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| I've always felt that a good poem or song lyric is like a good picture. If it doesn't make you "feel" something, the author didn't do their best work. Let's share some favorite poems or songs that really had an impact on you...Capt Jack. |
Monday, December 13, 2010
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The lyrics to "The Rose" are amazing! What an inspiration! The way Bette Midler sings it is beyond brilliant. Even though I'm not a fan of her work, she blew me away with that song.
ReplyDeleteI have so many quotes and poems I like, too. I'll have to come back with more later. How about you? What song, quote or poem moves you?
Lulu - John Mayer's Heartbreak Warfare always makes me "feel" the past and remember how love can sometimes go astray so easily. He comes up with incredible images.
ReplyDelete"Lighting strike
Inside my chest to keep me up at night
Dream of ways
To make you understand my pain
Clouds of sulfur in the air
Bombs are falling everywhere
It's heartbreak warfare
Once you want it to begin
No one really ever wins
In heartbreak warfare
If you want more love why don't you say so
If you want more love why don't you say so
Drop his name
Push it in and twist the knife again
Watch my face
As I pretend to feel no pain
Clouds of sulfur in the air
Bombs are falling everywhere
It's heartbreak warfare"
I'll hit some of my favorite poems next. -Capt Jack
This is a great one and perfect now considering all the cold weather we have all been having lately. It really makes me want to call my parents everytime I read it and thank them for all the things I took for granted, back when I was young. Now if we could just get our children to understand...lol
ReplyDeleteThose Winter Sundays
by Robert Hayden
Sundays too my father got up early
And put his clothes on in the blueback cold,
then with cracked hands that ached
from labor in the weekday weather made
banked fires blaze. No one ever thanked him.
I'd wake and hear the cold splintering, breaking.
When the rooms were warm, he'd call,
and slowly I would rise and dress,
fearing the chronic angers of that house,
Speaking indifferently to him,
who had driven out the cold
and polished my good shoes as well.
What did I know, what did I know
of love's austere and lonely offices?
"What did I know, what did I know of love's austere and lonely offices?" OMG, it hits home with me, too. :)
ReplyDeleteBtw, Casting Crowns has a cool song that hit me when I heard it (dealing with hypocrisy at church):
Is there anyone that fails
Is there anyone that falls
Am I the only one in church today feelin’ so small
Cause when I take a look around
Everybody seems so strong
I know they’ll soon discover
That I don’t belong
So I tuck it all away, like everything’s okay
If I make them all believe it, maybe I’ll believe it too
So with a painted grin, I play the part again
So everyone will see me the way that I see them
*Chorus*
Are we happy plastic people
Under shiny plastic steeples
With walls around our weakness
And smiles to hide our pain
But if the invitation’s open
To every heart that has been broken
Maybe then we close the curtain
On our stained glass masquerade
Is there anyone who’s been there
Are there any hands to raise
Am I the only one who’s traded
In the altar for a stage
The performance is CONVINCING
And we know every line by heart
Only when no one is watching
Can we really fall apart
But would it set me free
If I dared to let you see
The truth behind the person
That you imagine me to be
Would your arms be open
Or would you walk away
Would the love of Jesus
Be enough to make you stay
Lulu - Robert Hayden has some really good stuff. I can picture you sitting at the ice rink freezing and I can't count any longer all the 5 hour marathon gymnastics meets for myself. When our children turn 30 and have kids of their own, hopefully that's when Hayden might make some kind of impression on them as well. "The performance is CONVINCING..." I love the lyrics and the song. How many of us go through life and church services in particular, never really expressing who we truly are or wish that we could be?
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