"Windows On A Train"

There's something cathartic about sitting here listening to the first real thunderstorm this year, rain hitting the windows, lightning in the sky, and darkness in the house that makes me want to pour my heart into this blog.  I just want my sad songs, now.  Bring on the ballads.  When I think of amazing songs, I only think of one songwriter.  And if you have read any of my other posts thus far, you probably know who that is...Hillary Lindsey.  Well, this gem is hidden in Jessica Andrew's Now album from 2003.  World, put yourself in this song and think of the clouds releasing rain and missing the love of your life like windows on a train.

FM Radio:
Singer: Jessica Andrews
Songwriters: Hillary Lindsey, Troy Verges, Angelo
Song: "Windows On A Train"

It felt like just a moment
The way they never last
Where were you going’
That you had to leave so fast

We were supposed to wake up
One day when we were older
Holdin’ on forever
But we flew past each other

Like windows on a train
The flashing of a frame
I can’t hold on but I can’t let go
A snapshot in my mind
Of a love that’s stuck in time
I saw it slip away
Windows on a train

I’m not sure what happened
But here I am alone
Tryin’ to find a way
To find a reason that you’re gone

I don’t know if I’m shakin’
From the rhythm of these wheels
Or if its my heart breakin’
And this is how it feels, This is how it feels 

Like windows on a train
The flashing of a frame
I can’t hold on but I can’t let go
A snapshot in my mind
Of a love that’s stuck in time
I saw it slip away
Windows on a train

I’m on my way to kneel down with the truth
With my black dress on to say goodbye to you

Like windows on a train
The flashing of a frame
I can’t hold on but I can’t let go
A snapshot in my mind
Of a love that’s stuck in time
I saw it slip away
Windows on a train



Windows On A Train (Album Version)

"Feels So Real"

"I’m as bad as an old washing machine, 

Spinnin’ ‘round but I never get clean"

Sometimes, I wonder why I even second guess myself because 99.9% of the time my gut instinct is right.  I have this crazy, insane, chilling connection with songs that I will spend the rest of my life trying to figure out why.  I saw Eden's Edge on the Grand Ole Opry and was blown away.  There's something about these voices that feel so fresh, yet like I've heard them for the past 19 years.  Needless to say, I think there's something incredible here.  Anyways, I just listened to their EP previews and this is the only song that stuck out to me.  The title alone could be taken a million different ways.  Then, I listened to the full song and quite possibly one of my favorite lines/verses I have ever heard.  Well, after I heard 30 seconds of pure magic, I giggled and thought these newbies couldn't possibly have gotten their hands on a piece of Hillary Lindsey written treasure.  So...of course, I took to google, and my answer was right in front of me.       But thats all I really had to do was listen to the rest of the song and I would've heard the brilliance of 'painted shut heart', the glass shatters, "Oh the outside I'm not leather yet."  Like, come on?  Only one person could've possibly written that. 

FM Radio:
Singers: Edens Edge
Songwriters: Angelo, Hillary Lindsey, Tia Sillers
Song: Feels So Real

It was two years ago and it was yesterday
Might not make sense but that’s just the way it feels to me
I’m as bad as an old washing machine
Spinnin’ ‘round but I never get clean
Don’t you see

Cause baby you’re gone but you’re like the wind
Out of the calm you come back again
Rattling the windows of my painted shut heart
Feels so real

Inside I still got this breaking in my chest
Don’t feel like flesh, it feels like glass
And glass shatters

Oh outside I’m not leather yet
But these days I’m tougher than I ever thought I’d get
Or ever wanna be, and the heart of the matter

Is baby you’re gone but you’re like the wind
Out of the calm you come back again
Rattling the windows of my painted shut heart
Feels so real, feels so real

Pullin’ down Jupiter, would be much easier
Swimming in the sky that would be a breeze
Than finding a magic cure, help me remember
You’re nothing but a memory

Baby you’re gone but you’re like the wind
Out of the calm you come back again
Rattling the windows of my painted shut heart
Feels so real, feels so real
It was two years ago and it was yesterday
Oh it feels so real, oh
Might not make sense but that’s just the way it feels to me

"Big Cry"

If we could wash every bad feeling, bad memory, or anything that we wanted to forget away from us, we probably wouldn't have music.  I probably wouldn't live my life for it, nor would I be sitting here writing this right now.  Well, let me see I'm glad I can't forget to remember.  
I would kill to hear Hillary sing this song...literally, you know me and you know my heart by now.  Well, take a listen to this brilliant song with this fresh structure, which I love, and let the horns and amazing lyrics & melody take you to a place where only a broken heart can.


FM Radio:
Singer: Sara Evans
Songwriters: Hillary Lindsey, Troy Verges, Angelo
Song: "Big Cry"

Chorus
Give me a sad song that I can hold on to
Anything to set me free
Just one big cry, big tears in my eyes
To wash you away from me

I need a night all by myself
Got some things I need to work out
I got this fever that just won't break
I got some troubles I got to shake
Give me, give me

Give me a sad song that I can hold on to
Anything to set me free
Just one big cry, big tears in my eyes
To wash you away from me

I know, I know I'm gonna have to cleanse my soul
If I'm ever gonna get back on my way
One night, one night, one dark and lonely night
And then will come a brighter day
Just give me one night, one night, one dark and lonely night
And then will come a brighter day

Give me a sad song that I can hold on to
Anything to set me free
Just one big cry, big tears in my eyes
To wash you away from me