Song requests

[dacjohns]

This is for songs that would otherwise hijack a thread or get a thread too far off the original topic.

 

[dacjohns]

Why Can't We be Friends by War


Why can't we be friends
Why can't we be friends
Why can't we be friends
Why can't we be friends

I seen ya around for a long long time
I really remember you when you drank my wine

Why can't we be friends
Why can't we be friends
Why can't we be friends
Why can't we be friends

I'd seen ya walkin' down in Chinatown
I called ya but you could not look around

Why can't we be friends
Why can't we be friends
Why can't we be friends
Why can't we be friends

I pay my money to the welfare line
I see ya standing in it every time

Why can't we be friends
Why can't we be friends
Why can't we be friends
Why can't we be friends

The color of your skin don't matter to me
As long as we can live in harmony

Why can't we be friends
Why can't we be friends
Why can't we be friends
Why can't we be friends

I'd kinda' like to be the president
So I could show you how your money's spent

Why can't we be friends
Why can't we be friends
Why can't we be friends
Why can't we be friends

Sometimes I don't speak right
But yet I know what I'm talking about

Why can't we be friends
Why can't we be friends
Why can't we be friends
Why can't we be friends

I know you're working for the CIA
They wouldn't have you in the mafia

Why can't we be friends
Why can't we be friends
Why can't we be friends
Why can't we be friends

Why can't we be friends
Why can't we be friends
Why can't we be friends -a

 

[Beekissed]

Lovely, dac!

Don't write good songs like that any more, do they? I love the 60s and 70s music!

 

[Quail_Antwerp]

How 'bout "Carry On Wayward Son" by Journey?

OR

"No Son of Mine" by Genesis

OR

"When She Cries" by Restless Heart (this is my husband's all time favorite song, and he demanded we dance to it at our wedding LOL)


The road I have traveled on
Is paved with good intentions
It's littered with broken dreams
That never quite came true
When all of my hopes were dying
Her love kept me trying
And she does her best to hide the pain that she's been through

When she cries at night
And she doesn't think that I can hear her
She tries to hide all the fear she feels inside
So I pray this time
I can be the man that she deserves
'Cause I die a little each time
When she cries

She's always been there for me
Whenever I've fallen
When nobody else believed
She'd be there by my side
I don't know how she takes it
Just once I'd like to make it
Then there'll be tears of joy
That fill her loving eyes

When she cries at night
And she doesn't think that I can hear her
She tries to hide all the fear she feels inside
So I pray this time
I can be the man that she deserves
'Cause I die a little each time
When she cries

So I pray this time
I can be the man that she deserves
'Cause I die a little each time
When she cries

 

[shareneh]

You made me cry Quail, I know he means every word of this especially now when he is down. You are wonderful, keep that chin up.

 

[Quail_Antwerp]

You made me cry Quail, I know he means every word of this especially now when he is down. You are wonderful, keep that chin up.

We must have had the same thought, because until this moment, I've never read through those lyrics, and just now I thought, oh my, it really fits.

eta: I didn't mean to make you cry!!

 

[dacjohns]

How about the song by Kansas?

{Refrain
Carry on my wayward son
There'll be peace when you are done
Lay your weary head to rest
Don't you cry no more

Once I rose above the noise and confusion
Just to get a glimpse beyond this illusion
I was soaring ever higher
But I flew too high

Though my eyes could see I still was a blind man
Though my mind could think I still was a mad man
I hear the voices when I'm dreaming
I can hear them say

{Refrain

Masquerading as a man with a reason
My charade is the event of the season
And if I claim to be a wise man, well
It surely means that I don't know

On a stormy sea of moving emotion
Tossed about I'm like a ship on the ocean
I set a course for winds of fortune
But I hear the voices say

{Refrain
No!

Carry on, you will always remember
Carry on, nothing equals the splendor
The center lights around your vanity
But surely heaven waits for you

Carry on my wayward son
There'll be peace when you are done
Lay your weary head to rest
Don't you cry (don't you cry no more)

 

[Quail_Antwerp]

Thanks, dac! So it's by Kansas? Was it done as a remake by Journey? Hmmm...:/

 

[dacjohns]

Journey and Kansas sound a lot alike to me. I don't know if Journey did it and I didn't see anything saying they did.

Foo Fighters did it and a Christian group did also.

 

[Quail_Antwerp]

Wow! That's really interesting! Thank you for finding the lyrics, dac!