Tim's Library

Editor’s Note: This song was given to me by my daughter, Caitlin, who represents the point of the song – balance. The music and rhythm also bring me upbeat, just like she does.

Favorite Lyric:

“Sometimes it's hard to see
 when our cheeks are wet
 and the storms inside our hearts won't let our heads forget
 that this is part of a life
 a chapter in the book
 that's where one day we'll sit back down and take a look”

 Editor’s note:  The Southern Cross is a constellation long loved by sailors.  The song is one of the early, more obscure Crosby Stills and Nash songs but is one of my favorite for its harmonies, its melody and its meaning. The song is about failed love but as the excerpt below suggests, has a far broader meaning to me.  Peace. 

Favorite lyric:

When you see the Southern Cross
For the first time
You understand now
Why you came this way
'Cause the truth you might be runnin' from
Is so small.
But it's as big as the promise
The promise of a comin' day.

Editor’s note: This is just a great throw-back song for me. A lot of memories come to me from this hitchhiker’s ballad of missing their mate, some of the best from singing it with my family. But there is also a point in the refrain, noted below in my favorite lyric.

Favorite lyric: “Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose; nothing ain’t worth nothing but it’s free.”

Editor's Note: Seems like a good month for a love song. My son and his wife played this at their wedding and I liked it but for reasons that are even a bit deeper. To me, the greatest service to others is without words and the most effective evangelism is non-verbal. How nice that Krauss finds a way to say the same thing about love.

Favorite lyric: "I could never explain what I hear when you don't say a thing"

Editor’s Note:  In keeping with the Pinker research cited in this month's case study, I'd like to think that the spreading of the message of non-violence through the emergence of ubiquitous media has caused our world to become more peaceful.  This message was conveyed early in my life in this song by a band of rock pioneers who went onto commercial success in other bands.

 Lyric:  "Everybody look what's going down."

“If Everyone Cared” by Nickelback

 
Favorite Lyric: “If everyone shared and swallowed their pride.”More...

“Have Fun Today”
by Mike Perkins

Favorite lyric:  “Stop trading your life for pay”

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Song of the Month:

Turn, Turn, Turn

By Pete Seeger More...

Song of the month for August: 
"Somewhere over the Rainbow"
by Israel Kamakawiwo'ole More...