A T - O N E - M E N T
‘Atonement’ – for me, it has a solemn,
lifetime, deathtime, this-is-final
ring to it – spoken in the severest tones
in some headmaster’s study in the skies…
and you, feeling that this is the last chance
to rake up all your worst, your very worst
memories that still chill your heart after all these years,
so you try not to think about them…
so, to ease the sense that fate’s about to pounce
and is it really true about hellfire…
you look it up in the dictionary ….
no, it must be some clever pun…
no, it’s there in black and white
and Oxford blue…
at…one…ment… oh,
how pure upon the page the words here rest –
look now upon this book, sweet masters –
see how the angels smile at human guilt…
there’s joy in heaven today…
just… that… you mean,
it’s really that simple, and
all that stuff from the past…?
so I can just… oh wow…
‘Sorry, I can’t come to the phone right now,
please leave a message and I’ll ring you back..
I’m having my daily at-one-ment…’
and maybe one day, if I work at it,
someone will say to someone else,
seeing me walking down the street,
'Just look at him, or if you're lucky,
talk to him - don't you admire his cool,
his here-and-now, and his at-one-ment...? '
poem by Michael Shepherd
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Sorry's Never Ment a Thing
Sorry's never ment a thing
All thay are, are hollow words
Falling from a petty mouth
Sorry's just a word
Someone put in the dictionary
To make everything seem alright
It's just a word
Someone thought of
To talk away the wrongs
Sorry's just a word
Someone created
To find the easy way out
Sorry's just a word
That a five year old needs to get by
Sorry's never ment a thing
It's just a hollow word
Falling from your petty lips.
poem by Holly Heron
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Get It Now
Get it now
Don't you see
I use to think
That mom and dad were ment to last
But now I know mom and dad fight
And its better this way
Get it now
Don't you see
Mom I love you
Dad I won't forget you
But you two were never ment to be
I wish there was another way
Get it now
Don't you see
That you two are our world
But both not in our lives
That way it use to be
It hurt us so to know
Get it now
Don't you see
Dad you mom wil never be
Mom you can make it on your own just try
Get it now
Don't you see
poem by Chelsi Lewellyn
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Darlin I
I realize that now our love is past
Tried so hard to make it last
Feelings are far gone
They seem to fade away
But yet I can hear him say
We did try, tried our best
To make it through those times
Lets stop, dont go any further
cause I need some time
Darlin I know you never ment to make me cry
I never understood your reasons why
And darlin I know you never ment to make me cry
These lonely nights without you
I guess its goodbye
And I never thought that I would hear you say
I should go on my own way
Tell me, cant you see the changes
That you put me through
I wonder if you really knew
How much I tried my best to make it
Through those times
But you said stop, dont go any further
cause I need more time
Oh, baby and...
Darlin I know you never ment to make me cry
I never understood your reasons why
And darlin I know you never ment to make me cry
These lonely nights without you
I guess its goodbye (goodbye)
Darlin I know you never ment to make me cry
I never understood your reasons why
And darlin I know you never ment to make me cry
These lonely nights without you
I guess its goodbye (goodbye)
Written by salas/harris
song performed by by Vanessa Williams
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I Use To Settle For You, Until I Realized I Deserve Better
i use to like you,
becuz i thought,
that i couldn't be liked,
now that i'm seeing who i am,
i'm realizing that i deserve better,
not to sound me but,
my needs wasn't being met,
but yet,
you wanted me there everytime,
that you seem to have a problem,
i gave you advice and supported you,
yet when i need advice,
all you can say is,
'it my fault' or 'ok'
there was really,
nothing that i got from it,
i got told i was beautiful,
and that you liked my clothes,
but it never felt like you ment it,
it always felt like it what you had to say,
i like the truth,
or for you to at least feel like you ment it,
not for it to feel presurre to say,
either this is all new,
or i'm just now seeing what i want,
and this here just not it,
i know i rushed it abit,
i was afraid that what i had found,
with somebody else is what i want,
it all something new,
this person i feel like me for me,
not becuz i can do things better,
but in a way,
it was the only way i knew how to be,
until i found a better way to be,
i don't have to give it all away,
just to be liked,
i can actually be me,
and take it slow,
who doesn't like being who they were ment to be?
poem by Mona Martinez
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Blind As Eachother
take me back to when
forever ment forever
together ment together
happily ever after.
I crave for you affection
i dont want to cause pain infliction
i wish for you to love me
set my soul free
from the bars of memory
some say past is dead
but the future and present is memory fed
it takes and plucks
lets them fly for the whole world to feature
unleasing many a creature
for we are not the ones the judge
who is blind and who is deaf
like the other
as we are all as blind as each other.
poem by Emily Ecstacy
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20. Th Century
In the beginning
There was no light
No teenage heaven or hell
No songs or voices came from across the outlands
Where oceans were ment to be, where oceans were ment to be
Oh my god, I feel so alone
Some million lightyears far from home
How about you who are living in the 20th century
Carol
You better stop to get the tickets for the starlite show
Everybody wants to be there
What a dream
So if you dont mind, will you join me
On my way through the eye
Up to the light
Into the world
Gold/1985
song performed by by Alphaville
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Your Dictionary
H-a-t-e
Is that how you spell love in your dictionary
K-i-c-k
Pronounced as kind
F-u-c-k
Is that how you spell friend in your dictionary
Black on black
A guidebook for the blind
Well now that I can see my eyes wont weep
Now that I can hear your song sounds cheap
Now that I can talk all your corn Ill reap
Im not so sure that joey wed a virgin mary
There are no words for me inside your dictionary
S-l-a-p
Is that how you spell kiss in your dictionary
C-o-l-d
Pronounced as care
S-h-i-t
Is that how you spelt me in your dictionary
Four-eyed fool
You led round everywhere
Now that I can see its the queens new clothes
Now that I can hear all your poison prose
Now that I can talk with my tongue unfroze
Im not so sure of santa or the buck-tooth fairy
There are no words for me inside your dictionary
Now your laughter has a hollow ring
But the hollow ring has no finger in
So lets close the book and let the day begin
And our marriage be undone
song performed by by Xtc
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He Said I Said Sister Said
HE SAID FOREVER
I SAID NEVER
SISTER SAID WHAT EVER
HE SAID LEND ME YOUR HAND
I SAID DO YOU HAVE A BRAIN
SISTER SAID HOW COULD THIS BE
HE SAID WHY DON'T YOU TRY
I SAID B/C YOU ALWAYS LIE
SISTER SAID YOU NEVER TOLD ME WHY
HE SAID I NEVER MENT TO HURT YOU
I SAID THE TEARS I CRYED IN THE NIGHT
SISTER SAID MAYBE HE NEVER MENT TO MAKE YOU CRY.......
poem by Brenda Dillishaw
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So Sorry
IM SO SORRY
HOPE YOU CAN FORGIVE ME
I LOVE YOU
IM SORRY FOR EVER HURTING YOU
IM SORRY FOR EVERY LOVING YOU MORE
IM SO SORRY
IM SORRY FOR PUTTING YOU THROUGH THE PAIN
IM SORRY FOR EVER MAKING YOU SAD
IM SORRY FOR FIGHTING WITH YOU
IM SORRY FOR KEEPING SECERTS FROM YOU
IM SORRY I LOVED YOU MORE THEN ANYONE
IM SORRY FOR THIS
I NEVER MENT FOR THIS TO HAPPEN
I NEVER MENT TO MAKE YOU FEEL THE WAY YOU FEEL
IM SORRY FOR EVERYTHING I DID
I HOPE YOU CAN FORGIVE ME AND
GIVE US ANOTHER TRY
I LOVE SO MUCH AND I HOPE YOU KNOW THAT
ILL MISS YOU
NO MATTER WHAT
YOU WILL BE ON MY MIND
IM SORRY FOR EVERYTHING THAT HAS HAPPEN
I NEVER MENT TO DO ANYTHING LIKE THIS
I NEVER WANTED TO HURT YOU IN THE WAY I DID
I LOVED YOU SO MUCH FROM WHEN WE
FIRST SAY EACH OTHER
IM SO SORRY I HOPE YOU KNOW THAT
I LOVE YOU IM SORRY
PLEASE FORGIVE ME
so sad without him by myside wish i didnt do the things i did or say the things i said
poem by Rachel Watson
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Something Like You
So many times
I thought I held it in my hands
But just like grains of sand
Love sliped though my fingers
So many nights
I asked the Lord above
Please make me lucky enough
To find a love that lingers
Something keeps telling me
You could be my answer prayer
You must be heaven sent
I swear
(Chorus)
Cause something happens when you look at me
I forget to speak
Something happens when you kiss my mouth
My knees get so weak
Could it be true this is what God has ment you me
Cause baby I can't believe something like you
Could happen to me
Something like you
Girl in your eyes
I feel your fire burn (feel your fire)
All your secrets I will learn
Even if it takes forever
With you by my side
I can't do anything(can't do anything)
I don't care what tommorrow brings
As long as we're together
My heart is telling me
That you could be my ment to be
I know it more each time
We touch
(Chorus)
Something magical(something magical)
Something spitual(something spitual)
Something stronger than the two of us alone( yea)
Something physical
Something undeniable
Nothing like anything(nothing like anything)
That I've ever known
(Chorus)
{fades out}
song performed by by N Sync from Celebrity
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Fly Away
Verse 1
When you love someone so deeply
They become your life
Its easy to succumb to overwhelming fears inside
Blindly I imaged I could
Keep you under glass
Now I understand to hold you
I must open my hands
And watch you rise
Chorus 1
Spread your wings and prepare to fly
For you have become a butterfly
Fly abandonedly into the sun
If you should return to me
We truly were ment to be
So spread your wings and fly
Butterfly
Verse 2
I have learned that beauty
Has to flourish in the light
Wild horses run unbridled
Or their spirit dies
You have given me the courage
To be all that I can
And truly feel your heart will
Lead you back to me when youre
Ready to land
Chorus 2
Spread your wings and prepare to fly
For you have become a butterfly
Fly abandonedly into the sun
If you should return to me
We truly were ment to be
So spread your wings and fly
Butterfly
Bridge
I cant pretend these tears
Arent over flowing steadily
I cant prevent this hurt from
Almost overtaking me
But will stand and say goodbye
For youll never be mine
Until you know the way it feels to fly
Chorus 3
Spread your wings and prepare to fly
For you have become a butterfly
Fly abandonedly into the sun
If you should return to me
We truly were ment to be
So spread your wings and fly
Butterfly
Chorus 4
Spread your wings and prepare to fly
For you have become a butterfly
Fly abandonedly into the sun
If you should return to me
We truly were ment to be
So spread your wings and fly
Butterfly
So flutter through the sky
Butterfly
Spread your wings and fly
Butterfly
song performed by by Mariah Carey
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Gone Away
In a drawer
Behind some forgotten
Necessities of life
That cannot be thrown away
There under all these memories
Is some paper
Saved for the day
To write a letter, A note,
A delarcation.
Yet known
I learned my friend has moved away
My loss is more than words can say
Strange it seems
The things she ment to me
Taking for granted
That she would always be
.
A theif has robbed me
Striped from me
Is my self control
I thought she would never go
Found under all the emotions
A new feeling
that will not go away
Pain and dull cutting
It does not leave
lonelyness now is
my guide.
Directing my pen
Words hewn
From now and then
Why did she have to leave
Now I am not alone
My new companion
A painful feeling of Disparity
Floating in its caressing hold
I compose my self
Over looking
My blank page
Clean from where I retrieved it.
Noticing it now has stains
Fallen teardrops
Have wrinkled and left their mark
Bough-ten sheets
Notes from my heart.
poem by Howard Johnson
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Five Years On
When Beyoncé sung her song from the past
Would we had thought that one dance would last
Or was it the day after the night before
May be the radiator, or the kiss at the door
But all I could thing as the time went on
Was to give you a kiss, like, the last one
I just wanted to hold you and look in your eyes
But you opened your top to my surprise
To see lulu and daisy out on their own
Means its impossible now to leave you a lone
We started to talk as are time went on
And i use to say hm please, com on
You would say but I can't do this,
Not on the phone
But all I could hear was a beautiful moan
Five years on and still as strong
And all that it tuck was that one song
I'm sure you'll know which one is ment
It's the one with the red noise on the video I sent
As the next five years comes along
Please don't forget the meaning of are song
Because as I sit here and thing of are past
I want tomorrow, the next day to be like the last
So I'll make this vow
To no one but you
To pledge my love and always be true
And nothing else will ever compare
Because you are perfect
And so is the love that we share
poem by George Albot
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Our time is now
Days continue to pass, still no future in sight
took a left at the fork, i should have turned right
oh how i wish i could see, the beginning to the end of time
and defy the laws of our human mind
instead stuck i stay, forced to live day by day
but is it really such a curse? striving to make each day better than the worst, realizing were not promised tomorrow, this is a thought ment to borrow
what if the future i saw, was bitter and dead
a thought as this would confuse the head
maybe find a feeling of inevitability, and refuse every responsibility
then lie down and wait, to let this impending future become your fate
perhaps your future was the other way around
walking on the sky instead of the ground
would you try as hard to find your light, or dive from a plane that never took flight, because you were blinded by your future shinning so bright
living day by day is a curse? i believe the opposite, reverse
so before from reality you are torn, in seeking the future i must worn
the only rewards are sickle and thorn,
for our time is now, thats why we were born.
'Death is the future for us all, we walk a lifetime, untill we fall' E.A.F
poem by Ethan A. Francis
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If The Phone Doesnt Ring Its Me
If the phone doesnt ring its me
1985
The time spent writing about the intensity involved in trying to
Keep love together is short; but the endless research can kill you.
There are oceans of feelings between us
Currents that take us and sweep us away
Thats why we seldom have seen us
In the light of a cold hard day
Lots of new friends with the same old answers
Open your eyes
You might see
If our lives were that simple
Wed live in the past
If the phone doesnt ring
Its me
If the phone doesnt ring
Youll know that its me
Ill be out in the eye of the storm
If the phone doesnt ring
You know that Ill be
Where someone can make me feel warm
Its too bad we cant turn
And live in the past
If the phone doesnt ring
Its me
Ive had good days and bad days
And goin half mad days
I try to let go but youre still on my mind
Ive lost all the old ways
Im searchin for new plays
Puttin it all on the line
Lots of new friends with the same old problems
Open your eyes you might see
If our lives were that simple
Wed live in the past
If the phone doesnt ring
Its me
If the phone doesnt ring
Youll know that its me
Ill be out in the eye of the storm
If the phone doesnt ring
You know that Ill be
Where someone can make me feel warm
Its too bad we cant turn
And live in the past
If the phone doesnt ring
Its me
Its me, its me
Its me, its me
Its me, its me
Its me, its me
If it takes all the future
Well live through the past
If the phone doesnt ring
Its me
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Background vocals: glenn frey, timothy b. schmit
song performed by by Jimmy Buffett
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Crazy Man
A guy came to me the other day saying some crazy stuff
He said he hate what I do and what i stand for, to not hit him was ruff
Why do people tend to not look from outside of the boots
I say they need to read a history book on american roots
Some of the comments I hear, I see people can be very crazy
They dont see the pride in the soldiers I fight with daily
Out here where Im at, we are all we got
Even tho we know americans back home got our back
I wish that guy could have seen the day a lil iraqi boy gave me a flower
He said thank you america for your courage and power
His english was kind of broken but I knew what he ment to say
We made it so at least that one lil boy can come back out and play
At my level we dont see saving the world
All we see is making a way for some little boy or little girl
So think twice when you approach me with somthing crazy to say
I fight for so much more than what you saw on the news today
So go have sweet dreams and sleep peaceful tonite
All will be secure, cause american soldiers will continue to fight
poem by Daniel Chapman
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I Will Only Do What Brings Joy…
Affirmation:
From this day forward;
No more “have to”
No more guilt
No more fear
No more dread
No more anxiety
No more judgment
If true that “love is defined as joy”
I will only do what brings joy,
Because, en-joy-ment affirms life
ROTMS
poem by Ray Lucero
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Naughty You
You are not handsome but you are smart,
You are clever, you know how to flirt…
You are never seen with boy friends! !
You are always surrounded by your girlfriends…
You look good with a white shirt and jeans in blue,
When you like a lady, you know how to pass a clue…
You know how to talk, how to smile and how to look,
You know well for your next dating which lady to book?
Your mobile ring-tone attracts girl,
When you smile, your teeth looks like fresh white pearl…
Sometimes you act over smart, sometime you act like a fool,
But you know how to handle more than a lady, you are very cool…
poem by Sumita Datta
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Ring Ring
I was sitting by the phone
I was waiting all alone
Baby by myself I sit and wait and wonder about you
Its a dark and dreary night
Seems like nothings going right
Wont you tell me honey how can I go on here without you?
Yes Im down and feeling blue
And I dont know what to do, oh-oh
Ring, ring, why dont you give me a call?
Ring, ring, the happiest sound of them all
Ring, ring, I stare at the phone on the wall
And I sit all alone impatiently
Wont you please understand the need in me
So, ring, ring, why dont you give me a call?
So, ring, ring, why dont you give me a call?
You were here and now youre gone
Hey did I do something wrong?
I just cant believe that I could be so badly mistaken
Was it me or was it you?
Tell me, are we really through?
Wont you hear me cry and you will know that my heart is breaking
Please forgive and then forget
Or maybe darling better yet, oh-oh
Ring, ring, why dont you give me a call?
Ring, ring, the happiest sound of them all
Ring, ring, I stare at the phone on the wall
And I sit all alone impatiently
Wont you please understand the need in me
So, ring, ring, why dont you give me a call?
So, ring, ring, why dont you give me a call?
Oh-oh, ring, ring, why dont you give me a call?
So, ring, ring, why dont you give me a call?
song performed by by ABBA
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Dumb Like That
i think i've seen every star in the sky tonight
the move from the city lights
have never seemed so bright
i know i shouldn't believe a word you say
i do anyway
'cause i'm dumb like that
in all the words i've given to you
when you smiled
i thought that it ment some thing else
you were just being yourself
being nice, your always poite to me
you let me down again
you ignored the things i've said to you
if i was scared of you
then maybe i could leave
but if i walked away right now
there would be nothing left for me to lose but doubt
i never fell so far for anyone before
never again i swore, if you know, it was restored
made me feel like i've been torn apart, i don't like that at all
i've lost contorl
in all the words i've given to you i poured my heart into an empty coffee cup
you drank it up, left me here to drown, in it all
you left me down again you ignored the things i said to you
if iwas scared of you then maybe i could leave
cause if i walked away right now
there would be nothing left for me to lose but,
i can't lose you, i can't lose you
i htink i've seen every star there can see
but i don't want to leave
it hurts when you so deceave
i know i shouldn't believe a word you say
i do any way
czuse i'm dumb like that
in all the words i've given to you when you smiled i thought that it ment something else
you were just being yourself being nice
you were always nice to me
you left me down again you ignored the things i sadi to yo
if i was scared of you then maybe i could leave
but if i left right now there would be nothing eft for me to lsoe but doubt, but doubt, but doubt
theres nothign left theres nothing left
for me to lose but doubt (x3)
song performed by by Good Charlotte
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