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A Song For A Sunday.

Somewhere Out There.

Lyric Writers: James Ingram; Barry Mann; Cynthia Weil, and James Horner, for the soundtrack of the animated feature film “An American Tail” (1986).
Vocals: American singer Linda Ronstadt and American singer, songwriter and record producer, the late James Ingram.

The lyrics convey the love felt by two people separated by vast distances, but cheered by the belief that their love will eventually reunite them to be with each other once again.

Somewhere Out There.

Somewhere out there beneath the pale moonlight,
Someone’s thinking of me and loving me tonight.
Somewhere out there someone’s saying a prayer,
That we’ll find one another in that big somewhere out there.
And even though I know how very far apart we are,
It helps to think we might be wishin’ on the same bright star,
And when the night wind starts to sing a lonesome lullaby,
It helps to think we’re sleeping underneath the same big sky.
Somewhere out there, if love can see us through,
Then we’ll be together somewhere out there,
Out where dreams come true.
And even though I know how very far apart we are,
It helps to think we might be wishin’ on the same bright star,
And when the night wind starts to sing a lonesome lullaby,
It helps to think we’re sleeping underneath the same big sky.
Somewhere out there, if love can see us through,
Then we’ll be together somewhere out there,
Out where dreams come true.

END

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Feels Like Home.

Feels Like Home.

Vocals: 13 Grammy Awards American blues singer, guitarist, and songwriter Bonnie Lynn Raitt.
Lyrics: American singer-songwriter, arranger, composer, conductor and pianist, Randall Stuart Newman.

The song ‘Feels Like Home’ has featured in the American teen drama television series ‘Dawson’s Creek’ and films ‘How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days’, ‘My Sister’s Keeper’, and ‘Michael’.

If marriage is on your horizon this year, same song is definitely one for serious consideration, at some stage, during your ‘special day’ celebrations.

Feels Like Home.

Something in your eyes, makes me want to lose myself,
Makes me want to lose myself, in your arms.
There’s something in your voice, makes my heart beat fast,
Hope this feeling lasts, the rest of my life.
If you knew how lonely my life has been,
And how low I’ve felt so long.
If you knew how I wanted someone to come along,
And change my life the way you’ve done.

Feels like home to me, feels like home to me,
Feels like I’m on my way back where I come from.
Feels like home to me, feels like home to me,
Feels like I’m on my way back where I belong.

A window breaks down a long dark street,
And a siren wails over my head.
But I’m all right, ’cause I have you here with me,
And I can almost see through the dark there’s light.
If you knew how much this moment means to me,
And how long I’ve waited for your touch.
If you knew how happy you are making me,
I’ve never thought I’d love anyone so much.

Feels like home to me, feels like home to me,
Feels like I’m on my way back where I come from.
Feels like home to me, feels like home to me,
Feels like I’m on my way back where I belong.
Feels like I’m on my way back where I belong.

END

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This Old Guitar.

This Old Guitar.

Lyrics and Vocals: American singer and songwriter Mr Henry John Deutschendorf Jr. [known professionally as John Denver (1943 – 1997)].

This Old Guitar.

This old guitar taught me to sing a love song,
It showed me how to laugh and how to cry.
It introduced me to some friends of mine,
And brightened up some days,
And helped me make it thru some lonely nights. Oh
What a friend to have on a cold and lonely night.
This old guitar gave me my lovely lady,
It opened up her eyes and ears to me.
It brought us close together,
And I guess it broke her heart
But it opened up the space for us to be,
What a lovely place and a lovely space to be.
This old guitar gave me my life my living,
All the things you know I love to do.
To serenade the stars that shine,
From a sunny mountainside,
And most of all to sing my songs for you.
I love to sing my songs for you.
Yes I do, you know
,
I love to sing my songs for you
.

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A Song For A Sunday.

Peace Will Come.

Lyrics and Vocals: American singer-songwriter, the late Melanie Anne Safka Schekeryk, professionally known as Melanie or Melanie Safka, who sadly passed away on January 23rd, 2024.

The song, “Peace Will Come”, is a hope that all humans will to come together and embrace understanding in the face of worldwide conflict and adversity. The song addresses the universal longing for harmony and the belief that change is always possible if we attempt to unite as one.

The “please buy one” line, in the lyrics, is understood to refer to bracelets introduced in the late 1960’s, by a now-defunct organization, known as ‘Voices in Vital America’ (VIVA), which bore the name of a prisoner of war (POW) or a person reported as missing in action (MIA).
The wearer would also be seen as being totally anti-war.

Peace Will Come.

There’s a chance peace will come in your life, please buy one.
There’s a chance peace will come in your life, please buy one.


Well sometimes when I am feeling as big as the land,
With the velvet hill in the small of our backs,
And our hands are playing the sand.
And my feet are swimming in all of the waters,
All of the rivers are givers to the ocean,
According to plan, according to man.


Well sometimes when I am feeling so grand,
And I become the world,
And the world becomes the man,
And my song becomes a part of the river,
I cry out to keep me just the way I am,
According to plan.

According to man, according to plan.

Oh there’s a chance peace will come, in your life, please buy one.
But sometimes when we have reached the end
With our velvet hill in the small of our backs
And our hands are clutching the sand.
Will our blood become a part of the river?
All of the rivers are givers to the ocean,
According to plan, according to man.
Oh there’s a chance peace will come in your life, please buy one.
There’s a chance peace will come in your life, please buy one.
There’s a chance peace will come in your life, please buy one.
There’s a chance peace will come in your life, please buy one.

There’s a chance peace will come in your life, please buy one.

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Soulmates – Poem By Tom Ryan.

Anyone who has recently lost a parent; a close friend; a romantic partner; a child or a sibling, may feel a painful renewal of their past grief, as expressed in the poem “Soulmates” hereunder, especially on this most heart-oriented day of the year, St Valentine’s day.

Poem hereunder comes courtesy of Thurles Author & Poet Tom Ryan ©

Soulmates

In a quiet moment,
Thinking of nothing,
In a quiet place,
Where I hear my heart beat.
My soul aches,
For one who is absent,
And I,
Oh, I,
Am so lonely for you
.

END

Tom Ryan, “Iona”, Rahealty, Thurles, Co. Tipperary.

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