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It is my deepest desire to be a great singer. It's the one talent I long for. When I was younger my sister, Suzette, begged me not to sing along with Ariel, Belle, Cinderella, etc. Even the other day Carly asked me to stop singing along with Pocahontas because I was "ruining it."
What can I say, I love music. As soon as I get into my car I blare the radio and I sing along. I've even been known to pop a CD into Carly's "sing a long" CD player and give it a whirl. I know it's wrong to covet, but whenever I hear someone with a beautiful voice I get a little bit jealous.
I don't want fame or fortune, I just wish that I could sing a lullaby to my kids and they'd actually enjoy it! Well, that and the occasional song during sacrament meeting.
In the end, it all boils down to my respect for those who can move others through the power of music...and I secretly wish that I was one of those people.
Confession: I daydream about having a beautiful voice.
"Sing, sing a song
Make it simple
To last your whole life long.
Don't worry that it's not good enough
For anyone else to hear
Just sing, sing a song."
7 comments:
I thought the confession was going to be that you bought Paula and Randy's DVD...
Did you happen to see Oprah and Gail's road trip the other day? I remember in high school when it didn't matter what station was on, you always knew all the words to the song. That's my secret confession. I always thought you were so cool for that!
It's no secret that Lynette is cool. In fact if she had a super power (and I'm not saying she doesn't) then being super cool is it. That and the fact that she really does know the words to every song--even if she can't tell you who's singing :-P
Luckily the only people who know me on this blog are family & they have to love me despite this ridiculous confession: I used to want a beautiful singing voice, but now I have a secret (not anymore) fantasy of being in a middle-aged moms garage rock band playing the bass guitar (with back-up vocals of course). Really! Oh, and maybe I sing lead on one cool song.
It would have been better if buying Paula and Randy's DVD really was my confession. Man, I should've lied!!
Hi Sugie. If I can get a little religious for a second, this reminds me of a story of an autistic girl (you probably told me the story, actually, but for the benefit of those reading, I'll tell it again) the girl could only communicate by blinking, one for no, two for yes.
The story goes a primary worker was visiting with the girl, and wanted to know what her favorite church song was.
"Do you have a favorite song?"
Two blinks. Yes.
"Is it in the Children's Songbook?"
One blink. No.
"Is it in the Hymnal?"
Two. Yes.
So the sister looked through the hymn book, asking the girl song after song, receiving one blink each time. 227 times, until she got 2 blinks. The hymn was "There is Sunshine in my Soul Today". The sister went on to ask the girl what her favorite line was.
"Is it this?" One blink. No.
If you haven't guessed it, she came to the part in the second verse that says "And Jesus listening can hear the songs I cannot sing." The woman wept with the child as the girl blinked twice.
It doesn't matter how you sing, it matters why you're singing.
Thank goodness we did karoeke night then.
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