Girl America

Mat Kearney

My girl America is just a youth in this world
Her smile is more precious than the sparkle of pearls
And though her age reads she's just a young girl
The age behind her eyes show the pain that she's swirled
Through the hand that's been dealt though it's quiet as kept
The weight that she felt last night when she slept
And as she crept into the dreams of the things of her past
Seems to have grown so fast, way beyond her own class
Though they're right there with her, her brothers and her sisters
A natural born leader even when her peers dis her
My girl, she's at a crossroads, people praying for her
Some are preying on her magazine ads, sex, drama
Smoking marijuana, longer for a father to call her, 'daughter'
She's part of a generation longing for reconciliation
And this future that they're facing and this poison that they're tasting
My girl, I know this love you're chasing


[chorus]

My girl America's crying when she's lying on her bed at night
I can see that she's screaming when she's dreaming for her freedom
My girl America's dying while she's trying just to stop this fight
Don't stop believing, my girl America


Boys with hungry eyes have been beating her door
Telling her that's what she's for, trying to rob at her core
Then leave calling her a whore, but still she knows there's more
I know she knows there's more because there is a voice she can't ignore
'Cause it was founded in the foundations, from the day of her creation
In God we trust engraved on the treasures of her nation
And the void that the boys can't fill
With the tipping of the bottle or the popping of the pill
But still most of her friends don't care as they glare
Ready to drown down the funnel as they frown down the tunnel
They stumble and they tumble breaking down into rubble
My girl America, stop can't you see
It's not the circumstances that determine who you're gonna be
But how you deal with these problems and pains that come your way
It's for you that I pray with hope for a brighter day
And so I say, your deliverance is coming


[chorus]

Faith like a child from your first birth
You left it in the dirt on your worst hurt
And I see each tear and every scar
The hands that have held you where you are
And I can see we've strayed so far
A king born under that morning star
As a crown of thorns was placed to erase
Each tear that's touched your face
And his palms and sides were pierced with spears
He hung in love just to draw you near
My girl, out of this whole world
Can't you see this is where we started?

[chorus]

The Ping Pong Table is Broken

I'm actually just loving the beat and intensity of this song right now. That is all, you may now carry on.




Do You Know?
Enrique Iglesias


Do you know?
Do you know?

Do you know what it feels like loving someone that's in a rush to throw you away?
Do you know, do you know, do you know, do ya?
Do you know what it feels like to be the last one to know the lock on
the door has changed?

If birds flying south is a sign of changes
At least you can predict this every year
Love, you never know the minute it ends suddenly
I can't get it to speak
Maybe if I knew all the things it took to save us
I could fix the pain that bleeds inside of me
Look in your eyes to see something about me
I'm standing on the edge and I don't know what else to give.

Do you know what it feels like loving someone that's in a rush to throw you away?
Do you know, do you know, do you know, do ya?
Do you know what it feels like to be the last one to know the lock on
the door has changed?

How can I love you?
How can I love you?
How can I love you?
How can I love you?
If you just don't talk to me, babe.

I flow through my act
There's a question: Is she needed?
And decide all the man I can ever be.
Looking at the last 3 years like I did
I could never see us ending like this.

(Do you know?)

Seeing your face no more on my pillow
Is a scene that's never ever happened to me.

(Do you know?)

But after this episode I don't see
You could never tell the next thing life could be

Do you know what it feels like loving someone that's in a rush to throw you away?
Do you know, do you know, do you know, do ya?
Do you know what it feels like to be the last one to know the lock on

the door has changed?

Do you know what it feels like loving someone that's in a rush to throw you away?
Do you know, do you know, do you know, do ya?
Do you know what it feels like to be the last one to know the lock on
the door has changed?

(Do you know?)
(Do you know?)
(Do you know?)
(Do you know?)

Do you know what it feels like loving someone that's in a rush to throw you away?
Do you know, do you know, do you know, do ya?
Do you know what it feels like to be the last one to know the lock
on the door has changed?

Do you know what it feels like loving someone that's in a rush to throw you away?
(Do you know how it feels?)
Do you know what it feels like to be the last one to know the lock
on the door has changed?
(Do you know how it feels?)

(Do you know? Do you know? Do you know? Do you?)
(Do you know? Do you know? Do you know? Do you?)

Road Blog: Day 5

So we went swimming today. It was quite fun actually. George Lake XD. I thought of Curtis out there. He's like a ghost, he scares people off the beach with his radiating white glow. And I also thought of the fat, fat lady courtesy of Bradley Hathaway. Ha. But I enjoyed myself as we went swimming out to the rock which was a longer swim than what I remembered and the only bad part was getting my ears and sinuses clogged with water -_-

Tomorrow we're leaving again down to the South (ha Rumble in the South) and I get to finish reading my HP book (only on chapter 10 because I was allowed to read while we went to the beach) Not sure how much I'll be on after today so until that point.

So Adios!

Road Blog: Day 4

Today has been quite fun already. Mel and I got up at about 6 our time 8 here to go for a 10-20 min jog then we went and had our cousin photo shoot. After that I bought the new Harry Potter book for $23 plus a new t-shirt that I saw a while back and really wanted. Then we went home for lunch and then went to the giant nickel/mines. Pretty sweet. And then went for ice cream at DQ everyone is up stairs now playing Super Smash bros. Then we're going to see HP & the Order of the Phoenix later tonight.

Tomorrow I'm going swimming!

Laters

Road Blog: Day 3

So now I'm in Sudbury. Quite fun waking up early in the morning. Mmmm. Anywho. I'm just sitting here in my cousin's basement writing this. It's quite cool here. I think we're still here for a few more days, till Monday so no more traveling until then. Tomorrow we're taking a 'cousin' photo for our grandparents and then going to some crazy mining thing which m cousins have been to a million times and say is "Fun for the first time when you're seven". Ha. Great. Anyways I better be heading off again.

Later.

Road Blog: Day 2

So here I am sitting in a motel in Nipigon with internet. Unfortunately the motel yesterday didn't want to connect our internet >_>. So I'm in a little hick town right now. We had Chinese food which was good but we had to go into this pool 'house' which transforms into a bar at night. Greeeat. Anyways its not bad but right now I'm actually wondering if this is how Sarah kinda feels. Except I know this place is probably bigger still. So many houses still. But I must be heading off.

Till later.

Checka, Check Check Check

Less than a week until Ontari-ari-arioooo. And a week until the Last Harry Potter book XD and then a bit more than two months before the amazing TFK record. Yes.