LaxUF

"Where I Stood"

I don't know what I've done
Or if I like what I've begun
But something told me to run
And honey you know me it's all or none

There were sounds in my head
LIttle voices whispering
That I should go and this should end
Oh and I found myself listening

'Cos I dont know who I am, who I am without you
All I know is that I should
And I don't know if I could stand another hand upon you
All I know is that I should
'Cos she will love you more than I could
She who dares to stand where I stood

See I thought love was black and white
That it was wrong or it was right
But you ain't leaving without a fight
And I think I am just as torn inside

'Cos I dont know who I am, who I am without you
All I know is that I should
And I don't know if I could stand another hand upon you
All I know is that I should
'Cos she will love you more than I could
She who dares to stand where I stood

And I won't be far from where you are if ever you should call
You meant more to me than anyone I ever loved at all
But you taught me how to trust myself and so I say to you
This is what I have to do

'Cos I dont know who I am, who I am without you
All I know is that I should
And I don't know if I could stand another hand upon you
All I know is that I should
'Cos she will love you more than I could
She who dares to stand where I stood
Oh, she who dares to stand where I stood

Missy Higgins Where I stood US Version - YouTube

LaxUF

"Ten Days"

So we've put an end to it this time.
I'm no longer yours and you're no longer mine.
You said this hill looks far too steep
If I'm not even sure it's me you wanna keep.
And it's been ten days without you in my reach,
And the only time I've touched you is in my sleep.

But time has changed nothing at all -
You're still the only one that feels like home.
I've tried cutting the ropes and
I let you go but you're still the only one
That feels like home.

You won't talk me into it next time,
If I'm going away your hearts coming too.
'Cos I miss your hands I miss your face.
When I get back let's disappear without a trace.

'Cos it's been ten days without you in my reach,
And the only time I've touched you is in my sleep.

But time has changed nothing at all -
You're still the only one that feels like home.
I've tried cutting the ropes,
Tried letting go but you're still the only one
That feels like home.

So tell me, did you really think...
Oh tell me, did you really think
I had gone when you couldn't see me anymore?
When you couldn't...

'Cos baby time has changed nothing at all -
You're still the only one that feels like home.
And I've tried cutting the ropes,
I let you go but you're still the only one
That feels like home, yeah,
You're still the only one that feels like home,
You're still the only one I've gotta love.
Oh yeah...

Missy Higgins - Ten Days (Video) - YouTube

cabbage65

i started bawling when i heard Simple Song by The Shins:

I know that things can really get rough,
When you go it alone.
Don't go thinking you gotta be tough,
And play like a stone.

Lon

When my ex was leaving and before dday #2 when I was hoping to R, I was in survival mode going crazy around the house working my butt off, and I was bawling to all the Backstreet Boys songs in their repertoire, like "quit playing games with my heart" etc. It was F'n pathetic.

Cool song I hadn't heard in a long time on clock radio this morning, Springsteen:

Hey little girl is your daddy home?
Did he go away and leave you all alone?
I got a bad desire
I'm on fire

Tell me now baby is he good to you?
Can he do to you the things that I do?
I can take you higher
I'm on fire

Sometimes it's like someone took a knife, baby, edgy and dull
and cut a six-inch valley through the middle of my soul

At night I wake up with the sheets soaking wet
and a freight train running through the middle of my head
Only you can cool my desire
I'm on fire

nnoodle

On a good, hopeful day: Jason Mraz - I won't give up

Most days: Gotye- Someone that I used to know.

OldGirl

I always found this one more sexy than sad. Well ok, a dull knife cutting through your soul and a freight train running through your head is kinda sad, but the desperation in the song is sexy

angelpixie

That song would break me down every time I heard it -- and STBXH and I weren't even married yet. I never thought of myself as psychic, but maybe I was?

Ironic thing is: I heard this playing in a store the week before 'the speech' and it was the first time it DIDN'T make me cry. I thought "Wow! That's really cool! I must have dealt with whatever fear that was linked to."

Then, WHAM!

Another one that gets me is Broken Arrow by Robbie Robertson (NOT the Rod Stewart version):

Who else is gonna bring you a broken arrow
Who else is gonna bring you a bottle of rain
There he goes moving across the water
There he goes turning my whole world around

When we were not dating very long, STBXH sat out on his roof in the rain to fill a little bottle. Then he gave it to me. The water has long since evaporated, but I still have the bottle, even now.

papa5280

Amen to that. This is the one song that really gets me now.

Not a song, but the other thing that kills me every time it's on is this commercial. Not sure if I'm allowed to post a link, but I'll do it. Please let me know if I need to take it off.

Baby Driver - YouTube

angelpixie

I found a remix of this that I also downloaded to my computer. It's more danceable, and it omits some of the lyrics. It has both of Gotye's verses, but not the chorus, then it repeats the first two Kimbra lines, like, 4 times.
Really gives it a different feel. Makes it feel much more like he was negative and self-piteous about the relationship and was so hung up on his own feelings and waiting for the relationship to end but didn't do anything to prevent it (STBXH).
Then Kimbra answers with her two lines, sort of telling him to get over himself and his self-pity because he's been making her life hell. (Gee, guess who that would be, LOL?)

I love when remixes or different arrangements can give a song a totally different feel.

Another one I just re-discovered when I listed to the CD was the song Plenty by Sarah McLachlan.

I looked into your eyes
they told me plenty
I already knew

you never felt a thing
so soon forgotten
all that you do

in more than words I
tried to tell you
the more I tried I failed

I would not let myself believe
that you might stray
and I would stand by you
no matter what they'd say,
I would have thought I'd be with you
until my dying day
until my dying day

I used to think my life
was often empty
a lonely space to fill

you hurt me more than
I ever would have imagined
you made my world stand still

and in that stillness
there was a freedom
I never felt before

I would not let myself believe
that you might stray
and I would stand by you
no matter what they'd say,
I would have thought I'd be with you
until my dying day
until my dying day

I love how the verse ends with her feeling the freedom that grows out of the stillness.

Lon

yes I agree... after waking up to it, I was wide awake and almost feeling that desparation... it was very "sexy" I guess is the word, and it was going through my head all day. Was the opposite kind of feeling from when I was listening to BSB a year ago.

angelpixie

I don't know, Lon. I think it takes someone pretty secure in his manhood to admit he was even listening to BSB. I'm impressed.

arbitrator

Broken Vow by Josh Groban

Heard it the other day while driving the car when it just inexplicably came on the radio. It was a lot like being punched in the gut, making me feel helpless and so empty.

When that song first aired just few years hence, I never really listened to the words all that closely. But for some strange reason, I heard them all too clearly this time and they just really got to me!

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Lon

wow, just listened to that on youtube, would have literally killed me back then, glad I was listening to fluffy stuff like BSB.

bandit.45

"Dimming of the Day" by Richard Thompson. Saddest song I've ever heard. Alison Krauss covered it on the last Union Station album. I can't make it through that song whole.

TS5- Alison Krauss - Dimming of the day - YouTube

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