Unplugged Sessions:

Took a few tries to get this far:

First Verse; Can’t fight it, the dialogue of the lyrics are quite special to me.

 

What a moving song.  IT’s odd how looking at the words long enough wakes up something inside.  The recording posted before brought me to tears.  The lyrics reminds me that joy and sadness seem to cross at the same point I cry.  Whatever it was, just don’t bottle it up.  What a great way to think of how we share with children.  Cheer up!  Chin up!  Start looking for reminders like favorite things.

The Riddle by Five for Fighting

There was a man back in ’95
Whose heart ran out of summers
But before he died, I asked him
Wait, what’s the sense in life?
Come over me, Come over me

He said, “Son why you got to sing that tune?
Catch a Dylan song or some eclipse of the moon?
Let an angel swing and make you swoon
Then you will see, you will see”

Then he said, “Here’s a riddle for you
Find the answer: There’s a reason for the world
You and I”

Picked up my kid from school today
Did you learn anything? Cause in the world today
You can’t live in a castle far away
Now talk to me, come talk to me

He said, “Dad I’m big, but we’re smaller than small
In the scheme of things, well we’re nothing at all
Still every mother’s child sings a lonely song
So play with me, come play with me”

And hey Dad, here’s a riddle for you
Find the answer: There’s a reason for the world
You and I.

I said, “Son for all I’ve told you
When you get right down to the
Reason for the world who am I?”

There are secrets that we still have left to find
There have been mysteries from the beginning of time
There are answers we’re not wise enough to see
He said, You looking for a clue? I love you free

The batter swings and the summer flies
As I look into my angel’s eyes
A song plays on while the moon is hiding over me
Something comes over me

I guess we’re big and I guess we’re small
If you think about it man you know we got it all
‘Cause we’re all we got on this bouncing ball
And I love you free, I love you freely

Here’s a riddle for you
Find the answer: There’s a reason for the world
You and I

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