The song below is from Pippin. It was my first real love's favorite musical. We were 19 at the time and had dreams, but some dreams don't work out as hoped. Our lives followed different paths and I had not heard from her in quite some time. Then this weekend I found out that she died when I was deployed in the Army. I did not know, and now I feel rather numb and sad. So this is my tribute to her. A song she used to sing beautifully. Farewell with loveTracy, Adieu.
Peter


My days are brighter than morning air
Evergreen pine and autumn blue
But all my days are twice as fair
If I could share
My days with you

My nights are warmer than firecoals
Incense and stars and smoke bamboo
But nights were warm beyond compare
If I could share
My nights with you

To dance in my dreams
To shine when I need the sun
With you
To hold me when dreams are done

And oh....
My dearest love
If you will take my love
Then all my dreams are truly begun

And time weaves ribbons of memory
To sweeten life when youth is through
But I would need no memories there
If I could share
My life with you

DekeGuy...

What a blow to the gut...

So sorry for your loss.

"The whispered conversations in overcrowded hallways,
So much to say not just today but always...
We'll have early morning madness.
We'll have magic in the making.
Yes, everything's as if we never said goodbye.
Yes, everything's as if we never said goodbye...
We taught the world new ways to dream!"

DeltAlum,

Thanks for the kind words. I'm still sort of numb and trying not to be too maudlin, but with limited success. Thinking about a song from Camelot...
Before I gaze at you again...

Peter

"Your Eyes,
As We Said Our Goodbyes...
Can't Get Them Out Of My Mind
And I Find I Can't Hide (From)
Your Eyes,
The Ones That Took Me By Surprise
The Night You Came Into My Life
Where There's Moonlight
I See Your Eyes.

How'd I Let You Slip Away
When I'm Longing So To Hold You.
Now I'd Die For One More Day
'Cause There's Something I Should
Have Told You --
Yes There's Something I Should Have
Told You.

When I Looked Into Your Eyes,
Why Does Distance Make Us Wise?
You Were The Song All Along,
And Before The Song Dies,

I Should Tell You I Should Tell You
I Have Always Loved You.
You Can See It In My Eyes.

So taunt me,
and hurt me,
Deceive me,
desert me.
I'm yours 'til I die.
So in love,
So in love,
So in love with you, my love, am I.

This is ridiculous, what am I doing here? I'm in the wrong story.

"Careful the things you say,
Children will listen.
Careful the things you do,
Children will see and learn.
Children may not obey, but children will listen."

"Why can't they be like we were, perfect in every way?
What's the matter with kids today?

"Some people hope for a miracle cure
Some people just accept the world as it is,
But I'm not willing to lay down and die
Because I am an innocent man.

I am an innocent man.
Oh yes I am
An innocent man."

"Some people can be content
Playing bingo and paying rent."

"I have sailed the world
beheld its wonders
from the dardinells,
to the mountains of Peru,
But there's no place like London!
I feel home again...
I could hear the city bells ring...
Whatever would I do?
No there's...
No place like London..."

(Attend the tale of Sweeney Todd,
He serves a dark and a vengeful god..."

Why, oh why, oh why, oh --
Why did I ever leave Ohio?
Why did I wander to find what lies yonder
When life was so cozy at home?

Wond’ring while I wander,
Why did I fly?
Why did I roam?
Oh, why oh, why oh
Did I leave Ohio?
Maybe I’d better go …..
O -- h -- i -- o.

Maybe I’d better go home.

"Promises, promises,
I'm all through with
promises, promises now..."

Just adding another "in honor of":

"hey mister producer,
I'm talking to you, sir!
I don't need a lot,
Only what I got,
Plus a tube of greasepaint and a follow spot."

"When I was a kid, I played on this street
I always loved illusion.
I thought make-believe was truer than life,
But now it's all confusion.
Please, can you tell me what's happening?
I just don't know anymore.
If this is real, how should I feel?
What should I look for?"