Beautiful Songs

This thread is dedicated to one of the main factors that helps us get through NaNoWriMo. Music!
Here are the lyrics to a song by Casting Crowns, called Wedding Day. I love this song. It totally makes me cry. The chorus, especially.
What's one of your favorite songs?

There's a stirring in the throne room
And all creation holds it's breath
Waiting now to see the bride groom
Wondering how the bride will dress
And she wears white
And she knows that she's undeserving
She bears the shame of history
With this worn and weary maiden
Is not the bride that he sees
And she wears white, head to toe
But only he could make it so

When someone dries your tears
When someone wins your heart
And says your beautiful
When you don't know you are
And all you've longed to see
Is written on his face
When love has come and finally set you free
On that wedding day
On that wedding day

She has danced in golden castles
And she has crawled through beggar's dust
But today she stands before him
And she wears his righteousness
And she will be who he adores
And this is what he made her for

When the hand that bears the only scars
And heaven touch her face
And the last tears she'll ever cry
Are finally wiped away
And the clouds roll back as he takes her hand
And walks her through the gates
Forever we will reign

Aw, that's so pretty! Casting Crowns has some songs that I like.

I have completely forgotten what my favorite beautiful song is. Everything is too fast or a break-up song. Like... OKAY I GOT ONE!

Chris August - You and I (not the LG one) Though that is pretty fast, but very pleasant. :-D He does have one that is slow and beautiful....

Well I'm on a Death Cab kick, which means I'm listening to a bunch of tragically beautiful songs on repeat...

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*What Sarah Said*

And it came to me then that every plan is a tiny prayer to father time
As I stared at my shoes in the ICU that reeked of piss and 409
And I rationed my breaths as I said to myself that I'd already taken too much today
As each descending peak on the LCD took you a little farther away from me
Away from me

Amongst the vending machines and year-old magazines in a place where we only say goodbye
It stung like a violent wind that our memories depend on a faulty camera in our minds
But I knew that you were a truth I would rather lose than to have never lain beside at all
And I looked around at all the eyes on the ground as the TV entertained itself

'Cause there's no comfort in the waiting room
Just nervous pacers bracing for bad news
And then the nurse comes round and everyone will lift their heads
But I'm thinking of what Sarah said that "Love is watching someone die"

So who's going to watch you die?
So who's going to watch you die?

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*Someday You Will Be Loved*

I once knew a girl in the years of my youth
With eyes like the summer, all beauty and truth
In the morning I fled, left a note and it read:
"Someday you will be loved"

I cannot pretend that I felt any regret
Cause each broken heart will eventually mend
As the blood runs red down the needle and thread
Someday you will be loved

You'll be loved, you'll be loved like you never have known
The memories of me will seem more like bad dreams
Just a series of blurs, like I never occurred
Someday you will be loved

You may feel alone when you're falling asleep
And every time tears roll down your cheeks
But I know your heart belongs to someone you've yet to meet
Someday you will be loved

You'll be loved, you'll be loved like you never have known
The memories of me will seem more like bad dreams
Just a series of blurs, like I never occurred
Someday you will be loved

You'll be loved, you'll be loved like you never have known
The memories of me will seem more like bad dreams
Just a series of blurs, like I never occurred
Someday you will be loved

Someday you will be loved

One of the most beautiful songs ever that is helping me through my Nanoing juts so happens to be in Japanese but I will translate.

Hi Miss Alice
With your glass eyes
What kind of dream
Can you see?
Are you fascinated with?

Stilll
My heart tears
And drifts
Stuck in the patched crevices
Are memories
[ Lyrics from: http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/k/kanon_wakeshima/still_doll_english.html ]
Hi Miss Alice
With that fruitful lips
To whom does love
Is cast away?
Is lamented?

Already
I spin my words
Feverish tongue
Has turned cold
The song to love
Can't be sung either

Still you do not answer

Gosh that sounds cooler in Japanese...Whatever look it up. It is by Kanon Wakeshima. She is amazing trust me on this one.

Aw, these are pretty! One song that I adore and think is totally gorgeous is Good Enough by Evanescence. Along with the piano, it gives me chills :)

Under your spell again,
I can't say no to you.
Crave my heart and it's bleeding in your hands,
I can't say no to you.

Shouldn't let you torture me so sweetly,
Now I can't let go of this dream,
I can't breath,
But I feel good enough.
I feel good enough,
For you.

Drink up sweet decadence,
I can't say no to you.
And I've completely lost myself and I don't mind!
I can't say no, to you.
Shouldn't let you conquer me completely,
Now I can't let go of this dream,
Can't believe that I feel good enough.

I feel good enough.
It's been such a long time comin'
But I feel good.

And I'm still waiting for the rain,
To fall, and pour real life down on me.
Cause I can't hold on,
To anything, this good enough.
Am I good enough,
For you to love me too?

So take care,
What you ask of me.
Cause I can't say no.

Here's the actual song - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kw2Ic_2XdVQ&ob=av2e <3

"Space Oddity" by David Bowie
<_< >_>
it's a guilty pleasure ^_^ and SUCH a good song despite being old as dirt

Beautiful Things by Gungor
It's a bit slow, but really sweet to me :3

Reflection. The one from Mulan.

Umm.... Come on, I know I know one more, at least.... Oh yeah! Who Am I to Say by Hope. It's really sad, but so pretty....

Natalie McDonald. Just all of her songs, always.
Specifically, Lament of the Neurotic. Find it here (http://www.myspace.com/wikipediahearts/music/songs/lament-of-the-neurotic-59009871) and buy it on iTunes, her album's called Natalie McDonald.
This girl went to my school last year and is honestly one of my favorite artists that I 'discovered' in 2010. And that's including Adele.
The Chase, also, is fantastic. This girl's going places. (and yes, I fangirl every time we interact XD)

I don't even know the name but it's by JJ Heller and I've got the chorus in my head. Love it. Makes me want to cry. Check it out.

Who will love me for me?
Not for what I have done of who I may become
Who will love me for me?

The first line, about an orphan, is my favorite.

I really like Muse and Green Day. Muse have amazing music and Green Day are kinda like *to me anyway* hell to the world, America and modern life!!! hehe

My favorite songs to listen to while writing my NaNo (and at any other time) are all vocaloid music. I particulary love the songs: Prisoner (Kagamine Len), Paper Plane (Kagamine Rin), Servant of Evil ((Kagamine Len) I also like the rest of the evil saga but don't feel like posting all the songs in it), A Faint Wish ((Kagamine Len) Yes, there are also more in this series, this song is just my favorite of them), Judgement of Corruption (Kaito).

Butterfly Kisses by Bob Carlisle. Love it.

Also, You Can Let Go Now Daddy by Crystal Shawanda. Her voice takes a little getting used to, but WOW.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSt1yp5b-Fw --> Skillet, Yours To Hold (obsessed with it now, so...yeah).

I See The LIght - Tangled

I adore DBSK for beautiful songs - they're a Korean group that sings in both Korean and Japanese, and I can't understand a word unless they happen to throw in an English word or too, but they have amazing acapellas and generally gorgeous songs. Unfortunately, they're disbanded now, split into two groups - JYJ and Homin (Homin is still called DBSK). Oh, and they're also called TVXQ or Tohoshinki, depending on if you're in China or Japan as well. xD

Some of my favorites:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BP_tZBIudHY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLK0gYiB7t0&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lU1qrvPIHx8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPbvCGfMl5Q

And now I'll try to avoid giving a bazillion and one songs.

OhDeathCab,ohDeathCab,ohDeathCab.

Let me take a moment to collect the inner fangirl. As there is enough Death Cab here, I will submit other splendid things.

Most of these will be short excerpts of the lyrics, so as not to make a massivehuge post. The only exception here being White Winter Hymnal, because the song is short, and the imagery is crisp, and the music is sweet. Couldn't want much else.

Oh, and these people I listed? I adore all of them, and can totally recommend more, equally stellar songs by them, if you'd like :)


"White Winter Hymnal" by Fleet Foxes
Lyrics | Youtube
"I was following the pack all swallowed in their coats
With scarves of red tied 'round their throats
To keep their little heads
From falling in the snow
And I turned 'round and there you go
And Michael, you would fall
And turn the white snow red as strawberries in the summertime"

And we'll get some of this this Iron & Wine out of my system.

"Rabbit Will Run" by Iron & Wine
Lyrics | Youtube
"We bricked up the garden and know what it means
And we've all kissed a virgin as if she were clean
And I still have a prayer, despite all the colors I've seen

And judgment is just like a cup that we share
I'll jump over the wall and I'll wait for you there
We'll pass the weeds in our vision of things to come

We've all heard the rooster and all been denied
And we've seen through the haze and the spit in our eyes
And I still have a prayer, a well-weathered word to the wise"

"Walking Far From Home" by Iron & Wine
Lyrics | Youtube
"I was walking far from home
Where the names were not burned along the wall
Saw a building high as heaven
But the door was so small, door was so small
I saw rainclouds, little babies
And a bridge that had tumbled to the ground
I saw sinners making music
I've dreamt of that sound, dreamt of that sound

I was walking far from home
But I carried your letters all the while
I saw lovers in a window
Whisper, 'Want me like time, want me like time'"

"Blood on the Snow" by Horse Feathers
Lyrics | Youtube
"Painless ghosts,
of which she knows,
the smell in her clothes,
the smell in her nose.
There's blood on the snow.

Bring your love,
it's on your tongue,
it's on your roads,
and in your toes.
There's blood on the snow."

"Thistle and Weeds" by Mumford & Sons
Lyrics | Youtube
"Spare me your judgements and spare me your dreams
Cause recently mine have been tearing my seams
I sit alone in this winter clarity which clouds my mind
Alone in the wind and the rain you left me
It's getting dark darling, too dark to see
And I'm on my knees, and your faith in shreds, it seems

But plant your hopes with good seeds
Don't cover yourself with thistle and weeds
Rain down, rain down on me
Look over your hills and be still
The sky above us shoots to kill
Rain down, rain down on me"

"Doorways" by Radical Face
Lyrics | Youtube
"When I was just a boy still owl-eyed
I liked to drink the rain to taste the sky
I tried to count the stars while in my bed
to keep the thoughts of monsters from my head

And I believed the stars were wishes
I believed the world was good
I believed things hid in the dark
and that all would turn out just how it should
I believed in all your stories
I believed you'd never lie
I believed if i could climb the trees behind the house,
I'd touch the sky "

Now, these two songs have to be listened to in succession to get the full effect, but you can listen to them individually if you like. I highly encourage listening to them in the order I listed:

"All Is Well (It's Only Blood)" by Radical Face
Lyrics | Youtube
"All is well now
Pay no mind
All is well now
I'm just fine
I'm just fine

It's only blood; I have plenty left
It's only blood; I just need to rest"

"All Is Well (Goodbye, Goodbye)" by Radical Face
Lyrics | Youtube
"so I collected all our plans and crimes
and set them all alight
the only thing that bound me to this place
you took with you when you died
so goodbye, goodbye"

If you liked those songs, both of them plus a third track are on Radical Face's free EP "The Bastards: Volume One," available here for free download, a gift from Mr. Ben Cooper, the man behind Radical Face, to you. :)

...okay, I'm done for now.

*Fiona Apple - Paper Bag
And I believed for a moment that my chances
Were approaching to be grabbed
But as it came down near, so did a weary tear
I thought it was a bird, but it was just a paper bag

Hunger hurts, and I want him so bad, oh it kills
'Cause I know I'm a mess he don't wanna clean up
I got to fold 'cause these hands are too shaky to hold
Hunger hurts, but starving works, when it costs too much to love

*She - Elvis Costello
"She, May be the beauty or the beast,
May be the famine or the feast ,
May turn each day into a heaven or a hell,
She may be the mirror of my dreams
The smile reflected in a stream
She may not be what she may seem
Inside her shell"

*Spark - Tori Amos
She's addicted to nicotine patches
She's afraid of the light in the dark
6:58 are you sure where my spark is
Here

*Hotel Plaster - Nicole Atkins
Think of me in the prison of hotel plaster
Far from the shelter of your side
We broke a diamond with our bitter words, hold on to our light

OLDIE FANS, UNITE!!!!

Anyhoo, if I had to choose, these two songs have some of my favorite lyrics EVER.

Levon (Elton John):

Levon wears his war wound like a crown
He calls his child Jesus
`Cause he likes the name
And he sends him to the finest school in town
Levon, Levon likes his money
He makes a lot they say
Spends his days counting
In a garage by the motorway
He was born a pauper to a pawn on a Christmas day
When the New York Times said God is dead
And the war's begun
Alvin Tostig has a son today
chorus
And he shall be Levon
And he shall be a good man
And he shall be Levon
In tradition with the family plan
And he shall be Levon
And he shall be a good man
He shall be Levon
Levon sells cartoon balloons in town
His family business thrives
Jesus blows up balloons all day
Sits on the porch swing watching them fly
And Jesus, he wants to go to Venus
Leaving Levon far behind
Take a balloon and go sailing
While Levon, Levon slowly dies
He was born a pauper to a pawn on a Christmas day
When the New York Times said God is dead
And the war's begun
Alvin Tostig has a son today

How He Loves:

(Verse 1)
He is jealous for me
Loves like a hurricane, I am a tree
Bending beneath the weight of his wind and mercy
When all of a sudden
I am unaware of these afflictions eclipsed by glory
And I realise just how beautiful You are
And how great Your affections are for me

(Pre-Chorus)
And O how He loves us
Oh, O how He loves us
How He loves us all

(Chorus)
Yeah He loves us
O how He loves us
O how He loves us
O how He loves

(Verse 2)
We are His portion and He is our prize
Drawn to redemption by the grace in His eyes
If grace is an ocean, we're all sinking
So Heaven meets earth like an unforeseen kiss
And my heart turns violently inside of my chest
I don't have time to maintain these regrets
When I think about the way

A Song for Esther- Alexander Carpenter

And now the glue's all dried
The pages are all smooth
All that's missing are your eyes

A scrapbook full of love
Just bursting at the seams
These pictures are crystal clear

Text on the internet
Or words on the phone
Esther, you're not alone

Life has a way of throwing us into the deep end
Have faith, we'll learn to swim with the help of our friends
Be unabashed, if you make a splash
We're all right here by your side

To all those who know you well
And those who wish they did
There's something magical
That draws them to you

And you're more brave than a boy with a lightning scar
More inspirational than the Weasleys

I'd like to thank you for the courage you have shown
Esther you're not alone

Life has a way of throwing us into the deep end
Have faith, we'll learn to swim with the help of our friends
Be unabashed, if you make a splash
Everyone is right here by your side

Everyone is right there by your side
And we're gonna stay here by your side

Esther, Esther, Esther, Esther

Text on the internet
Or words on the phone
Esther, you're not alone

I'd like to thank you for the courage you have shown
Esther, you're not alone

((Esther Earl was an awesome Nerdfighter girl who died of lung cancer in 2008-ish at 16))

Luke Conard, Your Song:

I think that I'm in love with you
And there's nothing more that I can do
But every breath I take
Longs for you

Remember when we used to find ourselves without interruption
We'd be just playing guitar, making melodies, and strumming along with the beat

Singing how we hate the world the pain
But together we can start a band without a name

I'll sing the lows, you sing the highs
We'll sing until our voices are dry

I think that I'm in love with you
And there's nothing more that I can do
But every breath I take
Longs for you

It's not the same without you here
And I'm trying to persevere
But even when you're so far away
I love you
I love you

Remember the time that I picked you up from the airport
I was just waiting by my car, smile on my face, and my heart was all in a whirl

Thinking how the hell did I end up here
My heart was closed but now I want you near

Then you wrapped your arms and I held you tight
I had the feeling we might make some music tonight

I think that I'm in love with you
And there's nothing more that I can do
But every breath I take
Longs for you

It's not the same without you here
And I'm trying to persevere
But even when you're so far away
I love you

Just to hear you sing
The joy your song brings
That would be music to my ears

Your voice is so far away
This world is so dark and gray
Please let's play that song again

I think that I'm in love with you (Just to hear you sing)
And there's nothing more that I can do (The joy your song brings)
But every breath I take (That would be music to my ears)
Longs for you

It's not the same without you here (Your voice is so far away)
And I'm trying to persevere (This world is so dark and gray)
But even when you're so far away (Please let's play that song again)
I love you

Iris by The Goo Goo Dolls <-- Beautiful use of the mandolin. The music is just as gorgeous as the voice.

"When everything feels like the movies/Yeah you bleed just to know you're alive."

Black Balloon by The Goo Goo Dolls <-- I've always said I hope someday someone will feel that way about me.

"A thousand other boys could never reach you
How could I have been the one?
I saw the world spin beneath you
Then scatter like ice from the spoon
That was your womb

Coming down the world turned over
Angels fall without you there
And I'll go on as you get colder
Or are you someone's prayer?"

Hands by Jewel <-- People need people. Jewel is such a beautiful person.

"'Cause where there's a man that has no voice/There ours shall go singing. We are... God's hands."

I Will Follow You Into The Dark by Death Cab For Cutie <-- Apparently they have more beautiful songs than anybody.

"The time for sleep is now
It's nothing to cry about
'Cause we'll hold each other soon
In the blackest of rooms."


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I'm sure I'll remember more later!