my top five...

lovin’ someone is so much like dreamin’..... not the kind of dreamin’ defined by the medicine guys but i’m talkin’ about the ones that we tend to do without much closin’ our eyes. the likes of buyin’ a great house after gettin' a good job or somethin’ close. for everythin’ seen in there seems quite real although it’s just the opposite of real. n’ more to it.... everythin’ looks very beautiful just like bein’ in love. n’ nobody needs any special abilities for that. just like anybody n’ everybody can dream..... anybody n’ everybody can love as well. but they who do so.... only the ones with greater abilities than the rest can really hope to make their dreams come true... n’ for the rest who don’t have them..... hopin’ that their dreams would come true just like that..... i would say that’s not a very great hope. you also need greater abilities than the rest as well to make your love come true.... n’ for the rest..... it’s ok if your love don’t come true. it’s ok.

seperation of love have always found great significance in the world of music.... n’ song writers all around the globe have made sure that their pens made an exact replica of their tear drops when they all felt they were losin’ somethin’. the ones listed below are the top five songs i like the most that falls into this genre. they’re listed in ascendin’ order of my likin’.

# this is a song titled “(It’s Hard) Letting You Go” written by jon bon jovi. it appeared on the record titled “These Days” in 1995. this song depicts the pain one is experiencin’ for his beloved is no longer with him n’ he blames himself for this.... n’ thus, chooses to endure wait as long as he can n’ thinkin’ of no one else.

       

It ain't no fun in lying down to sleep
And there ain't no secrets left for me to keep
I wish the stars up in the sky
Would all just call in sick
And the clouds would take the moon out
On some one-way trip

I drove all night down streets that wouldn't bend
But somehow they drove me back here once again
To the place I lost at love, and the place I lost my soul
I wish I'd just burn down this place that we called home
It would all have been so easy
If you'd only made me cry
And told me how you're leaving me
To some organ grinder's lullaby

It's hard, so hard - it's tearing out my heart
It's hard letting you go

Now the sky, it shines a different kind of blue
And the neighbor's dog don't bark like he used to
Well - me, these days
I just miss you - it's the nights that I go insane
Unless you're coming back for me
That's one thing I know that won't change

It's hard, so hard - it's tearing out my heart
It's hard letting you go

Now some tarot card shark said I'll draw you a heart
And we'll find you somebody else new
But I've made my last trip to those carnival lips
When I bet all that I had on you

It's hard, it's hard, it's hard, so hard
It's hard letting you go
It's hard, so hard, it's tearing out my heart
But it's hard letting you go

       

# the next song is called “D'yer Mak’er” originally written by Led Zeppelin in 1973 for the record “Houses Of The Holy”. this song is very close to my heart... which is why probably i’ve chosen it as my pseudo name. the name is actually pronounced as “Jamaica” n’ not dyer maker. but i still like the name dyer maker n’ when i first heard people callin’ me by this name... i mean a few of them..... i never corrected them n’ still ask them to call me the same as jamaica doesn’t make much of a sense for a author’s name! this song is sung askin’ someone’s beloved to come back n’ stay forever. this song was later covered by Sheryl Crow n’ like always.... i like the cover version more than the original one.

       

Oh oh oh oh oh oh, You don't have to go oh oh oh oh oh
You don't have to go oh oh oh oh oh, you don't have to go.
Ay ay ay ay ay ay, All those tears I cry ay ay ay ay ay
All those tears I cry oh oh oh oh ay, Baby please don't go.

When I read the letter you wrote, it made me mad mad mad
When I read the words that it told me,
It made me sad sad sad, But I still love you so
I can't let you go, I love you- ooh baby I love you.

Oh oh oh oh oh oh, Every breath I take oh oh oh oh oh
Every move I make hey hey, Baby please don't go.
Ay ay ay ay ay ay, You hurt me to my soul oh oh oh oh,
You hurt me to my soul oh oh oh oh,
Darling please don't go.

When I read the letter you sent me, it made me mad mad mad
When I read the news that it brought me,
It made me sad sad sad, But I still love you so
I can't let you go, I love you- ooh baby I love you.

Oh oh oh oh oh oh, You don't have to go oh oh oh oh oh
You don't have to go oh oh oh oh oh
Oh baby, ba-bee bee please please please
ah ah ah ah ah baby ah ah I really love you baby
oo oo oo oo oo darlin' oooohhhh oh
Oh baby I still love you so,
Oh baby I still love you so ohohoh, ooo, oh oh oh oh oh yeah

       

# this song is rated by some people as the greatest break up songs ever written. orginally written by Joan Baez in 1975 for the record “Diamonds & Rust”..... Baez brought out the helplessness n’ clarity one sees in the films of ghosts about yester years when they think about their beloved ones after years gone by. she has written this song about her relationship with bob dylan. but personally.... i feel this is just more than a break up song. to me... it makes more sense when you accidentally come across the person that mattered most to you once but vanished for reasons both defined n’ undefined. the memories in the context of this song make more sense to me when it’s seen as a consequence rather than a cause. n’ yet again, i like the cover version of this song more performed by Blackmore’s Night.

       

Well I'll be damned
Here comes your ghost again
But that's not unusual
It's just that the moon is full
And you happened to call
And here I sit
Hand on the telephone
Hearing a voice I'd known
A couple of light years ago
Heading straight for a fall

As I remember your eyes
Were bluer than robin's eggs
My poetry was lousy you said
Where are you calling from?
A booth in the midwest
Ten years ago
I bought you some cufflinks
You brought me something
We both know what memories can bring
They bring diamonds and rust

Well you burst on the scene
Already a legend
The unwashed phenomenon
The original vagabond
You strayed into my arms
And there you stayed
Temporarily lost at sea
The Madonna was yours for free
Yes the girl on the half-shell
Would keep you unharmed

Now I see you standing
With brown leaves falling around
And snow in your hair
Now you're smiling out the window
Of that crummy hotel
Over Washington Square
Our breath comes out white clouds
Mingles and hangs in the air
Speaking strictly for me
We both could have died then and there

Now you're telling me
You're not nostalgic
Then give me another word for it
You who are so good with words
And at keeping things vague
Because I need some of that vagueness now
It's all come back too clearly
Yes I loved you dearly
And if you're offering me diamonds and rust
I've already paid

       

# this next song is called “My Immortal” by Evanescence for the record “Fallen”. this is a relatively newer song that was released in 2003. the lyrics are actually based on a movie Ben Moody (co-founder of the band) saw. this song greatly portrays the pain left behind by the memories of the beloved who now can never return but haunt forever.

       

I'm so tired of being here
Suppressed by all my childish fears
And if you have to leave I wish that you would just leave
Cause your presence still lingers here
And it won't leave me alone

These wounds won't seem to heal
This pain is just too real
There's just too much that time cannot erase

When you cried I'd wipe away all of your tears
When you'd scream I'd fight away all of your fears
And I've held your hand through all of these years
But you still have all of me

You used to captivate me by your resonating light
Now I'm bound by the life you left behind
Your face it haunts my once pleasant dreams
Your voice it chased away all the sanity in me

These wounds won't seem to heal
This pain is just too real
There's just too much that time cannot erase

When you cried I'd wipe away all of your tears
When you'd scream I'd fight away all of your fears
And I've held your hand through all of these years
But you still have all of me

I've tried so hard to tell myself that you're gone
But though you're still with me
I've been alone all along

When you cried I'd wipe away all of your tears
When you'd scream I'd fight away all of your fears
And I've held your hand through all of these years
But you still have all of me

       

# this song is called “Now and Then” written by Candice Night for the record “Under the Violet Moon” in 1999. this song is my personal favourite of this genre. this one shows the void n’ pain laid down upon the years gone by after the seperation from their love. it primarily tries to self assure oneself that life shall still n’ has been goin’ on since then... but still..... the absence has always lingered upon. there’s also the clarity of some kind of fear bein’ exhibited in this song.... the fear that one’s beloved will forget all the moments they shared after goin’ away.... the moments which he remembers since quite a long time. the evergreen voice of Candice Night only succeeds to fill that extra amount of pain n’ hallucination this song demands.

       

The past is so familiar
But that's why you couldn't stay
Too many ghosts, too many haunted dreams
Beside you were built to find your own way...
But after all these years, I thought we'd still hold on
But when I reach for you and search your eyes
I see you've already gone...

That's OK
I'll be fine
I've got myself, I'll heal in time
But when you leave just remember what we had...

There's more to life than just you
I may cry but I'll make it through
And I know that the sun will shine again
Though I may think of you now and then...

Can't do a thing with ashes
But throw them to the wind...
Though this heart may be in pieces now
You know I'll build it up again and
I'll come back stronger than I ever did before
Just don't turn around when you walk out that door...

That's OK
I'll be fine
I've got myself, I'll heal in time...but when you leave just remember what we had...

There's more to life than just you
I may cry but I'll make it through
And I know that the sun will shine again
Though I may think of you now and then...

That's OK
I'll be fine
I've got myself, I'll heal in time...

And even though our stories at the end
I still may think of you now and then...

       

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