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Okay minus the song "The Wreck of the Edmond Fitzgerald" I agree about Gordon Lightfoot. At work I listen to a classical music station so I don't go too nutty. In the car I listen to a local rock station. That way if I have any frustrations I can sing them out in the car.:D

I know our dau, who is the person who brought me to this forum, loves to listen to music. She has an unusually large cd collection and will play songs on the internet when whe wants to refresh her memory (lyrics, etc.).

I also like music, particularly when I exercise.

If the music makes me feel like dancing, it works great!!!!!!!

Yikes, I love that music.

Nikko:grouphug:

Here's a song I thought of today

This song is sad and moving but I don't have strong memories that go with it because I first heard it on a TV show a few years ago (West Wing).

I heard Jeff Buckley do a cover of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah." When I hear it, I try not to listen to the words or what they might mean. The music is enough and it is lovely.

I choose to recognize the song as some kind of attempt at reconciliation of love and maybe forgiveness:

Quote:

I heard there was a secret chord
that david played and it pleased the lord
but you don't really care for music, do you
well it goes like this the fourth, the fifth
the minor fall and the major lift
the baffled king composing hallelujah

Quote:

well there was a time when you let me know
what's really going on below
but now you never show that to me do you
but remember when i moved in you
and the holy dove was moving too
and every breath we drew was hallelujah

well, maybe there's a god above
but all i've ever learned from love
was how to shoot somebody who outdrew you
it's not a cry that you hear at night
it's not somebody who's seen the light
it's a cold and it's a broken hallelujah

hallelujah...

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