"Not Alone" Lyrics - RED - Until We Have Faces

Rodney Atkins - If You're Going Through Hell (Official)

Happily Ever After - Jenny Phillips

Amy Grant - Better Than A Hallelujah (Official Music Video)

Tenth Avenue North - Losing

for KING & COUNTRY - Middle Of Your Heart

Where Can I Turn For Peace/ Be Still My Soul by Calee Reed

The Reason by Hoobastank

Tangled - Something That I Want (HD)

She's a girl with the best intentions
He's a man of his own invention
She looked out the window
He walked out the door
But she followed him
And he said, "What'cha lookin' for?" 
["Then Jesus turned, and saw them following, and saith unto them, What seek ye? They said unto him, Rabbi, (which is to say, being interpreted, Master,) where dwellest thou? He saith unto them, Come and see. They came and saw where he dwelt, and abode with him that day: for it was about the tenth hour." ~John 1:38-39]

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She said, I want something that I want; [Another way of saying I want my Inherent Desire.]
Something that I tell myself I need [Same.]
Something that I want
And I need everything I see. [I need everything I see in him.]

something that I want
something that I tell myself I need
something that I want
and I need everything I see  
[I need everything I see in him. This is a crucial change.  If we need everything we see, we will never obtain anything.  But what we're saying in this love song is that everything that this person is, is what we desire.  In essence, he fills us completely.  He is the answer for us.  When we're with him, we experience Sustainable Joy to the level of our satisfaction.  We can spin this song too.  It talks about a person we are attracted to and want to marry and that is a common Inherent Desire that each of us has.  But another Inherent Desire could be a specific religion, a specific pathway we feel strongly about going down, or a specific place we want to live.  It can mean any Desire that we feel strongly about.  We can also spin it to mean our Savior Jesus Christ.  We are all in a love story with him.  When we choose him to be our Cause, our Leader, our Counselor, our Governor, our King, we are saying this is what we need in order to obtain the kind of society or country that will be sustainably balanced.  We choose him out of love.  We know he knows best how to govern people in his Mercy so that agency is retained and Inherent Desires can be achieved.

"He that hath the bride is the bridegroom: but the friend of the bridegroom, which standeth and heareth him, rejoiceth greatly because of the bridegroom’s voice: this my joy therefore is fulfilled." ~John 3:29

"For as a young man marrieth a virgin, so shall thy sons marry thee: and as the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, so shall thy God rejoice over thee." ~Isaiah 62:5]

He's been livin' in a pure illusion 
["For behold, verily, verily, I say unto you, the time is soon at hand that I shall come in a cloud with power and great glory." ~D&C 34:7]
She's gonna come to her own conclusion
["...choose you this day whom ye will serve...but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord." ~Joshua 24:15]
Right when you think you know what to say
Someone comes along and shows you a brand new way

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'cause

It's so easy to make believe,
it seems you're livin' in a dream
Don't you see that what you need
is standing in front of you?

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I Hope You Dance - Lee Ann Womack

I hope you never lose your sense of wonder,
You get your fill to eat but always keep that hunger,
May you never take one single breath for granted,
GOD forbid love ever leave you empty handed,
I hope you still feel small when you stand beside the ocean,
Whenever one door closes I hope one more opens,
Promise me that you'll give faith a fighting chance,
And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance.

I hope you dance....I hope you dance.

I hope you never fear those mountains in the distance,
Never settle for the path of least resistance
Livin' might mean takin' chances but they're worth takin',
Lovin' might be a mistake but it's worth makin',
Don't let some hell bent heart leave you bitter,
When you come close to sellin' out reconsider,
Give the heavens above more than just a passing glance,
And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance.

I hope you dance....I hope you dance.

I hope you dance....I hope you dance.
(Time is a wheel in constant motion always rolling us along,
Tell me who wants to look back on their years and wonder where those years have gone.)

I hope you still feel small when you stand beside the ocean,
Whenever one door closes I hope one more opens,
Promise me that you'll give faith a fighting chance,
And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance.

Dance....I hope you dance.
I hope you dance....I hope you dance.
I hope you dance....I hope you dance..
(Time is a wheel in constant motion always rolling us along
Tell me who wants to look back on their years and wonder where those years have gone)

Owner of a Lonely Heart - Yes

Move yourself [We have to make and keep our commitments to get out of ruts. See blog posts Commitment and I Love Crazy]
You always live your life
Never thinking of the future [But some of us do the opposite--live our lives never enjoying the moment.  I think it's a balance.]
 
Prove yourself
You are the move you make
Take your chances win or loser [Use our Agency!]

See yourself
You are the steps you take
You and you, and that's the only way [We know that it is not all about me, myself and I, yet when we focus on the topic of Agency, our God-give gift to choose who we are, what we will become, who we will be with, and how close we will live near God, we must understand that now is the time to make a choice!]

Shake, shake yourself [Wake up.]
You're every move you make
So the story goes

["O that ye would awake; awake from a deep sleep, yea, even from the sleep of hell, and shake off the awful chains by which ye are bound, which are the chains which bind the children of men, that they are carried away captive down to the eternal gulf of misery and woe." ~2 Nephi 1:13
"Behold, he changed their hearts; yea, he awakened them out of a deep sleep, and they awoke unto God. Behold, they were in the midst of darkness; nevertheless, their souls were illuminated by the light of the everlasting word; yea, they were encircled about by the bands of death, and the chains of hell, and an everlasting destruction did await them." ~Alma 5:7]

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Owner of a lonely heart
Owner of a lonely heart
Much better than a
Owner of a broken heart
Owner of a lonely heart
[It's about living our lives, risking our hearts to enter into relationships instead of avoiding them in fear of getting hurt.  Be wise but if it breaks, it breaks.  "The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit." ~Psalms 34:18]

Say - you don't want to chance it
You've been hurt so before
Watch it now
The eagle in the sky [I imagine this as Christ.  He is the eagle in the sky that we need to watch.  "But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all." ~Isaiah 53:5-6]
How he dancin' one and only
 
You, lose yourself ["For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: but whosoever will lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it." ~Luke 9:24]
No not for pity's sake [So well said! "Moreover when ye fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance: for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward." ~Matthew 6:16]
There's no real reason to be lonely
 
Be yourself
Give your free will a chance
You've got to want to succeed [!]

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After my own indecision [Don't doubt.  Make a choice. "Look unto me in every thought; doubt not, fear not." ~D&C 6:36]
They confused me so
Owner of a lonely heart
 
My love said never question your will at all [Trust your heart.  Listen to the Holy Ghost.  "Yea, behold, I will tell you in your mind and in your heart, by the Holy Ghost, which shall come upon you and which shall dwell in your heart." ~D&C 8:2]
In the end you've got to go
Look before you leap
Owner of a lonely heart
And don't you hesitate at all - no no

["Behold, you have not understood; you have supposed that I would give it unto you, when you took no thought save it was to ask me. But, behold, I say unto you, that you must study it out in your mind; then you must ask me if it be right, and if it is right I will cause that your bosom shall burn within you; therefore, you shall feel that it is right. But if it be not right you shall have no such feelings, but you shall have a stupor of thought that shall cause you to forget the thing which is wrong;" ~D&C 9:7-9]

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Sooner or later each conclusion
Will decide the lonely heart
Owner of a lonely heart
It will excite it will delight
It will give a better start
Owner of a lonely heart

Don't deceive your free will at all [Don't fill yourself with substances or other forms of Pseudo Peace that will just blind you to your true needs.  This is the day we're supposed to work out our salvation within the bounds the Lord has set.  See blog post Real or Pseudo:  Which do you Choose? and Do I Have Room in My Inn?]
Don't deceive your free will at all
Owner of a lonely heart
Don't deceive your free will at all
Just receive it
["And now, as I said unto you before, as ye have had so many witnesses, therefore, I beseech of you that ye do not procrastinate the day of your repentance until the end; for after this day of life, which is given us to prepare for eternity, behold, if we do not improve our time while in this life, then cometh the night of darkness wherein there can be no labor performed." ~Alma 34:33]

["But behold, your days of probation are past; ye have procrastinated the day of your salvation until it is everlastingly too late, and your destruction is made sure; yea, for ye have sought all the days of your lives for that which ye could not obtain; and ye have sought for happiness in doing iniquity, which thing is contrary to the nature of that righteousness which is in our great and Eternal Head." ~Helaman 13:38]

Switchfoot - This Is Your Life [Official Audio]

Brandon Heath - Wait And See

 

I was born in Tennessee
Late July humidity
Doctor said I was lucky to be alive

I've been trouble since the day that I got here
Trouble till the day that I disappear
That'll be the day that I finally get it right

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There is hope for me yet
Because God won't forget
All the plans he's made for me
I have to wait and see
He's not finished with me yet
He’s not finished with me yet

I never really was that good in school
I talked too much, broke the rules
Teacher thought I was hopeless fool alright

I don't know how but I made it through
It's one of those things that you've gotta do
But I always had a knack for telling the truth

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Still wondering why I'm here
Still wrestling with my fear
But oh, He's up to something
And the farther on I go
I've seen enough to know
That I'm, not here for nothing
He's up to something

So now's my time to be a man [or a woman]
Follow my heart as far as I can
No telling where I'm ending up tonight
I never slow down or so it seems
But singing my heart it's one of my dreams
All I gotta do is hold on tight

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