"Holding Back the Years ...Holding Back the Tears...I've wasted all

[KoKo]

my Tears...wasted all those years...Nothing had the chance to Be Good...
I'll Keep Holding on...I'll Keep Holding on....

Sometimes....

I've wasted all my tears...and nothing had the chance to be good..because nothing ever could....

Simply Red..

Very Sad...

[PartyPooper]

1. Please don't despair!

:grouphug:

[KoKo]

8. thanks for that group hug....

nice to see that...:-)'s

[EC]

2. I love Simply Red

Here's one of theirs to psych you up:

Turn it up, turn it so loud
It don't ever stop
No no no no
Turn it up, makes me so proud
I believe in this feeling

Well you've lost all the things
That sharing could bring
Thought you were doing right
But violence and flames
And torches and chains
Are fuelling
These new northern lights
Like prisoners working
On infertile land
Took eight years
To find out the score
If you're sick then you're lonely
Out of work then you're hungry
The sentence is four years more

Turn it up, turn it so loud
It don't ever stop
No no no no
Turn it up, makes me so proud
I believe in this feeling
Turn it up, turn it up
Right up, right up

Who says poverty and race
Can be kept in their place
By keeping it
All underground
And ruling the country
Are unfaithful husbands
Who spank little boys
Gagged and bound
There's got to be a better way
For you and for me
To turn this hypocrisy round
The growth of a nation
Cannot be achieved
By keeping
The downtrodden down

Turn it up, turn it so loud
It don't ever stop
No no no no
Turn it up, makes me so proud
I believe in this feeling
Turn it up, turn it up
Right up, right up

[TrustingDog]

3. me 3!

[KoKo]

4. And, I've played his "I"ll Keep HOLDING ON" over and over

I got his "Greatist Hits" for Christmas Present. I just keep playing that song over and over tonight...I'm having my own "wind down" party. (Maybe it's a "pity party") but ...I needed to hear this over and over...

Shouldn't have hit the wine bottle tonight after all that "activity" today...But OMG it sent me into such a depression when I should be UP not Down...

But, then, I realize that as brave as those folks were today...in the end the MSM just passed it over as if it was "nothing." That's what got me down..even though I expected it.

Just having my down party with "Red," here...to get it all out...He's a good one to listen to for this...

[msgadget]

5. Chaka Khan

[KoKo]

6. Chaka Khan?

:shrug:

[msgadget]

7. She did a version for the soundtrack of Love and Basketball

and I recognized the lyrics from that first. Angie Stone also sings it...

Holding back the tears
Cause nothing here has grown
I've wasted all my tears
Wasted all those years


Edit because I originally said Sharon Stone had a version...doi!