Thank You For The Music

I don't know about you, but I'm one of those people who truly do attach the emotion of a memory, time, or a place to music. I actually think it's fairly common, who doesn't remember the song that was playing when they danced their first slow dance at their first party?

As I listen to a song each note played is a step back to a specific time and place. "Let Me Be Your Angel" by Stacy Lattisaw was the song of my first innocent love, my puppy love if you will. I used to sit in my room and listen to that song over and over. Which was a bit more complicated back then, since we didn't have MP3 players. We had 45s and LPs, yes, good old records.

The Truth Will Always Bare Itself Out

Full Definition of TRUTH

1

a archaic :  fidelity, constancy

b :  sincerity in action, character, and utterance

2

a (1) :  the state of being the case :  fact (2) :  the body of real things, events, and facts :  actuality (3) often capitalized :  a transcendent fundamental or spiritual reality

b :  a judgment, proposition, or idea that is true or accepted as true <truthsof thermodynamics>

c :  the body of true statements and propositions

3

a :  the property (as of a statement) of being in accord with fact or reality

b chiefly British :  true 2

c :  fidelity to an original or to a standard

My mother has always been one for turning a good quote or a phrase. She also loved poetry. But there was one quote that my mother liked to say when she though I wasn't telling the truth. She would say, "You know, the truth will always bare itself out".

Fake It Till You Make It - Getting Through Valentine's Day

Valentine's Day, the day when all around the world people are celebrating love in all it's forms. We are indoctrinated to the ways of this celebrated day of love with the same earnestness that we are taught about Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Easter. Primary school students harass their mothers to buy Valentine's Day cards (You know the little ones that you give out to EVERYONE in your class), mothers everywhere are sitting up making sure that they have counted their child's classmates several times over just to make sure they don't miss anyone.

Inevitably the time comes when you realize that for the first time there is that special someone in your class that you don't want to give the "regular" Valentine to. You want to give them that "special" Valentine, the one that says, "Will you be mine?" and you meant it! Or better yet, for them to give that special Valentine to you.

The Dance of My Life To An Audience of One

It was December 1969 and I was 5 years old. I will never forget this night because it was the first pivotal moment in my life. I was taken to see my very first professional ballet, The Nutcracker. I remember coming home and telling my mother, "I can do that!". From that moment on, dance and music have been an integral part of my existence.

Music and movement are the visceral part of my emotions. Whatever I am feeling I can pop out my iPod and play a song that speaks the words that I can't say myself, and from the music is born movement. It's gotten to the point that as soon as I don my ear buds or head phones, turn up the music and close my eyes, I become lost in the choreography inside of my mind.

I was thinking back over my life, as one tends to do when one gets a certain age, and I realized that there was one song in particular that has been a constant in my music repertoire, Donny Hathaway's version of "A Song For You". (My other favorite must have artists are Chayanne, Tracey Chapman, Sade, and Phoebe Snow. I'm sure I'll write about all of them eventually)

"A Song For You" is the song that sums up so beautifully one of the great quests of my life. "I've acted out my life on stages, with ten thousand people watching, but we're alone, and I'm singing this song for you." The quest for that one person that is my safe harbor from everything and everyone. That at the end of the day it doesn't matter who I have to be to the rest of the world, this person will accept me for who I really am.

For this person I will dance the language of my soul and they will understand, because this dance is meant for and audience of one.

"I've been so many places

In my life and time

I've sung a lot of songs

I've made some bad rhymes

I've acted out my life on stages

With 10,000 people watching

But we're alone now

And I'm singing this song to you

I know your image of me

Is what I hoped to be

I treated you unkindly

But darling, can't you see?

There's no one more important to me

Baby, can't you see through me?

'Cause we're alone now

And I'm singing this song to you

You taught me precious secrets

Of a true love while holding nothing

You came out in front when I was hiding

But now I'm so much better

And if my words don't come together

Listen to the melody

'Cuz my love is in there hiding

I love you in a place

Where there's no space or time

I love you for my life

'Cuz you' re a friend of mine

And when my life is over

Remember when we were together

We were alone

And I was singing this song to you

I love you in a place

Where there's no space or time

I love you for my life

'Cuz you' re a friend of mine

And when my life is over

Remember when we were together

We were alone

And I was singing this song to you

We were alone

And I was singing this song to you

We were alone

And I was singing this song

Singing this song to you"

Songwriters

RUSSELL, LEON

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Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group

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