Better Days

Where do we go from here,
While we're all so consumed by fear,

Why I'm trying not to be suspiscious of those I'm suspicious of,
I'm tryin to crack open this angry heart and find a little love,
Still I worry, worry, worry,
Caught in an endless maze,

Still when the lights go out,
All that I can think about is how we've seen better days

Better Days
Amos Lee

I Believe In Love

Silence stared me in the face
And I finally heard its voice
It seemed to softly say
That in love you have a choice

Today I got the answer
And there's a world of truth behind it
Love is out there waiting somewhere
You just have to go and find it

I believe in love, I believe in love
A love that's real, love that's strong
Love that lives on and on

Yes I believe in love
Yes I believe in love

I Believe In Love
Martie Seidel, Marty Stuart, Natalie Maines
*Performed by the Dixie Chicks

Me and God

There ain't nothing that can't be done
By me and God
Ain't nobody come in between me and God
One day we'll live together
Where the angels trod
Me and God

Early in the morning talking it over
Me and God
Late at night talking it over
Me and God
You could say where like two peas in a pod
Me and God

He's my Father
He's my friend
The beginning
And the end
He rules the world
With a staff and rod
We're a team
Me and God

I am weak and he is strong
Me and God
He forgives me when I'm wrong
Me and God
He's the one I lean on
When life gets hard
Me and God

He's my Father
He's my friend
The beginning
And the end
He rules the world
With a staff and rod
We're a team
Me and God

He rules the world
With a staff and rod
We're a team
Me and God

We're a team
Me and God

Me and God
Josh Turner

Scott and Bryce came to visit yesterday for Easter.  When we went to lunch, Scott decided that I needed to get my "country" on so he played "Me and God" by Josh Turner and I just loved it.

I'm expecting a Josh Turner CD... SOON!  :)

I Can Only Imagine

I can only imagine
What it will be like
When I walk
By your side

I can only imagine
What my eyes will see
When your face
Is before me
I can only imagine

Surrounded by Your glory, what will my heart feel
Will I dance for you Jesus or in awe of you be still
Will I stand in your presence or to my knees will I fall
Will I sing hallelujah, will I be able to speak at all
I can only imagine

I can only imagine
When that day comes
And I find myself
Standing in the Son

I can only imagine
When all I will do
Is forever
Forever worship You
I can only imagine

Surrounded by Your glory, what will my heart feel
Will I dance for you Jesus or in awe of you be still
Will I stand in your presence or to my knees will I fall
Will I sing hallelujah, will I be able to speak at all
I can only imagine

I can only imagine
I can only imagine

I can only imagine
When all I will do
Is forever, forever worship you

I Can Only Imagine
Bart Marshall Millard
*Performed by Mercy Me

Happy Easter!

Bottom Of The Barrel

I keep on laughing to keep from crying
I keep on dreaming to keep from dying
I keep on trying
Ain’t gonna stop
Get right down to the bottom of the barrel
And then you float back on top

We all know someone who’s always hurtin’
The sun is shining they draw the curtain
One thing for certain
The pain ain’t gonna stop

You get right down to the bottom of the barrel
And then you float back on top

You know the grass is always greener
in someone else’s yard
And the world is so much meaner
when your heart is hard

I go out walking in any season
It could be rainin’ it could be freezin’
I don’t need no reason
It’s just so pleasing I can’t stop

You get right down to the bottom of the barrel
And then you float back on top
You get right down to the bottom of the barrel
And then you float back on top

Bottom of the Barrel
Amos Lee

Hope ~ even at the bottom of the barrel. 

Dimming of the Day

This old house is falling down around my ears
I'm drowning in a river of my tears
When all my will is gone you hold me sway
I need you at the dimming of the day

You pull me like the moon pulls on the tide
You know just where I keep my better side

What days have come to keep us far apart
A broken promise or a broken heart
Now all the bonnie birds have wheeled away
I need you at the dimming of the day

Come the night you're only what I want
Come the night you could be my confident

I see you on the street in company
Why don't you come and ease your mind with me
I'm living for the night we steal away
I need you at the dimming of the day
I need you at the dimming of the day

Richard Thompson
*Performed by Bonnie Raitt (My favorite version)

Beautiful, beautiful song. This is another one that tugs at me.

Life Less Ordinary

Live a life less ordinary
Live a life extraordinary with me
Live a life less sedentary
Live a life evolutionary with me

Life Less Ordinary
Scott Andrew Milstead, Jordan Medas,
Carter Randolph Gravatt, Terrell Harlan Clark,
Barry Thomas Privett
*Carbon Leaf

Another Train

The beginning is now,
and will always be.
You say you lost your chance,
then fate brought you defeat.
But that means nothing,
you look so sad.
You've been listening to those,
who say you've missed your chance.

There's another train,
there always is.
Maybe the next, one is yours,
get up and climb aboard,
another train.

You feel you're down,
but there's no such thing.
Although you're standing on your own,
your own breath is king.
The beginning is now,
don't turn around.
regrets of bad mistakes,
they will only drain you.

We crawl in the dark sometimes,
we think too much.
Then we fill our heads with the craziest things,
that only break our hearts.
I know you've seen,
what the earth can do.
When it's dragging down another load,
of worrisome fools.

I know it's hard,
when you feel confused.
You can crown yourselves with fear,
and you feel you cannot move.
You're building worlds,
that don't exist.
Imagination sometimes plays,
the worst tricks.

There's another train,
there always is.
Maybe the next, one is yours,
get up and climb aboard.

There's another train,
there always is,
Maybe the next, one is yours,
get up and climb aboard,
another train.

Another Train
The Poozies

Maybe the next one

It Doesnt Matter Anymore

There you go and baby, here am I.
Well, you left me here so I could sit and cry.
Well, golly gee, what have you done to me?

I guess it doesn't matter any more

Do you remember baby, last September
How you held me tight, each and every night
Well, oh baby, how you drove me crazy
I guess it doesn't matter any more

There's no use in me a-cryin'.
I've done everything and I'm sick of tryin'.
I've thrown away my nights,
Wasted all my days over you

Now you go your way and I'll go mine
Now and forever till the end of time
I'll find somebody new and baby, we'll say we're through

And you won't matter anymore

It Doesn't Matter Anymore
Paul Anka

Paul Anka?  Really?  Wow!  I love love love this!  It's one of my "get some gumption" songs.

Let Your Troubles Roll By

So many cities and windows and lives
And through each one there's a soul that strives to survive
So pay no mind, my sorrow's fine
The day is alive and that's why I cry

When all of your tears dry, let your troubles roll by
When all of your tears dry, let your troubles roll by
When all of your tears dry, let your troubles roll by
Let your troubles roll by

Let Your Troubles Roll By
Scott Andrew Milstead, Jordan Medas, Carter Randolph Gravatt,
Terrel Harlan Clark, Barry Thomas Privett* Performed by Carbon Leaf

We saw Carbon Leaf (and Toad) at the Queen last night.  WONDERFUL!  I really liked Carbon Leaf yesterday when I woke up.  Last night when I went to bed, I LOVED them!

Talented... fun... lots of energy... better than I expected!

When all of your tears dry, let your troubles roll by.

Raise The Roof

Raise the roof, that I might see the stars
To gain wisdom, to see things for what they are
Please, I need proof

Dance till you fall
Love till you die
Shut your mouth
Raise the roof

Trapped in the snare with too much dreaming to bear
Fearful and frantic, hopeless and a romantic
Inspired but tired, I run this wide-open course
Like the sagging spirit of an older horse

Dance till you fall
Love till you die
Shut your mouth
Raise the roof

Dance till you fall
Love till you die
Shut your mouth
Raise the roof

Peel back this backdrop, like the lids from my eyes
Put you in plain view, let me visualize
Touch me again in my dreams till I feel
Touch me again till I wake and it's real

Dance till you fall
Love till you die
Shut your mouth
Raise the roof

Dance till you fall
Love till you die
Shut your mouth
Raise the roof

The wisest advice to me that I didn't reach
Was to lock up the heart, but keep the key within reach
Touch me again in my dreams till I feel
Touch me again till I wake and it's real

Dance till you fall
Love till you die
Shut your mouth
Raise the roof

Raise The Roof
Scott Andrew Milstead, Jordan Medas, Carter Randolph Gravatt,
Terrel Harlan Clark, Barry Thomas Privett
* Performed by Carbon Leaf

Amen! 

Going to see Carbon Leaf and Toad tonight at World Cafe Live at the Queen. I can hardly wait!

Walk On The Ocean

We spotted the ocean at the head of the trail
Where are we going, so far away

And somebody told me that this is the place
Where everything's better, everything's safe

Walk on the ocean
Step on the stones
Flesh becomes water
Wood becomes bone

And half and hour later we packed up our things
We said we'd send letters and all those little things
And they knew we were lying but they smiled just the same
It seemed they'd already forgotten we'd came

Now we're back at the homestead
Where the air makes you choke
And people don't know you
And trust is a joke

We don't even have pictures
Just memories to hold
That grow sweeter each season
As we slowly grow old

Walk On The Ocean

Randel Guss, Dean Dinning, Todd Nichols, Glen Richard Phillips

* Performed by Toad The Wet Sprocket

Toad is going to be at the Queen in Wilmington tomorrow night and we are going with Richard and Julie.  This seems to be an annual event for us and we never get tired of seeing them.  Now all we need is some new material.  :-)

Orange Sky

But when I'm alone
When I've thrown off the weight of this crazy stone
When I've lost all care for the things I own
That's when I miss you, that's when I miss you
You are my home
You are my home now

Orange Sky
Alexi Murdoch

Delicate

So why'd you fill my sorrow
With the words you've borrowed
From the only place that you've known
And why'd you sing Hallelujah
If it means nothing to you
Why'd you sing with me at all?

Delicate
Damien Rice

Be Ok

I just want to be ok, be ok, be ok
I just want to be ok today
I just want to be ok, be ok, be ok
I just want to be ok today

I just want to feel today, feel today, feel today
I just want to feel something today
I just want to feel today, feel today, feel today
I just want to feel something today

CHORUS:
Open me up and you will see
I'm a gallery of broken hearts
I'm beyond repair, let me be
And give me back my broken parts

I just want to know today, know today, know today
I just want to know something today
I just want to know today, know today, know today
Know that maybe I will be ok

Just give me back my pieces
Just give them back to me please
Just give me back my pieces
And let me hold my broken parts

I just want to be ok, be ok, be ok
I just want to be ok today
I just want to be ok, be ok, be ok
I just want to be ok today

I just want to feel today, feel today, feel today
I just want to feel something today
I just want to know today, know today, know today

Know that maybe I will be ok
Know that maybe I will be ok
Know that maybe I will be ok

Be Ok
Ingrid Michaelson

SO!  We went to see Ingrid Michaelson last night at the Queen (the grand opening).  Before the concert, I loved her voice, but there is really no way to appreciate her voice other than "live".   Amazing!

I felt awful today and really didn't want to go, but I'm so glad we did!  It was a concert that was good for the soul.

All We Are

And in the end the words won't matter
'Cause in the end nothing stays the same
And in the end dreams just scatter and fall like rain

'Cause all we are we are
All we are we are
And every day is a start of something beautiful, something real

All We Are
Matt Nathanson

I Am The Light Of This World

Just as long as I'm in this world I am the light of this world
Just as long as I'm in this world I am the light of this world
Just as long as I'm in this world I am the light of this world
Just as long as I'm in this world I am the light of this world

Oh you don't believe in Jesus and not a word he said
When he come way on down to Lazarus grave
      and raise him from the dead

I've got fiery fingers and I've got fiery hands
And when I get up in heaven gonna join in that fiery band

Prayer is the key to heaven and faith unlocks the door
That's why God give me the key to carry wherever I go

I know I got religion I know I ain't ashamed
For the Holy Ghost is my witness, and the angels done signed my name

Didn't they take John The Baptist and put him in a kettle of oil
God got in there with him and they tell me the oil didn't boil


I Am The Light Of This World
Reverend Gary Davis
*as performed by Hot Tuna