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Thursday, November 13, 2008

UPDATE Calling the Musically Diverse

YOU ALL ROCK -LITERALLY! I LOVE YOUR SELECTIONS AND WILL MIX THEM UP FROM TIME TO TIME SO YOU GET TO HEAR THEM ALL. THANK YOU FOR YOUR HELP!

This post is a cry for help! I LOVE music - all kinds! I love soft and inspirational, a little bit of country, a little bit of classic rock, all kinds of classical, and occasionally I hear a new pop song that really catches my ear.

However, I have to admit that I haven't listened to the radio much in the last year and my TV access has been even more limited, so I am FAR removed from all the recent songs taking over the music world and blogoshpere. (and I seem to forgotten any of the great names or song titles I used to remember)

I love my player at the bottom of this page, but (and you know this if you have read any of my lengthy posts) it vascillates between two songs. I adore those songs, especially Lee Ann Womack's as Emma sent it to me in the days after her death. However, I would love to fill my player with gorgeous tributes to all our children in heaven.

So, here is my plea! PLEASE, comment with your suggestion for an appropriate song to add to the player. They don't all have to be "angelic" or sappy, just fitting as we continue to build our bridges between our earthly life and our children's heavenly sprirts. And - as we search our souls for evidence of who we are becoming after the loss of our child.

THANK YOU!!!

8 comments:

Kristin said...

How about Eric Clapton's Tears In Heaven? You can read about the song here and view the video here.

Kristin said...

I also like Tom Petty's Lost Children...lyrics here and video here.

Amy said...

On my page is the song I have for William, Celine Dion's Fly. You can check it out there on my spot! Just turn up your volume, it should start playing!

MrsSpock said...

Just pulled out my iPod...
Alison Krauss "Baby Mine", "Get Me Through December", and "I Give You To His Heart" (the last song is about child loss I think)

Tracy Grammer "Winter When He Goes" and "Mother I Climbed"

Dolly Parton "I Will Always Love You"

Mary Chapin Carpenter "Leaving Song", "Twilight"

Garth Brooks "If Tomorrow Never Comes"

Dixie Chicks "I Believe In Love", "Everybody Knows", "So Hard" (about infertility), "Once You've Loved Somebody", "Am I the Only One"

Nat King Cole "Stardust"

Frank Sinatra "In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning"

Peter Kater and R Carlos Nakai
"Grace" (I listened to this for nearly a day as I was in labor)

The Beatles "Let It Be"

Kristin said...

Here are some more...
The Valley Song by Jars of Clay and I originally found out about it here

What Hurts The Most by Rascal Flatts

It is Well with my soul

Glory Baby and lyrics

Held by Natalie Grant and lyrics

Slipped Away by Avril Lavigne and lyrics

Until Tomorrow by Paramore and lyrics

Not A Day Goes By by Lonestar and lyrics

To Where You Are by Josh Groban (just listen...the images don't convey the message I get...he is singing about a woman...I hear a song about a lost baby) and
lyrics


Nobody Knows It But Me by Kevin Sharp and lyrics

Who You'd Be Today by Kenny Chesney and lyrics

Homesick by MercyMe and lyrics

Thought You'd Be Here by Wes King and lyrics

Can't Cry Hard Enough by The Williams Brothers and lyrics.

And, I don't have the links on hand for these...
Precious Child by Karen Taylor-Good
Cradle of Wings by Pam Armstrong
Stay by Little Big Town
Fly by Celine Dion
Amazing by Janelle
Too Young by Emily Richards
Let Them Be Little by Billy Dean
Godspeed by The Dixie Chicks
Goodbye's (The Saddest Word)

c. said...

Carry On My Wayward Son, Kansas

Open Your Eyes, Snow Patrol

Here With Me, Dido

Dreaming with a Broken Heart, John Mayer

So many babylost songs. Seems like they were all written for this purpose sometimes.

Cara said...

Oooo- Thank you! Thank You!!!

Keep em coming if you have 'em. I am going to enjoy putting togeter the playlist!!

Dora said...

Great suggestions here, but I'm wondering if there's a way to set the player to not start playing automatically. I read at work, and if I forget to turn the speakers off I really startle when the music comes on. I also don't want to alert my boss to the fact that I'm reading blogs at work!

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