Say something....
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kyburgSo I went looking. So I found something. Something too old...
Madonna wimped out. So I went to see if Barry Manilow had anything to say.
He's got "Let Freedom Ring" back up on the website - but it's accompanied by a tiny picture, as opposed to the one that filled the entire frame after September 11th.
And this message is still up.
I remember he closed the show last summer in Irvine with that song, and left the stage - usually he comes back on for as many encores as the audience can get out of him (and in Los Angeles, that's at least three) - but last year, it was firm. THAT song closes the show, baby.
I wish I had a rip of the song he closed his Broadway show with - a cover of an old spiritual, heaven knows what the title is - "There will be peace...and understanding...someday. There will be birds flying higher, in a sky, more blue - "
Long before. Years before.
He showed up at that emergency Democrat fund-raiser where Barbra Streisand sang and made a fool of herself. I note she's keeping her mouth shut, too.
That song was written for the rededication of the Statue of Liberty after its refurbishment.
Say something. Say something.
Madonna wimped out. So I went to see if Barry Manilow had anything to say.
He's got "Let Freedom Ring" back up on the website - but it's accompanied by a tiny picture, as opposed to the one that filled the entire frame after September 11th.
And this message is still up.
I remember he closed the show last summer in Irvine with that song, and left the stage - usually he comes back on for as many encores as the audience can get out of him (and in Los Angeles, that's at least three) - but last year, it was firm. THAT song closes the show, baby.
I wish I had a rip of the song he closed his Broadway show with - a cover of an old spiritual, heaven knows what the title is - "There will be peace...and understanding...someday. There will be birds flying higher, in a sky, more blue - "
Long before. Years before.
He showed up at that emergency Democrat fund-raiser where Barbra Streisand sang and made a fool of herself. I note she's keeping her mouth shut, too.
That song was written for the rededication of the Statue of Liberty after its refurbishment.
Say something. Say something.
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Date: 2003-04-01 05:38 pm (UTC)If I Can Dream
There must be lights burning brighter somewhere
Got to be birds flying higher in a sky more blue
If I can dream of a better land
Where all my brothers walk hand in hand
Tell me why, oh why, oh why can't my dream come true
There must be peace and understanding sometime
Strong winds of promise that will blow away
All the doubt and fear
If I can dream of a warmer sun
Where hope keeps shining on everyone
Tell me why, oh why, oh why won't that sun appear
We're lost in a cloud
With too much rain
We're trapped in a world
That's troubled with pain
But as long as a man
Has the strength to dream
He can redeem his soul and fly
Deep in my heart there's a trembling question
Still I am sure that the answer gonna come somehow
Out there in the dark, there's a beckoning candle
And while I can think, while I can talk
While I can stand, while I can walk
While I can dream, please let my dream
Come true, right now
Let it come true right now
Oh yeah