youtube has a video, but I think it takes away from the words and beauty of the song....so here is a link to just the song.

http://listen.grooveshark.com/#/song...tiful/19137888

Gary Allan, Life Ain't Always Beautiful Lyrics

Life ain't always beautiful
Sometimes it's just plain hard
Life can knock you down, it can break your heart

Life ain't always beautiful
You think you're on your way
And it's just a dead end road at the end of the day

But the struggle makes you stronger
And the changes make you wise
And happiness has it's own way of takin' it sweet time

[chorus]
No,life aint always beautiful
Tears will fall sometimes
Life aint always beautiful
But it's a beautiful ride

Life aint always beautiful
Some days I miss your smile
I get tired of walkin' all these lonely miles

And I wish for just one minute
I could see your pretty face
Guess I can dream, but life dont work that way


But the struggles makes me stronger
And the changes make me wise
And happiness has it's own way of takin' its sweet time

No, life aint always beautiful
But I know I'll be fine
Hey, life aint always beautiful
But its a beautiful ride
What a beautiful ride

Lynn use to say that loving me was his destiny, that it was written in the stars.....

This song..... moves me ...

Westlife, Written in the Stars

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGSNQU-yjwQ

"How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard."
~From the movie Annie


one of my all time favorites....even now, still...so true

My favorite version of the song...
Ronan Keating - When You Say Nothing At All

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ie4I8Ck1Lno

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GT_mVGzcIms

I dont listen to much country music, but I was listening to Martina McBride, and noticed that alot of her songs are about domestic violence and child abuse, so I got reading that she does lots of work to try to end domestic violence, threw charity and her songs and everything

A broken wing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RTX6...eature=channel

Concrete angel (got to be one of the saddest songs/vides I have ever listend to gets me thinking of my childhood)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cmy1V1YGQe4

Independence day
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYENO...eature=channel

For these times
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPHgb...eature=related

Johnny Cash has always been one of my favorites. This song came out in 2002 ... the beginning of the end with Lynn. It was a dark time for me, my sister bought me his CD. It helped me.....I listened to it after Dad killed himself a lot too. I listened to it today and thought I would share it here.

Hurt

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o22eIJDtKho

"Hurt"

I hurt myself today
To see if I still feel
I focus on the pain
The only thing that's real
The needle tears a hole
The old familiar sting
Try to kill it all away
But I remember everything

What have I become
My sweetest friend
Everyone I know goes away
In the end
And you could have it all
My empire of dirt
I will let you down
I will make you hurt

I wear this crown of thorns
Upon my liar's chair
Full of broken thoughts
I cannot repair
Beneath the stains of time
The feelings disappear
You are someone else
I am still right here

What have I become
My sweetest friend
Everyone I know goes away
In the end
And you could have it all
My empire of dirt
I will let you down
I will make you hurt

If I could start again
A million miles away
I would keep myself
I would find a way

((((Nikki))))
Cant pass up the opportunity to give you a hug. Angel Friend Warrior.
PEACE
BMW












P.S.
My dads favorite song is by Johnny Cash."walk the line " thanks for bringing back some beautiful memories to me even if its shadowed by the missing. hugs to our dads .
and this wonderful group i call my "other family" at s.o.s.

((Tina)) Angel friend of mine

My Dad's loved Johnny, he could never pick a favorite. But the Ring of Fire- that is very special to me. When I was a little girl and he would come home on leave - we had a whole routine dance we did as Dad sang it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRlj5vjp3Ko


Yes, hugs to our Dad's

Ah... I LOVE Johnny Cash!!!

I even have a picture of me with his Mom... taken at his recording studio many many MANY years ago. I think I was about 6 or 7.

I don't have a favorite... have every song on my Ipod.

This one always made me laugh...
Boy Named Sue -- Johnny Cash
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M89c3hWx3RQ

Thanks for the memories...

Impossible Dream ~~ Brian Stokes Mitchell
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3g-T46ja95s

I just heard this on the Teddy Kennedy memorial...