Someone on a forum that I frequent posted this song in a thread about favourite lyrics. I was really taken by the lyrics, even though I was reading them at work where I couldn’t attempt to youtube it and hear the melody.

I think this song is beautiful and a bold and blunt reminder that everyone needs to suck up their pride, honor, whatever it may be that’s holding them back from saying how the feel and just do it.

We aren’t promised forever. We aren’t promised tomorrow or even the next hour but what we are promised as Canadians is that you CAN say what you need to say and not fear the outcome of that because we all have freedom of speech. That is probably a gift that many of us often forget about on a daily basis until we read some tragic news article about a soldier being hurt or killed overseas. Take a few minutes every day to remember soldiers over there now and before us, even if you don’t support the war, support the people who are over there fighting so that you can say what you need to say.

Also, listen to this song well, especially the part that I bolded. Remember that because we aren’t promised anything more than the very second we are in right now, you need to tell those you love just how much you love them. Tell them everything you’ve wanted to say but thought “nah, I’d sound cheesy or like a sap”. You may never get another chance to be a “sap” so say what you need to say and mean it!

Enjoy:)

Say by John Mayer

Take all of your wasted honor
Every little past frustration
Take all of your so-called problems,
Better put ‘em in quotations

Say what you need to say [x8]

Walking like a one man army
Fighting with the shadows in your head
Living out the same old moment
Knowing you’d be better off instead,
If you only could . . .

Say what you need to say [x8]

Have no fear for giving in
Have no fear for giving over
You’d better know that in the end
Its better to say too much
Then never say what you need to say again

Even if your hands are shaking
And your faith is broken
Even as the eyes are closing
Do it with a heart wide open

Say what you need to say [x24]

Today’s song is an old song but a great one!  Sung by the band 4 Non Blondes. The lead singer, Linda Perry, moved on to work with artists like Pink and Christina Aguilera.  Pink does a cover of this song and she does it very well!

This song sounds a lot like my life.  25 years old.. still trying to find where I belong in the world and become frustrated with the process. Trying to figure out what you *should* be doing vs what you are actually doing, finding a way to get the things you want in life vs your ability to get those things right now etc.  These are things that make you scream at the top of your lungs or cry at night!!

I think Linda Perry must have wrote this song at a very “koom-by-yah” moment in her life because I see the world falling apart and losing it’s “brotherhood”. As things become worse in the world, I will pull back a little more each day.  If/When I have children of my own, I will focus on them and the best I can do for them, rather than fight the battles of the world.  I know someone has to do it, but I’m not that person!  At least I found that out during my last 25 years! ha ha. I do, however, pray for a revolution like the song says.  I hope things change but maybe I’m living in a fantasy world.  Then again, I always believed I should have been born and raised in the 50’s and 60’s, providing they had the internet back then lol  (oh and I don’t get high lol… as the song mentions.. so.. that’s another part I don’t associate with)
Enjoy! I’ll post the original, as well as Pink’s cover!
4 Non Blondes Original

Pink’s amazing cover

25 years and my life is still trying to
get up that great big hill of hope
For a destination

I realised quickly when I knew I should
That the world was made up of this
Brotherhood of man
For whatever that means

And so I cry sometimes when I’m lying in bed
Just to get it all out what’s in my head
and I.. I am feeling a little peculiar
And so I wake in the morning and I step outside
And I take deep breath and I get real high
Then i scream from the top of my lungs

What’s goin’ on
And I say hey…
And I say hey what’s goin’ on
And I say hey…
I said hey what’s goin’ on

And I try, oh my God do I try
I try all the time
In this institution
And I pray, oh my God do I pray
I pray every single day
For a revolution

And so I cry sometimes when I’m lying in bed
To get it all out what’s in my head
and I.. I am feeling a little peculiar
And so I wake in the morning and I step outside
And I take deep breath and I get real high
Then i scream from the top of my lungs

What’s goin’ on
And I say hey…
And I say hey what’s goin’ on
And I say hey…
I said hey what’s goin’ on

25 years and my life is still trying to
get up that great big hill of hope
For a destination

A simple, straightforward love song today. This is for Jeff. For never walking away and for saving me without even knowing it. Thank you for understanding unconditionally, for loving me whole-heartedly and for always saying something or looking into my eyes in a way that lets me know it will all be ok. You are the smartest person I know, you have an incredibly sweet soul, you are funnier than you give yourself credit for and it’s you and I forever <3 (okay and Miley too lol) I love you!

“Every Day”
Rascal Flatts

You could’ve bowed out gracefully
But you didn’t
You knew enough to know
To leave well enough alone
But you wouldn’t
I drive myself crazy
Tryin’ to stay out of my own way
The messes that I make
But my secrets are so safe
The only one who gets me
Yeah, you get me
It’s amazing to me

[CHORUS]
How every day
Every day, every day
You save my life

I come around all broken down and
Crowded out
And you’re comfort
Sometimes the place I go
Is so deep and dark and desperate
I don’t know, I don’t know

[Repeat Chorus]

Sometimes I swear, I don’t know if
I’m comin’ or goin’
But you always say something
Without even knowin’
That I’m hangin’ on to your words
With all of my might and it’s alright
Yeah, I’m alright for one more night-
Every day
Every day, every day, every day
Every day, every day
You save me, you save me, oh, oh, oh
Every day
Every, every, every day-

Every day you save my life

The best part about music and lyrics is that when you are so heartbroken, or happy or defeated that you can’t find the words in your own vocabulary to explain how you are feeling, if you look hard enough, an artist out there will have done it for you.

Remember that unplanned path I mentioned in a previous post? Here’s a tip: don’t try to veer off-course because it will always sneak up behind you, good or bad. Welcome to my life.

** NOTE – I did not create the following video. There are spelling errors in it. Not my fault lol**

“Nobody’s Home”

I couldn’t tell you why she felt that way,
She felt it everyday.
And I couldn’t help her,
I just watched her make the same mistakes again.

What’s wrong, what’s wrong now?
Too many, too many problems.
Don’t know where she belongs, where she belongs.
She wants to go home, but nobody’s home.
It’s where she lies, broken inside.
With no place to go, no place to go to dry her eyes.
Broken inside.

Open your eyes and look outside, find the reasons why.
You’ve been rejected, and now you can’t find what you left behind.
Be strong, be strong now.
Too many, too many problems.
Don’t know where she belongs, where she belongs.
She wants to go home, but nobody’s home.
It’s where she lies, broken inside.
With no place to go, no place to go to dry her eyes.
Broken inside.

Her feelings she hides.
Her dreams she can’t find.
She’s losing her mind.
She’s fallen behind.
She can’t find her place.
She’s losing her faith.
She’s fallen from grace.
She’s all over the place.

She wants to go home, but nobody’s home.
It’s where she lies, broken inside.
With no place to go, no place to go to dry her eyes.
Broken inside.

She’s lost inside, lost inside…oh oh yeah
She’s lost inside, lost inside…oh oh yeah