Challenging the Grad Cafe Part II: The 4 lines of a Song!

[inactive_since_inf]

Hi all,

Can some of you suggest some spirit-lifting/soothing songs to mitigate the stress of waiting forever... If possible post 2-4 lines of the song here. I think its going to be interesting, since the Oscar hangover is yet to die down.

My two cents:

Fly

Open the up part of you that wants to hide away

You can shine

Forget about the reasons why you can't in life

And start to try

'Cause it's your time

Time to fly

[UnlikelyGrad]

Freude, sch

[inactive_since_inf]

Freude, sch

[UnlikelyGrad]

Thanks for the translation. I didn't put one in because I've always thought that everything sounds best in its original language--it's always too awkward otherwise. (I always translate to catch the spirit of the original piece--doing it word for word is just...wrong. If you don't believe me, use a translator service to translate an English song to German, then back to English. It doesn't come out the same. Anyone who speaks more than one language fluently will know exactly what I mean.)

I've been thinking about other songs, and there's an old favorite of mine by Bobby McFerrin...

Here is a little song I wrote

You might want to sing it note for note

Don't worry be happy

In every life we have some trouble

When you worry you make it double

Don't worry, be happy......

I have a bunch of other songs that cheer me up, but I think it's more the music than the lyrics that work. It's hard to shuffle your feet when a Sousa march is playing; along the same lines, if you have a happy, peppy song playing, it's hard to be blue.

[illinoisellie]

Anything my Neil Diamond.... or Chicago.

I can't just choose 4 lines!!!

hmm... maybe Journey -

"Strangers waiting, up and down the boulevard

Their shadows searching in the night

Streetlight people, living just to find emotion

Hiding, somewhere in the night"

I have to say that I prefer "any way you want it" to the above quoted "Don't Stop Believing". After a while, songs played too much just get annoying to me. ("I knew i loved you", "sweet home alabama", etc.)

kudos to the verses auf deutsch! Sehr gut! (If you're looking for german music - try "Die Prinzen" - they're pretty funny and easy to understand if you're just beginning to learn the language )

[Dinali]

I actually hate this song, but it's ingrained in my memory from overplay on the radio, and it does seem oddly appropriate here:

I suppose I could collect my books and go on back to school

Or steal my daddy's cue and make a living out of playing pool

Or find a rock and roll band that needs a helping hand

(This also applies to the downstairs thread "What am I going to do if I don't get accepted!")

[dowjonesindustrial]

I'm going to go with Dead Moon, via Pearl Jam

"This is my life, this is my chance;

This is my hope in an alleyway

This is my choice, this is my voice;

There may be no tomorrow, now

It's okay,

It's okaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyy

You don't have to run and hide away"

[hornedfrogmeg]

Here is part of a song that I always listen to when I need inspiration. It's a song from Broadway's "Little Women" (Yes I'm a broadway nerd) called "Astonishing"

I may be small

But I've got giant plans

To shine as greatly as the sun

I will blaze until I find my time and place

I will be fearless,

Surrendering modesty and grace

I will not disapear without a trace

I'll shout and start a riot

Be anything but quiet

[katanianQ]

(picture meryl streep wearing strange overalls with blue sparkly water behind her)

yeeeees ive been brokenhearted

blue since the day we parted

why why did i ever let you go

to be sung when all the rest of my rejections come pouring in.. sorry to be lame with mamma mia, but the only thought cheering me up right now is that if I get rejected from everywherethehell else too, i am moving to greece. seriously. my family has an olive tree grove.. all i have to do is convince my husband to come aboard.

[inactive_since_inf]

Here is part of a song that I always listen to when I need inspiration. It's a song from Broadway's "Little Women" (Yes I'm a broadway nerd) called "Astonishing"

I may be small

But I've got giant plans

To shine as greatly as the sun

I will blaze until I find my time and place

I will be fearless,

Surrendering modesty and grace

I will not disapear without a trace

I'll shout and start a riot

Be anything but quiet

This reminds me of Gloria Gaynor's I will survive (any fans here for this particular song? )

(video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xv6lHwWwO3w )

The lines are:

(My interpretation: Addressed to the university guys/gals who send out rejects )

"you think I'd crumble

you think I'd lay down and die

Oh no, not I

I will survive

as long as i know how to love

I know I will stay alive

I've got all my life to live

I've got all my love to give

and I'll survive

I will survive"

ps: Hey everybody, do pitch in with more content/views/takes !!!

[CAPoliSciPhD]

Okay so maybe this isn't EXACTLY appropriate, but I keep playing this song and I keep playing this part of the song over and over again...lol

"Don't you know it's gonna be alright

Alright Alright

You say you got a real solution

Well you know

We'd all love to see the plan

You ask me for a contribution

Well you know

We're doing what we can

But when you want money for people with minds that hate

All I can tell you is brother you have to wait

Don't you know it's gonna be alright

Alright Alright

"

I kind of cheated with the 4 lines thing but my 4 lines are the bolded ones

[Dinali]

(My interpretation: Addressed to the university guys/gals who send out rejects )

Here's mine to the rejectors:

You can all just kiss of into the air

Behind my back I can see them stare

They hurt me bad, but I don't mind

They hurt me bad, they do it all the time

Yeah yeah

Yeah they do it all the time

(Maybe eight was for being rejected by grad schools?)

[hornedfrogmeg]

This reminds me of Gloria Gaynor's I will survive (any fans here for this particular song? )

(video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xv6lHwWwO3w )

I love that song. I need to put it on a loop right about now!

[MDLee]

My playlist is full of jazzy music lately. I'm trying to calm down

"Ain't nuthin' gonna break my stride,

Ain't nuthin' gonna slow me down. No, no.

I've got to keep on moving.

...

I'm running and I won't touch ground. No, no.

I've got to keep on moving!" (Matthew Wilder Break My Stride)

-or-

"You see the look that's on my face

You might think I'm out of place

I'm not lost, I'm not lost,

Just undiscovered!" (James Morrison Undiscovered)

-or-

My personal favorite

"Yes I'm grounded. Got my wings clipped

I'm surrounded by all this pavement.

Guess I'll circle, while I'm waiting for my fears to dry.

Someday I'll fly , Someday I'll soar.

Someday I'll be, Someday much more.

Cuz I'm bigger than my body gives me credit for." (John Mayer Bigger Than My Body)

[inactive_since_inf]

Nice ones MDLee!! :wink: :wink:

How about this curious little piece (a poem not a song) by Emily Dickinson :

I'm nobody! Who are you?

Are you nobody, too?

Then there's a pair of us

[Yellow#5]

1. Charlie, I think I'm happy, for the first time since my accident,

2. but I wish I had all that money, we used to spend on dope.

3. I'd buy me a used car lot and I wouldn't sell any of 'em,

4. just drive a new car everyday, dependin' on how I feel.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12qBoy2rhVw

[Yellow#5]

Oh and I forgot the song by Soul Coughing that is the source of my screen-name!

Your words burn the air,

Like the names of candy bars,

Your mouth is cold and red,

All in rings around your,laugh laughing laughs...

as interpreted by my favorite new artists "Jayden"

[Yellow#5]

And finally, since there seems to be a German Speaking contingent playing along, here's one for the Deutschen:

Und wenn Du traurig bist und einsam und allein,

wenn die Welt im Schlaf versunken ist,

Du wirst es nie bereuen.

Wenn Du denkst, Fuck it all,wie soll es weitergehen?

Ka-pitulation..........

trans:

And when you're sad and lonely and alone

When the world is lost in sleep

and you will never feel any pity for it,

When you think, fuck it all, how can this continue?

Surrender.

Also, quite the catchy tune:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYW6mgIN6Pk

[MDLee]

They're coming to take me away (ha ha, he he, ho ho)

To the funny farm! Where life is beautiful all the time

And I'll be happy to see the nice young men in their clean white coats

They're coming to take me away!!

tehee.

[boneh3ad]

Sometimes you get too close to see

Another side of what life can be.

And if you stare too long it all becomes a blur

And it's easy to forget just who you are.

Don't stare too hard

Just take a look around...

[MDLee]

Sadly I've got Ben Folds stuck in my head right now (must be the mounting pile of rejection letters):

"I opened my eyes and walked out the door

And the clouds came tumbling down.

Its bye-bye, goodbye. I tried.

If you wrote me off, I'd understand it.

I've been on some other planet.

Come pick me up...I've landed." :cry:

[psyentist4good]

So if you care to find me

Look to the western sky

as someone told me lately

everyone deserves a chance to fly

"Defying Gravity"

From the Broadway musical "Wicked"

[MoJingly]

The most inspirational song by Trace Adkins:

Shut my mouth, slap your grandma

There outta be a law

Get the Sheriff on the phone

Lord have mercy, how's she even get them britches on

That honky tonk badonkadonk

The equally inspirational video is

[bluetourmaline]

Hey, don't write yourself off yet

It's only in your head you feel left out or looked down on.

Just try your best, try everything you can.

And don't you worry what they tell themselves when you're away.

It just takes some time, little girl, you're in the middle of the ride.

Everything (everything) will be just fine, everything (everything) will be alright (alright).

- "The Middle", Jimmy Eat World