porcelain / sunrise
paramita

you with the marble eyes
fragile with porcelain bones
you look at the stars and you wonder why
are you as hungry as i?
(yesterday's news but still new to me)

i can't see me
or someone i used to be
i can't see you now
or someone who used to be you
are you someone new?
are you someone i used to know?
have you been there before?
have you seen me before?

when was the last time you cried?
i think it was centuries ago
a stake through the heart
and sunrise will keep you away

waiting for a sign
paramita

screaming in the dark
you try to grasp for air
invisible at times
you start to notice
you sit and stare
waiting for a sign

can you see far beyond your imagination
in your dreams lie the meaning of your existence.

you start to twist and turn
you've got nowhere to run
your eyes are getting tired

when will you understand?
everything you see is temporary
this is what we have
we're just passing by, just passing by

waiting for a sign...

In Another Lifetime
Gary Valenciano

I could hold on for a hundred years
When all else is gone
I would still be here
In a memory of things yet unseen
I’d remember all that we’ve never been
And I cannot wait to see
What life has in store for me

[chorus]
In another lifetime
It would be forever
In another world
Where you and I
Could be together
In another set of chances
I’d take the one’s I’d missed
And make you mine
If only for a time
My life would matter
In another life

And I’d stay as strong and I’d stay as true
And you’d have forever now to think it through
Coz I believe what wasn’t meant to be
Wasn’t meant for now and
Someday you’ll see
In a place and time we never know
I’d be standing there waiting for you
[Repeat Chorus]

[Bridge]
You would be mine
But until that time is now
I’d be holding on somehow
[Repeat Chorus]

[Coda]
But until that time
I’ll be holding onto forever
Until another life

Anything For You
Gloria Estefan

Anything for you
Though you’re not here
Since you said we’re through
It seems like years
Time keeps draggin on and on
And forever’s been and gone
Still I can’t figure what went wrong

I’d still do anything for you
I’ll play your game
You hurt me through and through
But you can have your way

I can pretend each time I see you
That I don’t care and I don’t need you
And though you’ll never see me cryin’
You know inside I feel like dying
And I’d do anything for you
In spite of it all
I’ve learned so much from you
You made me strong
But don’t you ever think that I don’t love you
That for one minute I forgot you
But sometimes things don’t work out right
And you just have to say goodbye

I hope you find somone to please you
Somone who’ll care and never leave you
But if that someone ever hurts you
You just might need a friend to turn to

And I’d do anything for you
I’ll give you up
If that’s what I should do
To make you happy

I can pretend each time I see you
That I don’t care and I don’t need you
And though inside I feel like dying
You know you’ll never see me crying

Don’t you ever think that I don’t love you
That for one minute I forgot you
But sometimes things don’t work out right
And you just have to say goodbye

For the Longest Time
Billy Joel

Oh, oh, oh
For the longest time
Oh, oh, oh
For the longest time
If you said goodbye to me tonight
There would still be music left to write
What else could I do
I'm so inspired by you
That hasn't happened for the longest time

Once I thought my innocence was gone
Now I know that happiness goes on
That's where you found me
When you put your arms around me
I haven't been there for the longest time


Oh, oh, oh
For the longest time
Oh, oh, oh
For the longest
I'm that voice you're hearing in the hall
And the greatest miracle of all
Is how I need you
And how you needed me too
That hasn't happened for the longest time


Maybe this won't last very long
But you feel so right
And I could be wrong
Maybe I've been hoping too hard
But I've gone this far
And it's more than I hoped for


Who knows how much further we'll go on
Maybe I'll be sorry when you're gone
I'll take my chances
I forgot how nice romance is
I haven't been there for the longest time


I had second thoughts at the start
I said to myself
Hold on to your heart
Now I know the woman that you are
You're wonderful so far
And it's more than I hoped for


I don't care what consequence it brings
I have been a fool for lesser things
I want you so bad
I think you ought to know that
I intend to hold you for the longest time

Comfort in Your Strangeness
Cynthia Alexander

Woke up this morning
I was staring at the ceiling cracks
and roadmaps and landscapes and highways
I have seen
I have been
to places far and deep in my mind only to find
Comfort in Your strangeness
Of moving shadows when I call the wind by name
rushing Firewater in the dark of a cloud
I have seen
I have been
to places far and deep in my mind only to find
Comfort in Your strangeness
we are slaves to the crimes we commit
in fits of passion
we shame
we are nothing we are nothing we are nothing we are nothing
but the dust on Your feet
dying to be born again
singing Ether Water Fire singing Earth Singing Air
I have seen
I have been
to places far and deep in my mind only to find
Comfort in Your strangeness
I have seen
I have been
to places far and deep in my mind
only to find
Comfort in Your strangeness

Almost Paradise
Jay-R & Iya Villania

I thought that dreams belonged to other men
’cause each time I got close
They’d fall apart again

I feared my heart would beat in secrecy
I faced the nights alone
Oh, how could I have known
That all my life I only needed you?

Whoa
Almost paradise
We’re knockin’ on heaven’s door
Almost paradise
How could we ask for more?
I swear that I can see forever in your eyes
Paradise

It seems like perfect love’s so hard to find
I’d almost given up
You must have read my mind

And all these dreams I saved for a rainy day
They’re finally coming true
I’ll share them all with you
’cause now we hold the future in our hands

Whoa
Almost paradise
We’re knockin’ on heaven’s door
Almost paradise
How could we ask for more?
I swear that I can see forever in your eyes
Paradise

And in your arms salvation’s not so far away
It’s getting closer
Closer every day

It’s almost paradise
We’re knockin’ on heaven’s door
Almost paradise
How could we ask for more?
I swear that I can see forever in your eyes
Paradise

Whoa
Almost paradise
We’re knockin’ on heaven’s door
Almost paradise
How could we ask for more?
I swear that I can see forever in your eyes
Paradise

Paradise

Paradise

Mourning Into Dancing
by Tommy Walker

INTRO RIFF 2 times

CHORUS A (x2):
He's turned my mourning into dancing again, He's lifted my sorrows;
I can't stay silent, I must sing for His joy has come.

INTRO RIFF

VERSE:
When there was once only hurt, He gave His healing hand;
Where there once was only pain, He brought comfort like a friend.

I feel the sweetness of His love piercing my darkness;

I see the bright and morning sun as it ushers in His joyful gladness.


CHORUS A:
He's turned my mourning into dancing again, He's lifted my sorrows;
I can't stay silent, I must sing for His joy has come.


CHORUS B:
You've turned my mourning into dancing again, You've lifted my sorrows;
I can't stay silent, I must sing for Your joy has come.


VERSE:
When there was once only hurt, You gave Your healing hand;
Where there once was only pain, You brought comfort like a friend.

I feel the sweetness of Your love piercing my darkness;
I see the bright and morning sun as it ushers in Your joyful gladness.

CHORUS B:
You've turned my mourning into dancing again, You've lifted my sorrows;
I can't stay silent, I must sing for Your joy has come.


BRIDGE:
Your anger lasts for a moment in time,
But Your favor is here and will be on me
For all my lifetime.


CHORUS A

CHORUS B

INTRO riff three times


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This song never fails to lift up my spirit! :)