Melissa Etheridge Lyrics

    ------ About the song This Is Not Goodbye performed by Melissa Etheridge

my best friend of 10 yrs left today back to his country,i truely adore him n the moments we have always shared together,i am in tears but i know i have to stay strong for him,the most painful part is we dont know when we will see each other again,i already miss you,stay blessed and God bless,al always be hear for you when you need me.........byeeeeeeeeeeeeee.

    ------ About the song I Run For Life performed by Melissa Etheridge

To the surgeon who thought Melissa missed the point with the line, "And they cut into my skin and they cut into my body, but they will never get a piece of my soul," you take her too literally and completely missed her point. What no one but a cancer patient understands is that from the moment you’re diagnosed, and even before that, you are poked and prodded by Dr’s, nurses and technicians; stuck repeatedly with needles and IV’s; cut open by surgeons (sometimes repeatedly); poisoned with chemo; burned with radiation; and suffer the side effects of those treatments for days, months and sometimes years afterward. And each time you sit down in that chemo chair or lay down on that radiation table, you feel like a lamb being led to the slaughter. Every time you look at yourself in the mirror and see a total stranger, you wonder how this could have happened to you. But you do it because you know that these Dr’s and nurses aren’t doing it to torture you (though it often feels like it); but to save your life. And you do it because you have family, friends and loved ones who want and need you in their lives. You do it because you want to live. But still, it tears you apart. It repeatedly beats you to the ground physically and mentally and there are days when you think you can’t get up. But you do because although they can make you sick and cause you pain, they can’t take your soul. Your spirit. Your inner strength. And that’s what she means by the lyric.

    ------ About the song I Run For Life performed by Melissa Etheridge

I'm only 12, and no, i have never had cancer. But alot of people in my family have, my mom, my grandma, my great grandma, and my aunt just got rid of it! I learnt about cancer and the toll it has on every when I really little, because it was something that just came with being born into this family. Every year, my family puts together a team and enters the REALLAY FOR LIFE put on by the CANADIEN CANCER SOCIETY. We raise any where between $1,000.00 to $5,000.00. Next year will be our 6th year! This song is really inspiering to any one at any age. I can't remember a time where i didn't know this song and only today found out who it was from. My mom is always singing it and I am thinking of performing it foer my school talent show. This is such a touching song even if I am young and have never had cancer. I feel like we all no some one who has and in some way been affected by it. No matter what, I will always find time to raise moner and walk or run for this cause. It's verry close to my heart and it always will be!
I WILL COUNTINUE TO RUN FOR
LIFE UNTIL I TAKE MY LAST BREATH!!!

    ------ About the song I Run For Life performed by Melissa Etheridge

Amazing...I lost my daughter (Shanna) to breast cancer at the age of 24. I am now President of Team Shan Breast Cancer Awareness for Young Women (www.teamshan.ca)and I Run for Life inspires the young women I speak to at high schools and on college and university campuses. It gives us all hope! Thank you!!

    ------ About the song This Is Not Goodbye performed by Melissa Etheridge

My best friend of 23 years passed away 2 years ago in Feb...I miss her so very much...she lived a hars live this was to be her funeral song ...then she requested not to have one...God I miss her more every day...this song to me represents the hard life she live ...Miss you so much shannon

    ------ About the song This Is Not Goodbye performed by Melissa Etheridge

I Run For Life came out a month after my sister died of breast cancer. We both love music and I had to have this CD. But this song, This is Not Goodbye,is for us. I play it when I need a good cry and feel her around........she believed in angels and so do I.

    ------ About the song I Run For Life performed by Melissa Etheridge

I have always been a fan of Melissa's & have thought she was amazing then, but now; after everything that she has been through, she is so much more. Being a woman that hasn't had to physically experience this damn disease but has had to see many of my family pass because of it, she is an inspiration to every woman. Well done Melissa once again.

    ------ About the song I Run For Life performed by Melissa Etheridge

My mother and grandmother are both breast cancer survivors...we just completed the race for the cure in our tri-state area and it is such a big inspiration to see so many gathered together for the cause...for all the mothers,daughters, sisters, friends, aunts, grandmothers, nieces...i will run for life

    ------ About the song I Run For Life performed by Melissa Etheridge

To the idiots who think she was saying to keep the cancer in...WTF??? As a a survivor, I truly KNOW what she means...the cancer takes over your body, often requiring surgery, sometimes the removal of a breast...this DOES NOT make the person lesser in any way...THIS is what she means by "They cut into my body, but they won't take a piece of my soul". This is the most uplifting amazing song...it is about hope, about women who have made the hard journey, some surviving, some not, but their stories living on, teaching and inspiring others to fight and survive. If my life were a movie, this would be my theme song. Every year, I run for hope...if my doing a cancer marathon can raise money and awareness, then I plan to keep running too. Rock on Melissa, sing loud and proud for all of us!

    ------ About the song This Is Not Goodbye performed by Melissa Etheridge

My mother died of breast cancer two years ago. this song has really inspired me and her. this was also the song played at her funeral. Your song "I run for life" we play every year at relay for life, american heart association. I love your music <3