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[wispfox]

My tummy was hungry, and my brain had a song running through it too loudly to sleep. So I fed my hungry tummy with food I'd forgotten I had, and I'm posting the lyrics in the hopes that they'll stop running through my head.

(it's distinctly strange to have my brain trying to be thinking in a manner similar to the translation of _The Inferno_ that I was reading before attempting sleep. My brain is lyrical enough without help, but reading enough poetry makes it even more so)

I may have posted this song before, I'm not sure. Doesn't matter, though, as the point is to get it _out_ of my head, so I can sleep. (I'm also not liking the fact that it's cold enough out tonight that I keep almost turning on the heat. And it's been dark enough for too many days that I begin to question the fact that it'll be summer in a month)


"Sometimes Goodbye", by Terri Clark

I've got an ice-cold cup of coffee and a paper I haven't read
A canyon in my heart and a hammer in my head
And a waitress with an empty stare
That looks right through me

I'm sitting at this table and I'm balancing the salt
Weighing out my choices, baby, it's nobody's fault
And I'm torn up by these voices
Talking to me

You say "there's no good reason for me to walk away"
You say "there's so much good between us who wouldn't want to stay?"
But how can I be with you if deep down I believe
I'll lose a part of me

[Chorus]
Sometimes goodbye is the only open door
I can't turn back when I know there's something more
I gotta find what my heart beats for

I've got a half of page of reasons and a napkin full of tears
From trying to pull my spirit through the pocket of my fears
As the lunch crowd empties out
Into the city

And there may not be a way for me to make you understand
I'll write down the words I'm feeling and I'll leave it in your hands
But the memories of our love
I'm taking with me

You say there's no good reason for me to walk away
You say we're meant to be together and I'm making a mistake
But this emptiness inside me has brought me to this road
And I have to let you go

[Chorus]

For the passion everlasting
For the deepest dream
For a chance to love like that
There is no in between

[Chorus]

Sometimes goodbye
What my heart beats for
Sometimes goodbye

Comments

[echospiralheart.livejournal.com]

I like Terry Clark, but I've not heard this song. I can understand why it echos through your head. *Hug*

[wispfox.livejournal.com]

It's a really good song; I should play it for you the next time I see you. The CD is in my car. :)

[majes.livejournal.com]

Goodness; that can't making this any easier. You need some alternate music to blow that right out of your system. Something frisky, yet catchy. Hrmmm. I find that some They Might Be Giants, some Bare Naked Ladies, or some Squirrel Nut Zippers can kill most any ear worm (by putting a more powerful one in its place).

Speaking of killing ear worms, I have the U2 version of Unchained Melody going over and over in my head right now. That's not helping me either. Time to take some of my own advice.

[wispfox.livejournal.com]

that can't making this any easier.

Posting it helped. I slept after that. :)

[wispfox.livejournal.com]

Also - my brain gives me earworms _even when I haven't heard the song in a while_. Usually appropriate ones. Which is kinda funny. :)

[majes.livejournal.com]

You must have been issued one of those brains with the built in soundtrack for your life. I have one of those, but its the older model - it sounds like a tin music box and it only plays the theme music from "Chariots of Fire." Fortunately, it drove me mad along time ago, so it doesn't bother me anymore.