Beartooth - Free

Beartooth - Free 

Got the world in my hands
Never felt so alone
See the path in my head
Scared of where it goes
Do I love it
Do I hate it
I wanna know
Am I really lonely or am I the reason I’m alone
But I know something you don’t know
I’m free I’m free I’m free I’m free I

Thought it was a halo over me
Had me by the neck so hard to breathe
Could it be
I’m free I’m free I’m free I’m free I’m
Running to the light so you can see
Every single f---ed up piece of me
Could it be
I’m free I’m free I’m free I’m free I’m
Free

Saw that look on my face
Gave it all away
I had the words in my mouth 
I didn’t know what to say
What if I told you something I never could say to me
I am a liar
I thought it was better off that way
But I know something you don’t know
I’m free I’m free I’m free I’m free I

There’s nobody else I’d rather be
So what the f--- is stopping me
So what the f--- is stopping me
I’m free I’m free I’m free I’m free I’m free

The Devil Wears Prada - Chemical

 The Devil Wears Prada - Chemical

[Verse 1]
Waking up to no meaning, I stare at the ceiling
Count the imperfections that surround my being
Can tell how I'm feeling
And it hurts more when you ask

[Pre-Chorus]
There's a hole in my head and heart
But I'm a long way from the start
There's a hole in my head and heart
But I'm a long way from

[Chorus]
Back when I couldn't move, was frozen
I told myself it's all good
It's only chemical (Oh-woah)
It's only chemical (Oh-woah)
It's only chemical

[Verse 2]
I'm too shy to speak up
Guess I have my reasons for telling little lies
About those around me and what I could be
It's eating me alive

[Pre-Chorus]
There's a hole in my head and heart
But I'm a long way from the start
There's a hole in my head and heart
But I'm a long way from

[Chorus]
Back when I couldn't move, was frozen
I told myself it's all good
It's only chemical (It's only chemical, it's only chemical)
I want to scream, but it won't help
I've created my own hell
And It's only chemical (Oh-woah)
It's only chemical (Oh-woah)
It's only chemical

[Pre-Chorus]
I find comfort when they say you can't
Sit and count the days until it ends
There's still times I want to break everything I've ever made
But I've come a long way from
I've come a long way from

[Chorus]
Back when I couldn't move, was frozen
I told myself it's all good
It's only chemical (It's only chemical, it's only chemical)
I want to scream but it won't help
I've created my own hell
And it's only chemical
It's only chemical (Oh-woah)
It's only chemical (Oh-woah)
It's only chemical (Oh-woah)
It's only chemical (Oh-woah)

The Interrupters - Take Back the Power -- Live on Jimmy Kimmel 2018

 The Interrupters - Take Back the Power

What's your plan for tomorrow?
Are you a leader or will you follow?
Are you a fighter or will you cower?
It's our time to take back the power

Whatcha gonna do
When they show up in black suits
On your street in army boots
And they're there to silence you
Whatcha gonna say
When they strip your rights away
And the taxman makes you pay
For every bead of sweat you bled today

We don't need to run and hide
We won't be pushed off to the side

What's your plan for tomorrow?
Are you a leader or will you follow?
Are you a fighter or will you cower?
It's our time to take back the power
[x2]

Who you gonna trust
When the judge is so unjust
And the jury must discuss
Said you don't look like one of us
Where you gonna turn
Now the court has been adjourned
And the lessons that you learned
Are not as many as the bridges burned

We don't need to run and hide
We won't be pushed off to the side

What's your plan for tomorrow?
Are you a leader or will you follow?
Are you a fighter or will you cower?
It's our time to take back the power
[x2]

We don't need to run and hide
We won't be pushed off to the side

What's your plan for tomorrow?
Are you a leader or will you follow?
Are you a fighter or will you cower?
It's our time to take back the power
[x3]

It's our time
Let's take the power
It's our time
Let's take the power

Social Distortion - "Never Goin' Back Again"

 There’s a million broken hearts there,
For many this’ll be the end
Well it’s hard to get off this death defying ride,
I ain’t never goin’ back again

There’s run-ins with the zombies,
I was lurking with the living dead
I was lost and I was lonely and a derelict too,
I ain’t never goin’ back again
I ain’t never goin’ back again

No time for cryin’, no time for dyin’
Who’ll be the lucky ones who survive? Who survive

Sinking to the bottom,
How long can one descend?
Well it took a lot of tryin’ to get up that hill,
I ain’t never goin’ back again

There’s crime there’s pain there’s sorrow,
They’ve all now become your friends
Well I took about as much baby as I could,
I ain’t never goin’ back again
I ain’t never goin’ back again

No time for cryin’, no time for dyin’
Who’ll be the only ones who survive?
Just hustling and hiding, cheating and lying 
Let’s see if you’re lucky and get out alive — Get out alive

No time for cryin’, no time for dyin’
Who’ll be the only ones who survive?
Hustling and hiding, still justifying,
Let’s see if you’re lucky and get out alive — Get out alive

Bent Ardi - Fear None

 Bent Ardi - Fear None

They tried to chain my hands
but the fire never left me.
I’ve walked through nights
where even the air felt heavy.
No throne, no crown,
just me standing in the dark.
And still but stand -- I didn’t fall.

You can break the sword,
I’ll fight with my hands.
You can burn the bridge,
I’ll learn how to stand.
The fire inside — 
it’s louder than fear.
I’m not running.
Not running....... 

I’ve heard their voices,
telling me I was nothing.
I’ve felt the weight
of promises that never meant a thing.
But I’d rather bleed
than bow to a king.
This is my ground.
And I won’t give it up.

You can break the sword,
I’ll fight with my hands.
You can burn the bridge,
I’ll learn how to stand.
The fire inside — it’s louder than fear.
I’m not running.
Not running....... 

No crown can buy my soul.
No shadow can tell me where to go.
I’ve carried pain — but pain made me real.
And now…
I fear none.

Take the night — I’ll light my flame.
Take the crown — I’ll wear no name.
The sword may break, the fire remains.
I won’t run, I won’t obey.
I’m still standing.
I fear none.

I fear none
I fear none

Three Days Grace - Chalk Outline

  Three Days Grace - Chalk Outline

I've been cursed
I've been crossed
I've been beaten by the ones that get me off
I've been cut
I've been opened up
I've been shattered by the ones I thought I loved

You left me here like a chalk outline
On the sidewalk waiting for the rain
To wash away
(Wash away)
You keep coming back to the scene of the crime
But the dead can't speak and there's nothing left to say anyway
All you left behind
Is a chalk outline

I've been cold
In the crypt
But not as the cold as the words across your lips
You'll be sorry baby
Some day
When you reach across the bed where my body used to lay

You left me here like a chalk outline
On the sidewalk waiting for the rain
To wash away
(Wash away)
You keep coming back to the scene of the crime
But the dead can't speak and there's nothing left to say anyway
All you left behind
Is a chalk outline
All you left behind
Is a chalk outline

(All you left behind...)

You left me here like a chalk outline
On the sidewalk waiting for the rain
To wash away
(Wash away)
You keep coming back to the scene of the crime
But the dead can't speak and there's nothing left to say anyway
All you left behind
Is a chalk outline

 

Alanis Morissette - Rest - New Song live in Tulsa Oklahoma 3/13/2018 The Joint

 Alanis Morissette - Rest

All these relief-givers
The needle sure revs in the red
Chemicals like hugs from inside 
they feel like my best friend

You think me a coward but I am a warrior
With many voices in my head
When I looked around and I reached out
I saw no alternative

God rest, God rest our souls
And this substance is the only comfort I know

He's been pushing for a while
Can we cut this man some slack
Let him lie down, let him lie down

We are a country desperate for the embryonic
I'm cold and I'm hungry and
I yearn for a hand on my forehead

You think it's a walk in the park and it's easy
"She's got it as good as it gets"
This misunderstanding's the line between living
or being the walking dead

And God rest, please rest our souls
And the more I take, the less comfort I know
She's been pushing for a while
Can we cut this woman slack
Let her lie down, let her lie down

The more that you hurl at me
The more I will curl up in my bed
where's the humanity?
Aren't we all hovering around the same end?

Door number 1, 2 and 3 have been promises
that aren't real enough to be kept
You wish me a speedy recovery
But when you turn I plumb the depths

And God rest, God please rest our souls
This is the surest exit I have known
We've been hurting for a while
Can we cut ourselves some slack
Let us lie down, let us lie down
Let us lie down, let me lie down

My Chemical Romance - Heaven Help Us

 My Chemical Romance - Heaven Help Us 

 Hear the sound, the angels come screaming

 Down your voice, I hear you've been bleeding

 Make your choice, they say you've been pleading 

Someone save us
 Heaven help us now

Come crashing down

We'll hear the sound

 As you're falling down
I'm at this old hotel but can't tell

If I've been breathing or sleeping

Or screaming or waiting for the man to call

And maybe all of the above
'Cause mostly I've been sprawled

On these cathedral steps

While spitting out the blood and screaming

Someone save us
Heaven help us now

Come crashing down

We'll hear the sound

As you're falling down
And will you pray for me

Make them say your name

And will you lay for me

And make a saint of me?
 'Cause I'll give you all the nails you need

Cover me in gasoline

Wipe away those tears of blood again

And the punchline to the joke is asking

Someone save us
Heaven help us now

 Come crashing down

We'll hear the sound

As you fall
And would you pray for me?(You don't know a thing about my sins)(How the misery begins)

Or make a saint of me?(You don't know, so I'm burning, I'm burning)
And will you lay for me?(You don't know a thing about my sins)(How the misery begins)

And make a saint of me?(You don't know, 'cause I'm burning, I'm burning)
'Cause I'll give you all the nails you need(I'm burning)

Cover me in gasoline again(I'm burning again)

Fall Out Boy - ACES

 Fall Out Boy - ACES

We’re playing Aces high but you’re wild like me
So we’ll dynamite the gates of heaven
And our orbits touch but they’re just out of reach
So let’s dynamite the gates of heaven

Prodigal son of a bitch
Couldn’t help but love me
I’m a disc written over too many times
now I’ve gone just a little bit fuzzy
I’m grinding, I’m grinding my teeth in my sleep
I’m feeling the stress down into my dreams

And trust me everything I am is yours
Just say the word
All my Russian nesting dolls of sadness
Or so I’ve heard

We keep the fire alive, Through trying times
Through the slow decay and the rapid decline

We’re playing aces high but you’re wild like me
So we’ll dynamite the gates of heaven
And our orbits touch but they’re just out of reach
So we’ll dynamite the gates of heaven

Just keep pulling the string
Watch it as it unwinds
I got a buzz for freedom
Trying to find some peace inside

I’ve taken, I’ve taken all that I can take
Oh, Just one more poem to kill the pain

We keep the fire alive, Through trying times
Through the slow decay and the rapid decline

We’re playing aces high but you’re wild like me
So we’ll dynamite the gates of heaven
And our orbits touch but they’re just out of reach
So we’ll dynamite the gates of heaven
So let’s dynamite the gates of heaven

We're playing Aces High (Aces High)
We're playing Aces High (Aces High)

Oh we dreams to crush, got lives to live
But don’t stress if you forget my love
It’s right where you left it

We’re playing aces high but you’re wild like me
So we’ll dynamite the gates of heaven
And our orbits touch but they’re just out of reach
So we’ll dynamite the gates of heaven
So let’s dynamite the gates of heaven

We keep the fire alive, Through trying times
Through the slow decay and the rapid decline
We're playing Aces High (Aces High)
We're playing Aces High (Aces High)

Poets of the Fall - Where Do We Draw the Line

Poets of the Fall - Where Do We Draw the Line 

On your palm an endless wonder
Lines that speak the truth without a sound
In your eyes awaits the tireless hunger
Already looks for prey to run down

So why do we keep up this charade
and how do we tell apart the time to leave from the time to wait?

What does tomorrow want from me?
What does it matter what I see?
If it can't be my design,
Tell me where do we draw the line,
Tell me where do we draw the line?

The dance of flames and shadows in the street
Make poetry nobody's ever heard
The weight of loneliness stands on your feet
The cage already there around the bird

So why don't we join the masquerade
before it all falls apart, before our love becomes insatiate?

What does tomorrow want from me?
What does it matter what I see?
If I can't choose my own design,
Tell me where do we draw the line?

What does tomorrow want from me?
What does it matter what I see?
If we all walk behind the blind,
Tell me where do we draw the line,
Tell me where do we draw the line?

Where's the cooling wind?
Where's the evergreen field?
Where's my mother's open arms?
Where's my father lion heart?
It's like the sun's gone down
Sleeps in the hallowed ground now
With the autumn's brown leaves
With the one who never grieves

So why do we keep up this charade
and how do we tell apart the time to leave from the time to wait?

What does tomorrow want from me?
What does it matter what I see?
If it can't be my design,
Tell me where do we draw the line?

Whatever tomorrow wants from me,
At least I'm here, at least I'm free.
Free to choose to see the signs.
This is my line.

Emilio Piano - OneRepublic asked me to play Counting Stars in Madrid

Emilio Piano and Ryan Tedder and the crowd!

Counting Stars, Apologize and Need Your Love

 Counting Stars

  [Intro]
Lately, I've been, I've been losin' sleep
Dreamin' about the things that we could be
But baby, I've been, I've been prayin' hard
Said no more countin' dollars, we'll be countin' stars
Yeah, we'll be countin' stars

[Verse 1]
I see this life, like a swinging vine
Swing my heart across the line
And in my face is flashing signs
Seek it out and ye' shall find
[Refrain]
Old, but I'm not that old
Young, but I'm not that bold
And I don't think the world is sold
On just doing what we're told

[Pre-Chorus]
I feel something so right doin' the wrong thing
I feel something so wrong doin' the right thing
I couldn't lie, couldn't lie, couldn't lie
Everything that kills me makes me feel alive

[Chorus]
Lately, I've been, I've been losin' sleep
Dreamin' about the things that we could be
But baby, I've been, I've been prayin' hard
Said no more countin' dollars, we'll be countin' stars
Lately, I've been, I've been losin' sleep
Dreamin' about the things that we could be
But baby, I've been, I've been prayin' hard
Said no more countin' dollars, we'll be, we'll be countin' stars

[Verse 2]
I feel your love and I feel it burn
Down this river, every turn
Hope is our four-letter word
Make that money, watch it burn
[Refrain]
Old, but I'm not that old
Young, but I'm not that bold
And I don't think the world is sold
On just doing what we're told

[Pre-Chorus]
I feel something so wrong doin' the right thing
I couldn't lie, couldn't lie, couldn't lie
Everything that drowns me makes me wanna fly

[Chorus]
Lately, I've been, I've been losin' sleep
Dreamin' about the things that we could be
But baby, I've been, I've been prayin' hard
Said no more countin' dollars, we'll be countin' stars
Lately, I've been, I've been losin' sleep
Dreamin' about the things that we could be
But baby, I've been, I've been prayin' hard
Said no more countin' dollars, we'll be, we'll be countin' stars

[Bridge]
Take that money, watch it burn
Sink in the river the lessons I learned
Take that money, watch it burn
Sink in the river the lessons I learned
Take that money, watch it burn
Sink in the river the lessons I learned
Take that money, watch it burn
Sink in the river the lessons I learned
[Pre-Chorus]
Everything that kills me makes me feel alive

[Chorus]
Lately, I've been, I've been losin' sleep
Dreamin' about the things that we could be
But baby, I've been, I've been prayin' hard
Said no more countin' dollars, we'll be countin' stars
Lately, I've been, I've been losin' sleep
Dreamin' about the things that we could be
But baby, I've been, I've been prayin' hard
Said no more countin' dollars, we'll be, we'll be counting stars

[Outro]
Take that money, watch it burn
Sink in the river the lessons I've learned
Take that money, watch it burn
Sink in the river the lessons I've learned
Take that money, watch it burn
Sink in the river the lessons I've learned
Take that money, watch it burn
Sink in the river the lessons I've learned

 Apologize

 
intro:
I'm holding on your rope
Got me ten feet off the ground
And I'm hearing what you say, but I just can't make a sound
You tell me that you need me
Then you go and cut me down, but wait
You tell me that you're sorry
Didn't think I'd turn around, and say

That it's too late to apologize, it's too late
I said it's too late to apologize, it's too late

I'd take another chance, take a fall
Take a shot for you
And I need you like a heart needs a beat
But it's nothing new, yeah, yeah
I loved you with a fire red
Now it's turning blue, and you say
Sorry like the angel heaven let me think was you
But I'm afraid

It's too late to apologize, it's too late
I said it's too late to apologize, it's too late, whoa

It's too late to apologize, it's too late
I said it's too late to apologize, it's too late
I said it's too late to apologize, yeah
I said it's too late to apologize, yeah
I'm holding on your rope, got me ten feet off the ground

Need Your Love

 Oh, oh, I need your love

Don't need the buzz or the credit cards (Credit cards)
Mm, the house on the hill with a perfect yard (Oh, oh, oh)
Don't gotta see my name on the boulevard
I don't need a million dollars
Giving me expensive problems
Oh, don't need a drink just to fill the cup (Oh, oh, I need your love)

But I, I need your love (Oh, oh, I need your love, oh, oh, I need your love)
Oh I, I need your love (Oh, oh, I need your love, oh, oh, I need your love)
Got me singin', I, I need your love
I, I need your love
I, I need your love
I, I need your
I, I need your love (Your love)

Don't gotta act like such a big deal
I don't gotta lie 'cause the way you make me feel, oh I
Most people searchin' for something real
And I don't need a million dollars
Don't need expensive problems (I need your love)
Yeah, don't need a drink just to fill this cup (Oh, oh, I need your love)

But I, I need your love (Oh, oh, I need your love, oh, oh I need your love)
Oh I, I need your love (Oh, oh, I need your love, oh, oh I need your love)
Got me singin', I, I need your love
I, I need your love
I can't get enough
I, I need your
I, I need your love (Your love)

And when all of our time starts to slip away (Oh, oh, I need your love, oh, oh I need your love)
I'm gonna love those lines, gonna love your shades of grey
You know that I have made a million mistakes
But I won't make a million dollars
At least not with another
Yeah, don't need a drink just to fill this cup

But I, I need your love (I-I-I)
Oh I, I need your love (Oh, oh, I need your love, oh, oh I need your love)
Got me singin', I, I need your love
I, I need your love (Need)
I can't get enough
I, I need your
I, I need your love (Ooh)

Oh, oh, I need your love

Kings of Leon - Rose --- Live

Kings of Leon - Rose 

[Verse 1]
There's a rose in the garden
I planted for you
I knew this day was coming
It was the right thing to do

[Chorus]
For the load don't get any lighter
'Til you throw it all away

[Verse 2]
When we kissed our first kiss
Who could have known
It would last two lifetimes
Through heartaches and homes

[Chorus]
For the road don't get any wider
Once you go, you don't come back

[Post-Chorus]
We gon' let it ride

[Bridge]
(Got you by my side, we will survive)
(We gon' let it ride, staying alive)
(Got you by my side, we will survive)
(We gon' let it ride, staying alive)
What's it gonna bе?
(Got you by my side, we will survive)
What do you havе for me?
(We gon' let it ride, staying alive)
You know you're not alone
(Got you by my side, we will survive)
I look at you looking heavenly
(We gon' let it ride, staying alive)
I'm gonna get you where you're going

[Chorus]
Where the road don't get any wider
Once you go, there's no coming back
When you hold
(Got you by my side, we will survive)
Your heart to the fire
(We gon' let it ride, staying alive)
All the gold
(Got you by my side, we will survive)
Comes from the black

[Outro]
(We gon' let it ride, staying alive)
(We gon' let it ride, staying alive)
We gon' let it ride
We gon' let it ride

James Blunt - This is Not Forever

James Blunt - "This Is Not Forever"

Can I just say, they make you feel like a failure?
Make you feel like you need a saviour
But no one's saving you
Can I just say, there's something that they put in the water?
It's giving everyone a disorder
It's how they order you

But when I look back now, these eyes are older
We've been living a lie that they told us was over
It isn't over

So, come and see the revelries, the way we looked and how
Caught between the answers and the questions they allowed
And if you want these kind of dreams before they're dying out
Oh, this is not forever
It's just for now
It's just for now

Can I just say, there's something feels safe in the danger?
Like taking my sweets from a stranger
Who I don't need to know
But if you say, you don't know what you see in the mirror
It's never gonna get any clearer
Until we meet again, oh

'Cause when I look back now as we're all getting older
A little bit closer to the day that it's over
It isn't over

So, come and see the revelries, the way we looked and how
Caught between the answers and the questions they allowed
And if you want these kind of dreams before they're dying out
Oh, this is not forever
Oh, this is not forever
It's just for now
It's just for now

We're trying to write a Yellow
A song that somebody knows
For all the high and the lows
And if you're wondering "Why?"
There's nothing shorter than life
So, don't wait 'til you die

So, come and see the revelries, the way we looked and how
Caught between the answers and the questions they allowed
And if you want these kind of dreams before they're dying out
Oh, this is not forever
Oh, this is not forever
It's just for now
It's just for now

Rise Against - Everchanging (Live HQ)

 Rise Against - Everchanging

In the face of change that's when she turned to me and said
"I'm not sure anymore"
And there amidst the waves and the cloudless skies that blanket the year before
I watched my life wash ashore

Have you ever been a part of something that you thought would never end
and then of course it did?
Have you ever felt the weight inside you pulling away inside your skin
and then something had to give?

Now the lines are drawn is this feeling gone?
The best parts of this have come and gone
And now that is all this is
And with the reasons clear we'll spend another year
without direction, full of fear
And now things will be different

There's nothing simple when it comes to you and I
(There's) always something in this everchanging life
and it probably always will
And now the time is getting harder to come by
The same arguments are always on our minds
We've killed this slowly fading light

Now the lines are drawn is this feeling gone?
The best parts of this have come and gone
And now that is all this is
And with the reasons clear we'll spend another year
without direction, full of fear
But now things will be different

And now something has kept me here too long
and you can't leave me if I'm already gone
Oh
Now something has kept me here too long
and you can't leave me if I'm already gone
Now let's say that something has kept me here too long
and you can't leave me if I'm already gone

Now it seems we make the same mistakes we're always hangin' on
Break the promises we're always leaning on
All this time spent waking up
Keep this line open to get this call from you
Speak the words that keep me coming back to you
Now this time it's all different

And now something has kept me here too long and now I'm gone

Clutch - Beware the Fever

THE FIRE IN THE COAL MINE'S BURNING
EIGHTY YEARS OR MORE
THEY COMPENSATED BY PAYING SCRIP
BUT THEY DON'T PLAY THAT TRICK NO MORE
THE SNALLYGASTER BEEN ON THE BREEZE
DOING WHATEVER IT WANTS 
WHILE FIDDLESTICKS AND WIDDERSHINS 
IN THE CHURCHYARD CASTING LOTS

BEWARE THE FEVER
RUNNING THROUGH TOWN
NEVER LET A GOOD TIME 
DRAG YOU DOWN
DON'T REP THE REAPER
THERE'S BETTER THINGS AROUND 
NEVER LET A GOOD TIME 
DRAG YOU DOWN

TOO BLESSED TO BE STRESSED
A HOLY FIRE WITHIN
YOU'RE BREAKING UP SAY IT AGAIN
TOO BLESSED TO BE STRESSED 
IN HOLY FIRE CONSUMED
SAY IT AGAIN FOR THE BACK OF THE ROOM

SOMETIME BACK THERE WAS CHITTER CHAT 
ABOUT REDEVELOPING MAIN
BUT IT DIDN'T TAKE LONG THEY MOVED ALONG
AND MAIN REMAINS THE SAME 
REALLY CAN'T SAY THAT I BLAME THEM MUCH
TO FEAR WHAT LIES BELOW
YOU JUST CAN'T TAME THIS BROKEN LAND 
THE LAND WILL HAVE YOU KNOW 

BEWARE THE FEVER
RUNNING THROUGH TOWN
NEVER LET A GOOD TIME 
DRAG YOU DOWN
DON'T REP THE REAPER
THERE'S BETTER THINGS AROUND 
NEVER LET A GOOD TIME 
DRAG YOU DOWN

TOO BLESSED TO BE STRESSED
A HOLY FIRE WITHIN
YOU'RE BREAKING UP SAY IT AGAIN
TOO BLESSED TO BE STRESSED 
IN HOLY FIRE CONSUMED
SAY IT AGAIN FOR THE BACK OF THE ROOM  

"UNSEEN REALITIES - HEAVEN, HELL, ANGELS AND DEMONS" Written by R.C. Sproul

 "UNSEEN REALITIES - HEAVEN, HELL, ANGELS AND DEMONS" written by R.C. Sproul

Chapter Three

Rising from the Dust

I mentioned in chapter one that on one occasion as a seminary student I asked my professor what heaven is like.  
It was a naïve question, because we don't have any information from pilgrims who have gone to that foreign country
and have come back to give us a detailed description of what they've found.  People ask me all the time, "Will I know
my parents?"  "Will I know my wife?"  "Will we be recognizable?"  "How old will we be in heaven?"  "If we die when 
we are ninety, will we stay aged forever?"  and "Will children who die be young forever?"  All these questions assault
us as we try to comprehend and conceive what heaven will be like.  When people ask me such questions, I have to say
that I don't know the answers.

    One very popular question has to do with Jesus' statement that "In the resurrection they neither marry nor are
given in marriage, but are like angels of God in heaven" (Matt. 22:30).  People wonder, "What did Jesus mean when 
He said that?"  This statement from Jesus has provoked all kinds of speculation.  I've read books that say that when
we're in heaven we're going to be sexless because angels are sexless.  But the Bible doesn't say that angels are sexless,
and it certainly doesn't say that we will lose our gender identity when we go to heaven.  Jesus simply says that
there will be no marrying and giving in marriage.  That comes as a disappointment to people who would like to stay
married to their spouses forever.  Does Jesus mean that death ends the intimacy that is enjoyed by husbands and
wives, that that relationship is abolished?  I don't know.

The phrase "marrying and giving in marriage"  is used in the Bible in the description of the expansion of wickedness 
that reached its zenith in the days of Noah, when people were doing what was right in their own eyes and were filling
the world with violence.  Jesus says, "In the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and 
giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark" (Matt. 24:38).  The idea is that life at the coming of Christ
will be like it was in the days of Noah, when people were marrying and giving in marriage.  

    This statement by Jesus could be understood in at least two ways.  First, it may refer to the suddenness of the 
appearance of divine judgment.  He may be describing a situation in which people are going about the normal activities
that characterize life as we know it, such as marrying and giving in marriage.  In that case, all Jesus means to say 
is that His appearance will be unexpected.  

    Second, there's a theory that I can't confirm, but which I find fascinating and interesting.  It is the idea that
the phrase "marrying and giving in marriage" was a Jewish idiomatic expression for a low view of the sanctity of
marriage in a degenerate culture where there was no sense of permanency to marriage.  In other words, it was a
situation in which people were getting married, quickly divorcing, then marrying again, time after time, and that
was characteristic of the decadence of the age of Noah, which provoked God to bring the flood.  Thus, it could be
that Jesus is saying here that when we get to heaven, we're not going to have this cycle, this facile pace of marrying
and giving in marriage.  Maybe that's what He meant.  I don't know.

    The statement that there will be no marriage in heaven prompts us to ask, "Does that mean that the joy
that accompanies the relationship of intimacy that God has given us in this world is over?"  Here is my 
speculation, which has no foundation whatsoever in anything that's said specifically in Scripture.  What if,
in heaven, we are so sanctified that we can enjoy an in-depth , intimate, personal relationship with every other
inhabitant of heaven, one that exceeds in intimacy and in joy the most joyous, personal, intimate relationship
we have now?  I think there's sound reason to believe that such relationships will be possible in heaven, that
we'll be able to relate as closely, as openly, and as warmly to a thousand others in heaven as we do to our
spouses now.  In fact, once sin has been removed, we'll have a deeper personal relationship with people that we 
don't even know now that any relationship we enjoy in this world, because when we are glorified as human beings,
all of the barriers to deep, personal relationships and communication that are put there because of sin will be gone.
Maybe that's the secret Jesus is hinting at when He says there will be no marriage or giving in marriage in heaven.

    We're not the first to ask such questions.  The apostle Paul, in his first letter tot he Corinthians, spent a good
deal of time talking about the concept of heaven as it relates to the resurrection of Christ.  In the fifteenth chapter
of that letter, Paul gives a marvelous defense of the historical reality of the resurrection of Jesus and demonstrates
that it is central to Christianity.

    I realize that there are theologies today that seek to de-mythologize the New Testament and to retain the vestiges
of Christianity without embracing the resurrection.  I had a roommate in college who went into the ministry.  When he
had to go before the presbytery to be examined in his doctrine, he asked me:  "Should I go with the resurrection of Christ
or not?  Should I tell the presbytery I believe that Christ was raised from the dead?"  I asked, "What do you believe?"
He said, "I don't think He was."  I responded:  "You're morally bound to say that you don't believe in the resurrection
of Christ.  You can't conceal that from the examining board of the presbytery."  In the end, he did conceal it, and he
was ordained.  Ironically, a few years later I had to come before the same presbytery to be examined, and the examiner
was that same man.  He had to look me in the eye when he asked me whether I believed in the resurrection.

    In any case, this was a major issue in the Corinthian church, and Paul gives a marvelous defense of the 
resurrection.  He argues that if there is no resurrection, all kinds of things follow logically.  But after he gives
his defense of the truth of Christ's resurrection, he then answers two other questions:  "But someone will say, 'How
are the dead raised up?  And with what body do they come?'" (v. 35).  Who hasn't asked those questions?

    Let me remind you that one of the most important lines found in the Apostles' Creed is the statement, "I
believe in the resurrection of the body."  This affirmation does not have to do with Christ's resurrection.  To be sure,
the apostles believed in the resurrection of Christ, but the creed here refers to our confidence that we will participate
in the bodily resurrection of Christ.  When we recite this affirmation, we're saying that we believe that our bodies
will be raised from death and will be perfected, and that our bodies and souls will be reunited.  That's what it means
to say, "I believe in the resurrection of the body."

    So Paul raises these questions:  "How are the dead raised?  and with what body do they come?"  If you believe 
in the resurrection of the body, what are you talking about?  Paul goes on to say, "Foolish one, what you sow is 
not made alive unless it dies.  And what you sow, you do not sow that body that shall be, but mere grain--perhaps 
wheat or some other grain.  But God gives it a body as He pleases, and to each seed its own body" (vv. 36-38).  Here
he borrows a statement almost verbatim from Plato and Socrates, an analogy drawn from nature.  you plant a seed
in the ground.  then you pour water on it, and you keep watering it and exposing it to the sunlight.  Why do you 
do that?  You do it because you're trying to cause the germination of life.  You want that seed to produce a flower
or a vegetable or grass.  You want new life to come forth, so you water it.  Does the water impart life to the seed?
No.  The water kills the seed.  It makes it rot, because the seed has to rot and die, as it were, before the germination
takes place.  It is like the metamorphosis of the caterpillar to the butterfly.  The one has to be changed into the other.
that's what Paul is saying, "What you sow is not made alive unless it dies.  And what you sow, you do not sow that 
body that shall be."  If we want grass, we don't throw grass in the dirt.  We throw grass seed in the dirt.  If we want
flowers, we don't take the bloom from the flower and throw it on the ground and water it.  You have to take seeds
from the flowers and put them in the ground and water them. 

    When I was a child, my mother helped me plant a garden.  We sent away for little packages of seeds for flowers
and vegetables.  She tediously showed me how we had to plant the seeds in straight rows and how to space the
seeds so that there would be room for the mature plants to spread.  After I had planted all of the seeds in the order
that she told me to plant them, I had to take the packages that the seeds came in and put them on popsicle sticks
like signs in the ground where I had put the seeds.  That was so I would know where I had planted each kind of seed
before the actual plants emerged.  The best thing I produced in my gardening was seed packages on sticks.  That was
about the extent of my green thumb.

    But Paul is pointing out something elementary and basic to life--that there are all kinds of bodies in the world,
all kinds of living things, all kinds of grains, flowers, and vegetables.  They all come from seeds and different seeds
produce different kinds of bodies.  He says, "All flesh is not the same flesh, but there is one kind of flesh of men, 
another flesh of animals, another of fish, and another of birds: (v.39).  What else is there about bodies?  "There are
also celestial bodies and terrestrial bodies;  but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is
another.  There is one glory of the sun, another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars;  for one star 
differs from another star in glory" (vv. 40-41).  Paul is saying, "Open your eyes to the wide diversity of reality that
you experience--all sizes, shapes, forms, and structures of existing entities in the universe;  stars and moons and
trees and mountains and grass and waterfalls."  If you just look at the animal kingdom, you'll see this myriad
diversity of life.  Do you think that in our experience we've seen every conceivable kind of body there is?  In our
fantasies and science-fiction movies, the creative imaginations of the screenwriters produce all kinds of aliens
that represent different kinds of life and different kinds of bodies.  But Paul is saying, "There is a kind of body that
no one has yet seen."  Christ gave a foreshadowing of this when He came out of the tomb with the same body that
He took into the tomb, with a body that had continuity with the one that was buried, but a body that had been
changed.  He had a glorified body, and Paul is saying here that there's a whole new dimension of life and bodily
existence for which we are being prepared.

    Paul continues:  "So also is the resurrection of the dead.  The body is sown in corruption, it is raised in
incorruption" (v. 42).  He's not just talking about sin here, but about perishability.  The body that I have now
is getting old and weak;  it's decaying;  it's undergoing a kind of loss of strength and vitality.  I long for a new body.
My new body will be incorruptible.  It will be invincible.  It won't age.  It won't decay.  It won't wear out.  It won't 
rot.  It won't break.  It won't get sick.  Paul adds:  "It is sown in dishonor;  it is raised in glory.  It is sown in
weakness, it is raised in power.  It is sown  a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body.  There is a natural body,
and there is a spiritual body.  And so it is written, ' The first man Adam became a living being.'  The last Adam
became a life-giving spirit....As was the man of dust, so also are those who are made of dust;  and as is the 
heavenly Man, so also are those who are heavenly" (vv. 43-45, 48).  He concludes with this--think of it:  "And as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly Man" (v. 49).  We will
have bodies like the body of Christ.

    We've asked the question, "When we get to heaven, will we be able to recognize people who are there?"  Certainly
their outward appearances will have changed, and we're accustomed to recognizing people strictly on the basis
of outward appearances.  I like to play around with oil paints.  I'm a novice at it, but I once undertook to paint a
portrait of Martin Luther.  I had to do it in stages.  the first stage was a very rough outline, where I tried to get
the proportion of the head right and get the ear lined up with the nose and so on.  I spent one night working 
on the easel and just roughing in the basic proportions of the portrait o Luther.  When I had finished and cleaned
up my paints and walked away, I stood back and looked at the painting from about thirty feet away.  I said to my
wife:  "Vesta, look at that.  If somone else was painting that portrait, and I came in and saw it here in its raw
and unfinished state, I would instantly know that that was a portrait of Martin Luther."  That's not a testimony
to my artistic ability.  I'm merely saying that even though it was so incomplete and so unlike an exact replica of
Luther's face, there was something on that canvas that I could recognize.  In the same way, Jesus' body was 
different when He came out of the tomb.  It was so different that people did not immediately recognize Him.  but
there were times when, with a second glance, they could see that it was Jesus.  Your departed friends and relatives,
when you see them in heaven, will appear different than they did in this life, but when you see them, you will know
them, and they will know you.

The Interrupters - "Back From The Dead"

The Interrupters - "Back From The Dead" 

Remember, remember I flatlined in December 
Remember, remember? 

Remember when you came into my life and it was fun living dangerously? 
We were thick as thieves, yeah the life of the party, drinking whiskey Tennessee
Countless shots but who’s counting?
Fell from the top of the mountain 
I opened up my eyes, I was feeling paralyzed you were standing over me

You tried to hold me down
You thought you killed me now 
Cuz my lungs stopped breathing
You wanna hold me down
You tried to kill me now
And my heart stopped beating

Back from the dead, back from the dead I come 
Back from the dead 

Remember remember?

Remember all those nights you were looking for a fight, yeah going toe to toe
Ring a ding ding ding yeah we were in the ring you went down like dominoes 
Countless shots but who’s counting, I’m back to the top of the mountain 
I made it out alive holding on to your knife and I’ll never let it go

You tried to hold me down
You thought you killed me now 
Cuz my lungs stopped breathing
You wanna hold me down
You tried to kill me now
And my heart stopped beating

Back from the dead, back from the dead I come 
Back from the dead 

Tumbling down a road of dead icons
They say that only the good they die young
Breaking the curse of club 27
Stuck in the dark between hell and heaven
Reached out to grab the light but kept missing 
Echoes of prayers and screams in the distance
I heard a voice that said to keep running 
Heart beat then the blood start pumping
Back from the dead!

Metallica - Harvester of Sorrow (Live at Sphere, October 17, 2026)

Metallica - Harvester of Sorrow 

My life suffocates
Planting seeds of hate
I’ve loved, turned to hate
Trapped far beyond my fate

I give, you take
This life that I forsake
Been cheated of my youth
You turned this lie to truth

Anger
Misery
You’ll suffer unto me

Harvester of sorrow
Language of the mad
Harvester of sorrow

Pure black, looking clear
My work is done soon here
Try getting back to me
Get back which used to be

Drink up
Shoot in
Let the beatings begin
Distributor of pain
Your loss becomes my gain

Anger
Misery
You’ll suffer unto me

Harvester of sorrow
Language of the mad
Harvester of sorrow

All have said their prayers
Invade their nightmares
To see into my eyes
You’ll find where murder lies

Infanticide

Harvester of sorrow
Language of the mad
Harvester of sorrow
Language of the mad
Harvester of sorrow

Goo Goo Dolls - I’m Still Here - live debut in Aqua Caliente (Jim's Theme - Treasure Planet)

  Goo Goo Dolls - I’m Still Here 

I am a question to the world
Not an answer to be heard
All a moment that's held in your arms
And what do you think you'd ever say?
I won't listen anyway
You don't know me
And I'll never be what you want me to be

And what do you think you'd understand?
I'm a boy, no, I'm a man
You can take me and throw me away
And how can you learn what's never shown?
Yeah, you stand here on your own
They don't know me 'cause I'm not here

And I want a moment to be real
Wanna touch things I don't feel
Wanna hold on and feel I belong
And how can the world want me to change
They're the ones that stay the same
The don't know me
'Cause I'm not here

And you see the things they never see
All you wanted, I could be
Now you know me, and I'm not afraid
And I wanna tell you who I am
Can you help me be a man?
They can't break me
As long as I know who I am

And I want a moment to be real
Wanna touch things I don't feel
Wanna hold on and feel I belong
And how can the world want me to change
They're the ones that stay the same
They can't see me
But I'm still here

They can't tell me who to be
'Cause I'm not what they see
And the world is still sleepin'
While I keep on dreamin' for me
And their words are just whispers
And lies that I'll never believe

And I want a moment to be real
Wanna touch things I don't feel
Wanna hold on and feel I belong
And how can they say I never change
They're the ones that stay the same
I'm the one now,
'Cause I'm still here

I'm the one
'Cause I'm still here
I'm still here
I'm still here
I'm still here

 

Regal Gentleman - He Travelled 600 MILES from an ISLAND Just for THIS Huge Haircut Transformation

Regal Gentleman - Today, we've got James... 

.... in the chair and he wanted a huge haircut transformation from long to medium length after travelling 600 miles from his island in Scotland just for this! James wanted a haircut inspired by Hugh Grant's medium length haircuts from the 90's. 

Fuel - Falls On Me

  Fuel - Falls On Me

 [Verse 1]
I've seen you hanging 'round
This darkness where I'm bound
And this black hole I've dug for me
And silently within
With hands touching skin
The shock breaks my disease
And I can breathe

[Chorus]
And all of your weight, all you dream
Falls on me, it falls on me
And your beautiful sky, the light you bring
Falls on me, it falls on me

[Post-Chorus]
Hah-ah

[Verse 2]
Oh, your faith like the pain
Draws me in again
She washes all my wounds for me
The darkness in my veins
I never could explain
And I wonder if you ever see
Will you still believe?

[Chorus]
And all of your weight, all you dream
Falls on me, it falls on me
And your beautiful sky, the light you bring
Falls on me, it falls on me

[Bridge]
Am I that strong
To carry on?
I might change your life, I might save my world
Could you save me?
Hah-ah

[Chorus]
And all of your weight, all you dream
Falls on me, it falls on me
And your beautiful sky, the light you bring
Falls on me, it falls on me
And all of your weight, all you dream
Falls on me, it falls on me
And your beautiful sky, the light you bring
Falls on me, it falls on me

[Outro]
Hah-ah-ah
Yeah, ah

Bombay Bicycle Club - Shuffle

Bombay Bicycle Club - Shuffle 

 
[Verse 1]
Weight is coming off, soaring high
Pleading you to stay, come alive

[Pre-Chorus]
Say you mean it, seal it up
Say you want to try
Say you haven't had enough
Say you want to

[Chorus]
Once you get the feeling, it
Wants you back for more
Says it's going to heal it, but
You won't make the call
One step back, you're leaving it
Now it's moving on
Why won't you believe in it
Until it's gone?

[Verse 2]
Fading at the light
Softly say
Get it out my mind anyway

[Pre-Chorus]
Say you mean it, seal it up
Say you want to try
Say you haven't had enough
Say you want to

[Chorus]
Once you get the feeling, it
Wants you back for more
Says it's going to heal it, but
You won't make the call
One step back, you're leaving it
Now it's moving on
Why won't you believe in it
Until it's gone?
Once you get the feeling, it
Wants you back for more
Now it gets ethereal
Feet ain't on the floor
One step back you're leaving it
Jumping at the wall
Why won't you believe in it
'Til it's gone?

[Bridge]
You gave to me
All I know
I will stay here
I will not go
You gave to me
All I know
I will stay here
I will not go

David Kushner - I Walk Away

 David Kushner - I Walk Away

You are my mistake
I had the blindest faith
Now all I can do is pray
You'll leave me alone
Cause I don't really care about you
And you don't give a damn about me
It’s wrong and I don't know what to do
You've taken all the joy right out me
So long since I've been okay
Too scared of ever walking away
So gone the dams about to break
I know how much shit I can take
Now I walk away
Now I walk away
Now I walk away
Now I walk away
It took me some time to see
Your demons that hid beneath
I needed some honesty
Now leave me alone
Cause I don't really care about you
And you don't give a damn about me
It’s wrong and I don't know what to do
You've taken all the joy right out me
So long since I've been okay
Too scared of ever walking away
So gone the dams about to break
I know how much shit I can take
Now I walk away
Now I walk away
Now I walk away
Now I walk away
I've been so scared to lose
But I can't be sad forever
I'm not gonna win with you
I've waited all this time to say
Now I walk away
Now I walk away
Now I walk away
Now I walk away

Tom Morello - Soldier In The Army Of Love (ft. Roman Morello) Jimmy Kimmel Live

 Tom Morello - Soldier In The Army Of Love (ft. Roman Morello)  

I’m a soldier in the army of love

Transforming motherf---ers like Saul into Paul 
On the road to Damascus at the Westfield Mall
In the maquiladoras and at Carnegie Hall
In the grain elevator making fascists crawl
On the banks of the Volga
Watching Messerschmidts fall
 

Lunatic on the corner when they’re dropping the ball
On New Year’s Eve We’re taking it all
 

I’m a soldier in the army of love
 
Trained to fetch, beg stay and sit
Research suggests you’re all full of shit
Ain’t fixin’ to crawl, I’m fixin’ to spit
Like if Secretariat spit the bit
Like if Joe be Strumming, like if London be Calling
My trumpet’s blaring and Jericho’s falling
 
A hood and a badge, cash credit or check
But the maid’s got a secret, she’s seeing you next
She sprayed the whole office then mopped up the floor
Black History Month got one chapter more

I’m a soldier in the army of love
 
Coal in the lungs, lead in the water
The lambs got together led the butcher to the slaughter
I know the girl who set them free and I’m glad they never caught her
Tectonic plates set to shift
Border patrol’ll never catch this riff
Gotta turn your illness to a weapon son 
Who needs a weapon when you were born one?

I’m a soldier in the army of love

P.O.D. - Change the World

P.O.D. - Change the World 

Imagine a place only your soul can vision
The heart of a child who looks, sees, and listens
Paints a picture using every color
And what she sees, she sees is like no other

One word, a voice unheard
You can Change The World
With everything I know your made of
One word, a voice unheard
You can Change The World
If everyone would stop and listen

The art of innocence makes so much sense
But placed in the wrong hands, then it's wasted
Filtered through the eyes of a pure mind
A one-of-a-kind paradise for you and I

One word, a voice unheard
You can Change The World
With everything I know your made of
One word, a voice unheard
You can Change The World
If everyone would stop and listen
Break the cycle, find your rhythm
Share the gift that you've been given - Love
You can, You can Change The World
You can Change The World with love

One word, a voice unheard
You can Change The World
With everything I know your made of
One word, a voice unheard
You can Change The World
If everyone would stop and listen