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The Dance is Song Lyric Thursday


Been listening to Garth Brooks lately. Forgot how much I liked him. The Dance is one of my favorite songs but Brooks didn’t write it, a guy named Tony Arata did and here he is singing it.

 

 

Looking back on the memory of 
The dance we shared beneath the stars above 
For a moment all the world was right 
How could I have known you’d ever say goodbye 
And now I’m glad I didn’t know 
The way it all would end the way it all would go 
Our lives are better left to chance I could have missed the pain 
But I’d of had to miss the dance 
Holding you I held everything 
For a moment wasn’t I the king 
But if I’d only known how the king would fall 
Hey who’s to say you know I might have changed it all 
And now I’m glad I didn’t know 
The way it all would end the way it all would go 
Our lives are better left to chance I could have missed the pain 
But I’d of had to miss the dance 
Yes my life is better left to chance 
I could have missed the pain but I’d of had to miss the dance

Song Lyric Thursday – The 80’s


There is nothing like a little overwrought 80’s rock ballad to get the juices flowing. Who better than Bonnie Tyler? And what better choice than Holding out for a Hero*?

(jim steinman and dean pitchford)
Producer for bonnie: jim steinman

Where have all the good men gone
And where are all the gods? 
Wheres the street-wise hercules
To fight the rising odds? 
Isnt there a white knight upon a fiery steed? 
Late at night toss and turn and dream of what I need

(chorus)
I need a hero
Im holding out for a hero til the end of the night
Hes gotta be strong
And hes gotta be fast
And hes gotta be fresh from the fight
I need a hero
Im holding out for a hero til the morning light
Hes gotta be sure
And its gotta be soon
And hes gotta be larger than life

Somewhere after midnight
In my wildest fantasy
Somewhere just beyond my reach
Theres someone reaching back for me
Racing on the thunder and rising with the heat
Its gonna take a superman to sweep me off my feet

(chorus)

Up where the mountains meet the heavens above
Out where the lightning splits the sea
I would swear that theres someone somewhere
Watching me

Through the wind and the chill and the rain
And the storm and the flood
I can feel his approach
Like the fire in my blood

 

 

(chorus)

*There are a multitude of YouTube videos of this to choose from but BabyD is partial to pretty boys with Rick Springfield style mullets. I saw this movie by the way with Michael Pared. Very overwrought as well.

John Cusack is the Song Lyric Inspiration for This Thursday


What would the world be like without XM radio, I wonder? How would I be reminded of all those romantic songs and movies of my youth?

In Your Eyes by Peter Gabriel is a song I knew long before John Cusack became the sad-eyed romantic figure of my generation. The song is wonderful. It speaks of longing and finding kindredness that is frightening but can’t be denied.

I am a sucker for great lyrics and this song qualifies.

love I get so lost, sometimes
days pass and this emptiness fills my heart
when I want to run away
I drive off in my car
but whichever way I go
I come back to the place you are

all my instincts, they return
and the grand facade, so soon will burn
without a noise, without my pride
I reach out from the inside

in your eyes
the light the heat
in your eyes
I am complete
in your eyes
I see the doorway to a thousand churches
in your eyes
the resolution of all the fruitless searches
in your eyes
I see the light and the heat
in your eyes
oh, I want to be that complete
I want to touch the light
the heat I see in your eyes

love, I don’t like to see so much pain
so much wasted and this moment keeps slipping away
I get so tired of working so hard for our survival
I look to the time with you to keep me awake and alive

and all my instincts, they return
and the grand facade, so soon will burn
without a noise, without my pride
I reach out from the inside

in your eyes
the light the heat
in your eyes
I am complete
in your eyes
I see the doorway to a thousand churches
in your eyes
the resolution of all the fruitless searches
in your eyes
I see the light and the heat
in your eyes
oh, I want to be that complete
I want to touch the light,
the heat I see in your eyes
in your eyes in your eyes
in your eyes in your eyes
in your eyes in your eyes