Life gave me lemonade and I can’t imagine why
Born on a sunny day, beneath a tangerine sky
I live life without pretending
I’m a sucker for happy endings
Thanks for the lemonade
Thanks for the lemonade!
While listening to the radio last night on the way home from meeting Shawn & Julia half-way with the kids (they graduate with their MBA's today), I heard this great GREAT song, "When Did You Fall in Love With Me" by Chris Rice... I do a websearch today for the lyrics since I heard it again this morning.. and find out that this guy is actually a Christian singer and has a MySpace site. You can hear the song for free! I then fell in love with the "Lemonade" song, quote above.
I read more about him on this site, and found out why his music hits me pretty hard... guy is an introvert too. Yay for Introverts! WE ROCK! In one of his interviews, he says,
"Yeah, I'm pretty introverted. That doesn't mean I don't love to be around people, it just means I have to manage how much time I spend around a lot of people. Friends are not an issue. Strangers are harder to manage."
I love that.
It is also refreshing to know that there are more positive people out there that kids and youth can listen to on the radio. Although I am amused as an adult at the stupid stuff on the radio, such as my strange love of the "Let Me See Your Grill" and the "My Humps", I am a MOM and I am now a Director of Children, Youth & Young Adults at a United Methodist Church and it BOTHERS ME VERY MUCH that our culture has robbed many kids of being kids.
Yes, I was a kid of the '80's, and listened to Prince's "Purple Rain" music over and over, and the not-so-subtle lyrics on that album were well understood.. but, I also had the GoGo's. Kids need to be kids. This world is hard enough. We are hit on all sides, sex, drugs, "this is the end of days", it is rare for a kid to have parents still married to eachother, they watch the family friendly "Extreme Home Makeover" on ABC followed by Andrew sleeping with his mother Bree's alcoholism counselor on "Desperate Housewives".
Maybe I am a Pollyanna, that is okay by me. But I firmly agree that you can choose to be positive, you can choose half-full over half-empty, and you can bet that if you play some sweet silly music more often than music with questionable messages you are gonna make people sing along.
thanks for the lemonade.
I read more about him on this site, and found out why his music hits me pretty hard... guy is an introvert too. Yay for Introverts! WE ROCK! In one of his interviews, he says,
"Yeah, I'm pretty introverted. That doesn't mean I don't love to be around people, it just means I have to manage how much time I spend around a lot of people. Friends are not an issue. Strangers are harder to manage."
I love that.
It is also refreshing to know that there are more positive people out there that kids and youth can listen to on the radio. Although I am amused as an adult at the stupid stuff on the radio, such as my strange love of the "Let Me See Your Grill" and the "My Humps", I am a MOM and I am now a Director of Children, Youth & Young Adults at a United Methodist Church and it BOTHERS ME VERY MUCH that our culture has robbed many kids of being kids.
Yes, I was a kid of the '80's, and listened to Prince's "Purple Rain" music over and over, and the not-so-subtle lyrics on that album were well understood.. but, I also had the GoGo's. Kids need to be kids. This world is hard enough. We are hit on all sides, sex, drugs, "this is the end of days", it is rare for a kid to have parents still married to eachother, they watch the family friendly "Extreme Home Makeover" on ABC followed by Andrew sleeping with his mother Bree's alcoholism counselor on "Desperate Housewives".
Maybe I am a Pollyanna, that is okay by me. But I firmly agree that you can choose to be positive, you can choose half-full over half-empty, and you can bet that if you play some sweet silly music more often than music with questionable messages you are gonna make people sing along.
thanks for the lemonade.
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