He gave everyone an assignment last night:
So your mission tonight–if you choose to accept it–is to post music with lyrics that really resonate with you. Please don't post lyrics to whole songs, but just the little snippets that grab you.
I had to think a bit because music is always in my head. I wake up with a song in my head every day. I've never looked at the meaning of this, either in the fact or with what it might mean about my dreams or in how the day is going to be.
I started this post at 9:24 am this morning. I thought it would be an easy task. It's not.
I have a strangest favorite song - MacArthur Park - but there are no lyrics from the song that actually resonate for me. It's more of a existential thing.
I thought and thought and searched all day [in between making some Italian Christmas cookies] and the more I pondered the more remote it all seemed.
There are moments in my life when songs take on very meaningful perspectives. Donna Summer's There will always be a you instantly reminds me of Ronald; Gloria Gayor's I will survive got me through a bad break-up; Celine Dion's Vole helped with my sister's funeral; and Sandy Denny's Who knows where the time goes sung by Judy Collins will always tell me if I'm depressed the minute I play it.
When I remembered Judy Collins, I instantly recognized that there was one song that resonates with my life.
I first became familiar with Judy Collins in the early 60's. She has gotten me through thick and thin, highs and lows, happy and sad. I've seen her in concert many, many times. I've read her books. I mourned her son's death along with her. With it all, there is the beauty of life. So, I had no doubt that her version of the Joni Mitchell song Both Sides Now instantly resonated for me.
I've looked at life from both sides now
From up and down, and still somehow
Its life's illusions I recall
I really dont know life at all
and in that lies the mystery...
what resonates for you?
just asking...
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