God, it wasn't until M posted that Iron Maiden song, I thought 'here's a song I actually know'. Actually, I recognize a couple others, but not many.

Anyway, here's a song that I *have* to sing whenever I hear it. Esp since seeing the movie Mr & Mrs Smith:

Sometimes I feel I've got to
Run away I've got to
Get away
From the pain that you drive into the heart of me
The love we share
Seems to go nowhere
And I've lost my light
For I toss and turn I can't sleep at night

CHORUS:
Once I ran to you (I ran)
Now I'll run from you
This tainted love you've given
I give you all a boy could give you
Take my tears and that's not nearly all
Oh...tainted love
Tainted love... whoaooooaoh... etc.

"Everybody Knows" by Ryan Adams




You come for me in the worst of places
You come for me, you come and try to take me home
I'm always in need and it's hard to be reciprocating
The fabric of our life gets torn

And everything's changing so how i am to know
How i'm going to hold on to you when i'm spinning out of control
You an i together
But only one of us in love
And everybody knows

He says her name, it echoes in my head like it was a canyon
He says her name, he says it and i know what's up
You come to me sometimes when i'm thinking like a cannonball shooting out a canyon
And i forget whatever it was i was thinking about

With everything changing how am i to know
How i'm going to hold on to you when i'm spinning out of control
With you and i together
But only one of us in love
And everybody knows

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I think all women really want is to be proven wrong about men.

Rational Lies - Circle of Dust

(Bad dreams again?)

Here it is again, the voice that scares my thoughts away
Demands attention for itself, itself alone
Seems so un-threatening, promises a bitter sting
Soon my heart and mind become the battle zone.

Push aside all reason; a sailor to the sirens call
Excuse reality for temporary lies
Sometimes I can't believe the things I'll try to justify
Only more lies again

Get out of my head, leave me alone
You're no longer welcome here
A voice so sweet with words that kill
A wicked whisper in my ear

In my time of weakness is when I see your strength displayed
Screaming silently, tickling in my ear
LIE! I know who you really are
And i see your hatred masked behind your smile

Get out of my head, leave me alone
You're no longer welcome here
A voice so sweet with words that kill
A wicked whisper in my ear

O wretched man so failure prone
who will deliver me?
I once was lost but now I'm found
was blind but now i see
I once was lost but now I'm found
was blind but now i see

__________________

Which version do you prefer?

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"Shadow Business" by Jedi Mind Tricks


[Sample]:
[- When you over in American Samoa, what…what surprised you the most?
- I guess what hit me the most is the condition of the factory that the workers were in:
The factory was surrounded by a fence and barbed wire on top and on the bottom. And they have a chain-linked fence surround the whole factory and, and dormitory compound. The gate has a…has a guard shack, where the guard sit there and control the worker movement in and out of the.. of the factory
- The factory are made of ahm.. tin panels with tin roof. It’s really hot. The temperature over there is verily ninety degrees and inside the factory or the dormitory it reaches way over a hundred degrees.]

[Verse 1]:
Yeah
It’s the contemporary form of slavery, they call it slave labour
But they don’t prosecute them cuz it’s how they make paper
When you rocking that fly shit that’s made in China
By an eight year old child tryna feed his mama
He exposed to contamination and disease
And only fifty-five percent of them will get degrees
And the women have to try to placate the boss
Because it’s sex discrimination in the labour force
The slave master only let them speak in sign language
And they’re suffering from lung disease and eye damage
fourteen hour shifts, seven days a week
two shitty meals a day, very little sleep
Human life only worth three cents an hour
All human right laws loose sense of power
What did four hundred years in the grave passes?
Only the improved cleverness of slave masters.

[Chorus]:
Is life worth living if you living in hell?
When the mind is confined to a prisoner’s cell?
And the lies they devise in the system that fail
But I expect the system to fail!
Is life worth living if you living in hell?
When the mind is confined to a prisoner’s cell?
And the lies they devise in the system that fail
But I expect the system to fail!

[Sample]:
[- Many Chinese workers are forced to sign secret agreements, known as shadow contracts, before they leave China, severely and, in some ways, illegally restricting their activities while on American soil. Workers are forbidden to participate in any religious or political activity or to ask for a salary increase or even to fall in love or get married.]

[Verse 2]:
It’s one point six million people locked in jail
They do new slave labour force trapped in hell
They generate over a billion dollars worth to power
And only getting paid twenty cents an hour
They make cloths for McDonald’s and for Apple Bee’s
And working fourteen hour shifts in prison factories
And while we sit around debating who the wack emcee is
They have to work when arthritic pain attack the knees
Slavery is not illegal, that’s a ****ing lie!
It is illegal, unless it’s for conviction of a crime
The main objective is to get you in your ****ing prime.
And keep the prison full and not give you a ****ing dime
But they the real criminal keeping you confined
For a petty crime but they give you two-to-nine
And ain’t nobody there to protect ya
Except a bunch of incompetent human rights inspectors

[Chorus]:
Is life worth living if you living in hell?
When the mind is confined to a prisoner’s cell?
And the lies they devise in the system that fail
But I expect the system to fail!
Is life worth living if you living in hell?
When the mind is confined to a prisoner’s cell?
And the lies they devise in the system that fail
But I expect the system to fail!

[Sample]:
[- The sweatshop situation’s kind of cohesive and kind of take advantage on the people that are poor and at an economic disadvantage.
- This Chinese woman made T-shirts and pants at the factory until she became pregnant.
- When I told them I was pregnant, they told me to have an abortion..
- Tu Xiao Mei says she refused to have the abortion and has now been barred from entering the factory.
- To allow them to bring that on to US soil is a very deep concern. We've now documented the facts that management coerces female workers who become pregnant into having abortions.
- But human rights workers say it's common practice
- Inside that factory Chinese law applies, and Chinese law is… is supreme
- Even though it's the United States of America?
- The flag doesn't fly inside there.]

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Papa Roach - Do Or Die


Today I saw my hero fall apart,
the one who taught me to be strong,
on the outside I look fine,
but on the inside I am dying
my strength has overcome my pain
my love for you remains the same
the loneliness is setting in
I have no one to free my sins

It's never too late to live your life,
the time is now, it's do or die
it's never too late to live your life,
the time is now, it's your to mine

Now it's my time to help you out,
coz you were there when I was down,
it's hard for me to feel this way
losing all your sanity
you helped me, keep my dreams alive ,
without you how would I survive
it's time for me to be a man
now I finally understand

It's never too late to live your life,
the time is now, it's do or die
it's never too late to live your life,
the time is now, it's your to mine

I cant run anymore
I cant hide anymore
I cant run anymore
I cant hide anymore

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My Demon revokes any prayer
He's grown contempt for love and hope
He betrays trust, twists truth and fair
Indifference is his way to cope
Engulfing sound of sensations
He quells with voices of despair
And muse of short lived inspirations
Flees at the sight of his cold stare
~Moy Demon - Mihayeel Lermontov~

Tamara feat. Vrcak & Adrian Gaxha - Tebe Volim (It's you I love)


Let’s go, let’s go, let’s go
What ya gonna do if I let you know
You’re the only one I’ve been dreaming for
I’ve never felt love like this before

Let’s go, let’s go, let’s go
Where the moon is full and the lights are low
We can do it so slow, kiss in slo-mo
Until dawn breaks, then I ride out solo

Alone in the night without anyone around
For your touch I’d give anything
Reason as well as hopes
If I would be with you

In the stars, I was never
anyone but you
the one that kissed
Was it all just a dream

It’s you I love
While shadows are kissing each other
I’m dying for you
It’s you I love, it’s you I love
On angel wings
I’m flying toward the craziest dream

Let’s go

Let’s go, let’s go, let’s go
What ya gonna do if I let you know
You’re the only one I’ve been dreaming for
I’ve never felt love like this before

Let’s go, let’s go, let’s go
Where the moon is full and the lights are low
We can do it so slow, kiss in slo-mo
Until dawn breaks, then I ride out solo

Alone in the night without anyone around
For your touch I’d give anything
Reason as well as hopes
If I would be with you

It’s you I love
While shadows are kissing each other
I’m dying for you
It’s you I love, it’s you I love
On angel wings
I’m flying toward the craziest dream

It’s you I love
While shadows are kissing each other
I’m dying for you
It’s you I love, it’s you I love
On angel wings
I’m flying toward the craziest dream

The Bravery:

Every word form you mouth,
is a knife in my ear
Every thought from your head,
is like poison to hear

Boys like Girls - Thunder:

Your voice,
was the soundtrack of my summer..

Your eyes,
is the brightest of all the colors..

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If you can't stop the Wind, then you can't stop the Storm.

I Needed You


Told that I'm supposed to fail
I wouldn't amount to much of nothin'.
Yes I pray
There was days I wondered if you really loved me.
But baby you feel pain.
Mama was savin' a pair like runnin' away.
I couldn't take it.
So hinted and angry with all of the world.
I couldn't keep friends just wishin' you'd come back and see
My difficult times being an adolescent.
And like so many just like me without a shoulder to lean.

I needed you
When I needed a father figure.
I needed you
To stop me from makin' a wrong decision.
At seventeen, when the cold of the world had my back up against the wall.

I need, I needed you.
I need, I needed you.

Told that I'm supposed to fail
I wouldn't amount to much of nothin'.
Yes I pray
There was days when I wondered if you really loved me.
But baby you feel pain.
Mama was savin' a pair like runnin' away.
I couldn't take it.
So hinted and angry with all of the world.
I couldn't keep friends just wishin' you'd come back and see
My difficult times being an adolescent.
And like so many just like me without a shoulder to lean.

I needed you
When I needed a father figure.
I needed you
To stop me from makin' the wrong decisions.
At seventeen, when the cold of the world had my back up against the wall.
When temptation was calling me, didn't know which way to go.
I needed you.
I need, I needed you.
I needed you.
I need, I need you.
Seventeen when the cold of the world had my back up against the wall.
When temptation was calling me, didn't know which way to go.

Mama had no financial help
And thoughts of breakin' the law came.
Seen her tryna hold down two jobs was tearin' up on me had a way (had a way).
All my friends was gettin' in it
It came time for me to get that dough.
Wrong or right I had to go for what I know.

I needed you
When I needed a father figure.
I needed you
To stop me from makin' the wrong decisions.
At seventeen, when the cold of the world had my back up against the wall.
When temptation was calling me, didn't know which way to go.
I needed you.
I need, I needed you.
I needed you.
I need, I need you.
Seventeen when the cold of the world had my back up against the wall.
When temptation was calling me, didn't know which way to go.

Lord I pray. Give me strength to forgive them and not all the I hate I got. Even though the pain of this was too heavy. Lord I pray. Show me all brothers growin' up without a father had a turn with a day adolescent to a legacy. Lord I pray.)

From the knowledge I ain't get
God, you gave me.
And temptation was callin' me, didn't know which way to go.

I needed you
When I needed a father figure.
I needed you
To stop me from makin' the wrong decisions.
At seventeen, when the cold of the world had my back up against the wall.
When temptation was calling me, didn't know which way to go.