Suntem o jucarie in mana zvonului?

Fă-mi promisiunea aceasta: de cîte ori vei fi înconjurat de persoane care vor să te convingă că eşti nefericit, ia seama nu la ce auzi, ci la ce simţi tu singur; cugetă după ceea ce ai suferit şi întreabă-te singur, pentru că tu îţi cunoşti cel mai bine situaţia: „De ce mă deplîng aceştia? De ce se agită, de ce se tem şi să mă atingă, de parcă nenorocirea ar fi molipsitoare? Este cu adevărat un necaz, sau mai degrabă este doar părelnicia unui necaz?”

Întreabă-te singur: „Nu cumva mă frămînt şi mă jelesc fără motiv şi îmi născocesc un rău care nu există?”

„Dar cum – întrebi tot tu – să înţeleg care din grijile mele sînt adevărate şi care sînt deşarte?”

Uite o regulă pe care să o urmezi: ne chinuim din pricina prezentului, sau a viitorului, sau a amîndurora. Este uşor să le judeci pe cele din prezent: dacă trupul îţi este liber, dacă e sănătos, dacă nu există nicio suferinţă provocată de o nedreptate, vom vedea ce va fi în viitor – astăzi nu e nimic.

„Va fi însă.”

Mai întîi, gîndeşte-te bine dacă sînt semne sigure că se va produce o nenorocire: căci cel mai adesea ne chinuim din pricina presupunerilor: sîntem o jucărie în mîna zvonului, care hotărăşte de obicei soarta războiului şi, încă şi mai mult, soarta fiecărui individ în parte.

Aşa este, iubitul meu prieten: ne repezim asupra aparenţelor; nu judecăm la rece ce anume ne aruncă în mijlocul spaimelor, şi nici nu le scuturăm, ci tremurăm şi întoarcem spatele întocmai ca soldaţii pe care îi goneşte din tabăra militară un nor de praf stîrnit de o turmă de oi sau ca cei pe care îi umple de spaimă vreo veste despre care nici nu se ştie de la cine a pornit.

Nu ştiu de ce spaimele deşarte tulbură mai tare; căci cele adevărate îşi au o măsură a lor.

Tot ce vine din necunoscut îşi găseşte locul în bănuielile şi spaimele unui spirit dezlînat.

De aceea nu există spaime mai vătămătoare şi de nestăpînit decît cele ale nălucilor: căci spaimele de rînd sînt provocate de lipsa raţiunii, dar acestea – de sminteală.

Să cercetăm aşadar cu atenţie chestiunea.

Este foarte probabil ca ceva rău să se întîmple în viitor: nu înseamnă însă de la sine că este sigur.

Cît de multe sînt cele care vin peste noi fără să le aşteptăm!

Cît de multe sînt cele pe care le aşteptăm şi nu se împlinesc niciodată!

Şi chiar dacă se va întîmpla în viitor, la ce bun să-i ieşi durerii în întîmpinare?

Vei simţi durerea de îndată ce va veni: între timp, speră la ceva mai bun.

Ce vei avea de cîştigat?

Timp.

Pot apărea pînă atunci multe care să facă o primejdie pe care o simţi în vecinătate sau foarte aproape fie să se oprească, fie să se risipească, fie să cadă pe capul altuia: un incendiu lasă loc pentru fugă; o prăvălire i-a lăsat pe unii nevătămaţi; uneori sabia a fost oprită chiar cînd atingea gîtul; cîte unul i-a supravieţuit călăului său.

Chiar şi soarta cea rea este schimbătoare.

Poate va fi, poate nu va fi: deocamdată nu este.

Ţine-ţi în faţa ochilor un viitor mai bun.

Ramîi cu bine,

Seneca

Video hit Aerosmith

Aerosmith - What Could Have Been Love

If you want more guitars, more ‘Legendary Child,’ more of the much-hyped Jack Douglas sound of Aerosmith‘s rockin’ ’70s, then their new single is not going to satisfy.

‘What Could Have Been Love’ is the AC radio hit the group needs to reach a wide audience and sell a ton of copies of ‘Music From Another Dimension‘ on Nov. 6.

Not surprisingly, Douglas didn’t produce this power-ballad. The honor goes to longtime friend and collaborator Marti Frederiksen, who also co-wrote the song along with Steven Tyler and keyboardist Russ Irwin (Frederiksen also helped write ‘Jaded’ from the ‘Just Push Play’ album).

Much like ‘Jaded,’ ‘Cryin’ and ‘Crazy,’ ‘What Could Have Been Love’ is a tight lyric wrapped in bright production that highlights Tyler’s voice.

“I wake up and wonder how everything went wrong / Am I the one to blame / I gave up and left you for a nowhere bound train,” he sings to open the song. (Can we please stop using trains as the ultimate rock metaphor?)

“Now that train (sigh) has come and gone / I close my eyes and see you lying in my bed / And I still dream of that day,” Tyler adds to finish the first verse. The backing vocalists take to repeating his lyrics late in the song, adding the only over-the-top moment of pop sensibility.

The stock chorus lacks imagination or real detail, but Tyler pulls it up with a passion one wouldn’t expect from a man who once broke hearts like Joey Kramer breaks drum sticks.

“What could have been love / Should have been the only thing that was ever meant to be / Didn’t know, couldn’t see what was right in front of me / And now that I’m alone all I have is emptiness that comes from being free / What could have been love will never be,” he sings.

The bottom line is that if this site was called Ultimate Classic Power Ballad, ‘What Could Have Been Love’ would be a staff favorite. Rock fans can appreciate the necessity of this style, but few will embrace it like a song that finds Joe Perry shredding on guitar, or Tyler doing his trademark vocal calisthenics between harmonica solos.

The lyrics:

I wake up and wonder

how everything went wrong

Am I the one to blame

I gave up and left you

For a nowhere bound train

Now that train has come and gone

I closed my eyes and see you

Lying in my bed

and i still dreamed of that day

What could have been love

Should have been the only thing

that was ever meant to be

Didnt know couldnt see

what was right in front of me

And now that Im alone

All I have is emptiness that comes from being free

What could have been love will never be

yeahhh

An old friend who told me that you found somebody new

ohhhhh, youre finally moving on

You think that Id be over you

after all these years

Yeahhh but time is proving wrong

Cause im still holding on

Yea yea Yea

What could have been love

Should have been the only thing

that was ever meant to be

Didnt know couldnt see

what was right in front of me

(What could have been love)

And now that Im alone

All I have is emptiness that comes from being free

What could have been love will never be

yeah

We've gone our separate ways

Say goodbye to another way

Still wonder where you are

Or are you too far from talking back

You were slipping through my hands and I didnt understand

What could have been love

Should have been the only thing

that was ever meant to be

Didnt know couldnt see

what was right in front of me

(What could have been love)

And now that Im alone

All I have is emptiness that comes from being free

What could have been love will never be

What could have been love will never be

What could have been love

What could have been love

What could have been love

(What could have been What could have been)

(Love)

Video hit Blue October

Blue October - The Chills (acoustic)

The Texas quintet Blue October formed during the post-grunge boom of the mid-'90s when vocalist/guitarist Justin Furstenfeld began penning angst-ridden rock songs with the help of his brother, drummer Jeremy Furstenfeld, and violinist Ryan Delahoussaye.

Bassist Matt Noveskey and lead guitarist Brant Coulter completed the band's initial lineup, and Blue October released an independent debut album, The Answers, in 1998.

The band's emotive brand of post-grunge led to the sale of 5,000 copies in their native Houston alone.

Two years later, Blue October made their major-label debut on Universal with Consent to Treatment.

History for Sale By the time Blue October began prepping for their third album, 2003's History for Sale, guitarist Coulter had left the group and CB Hudson (guitar/vocals) had been added.

The band itself had also left Universal for Brando Records. The album's first single, "Calling You," became a Top 40 hit thanks to its inclusion on the American Wedding soundtrack, and Universal re-signed the band in the wake of such newfound success. The live CD/DVD package Argue with a Tree was released in February 2005, following 18 months of touring. Noveskey briefly left the band shortly thereafter, but returned in time to record Blue October's first studio album in three years, Foiled, which was issued in April 2006 and went platinum one year later.

Foiled for the Last Time Before the band went on tour with Yellowcard in September 2007, Universal/Motown released Foiled for the Last Time, a two-disc set consisting of a full version of Foiled, 14 newly recorded songs performed live, and several alternative remixes.

Recording sessions for another studio album, Approaching Normal, commenced in mid-2008 with producer Steve Lillywhite, and the finished product appeared early the following year.

Two albums appeared in 2011, Ugly Side: An Acoustic Evening with Blue October (recorded live in Austin, Dallas, and Houston) and Any Man in America.

The the group's seventh studio album, Sway, followed in 2013.

The lyrics:

Take my hand

Maybe we should run away

Maybe we should disappear

Leave everything behind

Like the useless things

Boxes labeled memories

The sudden health emergencies

Yeah we can leave those things behind

Show me,

Show me arms that reach for all we can be

Through understanding, tried forgiveness,

I faced the past,

It's what I witness

Why do I only feel the chills when I'm with you?

I only hear your words that you say are true

But you keep thinking it over, thinking it over

You could catch me if you wanted to

Why you gotta say good bye

When you know you could come with me....

"No!" Can't afford to leave and stay

(i cant' afford it)

We're gonna have to just build one way

(look , i cant afford it)

So tell me, tell me all the things

You told me we could be

Through understanding, tried forgiveness

I faced the facts,

It's what I witnessed

Why do I only feel the chills when I'm with you

I only hear your words that you say are true

But you keep thinking it over, thinking it over

catch me if you want

I only feel the chills when I'm with you

I feel it so high,

I feel it so high

Ca-Catch me, Ca-ca-catch me

"Why does the heart always have to break?"

(When you're trying way too hard)

"have to break?"

(Yeah she'll see right through you)

"have to break"

(All Communication, and the conversation, it breaks down)

"Now there'll be nothing to talk about"

Absolutely nothing just blah,blah,blah

Why do I only feel the chills when I'm with you?

I only hear the words that you say are true

But you keep thinking it over, thinking it over

You could catch me if you wanted to.

Catch me,

Ca-ca-catch me.

Video hit Carly Simon

Carly Simon - That's The Way I Always Heard It Should Be

"That's the Way I've Always Heard It Should Be" is a 1971 single written by Carly Simon and Jacob Brackman and performed by Simon, released from her self-titled debut album. It reached number ten on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and number six on the Easy Listening chart.

An art song with a semiclassical melody in the style of Gabriel Fauré, Elektra staffers were worried the single was too emotionally complex to be released as Simon's first single.

With subject matter that includes "the parents' bad marriage; the friends' unhappy lives; the boyfriend's enthusiasm for marriage but controlling nature; the woman's initial resistance and ultimate capitulation."

Simon was quoted as saying, "When I first wrote it I thought it was an unusual thing for people to break up, and now all my friends are divorced”.

The lyrics:

My father sits at night with no lights on

His cigarette glows in the dark.

The living room is still;

I walk by, no remark.

I tiptoe past the master bedroom where

My mother reads her magazines.

I hear her call sweet dreams,

But I forgot how to dream.

But you say it's time we moved in together

And raised a family of our own, you and me -

Well, that's the way I've always heard it should be:

You want to marry me, we'll marry.

My friends from college they're all married now;

They have their houses and their lawns.

They have their silent noons,

Tearful nights, angry dawns.

Their children hate them for the things they're not;

They hate themselves for what they are-

And yet they drink, they laugh,

Close the wound, hide the scar.

But you say it's time we moved in together

And raised a family of our own, you and me -

Well, that's the way I've always heard it should be:

You want to marry me, we'll marry.

You say we can keep our love alive

Babe - all I know is what I see -

The couples cling and claw

And drown in love's debris.

You say we'll soar like two birds through the clouds,

But soon you'll cage me on your shelf -

I'll never learn to be just me first

By myself.

Well O.K., it's time we moved in together

And raised a family of our own, you and me -

Well, that's the way I've always heard it should be,

You want to marry me, we'll marry,

We'll marry.

Video hit U2

U2 - I Still Haven't Found What Im Looking For (Live From Milano)

"I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" is a song by the Irish rock band U2.

It is the second track from their 1987 album The Joshua Tree and was released as the album's second single in May 1987.

The song was a hit, becoming the band's second consecutive number-one single on the US Billboard Hot 100 while peaking at number six on the UK Singles Chart.

The song originated from a demo the band recorded on which drummer Larry Mullen, Jr. played a unique rhythm pattern.

Like much of The Joshua Tree, the song was inspired by the group's interest in American music. "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" exhibits influences from gospel music and its lyrics describe spiritual yearning. Lead vocalist Bono's vocals are in high register and guitarist The Edge plays a chiming arpeggio. Adding to the gospel qualities of the song are choir-like backing vocals provided by The Edge and producers Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois.

"I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" was critically acclaimed and received two nominations at the 30th Grammy Awards in 1988, for Record of the Year and Song of the Year.

It has subsequently become one of the group's most well-known songs and has been performed on many of their concert tours.

The track has appeared on several of their compilations and concert films.

Many critics and publications have ranked "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" among the greatest tracks in music history.

The lyrics:

I have climbed the highest mountains

I have run through the fields

Only to be with you

Only to be with you

I have run, I have crawled

I have scaled these city walls

These city walls

Only to be with you

But I still haven't found

What I'm looking for

But I still haven't found

What I'm looking for

I have kissed honey lips

Felt the healing in her finger tips

It burned like fire

(I was)

Burning desire

I have spoken with the tongue of angels

I have held the hand of a devil

It was warm in the night

I was cold as a stone

But I still haven't found

What I'm looking for

But I still haven't found

What I'm looking for

I believe in the Kingdom Come

Then all the colors will bleed into one

Bleed into one

But, yes, I'm still running

You broke the bonds

And you loosed the chains

Carried the cross of my shame

Oh, my shame, you know I believe it

But I still haven't found

What I'm looking for

But I still haven't found

What I'm looking for

But I still haven't found

What I'm looking for

But I still haven't found

What I'm looking for

Video hit Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan - Tangled Up In Blue

"Tangled Up in Blue" is a song by Bob Dylan. It appeared on his album Blood on the Tracks in 1975. Released as a single, it reached #31 on the Billboard Hot 100. Rolling Stone ranked it #68 on their list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.

The song has been described as, "The most dazzling lyric ever written, an abstract narrative of relationships told in an amorphous blend of first and third person, rolling past, present and future together, spilling out in tripping cadences and audacious internal rhymes, ripe with sharply turned images and observations and filled with a painfully desperate longing."

About lyrics

"Tangled Up in Blue" is one of the clearest examples of Dylan's attempts to write "multi-dimensional" songs which defied a fixed notion of time and space. Dylan was influenced by his recent study of painting and the Cubist school of artists, who sought to incorporate multiple perspectives within a single plane of view.

As Neil McCormick remarked in 2003: "A truly extraordinary epic of the personal, an unreliable narrative carved out of shifting memories like a five-and-a-half-minute musical Proust."

In a 1978 interview Dylan explained this style of songwriting: "What's different about it is that there's a code in the lyrics, and there's also no sense of time. There's no respect for it. You've got yesterday, today and tomorrow all in the same room, and there's very little you can't imagine not happening".

The lyrics are at times opaque, but the song seems to be (like most of the songs on the album) the tale of a love that has, for the time being, ended, although not by choice; the last verse begins:

So now I'm goin' back again,

I got to get to her somehow...

and ends

We always did feel the same,

We just saw it from a different point of view,

Tangled up in blue.

Dylan continually re-worked the lyrics even after the album was released; the version on his live album Real Live (and throughout the '84 Europe tour) has radically different lyrics.

In the first studio version (NYC sessions, September '74) and often in live performances he has sung some of the verses from a third-person perspective (usually "he was laying in bed," but sometimes even "she was laying in bed"), as opposed to the first-person point of view in the Blood on the Tracks version. Dylan has said that the version recorded on the 1984 Real Live album is the best.

Covers and references

The song has been covered by various artists, including Great White, Jerry Garcia, Dickey Betts and Great Southern, Mike McClure, Half Japanese, Robyn Hitchcock, the Indigo Girls, Kim Larsen, KT Tunstall, Ani Difranco, The String Cheese Incident, Jennifer Charles and The Whitlams on their Eternal Nightcap album of 1997.

• In the Hootie & the Blowfish song "Only Wanna Be with You", Darius Rucker sings: Yeah I'm tangled up in blue / Only wanna be with you / You can call me your fool / Only wanna be with you. The reference extends a string of mentions of Bob Dylan in the song, beginning at the start of the second verse: Putting on a little Dylan .... The song's rhythm itself seems to be inspired by Dylan's original track.
• The band Cameo described the song as 'definitive' in their musical development and frequently opened concerts with a funk version of the song. Barb Jungr and Louis Durra have recorded jazz versions.
• The Belgian TV-host Bart Peeters, who is also a singer-songwriter, made a Dutch version of the song. The lyrics are modified by him, and as a result he tells a more personal story about how he met his wife. The Dutch title is "Prachtig in het blauw" ([looking] beautiful in blue).
• Texas Country artist Hayes Carll includes the lyics You was openly frustrated / you said Dylan's overrated / while singing Tangled Up In Blue in his 2011 song "Another Like You".
• The song is a playable track on Rock Band 2, as the most difficult song in the vocal section, and the final song for the player to complete in the "Impossible Vocal Challenge".
• Science fiction author Joan D. Vinge published Tangled Up in Blue in 2000[5] as the fourth book in her Hugo Award-winning "Snow Queen" series.
• A female artist named Sami quotes the lines, "We'll meet again someday on the avenue/tangled up in blue" in Michael Corrigan's book These Precious Hours.

The lyrics:

Early one mornin' the sun was shinin'

I was layin' in bed

Wonderin' if she'd changed at all

If her hair was still red

Her folks, they said our lives together

Sure was gonna be rough

They never did like mama's homemade dress

Papa's bankbook wasn't big enough

And I was standin' on the side of the road

Rain fallin' on my shoes

Heading out for the east coast

Lord knows I've paid some dues gettin' through

Tangled up in blue

She was married when we first met

Soon to be divorced

I helped her out of a jam, I guess

But I used a little too much force

We drove that car as far as we could

Abandoned it out west

Split up on a dark, sad night

Both agreeing it was best

And she turned around to look at me

As I was walkin' away

I heard her say over my shoulder

"We'll meet again someday on the avenue"

Tangled up in blue

I had a job in the great north woods

Working as a cook for a spell

But I never did like it all that much

And one day the ax just fell

So I drifted down to New Orleans

Where I was lucky to be employed

Workin' for a while on a fishin' boat

Right outside of Delacroix

But all the while I was alone

The past was close behind

I seen a lot of women, but she never escaped my mind

And I just grew

Tangled up in blue

She was workin' in a topless place

And I stopped in for a beer

I just kept lookin' at the side of her face

In the spotlight so clear

And later on when the crowd thinned out

I was just about to do the same

She was standing there in back of my chair

Said to me, "Don't I know your name?"

I muttered somethin' underneath my breath

She studied the lines on my face

I must admit I felt a little uneasy

When she bent down to tie the laces of my shoe

Tangled up in blue

She lit a burner on the stove

And offered me a pipe

"I thought you'd never say hello," she said

"You look like the silent type"

Then she opened up a book of poems

And handed it to me

Written by an Italian poet

From the thirteenth century

And every one of them words rang true

And glowed like burnin' coal

Pourin' off of every page

Like it was written in my soul from me to you

Tangled up in blue

I lived with them on Montague street

In a basement down the stairs

There was music in the cafes at night

And revolution in the air

Then he started into dealing with slaves

And something inside of him died

She had to sell everything she owned

And we froze up inside

And when finally the bottom fell out

I became withdrawn

The only thing I knew how to do

Was to keep on keepin' on like a bird that flew

Tangled up in blue

So now I'm goin' back again

I got to get to her somehow

All the people we used to know

They're an illusion to me now

Some are mathematicians

Some are carpenters' wives

Don't know how it all got started

I don't know what they're doin' with their lives

But me, I'm still on the road

Headin' for another joint

We always did feel the same

We just saw it from a different point of view

Tangled up in blue

Video hit Billy Bragg

Billy Bragg - Swallow My Pride

Bragg told The Independent that the lyrics were inspired by the everyday frustrations of his relationship with his long-term partner, Juliet. "We've had a great time," he said, "and we have a lovely son, Jack, who's 19, and who's been lucky enough to have had a lovely childhood. But, you know, we have our days when we crack our heads, when I don't live up to her expectations of me and when she doesn't live up to my expectations of her. And this causes domestic friction. But the struggle in a relationship is where the sparks are, and I'm writing about things that frustrate me."

Bragg added that, lyrically he took certain artistic license. "I've never left home like my character in 'Swallow My Pride' has," he said, "but have I gone a few days without speaking [to her] I most certainly have. And have I been on tour and not phoned because I'm pissed off? Yes I have. If I were to suggest otherwise, my son would call me out as a liar."

The lyrics:

Here are the photos that I keep

Here's the empty bed where I lay my head to sleep

I dream about you but my dreams will not come true

'Til I'll swallow my pride and get back home to you.

I tell myself I'm in the right

But that don't keep me warm through another lonely night,

Can't live without you, even though you make me blue

Got to swallow my pride and get back home to you.

I know your love for me is deep,

But I'm the man who makes you cry yourself to sleep.

Oh how can a man be strong?

If he can't even lift up the telephone and say he's wrong

If I want you back again then I know what I must do

Got to swallow my pride and get back home to you.

Swallow my pride and get back home to you.

Video hit Sunny Sweeney

Sunny Sweeney - Staying's Worse Than Leaving

"Staying's Worse Than Leaving" is the title of a song co-written and recorded by American country music artist Sunny Sweeney. It was released in May 2011 as the second single from her album Concrete.

Sweeney wrote the song with Radney Foster and Jay Clementi.

The song's female narrator describes being in a failed relationship that has gone on for quite some time, because she felt like staying was easier ("Leaving's hard / Trust me it's really bad"). Although she acknowledges that the best option she can do at this point is walk away, because she knows that "staying's worse than leaving.

Music video

The music video, which was directed by Roman White, premiered on CMT on May 19, 2011. In the video, Sweeney and her husband are shown walking around their spacious home separately, both appearing distraught; Sweeney tears up, and the man frequently wrings his hands. At the end of the video, the two finally come together to sleep in the same bed.

The lyrics:

Leaving's hard...trust me, it's really bad

It'll shake ya, damn-near break ya, it always has

You don't go until you're praying to break even,

Until staying's worse than leaving

God knows we tried everything that we could do

You can keep your pride and blame me if you need to

Even though this freedom feels a lot like treason,

I know staying's worse than leaving

It's gotta get better, it can't get worse

Hope it's a blessing not a curse

I don't care who passes judgement on my reasons

I know staying's worse than leaving

It's gotta get better, it can't get worse

Hope it's a blessing not a curse

I don't care who passes judgement on my reasons

I know staying's worse than leaving

Both our hearts let go a long time ago

Words leave scars and Lord knows they heal slow

Our love died but somehow we are both still breathin'

I just hope someday we'll look back on this grievin'

and say, staying's worse than leaving

Yeah, that staying's worse than leaving

Yeah, that staying's...

...worse than leaving

Video hit Billy Talent

Billy Talent - Rusted from the Rain

"Rusted from the Rain" is the first official single by Billy Talent off their album, Billy Talent III. It was released on May 19, 2009.

Lead singer Ben Kowalewicz has said that the song is very "tin man-esque" and evolved from an "epic Soundgarden-like riff".

The lyrics are about marital breakdown, Kowalewicz told Kerrang!: "Nowadays, I'm seeing a lot of people who got married young are now getting divorced. It seems to be a new fad. Divorce is the new black."

The song was nominated for Single of the Year at the 2010 Juno Awards, but lost to Michael Bublé's "Haven't Met You Yet".

Music video

The video was shot in April 2009 by director Wayne Isham in Los Angeles. The video pans between the band playing in a junkyard and a vagrant collecting junk and garbage in the streets. As the video progresses, it's revealed the man collected the trash to construct a makeshift carousel for a small group of children in the neighbourhood.

The lyrics:

I stumble through the wreckage rusted from the rain

There's nothin' left to salvage, no one left to blame

Among the broken mirrors I don't look the same

I'm rusted from the rain, I'm rusted from the rain

Dissect me till my blood runs down into the drain

My bitter heart is pumpin' oil into my veins

I'm nothin' but a tin man, don't feel any pain

I don't feel any pain, I don't feel any pain

I'm rusted from the rain

Go on crush me like a flower rusted from the rain

Come on strip me of my power, beat me with your chains

And if I'm the king of cowards you're the queen of pain

I'm rusted from the rain, I'm rusted from the rain

You hung me like a picture, now I'm just a frame

I used to be your lap dog, now I'm just a stray

Shackled in the graveyard left here to decay

Left here to decay, left here to decay

I'm rusted from the rain

Go on crush me like a flower rusted from the rain

Come on strip me of my power, beat me with your chains

And if I'm the king of cowards you're the queen of pain

I'm rusted from the rain, I'm rusted from the rain

I'm rusted from the rain

Go on crush me like a flower rusted from the rain

Come on strip me of my power, beat me with your chains

And if I'm the king of cowards you're the queen of pain

I'm rusted from the rain, I'm rusted from the rain

Go on crush me like a flower rusted from the rain

Come on strip me of my power, beat me with your chains

And if I'm the king of cowards you're the queen of pain

I'm rusted from the rain, I'm rusted from the rain

Oh, the sun will shine again, I'm rusted from the rain

I'm rusted from the rain

Oh, the sun will shine again, I'm rusted from the rain

Video hit Kellie Pickler

Kellie Pickler - Ring For Sale

This humorous story of love gone bad was penned by Jim Beavers and Chris Stapleton.

Kellie delivers line after line on the album The Woman I Am with palpable feeling and rich emotion. Belting it out on the swampy “Ring For Sale,” Kellie sings, I’ll throw in the dress for free, with fire when looking to get rid of a cheating man’s engagement ring.

"A girlfriend from home is going through this as we speak," Pickler told The Hollywood Reporter. "She had asked me in the middle of her whole divorce thing what she should do with the ring and I said, 'Sell it and go do something nice for yourself; I think you have earned that right considering what he has done.' So I heard that song and I played it for her and it made her smile. So I thought, I'm going to cut this for my friend. And when I sing it, I am going to be thinking of her, even though it's written in first person."

The lyrics:

Well he went down to the jewelry store and he signed his life away

I said yes and just like that he went from boyfriend to fiance'

Well I found out he been running around with a low class Jezebel

Now he's got a monthly payment and I got a ring for sale

I got a ring for sale

It's yellow gold with a princess diamond

I got a ring for sale

And I'm gonna let it go real cheap

I got a ring for sale

A blue box with the velvet on and

I gotta get out fore he finds out

And I'll throw in the dress for free

Well I thought about taking the highway and I thought about giving it back

And then I thought about all of them lowdown things that he's been doing behind my back

Now he can stop by and apologize if he thinks that's gonna help

But he's got another thing coming 'cause I got a ring for sale

I got a ring for sale

It's yellow gold with a princess diamond

I got a ring for sale

And I'm gonna let it go real cheap

I got a ring for sale

A blue box with the velvet on and

I gotta get out fore he finds out

And I'll throw in the dress for free

Well I'll burn the invitations, return the decorations

Took the hold off the Baptist church

I love to hit him so I'm gonna hit him

And I'll hit him right where it hurts

I'm gonna hit him right where it hurts

I got a ring for sale

It's yellow gold with a princess diamond

I got a ring for sale

And I'm gonna let it go real cheap

I got a ring for sale

A blue box with the velvet on and

I gotta get out fore he finds out

And I'll throw in the dress for free

I gotta get out fore he finds out

And I'll throw in the dress for free

I got a ring for sale