Mother, Father - Dave Matthews Band

Mother, father please explain to me
Why a world so full of mystery
A place so bitter and still so sweet
So beautiful and yet so full of sad, sad...

Mother, father please explain to me
Why forests march to desert speed
While snowcapped mountains melt away
What do we tell our babies, when do we say, oh

Mother, father please explain to me
How a man who rocks his child to sleep
Pulls the trigger on his brothers heart
He digs a hole right to the middle of this storm of hatred

Mother, father please explain to me
How it could be so this world has come to be
A precious balance in between
Such cruelty and such kindness please

Mother, father please explain to me
How this world has come to be
Unequaled in her blessings, oh, I see
Unbridled hatred so extreme, please tell me

Mother, father please explain to me
How this world has come to be so
Twisted between time and dreams
Oh, mother, father please explain to me
Oh, whats all this talk about?
All this talk about it
Spinning down, down, down, down, down
All this talk about
Endless words without
Nothings done

Mother, father do you know
Why one mans belly overflows
Another sleeps in hungers bed
Oh, we trade our world for a piece of bread

Oh mother, father please explain to me
How this rare worlds come to be
A place so full of color yet overflowing
Always in black and white
Drowning in the waters of our...

Mother, father please explain to me
How this world has come to be
While still blessed in all the things we see
Such a sad, sad home for you and me

Come out, and hold,
Come on out you
Come on out you
Come and save yourself

Come on out you
Come on were taking the water
Were taken the water
Were taken the water
But you know
We got the freedom
We got the freedom

Theres no God above
And no hell below
Oh, its here with us
Its up to us
To keep afloat

How this sweet world has come to be
Oh to keep afloat

Mother, father please explain to me
How this rare world has come to be
Oh, let the blue planet
Let the blue planet

Mother, father please explain to me
Mother, father please explain

Daughtry- Nov 21st

(probably not 100% accurate, but close)

I have the parts that i am unsure about in red with ???? around them.

thanks.

thanks

It’s Not Over

I was blown away
What could I say
It all seemed to make sense
You’ve taken away everything
And I can’t ? deal/do ? without
I try to see the good in life
But good things in life are hard to find

Blow it away, blow it away
Can we make this something good
Well ? I’ll try/I tried ? to do it right this time around
Let’s start over
? I’ll try/I tried ? to do it right this time around
It’s not over
There’s a part of me that’s dead and in the ground
This love is killing me
But you’re the only one
It’s not over

Taken all I could take
And I can not wait
Were wasting to much time
Being strong, holding on
Can’t let it bring us down
My life with you means everything
So I won’t give up that easily

Blow it away, blow it away
Can we make this something good
Cause it’s all misunderstood
Well ? I’ll try/I tried ? to do it right this time around
Let’s start over
? I’ll try/I tried ? to do it right this time around
It’s not over
Cause a part of me is dead and in the ground
This love it killing me
But you’re the only one
It’s not over

We can’t let this get away
Let it out, let it out
Don’t get caught up in yourself
Let it out

Let’s start over
? I’ll try/I tried ? to do it right this time around
It’s not over
Cause a part of me is dead and in the ground
This love is killing me
But you’re the only one
It’s not over

Let’s start over
It’s not over, oh yeah, yeah
This love is killing me
But you’re the only one
It’s not over
_________________

Home

I’m staring out into the night
Trying to hide the pain
I’m going to the place where love
Feeling good don’t never cost a thing
And the pain you feel’s a different kind of pain

I’m going home
To the place where I belong
Where your love has always been enough for me
I’m running ? far/for ?
? Don’t/No I ? think you got me all wrong
I don’t regret this life ? you/I ? choose for me
But these places and these faces are getting old
So I’m going home
I’m going home

(the following lyrics was typed by someone else. I can't remember who. I am sorry! if you let me know, i can give you credit. I am not sure how accurate they are.)

The miles are getting longer it seems
The closer I get to you.... babe
And I've always been the best man and friend for you
To love and make true and I dont know why
You always seem to give me another try
I'm going home
To the place where I belong
Where your love has always been good enough for me
I'm running from you know I think you got me all wrong
I don't regret this life I chose for me
But these places and these faces are getting old
Be careful what you wish for
cause you just might get it all
you just might get it all and then some you dont want
be careful what you wish for cause you just might get it all
You just might get it all
I'm going home to the place where I belong
Where your love has always been enough for me
And I'm running from.. you know I think you got me all wrong
I don't regret this life I chose for me'
But these places and these faces are getting old
But these places and these faces are getting old
I'm going home
I'm going home
_________________

Over You

Now that it’s all said and done
I can’t believe you were the one
To build me up then tear me down
Like an old abandoned house
What you said when you left
Just left me cold and out of breath
I fell too far, was in way too deep
Guess I let you get the best of me

Well I never saw it coming
Should have started running
A long, long time ago
And I never though I’d doubt you
I’m better off without you
More than you, more than you know
I’m slowly getting closure
I guess it’s really over
I’m finally gettin’ better
And now I’m picking up the pieces
Spending all of these years
? Putting ? my heart back together

? Today/The day ? I thought I’d never get though
I got over you

You took a hammer to these walls
Dragin’ memories down the hall
Packed your bags and walked away
There was nothing I could say
And when you slammed the front door shut
A lot of others opened up
So did my eyes, So I could see
That you never were the best for me

Well I never saw it coming
I should have started running
A long, long time ago
And I never thought I’d doubt you
I’m better off without you
More than you, more than you know
I’m slowly getting closure
I guess it’s really over
I’m finally gettin’ better
And now I’m picking up the pieces
Spending all of these years
? Putting ? my heart back together


________
Used To

You use to talk to me like
I was the only one around
You used to lean on me
The only other choice was falling down
You used to walk with me like
We had nowhere we needed to go
nice and slow
To no place in particular

We used to have this figured out
We used to breath with out a doubt
The nights were clear
For the first time that I see
We used to have this under control
We never thought, we used to know
At least there’s you, and at least there’s me
Can we get this back, can we get this back
To how it used to be

I used to reach for you and
I got lost a long the way
I used to listen
You always had the just right thing to say
I used to follow you
Never really cared where we would go
Fast or slow
To anywhere at all

We used to have this figured out
We used to breath with out a doubt
And night were clear
For the first time that I see
We used to have this under control
We never thought, we used to know
At least there’s you, and at least there’s me
Can we get this back, can we get this back
To how it used to be

Truth Hits Everybody - The Police


Sleep lay behind me like a broken ocean
Strange waking dreams before my eyes unfold
You lay there sleeping like an open doorway
I stepped outside myself and felt so cold
Take a look at my new toy
It’ll blow your head in two, oh boy

Truth hits everybody, truth hits everyone
Truth hits everybody, truth hits everyone
Truth hits everybody, truth hits everyone

I thought about it and my dream was broken
I clutch at images like dying breath
And I don’t want to make a fuss about it
The only certain thing in life is death
Take a look at my new toy
It’ll blow your head in two, oh boy
Truth hits everybody, truth hits everyone
Truth hits everybody, truth hits everyone
Truth hits everybody, truth hits everyone

Where you want to be, won’t you ever see?
Truth hits everybody, truth hits everyone
Truth hits everybody, truth hits everyone
Truth hits everybody, truth hits everyone
Truth hits everybody, truth hits everyone
Truth hits everybody, truth hits everyone
Truth hits everybody, truth hits everyone

Ah....now!

Dixie Chicks ~ Ready to run

When the train rolls by
I'm gonna be ready this time
When the boy gets that look in his eye
I'm gonna be ready this time
When my momma says I look good in white
I'm gonna be ready this time

Oh yeah
Ready, ready, ready, ready...ready to run
All I'm ready to do is have some fun
What's all this talk about love

I feel the wind blow through my hair
I'm gonna be ready this time
I'll buy a ticket to anywhere
I'm gonna be ready this time
You see it feels like I'm starting to care
And I'm going to be ready this time

Oh yeah
Ready, ready, ready, ready...ready to run
All I'm ready to do is have some fun
What's all this talk about love

I'm ready to run...I'm ready to run

Oh
Ready, ready, ready, ready...ready to run
All I'm ready to do is have some fun
What's all this talk about love
I'm ready to run
I'm ready to run
I'm ready to run
I'm ready to run...ready to run...
ready to run...yeah I'm ready to run. I'm ready
Whoa I'm ready to run...I'm ready...I'm ready to run...
I'm ready to run...I'm ready
Oh I'm ready to run..I'm ready.

Evan and Jaron ~ From My Head to My Heart

Once again I just can't get it straight
Wondering if wandering is my fate
But don't lose hope in me quite yet
'cause help must be on the way, any day

From my head to my heart
can't seem to find a way they're so far apart
It's not you, it's not your fault
You've got everything I could ever want
And you've always understood my intentions are good
and we've been so close from the start
but the furthest distance I've ever known is
From my head to my heart

I feel the distance standing here next to you
I don't want to keep you waiting, but I've been waiting too
Some day if I get there and you still want me too
we can see it through

From my head to my heart
can't seem to find a way they're so far apart
it's not you, you've got everything I could ever want

My CHEMICAL ROMANCE

"Welcome To The Black Parade"

When I was a young boy,
My father took me into the city
To see a marching band.

He said, "Son when you grow up,
would you be the saviour of the broken,
the beaten and the damned?"
He said "Will you defeat them,
your demons, and all the non believers,
the plans that they have made?"
"Because one day I'll leave you,
A phantom to lead you in the summer,
To join The Black Parade."

When I was a young boy,
My father took me into the city
To see a marching band.
He said, "Son when you grow up,
would you be the saviour of the broken,
the beaten and the damned?"

Sometimes I get the feeling she's watching over me.
And other times I feel like I should go.
And through it all, the rise and fall, the bodies in the streets.
And when you're gone we want you all to know.

We'll carry on,
We'll carry on
And though you're dead and gone believe me
Your memory will carry on
We'll carry on
And in my heart I can't contain it
The anthem won't explain it.

A world that sends you reeling from decimated dreams
Your misery and hate will kill us all.
So paint it black and take it back
Let's shout it loud and clear
Defiant to the end we hear the call

To carry on
We'll carry on
And though you're dead and gone believe me
Your memory will carry on
We'll carry on
And though you're broken and defeated
Your weary widow marches

On and on we carry through the fears
Ooh oh ohhhh
Disappointed faces of your peers
Ooh oh ohhhh
Take a look at me cause I could not care at all

Do or die, you'll never make me
Because the world will never take my heart
Go and try, you'll never break me
We want it all, we wanna play this part
I won't explain or say I'm sorry
I'm unashamed, I'm gonna show my scar
Give a cheer for all the broken
Listen here, because it's who we are
I'm just a man, I'm not a hero
Just a boy, who had to sing this song
Just a man, I'm not a hero
I! don't! care!

We'll carry on
We'll carry on
And though you're dead and gone believe me
Your memory will carry on
We'll carry on
And though you're broken and defeated
Your weary widow marches on

Do or die, you'll never make me
Because the world will never take my heart
Go and try, you'll never break me
We want it all, we wanna play this part (We'll carry on)

Do or die, you'll never make me (We'll carry on)
Because the world will never take my heart (We'll carry on)
Go and try, you'll never break me (We'll carry)
We want it all, we wanna play this part (We'll carry on)

Wright or Wrong - AR

Amy she lives in the house next door
stained glass windows and padlocked drawers
deep dark closets and parkay floors
Amy she lives in the house next door
Amy, she's everyones favorite whore
And you know what she says
Right or wrong
Right or wrong
Right or wrong
I want to give it to you

Madeline, she's in love with Germaine
Germaine's in love with her brother Ray
Ray's got no plans right now, anyway
Madeline's husband and brother Ray
There go Madeline's husband and brother Ray

And you know what they say
Right or Wrong
Right or Wrong
Right or Wrong
I want to give it to you

She knows you
She knows you
And maybe that's why
why it feels she's got your pulse under her thumb
She knows you
she loves you
but maybe love's blind
and it feels she's got your pulse under her.....
THUMB

And here I sit unrelieved
pen in my hand and heart on my sleeve
analyzation is art's pet peeve
pen in my hand and heart on my sleeve
pen through my heart and blood on my sleeve

And maybe that's why
why it feels she's got your pulse under her
THUMB

Jon Bon Jovi ~ Naked

My friend had a girlfriend
She liked her drink
Sucked the head off her lager
Threw me a wink
And she sang to me, "Buddy, what's your sign?"

I was off, I was runnin'
Knocked me clean off my feet
Her tongue kept on selling
What any blind man could see
And I just kept on stumbling through the stop signs

She said, "What's you hiding underneath that shirt?"
Right behind the buttons there's a heart that hurts
Adam's evening left the curse
Take it off make it work

Naked, naked - just get back to basics, yeah
Naked, face it - you can't fake it when you're (naked)
Naked (naked) face it
All I'm saying

The tail you been chasing
Put the K back in kink
Threw a coin in her jukebox
I started to think
But she just smiled and offered me a peace sign

How far you gonna run in those designer shoes ?
The soul with holes ain't gonna be the one you lose
I don't know which one is worse: Adam, me or you

Naked, naked - just get back to basics, yeah
Naked, face it - you can't fake it when you're (naked)
Naked (naked) face it
All I'm saying

[Guitar solo]

Take it, embrace it
Baby, here we are
Can't you almost ... taste it

Naked, naked - just get back to basics (yeah)
Naked, face it - you can't fake it when you're (naked)
Naked (naked, naked) naked (naked, naked) naked (naked, naked) naked (naked)

Next one is for sweet Caroline

Jon Bon Jovi ~ It's just me

You know your favorite old pair of shoes
The ones with the hole in the toe you won't lose
Your favorite record that's all scratched and used
But still you love to play when your feeling blue

That faded rose that's all dried out
Those Bukowski poems we couldn't live without
Your high school picture when you had wild hair
That stormy day on the beach that got us here

And oh, you better believe
There's just one thing you need, oh, can't you see ...

It's just me baby, it's just me baby
There's just one thing that you should keep in your book of
dreams
It's just me baby (it's just me)

Just like a shadow 10 feet tall
Standing right behind you should you fall
I'll be the one to hold you up to walk
When this wicked world makes us want to crawl

And if your waves should ever break at sea
I'll be there waiting, I'm that sandy beach
I'm the same old dog, scratching those same fleas
I'll be by your side, you can count on me

It's just me baby, it's just me baby
There's just one thing that you should keep in your book of
dreams
It's just me baby, it's just me baby
What's it gonna take to make you see ?
What's it gonna take 'til you believe in me ? oh...

[Guitar solo]

Oh, how my smile fades and my heart just breaks every time you
go away

But it's just me baby, it's just me baby
There's one more thing that you should keep in your book of
dreams
It's just me baby, it's just me baby
What's it gonna take to make you see ?
What's it gonna take 'til you believe in me ?

And if someday some new memory comes along
Looking shiny, new, feeling really strong
You can tell him that I'll tell him he can just move on
I'm a fighter, I've been fighting for you all night long
It's just me baby, it's just me, it's just me baby, it's just
me baby

^^ I love that song.

Antigone Rising
You're The Reason


Why are you sitting on the side
clockin' the time
letting them do the decidin'?

Caught in the ebb without a flow
watchin' the tide
what kind of wave are you ridin'?

Pick off the hours of the day
this is a shade
of your blue you've been hidin'.

Walking through the shadows of your soul
don't be afraid
'cuz baby I'll do your fightin'.

Chorus:
You're the reason
you're my everything
you lift me up when I have fallen
You're the reason
you are everything
I'm higher up and you're the reason
yeah......

I know the secret of your eyes
I may be wise
or maybe paying attention

You are much better than you know
You're subtle grace
with the heart of a lion


Shook you when the sky was falling down
you lost your place
safe in the middle

Guilty by omission was the case
but this is home base
where you will find your acquittal

(chorus)

Bridge:
I'm better since you came along
Now it's my turn

(chorus out)

Everything I Own - Bread

You sheltered me from harm
Kept me warm, kept me warm
You gave my life to me
Set me free, set me free
The finest years I ever knew
Were all the years I had with you
And...

I would give anything I own
Give up my life, my heart, my home
I would give ev'rything I own
Just to have you back again

You taught me how to love
What it's of, what it's of
You never said too much
But still you showed the way
And I knew from watching you
Nobody else could ever know
The part of me that can't let go
And...

Is there someone you know
You're loving them so
But taking them all for granted?
You may lose them one day
Someone takes them away
And they don't hear
The words you long to say

Just to touch you once again

Kool & The Gang
Celebration



Celebrate good times, come on
(Let's celebrate)
Celebrate good times, come on
(Let's celebrate)

There's a party goin' on right here
A celebration to last throughout the years
So bring your good times
And your laughter too
We gonna celebrate your party with you

Come on now

(Celebration)
Let's all celebrate and have a good time
(Celebration)
We gonna celebrate and have a good time

It's time to come together
It's up to you
What's your pleasure

Everyone around the world
Come on

(Yahoo) It's a celebration
(Yahoo)

Celebrate good times, come on
It's a celebration
Celebrate good times, come on
Let's celebrate

We're gonna have a good time tonight
Let's celebrate, it's all right
We're gonna have a good time tonight
Let's celebrate, it's all right

Baby

We're gonna have a good time tonight
(Ce-le-bra-tion)
Let's celebrate, it's all right
We're gonna have a good time tonight
(Ce-le-bra-tion)
Let's celebrate, it's all right

(Yahoo)
(Yahoo)

Celebrate good times, come on
(Let's celebrate)
Celebrate good times, come on
It's a celebration
Celebrate good times, come on
(Let's celebrate)

(Ad lib)

Come on and celebrate, good times, tonight
(Celebrate good times, come on)
'Cause everything's gonna be all right
Let's celebrate
(Celebrate good times, come on)
(Let's celebrate)...

You're My Best Friend
> Queen
>
> Ooh, you make me live
> Whatever this world can give to me
> It's you, you're all I see
> Ooh, you make me live now honey
> Ooh, you make me live
>
> Oh, you're the best friend
> That I ever had
> I've been with you such a long time
> You're my sunshine
> And I want you to know
> That my feelings are true
> I really love you
> (ooh) oh, you're my best friend
>
> Ooh, you make me live
>
> Ooh, I've been wandering round
> But I still come back to you (still come back to you)
> In rain or shine
> You've stood by me girl
> I'm happy at home (happy at home)
> You're my best friend
>
> Ooh, you make me live
> Whenever this world is cruel to me
> I got you, to help me forgive - oo oo ooh
> Ooh, you make me live now honey
> Ooh, you make me live
>
> Oh, you're the first one
> When things turn out bad
> You know I'll never be lonely
> You're my only one
> And I love the thing
> I really love the things that you do
> Oh, you're my best friend
>
> Oh, ooh, you make me live
>
> I'm happy (happy at home)
> You're my best friend
> Oh, oh, you're my best friend
> Ooh, you make me live
> Oo oo ooh
> You, you're my best friend

Better Antigone Rising


Outside the madness come to me
Feelings are much higher underneath
I would crawl up inside you
know that I'll try to
lonely is only as lonely as we
we're only so lonely

Chorus:
I don't mind where you go while you're gone
You let me know if it's better
And I don't mind when you go why you're gone
and I'll leave you alone if it's better

You could stand on my shoulders for air to breathe
and I would bow to kiss the ground ‘cause
here is where I found you
and where I'd leave you

And brighter will find you
but don't let it blind you
you can't ask forgiveness for what you don't see
and what you don't see is that

(chorus)

And there are angels beside you
they keep and they guide you
but your eyes are just as sad as they can be
are you so sad like me?