This Is One of Those Moments

Read the lyrics to this song, and maybe you'll see why it's one of my favorites. (The lyrics are changed a bit-these are the ones my show choir sang last year).

There are moments you remember all your life
There are moments you wait for and dream of all your life
This is one of those moments

I will always remember this stage, these people
The way the light streams in
The clothes I'm wearing
The words I'm hearing
The face I'm seeing
The feeling I'm feeling
The smell, the sound
Will be written on my mind
Will be written on my heart
As long as I live!

I can travel the past and take what I need
To see me through the years
What my father learned and his father before him
Will be there for my eyes and ears

I can walk through the forest of the trees of knowledge
And listen to the lessons of the leaves
I can enter rooms where there are rooms within rooms
Wrapped in the shawl that learning weaves

I remember
Everything this taught,
What this gave me
Look at what it's brought me

There are certain things that once you have
No man can take away
No wave can wash away
No wind can blow away

I can open doors and take from the shelves
All the books I've longed to hold
I can ask all the questions, the whys and the wheres
As the mystery of life unfolds
Like a link in a chain from the past to the future
That joins me with the children yet to be
I can now be a part of the ongoing stream
That has always been a part of me

There are certain things that once you have
No man take away
No wave can wash away
No wind can blow away
No tide can turn away
No fire can burn away
No time can wear away
And now they're about to be mine!

There are moments you remember all your life
There are moments you wait for and dream of all your life
This is one of those moments

Last year, my show choir sang this song, but it deals with much more than show choir. To me, it means a time that I will never forget- The Music Man national tour. Every time I hear I song from that show, I can feel what I was feeling when I was hearing it during the actual thing. When I hear the "Iowa Stubborn" I hear it through a monitor, and I smell fresh cotton. You see, during "Iowa Stubborn" I was in my dressing room putting on my thigh-long white socks that went in the wash after every performance. Nearly every moment in the show is accompanied by a feeling, a smell, a more specific sound. "The Music Man" was one of those moments.

This song is almost exactly how I feel about The Music Man. I will always remember the stage, the people I was with and the lights shining on the stage in all the different forms. Everything will be written on my mind and my heart for my whole life. No one can take away those great feelings. No one can take away the memories. Those memories are mine. Those moments are mine.

There are some songs that you just want to sing over and over again. This is one of the songs that I could sing over and over again. Every time I see the lyrics I just want to burst out in song. Everyone has a song like that. Everyone has a song that when they hear they just want to join along. Music is something that everyone enjoys, and everyone wants to be a part of it at some point- even the worst voices. Although the song that people sing out loud is different from person to person, the fact that there is a song is great I think. There is always an opera lover singing opera and there's always a teen singing along with songs such as "I Kissed a Girl," whose tune is actually pretty catchy.

I couldn't embed this video in my blog, but here's a link of the This is One of Those Moments with Barabara Streisand singing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMoV6Uc-03Y