You are the New Day

The King Singers was established in 1968 by 6 choral scholars at King's College in Cambridge England. This group became popular in the mid 1970's and has been growing strong ever since. They now perform over 160 concerts a year in various places all over the world. I first discovered this song when So. Sevier High School's Women Choir performed it. I naturally looked it up online as soon as I could.

This song inspires me to be a better me. To remember that everyday is a new chance to make something great of myself. I can only hope that it brings the same kind of comfort to you that it has to me on so many occasions.

Like all good songs this song also ends on the best possible note. My favorite part is the last verse that reads: "Hope is my philosophy Just needs days in which to be Love of life means hope for me borne on a new day." Hope is my philosophy and just like Sally from the Peanuts Gang i'm going to sing it at the top of my lungs!

Here are the lyrics:

I will love you more than me
and more than yesterday
If you can but prove to me
you are the new day

Send the sun in time for dawn
Let the birds all hail the morning
Love of life will urge me say
you are the new day

When I lay me down at night
knowing we must pay
Thoughts occur that this night might
stay yesterday

Thoughts that we as humans small
could slow worlds and end it all
lie around me where they fall
before the new day

One more day when time is running out
for everyone
Like a breath I knew would come I reach for
the new day

Hope is my philosophy
Just needs days in which to be
Love of life means hope for me
borne on a new day

You are the new day

Lets Get Lost

So I happened across this song as I was reviewing a blog and I REALLY like it. Its a style that I've not heard ever before, and the nearest thing to it is probably Jewel, except Jewel didn't have a twin sister who could do awesome harmony with her! Haylee McClellan and Chelsea Allen promised us for weeks on their blogs that they'd post a song, and I kept watching for it. I've known quite a few amateur musicians (being one myself) and for the most part they just don't cut the mustard, so I wasn't expecting alot when I hit the play button. Needless to say I was blown away. They were gracious enough to send me the lyrics so here they are! 

Nothing ever seems to go your way
Push yourself to the limit, nothing changes
Day by day you lose your light,
You can't find your way

Chorus:
I wanna get lost in your eyes
Dance on your rainy days
I want to fly by your side
Show you the way you take my breath away
My breath away

Facing your biggest fear
I won't disappear
Running away, baby stay
I will help you find

Chorus:
Let's get lost in this sky
Chase all these shooting stars
No reason to wonder why
I'll show you the way to my heart, to my heart
It's your part

I can't find a reason to let you go
I found your light
I'm chasing these feelings, and losing control
In your smile I'll hide

Chorus:
Let's get lost in this night
Dance on these shooting stars
Let's fly side by side
You found your way back to my heart, back to my heart
It's your part

Delibes' Flower Duet

I have no idea what it's talking about. I don't even know for sure what language its in (which is rare for me) .  All I know is that it sounds GREAT! So I haven't looked up the lyrics for you. This is a good song to listen to if you need to relax, or do get some wiggles out by doing ballet in your socks in the kitchen... not that a manly person like myself would ever do something like that. Anyway, I hope you enjoy it as much as I do :) (click here for the video)

Matthew

Had an uncle named Matthew

Was his fathers only boy

Born just south of Colby, Kansas

Was his mothers pride and joy

Yes, and joy was just the thing that he was reaised on

Love was just the way to live and die

Gold was just a windy Kansas wheatfield

Blue, just a Kansas Summer sky

All the stories that he told me

Back when I was just a lad

All the memories thathe gave me

All the good times that he had

Growing up a Kansas farmboy

Life was mostly having fun

Riding on his daddies shoulders

Behind the mule beneath the sun

Yes, and joy was just the thing that he was raised on 

Love was just the way to live and die

Gold was just a windy Kansas wheatfield

Blue, just a Kansas Summer sky

Well, I guess there were some hard times

And I'm told some years were lean

They had a storm in forty-seven

A twister came and stripped them clean

He los the farm and lost his family

He lost his wheat and lost his home

But he found the family bible 

Faith as solid as a stone

Yes and joy was just the thing that he was raised on

Love was just a way to live and die

Gold was just a windy Kansas wheatfield

Blue, just a Kansas Summer sky

So he came to live at our house

and he came to work the lan

He came to ease my daddies burden

And he came to be my friend

So I wrote this down for Matthew 

And it's for him the song is sun

Riding on his daddies shoulders

Behind a mule beneath the sun

Yes and joy was just the thing that he was raised on

Love was just a way to live and die

Gold was just a windy Kansas wheatfield

Blue, just a Kansas Summer sky.

John Denver: Songwriter, Actor, and Humanitarian. A unique personality who always maintained that people pretty much everywhere are the same in heart and in spirit.... hehe. I remember that from a medley of his songs I performed in high school choir. Matthew is is about accepting life as it is and enjoying it. Looking over his Bio on Wikipedia, it looks like he knew about that from experience. He moved all over the place in his childhood! It couldn't have been easy being named "Henry Paul Deutschendorf, Jr." either! Anyway, I spent some time last semester in an environmental psychology class, and we learned about a ton of reasons that being outside is beneficial, especially for kids, and how kids get less and less free time outside, unlike Matthew. I bet you can find some yourself! Here's the challenge: spend some time outside, then come back a and tell me how it was! See if you can remember any good time from your childhood and just remember what it's like to be outdoors.

If you just need a laugh check out these blogs: http://thekeythree.blogspot.com/ and http://ramelltaylor.blogspot.com/

A Long Line of Love

A Long Line of Love is one of my favorite songs of all time. I'll post the lyrics first and talk later :)

I bought a beautiful diamond ring
I offered it ot the sweetest thing I know
And she said she would take it
We started making some wedding plans
She looked at me and she took my hand and said
"Are you sure we can make it?"

I said my granddad's still in love with my grandma
I said my dad still thinks my moms the sweetest thing he ever saw

I come from a long line of love
When the time get hard we don't give
Forever's in my heart and in my blood
You see I come from a long line of love

Years went by and we had a son
Now he thinks that he's found some one for him
And they're planning a wedding
He called me up on the phone today
Just to see what I had to say to him
Did I think he was ready?
I said what his grandfather used to say to me
It's been handed down for ages
It runs in the family

You come from a long line of love
When the times get hard we don't give up
Forever's in your heart and in your blood
Son you come from a long line of love

We come from a long line of love

Released by Michael Martin Murphy in 1985, I'm not sure how my dad found this one. He doesn't listen to country and he would have been teaching school at the time, but one way or another, this was one of my favorite songs to hear him play.

I feel like too many people "give up" too easily. And before you go thinkin' that I don't know what I'm talking about, yes, I've been divorced. I feel like my first wife gave up too easily when she left me. I treated her the very best I could. This life isn't easy. It's not easy for anyone. "Life is pain, Highness; anyone who tells you different is selling something" goes the quote from The Princess Bride. The point is that we take on the hard things! That we live through the tough times and came out on top.  At my second wedding, I had my dad play this song because I still believe it. My grandpa's still in love with my grandma and my dad still thinks my mom is the cutest thing he ever saw. I do come from a long line of love and I've seen couples go through rough times and not give up. So don't give up!

-Rob

oh, bytheway, My buddy Roeun has some great outdoorsy pics on his blog. Might give you some good recreation ideas. Or if you just need some inspiration to get through the day, Kylie has some quotes.