in my teenage years my favorite bands , if i could say that i have any, were soundgarden and tool. at the time i had no reason other than the feeling that they evoked within me. soundgardens album superunknown seemed to catalyze a catharsis within me of any emotion. when i was happy i could listen to it and dance and sing, and when i was sad i could listen to it and it touched my soul and i could cry when often it was so hard to release. tool on the other hand was like a soothing and powerful mystery. the music could charge me up like the turn key on an old toy and maynards voice rising and dropping like waves could calm my soul. with soundgarden from the beginning i read the lyrics and knew them and sang them and lived them, while with tool the lyrics were not in the cd book and when i heard a word the previous one fell from my mind and it was years before i took the effort to know the lyrics. however, with both bands as i grew with age and knowledge and wisdom i came to understand the lyrics of each song in a different way. some songs mirrored my life, some mirrored my past, some were images of life in general but in time there were a few that really stood out and i could identify with them deeply. a couple of years ago i decided to make a cd of prayer songs, songs with truth and meaning for me and after many revisions i have come to a steady version, which may change as i do, but for now these song lead me on and every sunday while i work i listen to them, and when i feel the need to relieve my mind of thoughts or tension i sing them.

Pv3b

1 Reflection-Tool

2 Forest-System of a Down

3 Blow up the Outside World-Soundgarden

4 Corduroy-Pearl Jam

5 The Patient-Tool

6 SuperUnknown-Soundgarden

7 Lateralus-Tool

8 Zero Chance-Soundgarden

9 Gravity-A Perfect Circle

10 God-Apollo Sunshine

11 Parabol-Tool

12 Parabola-Tool

13 Fool on the Hill-The Beatles

14 Flood-Tool

i hope this cd list gives someone a grasp of the ideas that it touches on in me and perhaps someone who reads this will make thier own cd. there are other songs that ihad on there and do not now and perhaps other songs that i will use. music is such a powerful tool for capturing the attention.