Alive

20 comments:

Meghan said...

Is something wrong, she said.
Well of course there is.
Youre still alive, she said.
Oh, and do I deserve to be.
Is that the question?
And if so, if so, who answers?

I, oh, I'm still alive.

Alive by Pearl Jam

Deborah in IL said...

He came here to take an outlaw back alive or maybe dead
And he said it didn't matter, he was after Texas Red

Big Iron
Marty Robbins

Sally said...

Someone to hold you too close,
Someone to hurt you too deep,
Someone to sit in your chair,
And ruin your sleep,
And make you aware of being alive,
Being alive.

-from Sondheim's "Company"

Heaz said...

I'm a cowboy
On a steel horse I ride
I'm wanted
Dead or alive

-Bon Jovi

Sally said...

Frosty the Snowman
Was alive as he could be
And the children say
He could laugh and play
Just the same as you and me

Heaz said...

In Dublin's fair city
Where girls are so pretty
I first set my eyes on sweet Molly Malone
She'd wheel her wheelbarrow
Through streets broad and narrow
Singing "Cockles and mussels,
Alive, alive-o!"

Sandra Dodd said...

Heather, that's the one!
Last night when I put this up and then fell into bed, I remember thinking I should wake up and play "Cockles and Mussels." I woke up, looked at the word, and thought I did not know one single song with "alive" in it.

I guess I slept well!

Okay, here's an obscure one:

See a hundred and twenty-nine snakes alive
See the bees make honey in the glass beehive
At Uncle John's Original Fantascinatin' Roadside Stand

(I don't remember the singers, but I have the album, somewhere up there in my vast and dusty collection. And I might be wrong about the number of snakes.)

Unknown said...

Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, staying alive, staying alive
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, staying ali-i-i-ive

Sorry, I don't know any of the other words. =)

Shanona Ryder said...

I'm alive
and the world shines for me today...

---ELO, from Xanadu

Sandra Dodd said...

I want to be close to you
You make me feel so alive

"Natural Woman," Carole King

Sylvia said...

Wish I could stop,
Switch off the clock,
Make it all happen for you.

I'm alive, so alive.

I'm Alive ~ Love and Rockets

Deborah in IL said...

And somewhere between the time you arrive
And the time you go
May lie a reason you were alive
But you'll never know

For a Dancer
Jackson Browne

Anonymous said...

all right, at five minutes to midnight,
we see our name in city lights.
we'll make the clock stop,
make your heart drop and come alive.

[boys like girls - five minutes to midnight]
:3

Mark Horning said...

But you're still alive,
there's a face in the mirror,
still alive, the dead don't bleed

"Still Alive" -leslie fish

Pam said...

Stay until your love is
Alive and Kicking
---Simple Minds

Pam said...

It ain't no sin to be glad you're alive. I want to find one face that ain't lookin' through me. I want to find one face - I want to spit in the face of these Badlands!....
--Bruce Springsteen

hahamommy said...

someone to draw you right,
someone to catch the light,
I'm alive
I'm alive

~Bubbles, James
Their amazing new CD: Hey Ma

Margaret said...

I've married many men, a ton of them
Because I've been untrue to none of them
Because I bumped off every one of them
To keep my love alive

Rogers & Hart

Margaret said...

Now it's over, I'm dead and I haven't done anything that I want
Or I'm still alive and there's nothing I want to do

TMBG

Pervection said...

And every time you speak her name
Does she know how you told me you'd hold me
Until you died, till you died
But you're still alive

- You Oughta Know, by Alanis Morissette