Share my favorite music

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZCxQ7xmrmI&feature=related

There really is something holy about starting up a brand new day. To look at someone as if there were no past to forgive, to see her right in the moment for the gift she is, without the backpack of injuries I tend to carry around. The backpack gets heavy. To continually think like this definitely contributes to my quality of life. I must only discipline my mind to think this way.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ih3aAx-S5xg

Another nice version of an oldie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSs-gpaIjFY

I’m not a huge Lauper fan, but I really like her version of Unchained Melody
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYCWlFIZC3E

C’mon! Doesn’t this make you want to get up and boogie??!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMlc6Vw2tg8

Although I like Queen Latifah’s version of this song, Franky’s will do. Obviously I like this song well enough, as it is referenced in About Me. Enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQh0-CYTPj0&feature=PlayList&p=544AE506DFDB9633&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=9

I always cry when I hear this song. It reminds me of my mom. Ever since we were kids she would say, “Have I Told You Lately?” At tender moments you can hear my brothers and sisters continuing the tradition.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0WFsnxECDU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LnB2fZkLAI

I saw Vusi Mahlasela in concert and was so moved with his story, and how important he and his music was during the period of Apartheid. He was given the name Vusi by the people as it means “voice,” and he had come to be known the voice of the people.

I lifted the background of this song from the lyricist’s website. The lyrics follow as well.

“Weeping had its debut in South Africa in 1987, as a protest song about the oppressive white government. The writer of of Weeping, Dan Heymann, was an unwilling white soldier, drafted into the Army. Weeping began as an instrumental piece, expressing his unhappines at being drafted by the regime, and later he wrote words to Weeping when the government declared a State of Emergency and imposed a ban on media-coverage of the situation in South Africa.”

Lyrics:

I knew a man who lived in fear
It was huge, it was angry, it was drawing near
Behind his house, a secret place
Was the shadow of the demon he could never face
He built a wall of steel and flame
And men with guns, to keep it tame
Then standing back, he made it plain
That the nightmare would never ever rise again
But the fear and the fire and the guns remain

It doesn’t matter now
It’s over anyhow
He tells the world that it’s sleeping
But as the night came round
I heard its lonely sound
It wasn’t roaring, it was weeping

And then one day the neighbors came
They were curious to know about the smoke and flame
They stood around outside the wall
But of course there was nothing to be heard at all
“My friends,” he said, “We’ve reached our goal
The threat is under firm control
As long as peace and order reign
I’ll be damned if I can see a reason to explain
Why the fear and the fire and the guns remain”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyYZUhSeRYc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMs83vY2d34