ATF: Hopeful

This series will include as many of my all-time favorite (ATF) 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 your musical tastes could be as exquisite as mine, I welcome any suggestions you might dare to make.  For I am, after all, quite magnanimous by nature.

Link: [America]

Lonely People

America

This is for all the lonely people

Thinking that life has passed them by

Don't give up until you

Drink from the silver cup

And ride that highway in the sky

This is for all the single people

Thinking that love has left them dry

Don't give up until you

Drink from the silver cup

You never know until you try

Well I'm on my way

Yes I'm back to stay

Well I'm on my way

Back home

Hit it

This is for all the lonely people

Thinking that life has passed them by

Don't give up until you

Drink from the silver cup

And never take you down or

Never give you up

You never know until you try

Link: [Motley Crue]

Home Sweet Home

Motley Crue

You know I'm a dreamer

But my heart's of gold

I had to run away high

So I wouldn't come home low

Just when things went right

Doesn't mean they're always wrong

Just take this song

And you'll never feel

Left all alone

Take me to your heart

Feel me in your bones

Just one more night

And I'm comin' off this

Long and winding road

I'm on my way

I'm on my way

Home sweet home

Tonight

Tonight

I'm on my way

I'm on my way

Home sweet home

You know that I've seen

Too many romantic dreams

Up in lights

Fallin' off the silver screen

My heart's like an open book

For the whole world to read

Sometimes nothing keeps me together

At the seams

I'm on my way

I'm on my way

Home sweet home

Tonight

Tonight

I'm on my way

Just set me free

Home sweet home

Home sweet home

Home sweet home

Home sweet home

Oooh

I'm on my way

I'm on my way

Home sweet home

Yeah

I'm on my way

Just set me free

Home sweet home

Lyrics From: [eLyrics.net]

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A Sunday Drive

Back during our childhood, our parents would often load up my brother and me after Sunday morning church services for a leisurely drive around where we lived.  Even though we were seeing mostly familiar sights, it was still good to see them again, and this is why “A Sunday Drive” sounded about right for the name of a series revisiting familiar sites that are well worth seeing again and again.  The link below the image is to the site itself, and the image is linked to the post it was first included in here.

 Link: [Barbie Swihart]

 Link: [Lookin' Up]

 Link: [Marylinn Kelly]

 Link: [Mayor Gia]

 Link: [Midlife Roadtripper]

 Link: [Montana Girl]

 Link: [Morning Bray Farm]

 Link: [One Day at a Time]

 Link: [Photographis]

Link: [Poofing the Pillows]

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ATF: Solitary Confinements

This series will include as many of my all-time favorite (ATF) 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 your musical tastes could be as exquisite as mine, I welcome any suggestions you might dare to make.  For I am, after all, quite magnanimous by nature.

Link: [Simon & Garfunkel]

I Am A Rock

Simon & Garfunkel

A winter's day

In a deep and dark December

I am alone

Gazing from my window to the streets below

On a freshly fallen silent shroud of snow

I am a rock

I am an island

I've built walls

A fortress deep and mighty

That none may penetrate

I have no need of friendship

Friendship causes pain

Its laughter and its loving I disdain

I am a rock

I am an island

Don't talk of love

Well I've heard the word before

It's sleeping in my memory

I won't disturb the slumber of feelings that have died

If I never loved I never would have cried

I am a rock

I am an island

I have my books

And my poetry to protect me

I am shielded in my armor

Hiding in my room

Safe within my womb

I touch no one

and no one touches me

I am a rock

I am an island

And a rock feels no pain

And an island never cries

Link: [Green Day]

Boulevard of Broken Dreams

Green Day

I walk a lonely road

The only one that I have ever known

Don't know where it goes

But it's home to me and I walk alone

I walk this empty street

On the boulevard of broken dreams

When the city sleeps

And I'm the only one and I walk alone

I walk alone

I walk alone

I walk alone

I walk a

My shadow's the only one that walks beside me

My shallow heart's the only thing that's beating

Sometimes I wish someone up there will find me

‘Til then I walk alone

Ah-ah, ah-ah, ah-ah, aah-ah

Ah-ah, ah-ah, ah-ah

I'm walking down the line

That divides me somewhere in my mind

On the border line of the edge

And where I walk alone

Read between the lines

What's f@#%ed up and everything's all right

Check my vital signs to know I'm still alive

And I walk alone

I walk alone

I walk alone

I walk alone

I walk a

My shadow's the only one that walks beside me

My shallow heart's the only thing that's beating

Sometimes I wish someone up there will find me

‘Til then I walk alone

Ah-ah, ah-ah, ah-ah, aah-ah

Ah-ah, ah-ah

I walk alone

I walk a

I walk this empty street

On the boulevard of broken dreams

When the city sleeps

And I'm the only one and I walk a

My shadow's the only one that walks beside me

My shallow heart's the only thing that's beating

Sometimes I wish someone up there will find me

‘Til then I walk alone

Lyrics From: [eLyrics.net]

***MOTE***

Today is my son’s (Calvin) 27^th birthday.

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rFozen Christmas Lights

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ATF: Touchy/Feely

This series will include as many of my all-time favorite (ATF) 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 your musical tastes could be as exquisite as mine, I welcome any suggestions you might dare to make.  For I am, after all, quite magnanimous by nature.

Link: [Diana Ross]

Touch Me in the Morning

Diana Ross

Touch me in the morning

Then just walk away

We don't have tomorrow

But we had yesterday

Hey

Wasn't it me who said

That nothing good's gonna last forever

And wasn't it me who said

Let's just be glad for the time together

It must've been hard to tell me

That you've given all you had to give

I can understand you're feeling that way

Everybody's got their life to live

Well I can say good-bye

In the cold morning light

But I can't watch love die

In the warmth of the night

If I've got to be strong

Don't you know I need to

Have tonight when you're gone

'Til you go I need to lie here

And think about

The last time that you'll

Touch me in the morning

Then just close the door

Leave me as you found me

Empty like before

Hey

Wasn't it yesterday

We used to laugh at the wind behind us

Didn't we run away

And hope that time wouldn't try to find us

Didn't we run

Didn't we take each other

To a place where no one's ever been

Yeah I really need you near me tonight

'Cause you'll never take me there again

Let me watch you go

With the sun in my eyes

We've seen how love can grow

Now we'll see how it dies

If I've got to be strong

Don't you know I need to

Have tonight when you're gone

'Til you go I need to

Hold you

Until the time

Your hands reach out and

Touch me in the morning

Mornings where blue and gold

And we could feel one another living

Then just walk away

We walked with a dream to hold

And we could take what the world was giving

We don't have tomorrow,

There's no tomorrow here

There's only love

And the time to chase it

But we had yesterday

But yesterday's gone my love

There's only now

And it's time to face it

Touch me in the morning...

Link: [Chuck Mangione]

Feels So Good

Chuck Mangione

***Instrumental***

Lyrics From: [eLyrics.net]

***NOTE***

Today is my brother’s (Terry) 53^rd birthday.

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A Sunday Drive

Back during our childhood, our parents would often load up my brother and me after Sunday morning church services for a leisurely drive around where we lived.  Even though we were seeing mostly familiar sights, it was still good to see them again, and this is why “A Sunday Drive” sounded about right for the name of a series revisiting familiar sites that are well worth seeing again and again.  The link below the image is to the site itself, and the image is linked to the post it was first included in here.

 Link: [Barbara's Bakin' N Bits]

 Link: [Bits and Pieces...]

 Link: [Centsational Girl]

 Link: [Graphophobia]

 Link: [Heart 2 Heart]

 Link: [I'm Trying, Honestly]

 Link: [Left and Write Brained]

 Link: [Library Mosaic]

 Link: [Life, Laughter and Paris]

Link: [Life on the Wild Side]

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ATF: Jet-Setting

This series will include as many of my all-time favorite (ATF) 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 your musical tastes could be as exquisite as mine, I welcome any suggestions you might dare to make.  For I am, after all, quite magnanimous by nature.

Link: [Peter, Paul & Mary]

Leaving on a Jet Plane

Peter, Paul & Mary

All my bags are packed

I'm ready to go

I'm standing here

Outside your door

I hate to wake you up

To say goodbye

But the dawn is breakin'

It's early morn

The taxi's waitin’

He's blowin' his horn

Already I'm so lonesome

I could cry

So kiss me

And smile for me

Tell me that you'll wait for me

Hold me like you'll never let me go

I'm a-leavin'

On a jet plane

I don't know when I'll be back again

Oh babe

I hate to go

There's so many times

I've let you down

So many times

I've played around

I tell you now

They don't mean a thing

Every place I go

I think of you

Every song I sing

I sing for you

When I come back

I'll wear your wedding ring

So kiss me

And smile for me

Tell me that you'll wait for me

Hold me like you'll never let me go

I'm a-leavin'

On a jet plane

I don't know when I'll be back again

Oh babe

I hate to go

Now the time has come

To leave you

One more time

Let me kiss you

Then close your eyes

And I'll be on my way

Dream about

The days to come

When I won't have to

Leave alone

About the times

I won't have to say

Kiss me

And smile for me

Tell me that you'll wait for me

Hold me like you'll never let me go

I'm a-leavin'

On a jet plane

I don't know when I'll be back again

Leavin’

On a jet plane

I don’t know when I’ll be back again

Leavin’

On a jet plane

I don’t know when I’ll be back again

Oh babe

I hate to go

Link: [Steve Miller (Band)]

Jet Airliner

Steve Miller

Leavin' home out on the road

I've been down before

Ridin' along on this big ol' jet plane

I've been thinkin' about my home

But my love light seems so far away

And I feel like it's all been done

Somebody's tryin' to make me stay

You know I've got to be movin' on

Oh oh oh

Big ol' jet airliner

Don't carry me too far away

Oh oh oh

Big ol' jet airliner

‘Cause it's here that I've got to stay

Goodbye to all my friends at home

Goodbye to people I've trusted

I've got to go out and make my way

I might get rich

You know I might get busted

But my heart keeps calling me backwards

As I get on the 707

Ridin' high I got tears in my eyes

You know you got to go through hell

Before you get to heaven

Big ol' jet airliner

Don't carry me too far away

Oh oh oh

Big ol' jet airliner

‘Cause it's here that I've got to stay

Touchin' down in New England town

Feel the heat comin' down

I've got to keep on keepin' on

You know the big wheel keeps on spinnin' around

And I'm goin' with some hesitation

You know that I can surely see

That I don't want to get caught up in any of that

Funky kicks goin' down in the city

Big ol' jet airliner

Don't carry me too far away

Oh oh oh

Big ol' jet airliner

‘Cause it's here that I've got to stay

Oh oh oh

Big ol' jet airliner

Don't carry me too far away

Oh oh oh

Big ol' jet airliner

‘Cause it's here that I've got to stay

Yeah yeah yeah yeah

Big ol' jet airliner

Don't carry me too far away

Whoa oh oh

Big ol' jet airliner

‘Cause it's here that I've got to stay

Oh oh oh

Big ol' jet airliner

Carry me to my home

Oh oh oh

Big ol' jet airliner

‘Cause it's here that I've got to stay

Yeah yeah yeah yeah

Big ol’ jet airliner…

Lyrics From: [eLyrics.net]

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