Songs I Sing to My Wife: January 2015

About two months ago...

Sometime in late 2014, on a Saturday morning, I found myself walking around the house quietly singing a song to myself. I didn't think much of it until my wife turned to me and said "You know, it's been a real adventure the past 15 years to discover what song you're going to sing to yourself every morning."

I protested that it didn't happen nearly that often, but she assured me that most mornings, I had some tune or another stuck in my head, and they rarely repeated.

So, I decided to do a daily blog post about the song I have in my head each day, just to see where it leads.

2015-01-31

There...out in the darkness...

a fugitive running, fallen from God. Fallen from Grace...

I always identified with Javert far more than I did with Jean Valjean. The way his own moral inflexibility led to his own suicide struck home to me a lot more than the long chain of questionably heroic acts of Valjean; it reminds me a little of the Witch's final scene in "Into the Woods" - "I'm not good, I'm not nice, I'm just RIGHT."

Listen to it on Spotify:
This my personal preferred version - if you've never availed yourself of hearing the Complete Symphonic Recording of Les Miserables, you don't even know what you're missing yet:

Watch it on YouTube:
This is the same actor (Philip Quast) as the one in the "Complete Symphonic", but the orchestration is not as strong in my opinon. Still good, though:
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2015-01-30

A Man Has Dreams...

It just so happens that we'll be starting on a bit of a down note, as we hear Bert help Mr. Banks come to a realization that his kids lives are passing right before his eyes, and he's missing it.

It's something I worry about a lot, working as much as I do, so this one isn't unusual for me to wake up with - especially if the kids were already in bed by the time I got home from work the night before.

Listen to it on Spotify

or watch it on YouTube: