Edcel.net - mind games

– One regular work day, this was the only song that kept playing on my the player and I didn’t mind at all! Maybe it’s one of those LSS moments wherein I had to make sure I could get it out of my head.

Sorry For The Stupid Things
Babyface

Sometimes we wish for the better
When we have it good as it gets
Sometimes the grass isn’t greener
soon as we find out, we forget
Sometimes the fool doesn’t know he’s a fool
Sometimes a dog he don’t know he’s a dog
Sometimes I do stupid things to you
When I really don’t mean it all

Sometimes a man
Is gonna be a man
It’s not an excuse
It’s just how it is
Sometimes the wrong
Don’t know that they’re wrong
Sometimes the strong
Ain’t always so strong
Sometimes a girl
Is gonna be a girl
She don’t wanna deal with all the drama in your world
God knows I don’t mean to give it to you
So girl I’m sorry for the stupid things I wish I didn’t do but I do

Oh so sorry, oh no, oh so sorry

Sometimes I wish I was smarter
Wish I was a bit more like you
Not making stupid decisions made at the last minute
You live to regret when it’s through

Well, sometimes the fool doesn’t know he’s a fool
And sometimes a dog he don’t know he’s a dog
Sometimes I do stupid things to you
When I really didn’t mean it all

Sometimes a man
Is gonna be a man
It’s not an excuse
It’s just how it is
Sometimes the wrong
Don’t know that they’re wrong
Sometimes the strong
Can’t always be strong
Sometimes a girl
Is gonna be a girl
She don’t wanna deal with all the drama in your world
God knows I don’t mean to give it to you
So girl I’m sorry for the stupid things I wish I didn’t do but I do

Sometimes the fool doesn’t know he’s a fool
Sometimes a dog he don’t know he’s a dog
Sometimes I do stupid things to you
When I really didn’t mean it at all, at all

Sometimes a man
Is gonna be a man
It’s not an excuse
It’s just how it is
Sometimes the wrong
Don’t know that they’re wrong
Sometimes the strong
Ain’t always so strong
Sometimes a girl
Is gonna be a girl
She don’t wanna deal with all the drama in your world
God knows I don’t mean to give it to you
So girl I’m sorry for the stupid things I wish I didn’t do but I do

–Although this song was popularized by Sinead O’Connor, I like the version of Stereophonics better. Probably because I’m such a non-conformist? nah. I just like the rawer version of these guys who also have a good rendition of The Beatles’ “Don’t Let Me Down” which is also another story.

There’s really something very sad about the song that you can’t help but just stare into nothingness and contemplate when you hear it. Ed, in drama mode again. sheesh.

Nothing Compares 2 U
Stereophonics

It’s been seven hours and fifteen days
Since you took your love away
I go out every night and sleep all day
Since you took your love away
Since you been gone I can do whatever I want
I can see whomever I choose
I can eat my dinner in a fancy restaurant
But nothing
I said nothing can take away these blues
`Cause nothing compares
Nothing compares to you

It’s been so lonely without you here
Like a bird without a song
Nothing can stop these lonely tears from falling
Tell me baby where did I go wrong
I could put my arms around every boy I see
But they’d only remind me of you
I went to the doctor n’guess what he told me
Guess what he told me
He said girl u better try to have fun
No matter what you’ll do
But he’s a fool
`Cause nothing compares
Nothing compares to you

all the flowers that you planted, mama
In the back yard
All died when you went away
I know that living with you baby was sometimes hard
But I’m willing to give it another try
Nothing compares
Nothing compares to you
Nothing compares
Nothing compares to you
Nothing compares
Nothing compares to you

— Just let me be near you, you don’t have to say anything; heck you can just sleep, just let me hear you breathe.

Breathing
by Lifehouse

I’m finding my way back to sanity again
Though I don’t really know what
I’m gonna do when I get there
Take a breath and hold on tight
Spin around one more time
And gracefully fall back in the arms of grace

‘Cause I am hanging on every word you say
And even if you don’t wanna speak tonight
That’s alright, alright with me
‘Cause I want nothing more than to sit
Outside heaven’s door and listen to you breathing
Is where I wanna be
Where I wanna be

I’m looking past the shadows
Of my mind into the truth and
I’m trying to identify
The voices in my head
God, which one’s you
Let me feel one more time
What if feels like to feel
And break these calluses off of me
One more time

‘Cause I am hanging on every word you say
And even if you don’t wanna speak tonight
That’s alright, alright with me
‘Cause I want nothing more than to sit
Outside your door and listen to you breathing
Is where I wanna be, yeah

Oh I don’t want a thing from you
Bet you’re tired of me waiting for
The straps to fall off of your table to the ground
La da da da…
Cause I just wanna be here now

‘Cause I am hanging on every word you say
And even if you don’t wanna speak tonight
That’s alright, alright with me
Cause I want nothing more than to sit
Outside heaven’s door
And listen to you breathing
Is where I wanna be, yeah

‘Cause I am hanging on every word you say
And even if you don’t wanna speak tonight
That’s alright, alright with me
‘Cause I want nothing more than to sit
Outside heaven’s door
And listen to you breathing
Is where I wanna be, yeah
Where I wanna be

Mind Games
John Lennon

We’re playing those mind games together,
Pushing barriers, planting seeds,
Playing the mind guerilla,
Chanting the Mantra peace on earth,
We all been playing mind games forever,
Some kinda druid dudes lifting the veil.
Doing the mind guerilla,
Some call it the search for the grail,
Love is the answer and you know that for sure,
Love is flower you got to let it, you got to let it grow,
So keep on playing those mind games together,
Faith in the future outta the now,
You just can’t beat on those mind guerillas,
Absolute elsewhere in the stones of your mind,
Yeah we’re playing those mind games forever,
Projecting our images in space and in time,
Yes is the answer and you know that for sure,
Yes is the surrender you got to let it, you got to let it go,
So keep on playing those mind games together,
Doing the ritual dance inn the sun,
Millions of mind guerrillas,
Putting their soul power to the karmic wheel,
Keep on playing those mind games forever,
Raising the spirit of peace and love, not war,
(I want you to make love, not war, I know you’ve heard it before)

——
I just watched the film Across the Universe and I don’t know how I felt afterwards. I can’t really express my thoughts after watching the movie cause I just felt all numb. I couldn’t understand the concept of the whole flick. Of course it’s a bunch of stories all rolled into one; however, I don’t know which one to focus more. If it would be the songs played, or the plot of the story.

Don’t mind me, I’m slow. Like some callaway golf balls.

I’m just liking the fact of being immersed temporarily into this Beatle-mania frenzy and I like the notion that I’m able to recognize 85% of the songs played. Like most people, I’m a fan of this group of talented musicians and composers. They are after all, THE Beatles.

Strangely enough, the song that I posted here wasn’t played in the movie.

Too many shadows in my room
Too many hours in this midnight
Too many corners in my mind
So much to do to set my heart right
Oh it’s taking so long I could be wrong, I could be ready
Oh but if i take my heart’s advice
I should assume it’s still unsteady
I am in repair, I am in repair

Stood on the corner for a while
To wait for the wind to blow down on me
Hoping it takes with it my old ways
And brings some brand new luck upon me
Oh it’s taking so long I could be wrong, I could be ready
Oh but if i take my heart’s advice
I should assume it’s still unsteady
I am in repair, I am in repair

And now i’m walking in the park
All of the birds they dance below me
Maybe when things turn green again
It will be good to say you know me

Oh it’s taking so long I could be wrong, I could be ready
Oh but if I take my heart’s advice
I should assume it’s still unsteady
Oh i’m never really ready, yeah, oh, I’m never really ready
I’m in repair, i’m not together but i’m getting there
I’m in repair, i’m not together but i’m getting there
I’m in repair, i’m not together but i’m getting there
I’m in repair, i’m not together but i’m getting there
I’m in repair, i’m not together but i’m getting there
I’m in repair, i’m not together but i’m getting there
— I don’t know if I’m still in an ‘In Repair’ state, cause it’s really broken hard.

Cannonball
Damien Rice

Still a little bit of your taste in my mouth
Still a little bit of you laced with my doubt
Still a little hard to say what’s going on

Still a little bit of your ghost, your weakness
Still a little bit of your face i haven’t kissed
You step a little closer each day
That i can’t say what’s going on

Stones taught me to fly
Love taught me to lie
Life taught me to die
So it’s not hard to fall
When you float like a cannonball

Still a little bit of your song in my ear
Still a little bit of your words i long to hear
You step a little closer to me
So close that i can’t see what’s going on

Stones taught me to fly
Love taught me to lie
Life taught me to die
So it’s not hard to fall
When you float like a cannon-

Stones taught me to fly
Love taught me to cry
So come on courage
Teach me to be shy
’cause it’s not hard to fall
And i don’t want to scare her
It’s not hard to fall
And i don’t wanna lose
It’s not hard to grow

When you know that you just don’t know

–I heard this song 3 years ago, still it gives that gloomy effect of making me feel lonely after finishing it. But I can’t seem to stop liking it. sheesh

Jack Johnson - They Do They Don’t

Tied down against the tracks
Screaming in silent black and white
Why’d you trust us we are such villains
We would tell ourselves anything
we want to hear if we are willing
To listen is to learn
Then too much is what we deserve

And how come when we say that we do
We don’t
Pray to anybody you want
We won’t

But if we’re the ones to blame then the fruit
Shouldn’t taste so good we were used
Used to thinking we got nothing to lose
We’re losing everything but the truth
Is walking straight into a roadblock ending left here bending
Your point of view was chosen by the serpent’s ruse

With all its do’s and don’ts
The future is an empty promise
Unconcerned and so tired of waiting
We could sell it wooden horses
full of nightmares and when they open
This all might recompose
There’s no going back to the good old days
it’s just a phase bring in some new life
Archaism is a dusty road leading us back to nowhere

But if we’re the ones to blame then the fruit
Shouldn’t taste so good we were used
Used to thinking we got nothing to lose
We’re losing everything but the truth
Is walking straight into a roadblock ending left here bending
Your point of view was chosen by the serpent’s ruse

How come when we say we do
We don’t
How come when we say we will
We won’t

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Jack Johnson’s tracks are just deep but still chillin’