Open Mic Night Lyrics - June 14, 2023

“Halo” - by Beyonce

[Verse 1] Remember those walls I built? Well, baby, they're tumblin' down And they didn't even put up a fight They didn't even make a sound I found a way to let you win But I never really had a doubt Standin' in the light of your halo I got my angel now [Pre-Chorus] It's like I've been awakened Every rule, I had you breakin' It's the risk that I'm takin' I ain't never gonna shut you out [Chorus] Everywhere I'm lookin' now I'm surrounded by your embrace Baby, I can see your halo You know you're my savin' grace You're everything I need and more It's written all over your face Baby, I can feel your halo Pray it won't fade away

[Post-Chorus] I can feel your halo, halo, halo I can see your halo, halo, halo I can feel your halo, halo, halo I can see your halo, halo, halo [Verse 2] Hit me like a ray of sun Burnin' through my darkest night You're the only one that I want Think I'm addicted to your light I swore I'd never fall again But this don't even feel like fallin' Gravity can't forget To pull me back to the ground again [Pre-Chorus] It's like I've been awakened Every rule, I had you breakin' The risk that I'm takin' I'm never gonna shut you out [Chorus] Everywhere I'm lookin' now I'm surrounded by your embrace Baby, I can see your halo You know you're my savin' grace You're everything I need and more It's written all over your face Baby, I can feel your halo Pray it won't fade away

[Post-Chorus] I can feel your halo, halo, halo I can see your halo, halo, halo I can feel your halo, halo, halo I can see your halo, halo, halo I can feel your halo, halo, halo I can see your halo, halo, halo I can feel your halo, halo, halo I can see your halo, halo, halo [Bridge] Halo Halo *Vocalisations* [Chorus] Everywhere I'm lookin' now I'm surrounded by your embrace Baby, I can see your halo You know you're my savin' grace You're everything I need and more It's written all over your face Baby, I can feel your halo Pray it won't fade away [Post-Chorus] I can feel your halo, halo, halo I can see your halo, halo, halo I can feel your halo, halo, halo I can see your halo, halo, halo (Ooh-ooh) I can feel your halo, halo, halo I can see your halo, halo, halo I can feel your halo, halo, halo I can see your halo, halo, halo

“We Didn’t Start the Fire” - Billy Joel

Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, television North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe

Rosenbergs, H-bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom Brando, "The King and I", and "The Catcher in the Rye" Eisenhower, Vaccine, England's got a new queen Marciano, Liberace, Santayana, goodbye

We didn't start the fire It was always burning, since the world's been turning We didn't start the fire No, we didn't light it, but we tried to fight it

Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser and Prokofiev Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc Roy Cohn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, Dacron Dien Bien Phu falls, "Rock Around the Clock"

Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn's got a winning team Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Krushchev Princess Grace, Peyton Place, Trouble in the Suez

We didn't start the fire It was always burning, since the world's been turning We didn't start the fire No, we didn't light it, but we tried to fight it

Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac Sputnik, Chou En-Lai, "Bridge on the River Kwai" Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, California baseball Starkweather homicide, children of thalidomide

Buddy Holly, Ben Hur, space monkey, mafia Hula hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no-go U2, Syngman Rhee, Payola and Kennedy Chubby Checker, Psycho, Belgians in the Congo

We didn't start the fire It was always burning, since the world's been turning We didn't start the fire No, we didn't light it, but we tried to fight it

Hemingway, Eichmann, "Stranger in a Strange Land" Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs invasion "Lawrence of Arabia", British Beatlemania Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British politician sex JFK – blown away, what else do I have to say?

We didn't start the fire It was always burning, since the world's been turning We didn't start the fire No, we didn't light it, but we tried to fight it

Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon back again Moonshot, Woodstock, Watergate, punk rock Begin, Reagan, Palestine, terror on the airline Ayatollah's in Iran, Russians in Afghanistan

"Wheel of Fortune", Sally Ride, heavy metal suicide Foreign debts, homeless vets, AIDS, crack, Bernie Goetz Hypodermics on the shore, China's under martial law Rock and roller, cola wars, I can't take it anymore

We didn't start the fire It was always burning, since the world's been turning We didn't start the fire But when we are gone It will still burn on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on

We didn't start the fire It was always burning, since the world's been turning We didn't start the fire No, we didn't light it, but we tried to fight it

We didn't start the fire It was always burning, since the world's been turning We didn't start the fire No, we didn't light it, but we tried to fight it

We didn't start the fire It was always burning, since the world's been turning We didn't start the fire No, we didn't light it, but we tried to fight it

“Evermore” - by Dan Stevens

I was the one who had it all I was the master of my fate I never needed anybody in my life I learned the truth too late

I'll never shake away the pain I close my eyes, but she's still there I let her steal into my melancholy heart It's more than I can bear

Now I know she'll never leave me Even as she runs away She will still torment me, calm me, hurt me Move me, come what may

Wasting in my lonely tower Waiting by an open door I'll fool myself, she'll walk right in And be with me for evermore

I rage against the trials of love I curse the fading of the light Though she's already flown so far beyond my reach She's never out of sight

Now I know she'll never leave me Even as she fades from view She will still inspire me Be a part of everything I do

Wasting in my lonely tower Waiting by an open door I'll fool myself, she'll walk right in And as the long, long nights begin I'll think of all that might have been Waiting here for evermore

“Both Sides Now” - By Joni Mitchell

Rows and flows of angel hair And ice cream castles in the air And feather canyons everywhere Looked at clouds that way

But now they only block the sun They rain and they snow on everyone So many things I would have done But clouds got in my way

I've looked at clouds from both sides now From up and down and still somehow It's cloud illusions I recall I really don't know clouds at all

Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels The dizzy dancing way that you feel As every fairy tale comes real I've looked at love that way

But now it's just another show And you leave 'em laughing when you go And if you care, don't let them know Don't give yourself away

I've looked at love from both sides now From give and take and still somehow It's love's illusions that I recall I really don't know love Really don't know love at all

Tears and fears and feeling proud To say, "I love you" right out loud Dreams and schemes and circus crowds I've looked at life that way

Oh, but now old friends they're acting strange And they shake their heads and they tell me that I've changed Well something's lost, but something's gained In living every day

I've looked at life from both sides now From win and lose and still somehow It's life's illusions I recall I really don't know life at all

It's life's illusions that I recall I really don't know life I really don't know life at all

“Reset” - from “Okami”

Millions of flower petals fall, scattering and coloring the town. However this time is at its end, as the wind had foretold it to us all. There's no need to worry anymore, the seasons always find a way to change. We knew that since the time that we, watched the moon in its brilliance before.

All the time constantly, we shed these tears and we do it again and again. We don't know how much it's worth, until it's gone away for good! If I could have just one wish I would go back to who I was. Yesterday, and I'd say, my goodbyes to you. If my feelings stay the same and do not change or fade away, Just meet me, at our favorite cherry tree! We made a promise on that sunny day, so I made sure that it won't be lost. By tracing my fingers on the beams, of the sunlight that chased the dark away.

No moment is the same, as the one after it, you can't return to the past. I'll move on with life and then, I won't hesitate again!

So that all my deepest prayers will reach you safely where you are, to this day, I will sing this song again for you.

If the answers that I'm looking for exist within the world, gently please just tell me that they do. No moment is the same as the one after it, you can't return to thepast. I'll move on with life and then, I won't hesitate again! If I could have just one wish

I would go back to who I was, back in time, just to sing, once again to you. If my feelings stay the same and do not change or fade away, just meet me, at our favorite cherry tree! So that all my deepest prayers will reach you safely where you are, to this day, I will sing this song again for you.

If the answers that I'm looking for are right before my eyes, gently, please just tell me that they are... And Reset all the sadness within me...

Burnin' Desire - By Jessica (Original)

Stumblin' down the road of what you need there is destruction in desire

Let's walk the road together steppin' on burnin' fires

Your dreams are just a fantasy that are sometimes lead astray

Your fate is like a destiny that will always find a way 

At times we all face obstacles, sometimes we break and fall

Sometimes we need a friend to call, that one true friend of all 

I wanna be there for ya baby, I wanna take away your pain 

So much to say but you're not listenin', so much to say but you don't hear 

The road ahead seems faded, follow your heart but watch the signs 

Along the way choose victory, take my hand and we'll walk the line

The path you chose is narrow, full of demons from your past 

Don't turn around, no light there, it's not what you have planned 

I wanna be there for ya baby

Let's walk ahead and you'll be fine 

I wanna be there for ya baby 

Yeah we'll build a road and make new signs 

“Goodnight” - Emmi (Original)

I never thought I'd find someone

Someone who reads my mind

Even when I lie

I never thought I'd find

Someone who's on my mind

Oh, at night

I write about

Don't show when I'm scared

I don't trust people at my age

A little careful, closed off

But you're here now

I adore you

I'm only seventeen

Scared of the world beneath my feet

Slipping away by twenty-three

Waking up to nothing

But I know

That you'll be here

When I awake

Making a pot of mac and cheese

So goodnight

Goodnight

Goodnight

Tomorrow I'll sing again

So goodnight

Goodnight

Goodnight

Goodnight

“City of Love” - Emmi (Original)

In the city of love

Everyone's found love

And it seems that 

I've just arrived

And I am just a visitor

Nomad, no ties, know that

I'm not staying for a while

But when you open up

And I just stand there with no words

Making you feel sorry for talking

And I feel so paralyzed

I don't need

Anyone except for me

Yeah, I don't need

Anyone except for

Except for

Oh, why don't I feel anything?

Why won't the tears drop for you?

Why do I let you hurt alone?

It's not a part of me

Love's not in my anatomy

Why do I only hurt when it's about

Me

“These Days” - by Macklemore

I know you moved onto someone new Hope life is beautiful You were the light for me to find my truth I just wanna say, thank you

Leaving to find my soul Told her I had to go And I know it ain't pretty When our hearts get broke Too young to feel this old Watching us both turn cold Oh, I know it ain't pretty When two hearts get broke Yeah, I know it ain't pretty When two hearts get broke

I hope someday we'll sit down together And laugh with each other about these days, these days All our troubles, we'll lay to rest and We'll wish we could come back to these days, these days

Oh, I know, I know Oh, I know, I know Oh, I know, I know These days, these days

Oh, I know, I know Oh, I know, I know Oh, I know, I know These days, these days

Three years of ups and downs Nothing to show for it now And I know it ain't pretty When the fire burns out Calling me when I'm drunk Remind me of what I've done And I know it ain't pretty When you're trying to move on, yeah

I hope someday we'll sit down together And laugh with each other about these days, these days All our troubles, we'll lay to rest and We'll wish we could come back to these days, these days

Oh, I know, I know Oh, I know, I know Oh, I know, I know These days, these days

Oh, I know, I know Oh, I know, I know Oh, I know, I know To these days, these days, oh

Cigarettes in the ash tray Reminiscing on those past days I thought you'd end up with my last name But that changed

And I travelled around the world, think where you living at now? I heard you moved to Austin, got a new apartment and settled down And every once in a while I start texting Write a paragraph, but then I delete the message

Think 'bout you like a past time I could cry you a river, get you baptised or I wasn't ready to act right Used to always think I'd get you back, right

They say that things fall apart (Yeah) We were gonna move to Brooklyn, you were gonna study Art Love is just a tool to remind us who we are And that we are not alone when we're walking in the dark

I hope someday we'll sit down together And laugh with each other about these days, these days All our troubles, we'll lay to rest and We'll wish we could come back to these days, these days

We'll wish we could come back to these days, these days

God Bless America - by Irving Berlin

God bless America, land that I love Stand beside her and guide her Through the night with the light from above

From the mountains to the prairies To the oceans white with foam God bless America, my home sweet home

God bless America, land that I love Stand beside her and guide her Through the night with the light from above

From the mountains to the prairies To the oceans white with foam God bless America, my home sweet home

From the mountains to the prairies To the oceans white with foam God bless America, my home sweet home God bless America, my home sweet home

This Land is Your Land - By Woody Guthrie

This land is your land and this land is my land From California to the New York island From the redwood forest to the Gulf Stream waters This land was made for you and me

As I went walking that ribbon of highway I saw above me that endless skyway Saw below me that golden valley This land was made for you and me

I roamed and rambled and I've followed my footsteps To the sparkling sands of her diamond deserts All around me a voice was sounding This land was made for you and me

When the sun come shining, then I was strolling And the wheat fields waving and the dust clouds rolling The voice was chanting as the fog was lifting This land was made for you and me

This land is your land and this land is my land From California to the New York island From the redwood forest to the Gulf Stream waters This land was made for you and me

When the sun come shining, then I was strolling And the wheat fields waving and the dust clouds rolling The voice come a-chanting and the fog was lifting This land was made for you and me