August 19, 2006

• Featured_Grownups Topic

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  Oldest daughter (who BTW was so proud of me for choosing such an emo song) put the music on my site for me. Unfortunately I don’t have one of those little player thingys, so if you don’t want to hear this, just turn down you speakers. I look into getting a player this week.

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  New topic from Featured_Grownups:

  The topic is: Take the lyrics to your favorite song, and analyze them. Take whichever perspective you would like – the band’s, the songwriter’s, or your own. How/Why does this song speak to you? Or, you can be literal – what does it actually mean(If you’ve heard explanations by the singer/songwriter in an interview or otherwise – or if you wrote it or know who did)?

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  This topic was difficult for me to get started with. Music is an integral part of my life. It has defined each phase and new feeling that I experience. I can remember at 6 years old performing to songs like “Billy Don’t Be a Hero” and “She’s Having My Baby” in the backyard with our neighborhood kids. I spent hours on the back step with my sister listening to the radio in the evenings. By 12 I was attending concerts and music spoke for me, when I was unable to speak for myself. As a grown up music continues to be my escape, my release, my pick me up and my words, when I can’t express my thoughts and feelings.

  You are the Wind Beneath my Wings describes exactly how I feel about my husband. He has liberated me from my own fears and self doubts and gave me the courage and strength to be all the things I am.

  The hymn On Eagles Wings makes me cry every time, it is the hymn played at my FIL funeral. He was a fantastic man. I loved him almost like my own father. The comforting message of that hymn, that god will “Bear us on the break dawn, make you to shine like the sun and hold you in the palm of his hand”. Stirs me every time.

  American Solider also moves me to tears, because it illustrates all the difficulties it is to be a solider and a soldiers family and the one reason that they choose to do it.

  Freewill by Rush spoke to me as a teen and young adult about making choices or even not making a choice, but that may sometimes BE my choice. I have freewill… it’s my choice.

  So when it came down to the topic I was at a loss – the songs tumbled through my head. I decided to go with a more current song, one that pumps up my blood each and every time. I chose a song that makes consider my life and how it going.

  I chose: “Bring Me to Life” by Evanescence

  how can you see into my eyes like open doors
  leading you down into my core
  where I’ve become so numb without a soul my spirit sleeping somewhere cold
  until you find it there and lead it back home
  
  

  To me this speaks of my boredom with life, when I’m am just going along with the daily work. When I am not thinking about the spirit and the soul, but just going through the motions. There are those that would see through that – my husband, my friends, and most importantly, God.

  (Wake me up)
  Wake me up inside
  (I can’t wake up)
  Wake me up inside
  (Save me)
  call my name and save me from the dark
  (Wake me up)
  bid my blood to run
  (I can’t wake up)
  before I come undone
  (Save me)
  save me from the nothing I’ve become

  This wake up call comes most often for me at church. Through the readings of the bible, and words of our priest and lyrics of the hymns I’m awoken. Sometimes though these “wake up” calls come from innocuous sources. Through blogs I read, programs I watch or something my husband or children say.
  
  

  The song continues to speak of the slumber of the spirit. How it often happens without our awareness. Once we realize it we desire to continually be awake, alive, enflamed. The sleeping of the spirit is a death of “true” life.

  I want to be awake – for every breath of my life. So please…. “Bring Me to Life”.

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  So, Question for the day:

  What song speaks to you?

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