ATF: Hardly Seeing

This weekly series will include as many of my all-time favorite tunes as I can get my grubby little hands on (so to speak).  Now, each one included in each edition will have some connection with the other—albeit only as a figment of my imagination, but they will not be numbered.  For I just cannot bring myself to rate some higher than others.  So, this will not be a countdown, but if you are enjoying them as much as I do, it won’t matter.  Besides, with no countdown, this could go on forever and ever!  Oh, and despite the fact that there is absolutely no way that your musical tastes can be as exquisite as mine, I welcome any suggestions that you might dare to make.  I am, after all, quite magnanimous by nature.

Link: [Bruce Springsteen]

Dancing in the Dark

Bruce Springsteen

I get up in the evenin’

And I ain't got nothing to say

I come home in the mornin’

I go to bed

Feelin’ the same way

I ain't nothing but tired

Man I'm just tired

And bored with myself

Hey there baby

I could use just a little help

You can't start a fire

You can't start a fire

Without a spark

This gun's for hire

Even if we're just

Dancin’ in the dark

Messages keeps getting’ clearer

Radio's on

And I'm moving 'round the place

I check my look in the mirror

I wanna change

My clothes

My hair

My face

Man I ain't getting’ nowhere

Just livin’ in a dump like this

There's something happening somewhere

Baby

I just know that there is

You can't start a fire

You can't start a fire

Without a spark

This gun's for hire

Even if we're just

Dancin’ in the dark

You sit around getting’ older

There's a joke here somewhere

And it's on me

I'll shake this world off my shoulders

Come on baby

The laugh's on me

Stay on the streets of this town

And they'll be carvin’ you up all right

They say you gotta stay hungry

Hey baby

I'm just about starvin’ tonight

I'm dyin’ for some action

I'm sick of sittin’ 'round here

Trying to write this book

I need a love reaction

Come on now baby

Gimme just one look

You can't start a fire

Sittin’ around

Cryin’ over a broken heart

This gun's for hire

Even if we're just

Dancin’ in the dark

You can't start a fire

Worryin’ about your

Little world fallin’ apart

This gun's for hire

Even if we’re just

Dancin’ in the dark

Even if we’re just

Dancin’ in the dark

Even if we’re just

Dancin’ in the dark

Even if we’re just

Dancin’ in the dark

Hey baby

Link: [The Jayhawks]

Stumbling Through The Dark

The Jayhawks

You're so in love

Little girl

So much in love

Little girl

Runnin' around in circles

Why

You know it's a crime

No less

No more

Than a rose

No less

No more

Than a rose

Try to attach a meanin’

To words that you've heard

Stumblin’ through the dark

Seems I'm stumblin’ through the dark

Everybody's stumblin’ through the dark

The men who proceeded us here

Left only questions and fears

The vanity formed by beauty lies

You know it's a crime

Stumblin’ through the dark

Seems I'm stumblin’ through the dark

Everybody's stumblin’ through the dark

Stumblin’ through the dark

Seems I'm stumblin’ through the dark

Everybody's stumblin’ through the dark

Lyrics From: [elyrics.net]

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TWO FOR TUESDAY {REDO}

Not every song that will be featured here will be what is generally considered as being “Christian” in the eyes of this world. For some will be anguished cries from the pit of despair, and others will be quite obviously ferverent rants of rebellion. Nonetheless, be assured that they will all be of our Heavenly Father (in one way or another) and I hope that you have been given ears to hear the message.

Blue
The Jayhawks
Where have all my friends gone
They’ve all disappeared
Turned around maybe one day
You’re all that was there
Stood by on believing
Stood by on my own
Always thought I was someone
Turned out I was wrong

And you
Brought my through
And you
Made me feel
So blue
Why don’t you stay behind
So blue
Why don’t you stop
And look at what’s goin’ down

If I had an old woman
She’d never sell me a lie
It’s hard to sing with someone
Who won’t sing with you
Give all of my mercy
Give all of my heart
Never thought that I’d miss you
That I’d miss you so much

And you
Brought my through
And you
Made me feel
So blue
Why don’t you stay behind
So blue
Why don’t you stop
And look at what’s goin’ down

All my life
Staying while
I’m waiting for
Staying while
Someone I could
Waiting around
Show the door
Not that I’m blue
But nothing seems to change
That I’m blue from now on
You come back that month

So blue
Why don’t you stay behind
So blue
Why don’t you
Why don’t you stay behind
So blue
Why don’t you
Why don’t you stay behind
So blue
Why don’t you stop
And look at what’s goin’ down

Waiting For The Son
The JayhawksI was waitin’ for the Son
Then I walked on home alone
What I didn’t know
Was He was waitin’ for
You to fall

So I never made amends
For the sake of no one else
For the simple reason
That He was waitin’ for
You to fall

It was not lost on me

It was not lost on me

Walkin’ on down the road
Lookin’ for a friendly handout
Somethin’ might ease my soul

So I kept my spirits high
Entertaining passers-by
Wrapped in my confusion
While He was waitin’ for
You to fall

It was not lost on me

It was not lost on me

Walkin’ on down the road
Lookin’ for a friendly handout
Somethin’ might ease my soul

It was not lost on me

It was not lost on me

Walkin’ on down the road
Walkin’ on down the road
Walkin’ on down the road
Walkin’ on down the road

Link: [The Jayhawks Fanpage]

Lyrics From: [elyrics.net]