where the brave dare not go

To right the unrightable wrong
To love pure and chaste from afar
To try when your arms are too weary
To reach the unreachable star

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This is my quest
To follow that star
No matter how hopeless
No matter how far

To fight for the right
Without question or pause
To be willing to march into Hell
For a heavenly cause


And I know if I'll only be true
To this glorious quest
That my heart will lie peaceful and calm
When I'm laid to my rest

And the world will be better for this
That one man, scorned and covered with scars
Still strove with his last ounce of courage
To reach the unreachable star

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