Your Own Personal Anthem

[Dave]

Anyone here have a song they like that they consider their anthem? I do. As some of you know from our chats, PMs, etc., I struggle with beating myself up about insecurities I've struggled with in the past, and it has kept me from appreciating the present and the future. So I've decided to make the song "Don't Stop" by Fleetwood Mac my anthem:

If you wake up and don't want to smile,
If it takes just a little while,
Open your eyes and look at the day,
You'll see things in a different way.
Don't stop, thinking about tomorrow,
Don't stop, it'll soon be here,
It'll be, better than before,
Yesterday's gone, yesterday's gone.
Why not think about times to come,
And not about the things that you've done,
If your life was bad to you,
Just think what tomorrow will do.
Don't stop, thinking about tomorrow,
Don't stop, it'll soon be here,
It'll be, better than before,
Yesterday's gone, yesterday's gone.
All I want is to see you smile,
If it takes just a little while,
I know you don't believe that it's true,
I never meant any harm to you.
Don't stop, thinking about tomorrow,
Don't stop, it'll soon be here,
It'll be, better than before,
Yesterday's gone, yesterday's gone.
Don't you look back,
Don't you look back.

Edited April 14, 2004 by Dave

[Lil Red]

[u]I'm Movin' On by Rascal Flatts[/u]

I've dealt with my ghosts and I've faced all my demons
Finally content with a past I regret
[b]I've found you find strength in your moments of weakness[/b]
For once I'm at peace with myself
[b]I've been burdened with blame, trapped in the past for too long[/b]
I'm movin' on

I've lived in this place and I know all the faces
Each one is different but they're always the same
They mean me no harm but it's time that I face it
They'll never allow me to change
But I never dreamed home would end up where I don't belong
I'm movin' on

I'm movin' on
At last I can see life has been patiently waiting for me
And I know there's no guarantees, but I'm not alone
There comes a time in everyone's life
When all you can see are the years passing by
And I have made up my mind that those days are gone

I sold what I could and packed what I couldn't
Stopped to fill up on my way out of town
I've loved like I should but lived like I shouldn't
I had to lose everything to find out
Maybe forgiveness will find me somewhere down this road
I'm movin' on

I'm movin' on
I'm movin' on

[immaculata]

This is mine right now.. I swear, it was written for me and Matt! -_-

[u]Forgive Me[/u]
[i]Evanescence[/i]

Can you forgive me again?
I don't know what I said
But I didn't mean to hurt you

I heard the words come out
I felt like I would die
It hurt so much to hurt you

Then you look at me
You're not shouting anymore
You're silently broken

I'd give anything now
to keep those words from you

Each time I say something I regret I cry "I don't want to lose you."
But somehow I know that you will never leave me, yeah.

'Cause you were made for me
Somehow I'll make you see
How happy you make me

I can't live this life
Without you by my side
I need you to survive

So stay with me
You look in my eyes and I'm screaming inside that I'm sorry.

And you forgive me again
You're my one true friend
And I never meant to hurt you

[Iacobus]

Does Surfing Bird count?

[Sojourner]

After some thought, I think mine has to be the song "Hurt," originally done by Nine Inch Nails. The version I'm claiming, though, is the cover done by Johnny Cash. It's simply amazing, and brings me to tears every time I see the video or hear the song.

[b]Hurt[/b]

I hurt myself today
To see if I still feel
I focus on the pain
The only thing that's real
The needle tears a hole
The old familiar sting
I try to kill it all away
But I remember everything

What have I become
My sweetest friend?
Everyone I know
Goes away in the end
You could have it all
My empire of dirt
I will let you down
I will make you hurt

I wear this crown of thorns
Upon my liar's chair
Full of broken thoughts
I cannot repair
Beneath the stains of time
The feelings disappear
You are someone else
I am still right here

What have I become
My sweetest friend?
Everyone I know
Goes away in the end
You could have it all
My empire of dirt
I will let you down
I will make you hurt
If I could start again
A million miles away
I would keep myself
I would find a way.

[God Conquers]

I'm not sure I have an anthem right now.

It used to be Anything, by Goldfinger:

I'm a mortal in search of a party, I'm a lover in search of a quest...

I'll have to think on this one a bit more.

[God Conquers]

booo... I've been double-posting lately.


Also, I guess if I can't think of one, I don't have one.

[Sojourner]

I thought of another one, mainly because I was listening to it this morning ... it's "Poughkeepsie", by Over the Rhine:

Poughkeepsie

I thought I'd go up Poughkeepsie,
look out o'er the Hudson,
and I'd throw my body down on the river.
And I'd know no more sorrow,
I'd fly like the sparrow
and I'd ride on the backs of the angels tonight.

I'd ride on the backs of the angels tonight.
I'd take to the sky with all my might.
No more drowning in my sorrow,
no more drowning in my fright,
I'd just ride on the backs of the angels tonight.

There are those who know sorrow
and those who must borrow
and those whose lot in life is sweet.
Well I'm drunk on self-pity,
scorned all that's been given me,
I would drink from a bottle labeled Sure Defeat.

I'd ride on the backs of the angels tonight.
I'd take to the sky with all my might.
No more drowning in my sorrow,
no more drowning in my fright,
I'd just ride on the backs of the angels tonight.

Then the skies, they fell open
and my eyes were opened
to a world of hope falling at my feet.
Now I've no more or less
than anyone else has,
what I have is a gift of life I can't repeat.

So I go up Poughkeepsie,
look out o'er the Hudson
and I cast my worries to the sky.
Now I still know sorrow,
but I can fly like the sparrow
'cause I ride on the backs of the angels tonight.

I ride on the backs of the angels tonight.
I take to the sky with all their might.
No more drowning in my sorrow,
no more drowning in my fright,
I'll just ride on the backs of the angels each night.

[crusader1234]

Although Bob Dylan is my hero... and his music is my fauovrite.. my 'theme song' or anthem at the moment is [b]Mother Nature's Son by the beatles. [/b]
Born a poor young country boy--Mother Nature's son
All day long I'm sitting singing songs for everyone.

Sit beside a mountain stream--see her waters rise
Listen to the pretty sound of music as she flies.

Find me in my field of grass--Mother Nature's son
Swaying daises sing a lazy song beneath the sun.

Mother Nature's son.

[cathgirl]

[quote name='Sojourner' date='Apr 14 2004, 03:51 PM'] After some thought, I think mine has to be the song "Hurt," originally done by Nine Inch Nails. The version I'm claiming, though, is the cover done by Johnny Cash. It's simply amazing, and brings me to tears every time I see the video or hear the song.
[/quote]
I :wub: Johnny Cash!!!!!!

[Sojourner]

[quote name='crusader1234' date='Apr 15 2004, 06:29 PM'] Although Bob Dylan is my hero... and his music is my fauovrite.. my 'theme song' or anthem at the moment is [b]Mother Nature's Son by the beatles. [/b]
Born a poor young country boy--Mother Nature's son
All day long I'm sitting singing songs for everyone.

Sit beside a mountain stream--see her waters rise
Listen to the pretty sound of music as she flies.

Find me in my field of grass--Mother Nature's son
Swaying daises sing a lazy song beneath the sun.

Mother Nature's son. [/quote]
I love the Sheryl Crow version of this on the "I am Sam" soundtrack. Now it's going to be stuck in my head for the rest of the evening ...

[the_rev]

Who am I by Casting Crowns

Who am I, that the Lord of all the earth
Would care to know my name
Would care to feel my hurt
Who am I, that the Bright and Morning Star
Would choose to light the way
For my eevr wandering heart

Not because of who I am
But because of what You've done
Not because of what I've done
But because of who You are

I am a flower quickly fading
Here today and gone tomorrow
A wave tossed in the ocean
A vapor in the wind
Still You hear me when I'm calling
Lord, You catch me when I'm falling
And You've told me who I am
I am Yours

Who am I, that the eyes that see my sin
Would look on me with love and watch me rise again
Who am I, that the voice that calmed the sea
Would call out through the rain
And calm the storm in me

Not because of who I am
But because of what You've done
Not because of what I've done
But because of who You are

I am a flower quickly fading
Here today and gone tomorrow
A wave tossed in the ocean
A vapor in the wind
Still You hear me when I'm calling
Lord, You catch me when I'm falling
And You've told me who I am
I am Yours, I am Yours

I am Yours
Whom shall I fear
Whom shall I fear
'Cause I am Yours
I am Yours

[cathgirl]

I :wub: casting crowns!! I just go their cd!!

[the_rev]

I have their cd to, now I must clean of my computer desk and find it!

[cathgirl]

This is the first one I thought of!

You are Near

Yahweh, I know you are near,
standing always at my side.
You guard me from the foe,
and you lead me in ways everlasting.
(Chorus)

Lord, you have searched my heart
and you know when I sit and when I stand.
Your hand is upon me protecting me from death,
keeping me from harm.
(Chorus)

Where can I run from your love?
If I climb to the heavens you are there.
If I fly to the sunrise or sail beyond the sea,
still I'd find you there.
(Chorus)

You know my heart and it's ways,
you formed me before I was born
In the secret of darkness
before I saw the sun in my mother's womb.
(Chorus)

Marvelous to me are your works;
how profound are your thoughts, my Lord.
Fven if I could count them, they number as the stars,
you would still be there.
(Chorus)