A diary is a record (originally in handwritten format) with discrete entries arranged by date reporting on what has happened over the course of a day or other period. A personal diary may include a person's experiences, and/or thoughts or feelings, including comment on current events outside the writer's direct experience. Someone who keeps a diary is known as a diarist. Diaries undertaken for institutional purposes play a role in many aspects of human civilization, including government records (e.g., Hansard), business ledgers and military records.
Generally the term is today employed for personal diaries, normally intended to remain private or to have a limited circulation amongst friends or relatives. The word "journal" may be sometimes used for "diary," but generally a diary has (or intends to have) daily entries, whereas journal-writing can be less frequent.
Whilst a diary may provide information for a memoir, autobiography or biography, it is generally written not with the intention of being published as it stands, but for the author's own use. In recent years, however, there is internal evidence in some diaries (e.g., those of Ned Rorem, Alan Clark, Tony Benn or Simon Gray) that they are written with eventual publication in mind, with the intention of self-vindication (pre- or posthumous) or simply for profit.
Alicia Augello Cook (born January 25, 1981), better known by her stage name Alicia Keys, is an American R&B singer-songwriter, record producer, and actress. Keys was raised by a single mother in the Hell's Kitchen area of Manhattan in New York City. At age seven, Keys began playing the piano. She attended Professional Performing Arts School and graduated at 16 as valedictorian. Keys released her debut album with J Records, having had previous record deals first with Columbia and then Arista Records.
Keys' debut album, Songs in A Minor, was a commercial success, selling over 12 million copies worldwide. She became the best-selling new artist and best-selling R&B artist of 2001. The album earned Keys five Grammy Awards in 2002, including Best New Artist and Song of the Year for "Fallin'". Her second studio album, The Diary of Alicia Keys, was released in 2003 and was also another success worldwide, selling eight million copies. The album garnered her an additional four Grammy Awards in 2005. Later that year, she released her first live album, Unplugged, which debuted at number one in the United States. She became the first female to have an MTV Unplugged album to debut at number one and the highest since Nirvana in 1994.
All my life's a diary
And I'm erasing several pages
It used to read so easily
Now it's faded, it's faded
With intelligent scars and counterfeit stars
It's all been washed away
All been washed away
Need a love
To tell me
Tell me that it's over
What it took was never mine
Never knew it till I couldn't
Define what I was looking for
Now I'm waiting, I'm waiting
When my sympathy fails to rescue me
I always find a way, always find a way
Need a love
To tell me
Tell me that it's over
Need a love
To tell me
Tell me that it's over
And I need a way out
I sold out
I backed down
I gave up
To say
I need a love
Tell me
Tell me that it's over
Need a Love
Tell me
Tell me that it's over
And I need a way out (way out)
It's a weekday and I cleaned my room agian,
of endless moments I thought we once shared.
An open book, read every single page.
Naive enough to think that help is on the way.
Rise and shine a day awaits,
watching clear skies turn to grey.
It's a dead end road and I want out.
There's no return.
Let me know when will it end?
If only you were my only friend, Id be fine.
A direction split right from the start.
I'm picking up the pieces to this broken heart.
Move over and make room for someone else.
Mabye a smile will find itself right on your face agian.
Another empty sleeping bag. A broken speaker plays out loud.
An Elliot Smith song for those who can't move on and on.
A tour to write you home about of how I'm doing. Pretty sad.
Its time you looked into my eyes.
Deep inside I don’t really care what is wrong.
Why do you want my advice?
It’s hard for me to tell you what you don’t want to hear.
Stop asking me about your problematic life.
A loss coin toss-up, where I wind up saying something without thinking
before I can retract my own voice.
Only after will I know that I have gone and stumbled, fallen.
I need to learn to have more control
Time and again my life get pushed to the back of the line.
I feel I don’t belong
in your diary where you lie about what is real
Personified by your make believe stories. You’re wrong.
Now it’s clear to me, the visions of your life
I’ve grown to know.
You write them down on me,
your pages in my head,
your diary to show
that your life at times is more complex then others.
But we all have hard times just move on.
Time and again my life get pushed to the back of the line.
I feel I don’t belong
in your diary where you lie about what is real
I used a screwdriver, I couldn't find the key, I had to know your secrets, the thoughts you kept of
I read how you resent me, you even dreamed that I was dead, you said, you thought that I'd look
stunning, with a bullet in my head.
Ooh, it's too bizarre to believe, Ooh, you can't be talkin' 'bout me, thats the way I have to read
it, in your diary.
Now we can fight if you want to, unhappily ever after, or you can just tell me, to my face, if you
think I'm such a bastard.
I knew that you'd weren't happy, yeah but who'd have guessed of this, to read that you were planning,
to betray me with a kiss.
Ooh, it's too bizarre to believe, Ooh, you can't be talkin' 'bout me, thats the way I have to read it,
You'll probably just leave me, and I'll fall apart, might as well just kill me, why don't you finish
what you started.
Ooh, it's too bizarre to believe, Ooh, you can't be talkin' 'bout me, thats the way I have to read
it, in your diary.
I found her diary underneath a tree
And started reading about me
The words she'd written took me by surprise
You'd never read them in her eyes
They said that she had found
The love she'd waited for
Wouldn't you know it?
She wouldn't show it
When she confronted with the writing there
Simply pretended not to care
I passed it off as just in keeping with
Her total disconcerting air
And though she tried to hide
The love that she denied
Wouldn't you know it?
She wouldn't show it
And as I go through my life
I will give to her my wife
All the sweet things, I can find
I found her diary underneath a tree
And started reading about me
The words began to stick and tears to flow
Her meaning now was clear to see
The love she'd waited for
Was someone else not me
Wouldn't you know it?
She wouldn't show it
And as I go through my life
I will wish for her his wife
All the sweet things she can find
(Ah, ah, ah, ah)
(Whoa-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh)
How I'd like to look into that little book
The one that has the lock and key
And know the boy that you care for
The boy who's in your diary
When it's late at night what is the name you write?
Oh, what I'd give if I could see
Am I the boy that you care for?
The boy who's in your diary
Do you recall and make note of all
The little things I say and do?
The name you underline, I'm hoping that it's mine
Darling, I'm so in love with you-oo
Please don't leave me blue, make all my dreams come true
You know how much you mean to me
Say I'm the boy that you care for
The boy who's in your di-a-ry
(Whoa-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh)
(Whoa-oh-oh-whoo-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
(Whoo-ooh-ooh-ooh)
(Music : Schaffer, Shawver, Abell / Lyrics : Barlow)
Mine is pure darkness
It is as blackness is
Damn the light which comes from
You as a moth to flame I burn
In the twilight of morning I rest my weary eyes
For the benefits of the nights bounty were many
My soul has been redeemed (with those of others)
I missed my love tonight
Hiding behind the figure I cannot bare to face
That of a dead profit
And his beast of burden
Thorns ripping through his brow
Skin soft and white, eyes fire and ice
Just as I recall
Not longer than nine score
Certainly food for the gods
And fit for a prince
Her throat I¹ll have it now
I will have her, she is mine
Rise of the sun, my test of time
And when shadows fall on unholy ground
It¹s time to sleep again
As consciousness slips into blackness
I rise to nights warm embrace
And though my blood runs cold
I know my love will be alone
And my mortal heart shall beat again
Like it did ten thousand years ago
Forbidden love can only taste this sweet
Not like the others so incomplete
The symbolic arrow that pierces my heart
Takes the shape of a wooden stare
Now I am the one crucified
For her immortal heart I¹d give my own
And die for mankinds sins
But that is not the nature of this beast
I am denied
I will have her, she is mine
Rise of the sun, my test of time
When shadows fall on unholy ground
I read your diary, and it said
That you weren't in love with me
And you're leaving
And I wish that I didn't see
That you fell in love with him, him, him
But I read your diary
I saw a book with a lock and key right next to your name
I, I, I, I couldn't help myself 'cause things ain't been the same
(Oh whao oh)
Can you please tell me 'cause this shit is so insane
My heart is bleeding
Papercut from reading, from reading
Page one
Says that you're falling in and out of love
Page 2
Says all them things I do just ain't enough
Page 3
No I couldn't see,
Page 3 says you don't know how to explain it to me
But I read your diary, and it said
That you weren't in love with me (in love with me)
And you're leaving
And I wish that I didn't see (I didn't see)
That you fell in love with him, him, him
But I read your diary
Oh oh oh
Your diary
Oh oh oh oh
Your diary
Oh oh oh
Your dairy
Oh oh oh oh
I turn the page to see a picture of you and him
No, no, no
That was the night you told me you were out with your friends
(Oh whoa oh)
And now I know that my kiss was just a s-second
My heart is bleeding
Papercut from reading, from reading
Page 4
Says that you're addicted to sexin' him every night
Page 5
Has all the reasons you know this isn't right
Page 6
I can't handle this
I feel just like JT on that cry me a river sh**...
Cause I read your diary, and it said
That you weren't in love with me (in love with me)
And you're leaving
And I wish that I didn't see (I didn't see)
That you fell in love with him, him, him
But I read your diary
Oh oh oh
Your diary
Oh oh oh oh
Your diary
Oh oh oh
Your dairy
Oh oh oh oh
Let's make a list
(Check)
Broken promises
(Check)
How you always told me you love me right after every kiss
(Check)
And You, you always talk me shit
On them other chicks
(Check)
And now it's obvious we know that who the real bitch is...
I read your diary, and it said
That you weren't in love with me (in love with me)
And you're leaving
And I wish that I didn't see (I didn't see)
That you fell in love with him, him, him
But I read your diary
Oh oh oh
Your diary
Oh oh oh oh
Your diary
Oh oh oh
Your dairy
Oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh
IT FEELS LIKE THE WORLD HAS
TURNED IS BACK ON HER
BUT SHE DOESN’T LET IT GO
AND IT’S ME
Wooh~ Oh
PLEASE WAIT HER-
PLEASE WAIT HER
Wooh~ Oh
Nan nan unneun beobeuraneunde
Sseulde-ga eop-seoyo UH-
Nan nan jeonhwahbeonhon manheunde
Keol sarami eop-seoyo UH-
Nan nan chingudeu-reun i-nneunde
Himi deu-reoyo UH UH-
Ma-eumi apayo neomu meong-cheong-haeseo
Sumgi bappeu-go sumda-ga sumda-ga
Sumi makhyeo-omyeon meomchul jul molla
Han geo-reum mu-lleonani banganineyo
Hokshina ireohke shi-gani kamyeon
Nan anira-go marha-go shipeo
PLEASE WAIT HER-
PLEASE WAIT HER-
Sumanheun saramdeu-re hwiiptsayeo utko isseoyo
Nae-ga anigo nu-gunji moreugesseoyo
PLEASE WAIT HER-
PLEASE WAIT HER-
Ma-eumi neomu apayo I seulpeumeul pyohyeonhagien
Nae-ga aneun daneodeu-lloneun bujokhaneyo
Nan nan appa-ga neomu bogopeunde
Bol suga eop-seoyo UH-
Ma-eumi apeunde pyohyeonhal suga eop-seoyo
Naneun i-nneunde nu-gunji cheongmal
Moreugesseoyo (moreugesseoyo OH-)
Ma-eumi apayo neomu meong-cheong-haeseo
Sumgi bappeu-go sumda-ga sumda-ga
Sumi makhyeo-omyeon meomchul jul molla
Han geo-reum mu-lleonani banganineyo
Hokshina ireohke shi-gani kamyeon
[Boa/Boh] nan anira-go marha-go shipeo woo Oh~
PLEASE WAIT HER-
PLEASE WAIT HER-
Amudo moreuge
Amudo moreuneun goseseo Ah
Amudo moreu-go
Amudo moreumyeonseo
Saturday two weeks ago
Your light left me
Tortured in my agony
I'm more than helpless
Sometimes I don't know
What shall I do
Without your wings
I fall into blaze
Monday I try to suppress
My wish to follow you
I've lost my will to live
Without you
Tuesday I must prevent
From drifting away
Today...my pain will fade
Sunday she is gone
And beyond the pain
Covered with flowers
She followed him
The only thing that remains
Four words in stone
I found her diary underneath a tree
And started reading all about me
The words she's written took me by surprise
You'd never read them in her eyes
They said that she had found
The love she waited for
Wouldn't you know it?
She wouldn't show it
And when confronted with the writing there
She simply pretended not to care
I passed it off as just in keeping with
Her usual disconcerting air
And though she tried to hide
The love that she denied
Wouldn't you know it?
She wouldn't show it
And as I go through my life
I will give to her, my wife
All the sweet things I can find
I found her diary underneath a tree
And started reading all about me
The words began to stick and tears to flow
Her meaning now was clear to see
The love she waited for
Was for someone else, not me
Wouldn't you know it?
She wouldn't show it
And as I go through my life
I will wish for her, his wife
All the sweet things she can find
Revealed your secrets
Unveiled your filth
The pages contain
The hate you've built
And you are trapped now
In your pool of lies
The blood and flesh remains
For what your write
Surrender
Catalystic ways
Undying
Now but soon you'll reach your days
I've felt this
Something stronger than before
The pressure
Just won't raise anymore
And in this diary I've seen the truth and how you've felt for me
This is far from over now that once again it's hard to breathe
And in this diary I've seen the truth and how you've felt for me
This is far from over now
I'll find your weakness
Because you found mine
I'm sick of heartache
From time to time
And now I
Truly know
Just how you cared
For me
Surrender
Catalystic ways
Undying
Now but soon you'll reach your days
I've felt this
Something stronger than before
The pressure
Just won't raise anymore
And in this diary I've seen the truth and how you've felt for me
This is far from over now that once again it's hard to breathe
And in this diary I've seen the truth and how you've felt for me
This is far from over now
Will
Blind
And in this diary I've seen the truth and how you've felt for me
This is far from over now that once again it's hard to breathe
And in this diary I've seen the truth and how you've felt for me
This is far from over now
Will
In The Shadows
Buried In Me Lies A Child's Toy
In The Shadows
The Name Is Unknown To Me
In The Shadows
Gray Crusaders With Tails
Mother Made
In The Shadows
Will To Become Their Pride
Why?
In The Shadows
I Climbed Mountain For Chairs
Don't Look Down
Try This Figure Out
Memorize Their Words For Hope
In The Shadows
Stood Up High For All To See
In The Shadows
Counting These Numbers Down
Down
No One Can
Take Away
Leaf Falls
Short
Dreams Over
A Lie's The Same
If I May Weep
In The Shadows
Buried In Me Lies A Child's Toy
Tried To Figure Out
Memorize Their Words For Hope
In The Shadows
Stood Up High For All To See Me
In The Shadows
Counting These Numbers Down
Down
No One Can
Take Away
Leaf Falls
Short
Dreams Over
A Lie's The Same
If I May Weep
Weep
I don't know what you've heard
But I'm sure that you've heard it all your life
And it's not nice to mix secrets up with lies
In your car, double-parked
Full of rusting vaulves that fell out of your heart
Try again but the goddamned thing won't start
And now I don't think you even care at all
Somehow I know you won't be there if I fall
But write it all down in your diary
And get back to me someday
I'm amazed at all the stupid, broken things that people say
To each other when they think no one can hear
But baby, it's a fact
That when you laugh
I feel like the sky is opening in half
To take me back to some place I understand
And now I don't think you even care at all
Somehow I know you won't catch me if I fall
But write it all down in your diary
[Intro:]
If I told you I wanted to talk to you, you know
You think I'm try'na holla at you
And maybe I am but,
You wouldn't hear me out anyways would you?
[Verse 1: Wale]
Rather lose love than to move on
Never knowing what it feel like
Short days, long nights
By the phone, no call
Need a clear mind 'cause I been blind
Got me goin' down that road
Heart made of stone
Far away from home
Black woman, c-c-cold
Every problem that you ever had with another man I gotta face
Started off on thin ice
I'm still here, but I can't skate
Slow sink
Can't breathe
No remorse
Don't think
Listen to your friend, get another man for a minute then repeat
Queen, you deserve the title but she rejects what I give
While she nurse the wounds by them
Tried them, didn't work
Got impossible standards
Nothing I'm a do's gonna work
Diary of a black girl
[Chorus: Marsha Ambrosius]
I wonder why I sit and cry
Wish I could shed all these tears
I'm down and out
I keep on moving and tryna get out
I don't know how to move on
Where I went wrong
Wish I could live with no fear
So down and out
I'll keep it moving and tryna get out
Somehow
[Verse 2: Wale]
Raised by a momma who, who,
Hates her baby father so, so
She don't have a problem with, with,
Saying fuck a nigga quick, quick,
I'm just tryna be the one who never run, but you run away from me
Girlfriend's man cheat, cheat
Why not me the same thing
She can't see in me, what I see in her
This pain she inherit can't be reversed
I can't even stay living in the shade of all the motherfuckers that played ya
The irony in that is that I ain't even that, but you put it in those pages
Wife, you deserve the label
But you been hurt before so you don't feel you're able,
Tried them didn't work
Got impossible standards
Nothing that I ever do work
Diary of a black girl
[Chorus:]
I wonder why I sit and cry
Wish I could shed all these tears
I'm down and out
I keep on moving and tryna get out
I don't know how to move on
Where I went wrong
Wish I could live with no fear
So down and out
I keep it moving and tryna get out
Somehow
[Spoken: Wale]
See all I wanna do is be relevant
Just tell me that I ever meant anything
Or that you could ever see me and you in another light
But it's like the dark woman endores in the darkest nights by the wrong man
See all of them have made you incapable of a first impression
What it do is I channel my aggression with no cable or antenna
Just intentions to impress you, if capable
Hoping that the material possesions can materialise to a better you
Cars, nothing I drive can drive you out of this frame of mind for such an ugly picture
And money, nothing I buy can buy more time for your ears to tell your heart to listen to it
"Diamonds, a girl's best friend" is what they say
But, believe me, with the right allegience shorty you gonna shine anyways
And everyday that goes by is a couple more lines in her diary
The day before is better than the present
So anyone presented in her presence is doing these life sentences
No key for release
No reason to be around
Her minds in the clouds
She writes it all down
In her diary,
[Chorus:]
I wonder why I sit and cry
Wish I could shed all these tears
I'm down and out
I keep on moving and tryna get out
I don't know how to move on
Where I went wrong
Wish I could live with no fear
I'm down and out
I'll keep it moving and tryna get out
Somehow
Somehow
I was there when she was writing
I felt her pen on paper
there to stay there to pay
I saw her writing me again
my brain is bleeding
my eyes are melting to my heart
she places the end just before the start
"to lay and die" she thinks to my ears
I can hear her heart and feel her pain
I understand but, can do nothing
a diary is me, a diary can't scream out her name
why is it that I'm the only one who knows
can't they hear her tears hit the floor
why is my mouth locked like a prison door
I wish I could tell someone
I kiss her swollen lips, and blood-she can't bight her tongue-swallow
her words
touch her blue face, touch her scarred back
and ripped down pride, broken side, ripped out hair, hide her tears
and lie
she knows of acid trips and clouds
of rape and placenta
placid eyes can't hide her fears from me
she says it all and I listen, and I hear her hearts call
for help a birds fall
deadly games, the loser goes away for ever, till never and I come
why is it that I'm the only one who knows
can't they hear her tears hit the floor
why is my mouth hers to quiet
I wish I could tell someone
you can't hear her tears fall,
you can't hear her hearts call,
thought life was like a diary
begun the day you're born
filled with crazy writing
up to the latest dawn
and reaching out from there
towards the page you'd never turn
the empty days
the fate you'd still to learn
thought life was like a diary
begun the day you're born
but nothing this confusing
could be so clearly drawn
and today i saw it in a different light
and my heart sank
the days to come were filled
I found her dairy underneath the tree
And started reading about me
The words she'd written took me by surprise
You'd never read them in her eyes
They said that she had found
The love she've waited for
Wouldn't you know it
She wouldn't show it
Then she confronted with her writing there
Simply pretended not to care
I passed it off as just in keeping with
Her total disconcertedness
An though she tried to hide
The love that she denied
Wouldn't you know it
She wouldn't show it
And as I go through my life
I will give to her my wife
All the sweet things I can find
I found her dairy underneath the tree
And started reading about me
The words begun to stick to tears to flow
Her meaning now is clear to see
The love she've waited for
Was someone else, not me
Wouldn't you know it
She wouldn't show it
And as I go through my life
I will wish for her his wife
All the sweet things she can find
Lay your head on my pillow
Here you can be yourself
No one has to know what you are feelin'
No one but me and you
I wont tell, your secrets
Your secrets are safe with me
I will keep your secrets
Just think of me as the pages in your diary
I feel such a connection
Even when you're far away
Oooh baby if there is anything that you fear
Call 489 4608 and I'll be here
I won't tell your secrets
Your secrets are safe with me
I will keep your secrets
Just think of me as the pages in your diary
Only we know what is talked about, Baby boy
I don't know how you could be driving me so crazy
Baby when you're in town
Why don't you come around
I'll be the loyalty you need
I used to play with my balls
but now I play with my dick
I'm using both of my hands
I play until I get sick
then I go straight to my room
and watch my neighbours' two dogs
they fuck each others brains out
all my friends think I love cocks
another thing that I like
is scaring kids on the street
while cruising nude on my bike
and penetrating some sheep
when I get punched in the face
I feel extremely horny
and it results every day