Day 311: “Don’t Dream It’s Over” – Crowded House (1996)

The last song performed during the last concert of their Farewell to the World concert at the Sydney Opera House in Sydney, Australia, on November 24, 1996.

“There is freedom within, there is freedom without
Try to catch the deluge in a paper cup
There’s a battle ahead, many battles are lost
But you’ll never see the end of the road
While you’re traveling with me

Hey now, Hey now
Don’t dream it’s over
Hey now, Hey now
When the world comes in
They come, They come
To build a wall between us
We know they won’t win”

Day 302: “Fix You” – Coldplay (2005)

“But if you never try, you’ll never know
Just what you’re worth.”

Day 295: “More Than a Name on a Wall” – The Statler Brothers (n.d.)

“I saw her from a distance, as she walked up to the wall.
In her hand she held some flowers, as her tears began to fall.
She took out pen and paper as to trace her mem’ries.
She looked up to heaven, and the words she said were these.

She said, ‘Lord my boy was special, and he meant so much to me,
And Oh, I’d love to see him just one more time you see.
All I have are the mem’ries and the moments to recall,
So Lord could you tell him he’s more than a name on the wall?'”

Day 288: “Tin Man” – Miranda Lambert (2016/2017)

“By the way there, Mr. Tin Man,
If you don’t mind the scars,
You give me your armor,
And you can have my heart.”

Day 286: Words, Words, Words – from “Reluctance” (1913)

“Ah, when to the heart of man
Was it ever less than a treason
To go with the drift of things,
To yield with a grace to reason,
And bow and accept the end
Of a love or a season?”

— Robert Frost

Day 280: Words, Words, Words – from “The Tempest” (c. 1610-11)

“ … But this rough magic
I here abjure, and, when I have required
Some heavenly music, which even now I do,
To work mine end upon their senses that
This airy charm is for, I’ll break my staff,
Bury it certain fathoms in the earth,
And deeper than did ever plummet sound
I’ll drown my book.”

— William Shakespeare

Take a Look: Nicholas’ Heart

-Photo by Reg Green-

From BBC News: “On the night of 29 September 1994, seven-year-old Nicholas Green was fatally shot during a family holiday in southern Italy. The death was a tragedy for his parents, Reg and Maggie, but their decision to donate his organs caused organ donation rates in Italy to triple in a decade – a result dubbed the ‘Nicholas effect’.”

Read the full story at the BBC News website.

Day 271: Words, Words, Words – Michelle Kwan (n.d.)

“The one who wins all the time is great, is powerful. But the one who has been trampled on and fallen and is injured and is able to get back up and stand up and fight…That’s who I admire the most.”

Take a Look: Hugs from Holly

From the AP, via Yahoo! News: “Former NFL tight end Todd Heap and his family are encouraging people to ‘share hugs and spread love and joy through random acts of heartfelt kindness’ on Wednesday in honor of their late daughter’s birthday. … The family created the site hugsfromholly.com, a campaign in memory of Holly, who would have turned 4 on Wednesday. ‘Holly was known to give the best hugs, and her love for everyone and everything in life was contagious,’ a statement on the site’s home page reads. ‘Let’s spread this joy as we scatter sunshine in Holly’s honor on her birthday.'”

Read the full story on the Yahoo! News website.

Day 218: Sad Songs #SaySoMuch, Day VII / “The Letting Go” – Melissa Etheridge (1992)

Like Adele’s “One and Only,” which I posted earlier in this series, Melissa Etheridge’s “The Letting Go” is another “deep cut” that was never a hit (and that most casual fans probably never have heard) but still ranks (along with several other of her more understated, vulnerable cuts) as one of my favorite songs in her catalog.

“Piece by piece I take apart
This complicated heart
And I hope to find
Something I can prove is real
I can feel is truth
I can say is mine
That’s all I ever wanted to be
The closer that I got
The further I could see
But when lovers change
And the night feels strange
We choose our road
The letting go”