quotes capturing emotions of leaving

by Markfromcali 15 Replies latest jw friends

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  FlyingHighNow

  Here's another song that gives me strength when I hear it. I shared it with an exdub friend and she plays it daily for strength.
  closer to fine

  Indigo Girls
  
  
  i'm trying to tell you something about my life
  maybe give me insight between black and white
  and the best thing you've ever done for me
  is to help me take my life less seriously
  it's only life after all
  yeah
  
  well darkness has a hunger that's insatiable
  and lightness has a call that's hard to hear
  i wrap my fear around me like a blanket
  i sailed my ship of safety till i sank it
  i'm crawling on your shores
  
  i went to the doctor, i went to the mountains
  i looked to the children, i drank from the fountains
  there's more than one answer to these questions
  pointing me in a crooked line
  and the less i seek my source for some definitive
  (the less i seek my source)
  the closer i am to fine
  the closer i am to fine
  
  and i went to see the doctor of philosophy
  with a poster of rasputin and a beard down to his knee
  he never did marry or see a b-grade movie
  he graded my performance, he said he could see through me
  i spent four years prostrate to the higher mind
  got my paper and i was free
  
  i went to the doctor, i went to the mountains
  i looked to the children, i drank from the fountains
  there's more than one answer to these questions
  pointing me in a crooked line
  the less i seek my source for some definitive
  (the less i seek my source)
  the closer i am to fine
  the closer i am to fine
  
  i stopped by the bar at 3 a.m.
  to seek solace in a bottle or possibly a friend
  and i woke up with a headache like my head against a board
  twice as cloudy as i'd been the night before
  and i went in seeking clarity.
  
  i went to the doctor, i went to the mountains
  i looked to the children, i drank from the fountains
  yeah we go to the doctor, we go to the mountains
  we look to the children, we drink from the fountains
  yeah we go to the bible, we go through the workout
  we read up on revival and we stand up for the lookout
  there's more than one answer to these questions
  pointing me in a crooked line
  the less i seek my source for some definitive
  (the less i seek my source)
  the closer i am to fine
  the closer i am to fine
  the closer i am to fine

  Flyin'
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  dh

  this song says it all...

  Bob Dylan - Positively 4th Street

  You got a lotta nerve
  To say you are my friend
  When I was down
  You just stood there grinning

  You got a lotta nerve
  To say you gota helping hand to lend
  You just want to be on
  The side that?s winning

  You say I let you down
  You know it?s not like that
  If you?re so hurt
  Why then don?t you show it

  You say you lost your faith
  But that?s not where it?s at
  You had no faith to lose
  And you know it

  I know the reason
  That you talk behind my back
  I used to be among the crowd
  You?re in with

  Do you take me for such a fool
  To think I?d make contact
  With the one who tries to hide
  What he don?t know to begin with

  You see me on the street
  You always act surprised
  You say, how are you? good luck
  But you don?t mean it

  When you know as well as me
  You?d rather see me paralyzed
  Why don?t you just come out once
  And scream it

  No, I do not feel that good
  When I see the heartbreaks you embrace
  If I was a master thief
  Perhaps I?d rob them

  And now I know you?re dissatisfied
  With your position and your place
  Don?t you understand
  It?s not my problem

  I wish that for just one time
  You could stand inside my shoes
  And just for that one moment
  I could be you

  Yes, I wish that for just one time
  You could stand inside my shoes
  You?d know what a drag it is
  To see you
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  Markfromcali

  How about poetry? I posted this a couple times before but it has probably been a year or more:

  The Journey by Mary Oliver

  One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began, though the voices around you kept shouting their bad advice - - - though the whole house began to tremble and you felt the old tug at your ankles. 'Mend my life!' each voice cried. But you didn't stop. You knew what you had to do, though the wind pried with its stiff fingers at the very foundations - - - though their melancholy was terrible.It was already late enough, and a wild night, and the road full of fallen branches and stones. But little by little, as you left their voices behind, the stars began to burn through the sheets of clouds, and there was a new voice, which you slowly recognized as your own, that kept you company as you strode deeper and deeper into the world, determined to do the only thing you could do - - - determined to save the only life you could save.
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  EyeDrEvil

  When I was getting ready to bolt the organization, the Elton John song This Train Don't Stop There Anymore came to mind. I thought it would have been great to perform the song at our congregation talent show, get up, hand deliver my letter of DA to the PO, give a big bow, and walk off into the sunset.

  you may not believe it
  but i don't believe in miracles anymore
  and when i think about it
  i don't believe i ever did for sure
  all the things i've said in songs
  all the purple prose you bought from me
  reality's just black and white
  the sentimental things i'd write
  never meant that much to me

  i used to be the main express
  all steam and whistles heading west
  picking up my pain from door to door
  riding on the storyline
  furnace burning overtime
  but this train don't stop,
  this train don't stop,
  this train don't stop there anymore

  you don't need to hear it
  but i'm dried up and sick to death of love
  if you need to know it
  i never really understood that stuff
  all the stars and bleeding hearts
  all the tears that welled up in my eyes
  never meant a thing to me
  read 'em as they say and weep
  i've never felt enough to cry

  when i said that i don't care
  it really means my engine's breaking down
  the chisel chips my heart again
  the granite cracks beneath my skin
  i crumble into pieces on the ground
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  MikeMusto

  Not another -lyrics are like us thread
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  Corvin

  Thanks Flyin!

  Not another -lyrics are like us thread

  MIke come on now! You can't stop the music!

  Just Leave Me With The Pride

  Gary Kemp, Spandau Ballet

  Build on rock or build on sand,

  they're never gonna lend a hand

  so nothing grows or nothing stands

  I can't take anymore, I can't take anymore

  there's not a lot of space for me

  but I still got my dignity

  I've got my price don't say I'm free

  I can't take anymore, I can't take anymore

  and I'm hungry- I could eat anything

  and I'm hungry- ooh, let's dance, oh let's swing

  and I that I hear are the words that she sings

  I can't take anymore, I can?t take anymore

  Just leave me with the pride that I worked for

  now they've taken the reason away

  just leave me with the pride that I worked for, today

  I'd rather take this cure for life

  than make myself a sacrefice

  when living is to pay the price

  I can't take anymore, I can't take anymore

  It takes a while to understand

  when you eyes are full of sand

  and only time is in your hands

  I cant take anymore, I can't take anymore

  and I'm hungry- I could eat anything

  and I'm hungry- ooh, let's dance, oh let's swing

  and I that I hear are the words that she sings

  I can't take anymore, I can?t take anymore

  Just leave me with the pride that I worked for

  now they've taken the reason away

  just leave me with the pride that I worked for, today