Feeling Good

I’ve once again been tagged by Vickie at Contemplate This in the latest game going around the Law of Attraction blogosphere where each tagged individual makes a post on “Songs that make your heart sing”.

It seems that most people are choosing one song but I’m going to break with tradition and choose two:

First, a song that I’ve known of for some time but not many people I come across have heard it. I love what it has to say about our “mistakes”. It was written and recorded by David Wilcox.

Leave it like it is

Now when the paint jar tipped
Off of the table
You watched as it started to fall
Glass popped, shattered and splattered
And paint spray hit the wall

Bright, blue glossy enamel
Across the kitchen floor
You said, “Good God, look at that pattern
I’ve never seen that before”

Leave it like it is
Never mind the turpentine
Leave it like it is
Its fine

Now when the paint dried
You gave it a title
You called it “Kitchen Blue”
A white frame painted around it
And gallery lighting too

Rich folks come over to dinner
They all want one of their own
They say “How much? Who’s the artist”
And, “My what a beautiful home”

Leave it like it is
Never mind the turpentine
Leave it like it is
Its fine

Now most folks suffer in sorrow
Thinking they’re just no good
They don’t match the magazine model
As close as they think they should

They live just like the “paint by numbers”
The teacher would be impressed
A life-time of follow the lines
So it’s just like all of the rest

Leave it like it is
Never mind the turpentine
Leave it like it is
Its fine

For my second choice, I am going to select a song that, if you’ve watched much television at all during the last few years, you have no doubt at least heard the opening. It’s called “Somewhere over the rainbow/What a wonderful world” recorded by Israel “Iz” Kamakawiwo’ole.

Somewhere over the rainbow/What a wonderful world

Somewhere over the rainbow
Way up high
And the dreams that you dreamed of
Once in a lullaby
Somewhere over the rainbow
Blue birds fly
And the dreams that you dreamed of
Dreams really do come true
Someday I’ll wish upon a star
Wake up where the clouds are far behind me
Where trouble melts like lemon drops
High above the chimney tops is where you’ll find me
Somewhere over the rainbow bluebirds fly
And the dreams that you dare to, oh why, oh why can’t I?
Well I see trees of green and Red roses too,
I’ll watch then bloom for me and you
And I think to myself
What a wonderful world
Well I see skies of blue and I see clouds of white
And the brightness of day
I like the dark and I think to myself
What a wonderful world
The colors of the rainbow so pretty in the sky
Are also on the faces of people passing by
I see friends shaking hands
Saying, “How do you do?”
They’re really saying, I…I love you
I hear babies cry and I watch them grow,
They’ll learn much more than
We’ll know
And I think to myself
What a wonderful world
Someday I’ll wish upon a star,
Wake up where the clouds are far behind me
Where trouble melts like lemon drops
High above the chimney tops is where you’ll find me
Somewhere over the rainbow way up high
And the dreams that you dare to, … why, oh why can’t I

Well those are my choices, so on the game goes…

• Lor at Lor’s Blog
• Susan at Sanctuary for Change
• Julie at The Truth of You