Sunday 26 September 2010

Song of the Week

Choir are learning a new song this week - Seasons of Love from the musical Rent...I can't get it out of my head!!

Five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes,
Five hundred twenty-five thousand moments so dear.
Five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes
How do you measure, measure a year?
In daylights, in sunsets, in midnights, in cups of coffee
In inches, in miles, in laughter, in strife.
In five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes
How do you measure a year in the life?
How about love?
How about love?
How about love?
Measure in love
Seasons of love.
Seasons of love...

To listen click here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8iTeDl_Wug

Wednesday 15 September 2010

Song of the Week

Since the major uploading of all CDs onto my iPod, and rediscovering some music, I've been playing lots of old songs and getting to know them again. I quite often get obsessive over a song and it is played repeatedly until I'm sick of it. This week's song of the week is Rainy Night House (Joni Mitchell) from the Ladies of the Canyon album:

It was a rainy night
We took a taxi to your mother's home
She went to Florida and left you
With your father's gun alone
Upon her small white bedI fell into a dream
You sat up all the night and watched me
To see who in the world I might be
I am from the Sunday school
I sing soprano in the upstairs choir
You are a holy man
On the F.M. radio
I sat up all the night and watched thee
To see who in the world you might be
You called me beautiful
You called your mother, she was very tanned
So you packed your tent and you went
To live out in the Arizona sand
You are a refugeeFrom a wealthy family
You gave up all the golden factories
To see who in the world you might be

Click here to listen:

http://jonimitchell.com/music/song.cfm?id=4