CHANGE OF HEART
CYNDI LAUPER
SONGWRITERS: CYNDI LAUPER & ESSRA MOHAWK
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: TRUE COLORS
LABEL: EPIC RECORDS
GENRE: DANCE-POP
YEAR: 1986

Cynthia Ann Stephanie Lauper (born June 22, 1953) is an American singer, songwriter, actress and LGBT rights activist. Her career has spanned over 30 years. Her debut solo album She's So Unusual (1983) was the first debut female album to chart four top-five hits on the Billboard Hot 100—"Girls Just Want to Have Fun", "Time After Time", "She Bop", and "All Through the Night"—and earned Lauper the Best New Artist award at the 27th Grammy Awards in 1985. Her success continued with the soundtrack for the motion Picture The Goonies and her second record True Colors (1986). This album included the number one single "True Colors" and "Change of Heart", which peaked at number three.
"Change of Heart" is the second single released by American Singer Cyndi Lauper from her second album, True Colors in 1986. The single went gold in the US and peaked at No. 3 in the Billboard Hot 100. The song has become a fan favorite and Lauper still often performs it. Lauper re-recorded it acoustically. Popular remixes by Shep Pettibone were also released. A music video was filmed in Trafalgar Square in London. It features Lauper and her band performing the song in front of a large group of people.
The Bangles sang background vocals on the original recording.
A live version of the song was released on Lauper's live album/DVD, To Memphis, with Love.
Here I am
Just like I said I would be
I'm your friend
Just like you think it should be
Did you think I would stand here and lie
As our moment was passing us by
Oh I am here

Waiting for your change of heart
It just takes a beat
To turn it around
Yes I'm waiting for your change of heart
At the edge of my seat
Please turn it around

Days go by
Leaving me with a hunger
I could fly
Back to when we were younger
When adventures like cars we would ride
And the years lied ahead still untried
While I stand here

Waiting for your change of heart
It just takes a beat
To turn it around
Yes I'm waiting for your change of heart
At the edge of my seat
Please turn it around
Turn it around...

Blind leading blind
Never hear the laughter
Search through time
Nothing reveals the answer
If it's truth that you're looking to find
It is nowhere outside of your mind
I bide my time

Waiting for your change of heart
It just takes a beat
To turn it around
Yes I'm waiting for your change of heart
At the edge of my seat
Please turn it around
Turn it around...
Waiting for your change of heart...
EVEN THE DARKNESS HAS ARMS
THE BARR BROTHERS
SONGWRITERS: ANDREW GILMORE BARR; PHILIP BRADFORD BARR & SARAH PAGÉ
WHERE: WFUV
COUNTRY: CANADA
ALBUM: SLEEPING OPERATOR
LABEL: SECRET CITY RECORDS
GENRE: NEOFOLK
YEAR: 2014

The Barr Brothers is a band founded in Montreal, Quebec, consisting of two American brothers Andrew and Brad Barr and Canadian Sarah Pagé
Based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, the group consists of two brothers: drummer Andrew Barr and songwriter and guitar player Brad Barr, both from Providence, Rhode Island. The third core member is harpist Sarah Pagé. Other instrumentation and musicians are added on tour, as needed.
Brad and Andrew Barr moved to Montreal from Providence, RI in 2005 after a decade of touring and recording as ⅔ of the trio, The Slip. That group was noted for its approach to long-form, live improvisation and was equally considered part of the jam band and experimental music scenes.
I was holding my breath
When the tightrope walker slipped into the moonglow
Saying all my children, follow me
Maybe it's time to go
You can be cruel when you're wise
You can be wise when you're blue
And baby, if I have
Then I have for you

Bribing the jury to keep me in jail
Singing Tea For The Tillerman
And although I lie fantastically
This woman knows of my history
It's a miracle I can see
You can be wrong when you're right
Even when you're right on cue
And if I die tonight
Then I die for you

Calling on those that call me son
Great-grandson, or grandson
Great uncles, aunts and relatives
To judge what I have done
Gonna make right by you
Even if it's all I do
And if it's all I do, then I do for yo

People have raised a whole lotta hell
About the water in the windmill
And although I stab chaotically
It hurts no one but me
Even the darkness has arms
But they ain't got you
And baby, I have it
And I have you, too

And the light in the window
To pass the night through
May be so uncertain
But what can I do
Keeping it on
Keeping it on
And I know I like it
But what does that prove
Sometimes I worry I don't know how to love you

I bring to you with reverent hand
All the books and the lullabies
The kind woman that my passion wore
Like the shoreline wears the tides
Maybe the water went dry
Keeping an eye on you
And with an eye on you
It could drown me too

People have raised a whole lotta hell
About the water in the windmill
And although I stab chaotically
I swore an oath on my history
It's a miracle I can see
Even the darkness has arms
But they ain't got you
And baby, I have it
And I have you, too

And the light in the window
To pass the night through
May be so uncertain
But what can I do
Keeping it on
Keeping it on
And I know I like it
But what does that prove
Sometimes I worry I don't know how to love you.
TEARDROP
JOSÉ GONZÁLES
SONGWRITERS: ANDREW LEE ISAAC VOWLES; GRANTLEY EVAN MARSHALL; ELIZABETH FRASER & ROBERT DEL NAJA
WHERE: LIVE AT RIVIERHOF
COUNTRY: U. K.
ALBUM: IN OUR NATURE
LABEL: MUTE
GENRE: TRIP-HOP
YEAR: 2007

"Teardrop" is a song by English trip hop group Massive Attack. It features lead vocals and lyrics by Elizabeth Fraser, the lead singer for the Cocteau Twins. It was released as the second single from their third studio album, Mezzanine (1998), on 27 April 1998. The song became another hit for the group in the United Kingdom, peaking at number 10.
Love, love is a verb
Love is a doing word
Feathers on my breath
Gentle impulsion
Shakes me makes me lighter
Feathers on my breath

Teardrop on the fire
Feathers on my breath

Night, nights of matter
Black flowers blossom
Feathers on my breath
Teardrop on the fire of a confession
Feathers on my breath
Black flowers blossom
Feathers on my breath

Water is my eye
Most faithful mirror
Feathers on my breath
Teardrop on the fire of a confession
Feathers on my breath
Most faithful mirror
Feathers on my breath

Teardrop on the fire
Feathers on my breath

You're stumbling into all
You're stumbling into all.
FORGET ME NOT TODAY
VERA LYNN
SONGWRITER: JOHNNY MAY; BILL SINCLAIR & JOHNNY REINE
COUNTRY: U. K.
ALBUM: THE FORCES’SWEETHEART ULTIMATE
LABEL: MONO RECORDING
GENRE: POP
YEAR: 1952

Dame Vera Lynn DBE (born March 20, 1917 in East Ham, Essex, England) is an English singer and actress. She was born Vera Margaret Welch. When she began performing in public at age seven, she adopted her grandmother's maiden name (Lynn) as her stage name. Her first radio broadcast, with the Joe Loss Orchestra, was in 1935. At this time she was being featured on records released by dance bands including those of Loss and of Charlie Kunz.
She was popular during World War II. Her best known songs are We'll Meet Again and The White Cliffs of Dover.
Lynn has given much of her time and energy to working with charities for former military servicemen, disabled children, and breast cancer. She is still admired by veterans of the Second World War. She was named the Briton who best exemplified the spirit of the twentieth century in 2000
Forget Me Not is a song that was recorded by Vera Lynn in 1952. It charted at a peak position of number five on the UK Singles Chart.
The mere mention of Vera Lynn's name evokes images of London skies filled with a barrage of balloons, and Britons riding out the German blitz in shelters and underground stations. England's sweetheart during the trying times of World War II, Lynn was still in her twenties when she took on that role. She was born Vera Margaret Welch in London's East Ham, to Bertram and Annie Welch, one year before the close of the First World War. She began singing as a girl of seven, also studying dance as a child. She later took her maternal grandmother's maiden name as her stage name, and her natural, unaffected vocal style and charm brought Lynn early success on the radio. At age 18, she was singing with Joe Loss' orchestra, and she'd also begun recording for the Crown label. By the end of the '30s, after stints working for Charlie Kunz's and Bert Ambrose's bands, Lynn got her own radio series. This event coincided with the end of what was known as the "Phony War," that period in which men were being conscripted and sent overseas, re-armament rushed, and nightly blackouts imposed, but no shots fired or bombs dropped. The shooting war started in 1940, and it was around that same time that Lynn became the host of the BBC radio program Sincerely Yours; the show became incredibly popular with overseas servicemen who missed their girlfriends, and her regular songs included such hopeful/heartsick ballads as "White Cliffs of Dover," "We'll Meet Again," "Wishing," and "Yours," which were taken to heart by the British public. Her recordings -- now done for Decca Records, which had absorbed the Crown label some years before -- all sold well, and Lynn also made several films during the war years, appeared in a stage revue, and sang for troops in Asia. Her sentimental brand of pop music was regarded as a huge help to morale, with Lynn herself virtually a national treasure.
Forget me not today
Though I am far away
Just let my memory stay
Safe in your heart
Parting brings sorrow
Hope for tomorrow
Sweetheart, what e'er betide
Let true love be our guide;
Until I'm by your side
Forget me not!
Forget me not today
Though I am far away
Just let my memory stay
Safe in your heart
Parting brings sorrow
Hope for tomorrow
Sweetheart, what e'er betide
Let true love be our guide;
Until I'm by your side
Forget me not!
Until I'm by your side
Forget me not!