Sunday, August 16, 2009
A Thing Of Beauty
Look out your window on a winter's morning
Your breath is steam and there's frost falling
And the sun casts a spell upon the road
A thing of beauty is not a thing to ignore
Great song of beauty
Stand by the river on a moonlight evening
Lovers are loving and grievers are grieving
And the water does a dance upon the stones
I sit and listen, I will not ignore
A thing of beauty is not to be ignored
Can't you see (can't you see)
Ithe secrets of the dawn? (thing of beauty)
Can't you feel (can't you feel)
Can't you feel it in the place that you come from? (thing of beauty)
Face up to morning
Face up to day
Face up to reality
And face up to your ways
There is so much to breathe, see, know, understand and do
And I believe in things of beauty
Do you, do you?
Can't you see
Can't you see it in the secrets of the night? (thing of beauty)
Can't you feel
Can't you feel it in the wonder of a birds first flight? (thing of beauty)
Can't you see, can't you see it
See it in the gentle falling of the snow?
Can't you feel, can't you feel
Like a mother feels when she knows her child has grown?
Come to conclusions
I believe we all do
To look around us and the taste of the fruit
Set free your morals
It should be written on every door
A thing of beauty is not a thing to ignore
Can't you see (can't you see)
It in the magic when a boy meets a girl? (thing of beauty)
Can't you feel it, can't you feel it
In the wonders of the changes of the world? (thing of beauty)
Can't you see (can't you see)
It when right comes out of wrong? (thing of beauty)
Can't you feel (can't you feel)
It as it goes on and on? (thing of beauty)
Can't you see (can't you see)
It in what's left beneath the ground? (thing of beauty)
Can't you feel (can't you feel)
It in the mystery of sound? (of sound, thing of beauty)
Can't you see
Can't you see it in the glory of the sun? (thing of beauty)
Can't you feel, can't you feel it in the wonder of the one...
One
Can't you feel one and only?
One and only
Can't you feel it, can't you feel it, feel it
Thing of beauty?
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10 comments:
Whoa, dejavu.
(s'okay, it's a good dejavu)
Oh yeah, I repeat this one. It's a "Thing of Beauty" thing.
I figured you'd understand.
Don't know about you two's conversation, but the bolded bits speak to what i have recently experienced.
Right Pastorius?
It does, doesn't it? Almost as if I put the post up for you.
Though, I must admit, I did not.
I only bolded the parts that mean the most to me.
:)
That part of the song where they sing, "Can't you feel like a mother feels when she knows her child has grown" is just amazing. The weird rising harmony thing they do there is genius.
If you haven't listened to it, Christine, listen to the song just for that part. It will probably bring you to tears.
Pasto & Christine -- me, too, on the bolded parts. My oldest (23) is getting ready to make a radical move in2 weeks.
I'm glad the song has touched both of you. It certainly reaches a deep place in my heart.
MR,
I gave my son away to his beautiful bride on August 8th.
Christine -- my oldest is moving from Philly (1 hr from home) to the Kenai Pennisula, Alaska, with her fiance August 31.
I understand.
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