Music to express ourselves, music to inspire, songs you'd think one of us wrote. I thought of this one because, ironically, of praise I've received for my willingness to care for someone: "Superman (It's Not Easy)" by Five for Fighting. You can find it on YouTube via Google (Bing, etc.)
When we driving round making arangments for dad, I looked over and my rock n roll hating mother (dimetia now) let her guard down and was tapping her toes and humming to Greenday's Novocaine....We had just bought the cd American Idiot, I popped it in and never had heard it before
It became our themesong along with "wake me up when september ends"
WE listened over n over n over n over!!!! It got me thru the whole funeral and beyond!!!
Please look that one up for DAD today!!!
"you can stand me up at the gates of hell and I wont back down"
Jack Russell Terrorist -hee hee
Ziggy's Love is my Religion.....that is another song I go to for a smile!
I had to tell ya I posted yesterday on "grossed out" about my mom's cockatiel I cooked!! she wanted me to train him, he was on my shoulder while cooking, spooked n hit the rangetop slide down plop into spaghetti noodles...it was awful but we laff now, what a way to go!!!
From Les Mis- "I Dreamed a Dream" is good for days when you just want to mope. The last stanza is a real zinger---
"I had a dream my life would be
So different from this hell I'm living
So different now from what it seemed
Now life has killed the dream I dreamed"
:o(
(Love Bob Marley, BTW! I had two gold fish in college -Bob and Ziggy - unfortunately I put them by the window sill on a hot day and cooked them. What can I say?--I was a freshmen. )
I love this post cuz it is making me think! I mentioned earlier somewhere music was a big part of my life before mom, and now I don't even have time or energy to put together a playlist etc..we have no radio out in country anymore!
So i kept thinking bout this headline and all my go to songs from days back and that's when Bob came in...of course, you cant hardly be sad to a reggae song even if it is!!! and his message!
How about a little reggae/Bob Marley? This one always helps lift me up when I get those caregiving blues...
"Don't worry about a thing,
'Cause every little thing gonna be all right.
Singin': "Don't worry about a thing,
'Cause every little thing gonna be all right!"
Rise up this mornin',
Smiled with the risin' sun,
Three little birds
Pitch by my doorstep
Singin' sweet songs
Of melodies pure and true,
Sayin', ("This is my message to you-ou-ou:")
Singin': "Don't worry 'bout a thing,
'Cause every little thing gonna be all right."
Singin': "Don't worry (don't worry) 'bout a thing,
'Cause every little thing gonna be all right!"
Rise up this mornin',
Smiled with the risin' sun,
Three little birds
Pitch by my doorstep
Singin' sweet songs
Of melodies pure and true,
Sayin', "This is my message to you-ou-ou:"
Singin': "Don't worry about a thing, worry about a thing, oh!
Every little thing gonna be all right. Don't worry!"
Singin': "Don't worry about a thing" - I won't worry!
"'Cause every little thing gonna be all right."
Singin': "Don't worry about a thing,
'Cause every little thing gonna be all right" - I won't worry!
Singin': "Don't worry about a thing,
'Cause every little thing gonna be all right."
Singin': "Don't worry about a thing, oh no!
'Cause every little thing gonna be all right!
Mishka - I love "everything's alright" too - great song! (it's from Jesus Christ Superstar though, not Godspell...easy to mix them up though!)
I am curious bout some of these songs now too...will check em out manana!!
I sing to my girl Everything's Alright from Godspell-the Mary Magdalene part--
",Try not to get worried
Try not to turn on to
Problems that upset you
(oh) Don't you know
Everything's all right
Yes everything's fine
And we want you to sleep well tonight
Let the world turn without you tonight"
Reminds me of your song, Book
youve got me listening to an entire black sabbath album on you tube. the musical clarity is shocking.. mmmmm
had an old friend once who was 80 yrs old at the time, junkyard propriator. in his old age he didnt drive (or even see) worth a shit . he had a front license plate that proclaimed jesus was his copilot. my sons and i always mused how jesus surely bailed years ago..
My li'l Ziggy always comes thru in a clutch..tho, he came over to lick away my tears, from a dead sleep!!
I am telling you tho music is powerful....and healing and so are pets!!!
paranoia is a devastating state of mind, i deal with it sometimes. it would probably get better if id stop doing illegal stuff but NO DEAL..
Few weeks ago when I was so low I heard
Carrie Underwoods "Jesus take the wheel"
Jesus take the wheel
Take it from my hands
Cause I can't do this all on my own
I'm letting go
So give me one more chance
To save me from this road I'm on
Jesus take the wheel
We were not raised with the church as well but I am exploring my spirituality. The message moved me deeply!!
I found myself humming/singing over and over the song by Cristy Lane - One Day at a Time, Sweet Jesus. It was just the Words helped me to concentrate on just TODAY and not think of the tomorrows.
I'm only human, I'm just a woman.
Help me believe in what I could be
And all that I am.
Show me the stairway, I have to climb.
Lord for my sake, teach me to take
One day at a time.
Chorus:
One day at a time sweet Jesus
That's all I'm asking from you.
Just give me the strength
To do everyday what I have to do.
Yesterday's gone sweet Jesus
And tomorrow may never be mine.
Lord help me today, show me the way
One day at a time.
Doctor, Doctor help me please, I know you'll understand
There's a time device inside of me, I'm a self-destructin' man
There's a red, under my bed
And there's a little green man in my head
And he said, "you're not goin' crazy, you're just a bit sad
'Cause there's a man in ya, gnawin' ya, tearin' ya into two."
Silly boy ya' self-destroyer.
Paranoia, the destroyer
Self-destroyer, wreck your health
Destroy friends, destroy yourself
The time device of self-destruction
Light the fuse and start eruption
(Yea, it goes like this, here it goes)
Paranoia, the destroyer
(Here's to paranoia)
Paranoia, the destroyer
(Hey hey, here it goes)
Paranoia, the destroyer
(And it goes like this)
Paranoia, the destroyer