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Dear Livejournal,
Tonight something wonderful happened, one of those once in a life time moments that you know you'll never forget. You see, my dad and I rarely get to spend time together if ever. We lead very seperate lives and never felt the need to include each other in things, in fact through out most of my childhood, although I'm sure he had to be I can never remember him being there. However, this is not the point to my story. Tonight on the way home from John's house we were driving and he put in a Talking Heads Cd, and if there was ever anything we both agreed on it was a love for music. So we're driving along the road with the pouring rain hitting the windshield and he turns up the song real real loud just so we could get to the end of the song and hear the bongo drums. And he starts to talk about them and how this was his favorite parts and he keeps saying "look, look Danielle this is the part where he goes insane! listen hes going insane!". And the man who sings for the talking heads starts whooping and my dad joins in of course because thats just how he is and then i join in and before you know it we were whooping and blasting the stereo and dancing in our chairs for the first time in nearly four years. So, normally I wouldnt think much of this but then we pull in the drive way and instead of getting out of the car and forgetting all about it he stays, and he takes out the cd and gives it to me but then he puts in another. The other cd was a Roxy Music cd and he begins to tell me all about it and about his past and how they used to collect all sorts of music. He told me about his friend Kenny Renzi who still collects all kinds of music now and it was like, if only for a few minutes, I felt like I actually knew my dad. And just in that moment when he was babbling on to me about his life with the Roxy Music blaring in the backround, and although it was pouring rain that was slapping the windshield with every drop that fell, I smiled. If only for a small moment, a fragment in time, across my face spread that truly genuine and unique smile that I'm sure I'll never witness again. Now, to anyone who bothers to read this I'm sure you wont think this is anything thats worth writing a whole journal entry about but, to me, it was worth much more then that. So comment if you want, but no ones making you.
I don’t know why I love her like I do
All the changes you put me through
Take my money, my cigarettes
I haven’t seen the worst of it yet
I wanna know that you’ll tell me
I love to stay
Take me to the river, drop me in the water
Take me to the river, dip me in the water
Washing me down, washing me down
I don’t know why you treat me so bad
Think of all the things we could have had
Love is an ocean that I can’t forget
My sweet sixteen I would never regret
I wanna know that you’ll tell me
I love to stay
Take me to the river, drop me in the water
Push me in the river, dip me in the water
Washing me down, washing me
Hug me, squeeze me, love me, tease me
Till I can’t, till I can’t, till I can’t take no more of it
Take me to the water, drop me in the river
Push me in the water, drop me in the river
Washing me down, washing me down
I don’t know why I love you like I do
All the troubles you put me through
Sixteen candles there on my wall
And here am I the biggest fool of them all
I wanna know that you’ll tell me
I love to stay
Take me to the river and drop me in the water
Dip me in the river, drop me in the water
Washing me down, washing me down.
Take Me to the River - Talking Heads
Tonight something wonderful happened, one of those once in a life time moments that you know you'll never forget. You see, my dad and I rarely get to spend time together if ever. We lead very seperate lives and never felt the need to include each other in things, in fact through out most of my childhood, although I'm sure he had to be I can never remember him being there. However, this is not the point to my story. Tonight on the way home from John's house we were driving and he put in a Talking Heads Cd, and if there was ever anything we both agreed on it was a love for music. So we're driving along the road with the pouring rain hitting the windshield and he turns up the song real real loud just so we could get to the end of the song and hear the bongo drums. And he starts to talk about them and how this was his favorite parts and he keeps saying "look, look Danielle this is the part where he goes insane! listen hes going insane!". And the man who sings for the talking heads starts whooping and my dad joins in of course because thats just how he is and then i join in and before you know it we were whooping and blasting the stereo and dancing in our chairs for the first time in nearly four years. So, normally I wouldnt think much of this but then we pull in the drive way and instead of getting out of the car and forgetting all about it he stays, and he takes out the cd and gives it to me but then he puts in another. The other cd was a Roxy Music cd and he begins to tell me all about it and about his past and how they used to collect all sorts of music. He told me about his friend Kenny Renzi who still collects all kinds of music now and it was like, if only for a few minutes, I felt like I actually knew my dad. And just in that moment when he was babbling on to me about his life with the Roxy Music blaring in the backround, and although it was pouring rain that was slapping the windshield with every drop that fell, I smiled. If only for a small moment, a fragment in time, across my face spread that truly genuine and unique smile that I'm sure I'll never witness again. Now, to anyone who bothers to read this I'm sure you wont think this is anything thats worth writing a whole journal entry about but, to me, it was worth much more then that. So comment if you want, but no ones making you.
I don’t know why I love her like I do
All the changes you put me through
Take my money, my cigarettes
I haven’t seen the worst of it yet
I wanna know that you’ll tell me
I love to stay
Take me to the river, drop me in the water
Take me to the river, dip me in the water
Washing me down, washing me down
I don’t know why you treat me so bad
Think of all the things we could have had
Love is an ocean that I can’t forget
My sweet sixteen I would never regret
I wanna know that you’ll tell me
I love to stay
Take me to the river, drop me in the water
Push me in the river, dip me in the water
Washing me down, washing me
Hug me, squeeze me, love me, tease me
Till I can’t, till I can’t, till I can’t take no more of it
Take me to the water, drop me in the river
Push me in the water, drop me in the river
Washing me down, washing me down
I don’t know why I love you like I do
All the troubles you put me through
Sixteen candles there on my wall
And here am I the biggest fool of them all
I wanna know that you’ll tell me
I love to stay
Take me to the river and drop me in the water
Dip me in the river, drop me in the water
Washing me down, washing me down.
Take Me to the River - Talking Heads