Life's Lyrics

I originally heard this song as the background to this blog (scroll to the bottom and then click through the songs if you want to hear it) that I'm totally addicted to now. I would love to add songs to my own blog, songs that make me think of my children, but I hesitate in doing so because I know how annoying it is to open a website at work only to be blasted with music.

Anyway, I love the lyrics to this song and in reading them this morning I found myself thinking of one particular good friend of mine. I hope others, but my friend in particular, find the lyrics touching too. Maybe they will help, even if just a little.

"Dream" by Priscilla Ahn

I was a little girl alone in my little world who dreamed of a little home for me.
I played pretend between the trees, and fed my houseguests bark and leaves, and laughed in my pretty bed of green.

I had a dream
That I could fly from the highest swing.
I had a dream.

Long walks in the dark through woods grown behind the park, I asked God who I'm supposed to be.
The stars smiled down on me, God answered in silent reverie. I said a prayer and fell asleep.

I had a dream
That I could fly from the highest tree.
I had a dream.

Now I'm old and feeling grey. I don't know what's left to say about this life I'm willing to leave.
I lived it full and I lived it well, there's many tales I've lived to tell. I'm ready now, I'm ready now, I'm ready now to fly from the highest wing.

I had a dream