Post by reasonrhymer on Nov 12, 2008 1:11:19 GMT -8
One day I was taking a nap with my daughter (who was about 7 at the time). She woke me up by her giggling in a dream. I looked over at her and she was sleeping and giggling with this big smile on her face.
I couldn't help it my eyes got moist and I was grinning about as big as a dad would in a situation like this. She was just so happily dreaming. Then in less than a second of this experience, a phrase came in my mind along with a hard rock, rock and roll beat.
Now note, I have never been much of a song writer up to this point, so this was a very unusual occurrence for me. In that second, I knew I had to try and write about what I experienced and somehow put it to that rock&roll beat that just popped in my head, like a bolt from the blue, so I wrote the following poem/song.
A lot happened in that brief moment so it’s very long so try to stay with it. My favorite parts are near the end.
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I couldn't help it my eyes got moist and I was grinning about as big as a dad would in a situation like this. She was just so happily dreaming. Then in less than a second of this experience, a phrase came in my mind along with a hard rock, rock and roll beat.
Now note, I have never been much of a song writer up to this point, so this was a very unusual occurrence for me. In that second, I knew I had to try and write about what I experienced and somehow put it to that rock&roll beat that just popped in my head, like a bolt from the blue, so I wrote the following poem/song.
A lot happened in that brief moment so it’s very long so try to stay with it. My favorite parts are near the end.
Once Upon A Dance
Once upon a dance
Once upon a dance
Once upon a dance a long time ago.
No worries of this world, no worries on me
No chains on this spirit just dancing free.
Waltzed on the water with Mr. J.C.
Rock & rolled with Buddha round a Bodhi Tree.
Did the splits with Moses on a sea of Red.
Heard the screams of frozen feet on the Sea of the Dead.
Swinging Homer’s with Plato on clouds above.
Twisted Hail-Mary touchdowns on a field of love.
Tangoed with Darwin on some streets of gold
did the fox-trot with some chimp on an earth of old
Skipped apples off serpents in the Garden of Eve.
That floor was “slick” like you wouldn’t believe.
To Dance
To Dance
Or not to Dance?
In the question is the answer that would be your stance.
Life is just a dance and we make our own steps,
think our moves are different and we’re the funky mess.
Spirits can waltz on the water, bodies can shuffle in swamps.
It’s the dance you’ve chosen baby, you can do what you want.
If you’re stuck in the gutter, get yourself on course,
get your self together, get yourself on source.
Once upon a dance
Once upon a dance
Once upon a dance a long time ago.
So many years later, here I am today
Trying to do my dance, the chains get in the way.
Tripped up to the mountains watched the eagles fly around,
tried to take off-- my feet stuck to the ground.
Went to a blind doc, told him what I tried to do,
said you betta take some Prozac, your looking pretty blue.
Visit with a lame priest, said my heart was full of sin,
you betta freeze those feet son, you’d be cavin in.
Watched a small child giggling in some dreams,
she opened up the gait to remembering some things.
Skipped with this child to some playground in the past,
found I was this dancer with no body attached.
To Dance
To Dance
Or not to Dance?
In the question is the answer that would be your stance.
Life is just a dance and we make our own steps,
think our moves are different and we’re the funky mess.
Spirits can waltz on the water, bodies can shuffle in swamps.
It’s the dance you’ve chosen baby, you can do what you want.
If you’re stuck in the gutter, get yourself on course
get your self together, get yourself on source.
Once upon a dance
Once upon a dance
Once upon a dance a long time ago.
Took a bridge up to mountains, with the eagles flew around,
could hardly see my feet-- they were on the ground.
Twirling so high right next to the Sun,
my wings couldn’t burn I wasn’t carrying none.
Twisting on moon beams, hop-scotching on suns,
ringing rosies round Saturn just to have some fun.
Shooting stars with Cupid at some Milky Way Bar,
kicked up lighting and thunder just to have a bizarre.
Fandangoed with the Greek Gods mused at history,
no earthly thought I thought could hinder me.
To Dance
To Dance
Or not to Dance?
In the question is the answer that would be your stance.
Life is just a dance and we make our own steps,
think our moves are different and we’re the funky mess.
Spirits can waltz on the water, bodies can shuffle in swamps.
It’s the dance you’ve chosen baby, you can do what you want.
If you’re stuck in the gutter, get yourself on course
get your self together, get yourself on source.
Once upon a dance
Once upon a dance
Once upon a dance,
To dance,
To dance,
Or not to Dance?
In the question is the answer that would be your stance.
Once upon a dance
Once upon a dance
Once upon a dance a long time ago.
No worries of this world, no worries on me
No chains on this spirit just dancing free.
Waltzed on the water with Mr. J.C.
Rock & rolled with Buddha round a Bodhi Tree.
Did the splits with Moses on a sea of Red.
Heard the screams of frozen feet on the Sea of the Dead.
Swinging Homer’s with Plato on clouds above.
Twisted Hail-Mary touchdowns on a field of love.
Tangoed with Darwin on some streets of gold
did the fox-trot with some chimp on an earth of old
Skipped apples off serpents in the Garden of Eve.
That floor was “slick” like you wouldn’t believe.
To Dance
To Dance
Or not to Dance?
In the question is the answer that would be your stance.
Life is just a dance and we make our own steps,
think our moves are different and we’re the funky mess.
Spirits can waltz on the water, bodies can shuffle in swamps.
It’s the dance you’ve chosen baby, you can do what you want.
If you’re stuck in the gutter, get yourself on course,
get your self together, get yourself on source.
Once upon a dance
Once upon a dance
Once upon a dance a long time ago.
So many years later, here I am today
Trying to do my dance, the chains get in the way.
Tripped up to the mountains watched the eagles fly around,
tried to take off-- my feet stuck to the ground.
Went to a blind doc, told him what I tried to do,
said you betta take some Prozac, your looking pretty blue.
Visit with a lame priest, said my heart was full of sin,
you betta freeze those feet son, you’d be cavin in.
Watched a small child giggling in some dreams,
she opened up the gait to remembering some things.
Skipped with this child to some playground in the past,
found I was this dancer with no body attached.
To Dance
To Dance
Or not to Dance?
In the question is the answer that would be your stance.
Life is just a dance and we make our own steps,
think our moves are different and we’re the funky mess.
Spirits can waltz on the water, bodies can shuffle in swamps.
It’s the dance you’ve chosen baby, you can do what you want.
If you’re stuck in the gutter, get yourself on course
get your self together, get yourself on source.
Once upon a dance
Once upon a dance
Once upon a dance a long time ago.
Took a bridge up to mountains, with the eagles flew around,
could hardly see my feet-- they were on the ground.
Twirling so high right next to the Sun,
my wings couldn’t burn I wasn’t carrying none.
Twisting on moon beams, hop-scotching on suns,
ringing rosies round Saturn just to have some fun.
Shooting stars with Cupid at some Milky Way Bar,
kicked up lighting and thunder just to have a bizarre.
Fandangoed with the Greek Gods mused at history,
no earthly thought I thought could hinder me.
To Dance
To Dance
Or not to Dance?
In the question is the answer that would be your stance.
Life is just a dance and we make our own steps,
think our moves are different and we’re the funky mess.
Spirits can waltz on the water, bodies can shuffle in swamps.
It’s the dance you’ve chosen baby, you can do what you want.
If you’re stuck in the gutter, get yourself on course
get your self together, get yourself on source.
Once upon a dance
Once upon a dance
Once upon a dance,
To dance,
To dance,
Or not to Dance?
In the question is the answer that would be your stance.
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