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Fight the fight alone
When the world is full of victims
Dims a fading light
In our souls

Leave the peace alone
How we all are slowly changing
Dims a fading light
In our souls

In my opinion seeing is to know
The things we hold
Are always first to go
And who's to say
We won't end up alone

On broken wings I'm falling
And it won't be long
The skin on me is burning
By the fires of the sun
On skinned knees
I'm bleeding
And it won't be long
I've got to find that meaning
I'll search for so long

Cry ourselves to sleep
We will sleep alone forever
Will you lay me down
In the same place with all I love

Mend the broken homes
Care for them they are our brothers
Save the fading light in our souls

In my opinion seeing is to know
What you give
Will always carry you
And who's to say
We won't survive it too

Set a-free all
Relying on their will
To make me all that I am
And all that I'll be

Set a-free all
Will fall between the cracks
With memories of all that I am
And all that I'll be

 

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For Cory, Paul and Preston...

 

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"There are many things from which I might have derived good, by which I have not profited, I dare say," returned the nephew. "Christmas among the rest. But I am sure I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round -- apart from the veneration due to its sacred name and origin, if anything belonging to it can be apart from that -- as a good time: a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time: the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow-passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys. And therefore, uncle, though it has never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I believe that it has done me good, and will do me good; and I say, God bless it!"

"A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens

Merry Christmas...

 

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uhm, yeah.



Got brass in pocket
Got bottle I'm gonna use it
Intention I feel inventive
Gonna make you, make you, make you notice

Got motion restrained emotion
Been driving detroit leaning
No reason just seems so pleasing
Gonna make you, make you, make you notice

Gonna use my arms
Gonna use my legs
Gonna use my style
Gonna use my sidestep
Gonna use my fingers
Gonna use my, my, my imagination

'cause I gonna make you see
There's nobody else here
No one like me
I'm special so special
I gotta have some of your attention give it to me

Got rhythm I can't miss a beat
Got new skank it's so reet
Got something I'm winking at you
Gonna make you, make you, make you notice

'cause I gonna make you see
There's nobody else here
No one like me
I'm special, so special
I gotta have some of your attention
Give it to me
'cause I gonna make you see
There's nobody else here
No one like me
I'm special, so special
I gotta have some of your attention

Give it to me

 

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When the bells all ring and the horns all blow
And the couples we know are fondly kissing.
Will I be with you or will I be among the missing?

Maybe it's much too early in the game
Ooh, but I thought I'd ask you just the same
What are you doing New Year's, New Year's Eve?

Wonder whose arms will hold you good and tight
When it's exactly twelve o'clock that night
Welcoming in the New Year, New Year's Eve

Maybe I'm crazy to suppose
I'd ever be the one you chose
Out of a thousand invitations you received

Oh, but in case I stand one little chance
Here comes the jackpot question in advance
What are you doing New Year's, New Year's Eve?

 

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I'm watching the "100 Greatest Hard Rock Songs" on vh-1 and as these programs do, they cut to interviews. Some of the bands and songs I listened to when I was in high school, when music videos were in their infancy. Their images are forever burned in my memory. Now I see how some of these artists have aged and its really making me feel old!

 

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Watch out you might get what you're after
Cool baby strange but not a stranger
I'm an ordinary guy
Burning down the house

Hold tight wait 'til the party's over
Hold tight we're in for nasty weather
There has got to be a way
Burning down the house

Here's your ticket pack your bag; time for jumpin' overboard
Transportation is here
Close enough but not too far, maybe you know where you are
Fightin' fire with fire

All wet yeah you might need a raincoat
Shakedown thieves walking in broad daylight
Three hundred sixty five degrees
Burning down the house

It was once upon a place sometimes I listen to myself
Gonna come in first place
People on their way to work say baby what did you expect
Gonna burst into flame

My house S'out of the ordinary
That's right Don't want to hurt nobody
Some things sure can sweep me off my feet
Burning down the house

No visible means of support and you have not seen nothing yet
Everything's stuck together
I don't know what you expect staring into the TV set
Fighting fire with fire

Burning down the house

 

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I wish it would just end.



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 turned 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."
And 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, its 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
oh breathe, just breathe,
oh breathe, just breathe,
oh breathe, just breathe

 

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I can wait another day until I call you
You've only got my heart on a string and everything a flutter
But another lonely night (and another, and another)
Might take forever (and another, and another)
We've only got each other to blame
Its all the same to me love
'cause I know what I feel to be right
No more lonely nights
No more lonely nights
You're my guiding light
Day or night I'm always there

May I never miss the thrill of being near you
And if it takes a couple of years
To turn your tears to laughter
I will do what I feel to be right

No more lonely nights
Never be another
No more lonely nights
You're my guiding light
Day or night I'm always there
And I won't go away until you tell me so
No I'll never go away

Yes I know what I feel to be right
No more lonely nights
Never be another
No more lonely nights
You're my guiding light
Day or night I'm always there
And I wont go away until you tell me so
No I'll never go away
I wont go away until you tell me so
No I'll never go away
No more lonely nights, no no ...

 

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This morning I was on my way to work and stopped at Bill Miller’s BBQ for a couple of breakfast tacos. I know what you’re thinking, “a BBQ joint for breakfast tacos?” Well they are pretty tasty and relatively inexpensive. Not to mention they are on my route to work.


Anyhow, as I drove up to the window the girl gave me my tacos and said it was already paid for. She smiled at me as I evidently had this look on my face that implied “what?” The girl proceeds to tell me that the older lady in line before I paid for my breakfast. Wow! I was totally taken aback by her random act of kindness. Those breakfast tacos tasted even better because of her gesture. I truly hope she had a wonderful day. Whoever she was.

 

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Por ultima vez, tenemos que hablar
Mejor que sea ya, pues mi valor me puede faltar
Por más que traté, no te pude cambiar
Tú que me entiendes bien sabrás que a ti,
Nada te quiero ocultar
Pero tengo que ser, tengo que ser como soy
Aunque te pierda al fin, seré quien más te amó
Nadie dará lo que doy, por eso hoy

Si voy a perderte ya, que sea por vez final
Si voy a perderte ya, es para siempre
Entiendes
Que prefiero dejarte ir y aprender a vivir
Sin ti
Porque si voy a perderte ya, no vuelvas

Que esperas de mí
No espero nada de ti
Yo solo quiero que estés feliz
Aunque sé que puede ser que sea sin mí
Pero mi corazón ya no puede más
Si te vuelvo perdertal vez, yo seré
La que no vuelve jamás
Ya no más

Si voy a perderte ya, que sea por vez final
Si voy a perderte ya, es para siempre
Entiendes
Que prefiero dejarte ir y aprender a vivir
Sin ti
Porque si voy a perderte ya, no vuelvas

 

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Something wicked this way comes.

And the only thing that these primitive creatures will do is exactly what they have always done when darkness engulfs them...

Their souls will be torn by hope and fear...

Love and hate...

And rage and solace, as they cling uselessly to the belief that justice and redemption will rule the day.

They will fight and die in this war...

And as foretold by the black...

They will be consumed.



Blackest Night is coming!

 

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Everybody knows that the dice are loaded
Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed
Everybody knows that the war is over
Everybody knows that the good guys lost
Everybody knows the fight is fixed
the poor stay poor and the rich get rich
That's how it goes

Everybody knows that the boat is sinking
Everybody knows that the captain lied
Everybody's got this broken feeling
Like their Momma or their dog just died
Everybody's hands are in their pockets
Everybody wants a box of chocolates
and a long stem rose
Everybody knows

Everybody knows
Everybody knows
that's how it goes
Everybody knows

Everybody knows
Everybody knows
that's the way it goes
Everybody knows

Everybody knows that its now or never
Everybody knows that its me or you
Everybody knows that you live forever
When you had a line or two
Everybody knows the deal is rotten
Old black Joe still pickin' cotton
for ribbons and bows

Everybody knows you love me baby
Everybody knows that you really do
Everybody knows that you been faithful
Give or take a night or two
Everybody knows you been discrete
So many people you had to meet
without your clothes
and Everybody knows

Everybody knows
Everybody knows
that's the way it goes
Everybody knows

Everybody knows
Everybody knows
that's how it goes
and Everybody knows

 

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how ironic that in today's funny pages i should find 2 strips that zero in on exactly how i feel...

feh.

 

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I first heard this group New Year's Eve while channel surfing and I am hopelessly addicted.

It doesn't help either that the guys in this band are... hot.

Especially the singer (god that sounds so junior high...).



And here's the next single.



Well, there's no doubt in my mind.

I'm going to have to download the whole album.

 

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Heads a-boppin'!



Would I lie to you?
Would I lie to you honey?
Now would I say something that wasn't true?
I'm asking you sugar
Would I lie to you?

My friends - know what's in store.
I won't be here anymore.
I've packed my bags
I've cleaned the floor.
Watch me walking.
Walking out the door.

(believe me - I'll make it make it)

Would I lie to you?
Would I lie to you honey?
Now would I say something that wasn't true?
I'm asking you sugar
Would I lie to you?

Tell you straight - no intervention.
To your face - no deception.
You're the biggest fake.
That much is true.
Had all I can take.
Now I'm leaving you

Would I lie to you?
Would I lie to you honey?
Now would I say something that wasn't true?
I'm asking you sugar
Would I lie to you?

My friends - know what's in store.
I won't be here anymore.
I've packed my bags
I've cleaned the floor.
Watch me walking.
Walking out the door.

(believe me - watch me watch me)

 

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How does it feel
To treat me like you do
When you've laid your hands upon me
And told me who you are

I thought I was mistaken
I thought I heard your words
Tell me how do I feel
Tell me now how do I feel

Those who came before me
Lived through their vocations
From the past until completion
They will turn away no more

And I still find it so hard
To say what I need to say
But I'm quite sure that you'll tell me
Just how I should feel today

I see a ship in the harbor
I can and shall obey
But if it wasn't for your misfortunes
I'd be a heavenly person today

And I thought I was mistaken
And I thought I heard you speak
Tell me how do I feel
Tell me now how should I feel

Now I stand here waiting

I thought I told you to leave me
While I walked down to the beach
Tell me how does it feel
When your heart grows cold

 

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I don't know where I'm gonna live
I don't know if I'll find a place
I'd have to think about it some
And that I do not wish to face
I guess I'm counting on His
Divine intervention

I cannot understand my God
I don't know why it gets to me
One day my life is filled with joy
And then we find we disagree
All depending on His
Divine intervention

Alright

We're all counting on His...{divine}
Does He love us?
Does He love us?
Does He love us?
Does He love us?

Hmmm now does He love us?
I look around
And all I see is destruction
We're all counting on His
Divine intervention

When He comes the sun shine
When He comes the sun shine
Sunshine, the sunshine

Here it comes...

 

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I wish I had a boyfriend. Or at the very least somebody I was dating.

Wicked is opening here in San Antonio for a nearly month long run at the beautiful, romantic Majestic Theater and I can only imagine what a wonderful date that could be. Instead I will buy tickets to the show and more than likely take my mom which is totally cool but still.

Being single sucks.

 

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that the only way I'm getting laid in the near future is through liquor and poor judgement.