Brave

"Brave" by Sara Bareilles (2013). 

You can be amazing,

You can turn a phrase into a weapon or a drug.

You can be the outcast,

Or be the backlash of somebody's lack of love

Or you can start speaking up. 

Nothing's gonna hurt you the way that words do

When they settle 'neath your skin.

Kept on the inside and no sunlight,
Sometimes a shadow wins. 

I wonder what would happen if you...

CHORUS

Say what you want to say

And let the words fall out.

Honestly, I want to see you be brave. 

Say what you want to say

And let the words fall out.

Honestly, I want to see you be brave. 

I just wanna see you,

I just wanna see you,

I just wanna see you,

I want to see you be brave.

x2 

Everybody's been there, 

Everybody's been stared down by the enemy.

Fallen for the fear,

And done some disappearing,

Bow down to the mighty. 

Don't run, just stop holding your tongue.

Maybe there's a way out of the cage where you live,

Maybe one of these days you can let the light in.

Show me how big your brave is...

CHORUS

And since your history of silence

Won't do you any good,

Did you think it would? 

Let your words be anything but empty,

Why don't you tell them the truth? 

CHORUS

I just wanna see you,

I just wanna see you,

I just wanna see you,

I want to see you be brave.

x4

Rainbow Veins

Yesterday's song: "Rainbow Veins" by Owl City (2008). 

High rise, veins of the avenue,

Bright eyes, and subtle variations of blue,

Everywhere is balanced there like a rainbow above you. 

Street lights glisten on the boulevard

And cold nights make staying alert so hard. 

For heaven's sake, keep me awake so I won't be caught off-guard. 

Clearly I am a passerby but I'll find a place to stay.

Dear pacific day, won't you take me away? 

Small town hearts of the New Year

Brought down by gravity, crystal clear. 

City fog and and brave dialogue converge on the frontier

Make haste, I feel your heartbeat

With a new taste for speed, out on the street.

Find a road to a humble abode where both of our routes meet.

The silver sound is all around and the colors fall like snow. 

The feeling of letting go, I guess we'll never know. 

Cheer up and dry your damp eyes

And tell me when it rains

And I'll blend up that rainbow above you

And shoot it through your veins.

'Cause your heart has a lack of color. 

And we should've known that we'd grow up 

Sooner or later 'cause we wasted all our free time alone. 

Your nerves gather with the altitude

Exhale the stress so you don't come unglued. 

Somewhere there is a happy affair, 

A ghost of a good mood.

Wide-eyed, panic on the getaway

The high tide could take me so far away.

VCRs and motorcars unite on the Seventh Day.

A popular gauge will measure the rage 

Of the new Post-Modern age. 

'Cause somewhere along the line 

All the decades align.

We were the crashing whitecaps

On the ocean.

And what lovely seaside holiday, away

A palm tree in Christmas lights

My emotion.

Struck a sparkling tone like a xylophone

As we spent the day alone. 

Cheer up and dry your damp eyes

And tell me when it rains

And I'll blend up that rainbow above you

And shoot it through your veins.

'Cause your heart has a lack of color. 

And we should've known that we'd grow up 

Sooner or later 'cause we wasted all our free time alone. 

When She Loved Me

"When She Loved Me," from the Toy Story 2 soundtrack, sung by Sarah McLachlan. 

When somebody loved me

Everything was beautiful

Every hour spent together

Lives within my heart. 

And when she was sad, 

I was there to dry her tears.

And when she was happy,

So was I. 

When she loved me. 

Through the summer and the fall,

We had each other, that was all.

Just she and I together,

Like it was meant to be. 

And when she was lonely,

I was there to comfort her. 

And I knew that she loved me. 

So the years went by,

I stayed the same. 

But she began to drift away

I was left alone.

Still I waited for the day

When she'd say

"I will always love you."

Lonely and forgotten,

Never thought she'd look my way.

She smiled at me, and held me,

Just like she used to do.

Like she loved me,

When she loved me. 

When somebody loved me,

Everything was beautiful.

Every hour spent together

Lives within my heart.

When she loved me. 

White Houses

Yesterday's song: "White Houses" by Vanessa Carlton (2004).

Crashed on the floor when I moved in, 

This little bungalow with some strange new friends.

Stay up too late, and I'm too thin

We promise each other it's till the end. 

Now we're spinning empty bottles, 

It's the five of us,

With pretty-eyed boys girls die to trust.

I can't resist the day,

No, I can't resist the day.

Jenny screams out and it's no pose, 

'Cause when she dances, she goes and goes.

Beer through the nose on an inside joke,

And I'm so excited, I haven't spoken.

And she's so pretty, and she's so sure

Maybe I'm more clever than a girl like her. 

Summer's all in bloom.

Summer's ending soon. 

It's alright,

And it's nice not to be so alone. 

But I hold on to your secrets 

In white houses. 

Maybe I'm a little bit over my head,

I come undone at the things he said.

And he's so funny in his bright red shirt

We were all in love and we all got hurt.

I sneak into his car's cracked leather seat

The smell of gasoline and the summer heat.

Boy, we're going way too fast  

It's all too sweet to last.

It's alright,

And I put myself in his hands

But I hold on to your secrets in white houses.

Love, or something ignites in my veins 

And I pray it never fades,

In white houses. 

My first time, hard to explain

Rush of blood, oh, and a little bit of pain

On a cloudy day, it's more common than you think.

He's my first mistake. 

Maybe you were all faster than me,

We gave each other up so easily

These silly little wounds will never mend

I feel so far from where I've been.

So I go, and I will not be back here again,

I'm gone as the day is fading on white houses.

I lied, wrote my injuries all in the dust

In my heart it's the five of us,

In white houses.

And you, maybe you'll remember me,

What I gave is yours to keep

In white houses (x3).

When It Rains

"When it Rains" by Paramore (2007). 

And when it rains 

On this side of town it touches everything. 

Just say it again and mean it. 

We don't miss a thing. 

You made yourself a bed 

At the bottom of the blackest hole 

(Blackest hole). 

And convinced yourself that 

It's not the reason you don't see the sun anymore. 

CHORUS

And no, oh, how could you do it? 

Oh, I, I never saw it coming.

No, oh, I need the ending. 

       So why can't you stay 

       Just long enough to explain? 

And when it rains

Will you always find an escape? 

Just running away from

All of the ones who love you,

From everything. 

You made yourself a bed

At the bottom of the blackest hole
(Blackest hole). 

And you'll sleep 'til May 

And you'll say that 

You don't wanna see the sun anymore.

CHORUS 

Take your time. 

Take my time. 

Take these chances to turn it around

(Take your time) 

Take these chances, we'll make it somehow. 

And take these chances to turn it around

(Take my...) 

Just turn it around. 

CHORUS 

You can take your time, take my time.

Cool Kids

"Cool Kids" by Echosmith (2013). 

She sees them walking in a straight line, 

That's not really her style. 

And they all got the same heartbeat, 

But hers is falling behind. 

Nothing in this world 

Could ever bring them down. 

Yeah, they're invincible,

And she's just in the background. 

And she says: 

I wish that I could be like the cool kids, 

'Cause all the cool kids, they seem to fit in. 

I wish that I could be like the cool kids,

Like the cool kids. 

He sees them talking with a big smile,

But they haven't got a clue. 

Yeah they're living the good life,

Can't see what he is going through.

They're driving fast cars,

But they don't know where they're going.

In the fast lane,

Living life without knowing.

And he says: 

CHORUS

I wish that I could be like the cool kids, 

'Cause all the cool kids, they seem to fit in. 

I wish that I could be like the cool kids,

Like the cool kids. 

I wish that I could be like the cool kids, 

'Cause all the cool kids, they seem to get it.

I wish that I could be like the cool kids,

Like the cool kids. 

Chorus x3 

Young and Beautiful

"Young and Beautiful" by Lana del Rey (2013). 

I've seen the world, 

Done it all, 

Had my cake now.

Diamonds, brilliant, 

The Bel Air now. 

Hot summer nights, mid-July, 

When you and I were forever wild. 

The crazy days, city lights,

The way you'd play with me like a child. 

CHORUS
Will you still love me when I'm no longer young and beautiful? 

Will you still love me when I've got nothing but my aching soul? 

I know you will, 

I know you will,

I know that you will. 

Will you still love me when I'm no longer beautiful? 

I've seen the world, lit it up,

As my stage now. 

Channeling angels in the New Age now. 

Hot summer days, rock n' roll,

The way you'd play for me at your show. 

And all the ways I got to know 

Your pretty face and electric soul.

CHORUS 

Dear Lord, when I get to heaven,

Please let me bring my man. 

When he comes tell me that you'll let him in. 

Father, tell me if you can.

Oh, that grace,

Oh, that body, 

Oh that face,

Makes me wanna party. 

He's my sun, he makes me shine

Like diamonds. 

CHORUS