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  • (* = Ami Chant)

    (That's not the beginning of the end
    That's the return to yourself
    The return to innocence.)

    Love - Devotion
    Feeling - Emotion

    Don't be afraid to be weak
    Don't be too proud to be strong
    Just look into your heart my friend
    That will be the return to yourself
    The return to innocence

    *

    The return to innocence
    If you want, then start to laugh
    If you must, then start to cry
    Be yourself don't hide
    Just believe in destiny
    Don't care what people say
    Just follow your own way
    Don't give up and use the chance
    To return to innocence

    *

    (That's not the beginning of the end
    That's the return to yourself
    The return to innocence.)

    *

    (That's the return to innocence.)

    - Enigma and the Ami (Taiwanese) Aborigines

  • Grew up in a small town
    And when the rain would fall down
    I just stared out my window
    Dreaming of what could be
    And if I'd end up happy
    I would pray

    Trying not to reach out
    But when I'd try to speak out
    Felt like no one could hear me
    Wanted to belong here
    But something felt so wrong here
    So I pray
    I could breakaway

    I'll spread my wings and I'll learn how to fly
    I'll do what it takes til' I touch the sky
    I'll make a wish
    Take a chance
    Make a change
    And breakaway
    Out of the darkness and into the sun
    But I won't forget all the ones that I love
    I'll take a risk
    Take a chance
    Make a change
    And breakaway

    Wanna feel the warm breeze
    Sleep under a palm tree
    Feel the rush of the ocean
    Get onboard a fast train
    Travel on a jet plane, far away (I will)
    And breakaway

    I'll spread my wings and I'll learn how to fly
    I'll do what it takes til' I touch the sky
    I'll make a wish
    Take a chance
    Make a change
    And breakaway
    Out of the darkness and into the sun
    But I won't forget all the ones that I love
    I'll take a risk
    Take a chance
    Make a change
    And breakaway

    Buildings with a hundred floors
    Swinging around revolving doors
    Maybe I don't know where they'll take me but
    Gotta keep moving on, moving on
    Fly away, breakaway

    I'll spread my wings
    And I'll learn how to fly
    Though it's not easy to tell you goodbye
    I gotta take a risk
    Take chance
    Make a change
    And breakaway
    Out of the darkness and into the sun
    But I won't forget the place I come from
    I gotta take a risk
    Take a chance
    Make a change
    And breakaway, breakaway, breakaway

    - Avril Lavigne (voice of Kelly Clarkson)

  • There is something metaphysical about this song that I like.

    ---
    Sittin' on the beach
    The island king of love
    Deep in Fijian Seas
    Deep in some blissful dream
    Where the goddess finally sleeps
    In the lap of her lover
    Subdued in all her rage
    And I'm aglow with the taste of the demons driven out
    And happily replaced with the presence of real love
    The only one who saves

    I wanna dance with you
    I see a world where people live and die with grace
    The karmic ocean dried up and leave no trace
    I wanna dance with you
    I see a sky full of the stars that change our minds
    And lead us back to a world we would not face

    The stillness in your eyes
    Convinces me that I
    I don't know a thing
    And I been around the world and I've tasted all the wines
    A half a billion times came sickened to your shores
    You show me what this life is for

    I wanna dance with you
    I see a world where people live and die with grace
    The karmic ocean dried up and leave no trace
    I wanna dance with you
    I see a sky full of the stars that change our minds
    And lead us back to a world we would not face

    In this altered state
    Full of so much pain and rage
    You know we got to find a way to let it go

    Sittin' on the beach
    The island king of love
    Deep in Fijian Seas
    Deep in the heart of it all where the goddess finally sleeps
    After eons of war and lifetimes
    She smilin' and free, nothin' left
    But a cracking voice and a song, oh Lord

    I wanna dance with you
    I see a world where people live and die with grace
    The karmic ocean dried up and leave no trace
    I wanna dance with you
    I see a sky full of the stars that change our minds
    And lead us back to a world we would not face
    We would not face
    We would not face
    We would not face
    We would not face
    We would not face

    - Live, 'Dance With You'

  • When I am down and, oh my soul, so weary;
    When troubles come and my heart burdened be;
    Then, I am still and wait here in the silence,
    Until you come and sit awhile with me.

    You raise me up, so I can stand on mountains;
    You raise me up, to walk on stormy seas;
    I am strong, when I am on your shoulders;
    You raise me up: To more than I can be.

    - Josh Groban

  • more 90's stuff for the selection of the day... enjoy

    I didn't ask
    They shouldn't have told me
    At first I'd laugh, but now
    It's sinking in fast
    Whatever they've sold me

    Well baby
    I don't want to take advice from fools
    I'll just figure everything is cool
    Until I hear it from you

    It gets hard
    The memory's faded
    Who gets what they say
    It's likely they're just jealous and jaded

    Well maybe
    I don't want to take advice from fools
    I'll just figure everything is cool
    Until I hear it from you
    Until I hear it from you

    I can't let it get me off
    Or break up my train of thought
    As far as I know, nothing's wrong
    Until I hear it from you

    Still thinking about
    Not living without it
    Outside looking in
    Til we're talking about (it)
    Not stepping around it

    Maybe
    I don't want to take advice from fools
    I'll just figure everything is cool
    Until I hear it from you...

    - Gin Blossoms, 'Till I Hear It From You'

  • a classic of a different genre...

    All I can say is that my life is pretty plain
    I like watchin' the puddles gather rain
    And all I can do is just pour some tea for two
    and speak my point of view
    But it's not sane
    It's not sane

    I just want someone to say to me:
    'I'll always be there when you wake.'
    Ya know I'd like to keep my cheeks dry today
    So stay with me and I'll have it made.

    And I don't understand why I sleep all day
    And I start to complain that there's no rain
    And all I can do is read a book to stay awake
    And it rips my life away, but it's a great escape
    escape...escape...escape...

    All I can say is that my life is pretty plain
    ya don't like my point of view
    ya think I'm insane
    It's not sane... it's not sane...

    - Blind Melon, 'No Rain'

  • somewhat of a classic...

    In the middle of the night
    I go walking in my sleep
    From the mountains of faith
    To a river so deep

    I must be looking for something
    Something sacred I lost
    But the river is wide
    And it's too hard to cross

    And even though I know the river is wide
    I walk down every evening and I stand on the shore
    And try to cross to the opposite side
    So I can finally find out what I've been looking for

    In the middle of the night
    I go walking in my sleep
    Through the valley of fear
    To a river so deep

    And I've been searching for something
    Taken out of my soul
    Something I would never lose
    Something somebody stole

    I don't know why I go walking at night
    But now I'm tired and I don't want to walk anymore
    I hope it doesn't take the rest of my life
    Until I find what it is that I've been looking for

    In the middle of the night
    I go walking in my sleep
    Through the jungle of doubt
    To a river so deep

    I know I'm searching for something
    Something so undefined
    That it can only be seen
    By the eyes of the blind

    In the middle of the night

    I'm not sure about a life after this
    God knows I've never been a spiritual man
    Baptized by the fire, I wade into the river
    That runs to the promised land

    In the middle of the night
    I go walking in my sleep
    Through the desert of truth
    To the river so deep

    We all end in the ocean
    We all start in the streams
    We're all carried along
    By the river of dreams

    In the middle of the night

    - Billy Joel, "River of Dreams"

  • hmm, since i have really nothing here, perhaps maybe i can put in song lyrics... the english version of this particular song was in my head last night, but there was one verse that just hit me, so I'll just post the whole thing here.

    (Disclaimer: To the gossipers out there, no, there was never anyone.. so please don't take this song too literally, haha.)

    Alone for a while I've been searching through the dark
    For traces of the love you left inside my lonely heart
    To weave by picking up the pieces that remain
    Melodies of life--love's lost refrain

    Our paths they did cross, though I cannot say just why
    We met, we laughed, we held on fast, and then we said goodbye
    And who'll hear the echoes of stories never told?
    Let them ring out loud till they unfold
    In my dearest memories, I see you reaching out to me
    Though you're gone, I still believe that you can call out my name

    A voice from the past, joining yours and mine
    Adding up the layers of harmony
    And so it goes, on and on
    Melodies of life,
    To the sky beyond the flying birds--forever and beyond

    So far and away, see the bird as it flies by
    Gliding through the shadows of the clouds up in the sky
    I've laid my memories and dreams upon those wings
    Leave them now and see what tomorrow brings

    In your dearest memories, do you remember loving me?
    Was it fate that brought us close and now leaves me behind?

    A voice from the past, joining yours and mine
    Adding up the layers of harmony
    And so it goes, on and on
    Melodies of life,
    To the sky beyond the flying birds--forever and beyond

    If I should leave this lonely world behind
    Your voice will still remember our melody
    Now I know we'll carry on
    Melodies of life
    Come circle round and grow deep in our hearts
    As long as we remember

    - Final Fantasy IX, "Melodies of Life"

  • ok ppl... i have no idea what to put here. if you have any ideas, please let me know.

    until then, anyone reading this xanga may tune in to my livejournal here

    laters..

  • yup, what an exciting first entry. lol