Dreaming of Silver Roses

Lyrically Speaking….
Category: Life

So. Here’s what I’m thinking randomly about tonight, lyrically speaking:

“What a lot of fun,
You guys have been real swell,
And there’s not a one
Who can say this ended well.
All those secrets you’ve been concealing
Say you’re happy now,
Once more with feeling…” Whedon, Sweet’s Goodbye, ‘01

“Where do we go from here?
Where do we go from here?
The battle’s done, and we kind of won,
So we sound our victory cheer.
Where do we go from here?
Why is the path unclear
When we know home is near?
Understand we’ll go hand in hand,
But we’ll walk alone in fear.
 Tell me.
Where do we go from here?
When does the end appear?”
Joss Whedon, episode: Once More With Feeling, song: Where Do We Go From Here ,‘ 01

verses

“And the call is to community,
The impoverished power that sets the soul free.
In humility, to take the vow,
that day after day we must take up the basin and the towel.

In any ordinary place,
on any ordinary day,
the parable can live again
when one will kneel and one will yield.

Our Saviour Servant must show us how
through the will of the water
and the tenderness of the towel.

bridge:
And the space between ourselves sometimes
is more than the distance between the stars.
By the fragile bridge of the Servant’s bow
we take up the basin and the towel.” -Michael Card, album Poiema, “The Call Is To Community”, ‘94

coupled with I think,

And I will be my brother’s keeper
Not the one who judges him
I won’t despise him for his weakness
I won’t regard him for his strength
I won’t take away his freedom
I will help him learn to stand
And I will ~ I will be my brother’s keeper

Now this roof has got a few missing shingles
But at least we got ourselves a roof
And they say that she’s a fallen angel
I wonder if she recalls when she last flew
There’s no point in pointing fingers
Unless you’re pointing to the truth

And I will be my brother’s keeper
Not the one who judges him
I won’t despise him for his weakness
I won’t regard him for his strength
I won’t take away his freedom
I will help him learn to stand
And I will ~ I will be my brother’s keeper

I will be my brother’s keeper
Not the one who judges him
I won’t despise him for his weakness
I won’t regard him for his strength
I won’t take away his freedom
I will help him learn to stand
And I will ~ I will be my brother’s keeper”- Rich Mullins, album Brother’s Keeper, song

Brother’s Keeper, ‘95

To which I would like to quote:

Tell me and I’ll forget. Show me and I’ll remember. Involve me and I’ll understand. - Confucius

The greatest problem in communication is the illusion that it has been accomplished. - George Bernard Shaw

If speaking is silver, then listening is gold. - Turkish Proverb

“Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.” Henry David Thoreau

“So, tell me, where do we go from here???????”