This is where I will put song quotes. Not entire songs just the parts I love and adore….

Of course Mary Chapin Carpenter should have her OWN PAGE…. because she sits in my living room and Takes NOTES on my life….

Dan Bern Jerusalem

“When I tell you that I love you

Don’t test my love

Accept my love, don’t test my love

Cause maybe I don’t love you all that much”

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Dan Hill  Sometimes When We Touch

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

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Bonnie Raitt   I Can’t Make You Love ME:

Turn down the lights

Turn down the bed

Turn down these voices inside my head

Lay down with me, tell me no lies

Just hold me close, don’t patronize

Don’t patronize me.

Cause I can’t make you love me if you don’t

You can’t make your heart feel something it won’t

Here in the dark, in these final hours

I will lay down my heart and I’ll feel the power

But you won’t, no you won’t

Cause I can’t make you love me if you don’t.

I’ll close my eyes, then I won’t see

The love you don’t feel when you’re holdin me

Mornin will come and I’ll do what’s right

Just give me till then to give up this fight

And I will give up this fight.

Cause I can’t make you love me if you don’t

You can’t make your heart feel something it won’t

Here in the dark, in these final hours

I will lay down my heart and I’ll feel the power

But you won’t, no you won’t

Cause I can’t make you love me if you don’t.

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This song NOT STRONG ENOUGH was sent to my by my boyfriend. It was an offhanded thought on his part as near as I can tell but it has become one of my favorite songs:

I’m not strong enough to stay away
Can’t run from you
I’d just run back to you
Like a moth I’m drawn into your flame
You say my name but it’s not the same
You look in my eyes
I’m stripped of my pride
And my soul surrenders
And you bring my heart to its knees

And it’s killing me when you’re away
And I wanna leave
And I wanna stay
And I’m so confused
So hard to choose between the pleasure and the pain
And I know it’s wrong
And I know it’s right
And even if I tried to win the fight
My heart would overrule my mind
And I’m not strong enough to stay away

I’m not strong enough to stay away
What can I do
I would die without you
In your presence my heart knows no shame
I’m not to blame
‘Cause you bring my heart to its knees

And it’s killing me when you’re away
And I wanna leave
And I wanna stay
And I’m so confused
So hard to choose between the pleasure and the pain
And I know it’s wrong
And I know it’s right
And even if I tried to win the fight
My heart would overrule my mind
And I’m not strong enough to stay away

There’s nothing I can do
My heart is chained to you
And I can’t get free
Look what this love has done to me

‘Cause it’s killing me when you’re away
And I wanna leave
And I wanna stay
And I’m so confused
So hard to choose between the pleasure and the pain
And I know it’s wrong
And I know it’s right
And even if I tried to win the fight
My heart would overrule my mind
And I’m not strong enough to stay away