It seems I’m not good at following a structure for posts either. I forget to do them each day, or simply don’t want to think about writing. No big, it’s just a blog. Not a best seller book.
Either way, my music for yesterday was already thought and planned out. While getting ready for a friend’s 80s halloween party I’ve been getting some of the hits together so we can have an awesome playlist. While getting music together I came across the greatest hits of REO speedwagon and decided to download it. They are no stranger to me. I listened to them a lot growing up because mom liked me. I have a few fond memories of some of their songs though. While moving joey and I decided one day to make motions to go with the words (who knows what hour this was in the car). In our young minds they were PERFECT and AMAZING and we were going to grow up and be famous one day because of them. The only song I can vividly remember us doing this to is In My Dreams. Mom and I were listening to them this past weekend while running errands and I had moment where I remembered us doing that.
I’ve got a composition notebook in my room for each person of my family to write down these kind of memories in. Lord willing, one day I would like to show them to my own family. Or if the day comes where one of us don’t remember who we are, I would like to have that way to share it with them. I’m sappy – yes, the notebook helped me come to this idea/decision.
Anyway, here is mine and joey’s song. In My Dreams
There was a time some time ago
When every sunrise meant a sunny day, oh a sunny day
But now when the morning light shines in
It only disturbs the dreamland where I lay, oh where I lay
I used to thank the lord when I’d wake
For life and love and the golden sky above me
But now I pray the stars will go on shinin’
You see in my dreams you love me
Daybreak is a joyful time
Just listen to the songbird harmonies, oh the harmonies
But, I wish the dawn would never come
I wish there was silence in the trees, oh the trees
If only I could stay asleep
At least I could pretend you’re thinkin’ of me
‘Cause nighttime is the one time I am happy
You see in my dreams
We climb and climb and at the top we fly
Let the world go on below us
We are lost in time
And I don’t know really what it means
All I know is that you love me
In my dreams
I keep hopin’ one day I’ll awaken
And somehow she’ll be lying by my side
And as I wonder if the dawn is really breakin’
She touches me and suddenly I’m alive
And, we climb
and climb and at the top we fly
Let the world go on below us
We are lost in time
And I don’t know really what it means
All I know is that you love me
In my dreams
And we climb and climb and at the top we fly
Let the world go on below us
We are lost in time
And I don’t know really what it means
All I know is that you love me
In my dreams oh oh oh oh in
In my dreams
Another personal favorite is Take It On the Run. I actually really enjoy most of their songs to be honest, so I will limit this post to 2 or 3 songs so you won’t get really annoyed with me. I just watched a REO concert from 2010 on TV and really enjoyed watching them continue to perform so much time later than they started. (Thankfully, none of them have such bad hair anymore. The clothes was a completely different story unfortunately.)
Heard it from a friend who, heard it from a friend who
Heard it from another you been messin’ around
They say you got a boyfriend, you’re out late every weekend
They’re talkin’ about you and it’s bringin’ me down
But I know the neighborhood
And talk is cheap when the story is good
And the tales grow taller on down the line
But I’m telling you, babe, that I don’t think it’s true, babe
And even if it is keep this in mind
You take it on the run baby
If that’s the way you want it baby
Then I don’t want you around
I don’t believe it, not for a minute
You’re under the gun so you
take it on the run
You’re thinking up your white lies
You’re puttin’ on your bedroom eyes
You say you’re coming home but you won’t say when
But I can feel it coming if you leave tonight keep running
And you need never look back again
You take it on the run baby
If that’s the way you want it baby
Then I don’t want you around
I don’t believe it, not for a minute
You’re under the gun so you take it on the run
You take it on the run baby
If that’s the way you want it baby
Then I don’t want you around
I don’t believe it not for a minute
You’re under the gun so you
take it on the run
Take it on the run baby
If that’s the way you want it baby
Then I don’t want you around
I don’t believe it, not for a minute
You’re under the gun so you take it on the run
Heard it from a
friend who, heard it from a friend who
Heard it from another you been messin’ around
Lastly is Keep on Lovin’ You. This is actually from the concert I watched.
You should’ve seen by the look in my eyes, baby
There was somethin’ missin’
You should’ve known by the tone of my voice, maybe
But you didn’t listen
You played dead but you never bled
Instead you lay still in the grass
All coiled up and hissin’
And though I know all about those men
Still I don’t remember
‘Cause it was us baby, way before then
And we’re still together
And I meant, every word I said
When I said that I love you
I meant that I love you forever
And I’m gonna keep on lovin’ you
‘Cause it’s the only thing I wanna do
I don’t wanna sleep, I just wanna keep on lovin’ you
And I meant every word I said
When I said that I love you
I meant that I love you forever
And I’m gonna keep on lovin’ you
‘Cause it’s the only thing I wanna do
I don’t wanna sleep, I just
wanna keep on lovin’ you
Baby, I’m gonna keep on lovin’ you
‘Cause it’s the only thing I wanna do
I don’t wanna sleep, I just wanna keep on lovin’ you
Keep on lovin’ you, baby
