I intimated below that music is important to me (you may have guessed that already). It is the art form I am most familiar with, playing a couple different instruments and singing. I part-time as a mobile disc jockey (weddings, etc.). I own near to 500 CDs and am running out of room where to keep them. My interests range from the sublime (Mozart, Schubert, Coltrane, Yes) to the insanely unclassifiable (The Mars Volta, Pain of Salvation, Stravinsky). My first question is a general one - what is the place, if any, of music in your life? What do you listen to while reading, say, or doing something quiet? Is Miles Davis or Debussy more conducive to a romantic evening? Some early morning fare for me range from Pat Metheny through Vangelis to Ravi Shankar.
I am asking as a way to get to know more about you, if at all.
My second question I ask because I seriously respect your opinion, even when we differ. The following song our little "praise band" will be performing as the introit, I suppose one could call it, to Easter Sunday service. I will be playing acoustic guitar and singing lead (lyrics will be below). Discounting genre, should that be something that doesn't appeal to you, I would like to know what you think. Lisa is actually using that theme - "Let The Day Begin" - throughout not just this service but the entire Easter season. Myself, the whole litany of persons are a list of "the world" that God so loved - from new born babies to dreamers in bars to the scorned and forgotten to the successful. But, I'm a crazy liberal so what do I know?
Here's to the babies in a brand new world
Here's to the beauty of the stars
Here's to the travellers on the open road
Here's to the dreamers in the bars
Here's to the teachers in the crowded rooms
Here's to the workers in the fields
Here's to the preachers of the sacred words
Here's to the drivers at the wheel
Here's to you my little loves with blessings from above
Now let the day begin
Here's to you my little loves with blessings from above
Now let the day begin, let the day begin
Here's to the winners of the human race
Here's to the losers in the game
Here's to the soldiers of the bitter war
Here's to the wall that bears their names
Here's to you my little loves with blessings from above
Now let the day begin
Here's to you my little loves with blessings from above
Let the day begin, let the day begin, let the day start
Here's to the doctors and their healing work
Here's to the loved ones in their care
Here's to the strangers on the streets tonight
Here's to the lonely everywhere
Here's to the wisdom from the mouths of babes
Here's to the lions in the cage
Here's to the struggles of the silent war
Here's to the closing of the age.
Here's to you my little loves with blessings from above
Now let the day begin
Here's to you my little loves with blessings from above
Let the day begin
Here's to you my little loves with blessings from above
Let the day begin
Here's to you my little loves with blessings from above
Now let the day begin, let the day begin, let the day start
