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And, in the end
The love you take
is equal to the love you make.
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Paul McCartney (The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics)
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Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don't give up the fight.
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Bob Marley (Bob Marley - Legend)
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Don't tell me the sky's the limit when there are footprints on the moon.
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Paul Brandt
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He not busy being born is busy dying.
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Bob Dylan
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You have every right to a beautiful life.
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Selena GΓ³mez
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Love me or hate me, i swear it won't make or break me.
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Lil Wayne
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You don't know, oh, oh
You don't know you're beautiful.
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One Direction
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Skies are crying,
I am watching,
Catching teardrops in my hands.
Only silence, as it's ending,
Like we never had a chance.
Do you have to make me feel
Like there's nothing left of me?
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Demi Lovato
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The heart may freeze, or it can burn. The pain will ease and I can learn. There is no future, there is no past. I live this moment as, my last.
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Jonathan Larson (Rent: The Complete Book and Lyrics of the Broadway Musical)
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As the smoke clears,
I awaken,
And untangle you from me.
Would it make you feel better
To watch me, while I bleed?
All my windows still are broken,
But I'm standing on my feet.
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Demi Lovato
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When I find myself in times of trouble, mother Mary comes to me,
speaking words of wisdom, let it be.
And in my hour of darkness she is standing right in front of me,
speaking words of wisdom, let it be.
Let it be, let it be, let it be, let it be.
Whisper words of wisdom, let it be.
And when the broken hearted people living in the world agree,
there will be an answer, let it be.
For though they may be parted there is still a chance that they will see,
there will be an answer. let it be.
Let it be, let it be, .....
And when the night is cloudy, there is still a light, that shines on me,
shine until tomorrow, let it be.
I wake up to the sound of music, mother Mary comes to me,
speaking words of wisdom, let it be.
Let it be, let it be, .....
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Paul McCartney
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Why do you write like you're running out of time?
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Lin-Manuel Miranda
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Even in the far future,
never forget the you of right now
Wherever you are right now,
youβre just taking a break
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BTS
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And the worst part is before it gets any better we're heading for a cliff. And in the free fall I will realize I'm better off when I hit the bottom
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Hayley Williams
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I am no king, and I am no lord,
And I am no soldier at-arms," said he.
"I'm none but a harper, and a very poor harper,
That am come hither to wed with ye."
"If you were a lord, you should be my lord,
And the same if you were a thief," said she.
"And if you are a harper, you shall be my harper,
For it makes no matter to me, to me,
For it makes no matter to me."
"But what if it prove that I am no harper?
That I lied for your love most monstrously?"
"Why, then I'll teach you to play and sing,
For I dearly love a good harp," said she.
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Peter S. Beagle (The Last Unicorn (The Last Unicorn, #1))
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I think there is a song out there to describe just about any situation.
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Criss Jami (Killosophy)
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Then came the healing time, hearts started to shine, soul felt so fine, oh what a freeing time it was.
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Aberjhani (Songs from the Black Skylark zPed Music Player)
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Life is a journey, not a destination; there are no mistakes, just chances we've taken.
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India.Arie
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A song and a smile from someone I cared about could be enough to distract me from all that darkness, if only for a little while.
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Ransom Riggs (Hollow City (Miss Peregrineβs Peculiar Children, #2))
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When we feel, a kind of lyric is sung in our heart.
When we think, a kind of music is played in our mind.
In harmony, both create a beautiful symphony of life.
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Toba Beta (My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut)
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It's a wonderful life if you can find it.
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Nick Cave (Complete Lyrics 1978-2007)
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Beyond the picket fences and the oil wells, the happy endings, and the fairy tales, is the reality of shattered lives and broken dreams. We carry on.
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Tim McGraw
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Waktu berjalan ke Barat di waktu pagi hari matahari mengikutiku di belakang.
Aku berjalan mengikuti bayang-bayangku sendiri yang memanjang di depan.
Aku dan matahari tidak bertengkar tentang siapa di antara kami yang telah menciptakan bayang-bayang,
aku dan bayang-bayang tidak bertengkar tentang siapa di antara kami yang harus berjalan di depan.
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Sapardi Djoko Damono
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Whether we write lyrics or craft legislation, sell homes or teach classes, design spaces or open franchises, prayer is a critical part of the creative process. Donβt just brainstorm; praystorm.
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Mark Batterson (Draw the Circle: The 40 Day Prayer Challenge)
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There's 7 billion 46 million people on the planet and most of us have the audacity to think we matter.
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George Watsky
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Work It Harder Make It Better
Do It Faster, Makes Us stronger
More Than Ever Hour After
Our Work Is Never Over
-Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger, lyrics and music by Daft Punk
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Daft Punk
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I think that our lyrics are definitely dark, but I know for a fact that we pull our inspiration from a million different influences. We listened to everything growing up. Our music isn't just 'opera metal' or 'gothic pop' it's just Evanescence.
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Evanescence
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If he can't sleep, how will he ever dream?
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Eddie Vedder
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You can't make a fan of everyone. Stay true to your story, characters, music, art or whatever it is you do and fuck everyone else who doesn't like it. Life isn't perfect.
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Ann Marie Frohoff
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Your life is a movie. You are the main character. You say your scripts and act to your lines. Of course you do your lines in each scene. There is a hidden camera and a director who you can ask for help anytime up above.
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Diana Rose Morcilla
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I'm a wanderess
I'm a one night stand
Don't belong to no city
Don't belong to no man
(Note: These lyrics were inspired by Roman Payne's quote from his novel "The Wanderess".)
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Halsey
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Music is the beat of a drum that keeps time with our emotions.
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Shannon L. Alder
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Written up in marker on a factory sign:
I struggle with the feeling that my life isn't mine
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Coldplay (Mylo Xyloto #2: Cover-Up)
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Music replays the past memories, awaken our forgotten worlds and make our minds travel.
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Michael Bassey Johnson
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The vast open sea at night is a song being written; a rhyme, a mysterious and gentle arpeggiated work of Beethoven. It's sung by the waves as they travel on the face of the ocean, and their lyrics are the rhythm of the pounding surf.
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Giselle V. Steele (Rivers Never Fill The Sea)
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There is also a third kind of madness, which is possession by the Muses, enters into a delicate and virgin soul, and there inspiring frenzy, awakens lyric....But he, who, not being inspired and having no touch of madness in his soul, comes to the door and thinks he will get into the temple by the help of art--he, I say, and his poetry are not admitted; the sane man is nowhere at all when he enters into rivalry with the madman.
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Plato (Phaedo)
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I know that that doesn't make even a little bit of sense. That was the point, that beautiful incongruence.
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Hank Green
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You win some, you learn some.
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Jason Mraz
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Cause I am strong and I can prove it
And I got my dreams to see me through
It's just a mountain, I can move it
And with faith enough there's nothing I can't do
And I can see the light of a clear blue morning
And I can see the light of brand new day
I can see the light of a clear blue morning
And everything's gonna be all right
It's gonna be okay
[lyrics from "Light of a Clear Blue Morning"]
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Dolly Parton
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The pattern's laid out on the bed
With dozens of colors of thread
But you've got the needle
I guess that's the point in the end
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Amanda Palmer
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Don't give up. It's just the weight of the world.
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Josh Groban
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Pretty's just a pretty word.
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Little Mix
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Gotta get up and try.
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P!nk
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Closing up. Finally spent.
You are gone.
And now you're moving along.
Heavy now. Tears remain.
Hard pressed to rest.
When all I feel like is a mess.
Now, don't you worry your head.
You're not my one and only friend.
And I don't need you anymore.
To leave me bruised and broken on the floor.
You left me bruised. You left me broken.
You left me bruised. You left me broken.
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K.A. Linde (Avoiding Commitment (Avoiding, #1))
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Pick a star on the dark horizon and follow the light.
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Regina Spektor
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It may not feel too classy, begging just to eat
But you know who does that?
Lassie, and she always gets a treat
So you wonder what your part is
Because you're homeless and depressed But home is where the heart is
So your real home's in your chest
Everyone's a hero in their own way Everyone's got villains they must face
They're not as cool as mine
But folks you know it's fine to know your place
Everyone's a hero in their own way
In their own not-that-heroic way
So I thank my girlfriend Penny
Yeah, we totally had sex
She showed me there's so many different muscles I can flex
There's the deltoids of compassion,
There's the abs of being kind
It's not enough to bash in heads
You've got to bash in minds
Everyone's a hero in their own way Everyone's got something they can do Get up go out and fly
Especially that guy, he smells like poo
Everyone's a hero in their own way
You and you and mostly me and you
I'm poverty's new sheriff
And I'm bashing in the slums
A hero doesn't care if you're a bunch of scary alcoholic bums
Everybody!
Everyone's a hero in their own way Everyone can blaze a hero's trail
Don't worry if it's hard
If you're not a friggin 'tard you will prevail
Everyone's a hero in their own way Everyone's a hero in their...
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Joss Whedon (Dr. Horribleβs Sing-Along Blog: The Book)
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Incredible. It is just incredible that you can notice something like that when your face is so cold you can't feel it anymore, and you know perfectly well you are surrounded by death, and the only way to stay alive is to endure the howling wind and hold your course. And still the sky is beautiful.
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Elizabeth Wein (Rose Under Fire)
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When all you wanted was to be wanted, you wish you could go back and tell yourself what you know now.
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Taylor Swift (Taylor Swift - Fearless Songbook: Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist)
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Works of art are not born in flashes of inspiration but in daily fidelity.
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Albert Camus (Lyrical and Critical Essays)
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In times of youth, drinking is better.
With the joyful, linking is better.
The world is a mere temporal inn;
With the shipwrecked, sinking is better.
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The Collected Lyrics
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My heart is strong,
I will not fail,
I won't be wronged,
I will prevail.
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Alexandra Lanc (Lyrics of the Heart)
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If the bombs go off the sun will still be shining, because I've heard it said that
every mushroom cloud has a silver lining.
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Adam Young Owl City Cave In
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Jason took me by the shouldersβnot out of anger, or in a clinging way, but as a brother. βPromise me one thing. Whatever happens, when you get back to Olympus, when youβre a god again, remember. Remember what itβs like to be human.β
A few weeks ago, I would have scoffed. Why would I want to remember any of this?
At best, if I were lucky enough to reclaim my divine throne, I would recall this wretched experience like a scary B-movie that had finally ended. I would walk out of the cinema into the sunlight, thinking Phew! Glad thatβs over.
Now, however, I had some inkling of what Jason meant. I had learned a lot about human frailty and human strength. I feltβ¦different toward mortals, having been one of them. If nothing else, it would provide me with some excellent inspiration for new song lyrics!
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Rick Riordan (The Burning Maze (The Trials of Apollo, #3))
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It's these little things, they can pull you under
Live your life filled with joy and wonder
I always knew this altogether thunder
Was lost in our little lives
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R.E.M Sweetness Follows
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I dance to the beat of the earth the memories are the lyrics I write nature leads my soul through this existence I call life.
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Nikki Rowe (Once a Girl, Now a Woman)
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Iβve been trying to stay real
and true and proud of who I am,
all those ideals of how to look
Iβve been trying not to care.
But Iβm still holding my breath,
I βm still watching every step.
Iβm still tip-toeing away,
when Iβm getting to ashamed of myself.
I donβt want to be your letdown,
Iβm scared like hell Iβm not enough.
I donβt wanna be
your failure anymore.
β The Glass Child, Letdown
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Charlotte Eriksson
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So if you have today you should say all that you have to say
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Kellin Quinn
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Got your fingerprints as evidence all on my body
Put your right hand on the book and you were found guilty
I canβt wait forever but thatβs how itβs gonna be
For me theyβll never be
Case Closed
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Little Mix
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I could crawl inside the lyrics and know each note intimately. They would claw at my soul, until I could no longer fight the emotions that took me to a place I couldn't experience. But, it was the possibility that made every verse a heart filled prediction and every beat a direction to follow.
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Shannon L. Alder
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Music is a great healer.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
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I'm in love with New York. It matches my mood. I'm not overwhelmed. It is the suitable scene for my ever ever heightened life. I love the proportions, the amplitude, the brilliance, the polish, the solidity. I look up at Radio City insolently and love it. It's all great, and Babylonian. Broadway at night. Cellophane. The newness. The vitality. True, it is only physical. But it's inspiring. Just bring your own contents, and you create a sparkle of the highest power. I'm not moved, not speechless. I stand straight, tough and I meet the impact. I feel the glow and the dancing in everything. The radio music in the taxis, scientific magic, which can all be used lyrically. That's my last word. Give New York to a poet. He can use it. It can be poetized. Or maybe that's mania of mine, to poetize. I live lightly, smoothly, actively, ears or eyes wide open, alert, oiled! I feel the glow and the dancing in every thing and the tempo is like that of my blood. I'm at once beyond, over and in New York, tasting it fully.
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AnaΓ―s Nin
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Sometimes we focus too much on the lyrics that we forget to dance to the music. And sometimes we dance to the music and don't listen to the lyrics. Let the rhythm guide you. Let the lyrics inspire you.
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Alexa Anderson
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Perhaps the One knows
that if I travel without anything else to rely on, Iβll learn to rely more
deeply on Him. (Susan Mitchell in THE DELIVERER)
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Sharon Hinck (The Deliverer (The Sword of Lyric, #4))
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When the lyrical muse sings the creative pen dances.
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Aberjhani (Splendid Literarium: A Treasury of Stories, Aphorisms, Poems, and Essays)
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Life teaches us to
Bend like the willow during a storm
Glide like an eagle
Under the sun mighty and warm
But to stand together
No matter the weather
Unity is all for the better
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Marie Helen Abramyan
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Everybody Hurts
When the day is long and the night, the night is yours alone,
When you're sure you've had enough of this life, well hang on
Don't let yourself go, 'cause everybody cries and everybody hurts sometimes
Sometimes everything is wrong. Now it's time to sing along
When your day is night alone, (hold on, hold on)
If you feel like letting go, (hold on)
When you think you've had too much of this life, well hang on
'Cause everybody hurts. Take comfort in your friends
Everybody hurts. Don't throw your hand. Oh, no. Don't throw your hand
If you feel like you're alone, no, no, no, you are not alone
If you're on your own in this life, the days and nights are long,
When you think you've had too much of this life to hang on
Well, everybody hurts sometimes,
Everybody cries. And everybody hurts sometimes
And everybody hurts sometimes. So, hold on, hold on
Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on
Everybody hurts. You are not alone
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R.E.M.
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Those who have suffered understand suffering and thereby extend their hand.
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Patti Smith (Patti Smith Collected Lyrics, 1970β2015)
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You can go the distance
You can go the mile
You can walk straight through hell with a smile
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The Script (Hall of Fame)
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Cause I'll be by your side wherever you fall
In the dead of night whenever you call
And please don't fight these hands that are holding you
My hands are holding you
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Tenth Avenue North
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I've been worryin' that we all, live our lives, in the confines of fear
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Ben Howard
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I'm also a book nerd so aside from my life and my opinions, you could say my lyrics are inspired in some sense by the writings of Guy Debord, John Berryman, Georges Bataille, T.S. Eliot, Albert Camus, Bukowski, Artaud, Derrick Jensen and bunch of other people.
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Dominic Owen Mallary
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Music teaches us about lyricism in writing, a delicate turn of phrase, selectiveness with words, rhythmic passages. Most of all, music, like good writing, touches our emotions with cadences that slip in like a subtle visitor, familiar and known before.
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Suzy Davies
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Ascend, may you find so resistance
Just know that you made such a difference
All you leave behind will live to the end
The cycle of suffering goes on
But memories of you stay strong
Some day I too will fly and find you again
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Alter Bridge (Alter Bridge - One Day Remains (Guitar Recorded Versions))
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So when you have today
You should say all that you have to say
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Kellin Quinn
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The whole world's a canvas for our sketches
Horizons as far as the mind stretches
A work of art with soft edges
Waiting to come alive
Now's the time
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Marie Helen Abramyan
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That life can change, that we're not stuck in vain...
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Billy Corgan
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There are moments in every relationship that define when two people start to fall in love.
A first glance
A first smile
A first kiss
A first fallβ¦
(I remove the Darth Vader house shoes from my satchel and look down at them.)
You were wearing these during one of those moments.
One of the moments I first started to fall in love with you.
The way you gave me butterflies that morning
Had absolutely nothing to do with anyone else,
and everything to do with you.
I was falling in love with you that morning
because of you.
(I take the next item out of the satchel. When I pull it out and look up, she brings her hands to her mouth in shock.)
This ugly little gnome
With his smug little grinβ¦
He's the reason I had an excuse to invite you into my house.
Into my life.
You took a lot of aggression out on him over those next few months.
I would watch from my window as you would kick him over every time you walked by him.
Poor little guy.
You were so tenacious.
That feisty, aggressive, strong-willed side of youβ¦.
The side of you that refused to take crap from this concrete gnome?
The side of you that refused to take crap from me?
I fell in love with that side of you
because of you.
(I set the gnome down on the stage and grab the CD)
This is your favorite CD
βLaykenβs shit.β
Although now I know you intended for shit to be possessive, rather than descriptive.
The banjo started playing through the speakers of your car
and I immediately recognized my favorite band.
Then when I realized it was your favorite band, too?
The fact that these same lyrics inspired both of us?
I fell in love with that about you.
That had absolutely nothing to do with anyone else.
I fell in love with that about you
because of you.
(I take a slip of paper out of the satchel and hold it up. When I look at her, I see Eddie slide her a napkin. I canβt tell from up here, but that can only mean sheβs crying.)
This is a receipt I kept.
Only because the item I purchased that night was on the verge of ridiculous.
Chocolate milk on the rocks? Who orders that?
You were different, and you didnβt care.
You were being you.
A piece of me fell in love with you at that moment,
because of you.
This? (I hold up another sheet of paper.)
This I didnβt really like so much.
Itβs the poem you wrote about me.
The one you titled 'mean?'
I donβt think I ever told youβ¦
but you made a zero.
And then I kept it
to remind myself of all the things I never want to be to you.
(I pull her shirt from my bag. When I hold it into the light, I sigh into the microphone.)
This is that ugly shirt you wear.
It doesnβt really have anything to do with why I fell in love with you.
I just saw it at your house and thought Iβd steal it.
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Colleen Hoover (Point of Retreat (Slammed, #2))
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We're all made the same but then born to change. Which then don't make us the same.
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Jonathan Anthony Burkett (Neglected But Undefeated: The Life Of A Boy Who Never Knew A Mother's Love)
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And the stars look very different today.
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David Bowie
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A mother's gentle love, an elder's wise words
Same heart and soul, no matter where in the world
So in this one world, we got one chance, under this one sky
Lets come together for all mankind
Let's make this earth from house to home
Safe for every child to roam
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Marie Helen Abramyan
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You have learnt so much
And read a thousand books.
Have you ever read your Self?
You have gone to mosques and temples.
Have you ever visited your soul?
You are busy fighting Satan.
Have you ever fought your
Ill intentions?
You have reached into the skies,
But you have failed to reach
What's in your heart!
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Bulleh Shah (Sufi Lyrics)
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Time is always new, for dreams to come true
Destiny is yours, to do what you do
Change is different, but only for awhile
Free will it always, brings in a whole new style
Competition makes, the fight all worth your while
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Marie Helen Abramyan
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Now thereβs a joy inside I canβt contain
But even perfect days can end in rain
And though itβs pouring down
I see You through the clouds
Shining on my face.
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Francesca Battistelli
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Complete - Yourself! Others may only enhance your completeness.
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Lashauna D. Hinton (Lyrically Lost In Love: An Original Collection of Poetry)
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Silence guides the mind...
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The Neighbourhood
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My God calls to me in the morning dew
The power of the universe knows my name
Gave me a song to sing and sent me on my way
I raise my voice for justice I believe
-I Remember, I Believe
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Bernice Johnson Reagon
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It was a postcard. 'Greetings from the Land of 10,000 Lakes,' it said on the front. Park turned it over and recognized her scratchy handwriting. It filled his head with song lyrics. He sat up. He smiled. Something heavy and winged took off from his chest. Eleanor hadn't written him a letter, it was a postcard. Just three words long.
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Rainbow Rowell (Eleanor & Park)
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The most profound voice of any musician I have ever heard. Joe (Strummer) took his message to the world, and the world listened. He managed to influence more than one generation with his innovative and determined manner, and I am not alone in repeatedly turning to his thoughts and lyrics when searching for inspiration. The Clash was the greatest rock band. They wrote the rule book for U2.
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Bono
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Yeah, do it for your people
Do it for your pride
How are you ever gonna know if you never even try?
Do it for your country
Do it for your name
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The Script (Hall of Fame)
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Yeah, you can be the greatest
You can be the best
You can be the King Kong banging on your chest
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The Script
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John Calvin called the Book of Psalms βan anatomy of all parts of the soul.β All the range of emotions are expressed; the Psalms weave an emotional fabric for the human soul. These inspired lyrics take us by the hand and train us in proper emotion. They lead us to emotional maturity.
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Kevin Swanson (The Tattooed Jesus: What Would the Real Jesus Do with Pop Culture?)
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Many Americans first fell in love with the poetry of the thirteenth century teacher and spiritual leader Jelalludin Rumi during the early 1990s when the unparalleled lyrical grace, philosophical brilliance, and spiritual daring of his work took modern Western readers completely by surprise. The impact of its soulful beauty and the depth of its profound humanity were so intense that they reportedly prompted numerous individuals to spontaneously compose poetry.
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Aberjhani (Illuminated Corners: Collected Essays and Articles Volume I.)
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The houses have been condemned on Memory Lane
Iβm tired of this struggle that leaves everything the same
Iβve tried so hard to make it work
that Iβm dying inside
Well, you can take my past
But you canβt have my tomorrow
Promises that remain promises are useless and theyβre cheap
I wish I could put a price on words so I could make them keep
I put so much faith in you
I lost all my faith in me
Well, you can take my past
But you canβt have my tomorrow
Iβm giving up on giving up
I canβt leave it all to prayer
βCause the first step in getting better
is knowing whatβs not there
You said youβd make it better
and that just makes it worse
Well, you can take my past
But you canβt have my tomorrow
Yes, I want my life to last
So you canβt have my tomorrow
No, you canβt have my tomorrow
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David Levithan (Wide Awake)
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It is possible for music to be labeled "Christian" and be terrible music. It could lack creativity and inspiration. The lyrics could be recycled cliches. That "Christian" band could actually be giving Jesus a bad name because they aren't a great band. It is possible for a movie to be a "Christian" movie and to be a terrible movie. It may actually desecrate the art form in its quality and storytelling and craft.
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Rob Bell (Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith)
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There is a third form of possession or madness, of which the Muses are the source. This seizes a tender, virgin soul and stimulates it to rapt passionate expression, especially in lyric poetry, glorifying the countless mighty deeds of ancient times for the instruction of posterity. But if any man comes to the gates of poetry without the madness of the Muses, persuaded that skill alone will make him a good poet, then shall he and his works of sanity with him be brought to nought by the poetry of madness, and behold, their place is nowhere to be found.
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Plato (Phaedrus (Hackett Classics))
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She breathes music. Lives it and bleeds it. Her headphones have become her heartbeat. Her lyrics are her life. Music is her outlet of pain, love, and rage. Every note unplayed is another minute unlived. Every song unsung is another moment lost forever. She relies on music to show her the way, make fantasies real and to ease the pain of everyday life. Each day is another chance to create pure artistry. Music is the reason she is who she is...the good and the bad. Her life without it is like a bird without wings or lungs with out air. Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Her life is her music. Her death will be the note unsaid.
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Over thinking, over analyzing separates the body from the mind.
Withering my intuition leaving all these opportunities behind.
Feed my will to feel this moment urging me to cross the line.
Reaching out to embrace the random.
Reaching out to embrace whatever may come.
I embrace my desire to
feel the rhythm, to feel connected
enough to step aside and weep like a widow
to feel inspired, to fathom the power,
to witness the beauty, to bathe in the fountain,
to swing on the spiral
of our divinity and still be a human.
With my feet upon the ground I lose myself
between the sounds and open wide to suck it in.
I feel it move across my skin.
I'm reaching up and reaching out.
I'm reaching for the random or what ever will bewilder me.
And following our will and wind we may just go where no one's been.
We'll ride the spiral to the end and may just go where no one's been.
Spiral out. Keep going...
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You know what I love? The spaces between I love you. The tap of your fork against the plate and how my cup of wine clicks against our table. The scratchy voice coming from the radio in the other room. The quiet sound of your hand reaching across the table and whispering over mine. How your voice sounds like your mouth on the back of my neck. The soft murmur of our easy conversation.
Between these quiet Tuesday night routines, following every comma and right after every pause for breath, is I, love, and you. In the middle of every I love you is a sink full of dishes, whisper of socked feet tangled in white sheets, and gentle kisses against curved cheeks. We lyric ourselves into the laundry that needs to be finished, into the ends of every smile that follows me repeating your name. We write ourselves into the grocery bags we need to carry, the cracks running up our rented walls, the sides of the bed we choose to drag up the sails of heavy eyed dreams.
Like the spaces between our fingers, in the spaces between I, love, and you, we wait.
The in-betweens have always been my favorite.
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Marlen Komar (Ugly People Beautiful Hearts)
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Will and Lake,
Love is the most beautiful thing in the world. Unfortunately, it's also one of the hardest things in the world to hold on to, and one of the easiest to throw away.
Neither of you has a mother or a father to go to for relationship advice anymore. Neither of you has anyone to go to for a shoulder to cry on when things get touch, and they will get touch. Neither of you has someone to go to when you just want to share the funny, or the happy, or the heartache. You are both at a disadvantage when it comes to this aspect of love. You both only have each other, and because of this, you will have to work harder at building a strong foundation for your future together. You are not only each other's love; you are also one another's sole confidant.
I hand wrote some things onto strips of paper and folded them into stars. It might be an inspirational quote, an inspiring lyric, or just some downright good parental advice. I don't want you to open one and read it until you truly feel you need it. If you have a bad day, if the two of you fight, or if you just need something to lift your spirits...that's what these are for. You can open one together; you can open one alone. I just want there to be something both of you can go to, if and when you ever need it.
Will...thank you. Thank you for coming into our lives. So much of the pain and worry I've been feeling has been alleviated by the mere fact that I know my daughter is loved by you....You are a wonderful man, and you've been a wonderful friend to me. I thank you from the bottom of my heart for loving my daughter like you do. You respect her, you don't need to change for her, and you inspire her. You can never know how grateful I have been for you, and how much peace you have brought my soul.
And Lake; this is me-nudging your shoulder, giving you my approval. You couldn't have picked anyone better to love if I would have hand-picked him myself. Also, thank you for being so determined to keep our family together. You were right about Kel needing to be with you. Thank you for helping me see that. And remember when things get touch for him, please teach him how to stop caring pumpkins...
I love you both and with you a lifetime of happiness together.
-Julia
"And all around my memories, you dance..." ~The Avett Brothers
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Colleen Hoover (Point of Retreat (Slammed, #2))
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THE ANTHEM OF HOPE
Tiny footprints in mud, metal scraps among thistles
Child who ambles barefooted through humanityβs war
An Elderflower in mud, landmines hidden in bristles
Blood clings to your feet, your wee hands stiff and sore
You who walk among trenches, midst our filth and our gore
Box of crayons in hand, your tears tumble like crystals
Gentle, scared little boy, at the heel of Hope Valley,
The grassy heel of Hope Valley.
And the bombs fall-fall-fall
Down the slopes of Hope Valley
Bayonets cut-cut-cut
Through the ranks of Hope Valley
Napalm clouds burn-burn-burn
All who fight in Hope Valley,
All who fall in Hope Valley.
Bullets fly past your shoulder, fireflies light the sky
Child who digs through the trenches for his long sleeping father
You plant a kiss on his forehead, and you whisper goodbye
Vain corpses, brave soldiers, offered as cannon fodder
Nothing is left but a wall; near its pallor you gather
Crayon ready, you draw: the memory of a lie
Kind, sad little boy, sketching your dream of Hope Valley
Your little dream of Hope Valley.
Missiles fly-fly-fly
Over the fields of Hope Valley
Carabines shoot-shoot-shoot
The brave souls of Hope Valley
And the tanks shell-shell-shell
Those who toiled for Hope Valley,
Those who died for Hope Valley.
In the light of gunfire, the little child draws the valley
Every trench is a creek; every bloodstain a flower
No battlefield, but a garden with large fields ripe with barley
Ideations of peace in his dark, final hour
And so the child drew his future, on the wall of that tower
Memories of times past; your tiny village lush alley
Great, brave little boy, the future hope of Hope Valley
The only hope of Hope Valley.
And the grass grows-grows-grows
On the knolls of Hope Valley
Daffodils bloom-bloom-bloom
Across the hills of Hope Valley
The midday sun shines-shines-shines
On the folk of Hope Valley
On the dead of Hope Valley
From his Aerodyne fleet
The soldier faces the carnage
Uttering words to the fallen
He commends their great courage
Across a wrecked, tower wall
A childβs hand limns the valley
And this drawing speaks volumes
Words of hope, not of bally
He wipes his tears and marvels
The miracle of Hope Valley
The only miracle of Hope Valley
And the grass grows-grows-grows
Midst all the dead of Hope Valley
Daffodils bloom-bloom-bloom
For all the dead of Hope Valley
The evening sun sets-sets-sets
On the miracle of Hope Valley
The only miracle of Hope Valley
(lyrics to "the Anthem of Hope", a fictional song featured in Louise Blackwick's Neon Science-Fiction novel "5 Stars".
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Louise Blackwick (5 Stars)