Shine – a rallying call for positivity – and other anthems

For all that we struggle
For all we pretend
It don’t come down to nothing
Except love in the end
And ours is a road
That is strewn with goodbyes
But as it unfolds
As it all unwinds
Remember your soul is the one thing
You just can’t compromise
Take my hand
We’re gonna go where we can shine
We’re gonna go where we can shine
We’re gonna go where we can shine

I have just completed my exercise and have my IPod on random. Serendipity comes up with some great stuff doesn’t it?

This was the sequence:

Sixty Minute Man – Bill Ward & Dominoes

New Amsterdam – Elvis Costello

Down on the mainspring, listen to the tick tock
Clock all the faces that move in on your block
Twice shy and dog tired because you’ve been bitten
Everything you say now sounds like it was ghost-written

Back in London they’ll take you to heart after a little while
Though I look right at home I still feel like an exile

Somehow I found myself down at the dockside
Thinking of the old days of Liverpool and Rotherhide
The transparent people who live on the other side
Living a life that is almost like suicide

Shine – David Gray

For all that we struggle
For all we pretend
It don’t come down to nothing
Except love in the end
And ours is a road
That is strewn with goodbyes
But as it unfolds
As it all unwinds
Remember your soul is the one thing
You just can’t compromise
Take my hand
We’re gonna go where we can shine
We’re gonna go where we can shine
We’re gonna go where we can shine

Psycho – The Fall

Spit on the streets
[Your heads and teeth]
Got nowhere to go
other than shows
Could never love
And the Psycho-Mafia
I’m talking about love
Psycho-Mafia
No soul in discos
No rock in the clubs
Bullheads in the pubs
And the city jobs
Could never love
And the Psycho-Mafia
Could never love
Psycho-Mafia
Psycho-Mafia
Psycho-Mafia
‘cho Mafia
‘cho Mafia
Spit in the streets
[your heads and teeth]
Our eyes are red
Our brains are dead
Going on about drugs
Psycho-Mafia
Could never love
Psycho-Mafia

Cool Ruler – Gregory Isaacs

so going tell it to the nation, enemies, and friends
my gosh
cool ruler come again.
I was only taking a nap – my gosh
but till every man that types wrap – lord & mercy
someones hoping and predicting for a flap
but disya sound it are nonestop
http://www.lyricsofsong.com/w/krkpln
me come ya fee rule dancehall – lord & mercy
me come ya fee rugby and smaller
so going tell it to the nation, enemies, and friend
my god
cool ruler come again.

I was only taking a nap – my gosh

I found something in all of them.