My favourite songs....

1) With or without you - U2
- absolutely brilliant song from the brilliant Joshua Tree album

2) One - U2

Well it's too late, tonight

To drag the past out into the light

We're one, but we're not the same

We get to carry each other

Carry each other

One

-a great message without being too preachy

3) Everybody Hurts- REM

When the day is long and the night, the night is yours alone,
When you're sure you've had enough of this life, well hang on
Don't let yourself go, everybody cries and everybody hurts sometimes

- we have all been there at sometime when we felt like giving up but hope springs eternal

4) Bridge Over Troubled Waters -Simon and Garfunkel

When you're weary, feeling small,
When tears are in your eyes, I will dry them all;
I'm on your side. When times get rough
And friends just can't be found,
Like a bridge over troubled water
I will lay me down.
Like a bridge over troubled water
I will lay me down.

A bridge over troubled waters...enough said.

5) American Pie - Don Mclean

- the entire history of Rock n' Roll in a song, fun trying to make out the references

6) Love Me - Collin Raye

- a timeless tribute to love

7) Heart of the Matter - Don Henley

But I'm learning to live without you now
But I miss you sometimes
The more I know, the less I understand
All the things I thought I knew, I'm learning again

I've been trying to get down to the heart of the matter
But my will gets weak and my thoughts seem to scatter
But I think it's about forgiveness
Forgiveness
Even if, even if you don't love me anymore

- a song of being hurt in love and learning to forgive....

8) End of the Innocence- Don Henley

- a song about coming of age in this world and innocence lost

9) I Can't Help Falling in Love With You - Elvis Presley

- how one falls head-over-heels for someone that belongs to another

10) Better be Home Soon- Crowded House

Somewhere deep inside
Something's got a hold on you
And it's pushing me aside
See it stretch on forever
I know I'm right
For the first time in my life
That's why I tell you
You'd better be home soon

- poignant song about how sometimes we let true love slip through our fingers...