heard this song in House

like it a lot (of coz Hugh Laurie is great as always)

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There aint no reason things are this way
Its how they always been and it tends to stay
I can’t explain why we live this way, we do it everyday
Preachers on the podeum speaking of saints
Prophets on the sidewalk begging for change
old ladies laughing from the fire escape cursing my name
I got a basket full of lemons and they all taste the same
A window and a pigeon with a broken wing
You can spend you whole life working for something,
Just to have it taken away
People walk aroun pushing back their debts
Wearing pay checks like necklaces and braceltes
Talking bout nothing, not thinking bout’ death
Every little hearbeat, every little breath
People walk a tight rope
On a razors edge
Carrying their hurt and hatrid and weapons
It could be a bomb or a bullet or a pen
Or a thought or a word or a sentenceThere Ain’t no reason
Things are this way
It’s how they’ve always been
and its tends to stay
I dont know why I say
The things that I say
But I say them anyway
But love will come set me free
Love will come set me free, I do believe
Love will come set me free, I know it will
Love will come set my free yes.Prison walls still standing tall
Some things never change at all
Keep on building prisons, gonna fill them all
Keep building bombs, gonna drop them all
Working young fingers bear to the bone
Breaking your back make you sell your soul
Like a lung its filled with cold, sufficating slow
The wind blows wild and I may move
The politions lie and i am not fooled
you don’t need no reason or a three piece suit
To argue the truth
The air on my skin and the world under my toes
Labor is stiched into the fabric of my clothes
Chaos and comotion wherever I go
Love I try to follow

Love will come set me free
Love will come set me free, I do believe
Love will come set me free, I know it will
Love will come set my free yes.

There ain’t no reason things are this way
Its how its always been and it tends to stay
I can’t explain why we live this way,
We do it everyday.

Have been listening this song for days now

surprisingly moving (in a sad and beautiful way)

hence the thread

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Happy Birthday...so make a wishVerse 1:

Please accept my apologies, wonder what would have been

Would you've been a little angel or an angel of sin?

Tom-boy running around, hanging with all the guys.

Or a little tough boy with beautiful brown eyes?

I payed for the murder before they determined the sex

Choosing our life over your life meant your death

And you never got'a chance to even open your eyes

Sometimes I wonder as a fetus if you faught for your life?

Would you have been a little genius in love with math?

Would you have played in your school clothes and made me mad?

Would you have been a little rapper like your papa da Piper?

Would you have made me quit smokin' by finding one of my lighters?

I wonder about your skintone and shape of your nose?

And the way you would have laughed and talked fast or slow?

Think about it every year, so I picked up a pen

Happy birthday, love you whoever you woulda been

Happy birthday...

Chorus:

what  I thought was a dream (make a wish)

Was as real as it seemed (happy birthday)

What I thought was a dream (make a wish)

Was as real as it seemed

I made a mistake!

Verse 2:

I've got a millon excuses to why you died

Bet the people got their own reasons for homicide

Who's to say it woulda worked, and who's to say it wouldn't have?

I was young and strugglin' but old enough to be your dad

The fear of being my father has never disappeared

Pondering frequently while I'm sippin' on my beer

My vision of a family was artificial and fake

So when it came time to create I made a mistake

Now you've got a little brother maybe he's really you?

Maybe you really forgave us knowin' we was confused?

Maybe everytime that he smiles it's you proudly knowin' that your father's doin' the right thing now?

I never tell a woman what to do with her body

But if she don't love children then we can't party

Think about it every year, so I picked up a pen

Happy birthday, love you whoever you woulda been

Happy birthday...

Chorus:

What I thought was a dream (make a wish)

Was as real as it seemed (happy birthday)

What I thought was a dream (yeah, make a wish)

Was as real as it seemed

I made a mistake!

And from the heavens to the womb to the heavens again

From the endin' to the endin', never got to begin

Maybe one day we could meet face to face?

In a place without time and space

Happy birthday...

From the heavens to the womb to the heavens again

From the endin' to the endin', never got to begin

Maybe one day we could meet face to face?

In a place without time and space

Happy birthday...

Chorus:

What I thought was a dream (make a wish)

Was as real as it seemed (happy birthday)

What I thought was a dream (make a wish)

Was as real as it seemed

I made a mistake...!