everybody hurts

Everybody hurts, sometime, everybody cries.

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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.

R.E.M


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Hold on.

I think this song is about a mother and her growing daughter.
A beautiful song, by ABBA.

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Schoolbag in hand, she leaves home in the early morning
Waving goodbye with an absent-minded smile
I watch her go with a surge of that well-known sadness
And I have to sit down for a while
The feeling that I'm losing her forever
And without really entering her world
I'm glad whenever I can share her laughter
That funny little girl

Slipping through my fingers all the time
I try to capture every minute
The feeling in it
Slipping through my fingers all the time
Do I really see what's in her mind
Each time I think I'm close to knowing
She keeps on growing
Slipping through my fingers all the time

Sleep in our eyes, her and me at the breakfast table
Barely awake, I let precious time go by
Then when she's gone there's that odd melancholy feeling
And a sense of guilt I can't deny
What happened to the wonderful adventures
The places I had planned for us to go
(Slipping through my fingers all the time)
Well, some of that we did but most we didn't
And why I just don't know

Slipping through my fingers all the time
I try to capture every minute
The feeling in it
Slipping through my fingers all the time
Do I really see what's in her mind
Each time I think I'm close to knowing
She keeps on growing
Slipping through my fingers all the time

Sometimes I wish that I could freeze the picture
And save it from the funny tricks of time
Slipping through my fingers

Slipping through my fingers all the time

Schoolbag in hand she leaves home in the early morning
Waving goodbye with an absent-minded smile ...

you light up my life

Did I post this song in this blog? I forgot.
Many singers sang this song. I'm not sure who the first singer was or who the author of the song or the lyrics.

I love the lyric. I don't know if this is somehow a religious or spiritual song.

Here it is:

So many nights I sit by my window
Waiting for someone to sing me his song
So many dreams I kept deep inside me
Alone in the dark but now
You've come along

You light up my life
You give me hope
To carry on
You light up my days
and fill my nights with song

Rollin' at sea, adrift on the water
Could it be finally I'm turning for home?
Finally, a chance to say hey,
I love You
Never again to be all alone

You light up my life
You give me hope
To carry on
You light up my days
and fill my nights with song

You light up my life
You give me hope
To carry on
You light up my days
and fill my nights with song

It can't be wrong
When it feels so right
'Cause You
You light up my life

-- Debbie Boone

both sides now

Of course, it's an old song. An old familiar song; I think I grew up listening to this song once in a while. Maybe from one of the cassettes owned by my father, or from one radio station which played old songs. So familiar that it can go unnoticed.
But when you watch this one scene in Love Actually when this song was played as a background, you can not help to notice the song.

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Rows and flows of angel hair
And ice cream castles in the air
And feather canyons everywhere
I've looked at clouds that way

But now they only block the sun
They rain and snow on everyone
So many things I would have done
But clouds got in my way
I've looked at clouds from both sides now

From up and down, and still somehow
It's cloud illusions I recall
I really don't know clouds at all

Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels
The dizzy dancing way you feel
As ev'ry fairy tale comes real
I've looked at love that way

But now it's just another show
You leave 'em laughing when you go
And if you care, don't let them know
Don't give yourself away

I've looked at love from both sides now
From give and take, and still somehow
It's love's illusions I recall
I really don't know love at all

Tears and fears and feeling proud
To say "I love you" right out loud
Dreams and schemes and circus crowds
I've looked at life that way

But now old friends are acting strange
They shake their heads, they say I've changed
Well something's lost, but something's gained
In living every day

I've looked at life from both sides now
From win and lose and still somehow
It's life's illusions I recall
I really don't know life at all
I've looked at life from both sides now
From up and down, and still somehow
It's life's illusions I recall
I really don't know life at all

By Joni Mitchell

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this never happened before

I know people would say that I am helplessly romantic or something like that..whatever that means, from the songs I like. I like this song by Paul McCartney.
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I'm very sure, this never happened to me before
I met you and now I'm sure
This never happened before

Now I see, this is the way it's supposed to be
I met you and now I see
This is the way it should be

This is the way it should be, for lovers
They shouldn't go it alone
It's not so good when your on your own

So come to me, now we can be what we want to be
I love you and now I see
This is the way it should be
This is the way it should be

This is the way it should be, for lovers
They shouldn't go it alone
It's not so good when your on your own

I'm very sure, this never happened to me before
I met you and now I'm sure
This never happened before (This never happened before)
This never happened before (This never happened before)
This never happened before (This never happened before)
This never happened before
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Great is Thy Faithfulness

Love this song. Came to know it in one Bible camp organized by a church.

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Great is Thy faithfulness, o God my Father
There is no shadow of turning with Thee
Thou changest not Thy compassions they fail not
As Thou hast been Thou forever will be

Reff:
Great is Thy faithfulness, great is Thy faithfulness
Morning by morning new mercies I see
All that I needed Thy hands hath provided
Great is Thy faithfulness, Lord, unto me

Summer and winter and springtime and harvest
Sun, moon, and stars in their courses above
Join with all nature with manifold witness
to Thy great faithfulness, mercy and love
(Reff)

Pardon for sin, and a peace that endureth
Thine own dear presence to cheer and to guide
Strength for today and bright hope for tomorrow
Blessing all mine with ten thousand beside
(Reff)

Lyrics: Thom­as O. Chis­holm
Music: William M. Run­yan
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You see, I don't know how people compose such a beautiful lyrics. But I think it is love.

falling

I heard this song for the first time -- I think -- when I was in high school. The song was played in a radio station. But I only know the title of the song and the artist about 5 years ago. And after more googling, I found the Youtube :-D.

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I think about winter when I was with her
and the snow was falling down
Warmed by the fire I love being by her
When there's no one else around

and I'm falling, oh, I'm falling
I'm falling in love with you

I think about summer my head was swimming
You wrote my name in the sand
We walked together hoping forever
Please don't let go of my hand

Cause I'm falling, oh, I'm falling
I'm falling in love with you

The fall and the springtime were like in between time
You're here and then you're gone away
Oh, I just wanted to stay
Won't you please, please stay
Cause I'm falling, oh, I'm falling
I'm falling in love with you

In love with you
In love with you

Sung by Carr & Leblanc
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