Foolish Thoughts

When I’m bored or just have nothing else to do, I sit and write down as many song lyrics as possible.  I don’t write the entire song, just a line or two, convincing myself that I indeed know every word.  In some cases, I have been known to screw-up the words or make-up my own. Tara and I like to randomly recite a line from a song, and then have the other person say the next line.  We also do this with movie quotes as well…we are easily entertained.  Today I found myself bored out of my mind.  I was trapped in a never ending hour and fifteen minutes of assessing instruction, I almost stabbed my pen through my eye.  Instead I opened my notebook and began to write any and every song lyric I could think of.  Here’s what I came up with:

Someday some morning sometime, sometime.  I’d like to hold your hand in mine, someday some morning sometime…
Wilco “Someday Some Morning Sometime”

You’d be surprised my life is often sweet.  You’d be surprised it’s you who brings me peace.  And for some unearthly reason it takes losing you to see, if you were here, I’d know just what you’d need…
Idina Menzel “You’d be Surprised”

So why do you fill my sorrow, with the words you’ve borrowed, from the only place you’ve known?  And why do you sing Hallelujah, if it means nothing to ya?
Why do you sing with me at all…
Damien Rice “Delicate”

Then I became fixated with Rachael Yamagata, probably because she and Amos Lee are all I’ve listened to lately.

I used to think that anything I’d do wouldn’t matter at all anyway, but now I find when it comes to you, I’m the winner of cards I can’t play…
Rachael Yamagata “I’ll Find a Way”

You simplified me down to slogans on the wall. I took offense, but you were right about them all…
Rachael Yamagata “I Want You”

And you can tell the world what you want them to hear.  I’ve got nothing left to lose, my dear.  So, I’m up for the little white lies, but you and I know the reason why…
Rachael Yamagata “Reason Why”

 My soul is as open as the sky, often times it’s just as blue.  People tell me to keep on dreaming, that’s just what I’m gonna do…
Amos Lee “Dreamin”  Early one morning while making the rounds, I took a shot of cocaine and I shot my woman down.  I went right home and I went to bed, I stuck that lovin 44 beneath my head. (This song always makes me smile.)Johnny Cash “Cocaine Blues”

This old world, well, it was mine to take.  Faith can keep you warm, but I’ll teach you how to shake…
Ryan Adams “Gonna Make You Love Me”

Then I moved onto Wicked…I know every line to every song.

Hands touch, eyes meet, sudden silence, sudden heat. Hearts leap in a giddy whirl, He could be that boy, but I’m not that girl…
Wicked “I’m Not That Girl”

Kiss me too fiercely, hold me too tight. I need help believing, you’re with me tonight. My wildest dreams could not foresee, lying beside you with you wanting me…
Wicked “As Long as You’re Mine”

Something has changed within me, something is not the same. I’m through with playing by the rules of someone else’s game…
Wicked “Defying Gravity”

I had a premonition, a movie in my mind, confirming my suspicions of what I would find…
Travis “Humpty Dumpty Love Song”

Weight on my shoulders, but I’m walking so tall.
David Gray “New Horizons”

Then, just as I noticed I only had two minutes left, Rhett Miller’s voice spoke to me.

Is that all, yes it is. Put his stuff in a box and put him out of her memory. Now he’s gone and away but he will never be out of her misery…
Rhett Miller “Things that Disappear”

Apparently not only was I bored, but I must have been in some sort of broken hearted mood as well.  I’m optimistic for tomorrow… it will be better, right?