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July 28, 2019
Song Lyric Sunday | “Everchanging Times” – Siedah Garrett
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Song Lyric Sunday was created by Helen Vahdati from This Thing Called Life One Word at a Time and author Jim Adams from A Unique Title For Me is our current guest host. For complete rules or to join in the fun, click here.
The theme for Song Lyric Sunday this week is “Songs from movies.”
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Singer/songwriter Siedah Garrett has written songs and performed background vocals for some of the biggest names in music. She scored hits duets with Dennis Edwards in 1984, Don’t Look Any Further, and Michael Jackson, I Just Can’t Stop Loving You in 1987.
But it was as a solo artist Siedah sang Everchanging Times, the theme song from 1987’s Baby Boom, starring Diane Keaton. The song peaked at #30 on the Adult Contemporary chart in 1987.
Everchanging Times is a great song about a woman trying to deal with the fast-paced changes of life, determined to not sacrifice love. Though it’s from an 80s movie, the song is timeless and its theme still quite relevant today.
FUN FACTS:
Garrett has been nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Original Song, and won the Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media at the 50th Grammy Awards for co-writing Love You I Do (performed by Jennifer Hudson) for the 2006 musical film, Dreamgirls.
Thinking she was simply answering a call to only appear as a background vocalist on I Just Can’t Stop Loving You, Siedah initially felt intimidated with excitement when she entered the recording booth and noticed two music stands with sheet music that had lyric parts labeled “Michael” and “Siedah”.
Siedah co-wrote Michael Jackson’s #1 hit, Man in Mirror. In a 2013 interview she said, “I needed to send it through Quincy {Jones} because if Quincy didn’t like it there was no way that Michael would ever hear it. It was a huge privilege for me when Quincy decided that the song was good enough to play for Michael.”
Enjoy!
See my Song Lyric Sunday selection for Nesie’s Place!
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Disclaimer: I have no copyrights to the song and/or video and/or hyperlinks to songs and/or videos and/or gifs above. No copyright infringement intended.
Everchanging Times
by Siedah Garrett
Songwriters: Burt Bacharach/Bill Conti/Carole Bayer Sager
These, are ever changing times
Everything is going so much faster
It seems like I’m
Watching my life, and everything I do
Wondering if the dreams that I believed in
Still come true
Caught in between, it comes back to
You and me running out of time, I gotta find me a better understanding
Every day keeps forgetting whats mine, I gotta find me a way, less-demanding
And we’re holding on so tight, together, all of our lives
And I, I had some big idea
So much of my life, still not completed
Hopes and Fears
Watching it change, into something new
Wondering it I’m gonna find the answer, loving you
All of my life, it comes back to
You and me running out of time, I gotta find me a better understanding
Every day keeps forgetting whats mine, I gotta find me a way, less-demanding
And we’re holding on so tight
Together, all of our lives
But, it don’t bother me at all
Cuz of everchanging time
I see, that clock upon the wall, it don’t bother me at all
It’s a ever changing time
All of my life, it comes back to
You and me running out of time, I gotta find me a better understanding
Every day keeps forgetting whats mine, I gotta find me a way, less-demanding
And we’re holding on so tight, together
[/i]And we’re gonna be alright[i], together, all of our lives
I see, that clock upon the wall, it don’t bother me at all
It’s a ever changing time
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Compiled from Google, Genius Lyrics, Wikipedia, and Songfacts.com
July 27, 2019
#SaturdayThoughts “Reflection”
Next week will be two months since I lost Den, and the last ten days have been the worst since the day my life changed forever.
Insomnia, memory lapses, indecision, and the mother of all Fibromyalgia flare-ups only serve to exacerbate my grief and leave me unable to move forward… or at all.
There are bright spots when my sons pop up giving me a reason to laugh… and cook, or my daughter calls from the midwest and I remember how blessed I am to be a mom.
But they have lives and their own grief to work through, and as much as I love having them home, I don’t need or want a babysitter.
Not that they haven’t tried, bless their hearts. Their love and support mean everything, but this part of the journey–transitioning from wife to widow–I have to do alone.
So far, I suck at it. Den would not be pleased. He said I was the most stubborn woman on the planet and I bull-dozed obstacles out of my way. Actually, he called me cantankerous.
Who uses that word in the 21st Century?
My late husband, Lord of the Geeks.
So, I must do better.
I have to stop fighting the grief. I must allow the pain to wash over and through me. It will never be washed away, but enough will be spent so the love we shared can fill me and lift me up and help me to move on.
Just as it did for the last thirty-five years.
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July 26, 2019
#FridayFeeling “Focus”
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July 25, 2019
#ThursdayThoughts “Family”
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July 24, 2019
#WordlessWednesday “Heartbreak”
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July 23, 2019
#TuesdayThoughts “Loss”
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July 22, 2019
#MondayMotivation “Inspire”
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July 21, 2019
#SundayThoughts Grief
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Song Lyric Sunday | “This is for the Lover in You” – Shalamar
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Song Lyric Sunday was created by Helen Vahdati from This Thing Called Life One Word at a Time and author Jim Adams from A Unique Title For Me is our current guest host. For complete rules or to join in the fun, click here.
The theme for Song Lyric Sunday this week is “Wedding/Marry/Diamond/Ring/Cake.”
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Co-written by Shalamar lead singer, Howard Hewitt, and songwriter, Dana Meyers, This is for the Lover in You is a smooth RnB ballad about a man proposing to the woman he loves.
The track was originally recorded by Shalamar and appeared on their 1980 Platinum album, Three for Love.
This is For the Lover in You was the third single released as a single and peaked at No. 17 on the U.S. R&B chart in 1981.
The only performance video I could find is a Soul Train appearance labeled “ultra rare,” but it’s also “ultra blurry” so I included a static video of the album cover.
Enjoy!
See my Song Lyric Sunday selection for Nesie’s Place!
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Disclaimer: I have no copyrights to the song and/or video and/or hyperlinks to songs and/or videos and/or gifs above. No copyright infringement intended.
This is for the Lover in You
by Shalamar
Songwriters: Dana Meyers / Howard Hewett
It’s got to be real
Girl, I could write a book on how you’re makin’ me feel
I know I’ll never find
Another who could match the lovin’ you’ve givin’ to me
So this is for the lover in you
This ring means I’ll always be true
This is how we’ll start love anew
This time it’s gonna last forever
I trust you, yes, I do
And girl, you’re not the kind a guy could easily charm
Cause the meaning of love
Is always shown to me when you are wrapped in my arms
So this is for the lover in you
This ring means I’ll always be true
This is how we’ll start love anew
This time it’s gonna last forever (I don’t wanna, I don’t wanna give you up)
This is for the lover in you (I love you , baby)
This ring (Ooh)
This is (For the lover in you, girl)
This time it’s gonna last forever
I could say I never met a girl, no, no
Who satisfied my mental and my physical thing
When I lay me down to sleep
I’m rest assured with the thought that you are right next to me, my baby
This is for the lover in you (Take this ring)
This ring (It means I’ll always be true)
This is (How we’ll start love anew)
This time it’s gonna last forever
This is for the lover in you (Take this ring)
This ring (Oh oh )
This is (Sweet baby)
This time we’re gonna be together
Oh
So much love between us
I’ll be the one to come runnin’ {Be the one to come runnin’}
Oh, home to you {Home to you}
You give me sweet love
With a woman like you, I don’t need to play around
Oh, you’re more than just one woman
You’re blowin’ my mind with the love that you’re givin’
That’s what you hear me say
Girl, every day
It’s for the lover in you, baby
With this ring I’ll show you that there ain’t no maybes
It’s for the lover in you, baby
And it’s this time we’re gonna last forever
It’s for the lover in you, baby
With this ring I’ll show you that there ain’t no maybes
It’s for the lover in you, baby
And it’s this time we’re gonna be together
It’s for the lover in you, baby
With this ring I’ll show you that there ain’t no maybes
It’s for the lover in you, baby
And it’s this time
Source: LyricFind
Compiled from Google, Genius Lyrics, Wikipedia, and Songfacts.com
July 20, 2019
#SaturdayThoughts Clarity
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