Motherly Songs

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Motherly Songs
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Tue, 04-05-2005 - 12:27pm

hi guys, i am participating in a program that will be having me speak to groups of new professionals going into the autism field.

anyway, in my presentation, i am looking for music that would be touching to add at the end. for instance, i have the carly simon song julie, throught the glass and angels among us by alabama in mind.

do you have any songs that when you hear bring a tear to your eye, make you think of your children or would be fitting for this type of thing?

thanks, valerie

~Valerie

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In reply to: vcjacobs
Tue, 04-05-2005 - 2:01pm
Hey, this one has been used, but it's awesome. Takes a few minutes to download. Worth the wait. Maybe it will give you some ideas.
http://www.tacanow.com/VIDEO.htm
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Tue, 04-05-2005 - 2:28pm

Hmmm, there are a bunch. Right now the ones on my mind are a couple songs by evanescence. I am trying to remember the names, I will look it up. The lead singer I think has a parent or gradparent with alzheimers and writes a lot of songs from that POV. Touching anyway.

There are more, I have to think about them

Renee

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Tue, 04-05-2005 - 2:45pm

hello by evanescence

playground school bell rings again
rain clouds come to play again
has no one told you she's not breathing?
hello i'm your mind giving you someone to talk to
hello

if i smile and don't believe
soon i know i'll wake from this dream
don't try to fix me i'm not broken
hello i'm the lie living for you so you can hide
don't cry

suddenly i know i'm not sleeping
hello i'm still here
all that's left of yesterday

(I think it may be available for download on thier website to listen to.)

my immortal by evanescence

my immortal
i'm so tired of being here
suppressed by all of my childish fears
and if you have to leave
i wish that you would just leave
because your presence still lingers here
and it won't leave me alone

these wounds won't seem to heal
this pain is just too real
there's just too much that time cannot erase

(this is my favorite part here)
when you cried i'd wipe away all of your tears
when you'd scream i'd fight away all of your fears
and i've held your hand through all of these years
but you still have all of me

you used to captivate me
by your resonating light
but now i'm bound by the life you left behind
your face it haunts my once pleasant dreams
your voice it chased away all the sanity in me

these wounds won't seem to heal
this pain is just too real
there's just too much that time cannot erase

when you cried i'd wipe away all of your tears
when you'd scream i'd fight away all of your fears
and i've held your hand through all of these years
but you still have all of me

i've tried so hard to tell myself that you're gone
and though you're still with me
i've been alone all along

So that is a couple of them at any rate. I am sure there are more.
Renee

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Tue, 04-05-2005 - 5:11pm

"I hope you Dance" still gets to me....by that country singer (left my mind for right now)

Everytime I hear it I think of Jack and my hopes for his future...

Katie












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Tue, 04-05-2005 - 5:12pm
"I hope you Dance" by....???? I can't think of it right now, but I always get all weepy when I hear it. Thinking about my little guys and their future (sigh)











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In reply to: vcjacobs
Tue, 04-05-2005 - 5:21pm

I think of my kids when I hear the Kenny Loggins soung about Winnie the pooh and Christopher Robins- The name of it escapes my mind -- let me look around for it.

Liza

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Tue, 04-05-2005 - 6:14pm

"I will remember you" by Sarah McGluaghlin

"Somewhere Over the Rainbow" I particularly like the version by Izzy (way long last name) it also has "what a wonderful world" in the middle

"If nothing Else I can Dream" by Over the Rhine

Personal favorite is somewhere over the rainbow "the dreams that you dare to dream, why then oh why can't i"

Gets me every time.

Renee

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Tue, 04-05-2005 - 6:29pm

Gosh, Valerie,

I'm getting all weepy and misty just reading this thread. People have already suggested my ideas, but I'll chime in too, to reinforce them:

The www.tacanow.com song, "Five for Fighting--Superman (It's not easy to be me)." On a personal note, this song is where my screen name comes from. In the "what I am doing for April/Autism awareness month" category, I am sending around a little email with the link to this little video.

Also, like Renee, "Somewhere over the Rainbow." It gets me everytime, on so many levels. Renee, thanks for posting all your thoughts and lyrics.

Good luck with your talk, Valerie. I saw on the Floortime board how long you searched for the Carly song. Let us know how it goes!

P.S. on another note, I just got my TAP magazine today. I would have never known about it w/o your post here. It's all I had hoped for, makes me want to move to California, a more ASD friendly state!

Katherine

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In reply to: vcjacobs
Tue, 04-05-2005 - 6:31pm

thank you all!

i was also thinking of the sarah mac song--i will remember you. i remember nursing matt as an infant and that song came on. it was 3 am and the song went...

i'm so tired, but i can't sleep
i'm standing on the edge of something much too deep.
funny how you feel so much, but can not say a word...

that stuck with me, and it's a favorite memory.

valerie

~Valerie
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In reply to: vcjacobs
Tue, 04-05-2005 - 6:58pm

Thought I'd post the "Superman" lyrics, they just mean so much to me:

“Superman (It’s not easy to be me)”

I can’t stand to fly,
I’m not that naïve,
I’m just out to find,
The better part of me.

I’m more than a bird.
I’m more than a plane.
More than some pretty face beside a train.
It’s not easy to be me.

Wish that I could cry.
Fall upon my knees,
Find a way to care about
A home I’ll never see.

It may sound absurd.
But don’t be naïve,
Even Heroes have the right to bleed.
I may be disturbed… but won’t you concede
Even Heroes have the right to dream.
It’s not easy to be me.

Up, up and away…away from me,
It’s all right…you can all sleep tight.
I’m not crazy or anything.

I can’t stand to fly.
I’m not that naïve.
Men weren’t meant to ride
With clouds beneath their knees

I’m only a man in a silly red sheet
Digging for Kryptonite on a one way street
Only a man in a funny red sheet
Looking for special things inside of me.
It’s not easy to be me.

--by Five for Fighting, from the “American Town” album

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