If Everyone Cared

"If Everyone Cared" by Nickelback

From underneath the trees, we watch the sky
Confusing stars for satellites
I never dreamed that you'd be mine
But here we are, we're here tonight

Singing Amen, I - I'm alive, I'm alive
Singing Amen, I, I'm alive

If everyone cared, and nobody cried
If everyone loved, and nobody lied
If everyone shared, and swallowed their pride
Then we'd see the day
When nobody died

And I'm singing

Amen I, Amen I, I'm alive
Amen I, Amen I, Amen I, I'm alive

And in the air the fireflies
Our only light in paradise
We'll show the world they were wrong
And teach them all to sing along

Singing Amen, I - I'm alive, I'm alive
Singing Amen, I, I'm alive

If everyone cared, and nobody cried
If everyone loved, and nobody lied
If everyone shared, and swallowed their pride
Then we'd see the day
When nobody died

If everyone cared, and nobody cried
If everyone loved, and nobody lied
If everyone shared, and swallowed their pride
Then we'd see the day
When nobody died

If everyone cared, and nobody cried
If everyone loved, and nobody lied
If everyone shared, and swallowed their pride
Then we'd see the day
When nobody died, when nobody died

And as we lie beneath the stars
We realize how small we are
If they could love like you and me
Imagine what the world could be

If everyone cared, and nobody cried
If everyone loved, and nobody lied
If everyone shared, and swallowed their pride
Then we'd see the day
When nobody died, when nobody died
We'd see the day when nobody died
We'd see the day when nobody died

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Oh My Stars

"Oh My Stars" by Andrew Belle

Have a seat upon this branch of mine
It's been a while honey, I think I feel fine
I see the question mark atop your spine
I've got a ladder honey, won't you let me climb

Tell me all about your foreign wars
and all about the photographs that line your drawers
Cause I know a lot about closing doors
but not enough about what opens up yours

Oh my my
Oh my stars
Everything you see is ours
or it could be if you would try
I wish you would
I wish you might

oo-oooo
If everything you've said to me has been true - oo-oooo
then all my stars are leading me to you
oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-ooo

Have a seat upon this branch of mine
It's been a while honey won't you take your time
and I see the question mark atop your spine
I've got a ladder honey, won't you let me climb

Oh my my
Oh my stars
Everything you see is ours
or it could be if you would try
I wish you would
I wish you might

oo-oooo
If everything you've said to me has been true - oo-oooo
then all my stars are leading me to you
oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-ooo

oh my my
oh my stars
Oh my my
Oh my stars
Oh my my
Oh my stars
Oh my my
Oh my stars
Oh my my
Oh my stars
Oh my my
Oh my stars
oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-ooo

Wistful Cosmic Feelings

Two Wistful Cosmic Feeling Songs: Soul Meets Body and the Stars All Seem to Weep

"Soul Meets Body" by Death Cab for Cutie

I want to live where soul meets body
And let the sun wrap its arms around me
And bathe my skin in water cool and cleansing
And feel, feel what it's like to be new

Cause in my head there’s a greyhound station
Where I send my thoughts to far off destinations
So they may have a chance of finding a place
where they’re far more suited than here

And I cannot guess what we'll discover
When we turn the dirt with our palms cupped like shovels
But I know our filthy hands can wash one another’s
And not one speck will remain

And I do believe it’s true
That there are roads left in both of our shoes
But if the silence takes you
Then I hope it takes me too

So brown eyes I hold you near
Cause you’re the only song I want to hear
A melody softly soaring through my atmosphere
Where soul meets body
Where soul meets body
Where soul meets body

And I do believe it’s true
That there are roads left in both of our shoes
But if the silence takes you
Then I hope it takes me too

So brown eyes I hold you near
Cause you’re the only song I want to hear
A melody softly soaring through my atmosphere
A melody softly soaring through my atmosphere
A melody softly soaring through my atmosphere
A melody softly soaring through my atmosphere

"Stars All Seem to Weep" by Beth Orton

Stayed true to the things I knew when I was younger
And food and love was all but left to hunger.
'Cause when I stray from my truth as I grow older
Too much leaves an empty hollow hunger.

I think about you on a moonlit night
And the stars all seem to weep.
When there's so much to lose
There's never any time for sleep.

Look at me doing all these things without you.
We always left a new world untrue.
Where was it we tried hard not to go to?
I think that's how I finally came through.

All the things we took for granted
The words still live on in my head
All the times I took for granted
All the words I never said.

I think about you in the moonlit night,
And the stars all seem to weep.
When there's so much love to give,
There's never any time for sleep, yeah.

So I stayed true to the things I knew when I was younger
And human life was all but left to hunger,
'Cause when I stray from the truth as I grow older
Too much leaves an empty hollow hunger.
Too much leaves an empty hollow hunger.

Living without you
Living without you.
Living without you, oh.

Persevere; or, Dark Faith

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Faith takes us to deep places, to the ruptures in our self-confidence and our lives. Do not settle for spiritual comfort all the time…Darkness is divine also. Faith is not about positive thinking so much as about what kicks in when we are weak, sick, and short of self-confidence. The via positiva never stands alone. The via negativa is always with us on our faith journey as well. ~ Matthew Fox

When your eyes are tired
the world is tired also.

When your vision has gone
no part of the world can find you.

Time to go into the dark
where the night has eyes
to recognize its own.

There you can be sure
you are not beyond love.

The dark will be your womb
tonight.

The night will give you a horizon
further than you can see.

You must learn one thing:
the world was made to be free in.

Give up all the other worlds
except the one to which you belong.

Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet
confinement of your aloneness
to learn

anything or anyone
that does not bring you alive
is too small for you.

~ David Whyte, Sweet Darkness

There is no coming to consciousness without pain. People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own soul. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. ~ Carl Gustav Jung

When it is dark enough, you can see the stars. ~ Charles Austin Beard

Daisies

Tempest Milky Way from Randy Halverson on Vimeo.

Feeling my way through the dark

Through the Dark - K.T. Tunstall

As I walk away
I look over my shoulder
To see what I'm leaving behind
Pieces of puzzles and
Wishes on eyelashes fail

Ohhhhhhh how do I show
all the love inside my heart
Well this is all new
And I'm feeling my way
through the dark

Well I used to talk
With honest conviction
Of how I predicted my world
I'm gonna leave it to stargazers
Tell me what your telescope says

Ohhhhhh what is in store
for me now, it's coming apart
I know that it's true
'cause I'm feeling my way
through the dark

Try to find a light on somewhere
Try to find a light on somewhere
I'm finding I'm falling in love
with the dark over here

Ohhhhhh what do I know
I don't care where I start
For my troubles are few
As I'm feeling my way
through the dark
through the dark

I'm feeling my way
through the dark

Yeats, Grace and Stars

When You are Old ~ William Butler Yeats

When you are old and grey and full of sleep,
And nodding by the fire, take down this book,
And slowly read, and dream of the soft look
Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep;
How many loved your moments of glad grace,
And loved your beauty with love false or true,
But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you,
And loved the sorrows of your changing face;
And bending down beside the glowing bars,
Murmur, a little sadly, how Love fled
And paced upon the mountains overhead
And hid his face amid a crowd of stars.

--W. B. Yeats