Lyrics - Songs That Resonate for Me

Twisted

My analyst told me that I was right out of my head

The way he described it, he said I'd be better dead than live

I didn't listen to his jive

I knew all along that he was all wrong

And I knew that he thought I was crazy but I'm not

Oh no

My analyst told me that I was right out of my head

He said I need treatment, but I'm not that easily led

He said I was the type that was most inclined

When out of his sight to be out of my mind

And he thought I was nuts, no more ifs or ands or buts

They say as a child I appeared a little bit wild with all my crazy ideas

But I knew what was happening; I knew I was a genius...

What's so strange when you know that youre a wizard at three

I knew that this was meant to be

Now I heard little children were supposed to sleep tight

That's why I got into the vodka one night

My parents got frantic, didn't know what to do

But I saw some crazy scenes before I came to

Now, do you think I was crazy

I may have been only three, but I was swinging

They all laugh at angry young men

They all laugh at Edison and also at Einstein

So why should I feel sorry if they just couldnt understand

The idiomatic logic that went on in my head. I had a brain; it was insane

Oh they used to laugh at me when I refused to ride on all those double decker buses all because there was no driver on the top

My analyst told me that I was right out of my head

But I said Dear Doctor, I think that its you instead

Because I have got a thing thats unique and new

To prove it I'll have the last laugh on you

'Cause instead of one head, I got two and you know two heads are better than one

She Talks To Angels

She never mentions the word addiction,

in certain company

Yes, she'll tell you she's an orphan,

after you meet her family

She paints her eyes as black as night now,

she pulls those shades down tight

yeah, she gives a smile when the pain comes,

the pain gonna' make everything alright

She says she talks to angels

they call her out by her name

Oh yeah, she talks to angels

says they call her out by her name

She keeps a lock of hair in her pocket,

she wears a cross around her neck

Yes the hair is from a little boy;

And the cross from someone she has not met, not yet

She says she talks to angels,

says they all know her name

Oh yeah, she talks to angels

says they call her out by her name

She don't know no lovers,

none that I've ever seen

And to her that ain't nothing,

but to me it means, means everything

She paints her eyes as black as night now,

she pulls those shades down tight

Oh yeah; gives a smile when the pain comes,

the pain gonna' make everything alright (alright, yeah yeah)!

For Your Entertainment (Adam Lambert)

So hot out the box

Can we pick up the pace

Turn it up, heat it up

I need to be entertained

Push the limit, are you with it, baby, don’t be afraid

Imma hurt you real good baby

Let’s go, it’s my show, baby, do what I say

Don’t trip off the glitz that I’m gonna display

I told ya, Imma hold ya down until you’re amazed

Give it to ya til your screamin' my name

No escaping when I start

Once I’m in I own your heart

There’s no way to ring the alarm

So hold on until it’s over

Oh!

Do you know what you got into

Can you handle what I’m ’bout to do

‘Cause it’s about to get rough for you

I’m here For Your Entertainment

Oh!

I bet you thought that I was soft and sweet

You thought an angel swept you off your feet

Well I’m about to turn up the heat

I’m here For Your Entertainment

'Sall right

You’ll be fine

Baby I’m in control

Take the pain

Take the pleasure

I’m the master of both

Close your eyes, not your mind

Let me into your soul

I’m gonna work it ’til your totally blown

Whataya Want From Me? Adam Lambert

Hey, slow it down, whataya want from me?

Whataya want from me?

Yeah, I'm afraid, whataya want from me?

Whataya want from me?

There might have been a time when I would give myself away

Oh, once upon a time, I didn't give a damn

But now, here we are, so whataya want from me?

Whataya want from me?

Just don't give up, I am 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

Hey, whataya want from me?

Yeah, it's plain to see

That baby you're beautiful and it's nothing wrong with you

It's me, I'm a freak, yeah

But thanks for lovin' me 'cause you're doing it perfectly

Yeah, there might have been a time

When I would let you slip away

I wouldn't even try

But I think you could save my life

Just don't give up, I am 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

Just don't give up on me

I won't let you down

No, I won't let you down

And so 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

Hey, whataya want from me?

Just don't give up, I am 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

Hey, whataya want from me?

I Am What I Am - Gloria Gaynor

I am what I am

I am my own special creation

So come take a look

Give me the hook

Or the ovation

It's my world

That I want to have a little pride

My world

And it's not a place I have to hide in

Life's not worth a damn

Till I can say

I am what I am

I am what I am

I don't want praise I don't want pity

I bang my own drum

Some think it's noise I think it's pretty

And so what if I love each sparkle and each bangle

Why not see things from a different angle

Your life is a sham

Till you can shout out I am what I am

I am what I am

And what I am needs no excuses

I deal my own deck

Sometimes the aces sometimes the deuces

It's one life and there's no return and no deposit

One life so it's time to open up your closet

Life's not worth a damn till you can shout out

I am what I am

Take It Off (Kesha)

There's a place downtown,

Where the freaks all come around.

It's a hole in the wall.

It's a dirty free for all.

And they turn me on.

When they Take It Off.

When they Take It Off.

Everybody Take It Off.

There's a place I know

If you're looking for a show.

Where they go hardcore

And there's glitter on the floor.

Lose your mind.

Lose it now.

Lose your clothes

In the crowd.

We're delirious.

Tear it down

'Til the sun comes back around.

N-now we're getting so smashed.

Knocking over trash cans.

Eurbody breakin' bottles

It's a filthy hot mess.

Gonna get faded

I'm not the designated

Driver so

I don't give aI don't give a

I don't give a

Pain - Three Days Grace

Pain, without love

Pain, I can't get enough

Pain, I like it rough

'Cause I'd rather feel pain than nothing at all

You're sick of feeling numb

You're not the only one

I'll take you by the hand

And I'll show you a world that you can understand

This life is filled with hurt

When happiness doesn't work

Trust me and take my hand

When the lights go out you will understand

Anger and agony

Are better than misery

Trust me, I've got a plan

When the lights go off, you will understand

Pain, without love

Pain, I can't get enough

Pain, I like it rough

'Cause I'd rather feel pain than nothing, rather feel pain

I know, I know that you're wounded

You know, you know that I'm here to save you

You know, you know I'm always here for you

I know, I know that you'll thank me later  

Half of My Heart (John Mayer)

I was born in the arms of imaginary friends

free to roam, made a home out of everywhere I've been

then you come crashing in, like the realest thing

trying my best to understand all that your love can bring

oh, half of my heart's got a grip on the situation

half of my heart takes time

half of my heart's got a right mind to tell you

that I can't keep loving you

oh with half of my heart

I was made to believe I'd never love somebody else

made a plan, stay the man who can only love himself

lonely was the song I sang, 'til the day you came

showing me another way and all that my love can bring

oh, half of my heart's got a grip on the situation

half of my heart takes time

half of my heart's got a right mind to tell you

that I can't keep loving you

oh with half of my heart

with half of my heart

your faith is strong

but I can only fall short for so long

down the road, later on you will hate

that I never gave more to you than half of my heart

but I can't stop loving you

with half of my heart

oh half of my heart

half of my heart's got a real good imagination

half of my heart's got you

half of my heart's got a right mind to tell you

that half of my heart won't do

half of my heart is a shot gun wedding to a bride with a paper ring

and half of my heart is the part of a man who's never truly loved anything

half of my heart, oh half of my heart

Unwritten

I am unwritten, can't read my mind, I'm undefined

I'm just beginning, the pen's in my hand, ending unplanned

Staring at the blank page before you

Open up the dirty window

Let the sun illuminate the words that you could not find

Reaching for something in the distance

So close you can almost taste it

Release your inhibitions

Feel the rain on your skin

No one else can feel it for you

Only you can let it in

No one else, no one else

Can speak the words on your lips

Drench yourself in words unspoken

Live your life with arms wide open

Today is where your book begins

The rest is still unwritten

I break tradition, sometimes my tries, are outside the lines

We've been conditioned to not make mistakes, but I can't live that way

Tolerance - Bigotry, Free Love

Star Trek was an attempt to say that humanity will reach maturity and wisdom on the day that it begins not just to tolerate, but take a special delight in differences in ideas and differences in life forms. […] If we cannot learn to actually enjoy those small differences, to take a positive delight in those small differences between our own kind, here on this planet, then we do not deserve to go out into space and meet the diversity that is almost certainly out there. (Gene Roddenberry)
Sometimes I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me. (Zora Neale Hurston)

When I was in the military, they gave me a medal for killing two men and a discharge for loving one. (Leonard Matlovich)

All cruelty springs from weakness. (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)

The state has no place in the nation's bedrooms. (Pierre Trudeau)

If you have bright plumage, people will take pot shots at you. (Alan Clark)

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools. (Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.)

There's no race, no religion, no class system, no color, nothing, no sexual orientation that makes us better than anyone else. We are all deserving of love. (Sandra Bullock)

In all my work, my thing has always been not to be ashamed of who you are, your body, your physicality, your desires, your sexual fantasies. The reason there is bigotry, sexism, racism, and homophobia is fear. People are afraid of their own feelings, afraid of the unknown and I am saying: don't be afraid. (Madonna)

Fear leads to Anger, Anger leads to Hate, Hate leads to Suffering. (Yoda)

I don't care if you're black, white, straight, bisexual, gay, lesbian, short, tall, fat, skinny, rich or poor. If you're nice to me, I'll be nice to you. Simple as that. (Eminem)

There is nothing in the whole world so painful as feeling that one is not liked. It always seems to me that people who hate me must be suffering from some strange form of lunacy. (Sei Shōnagon)

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us. (Hermann Hesse)

No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite. (Nelson Mandela)

All throughout history — both human and American — there have been people who didn’t fit into whatever the norms were of that time. In time, the norms change, and we change with them. Gay people certainly know what I’m talking about here. And maybe it’s time we all try to let go of all the rest. Who cares if someone is poly, or gay, or bisexual, or asexual, or, or, or, or. Who cares... Well, I’m going to try and not be uncomfortable by the way anyone lives their sexual lives. I still don’t get rooting for the Yankees and Eagles, but one thing at a time (Jeff Edelstein, columnist at The Trentonian)

Love and do what you will. (St. Augustine of Hippo)

The chains of marriage are so heavy that it takes two to bear them, and sometimes three. (Alexandre Dumas)

Tolerance is the one essential ingredient. (Prince Phillip)

One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other. (Jane Austen)

We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant. (Karl Popper)

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the colour of their skin but by the content of their character. (Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.)

If man is to survive, he will have learned to take a delight in the essential differences between men and between cultures. He will learn that differences in ideas and attitudes are a delight, part of life's exciting variety, not something to fear. (Gene Roddenberry)

Miscellany - A little of everything.

Sometimes we all forget just how great we are (and there are far too few people who remind us of that fact).

You're only given a little spark of madness. You musn't lose it. (Robin Williams)

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.  (Albert Einstein)

Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together. (Carl Zwanzig)

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. (Salvor Hardin)

Ohhh! The Infinite Value of the Humble Gospel Helpers!  Thousands of people who have no gifts as leaders are Number One Helpers. How grand revival work moves along when Red-Hot Platoons of Fire-Baptized Helpers crowd around God's Heroic Leaders of the Embattled Host!  (Brother Godbey)

No gift that serves others is little.

One only needs two tools in life: WD-40 to make things go, and duct tape to make them stop. (G.M. Weilacher)

Here are we -- and yonder yawns the universe. (H.P. Lovecraft)

Don't be too worthwhile. Always keep a few character defects handy. People love to talk about your frailties. If you must be noble, keep it to yourself. (Edward D. Stone)

Everyone is entitled to be stupid, but some abuse the privilege.

A 'good' landing is one from which you can walk away. A 'great' landing is one after which they can use the plane again.

God gives and forgives, people get and forget.

You know you're in trouble when the strange noise from your car is the mechanic laughing underneath it. (Priceless, Dave Ramsey)

Football combines the two worst features of American life: violence and committee meetings. (George Will)

It is a happy talent to know how to play. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Drive On. We'll sweep up the blood later! (Katherine Hepburn)

It has been my experience that people who have no vices have very few virtues. (Abraham Lincoln)

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. (Edmund Burke)

Only when we walk in the dark can we see the stars.

A man said to the Universe, "Sir, I exist!"

"However," the Universe replied, "The fact has not created within me a sense of obligation."

Has it ever occured to you that there might be a difference between having an open mind and having holes in one's head? (Richard Schultz)

We used to think that if we knew one, we knew two, because one and one are two. We are finding that we must learn a great deal more about 'and.' (Sir Arthur Eddington)

The world needs anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn't angry enough. (Bede Jarrett)

When the game is done, the King and the Pawn go into the same box. (Italian Proverb)

"If I were married to you, I'd put poison in your coffee."  (Lady Astor to Winston Churchill)

"If you were my wife, I'd drink it."  (Winston Churchill, in reply)

Die, v.:  To stop sinning suddenly. (Elbert Hubbard)

Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live. (Henry Van Dyke)

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. (Mark Twain)

The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do. (Galileo Galilei)

Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists? (Kelvin Throop III)

While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it. (Samuel Johnson)

To know the road ahead, ask those coming back. (Chinese Proverb)

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. (Albert Einstein)

It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterward. (Baltasar Gracian)

Whines are the product of sour grapes.

Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but one capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Remember - if it never rained, there would be no rainbows.

Three Wise Women Would Have...

Asked directions,

Arrive on time,

Helped deliver the baby,

Cleaned the stable,

Made a casserole,

Brought practical gifts and

There would be Peace on Earth.

I like thinking big. If you're going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big. (Donald Trump)

A good neighbor doubles the value of a house.

I saw the lightning's gleaming rod

Reach forth and write upon the sky

The awful autograph of God.

(Joaquin Miller, "The Ship in the Desert")

Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to. (Mark Twain)

"Hallo, Rabbit," [Pooh] said, "is that you?"

"Let's pretend it isn't," said Rabbit, "and see what happens." (A. A. Milne)

There wouldn't be a sky full of stars if we were all meant to wish on the same one. (Frances Clark)

No matter how far you have gone on the wrong road, turn back. (Turkish Proverb)

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take but by the moments that take our breath away.

An after-dinner speech is like the horns of a bull - with a point here... and a point there... and an awful lot of bull in between. (Castilian Proverb)

The history of the world is but the biography of great men. (Thomas Carlyle)

A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water. (Nancy Reagan or Carl Sandburg)

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug. (Mark Twain)

If ignorance is bliss, why aren't more people happy?

The wits of the wise the brew can beguile; and make the sage frolic, and make the sad smile. (Homer)

My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance.

Scintillate, scintillate, asteroid manikin. (Twinkle, twinkle, little star.)

KILT, n. A costume sometimes worn by Scotsmen in America and Americans in Scotland. (Ambrose Beirce)

I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the ordeal of meeting me is another matter. (Winston Churchill, on his eightieth birthday)

Life's most urgent question is: What are you doing for others? (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

Do what good you can today - you may not be here tomorrow.

God made the world round so we can never see too far down the road.

When everything's coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.

Earth is the insane asylum for the universe.

There's nothing like biting off more than you can chew, and then chewing anyway. (Mark Burnett)

A peacock that rests on his feathers is just another turkey. (Dolly Parton)

If you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy and colorful and lively. (Mel Brooks)

"I went into the woods because I wanted to live deliberately. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life...to put to rout all that was not life; and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." ~Henry David Thoreau

Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once.

Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, it seems to me most strange that men should fear;

Seeing that death, a necessary end, will come when it will come. (William Shakespeare - Julius Caesar)

"My teeth are tingling again. I feel like I've just got to bite somebody before sundown or I shall go stark raving mad. And yet I know that society frowns on such an action. So what happens? I'm stuck with tingly teeth." (Snoopy, YAGMCB)

It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics and chemistry. (H.L. Mencken)

The discovery in 1846 of the planet Neptune was a dramatic and spectacular achievement of mathematical astronomy. The very existence of this new member of the solar system, and its exact location, were demonstrated with pencil and paper; there was left to observers only the routine task of pointing their telescopes at the spot the mathematicians had marked. (James R. Newman)

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told, "I'm with you kid. Let's go." (Maya Angelou)

Glitter is the herpes of the craft world

Life can be understood backward; but must be lived forward. (Soren Aabye Kierkegaard)

"I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other." Quote from Mary Shelly's troubled Frankenstein's Monster


Better than I deserve (Dave Ramsey)

When the wonders of science and the mysteries of faith

come together, a miracle is born -- Hope.

Respect is when I can look up to you, but you never look down on me.

I wish the buck stopped here. I sure could use a few...

The man who runs in front of the car gets tired.

The man who runs behind the car gets exhausted.

Get in the car!

Kids in the back seat cause accidents;

Accidents in the back seat cause kids.

I like cats, too. Let's exchange recipes.

It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion. (Dean Inge)

Christmas is the Disneyfication of Christianity. (Don Cupitt)

Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go. (T.S. Elliot)

The best fame is a writer's fame: it's enough to get a table at a good restaurant, but not enough that you get interrupted when you eat. (Fran Lebowitz)

We must travel in the direction of our fear. (John Berryman)

Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out. (Vaclav Havel)

Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. (Alfred North Whitehead)

It is better to wear out than to rust out. (Bishop Richard Cumberland)

The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale. (Richard Dawkins)

Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. (R.D. Lang)

Someone said that God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December. (J. M. Barrie)

Never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television. (Gore Vidal)