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[Soron]

{{{{{ LEE }}}}}



I'll get you for that one. An old guy like me isn't supposed to cry over that sentimental stuff.
Thank you, sweetheart.
I hope you and KR have a good Valentine's Day together.
Hug each other tight for Arden and I, please.

 

[H'venlee]

{{{{{{{{Soron}}}}}}}}

{{{{{{{{Arden}}}}}}}}

Hey...It is my right as a friend to make you cry.

You two deserve all the happiness in the world.

Sending out warm thought to both of you.

Missing you.

Happy Valentine's Day!

 

[Soron]

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY TO MY DREAM LOVER


DREAM LOVER
(Bobby Darin)

Every night I hope and pray
A dream lover will come my way
A girl to hold in my arms
And know the magic of her charms
'Cause I want a girl to call my own
I want a dream lover
So I don't have to dream alone

Dream lover, where are you
With a love, oh, so true?
And I hand that can hold,
To feel you near as I grow old?
'Cause I want a girl to call my own
I want a dream lover
So I don't have to dream alone

Someday, I don't know how,
I hope she'll hear my plea
Some way, I don't know how,
She'll bring her love to me

Dream lover, until then,
I'll go to sleep and dream again
That's the only thing to do,
Till all my lover's dreams come true
'Cause I want a girl to call my own
I want a dream lover so
I don't have to dream alone

Please don't make me dream alone
I beg you don't make me dream alone

No, I don't wanna dream

 

[Arden]

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I BELIEVE IN LOVE
Dixie Chicks

I made a promise to myself
Locked it away deep down inside
Told my heart we'd wait it out
Swore we'd never compromise
Oh I'd rather be alone
Like I am tonight
Than settle for the kind of love
That fades before the morning light

Silence stared me in the face
And I finally heard its voice
It seemed to softly say
That in love you have a choice
Today i got the answer
And there's a world of truth behind it
Love is out there waiting somewhere
You just have to go and find it

I believe in love, I believe in love
A love that's real, love that's strong
Love that lives on and on
Yes I believe in love
Yes I believe in love

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[Arden]

For You....

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SONGBIRD
(Christine McVie)
Fleetwood Mac

For you, there'll be no more crying,
For you, the sun will be shining,
And I feel that when I'm with you,
It's alright, I know it's right

To you, I'll give the world
to you, I'll never be cold
'Cause I feel that when I'm with you,
It's alright, I know it's right.

And the songbirds are singing,
Like they know the score,
And I love you, I love you, I love you,
Like never before.

And I wish you all the love in the world,
But most of all, I wish it from myself.

And the songbirds keep singing,
Like they know the score,
And I love you, I love you, I love you,
Like never before, like never before.

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[Arden]

Happy Valentines Day

IN YOUR EYES
Peter Gabriel


Love I get so lost, sometimes
Days pass and this emptiness fills my heart
When I want to run away
I drive off in my car
But whichever way I go
I come back to the place you are

All my instincts, they return
And the grand facade, so soon will burn
Without a noise, without my pride
I reach out from the inside

In your eyes
The light the heat
In your eyes
I am complete
In your eyes
I see the doorway to a thousand churches
In your eyes
The resolution of all the fruitless searches
In your eyes
I see the light and the heat
In your eyes
Oh, I want to be that complete
I want to touch the light
The heat I see in your eyes

Love, I don't like to see so much pain
So much wasted and this moment keeps slipping away
I get so tired of working so hard for out survival
I look to the time with you to keep me awake and alive

And all my instincts, they return
And the grand facade, so soon will burn
Without a noise, without my pride
I reach out from the inside

In your eyes
The light the heat
In your eyes
I am complete
In your eyes
I see the doorway to a thousand churches
In your eyes
The resolution of all the fruitless searches
In your eyes
I see the light and the heat
In your eyes
Oh, I want to be that complete
I want to touch the light,
The heat I see in your eyes
In your eyes In your eyes
In your eyes In your eyes
In your eyes In your eyes





I want to touch the light,
The heat I see in your eyes

 

[Soron]

Thank you for the songs, Arden
You're incredible...

GOTTA GET YOU NEAR ME BLUES ~ Buddy Holly
(Bob Montgomery)

Tonight I'm so blue, I'm thinking of you
I got these 'gotta get you near me blues'
So hurry here to me, darling can't you see
I got these 'gotta get you near me blues'
Have you ever had this feeling that I was speaking of
To be so far away from the one that you love
So hurry here to me, darling can't you see
I got these 'gotta get you near me blues'

Gonna head it on back to our country home
I got these 'gotta get you near me blues'
And when I get there dear, no more will I roam
I got these 'gotta get you near me blues'
There's a big yellow moon smiling down from above
That's no good to me without the one that I love
So hurry here to me, darling can't you see
I got these 'gotta get you near me blues'

There's a big yellow moon smiling down from above
That's no good to me without the one that I love
So hurry here to me, darling can't you see
I got these 'gotta get you near me blues'

 

[Arden]

For Soron, Lee & KR, Kayte and Secret Scribe...

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Benjamin Franklin. 1706-1790.
... Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.



James Montgomery. 1771-1854.
... And all that life is love.



~Origins of Valentines~

As early as the fourth century B.C., the Romans engaged in an annual young man's rite of passage to the god Lupercus. The names of teenage women were placed in a box and drawn at random by adolescent men. Thus, a man was assigned a woman companion, for their mutual entertainment and pleasure (often sexual), for the duration of a year, after which another lottery was staged.
Determined to put an end to this 800-year-old practice, the early church fathers sought a "lovers" saint to replace the deity Lupercus. They found a likely candidate in Valentine, a bishop who had been martyred some 200 years earlier.
Traditionally, mid-February was a time for Romans to meet and court prospective mates. Young men offered women they admired and wished to court handwritten greetings of affection on February 14. The cards acquired St. Valentine's name.
As Christianity spread, so did the Valentine's Day card. The earliest one was sent in 1415 by Charles, Duke of Orleans, to his wife while he was a prisoner in the Tower of London. It is now in the British Museum.
The first American publisher of Valentines was printer and artist Esther Howland. Her elaborate lace cards of the 1870s cost from five to ten dollars, with some selling for as much as thirty-five dollars. Since that time, the Valentine card business has flourished. Except for Christmas, Americans exchange more cards on Valentine's Day than at any other time of the year.
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Excerpted from "Panati's Extraordinary Origins of Everyday things," Charles Panati, Harper & Row, NY 1987 pp 50-52.

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[kayte]

Re: For Soron, Lee & KR, Kayte and Secret Scribe...

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Benjamin Franklin. 1706-1790.
... Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.



James Montgomery. 1771-1854.
... And all that life is love.



~Origins of Valentines~

As early as the fourth century B.C., the Romans engaged in an annual young man's rite of passage to the god Lupercus. The names of teenage women were placed in a box and drawn at random by adolescent men. Thus, a man was assigned a woman companion, for their mutual entertainment and pleasure (often sexual), for the duration of a year, after which another lottery was staged.
Determined to put an end to this 800-year-old practice, the early church fathers sought a "lovers" saint to replace the deity Lupercus. They found a likely candidate in Valentine, a bishop who had been martyred some 200 years earlier.
Traditionally, mid-February was a time for Romans to meet and court prospective mates. Young men offered women they admired and wished to court handwritten greetings of affection on February 14. The cards acquired St. Valentine's name.
As Christianity spread, so did the Valentine's Day card. The earliest one was sent in 1415 by Charles, Duke of Orleans, to his wife while he was a prisoner in the Tower of London. It is now in the British Museum.
The first American publisher of Valentines was printer and artist Esther Howland. Her elaborate lace cards of the 1870s cost from five to ten dollars, with some selling for as much as thirty-five dollars. Since that time, the Valentine card business has flourished. Except for Christmas, Americans exchange more cards on Valentine's Day than at any other time of the year.
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Excerpted from "Panati's Extraordinary Origins of Everyday things," Charles Panati, Harper & Row, NY 1987 pp 50-52.

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Arden ~ Good morning. Thank you for the text on Valentines Day. I didn't realize the history of the holiday went back to that. Now that sounds like a very entertaining lottery with many winners. Hope your day is a great one. We are lucky here, the snow stayed to the south. It is just cloudy, windy and slight flurry action for me.

 

[Soron]

TRYIN' TO GET TO HEAVEN
(Bob Dylan)

The air is gettin' hotter, there's a rumblin' in the skies.
I've been wadin' through the high muddy waters,
But the heat riseth in my eyes.
Everyday your memory goes dimmer,
It doesn't haunt me like it did before.
I've been walkin' through the middle of nowhere,
Tryin' to get to heaven before they close the door.

When I was in Missouri, they would not let me be.
I had to leave there in a hurry, I only saw what they let me see.
You broke a heart that loved you,
Now you can seal up the book and not write anymore.
I've been walkin' that lonesome valley,
Tryin' to get to heaven before they close the door.

People on the platforms, waitin' for the trains.
I can hear their hearts a-beatin', like pendulum swingin' on chains.
When you think that you've lost everything,
You find out you can always lose a little more.
I'm just going down the road feelin' bad,
Tryin' to get to heaven before they close the door.

I'm goin' down the river, down to New Orleans.
They tell me everything is gonna be all right,
But I don't know what all right even means.
I was ridin' in a buggy with Miss Mary Jane,
Miss Mary Jane got a house in Baltimore.
I've been all around the world boys,
I'm tryin' to get to heaven before they close the door.

Gotta sleep down in the parlor, and relive my dreams.
I close my eyes and I wonder, if everything is as hollow as it seems.
Some trains don't pull no gamblers,
No midnight/midlife? ramblers like they did before.
I've been to Sugartown, I shook the sugar down,
Now I'm tryin' to get to heaven before they close the door

 

[Arden]

I like that one, Soron... but I can't place the melody. I sure am glad to see you, I just haven't been myself without you.

 

[Soron]

In Bloom ~ Nirvana
(Lyrics by Cobain;Music by Nirvana)

Sell the kids for food
-- weather changes moods
Spring is here again
-- reproductive glands

Hey - He's the one
Who likes all our pretty songs
And he likes to sing along
And he likes to shoot his gun
But he knows not what it means
Don't know what it means, when I say:

He's the one
Who likes all our pretty songs
And he likes to sing along
And he likes to shoot his gun
But he knows not what it means
Knows not what it means when I say aahh ...

We can have some more -- nature is a whore
Bruises on the fruit -- tender age in bloom

Hey - He's the one
Who likes all our pretty songs
And he likes to sing along
And he likes to shoot his gun
But he knows not what it means
Don't know what it means, when I say:

He's the one
Who likes all our pretty songs
And he likes to sing along
And he likes to shoot his gun
But he knows not what it means
Knows not what it means when I say aahh ...

He's the one
Who likes all our pretty songs
And he likes to sing along
And he likes to shoot his gun
But he knows not what it means
Knows not what it mean's when I say:

He's the one
Who likes all our pretty songs
And he likes to sing along
And he likes to shoot his gun
But he knows not what it means

Knows not what it means
Knows not what it means when I say aahh ...

 

[Arden]

STUDY WAR NO MORE
by Willie Dixon

Won't that be one mighty day
When we hear world leaders say
"We don't have to cry no more"
"We're givin' it up, we gonna let it all go"

Chorus:
Ain't gonna study, study war no more
Ain't gonna think, think war no more
Ain't gonna fight, fight war no more
We're givin' it up, we gonna let it go
We're givin' it up, we gonna let it go

We will take gun powder to have fun
Then get rid of the atom bomb
Something else that we can do
Get rid of all those rockets too

[chorus]

The money spent on bombs alone
Can build poor people a happy home
Something good we can do
You treat me like I treat you

No more starving in the nation
Everybody gets an education
Everytime a baby is born
We know he'll have him a happy home

[chorus]

No more sleeping in the street
We all happy whoever we meet
Then we all will shake their hand
And make this world a promised land.

 

[H'venlee]

I Believe
Sung by Diamond Rio.
Written by Skip Ewing and Donni Kees.


Every now and then,
Soft as breath upon my skin,
I feel you come back again,
And it's like you haven't been,
Gone a moment from my side.
Like the tears were never cried;
Like the hands of time are holding you and me.

And with all my heart I'm sure,
We're closer than we ever were.
I don't have to hear or see,
I've got all the proof I need.
There are more than angels watching over me:
I believe; Oh, I believe.

That when you die your life goes on:
It doesn't end here when you're gone.
Every soul is filled with light,
It never ends and if I'm right,
Our love can even reach across eternity:
I believe; Oh, I believe.

Forever, you're a part of me.
Forever, in the heart of me.
I will hold you even longer if I can.
Oh, the people who don't see the most,
See that I believe in ghosts.
If that makes me crazy, then I am,
'Cause I believe.

Oh I believe.

There are more than angels watching over me:
I believe; Oh, I believe.

Every now and then,
Soft as breath upon my skin,
I feel you come back again,
And I believe.

 

[Soron]

Buffalo Skinners
(Woody Guthrie)

Come all you old time cowboys,
And listen to my song,
Please do not grow weary,
I'll not detain you long.
Concerning some wild cowboys,
Who did agree to go,
Spend the summer pleasant,
On the trail of the Buffalo.
I found myself in Griffin,
In the spring of '83,
When a well known famous drover,
Came walking up to me.
Said, "How do you do, young fellow,
Well how would you like to go,
And spend the summer pleasant,
On the trail of the Buffalo?"
Well I being out of work right then,
To the drover I did say,
"Going out on the Buffalo Road,
Depends on the pay.
If you will pay good wages,
And transportation to and fro,
I think I might go with you,
On the hunt of the Buffalo."
"Of course I'll pay good wages,
And transportation too,
If you will agree to work for me,
Until the season's through."
But if you do get homesick,
And try to run away,
You will starve to death,
Out on the trail and also lose your pay."
Well with all his flattering talking,
He signed up quite a train,
Some 10 or 12 in number,
Some able bodied men.
The trip it was a pleasant one,
As we hit the westward road,
Until we crossed old Boggy Creek,
In old New Mexico.
There our pleasures ended,
And our troubles began.
A lightening storm hit us,
And made the cattle run.
Got all full of stickers,
From the cactus that did not grow,
And the outlaws watching,
To pick us off in the hills of Mexico.
Well our working season ended,
And the drover would not pay,
If you had not drunk too much,
You are all in debt to me.
But the cowboys never had heard,
Such a thing as a bankrupt law,
So we left that drover's bones to bleach,
On the Plains of the Buffalo.

 

[SecretScribe]

Evening Soron ... hope life is treating you well ...

 

[Soron]

Evening Soron ... hope life is treating you well ...

Treating me well, yes...
Fairly, hell no. I'd much rather be in Michigan, my friend.
And, you are still working?

 

[SecretScribe]

Waiting for a process to finish ... like many jobs ... hurry up and wait ...

As to Michigan ... best wishes to you ... you'll get it sorted eventually.

 

[Soron]

Waiting for a process to finish ... like many jobs ... hurry up and wait ...

As to Michigan ... best wishes to you ... you'll get it sorted eventually.

Ah, 'hurry up and wait'. The US Army is famous for that process, daily.

Michigan will be sorted fairly easy. It's the application that will take hard work. Thank you, for the wishes. Things will work out the way they were meant to. That I'm sure of.

 

[kayte]

Soron ~ Hugs and a gentle kiss!! You are right. Things will work out as they are meant to. I am just hoping for you and Arden and SB Sir and I.

SS ~ Sounds like airline travel. Hurry up and wait, as you say. Good luck with all of it.

 

[redelicious]

Ah, 'hurry up and wait'. The US Army is famous for that process, daily.

Michigan will be sorted fairly easy. It's the application that will take hard work. Thank you, for the wishes. Things will work out the way they were meant to. That I'm sure of.

Amen to that.

 

[SecretScribe]

Praise be!

 

[redelicious]

Praise be!

 

[H'venlee]

Leather And Lace (Nicks)

Is love so fragile and the heart so hollow, shatter with words impossible to follow?
You're saying I’m fragile, I try not to be. I search only for something I can't see.
I have my own life, and I am stronger than you know.
But I carry this feeling when you walked into my house that you won't be walking out the door.
Still I carry this feeling when you walked into my house that you won't be walking out the door.

Lovers forever, face to face. My city or mountains, stay with me, stay.
I need you to love me, I need you today. Give to me your leather, take from me, my lace.

You in the moonlight with your sleepy eyes, could you ever love a man like me?
And you were right, when I walked into your house, I knew I'd never want to leave.
Sometimes I’m a strong man, sometimes cold and scared and sometimes I cry.
But that time I saw you, I knew with you to light my nights, somehow I'd get by.

Lovers forever, face to face. My city or mountains, stay with me, stay.
I need you to love me, I need you today. Give to me your leather, take from me, my lace
Lovers forever, face to face. My city or mountains, stay with me, stay.
I need you to love me, I need you today. Give to me your leather, take from me, my lace
Take from me my lace. Take from me my lace.

 

[Arden]

I've always loved that song, Lee!



Good Morning, Soron!