Skip to main content

"Words that rang in me...warmed the night" ~Senor Neil Diamond

For my weekly blogging assignment I decided to write a song. I've only posted the lyrics so you won't get the whole affect of the song (I must admit that I'm pretty pleased with the guitar part), but that's okay! Just ask me sometime and I'll probably play it for you...Anyway, here it is:

The rain outside—it mirrors what my eyes wish they could do.
Its soft, its long, its honest, and its wet
But living with this hole inside for weeks and months and years will do
Enough in me, though I cannot forget

Chorus:
I’m yours-even though you’re far away
I feel your love and prayers across the miles.
I’m sure—that all this waiting will all make sense
when I find home in your arms.
But until then, try to do more than pretend,
and mean it in and out,
and mean it in and out,
and mean it in and out,
when I smile.

Some days inside—it’s a battle to keep hope enough to be
The woman that I want to be for you
But when I think of you and all you are and what we’ll be
I light up, put my chin up, and pull through

Chorus:
I’m yours-even though you’re far away
I feel your love and prayers across the miles.
I’m sure—that all this waiting will all make sense
when I find home in your arms.
But until then, try to do more than pretend,
and mean it in and out,
and mean it in and out,
and mean it in and out,
when I smile.

A time will come when trying to ignore this void I feel
will be at end cause there you’ll stand, truly, completely real.

Chorus:
I’m yours-even though you’re far away
I feel your love and prayers across the miles.
I’m sure—that all this waiting will all make sense
when I find home in your arms.
But until then, try to do more than pretend,
and mean it in and out,
and mean it in and out,
and mean it in and out,
when I smile.

I’ll think of you, my love, when I smile.

Comments

  1. So I played this song for a few people and they all thought that it was written about a missionary--definitely not the case....just FYI!

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Thanksgiving

My ultimate love, my ultimate passion, my ultimate joy is rooted in the one thing that gives direction, life, and purpose to all other things. This thing is the end to every means I ever put into motion. This thing is my family: earthly and heavenly--immediate and distant--past, present, and future. "Thankful" does not begin to capture the humble, sacred gratitude I feel for all in my family and for the relationships that I have (and will have) with them.

and when you are hungry in your wilderness, your God will provide you manna...

Below is a link to a talk by Jeffery R. Holland that is a personal favorite of mine. I would encourage you to give it a read as I believe that it really applies to a lot of us (although it is directed towards LDS Young Single Adults)...and because it's just really that good! Cast Not Away Therefore Your Confidence Also, I would like to let all of you know that I know that all of the doctrines and principles taught in this talk are indeed true:our God loves us and He keeps the promises that He makes to us. I know that as we continually strive to show our faith in the Lord by being obedient to the commands that He gives us through the voice of His prophets and through His Holy Spirit, we can qualify for blessings which He desires to bestow upon us. We can reach our promised land with His help. Sometimes we all feel lost and abandoned at certain points along the road, but I know from personal experience that this is never really the case. His hand will ever guide us, so long as we ...

"We made, we made cookies by scratching."

So one of the best things about being home for a month is being able to cook to my heart’s content! In my normal, solitary life, there are a few factors that limit my culinary pursuits: 1. Having the time to cook 2. Having the money to buy ingredients 3. Having people to eat the food Lucky for me, in AZ all of these issues are laid to rest. I am free to make whatever I want. This week I ventured a vanilla cream meringue pie and chicken fried steak. They turned out decently well, but I have some ideas to make them better...and some ideas of other things I want to try. Anyway, I don’t really know why I’m posting about this on my blog, but oh well! Also, if anyone can quote the source of the quote in the title, they get an automatic five points!