Post a song/lyric/poem to help you with your grief

[Nixee]

Similar to the 'post a picture' thread, which I love looking through... music, words.... they offer some solace.

 

Comfort, grief, anger, frustration...even moments of joy I remember.

 

I'll start..

 

A Passing Feeling - Elliott Smith

Everything is gone but the echo of the burst of a shell

And I'm stuck waiting for a passing feeling

In the city I built up and blew to hell

I'm stuck here waiting for a passing feeling

Still I send all the time

My request for relief

Down the dead power lines

Though I'm beyond belief

In the help I require

Just to exist at all

Took a long time to stand

Took an hour to fall

 

I'm stuck here waiting for a passing feeling

Stuck here waiting for the passing feeling

Still I send all the time

My request for relief

Down the dead power lines

Though I'm beyond belief

In the help I require

Just to exist at all

Took a long time to stand

Took an hour to fall

 

Answer - Sarah McLachlan

I will be the answer at the end of the line.

I will be there for you while you take the time.

In the burning of uncertainty, I will be your solid ground.

I will hold the balance if you can't look down.

 

If it takes my whole life, I won't break I won't bend.

It'll all be worth it, worth it in the end.

'Cause I can only tell you what I know,

that I need you in my life.

When the stars have all gone out,

you'll still be burning so bright.

 

Cast me gently into morning, for the night has been unkind.

Take me to a place so holy, that I can wash this from my mind...

The memory of choosing not to fight.

 

If it takes a whole life, I won't break, I won't bend.

It'll all be worth it, worth it in the end.

'Cause I can only tell you what I know, that I need you in my life...

And when the stars have all burned out,

you'll still be burning so bright.

Cast me gently into morning, for the night has been unkind.

[PureGrace]

Those are nice songs, when im really down and nothing goes right I listen to Somewhere Over The Rainbow - Judy Garland.

Makes me all sleepy.

[Nixee]

PureGrace... I agree with that song... I admit it can get to me though. The Iz version was played at both my brother's and my aunt's funeral... something about it I guess. Yet it is an absolutely beautiful song.

 

 

15 Storeys... very lovely..

[Cognitive_Canine]

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[Seraphim]

Starry, starry night.

Paint your palette blue and grey,

Look out on a summer's day,

With eyes that know the darkness in my soul.

Shadows on the hills,

Sketch the trees and the daffodils,

Catch the breeze and the winter chills,

In colors on the snowy linen land.

 

Now I understand what you tried to say to me,

How you suffered for your sanity,

How you tried to set them free.

They would not listen, they did not know how.

Perhaps they'll listen now.

 

Starry, starry night.

Flaming flowers that brightly blaze,

Swirling clouds in violet haze,

Reflect in Vincent's eyes of china blue.

Colors changing hue, morning field of amber grain,

Weathered faces lined in pain,

Are soothed beneath the artist's loving hand.

 

Now I understand what you tried to say to me,

How you suffered for your sanity,

How you tried to set them free.

They would not listen, they did not know how.

Perhaps they'll listen now.

 

For they could not love you,

But still your love was true.

And when no hope was left in sight

On that starry, starry night,

You took your life, as lovers often do.

But I could have told you, Vincent,

This world was never meant for one

As beautiful as you.

 

Starry, starry night.

Portraits hung in empty halls,

Frameless head on nameless walls,

With eyes that watch the world and can't forget.

Like the strangers that you've met,

The ragged men in the ragged clothes,

The silver thorn of bloody rose,

Lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow.

 

Now I think I know what you tried to say to me,

How you suffered for your sanity,

How you tried to set them free.

They would not listen, they're not listening still.

Perhaps they never will...

[15 Storeys High]

Soon it will be 26 months,

so many days since you went away

Maybe if we had talked more

I could have made you stay

I know I cannot bring you back

But my guilt still wells inside

It has been eating away at my heart

Since the day I first cried

You were more than a friend

More that just a girl I knew

People as kind as you,

There are just so few

I know we will see each other one day

And then I can ask you why....

Why you had to leave me....

And why you make me cry.

[HKhan]

Death is nothing at all.

I have only slipped away into the next room.

I am I, and you are you.

Whatever we were to each other, that we still are.

Call me by my old familiar name, speak to me in the easy way that you always used.

Put no difference in your tone, wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow. Laugh as we always laughed at the little jokes we enjoyed together.

Play, smile, think of me, pray for me.

Let my name be ever the household word that it always was, let it be spoken without effect, without the trace of a shadow on it.

Life means all that it ever meant.

It is the same as it ever was;

there is unbroken continuity.

Why should I be out of mind because I am out of sight?

I am waiting for you, for an interval,

somewhere very near,

just round the corner.

 

All is well.

[SamiJayne]

 

 

When looking for a song for my daughters funeral. I read that Eric clapton lost his son, and wrote a song for/about him. So I listened to it. And that was the song we used for her.

 

But the song that still makes me sad is Beyonce - Just a boy. As when I was pregnant, it came on the radio and I danced around the kitchen singing along while I baked cakes. And my little girl kicked away inside. I know one day that memory/song will be a comfort to me.

[tiredofvampires]

Fair warning if you watch/listen to this... every single time I've heard it, it makes me cry... but it is beautiful:

 

*Gulp*...*Wipe*...I appreciate the warning, Nix....but....it wasn't enough...

 

Wow. Kind of unbearable, that one. But you're right...impossibly beautiful.

 

This is a great thread, too...

 

A good companion to the picture one. Thanks for starting it...

[Nixee]

I LOVE this! I wasn't so familiar with Leonard Cohen...but this is so amazing...the only thing is, it should come with a warning if you're listening to it while having PMS!

 

I've been playing and replaying it...I love the lyrics...AND his voice.

 

"There's a crack

A crack in everything

That's how the light gets in"

 

Oh he's an absolutely amazing poet and songwriter... and yes, one of the more unique voices out there. His "Hallelujah" is an often redone song, yet I still kinda like his version... especially live.

 

For my dad's birthday, my brother got him a dvd of a live Leonard Cohen concert in London from 2008... amazing. He was 73 years old and still put on a very long and awesome show. It made my dad cry, which made me cry.... so important to still share those moments with dad now.

[tiredofvampires]

 

 

My attends to you

As a mother fears while her children sleep

Now look, see how they're dreaming

The black reciteries, while her children sleep

Don't go so deep in slumber

Where you'll shy

Know you'll wander in sleep

Don't you fly too far away

Some men die without crying

Suffering so long and alone

Softly, children, dry your eyes

Gently, children, be wise

My fear attends to you

As a mother hears all her children's fears

So don't cry, all will wash away

When we pray

Soon, soon, soon, soon, soon

So if it's okay, I'll wait with you

While the sun began to shine

Oh look, your wings are broken

But never a lie was spoken

The murdered thing is love, you see

Drifting on a lake of memory

Now sleep, close your eyes and have no fear

A wide blue sky is very near

Soon, soon, soon, soon, soon

Now sleep, close your eyes and have no fear

A wide blue sky is very near

 

Sleep

[Nixee]

That brought a couple tears to my eyes Jeen... very beautiful...

[mayealys]

Brandi Carlile- "Pride and Joy"

Time of day I can't recall

The kind of thing that takes it's toll

Over years and over time

Over smiles and over wine

All in all it wasn't bad

All in all it wasn't good

But I still care

That's the problem with the days

They're never long enough to say

What it is you never said

All the books you never read

I throw myself into the wind

Hoping somebody will pick me up

And carry me again

 

Where are you now

Do you let me down

Do you make me grieve for you

Do I make you proud

Do you get me now

Am I your pride and joy

I believe this to be true

Nothing sacred, nothing new

No one tells you when its time

There are no warnings, only signs

And you know that you're alone

You're not a child anymore

But you're still scared

All your mountains turn to rocks

All your oceans turn to drops

They are nothing like you thought

Can't be something you are not

Life is not a looking glass

Don't get tangled in your past

Like I am learning not to

 

Where are you now

Do you let me down

Do you make me grieve for you

Do I make you proud

Do you get me now

Am I your pride, joy

[ProtestTheHero]

I still recall the taste of your tears

Echoing your voice just like the ringing in my ear

My favorite dreams of you still wash ashore

Scraping through my head 'til I don't want to sleep anymore

 

 

You make this all go away

You make this all go away

I just want something

I just want something I can never have

 

 

You always were the one to show me how

Back then I couldn't do the things that I can do now

This thing is slowly taking me apart

Grey would be the color if I had a heart

 

 

Come on tell me

You'll make this all go away

You'll make this all go away

I'm down to just one thing

And I'm starting to scare myself

You'll make this all go away

You'll make this all go away

I just want something

I just want something I can never have

 

 

In this place it seems like such a shame

Though it all looks different now

I know it's still the same

And everywhere I look you're all I see

Just a fading reminder of who I use to be

 

 

Come on tell me

You'll make this all go away

You'll make this all go away

I'm down to just one thing

And I'm starting to scare myself

You'll make this all go away

You'll make this all go away

I just want something

I just want something I can never have

I just want something I can never have

[whitewx]

Oh and

 

Do not stand

At my grave and weep

I am not

I do not sleep

 

I am a thousand

Winds that blow

I am the diamond

Glints on snow

 

I am the sunlight

On the ripened grain

I am the gentle

Autumn's rain

 

when you awaken

In the morning hush

I am the swift uplifting rush

Of quiet birds in

Circled flight

I am the soft stars

That shine at night

 

Do not stand

At my grave and cry

I am not there

I did not die.

 

-hopi prayer

[Nixee]

 

 

 

Remake of a Prince song..... both versions great... this one just shorter...

 

Sometimes it Snows in April - Prince

 

Tracy died soon after a long fought civil war,

just after I'd wiped away his last tear

I guess he's better off than he was before,

A whole lot better off than the fools he left here

 

I used to cry for Tracy because he was my only friend

Those kind of cars don't pass you every day

I used to cry for Tracy because I wanted to see him again,

But sometimes sometimes life ain't always the way...

 

Sometimes it snows in April

Sometimes I feel so bad, so bad

Sometimes I wish life was never ending,

and all good things, they say, never last

 

Springtime was always my favorite time of year,

A time for lovers holding hands in the rain

Now springtime only reminds me of Tracy's tears

Always cry for love, never cry for pain

 

He used to say so strong unafraid to die

Unafraid of the death that left me hypnotized

No, staring at his picture I realized

No one could cry the way my Tracy cried

 

Sometimes it snows in April

Sometimes I feel so bad

Sometimes, sometimes I wish that life was never ending,

And all good things, they say, never last

 

I often dream of heaven and I know that Tracy's there

I know that he has found another friend

Maybe he's found the answer to all the April snow

Maybe one day I'll see my Tracy again

 

Sometimes it snows in April

Sometimes I feel so bad, so bad

Sometimes I wish that life was never ending,

But all good things, they say, never last

 

All good things they say, never last

And love, it isn't love until it's past

[Nixee]

I got the chance to go to see some live music this weekend. One of the artists I saw was this woman, Perla Batalla. She sang her version of "Cucurrucucu Paloma" and it brought me to tears watching her sing it with such beauty and power (this clip unfortunately only shows a fraction of the emotion I got to witness this weekend)

 

In her words, it is a song about a man in deep pain mourning the loss of someone he loved. He would cry every day, not eat.... and finally a bird comes to him and lets him know that he is ok, not to cry anymore. That because he hurts so much it is only because he knows love so deeply.

 

 

[Jetta]

Adam Lambert's What do you want from me. This phrase is what I wish my son would have listened to before doing himself in.

 

Just don't give up, I'm workin' it out.

Please don't give in, I won't let you down.

It messed me up, need a second to breathe.

Just keep coming around.

[rsrs1491]

Donny Hathaway Song For You

I've been so many places in my life and time

I've sung a lot of songs I've made some bad rhymes

I've acted out my love in stages

With ten thousand people watching

But we're alone now and I'm singing this song for you

 

I know your image of me is what I hope to be

I've treated you unkindly but darlin' can't you see

There's no one more important to me

Darlin' can't you please see through me

Cause we're alone now and I'm singing this song for you

 

You taught me precious secrets of the truth witholding nothing

You came out in front and I was hiding

But now I'm so much better and if my words don't come together

Listen to the melody cause my love is in there hiding

 

I love you in a place where there's no space or time

I love you for in my life you are a friend of mine

And when my life is over

Remember when we were together

We were alone and I was singing this song for you

 

You taught me precious secrets of the truth witholding nothing

You came out in front and I was hiding

But now I'm so much better and if my words don't come together

Listen to the melody cause my love is in there hiding

I love you in a place where there's no space or time

I love you for my life you are a friend of mine

And when my life is over

Remember when we were together

We were alone and I was singing this song for you

We were alone and I was singing this song for you