Filed under: Acoustic, Christian, Pop, Songs | Tags: chris tomlin christian pop acoustic
has amazing music and lyrics 
maybe sometimes can be fluffy but it’s great 
“Everything you hold in your hands, yet you make time for me, I can’t understand..
“Praise you God of earth and sky, How beautiful is your unfailing love..”
This song means so much more now that I’ve seen the movie ‘Taiyou no uta’
refer to my christian drama/anime review blog for more details 
Here is the song
[To see the Japanese version and hear the song go to this lyrics site ]
Translation Good-bye Days
So I’ll go to you now, I’ve made up my mind
I want to play you the song in my pocket
I quietly turned up the volume to make sure
Oh good-bye days
I feel like things are changing now
So long yesterday and before
I have a clumsy tenderness by my side
~With you
I pass you one earphone
And in that moment, it plays slowly
I am I loving you right? Sometimes I get confused
Oh good-bye days
Now what’s in my heart has begun to change, alright
I have a clumsy tenderness by my side
~With you
I don’t want to have sad thoughts if I can help it
But they’re bound to come, right?
When they do, I’ll smile and say
Yeah hello! I hope I can call you
My friend…
When we sing the same song
Be by my side, I wish
I’m glad I found that clumsy tenderness
…Good-bye days
I heard she was writing a new album and it’s out soon! it’s been years! I wonder how her voice has changed if at all
just today her song stuck in my head
“I wanted, to be like you, but I got swept away..
If you want to I can save you,
I can take you away from here,
so lonely inside, so busy out there,
and all you wanted was somebody to care..
Please can you tell me, so I can finally see.. where you go when you’re gone..”
A friend asked me a few weeks ago.. what cd was my favorite..
but I dont really have one..
it all depends on my mood..
she told me to name three cds..
I thought about it later.. and .. I don’t have a particular cd
but I do not mind listening to songs that reflect my mood or my thoughts or my personality..
I think that’s what makes me like a song a lot..
and of course, the melody can’t be too repetitive or cliched.. cos then I’d start to get sick of it or cringe it..
I can’t listen to one song for too long.. I get afraid that I’d hate it in the end
But if you have to narrow it to Cds.. then those that I won’t get sick of that easily are:
Breakaway – Kelly Clarkson
Fumbling into Ecstacy, Afterglow – Sarah Mclachlan
Best of – The Corrs
Innocent Eyes – Delta goodrem [selected]
Shades of Purple – M2M [selected/mood]
What to do with daylight – Brooke Fraser [selected]
Incomplete – BSB [selected]
Damien Leith’s first album of covers – selected [I only like his voice haha not that i've heard of his actual songs though ]
Michelle Branch’s First album! Spirit Room
Growing to like cds/artists – but need to listen to more thoroughly:
The Fray, Lifehouse, Nickelback, Chris Tomlin, Albertine – Brooke Fraser, Sakamoto Maaya’s new album from Japan, Imogen Heap, Yui, Jason Mraz – cool stuff!
Old favorites that I listen only when I’m in the right mood lol..cos some are just cringy or remind me of things..:
James Blunt, Veronicas, Guy Sebastian, BSB oldschool, Evanescence, Savage Garden, Utada Hikaru, Ayumi Hamasaki, Musicals of sorts, furniture music, OSTs/soundtracks
sometimes songs just stick and they don’t relate to anything..
or maybe they do.. in some way
oooh
for some reason I thought these two songs were the same song.. maybe cos it worked when you sung it..
—-
“Been up all night drinking[thinking], to drown my sorrow down/I would not hesitate”
“to tell you all the things I never said before, don’t tell me it’s too late..
Cos I’ve relied on my illusions,
to keep me warm at night..
But I denied in my capacity to love
I’m willing to give up this fight..” [then connects to]
“If all of the strength and all of the courage
Come and lift me from this place,
I know I can love you much better than this..”
It’s interesting.. cos they contradict.. just like my mind does sometimes
The songs are by Sarah Mclachlan
But here I go with some memory dumps of recent lines from songs
atm it’s a jap one
called Passion by utada
omoi dase wa,…mitaa.. boku ni wa… [mostly music cos I can't remember the lyrics ]
—
from High School musical 2[This is gonna be one of those songs I'll be able to sing off by heart ]:
I gotta say what’s on my mind,
something about us, doesn’t seem right, these days,
life keeps getting in the way,
whenever we try somehow the plan, is always rearranged..
It’s so hard to say, but I gotta do what’s best for me, you’ll be ok,..
I go to move on and be who I am,
I just don’t belong here,
I hope you understand..
We might find our place in this world someday,
but at least for now,
I gotta go my own way..
—-
Avril Lavigne’s Innocence:
This innocence, is brilliant,
I hope that it would stay,
This moment, is perfect..
please don’t go away,
I need you now..
so hold on to this won’t you let it pass you by..
—-
I’m yours – Jason Mraz
I won’t hesitate no more, no more…
It can not wait, I’m yours..
..listen to the music with the moment maybe on sing with me.. I love[ala] peaceful melody..
No need to complicate our time is sure, this is our fate I’m yours..
—-
Garnet – Oku Hanako – a friend’s favorite song
何時か外の誰かの
好きに成ったとしても
あなたがはずっと
特別で大切で
待ったこの季節が回ってく
[translation]
Even if someday I like someone else,
You will always be special and important to me,
like the seasons which come again..
Lately I’ve been downloading some songs from itunes cos I got an itunes gift card from a friend for doing photography work with her
and then I think because of that It also lead to buying various albums
I found some albums to be cheaper if I bought them in a shop and others cheaper on itunes – if I only wanted one or two songs etc..
so what I got so far are old albums as well as a few new..
Brooke Fraser – Albertine
Sarah Mclachlan – Solace
Kelly Clarkson – Thankful
Chris Tomlin – Arriving
Garage Hymnal – Take my life
Currently Bidding:
Lifehouse – No name face
Bought on itunes – some stuff that I had liked before and heard on radio or recommended by friends or remixes[some weren't that good].
Utada Hikaru – remixes – Addicted to you, Hikari, Passion – game ver, Wait & See
Jars of Clay – Waiting for the world to fall
Avril Lavigne – My happy ending, When you’re gone
Lifehouse – You and me, Hanging by a moment
Kelly Clarkson – remix acappella – Walk away
Rachel Yamagata – Quiet, Be be loved
Delta Goodrem – Believe Again, In this life, Bare Hands
Ne-yo – Because of You
The sucky thing about itunes is, once you buy it, and if the song sucks, you can’t get the money back 
I just found out just now that that song by Kelly Clarkson sounds So different on the Thankful album compared to the Breakaway album – a live version..
I like the live version way better, I don’t know why but the album version sounds so different and not appealing.. :/
maybe cos I’m used to the live ver..
but anyway, about kelly, I’m gonna see her live concert in march!!! XD
and although I love her breakaway album, I find the newest album to be a different style and too rocky with a different attitude?[so I didn't get it] and then her past album ‘Thankful’.. a bit weak maybe.. – or maybe they’ll grow on me..
was happy when yui songs had clips on facebook haha
go yui!
Yui is a Japanese acoustic singer.. she takes her guitar around everywhere
I think the songs that I can sing best and that suit my voice..
And I can remember well and sing without getting mistakes [much anyway] the best include:
My Immortal – Evanescence
I’m With You – Avril Lavigne
Think of me – Phantom of the opera [just not the ending part ]
Don’t say you love me – M2M
Edit: I put a page for this on the side, so I can add to it
And those which are suited but I still can get mistakes/trouble singing:
Quiet – Rachael Yamagata
Good Enough, Lithium – Evanescence
Some Brooke Fraser songs incl: Mystery, Waste another day
Some BSB songs incl: I Just want you to know, Shape of my heart, The one, and more.
Kelly clarkson – Because of you, Behind these hazel eyes, Beautiful Disaster, +
[although there are higher parts that I have trouble singing heh]
Most Sarah Mclachlan songs that I like/sing well[not as well as her] – perfect girl, good enough, elsewhere, hold on, circle, push, possession
Dido – The popular ones – White Flag, Here with me
James Blunt – some incl: High, Goodbye my Lover, Cry, Tears and Rain
Mandy Moore – Only Hope, Crush, Cry,
The Corrs – Runaway, Radio, Love to love you, Give me a reason, +
Nickelback – Someday, Saving me,
Chasing cars, How to save a life [in different keys cos it's too low lol]
Savage Garden – some..
The lower ranged delta goodrem – Butterfly, Innocent eyes, Will you fall for me
M2M songs~
Jap:
slow Ayumi songs
You are my love – Yui Makino
For Fruits Basket
Kaze no Machi e
Truth – Yuna Ito [have just sung it once or twice but I can see the vocals suit me]
Arigatou – Kokia
Life is a boat – Bleach
Slow Yui songs incl: Good bye Days
Slow Utada songs [yes slow are better when they are hard to sing]
Boa – Every Heart
Some korean songs provided I have the lyrics and the proper pronounciation
Songs others like me to sing:
cutesy anime ones that are a bit babyish/childish at times..
Other songs that I like and can’t sing?
Veronicas, JT, Yui, Utada, any fast songs – oh and all the other artists listed on facebook
and those hard ones that jenny can sing like mariah carey, beyonce hehe..
