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Michael Jackson – Earth Song

Michael Jackson – Earth Song

What about sunrise?
What about rain?
What about all the things,
That you said we were to gain?
What about killing fields?
Is there a time?
What about all the things,
That you said was yours and mine?

Did you ever stop to notice,
All the blood we’ve shed before?
Did you ever stop to notice,
The crying Earth the weeping shores?

What have we done to the world?
Look what we’ve done.
What about all the peace,
That you pledge your only son?
What about flowering fields?
Is there a time?
What about all the dreams,
That you said was yours and mine?

Did you ever stop to notice,
All the children dead from war?
Did you ever stop to notice,
The crying Earth the weeping shores.

I used to dream.
I used to glance beyond the stars.
Now I don’t know where we are.
Although I know we’ve drifted far.

Hey-yea!
What about yesterday?
What about the seas?
The heavens are falling down.
I can’t even breathe!
What about apathy?
I can feel its wounds.
What about nature’s worth?
It’s our planet’s womb!

What about animals?
We’ve turned kingdoms to dust,
What about elephants?
Have we lost their trust?
What about crying whales?
Ravaging the seas.
What about forest trails?
Burnt despite our pleas!

What about the holy land?
Torn apart by creed.
What about the common man?
Can’t we set him free?
What about children dying?
Can’t you hear them cry?
Where did we go wrong?
Someone tell me why!

What about baby boy?
What about the days?
What about all their joy?
What about the man?
What about the crying man?
What about Abraham?
What about death again?
Do we give a damn?!

It has been said that Michael Jackson wrote this song because he felt the earth was crying and that he could feel its pain…

Enjoy the Song!

Love, Goldi 

Goldilocks Blog

Searching for a perfect life in a perfect world…

Death of a Life – Grief

Yesterday Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett died, and yesterday I had a conversation with a friend, who brought up the subject of grief.  For my friend her grief has not been one of a death, but more a death of her own life. Years of sacrifice and hard work, continually putting her self out there, taking great risk, so that she would have financial and emotional security.  Only to end up at this point of time, alone, with a failed business, and the feeling of a failed life.  I believe that she will be okay, and that a process will just need to take place, and that she will end up better than ever, but for her.. right now she feels immobile, unable to put herself out there anymore.  For me, looking from the outside, I look at her as a kind of hero.  Someone who has not just sat on the sideline of life but has really put herself out there.  It reminds me of a quote by Theodore Roosevelt

 “It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement; and who at the worst, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.”

Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett both epitomize this quote, never taking the most traveled road, and living their lives on their own terms.

 

 

Just a thought…

 

Love, Goldi

 

Goldilocks Blog

Searching for the perfect life in a perfect world…

Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett

Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett passed away today and thoughts of them brought back  memories of my childhood.   Back in the day, my grandmother worked at the Americana Hotel on Miami Beach, and one day and she brought me back Michael Jacksons autograph on the back of one of the paper placemats, along with some of his siblings signatures.  I was so excited about getting the autograph that I still have it till this day!  …and Farrah Fawcett, I had to have the Farrah hair!

The memories of my childhood are good… but it is also a big wake up call and reminder to live today, and to not wait until tomorrow!

 Just a thought!

 

Love, Goldi

 

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Searching for a perfect life in a perfect world…