Fairytale of New York

"I could have been someone", well, so could anyone
You took my dreams from me when I first found you
I kept them with me, babe, I put them with my own
Can't make it all alone, I've built my dreams around you

The boys of the NYPD choir, still singing "Galway Bay"

And the bells are ringing out for Christmas Day

Fairytale of New York- Pogues

A Christmas Song

 

This ain’t a breakup song
It’s not about what went wrong
It won’t drag on and on
It’s just a Christmas song

And it’s not a love song
Heard faintly across the restaurant
As sure as the day is long
It’s just a Christmas song

So when it’s getting close but feels so far
Silver Bells and credit cards
And it hits you in your heart
You’re not ready yet to let it come and let it go
And let another year start
And you feel like you’re doing it wrong
Well here’s a Christmas song

And it’s not a wedding song
So no finger-guns or singing along
By the time the turkey’s on
You’ll be sick of this Christmas song

It always comes so fast and hurts a bit
I want to make it last and feel all of it
It doesn’t feel like the way I remember it
Maybe that’s just it, the hardest bits are part of it
Maybe that’s just Christmas, kid
Sorta sweet and kinda sad
In the middle distance where life always lands
And it hits you like an avalanche
That we just want to feel the glow again, the glow again, the glow again

It’s not a myth or some cosmic test
It’s just some people out here doing their best
To make it special for the kids and that
They’re not ready yet to let it come and let it pass
And let another year end
Merry Christmas, I love you
Never question that
Safe to say I might be doing it wrong
But here’s a Christmas song

                    Christmas Song -Dan Mangan 

Guilty

 You know you know how it is with me baby

You know, I just can't stand myself
And it takes a whole lot of medicine
For me to pretend that I'm somebody else

- randy newman

I've Come to Realize

 Is it really gone forever when you see it all so clear

If you can't reach out and touch it was it ever really here
Maybe loving once is worth the pain of going on
But where does all the love go when you love someone who's gone?

        I've Come to Realize -Aubory Bugg

Don't Let Us Get Sick

 Don't let us get sick, don't let us get old

Don't let us get stupid, all right?
Just make us be brave and make us play nice
And let us be together tonight
Don't let us get sick, don't let us get old
Don't let us get stupid, all right?
Just make us be brave and make us play nice
And let us be together tonight

Warren Zevon

a little bit of

 Somewhere a pretty girl is writing invitations

To a wedding she has scheduled for the fall

Her man says, 'Baby, can I make an observation?
You don't seem to be having any fun at all
She said, 'You just worry about your groomsmen and your shirt-size
And rest assured that this is making me feel good
I think that love is so much easier than you realize
If you can give yourself to someone
Then you should

'Cause it's a little bit of everything
The way you joke, the way you ache
It is getting up before you
So I can watch you as you wake
So in the day in late September
It's not some stupid little ring
I'm giving a little bit of everything

Here's wishing...

 Here's wishing you the bluest sky

And hoping something better comes tomorrow
Hoping all the verses rhyme
And the very best of choruses, too
Follow all the doubt and sadness
I know that better things are on the way

Better Days- Kinks

anyone can whistle

 I can slay a dragon

Any old week-
Easy.
What's hard is simple.
What's natural comes hard.
Maybe you could show me
How to let go,
Lower my guard,
Learn to be free.
Maybe if you whistle,
Whistle for me.

- Stephen Sondheim

wherever I go

 

There's a place in my heart
Though we're far apart
May you always know
No matter how long since I saw you
I'll keep a flame there for you

Wherever I go

Wherever I go - Mark Knopfler

    

the Most

 

 
Someday well I'll look back and wonder
Someday comes around quicker than they told you
Asking, "Did I do, what I was suppose to?"
In my life

Don't know why the little things make us and sometimes it takes us
Too damn long to figure out what matters the most...
My life is green grass through the snow
A sweet reckless hope
And, baby, I know what matters the most

-The Most- Lori McKenna

morningside

 

Don't want to waste what I have to give

In any of the time that I've got left
I can do more than I thought I could
Work brings more luck than knocking on wood
There's random bad and random good
Work brings more good luck

Better be off
I've got dreams to dream
Though it seems uphill and a little extreme
If I can find hope in this fading light
Then I'll find you on the morningside

-John Gorka

love is pleasing

 Oh love is pleasin' and love is teasin'

And love is a pleasure when first it's new
But as it grows older sure the love grows colder
And it fades away like the morning dew

And love and porter makes a young man older
And love and whiskey makes him old and grey
And what can't be cured love has to be endured love
And now I am bound for America

love is pleasing- the Dubliners

Movin On

 

And now you're gone, now you're gone
As if there ever was a you
Who held me dying, pulled me through
Who's moving on
who's kidding who

Who's moving on?
Who's kidding who?

    Leonard Cohen

Better Days

 I may never understand the full measure of a man

But this is what I'd tell him if he was here
Sometimes it feels like you're caught in a riptide
Pulling you out to a watery grave
Sometimes it feels like you've seen enough
It's all too much
You feel like giving up
Sometimes it feels like I'm stretched too thin
How does anyone win in this race that we're in
Sometimes the going gets pretty rough
But I'm hangin' tough
I'm not giving up on better days

I'm not giving up

"Better Days" -Noah Gunderson

Twenty-Five

 There was a time when I imagined us forever

I can't quite remember how I thought we'd work it out
I guess I would move to California or you to Boston
And I'd learn to like to stay at home or you'd learn to like going out

 
And although the stories that I tell myself about us now
Don't take me to the grave
I'll be an old woman with somebody else by my side
But I will always be in love with you in my memories
When we were twenty-five

 
I always think of you whеn I drink affogatos
'Cause that summer, we would havе them every afternoon
The hot and cold was such a perfect combination
Melt all together, bittersweet and creamy, and always gone to soon

 
But all the joy we had and love we gave away back then
Well, it never went to waste
'Cause I'll be an old woman with somebody else by my side
But I will always be in love with how you loved me
When we were twenty-five

as god commands

 “As God commands

clouds with the wind
The flower in the meadow
The bird to its nest
The sea next to the sand
As God commands
The ice with the cold
It’s what I want
Always be by your side
Always stay with you”

Como Dios Manda - La Santa Cecilia

lullabye

 

Goodnight, my angel

Now it's time to dream
And dream how wonderful your life will be
Someday your child may cry
And if you sing this lullaby
Then in your heart
There will always be a part of me

Someday we'll all be gone
But lullabies go on and on...
They never die
That's how you
And I
Will be

Billy Joel

Men

 It's the men who have the power, it's the men who have the might

And the world's a place of horror because each man thinks he's right
A man's home is his castle so the family let him in
But what's important in that kingdom is the women and the children

A husband and a father, every man's a king
But he's really just a drone, gathers no honey, has no sting
Have pity on the general, the king, and the captain
They know they're expendable, after all they're men

"Men"  Loudon Wainwright III