Dancing Shoes.
Dancing shoes
On the wall above your bedside
Saw it all as we performed our
Pirouette.
Fleshes fused
As the flicker of the candles
Threw upon the wall a single
Silhouette.
Tu es dan ma coeur et dans ma téte.
Dancing shoes
We have loved on distant beaches
Where the winter never reaches
There we fell.
Dying swan
On the dawn you danced before me
Though your eyes were dark and stormy
I stood still.
Qui peut dire le faux et le réel?
Dancing shoes
Though the distances divide us
There's a paradise inside us
We can't lose.
Me and you
Dance a pas de deux forever
And I pray you never
Shed your dancing shoes.
-Dan Fogelberg (1951-2007)
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Tuesday, February 5
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Very nice song to pick for the loss of "one who dances with music in his heart". Lovely photo!
Dan Fogelberg, I have to admit, is a new one for me. Reading these lyrics, though, I think I'm going to like him very much.
I think so too. Go to his official site to read more beautiful lyrics or better yet get an album (by hook or crook...let me know if by crook) from his best years in the 70s... Home Free, Souvenirs, Nether Lands, Phoenix, Captive Angel, The Innocent Age.
I grew up listening to him courstesy of my parents and learned much of my poetic ear, for what that is worth, from his songs along with The Beatles and Tolkien and other sources of course.
Anyone who thinks Dan was just the guy who sang "Longer" and maybe "Run for the Roses" and "Leader of the Band" during his stint of popularity in the early 80s is only getting a tiny slice of the picture. Far from being a one-hit guy, nearly everything he penned was hearfelt and beautiful.
That's my opinion and I'm sticking by it! Sometimes heartfelt simplicity is wonderful, in this world of meta-postmodern irony, and refreshing too. Thanks for stopping by.
Oh very nice. Maalie will like this one. He has a pair of Darcy Bussel's ballet shoes on his bedroom wall!
What a wuss.
Reading brilliant work like this makes me wonder whether I should keep trying to pen beautiful phrases - perhaps they are already all out there.
Great piccy too.
Brilliant work Rob? "Wat a wuss".
How very elegent!
You're welcome not to visit if you don't like my sense of humor or are going to be crass about everything I say. I wouldn't rib Maalie if I didn't like him. And I'm sure Rob's site is much more elegant than mine, if that's what you're looking for. Or Rex's.
Sorry Lorenzo, just a moment of grouchiness.
I'll try to be more elegant in the future. I think I've got some gowns and a wig or two...
Meta, do we get photos of you in them too?
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