OC

This one does it for me - My Immortal by Evanescence.

i'm so tired of being here
suppressed by all my childish fears
and if you have to leave
i wish that you would just leave
because your presence still lingers here
and it won't leave me alone

these wounds won't seem to heal
this pain is just too real
there's just too much that time cannot erase

when you cried i'd wipe away all of your tears
when you'd scream i'd fight away all of your fears
and i held your hand through all of these years
but you still have all of me

you used to captivate me
by your resonating light
but now i'm bound by the life you left behind
your face it haunts my once pleasant dreams
your voice it chased away all the sanity in me

these wounds won't seem to heal
this pain is just too real
there's just too much that time cannot erase

when you cried i'd wipe away all of your tears
when you'd scream i'd fight away all of your fears
and i held your hand through all of these years
but you still have all of me

i've tried so hard to tell myself that you're gone
but though you're still with me
i've been alone all along

__________________
But what is adulthood except a delayed end-run around our parents' better judgment?
-- Peter Egan

*cough*

oblongmelon

OC your sinking.

Nanotech9

Bowling for Soup
Girl All The Bad Guys Want

8 o'clock, Monday night and I'm waitin'
To finally talk to a girl a little cooler than me.
Her name is Nona, she's a rocker with a nose ring,
She wears a two way, but I'm not quite sure what that means.

And when she walks,
All the wind blows and the angels sing.
She doesn't notice me!

Cause she is watchin' wrestling
Creamin' over tough guys
Listenin' to rap metal
Turntables in her eyes

It's like a bad movie
She is lookin' through me
If you were me, then you'd be
Screamin' "Someone shoot me!"
As I fail miserably,
Tryin' to get the girl all the bad guys want.
She's the girl all the bad guys want!

She likes the godsmack and I like agent orange
Her cd changer's full of singers that are mad at their dad
She says she'd like to score some reefer and a forty
She'll never know that I'm the best that she'll never have

And when she walks,
All the wind blows and the angels sing.
She'll never notice me!

Cause she is watchin' wrestling
Creamin' over tough guys
Listenin' to rap metal
Turntables in her eyes

She likes 'em with a mustache
Racetrack season pass
Drivin' in a Trans-Am
Does a mullet make a man?

It's like a bad movie
She is lookin' through me
If you were me, then you'd be
Screamin' "Someone shoot me!"
As I fail miserably,
Tryin' to get the girl all the bad guys want.
She's the girl all the bad guys want!
She's the girl all the bad guys want!
She's the girl all the bad guys want!

There she goes again
With fishnets on, and dreadlocks in her hair
She broke my heart, I wanna be sedated
All I wanted was to see her naked!

Now I am watchin' wrestling
Tryin' to be a tough guy
Listenin' to rap metal
Turntables in my eyes
I can't grow a mustache
And I ain't got no season pass
All I got's a moped...moped....moped.....

It's like a bad movie
She is lookin' through me
If you were me, then you'd be
Screamin' "Someone shoot me!"
As I fail miserably,
Tryin' to get the girl all the bad guys want.

She's the girl all the bad guys want!
She's the girl all the bad guys want!
She's the girl all the bad guys want!
She's the girl all the bad guys want!
(There she goes again)
She's the girl all the bad guys want!
She's the girl all the bad guys want!
(There she goes again)
She's the girl all the bad guys want!
She's the girl all the bad guys want!

__________________

sizemic1

It's not
What you thought
When you first began it
You got
What you want
Now you can hardly stand it though,
By now you know
It's not going to stop
It's not going to stop
It's not going to stop
'Til you wise up

You're sure
There's a cure
And you have finally found it
You think
One drink
Will shrink you 'til you're underground
And living down
But it's not going to stop
It's not going to stop
It's not going to stop
'Til you wise up

Prepare a list of what you need
Before you sign away the deed
'Cause it's not going to stop
It's not going to stop
It's not going to stop
'Til you wise up
No, it's not going to stop
'Til you wise up
No, it's not going to stop
So just...give up


Aimmee Mann - Wise Up

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zenbooty

Last night I told a stranger all about you
He smiled patiently with disbelief
I always knew you would succeed no matter what you tried
And I know you did it all in spite of me

Still I'm proud to have know you for the short time that I did
Glad to have been a step up on your way
Proud to be part of your illustrious career
And I know you did it all in spite of me
In spite of me

Late last night I saw you in my living room
You seemed so close but yet so cold
For a long time I thought that you'd be coming back to me
Those kind of thoughts can be so cruel
So cruel
And I know you did it all in spite of me
In spite of me

__________________
Common sense is what tells you the Earth is flat.

Memo

It was in the march of the winter I turned seventeen
That I bought those pills
I thought I would need
And I wrote a letter to my family
Said it's not your fault
And you've been good to me
Just lately I've been feeling
Like I don't belong
Like the ground's not mine to walk upon
And I've heard that music
Echo through the house
Where my grandmother drank
By herself
And I sat watching a flower
As it was withering
I was embarrassed by its honesty
So I'd prefer to be remembered as a smiling face
Not this ****ing wreck
That's taken its place

So please forgive what I have done
No you can't stay mad at the setting sun
Cause we all get tired, I mean eventually
There is nothing left to do but sleep

But spring came bearing sunlight
Those persuasive rays
So I gave myself a few more days
My salvation it came, quite suddenly
When Justin spoke very plainly
He said "Of course it's your decision,
But just so you know,
If you decide to leave,
Soon I will follow"

I wrote this for a baby
Who has yet to be born
My brother's first child
I hope that womb's not too warm
Cause it's cold out here
And it'll be quite a shock
To breathe this air
To discover loss
So I'd like to make some changes
Before you arive
So when your new eyes meet mine
They won't see no lies
Just love.
Just love.

I will be pure
No, no, I know i will be pure
Like snow, like gold
Like snow, like gold
Like snow, like snow
Like gold, like gold, like gold

Bright Eyes - No Lies, Just Love

joe52985

moments over exaggerated

Open everything around
how I want to say kiss me
you don't want to ruin anything
daring and beautiful stones
AIM at me
you never AIM at me
cursed with never being seen in your dreams
I'll walk around dead to you
I'll lie around dead to me
I feel soon
you'll wake with imaginary dreams
and wanting to hold this memory
always wondering who's coming to save
who's saving me
cursed with never being seen in your dreams
I'll walk around dead to you
I'll lie around dead to me
open everything around so all can see
how fast you waved good-bye

__________________
DISCLAIMER: At any given time my grammar and/or spelling may be incorrect

-all of your mom are belong to me


p4 1.7 ghz
19 in sony flat screen trinitron
40 gb ibm 75gpx
altec lansing ada 885 dolby digtal THX surround speakers
Elsa Gladiac 920
128 mb rd ram
16/40 Sony dvd
16/12/40 NEC cd-rw

NuTs62

I pretended I’m glad you went away
These four walls closing more everyday
And I’m dying inside
And nobody knows it but me
Like a clown, I put on a show
The pain is real even if nobody knows
And I’m crying inside
And nobody knows it but me

Why didn’t I say
The things I needed to say
How could I let my angel get away
Now my world is tumbling down
I can say it so clearly
But you’re nowhere around

Chorus:
The nights are lonely
The days are so sad
And I just keep thinking about
The love that we had
And I’m missing you
And nobody knows it but me

I carry a smile when I’m broken in two
And I’m nobody without someone like you
I’m trembling at night and
Nobody knows it but me
I lie awake it’s a quarter past three
I’m screaming at night as if
I thought you’d hear me
Yeah my heart is calling you
And nobody knows it but me

How blue can you get?
You could ask my heart
But like a jigsaw puzzle
It’s been torn all apart
A million words couldn’t say
Just how I feel
A million years from now you know
I’ll be loving you still

Chorus:
The nights are lonely
The days are so sad
And I just keep thinking about
The love that we had
And I’m missing you
And nobody knows it but me

Tomorrow morning I’m hitting
The dusty road
Gonna find you wherever
Ever you might go
I’m gonna unload my heart and hope
You come back to me
Said when the nights are lonely...

Chorus:
The nights are lonely
The days are so sad
And I just keep thinking about
The love that we had
And I’m missing you
And nobody knows it but me

chrissy

Without you -- Dixie Chicks

I've sure enjoyed the rain
But I'm looking forward to the sun
You have to feel the pain
When you loose the love you gave someone
I thought by now the time
Would take away these lonely tears
I hope you're doing fine all alone.
But where do I go from
Here 'cause
Without you I'm not okay
And without you
I've lost my way
My heart's stuck
In second place ooh
Without you

Well I never thought I'd be
Lying here without you by my side
It seems unreal to me that
The life you promised was a lie
You made it look so easy
Making love into memories
I guess you go what you wanted
But what about me 'cause


Without you I'm not okay
And without you I've lost my way
My heart's stuck in second place ooh
Without you


Somebody tell my head to try to tell my heart
That I'm better off without you
'Cause baby I can't live

Without you I'm not okay
And without you I've lost my way
My heart's stuck in second place ooh
Without you Without you

Johnnymac

To Be Young (Is To Be Sad, Is To Be High) - Ryan Adams

Young boy, done me bad, went and did you wrong
Young boy, done me bad, I went and did you wrong
And I got high
Lord, I got high
Now I got a bone to pick with you
And I'm sure you know it's true

Oh one day when you're looking back
You were young, and man you were sad
When you're young, you get sad
When you're young, you get sad
And you get high

Young gal, done you bad and I went and did you wrong
Young gal, you done me bad so I went and did you wrong
And I got high
Lord, I got high
Now you gotta bone to pick with me
But I wish you'd let me be

Oh one day when you're looking back
You were young, and man you were sad
When you're young, you get sad
When you're young, you get sad
And you get high
You get high

Ooh the days the rain would fall your way


Ooh the days the rain would fall your way
And you'll be high
'Cause you got sad
'Cause you got sad
Oh man
Oh man
Oh man
Oh man

Speedfreak

Ben Folds - The Luckiest

I don't get many things right the first time,
in fact, I am told that a lot
Now I know all the wrong turns the stumbles,
and falls brought me here
And where was I before the day
that I first saw your lovely face,
now I see it every day
And I know

CHORUS
That I am, I am, I am, the luckiest

What if I had been born fifty years before you
in a house on the street
where you lived
Maybe I'd be outside as you passed on your bike. Would I know?
And in a wide sea of eyes
I see one pair that I recognize

And I know

CHORUS

I love you more then have
ever found the way to say
to you

Next door there's an old man who lived to his nineties and one day
passed away in his sleep,
and his wife, she stayed for a couple of days, and passed away

I'm sorry I know that's a strange way to tell you that I know we belong,

That I know

CHORUS


Listen to it.

__________________
Call me Fleet Admiral §pêêЃrêák™! Go get me some coffee.
CoolSpeed

Speedfreak

Too Short - Get Some Lovin'

Here

jujubees

Anymore - Travis Tritt

I can't hide the way I feel about you anymore
I can't hold the hurt inside,
Keep the pain out of my eyes anymore
My tears no longer waiting,
My resistance ain't that strong
My mind keeps recreating
A life with you alone
And I'm tired of pretending
That I don't love you anymore ...

Let me make one last appeal
To show you how I feel about you
'Cause there's no one else I swear,
Holds a candle, anywhere, next to you
My heart can't take the beating
Of not having you to hold
A small voice keeps repeating
Deep inside my soul
It says I can't keep pretending
That I don't love you anymore ...

I've got to take the chance or let it pass by
If I expect to get on with my life ...

And I can't hide the way I feel about you anymore
And I can't hold the hurt inside,
Keep the pain out of my eyes anymore
My tears no longer waiting
Oh, my resistance ain't that strong
Oh, my mind keeps recreating
A life with you alone
And I'm tired of pretending
I don't love you anymore ...

__________________
You could have it all
My empire of dirt

zenbooty

ON ANOTHER SHORE

All these years I waited
'Cause I knew that you'd return.
No stranger's hand has touched this temple.
One candle slowly burned...For you.
(Were you waiting too?)
For you...just for you.

I swear I heard you crying
On the cruel uncanny breeze.
I saw you crawling down there
On your bleeding hands and knees.

Now crawl right up to me,
My captain.
The good ship sails away forever..
Leave us be.
The good ship sails away forever.
The way it's meant to be.

These were the gentle words she said,
I could not find her in my head.
I searched for little clues
But all the lights were glowing red.
And in the end I smiled politely,
Snatched my coat and fled.
From you.
Just from you.

But still I hear her crying
On the cruel uncanny breeze.
I see her crawling down there
On her bleeding hands and knees.

Come to me!
Come to me!

The good ship sails away forever.
Was never meant to be.
The good ship sails away forever.
Never meant to be.

zenbooty

Lined up between the arrows at your heart
is this a charmed life that I lead?

Now could it be that some place.
Some time, you will stop believing
and things that once were charming
will feel like sand against your eyes?

When I walk into your space,
you'll see a thief by night.
To send away or lock away or run away from...
send away or lock away or run away from...

Will there come a day?

Will we have the courage just to walk away
while something still remains?
Will we keep it pure?

Now let this death be noble.
Let this death be grand.
Don't keep it on a lead...

When I think of you
I want to see you on a summer day.
My treasure. My lover. Together. Alone.

molecularfire

Artist : Dan Hill
Song : Sometimes When We Touch
Album : Greatest Hits & More-Let Me Sh
Submitted by : M.van Hout
Corrected by : Hedlund
Rated : 9.5 (113 votes)


You ask me if I love you
And I choke on my reply
I'd rather hurt you honestly
Than mislead you with a lie
And who am I to judge you
On what you say or do?
I'm only just beginning to see the real you

And sometimes when we touch
The honesty's too much
And I have to close my eyes and hide
I wanna hold you til I die
Til we both break down and cry
I wanna hold you till the fear in me subsides

Romance and all its strategy
Leaves me battling with my pride
But through the insecurity
Some tenderness survives
I'm just another writer
Still trapped within my truth
A hesitant prize fighter
Still trapped within my youth

And sometimes when we touch
The honesty's too much
And I have to close my eyes and hide
I wanna hold you til I die
Til we both break down and cry
I wanna hold you till the fear in me subsides

At times I'd like to break you
And drive you to your knees
At times I'd like to break through
And hold you endlessly

At times I understand you
And I know how hard you've tried
I've watched while love commands you
And I've watched love pass you by
At times I think we're drifters
Still searching for a friend
A brother or a sister
But then the passion flares again

And sometimes when we touch
The honesty's too much
And I have to close my eyes and hide
I wanna hold you til I die
Til we both break down and cry
I wanna hold you till the fear in me subsides

__________________
Disclaimer - The above opinion should not be taken as medical advise. My only advise is to talk to your doctor. If you are stupid enough to take anything I say seriously, you have nobody to blame for your cranio-anal inversion but your stupid self.

I may not be smart enough to do everything but I am dumb enough to try anything. - Beastboy.

Showtime

One by Metallica.

-jel

Speedfreak

Ya, but what version?

Showtime

I only know of "one" version.

-jel

LPMiller

Will Smith



high.pos. chart entry
US 1 7/97
GB 1 8/97
D 1 8/97
Men In Black

Uh...
Here come the Men in Black
It's the M.I.B.'s, uhh, here come the M.I.B.'s
Here come the Men in Black
They won't let you remember
Nah nah nah

The good guys dress in black remember that
Just in case we ever face to face and make contact
The title held by me -- M.I.B.
Means what you think you saw, you did not see
So don't blink be what was there
is now gone, black suit with the black Ray Ban's on
Walk in shadow, move in silence
Guard against extra-terrestrial violence
But yo we ain't on no government list
We straight don't exist, no names and no figerprints
Saw somethin strange, watch your back
Cause you never quite know where the M.I.B.'s is at
Uh and...

Here come the Men in Black (Men in Blaaaaack)
Galaxy defenders (oahhaooohh ohhhhh)
Here come the Men in Black (Men in Blaaaaack)
They won't let you remember

Uh uh, uh uh, now
from the deepest of the darkest of night
on the horizon, bright light enters sight tight
Cameras zoom, on the impending doom
But then like BOOM black suits fill the room up
With the quickness talk with the witnesses
Hypnotizer, neuralizer
Vivid memories turn to fantasies
Ain't no M.I.B.'s, can I please
do what we say that's the way we kick it
Yaknahmean? I see my noisy cricket get wicked on ya
We're your first, last and only line of defense
against the worst scum of the universe
So don't fear us, cheer us
If you ever get near us, don't jeer us, we're the fearless
M.I.B.'s, freezin up all the flack
(What's that stand for?) Men In Black

Uhh M
The Men in Black...
The Men in Black

Let me see ya just bounce it with me, just bounce with me
Just bounce it with me c'mon
Let me see ya just slide with me, just slide with me
Just slide with me c'mon
Let me see ya take a walk with me, just walk it with me
Take a walk with me c'mon
And make your neck work
Now freeze...

Here come the Men in Black (Men in Blaaaaack)
The galaxy defenders
Right on, right on
Here come the Men in Black (Men in Blaaaaack)
They won't let you rememberk (ohhhh nooooo)

Alright check it, let me tell you this in closin
I know we might seem imposin
But trust me if we ever show in your section
Believe me, it's for your own protection
Cause we see things that you need not see
And we be places that you need not be
So go witcha life, forget that Roswell crap
Show love to the black suit, cause that's the Men in
That's the Men in...

Here come the Men in Black (here they comeeeee)
The galaxy defenders (ga-la-xy de-fenders)
Here come the Men in Black (ohhhh here they come)
They won't let you remember (won't, let you, rememberrrr)
Here come the Men in Black (ohhhh here they come)
Galaxy defenders (ohh ohh, ohh ohh, ohh ohh)
Here come the Men in Black
They won't let you remember

__________________
lpmiller
Chief News Editor
Nobel Prize Nominee
Reverend in the Universal Life Church
Once Shot A Man For Snoring Too Loud
Way Too Lazy To Change His Signature

"The strength to change what I can, the inability to accept what I can't, and the incapacity to tell the difference." - Calvin and Hobbes

Peachhead

Can't Keep Running/Gregg Allman

Don't ask me where I'm going,
I don't know
Which way the wind is blowing,
I don't know
We've been over this again and again,
Talkin' bout it only drives me insane
Think I'd rather take a walk in the rain

I know, I can't keep running
I know, you've taken 'bout enough
I know, I can't keep running
And I know you don't want someone,
Runnin' in and out of your life

This ain't no game we're playing
I need time
Listen to what I'm saying,
I need time
Guess I saw it coming right from the start
But I can't bring myself to break her heart
When I do it's gonna tear me apart

I know, I can't keep running
I know, you've taken 'bout enough
I know, I can't keep running
And I know, you don't want someone
runnin' in and out of your life

Can't escape it,
I gotta face it,
Don't wanna leave you with your heart on the line
I can't refuse you,
Don't wanna lose you,
Can't you see that I'm running out of time

I know, I can't keep running
I know, you've taken 'bout enough
I know, I can't keep running
And I know, you don't want someone
runnin' in and out of your life

__________________
_______________________________
"I love being alive and I will be the best man I possibly can. I will take love wherever I find it and offer it to everyone who will take it..seek knowledge from those wiser..and teach those who wish to learn from me." --Duane Allman

Speedfreak

album or movie.

avlena

I KNOW YOU
Clubbed Rollins to Death remix
Henry Rollins & Rob D.

I know you. You were too short. You had bad skin. You couldn't talk to them very well. Words didn't seem to work. They lied when they came out of your mouth.

You tried so hard to understand them; you wanted to be part of what was happening. You saw them having fun, and it seemed like such a mystery--almost magic. It made you think that there was something wrong with you. You’d look in the mirror trying to find it.

You thought that you were ugly, and that everyone was looking at you. So you learned to be invisible. To look down. To avoid conversation. The hours, days, weekends.

Ahh the weekend nights alone. Where were you? In the basement? In the attic? In your room? Working some job, just to have something to do, just to have somewhere to put yourself, just to have a way to get away from them, a chance to get away from the ones who made you feel so strange and ill at ease inside yourself.

Did you ever get invited to one of their parties? You sat and wondered if you would go or not. For hours you imagined the scenarios that might transpire-they would laugh at you, if you would know what to do, if you would have the right things on, if they would notice that you came from a different planet?

Did you get all brave in your thoughts, like you were going to be able to go in there and deal with it, and have a great time? Did you think that you might be--the life of the party? That all these people were going to talk to you, and you would find out that you were wrong, and that you had a lot of friends and you weren't so strange after all?

Did you end up going? Did they mess with you? Did they single you out? Did you find out that you were invited because they thought that you were so weird?

Yeah, I think I know you. You spent a lot of time full of hate; a hate that was pure as sunshine, a hate that saw for miles, a hate that kept you up at night. A hate that filled your every waking moment. A hate that carried you for a long time.

Yes, I think I know you. You couldn't figure out what they saw in the way they lived. Home was not home. Your room was home. A corner was home. The place they weren't-that was home.

I know you, you're sensitive, and you hide it, because you fear getting stepped on one more time. It seems that when you show a part of yourself that is the least bit vulnerable, someone takes advantage of you--one of them steps on you. They mistake kinds for weakness; but you know the difference. You’ve been the brunt of their weakness for years and strength is something that you know a bit about because you had to be strong to keep yourself alive. You know yourself very well now. And you don't trust people; you know them too well.

You try to find that special person, someone you could be with, someone you could touch. Someone you could talk to. Someone you won't feel so strange around. And you found that they don't really exist. You feel closer to people on movie screens.

Yeah, I think I know you. You spend a lot of time daydreaming, and people have made comment to that effect, telling you that you're self involved and self centered, but they don't know, do they--about the long night shifts alone, about the years of keeping yourself company, all the nights you wrapped your arms around yourself so you could imagine someone holding you. The hours of indecision, self doubt, the intense depression, the blinding hate, the rage that made you stagger, the devastation of rejection.

Well, maybe they do know, but if they do, they sure do a good job of hiding it. It astounds you that they can be so smooth, how they seem to pass through life as if life itself were some divine gift. And it infuriates you to watch yourself, with your apparent skill of finding every way possible to screw it up.

For you, life is a long trip. Terrifying and wonderful. Birds sing to you at night. The rain and the sun, the changing seasons, are true friends. Solitude is a hard won ally, faithful and patient. Yeah, I think I know you.

I know you.

Yeah, I think I know you.

__________________
Have a groovy day!

avlena

sorry so long... but it's good! Henry Rollins does fabulous spoken word...

Nija

I have that same thing except the music is NIN background music is "A Warm Place) [if i remember correctly the album is Downward Spiral]

great piece of music/spoken word. love henry rollins

__________________

"Nija is the dark soul of gotapex. We don't like to talk about him." - LPMiller

RoniMan

somebody by Depeche Mode

chrissy

Have You Forgotten
Darryl Worley

I hear people saying
We don’t need this war
But I say there’s some things worth fighting for
What about our freedom and this piece of ground
We didn’t get to keep them by backing down
Now they say we don’t realize the mess we’re getting in
Before you start to preaching let me ask you this my friend

Have you forgotten how it felt that day?
Too see your homeland under fire and her people blown away
Have you forgotten when those towers fell?
We had neighbors still inside going through a living hell
And you say we shouldn’t worry about Bin Laden
Have you forgotten?

They took all the footage off my TV
They said it’s too disturbing for you and me
It’ll just breed anger, it’s what the experts say
If it was up to me I’d show it everyday
Some say this country’s just out looking for a fight
Well after 9-11 man I’d have to say that’s right

Have you forgotten how it felt that day?
Too see your homeland under fire and her people blown away
Have you forgotten when those towers fell?
We had neighbors still inside going through a living hell
And you say we shouldn’t worry about Bin Laden
Have you forgotten?


I’ve been there with the soldiers who’ve gone away to war
And you can bet that they remember just what they’re fighting for

Have you forgotten all the people killed?
Yeah some went down like heroes in that Pennsylvania field
Have you forgotten about our Pentagon?
Yeah all those loved ones that we lost
And those left to carry on
Don’t you tell me not to worry about Bin Laden
Have you forgotten how it felt that day?
Too see your homeland under fire and her people blown away
Have you forgotten when those towers fell?
We had people still inside going through a living hell
And you say we shouldn’t worry about Bin Laden
Have you forgotten?
Have you forgotten? Oh
Have you forgotten?

chrissy

Dixie Chicks - Travelin' Soldier

Two days past eighteen he was waiting for the bus
in his army greens sat down in a booth
in a cafe there gave his order to a girl with a bow in her hair
he's a little shy so she gives him a smile
and he said would you mind sittin' down for a while
and talking to me i'm feeling a little low
she said i'm off in an hour and i know where we can go.
So they went down and they sat on the pier
he said i bet you got a boyfriend but i don't care
i got no one to send a letter to would you mind if i sent one back here to you.

Chorus:
I cried never gonna hold the hand of another guy
too young for him they told her
waitin' for the love of a travelin' soldier
our love will never end
waitin' for the soldier to come back again
never more to be alone
when the letter said a soldiers coming home

So the letters came
from an army camp in california then vietnam
and he told her of his heart might be loving all of the things he was so scared of
and he said when its getting kinda rough over here
i think of that day sittin' down at the pier
and i close my eyes and see your pretty smile
don't worry but i won't be able to write for a while.

Chorus:
I cried never gonna hold the hand of another guy
too young for him they told her
waitin' for the love of a travelin' soldier
our love will never end
waitin' for the soldier to come back again
never more to be alone
when the letter said a soldiers coming home

One Friday night at a football game
the lord's prayer said and the anthem sang
a man said folks would you bow your heads for a list of local vietnam dead.
Crying all alone under the stands was a piccolo player in the marching band
and one name read and nobody really cared but a pretty little girl with a bow in her hair.

Chorus:
I cried never gonna hold the hand of another guy
too young for him they told her
waitin' for the love of a travelin' soldier
our love will never end
waitin' for the soldier to come back again
never more to be alone
when the letter said a soldiers coming home

Chorus:
I cried never gonna hold the hand of another guy
too young for him they told her
waitin' for the love of a travelin' soldier
our love will never end
waitin' for the soldier to come back again
never more to be alone
when the letter said a soldiers coming home