Music & Me...the one thing I own.

People who know me very well know that I feel like the only thing I really own outright in this world is music. It's not just about singing....it's MUSIC, period! Music is the one thing that I control and it listens to me and never does something that I don't advise or direct. It's totally under my control. I OWN music. No one can take it from me and nothing could ever stop the music in me. Even when I lose my voice, there's a melody playing in my heart/mind continually.



I know, for me at least, music is a gift from God and so it's the one thing that I can freely give back to him, without wondering if He will accept it. Because no matter how I'm feeling, when I sing to Jesus, IT'S ALWAYS SINCERE. I can't fake a love song to my savior. Even when I know I've fallen short and haven't pleased him, when I send up an offering, a song of repentance, a song of Love, a song of His Glory, he hears it, receives it and smiles. He forgives me, loves me, and tells me "it's gonna be ok. I'm with you."



In high school, they used to call me "radio"...long before the Cuba Gooding Jr. movie. Lol. I know a song for everything, any occaision. I can be in a normal conversation and all of my responses could be song titles, phrases, lines....music....love it! Even now, my mind is so musical that I'll be walking along and my brain will just play a song to correspond with the beat of my steps. (yes, i walk IN BEAT, successive steps, in syncopation, and time)



*side bar-someone on the floor here @ work just sang the "yaaaeee yaaaeee, yaaaeee yaaee yaee yeah" part from "DA BUTT" by EU* (back to ya regularly scheduled blog)



I was walking to the Lightrail one morning and of course, my steps were in beat. All of a sudden in my mind and unmistakable beat starts to play...the music drops...baseline, keys, guitar, strings, drums, tambourine...and then the lyrics



Well, you can tell by the way I use my walk,

I'm a woman's man, no time to talk.

Music loud and women warm.

I've been kicked around since I was born.

And now it's all right, it's O.K.

And you may look the other way.

We can try to understand

The New York Times' effect on man.

Whether you're a brother

Or whether you're a mother,

You're stayin' alive, stayin' alive.

Feel the city breakin'

And ev'rybody shakin'

And we're stayin' alive, stayin' alive.

Ah, ha, ha, ha,Stayin' alive.

Stayin' alive.

Ah, ha, ha, ha,Stayin' alive.



All I could do was crack up laughing....but hey, IT'S MUSIC and it's MINE. Everyone knows I love gospel music, that's a given. I love a GOOD love song also...nice lyrics, nice music, nice sentiment...i'm sold....here are a few of my fav love songs. Of course I'm gonna blog more about music, so you'll be turned on to more of my tastes as time goes on.

NOTHING EVEN MATTERS - Lauryn Hill & D'Angelo
"Now the skies could fall, Not even if my boss should call, The world it seems so very small. 'Cause nothing even matters at all"
(ever been in love and all you wanna do is be with/think about that person...whewwwwww)

NOTHING HAS EVER FELT LIKE THIS - Rachelle Ferrell & Will Downing
"Nothing has ever felt,quite like this Oh No. Nothing has ever meant the whoooooole world to me. Nothing has ever been this good.Nothing has ever been this right. Nothing so sweet, In my life..."
(Rachelle Ferrell...nuff said)

ALWAYS ON MY MIND - SWV & Brian Alexander Morgan
"Sometimes, I find it hard to concentrate Because thoughts of us together fill my head. When you're away, it's hard to sleep at night, So, my pillow, like my thoughts of you, I hold tight"
(a little "bubble gum-ish" but c'mon...who hasn't felt this way in love?)

Until next time...Q