7in7, Day Four: Ten Year Reunion

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I know, I know, I just posted day one yesterday. But it’s really day five and I’m really working on a song called Found In You. But here’s the one from yesterday. I went in a different direction. Yesterday was a country song. Yes, really. And yes, it actually started out as a joke. I mean, I intended to write the song, but it was just supposed to be funny. But it actually turned out all right. Anyway, feel free to laugh if you want to.

TEN YEAR REUNION

I haven’t worn a cummerbund in a decade
And I’m afraid what everyone will think
Will they notice that I’ve gained a few or maybe…
What if no one’s left who remembers me
I still feel like I’m 15 at the dance

But it’s a ten year reunion
Turns out beauty fades
But intelligence and kindness
Seem to bloom with age
It’s a ten year reunion
The math geeks and the prom queens
Look different in the rearview mirror
We might have missed a few things
These are the truths you’ll find
At your ten year reunion

I never knew one of the cheerleaders was funny
Or that angry kid had grown up without a dad
My biology partner grew up to be stunning
And even some of the jocks aren’t half-bad
Time is a great equalizer

A ten year reunion
Turns out beauty fades
But intelligence and kindness
Seem to bloom with age
It’s a ten year reunion
The math geeks and the prom queens
Look different in the rearview mirror
We might have missed a few things
These are the truths you’ll find
At your ten year reunion

The life I have is better than the dreams I had back then
I won’t be voted most popular but I’m loved by real friends
I have found a freedom in the miles I’ve walked since then
Some of you have walked my way too
I recognize the dirt on your shoes

At the ten year reunion
Turns out beauty fades
But intelligence and kindness
Seem to bloom with age
It’s a ten year reunion
The math geeks and the prom queens
Look different in the rearview mirror
We might have missed a few things
These are the truths you’ll find
At your ten year reunion

Or you can just listen here: http://soundcloud.com/agnewsdei/ten-year-reunion

Horrible Blogger

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Okay, the secret is out. I’m a horrible blogger. Well I might be passingly fair when I do blog, but I don’t do it much. I can’t see why what I’m thinking is worth your time. Admittedly I’ve had the same problem in most of my relationships. They call it a failure to communicate. I don’t think of it as a failure as much as a ‘never tried’. I’m learning to do it better in my marriage, so maybe I can apply those lessons here as well.

The main thing I’m missing is having any idea as to what you would want to read about, and more importantly what topics you would want to be part of the conversation. We don’t know when the record is going to come out. So the blogs about songs will come closer to that date. I’m sure some of what I teach this summer will find its way here. But since I’m going to be gone at camp much of the summer, I thought I would go ahead and ask you what you would like to read about. What would you like to have conversations about? What topics are worth covering?

Looking forward to hearing from you.

And I apologize to everyone who checked my website all month and only got two blogs. It won’t happen again. (Until it does.)

Thoughts?

Todd

7in7 Day One

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Well, day one is over and I’m exhausted.  I don’t know if i can take a week of this.  But I have two mostly completed songs and one great guitar part to write over.  I’m really grateful for Andrew Osenga today.  He’s a new friend and incredible musician who really pulled a difficult song out of me today.  Right now it’s called “House of Boxes”.  It starts with packing the truck to move back to Texas, to get married, to become a father.  Andy said he was really interested in what makes people move.  Not necessarily move to a new house, but to move their live into action.  Cool thought.

Second song today was much more planned and purposeful.  Its called “Loved”.  It starts with the idea of breakups and what they do to our idea of ourselves as lovable.  Then we spend the rest of our lives, often in relationships where true love exists, and we are trying to believe someone could love us.  We are trying to break the chains of hopelessness that cause us to be self-destructive and self-defeating. We are learning how to be loved.

Okay, I have to go to sleep.  Or there will be no songs tomorrow.  

Todd