From: owner-basia-digest@smoe.org (basia-digest) To: basia-digest@smoe.org Subject: basia-digest V14 #11 Reply-To: basia@smoe.org Sender: owner-basia-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-basia-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "basia-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. basia-digest Monday, January 25 2010 Volume 14 : Number 011 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Basia - singing about fulfilled love [Bev Okin-Larkin Subject: Re: Basia - singing about fulfilled love Krysia, Very fine examples...and yes I agree that is where Basia was going with those songs....so subtle but very comforting. Again, where many of us find so much in her songs. - -- Bev Okin-Larkin Krysia Szurek wrote: > Singing about fulfilled love, > > > > I think that4s what her songs were always about to me. Ever since I have > follen for her. > > Even when I still did not know what the lyrics are about, as I did not know to > much English. > > There was something in Basia4s voice and music that transmited hope and good > thoughts. > > As she said herself in one of the interviews, even when she writes about sad > things, she tries to make people aware that it4s not the end of the world, > that there4s always hope. > > And that way she was always lifting me. > > Even songs about end of love, still seem to me songs of fulfillment and trust > that there is still so much in front. > > Just to mention few exmaples: > > Brave new hope - "Times are changing so am I, I4m not alone 'cause there's a > heart needing love I know that God will give me one more chance" or "There is > no need to worry, I'll find my place in the sun" > > Reward - "You are everything I need, You are the sun the air I breathe" > > Prayer of a happy housewife - "Thank you for letting me dream and hope" > > Yearning - the song, that Basia herself says to be about missing her homeland, > was always like a prayer to me. Cause after all you find your home in the > person you love. > > I belive that listening to these songs also had great part in shaping me, as I > am now. If I4m an incurable romantic, I guess I can blame it on Basia ("in my > land of great romantics, I4m the biggest dreamer of them all...") > > And I still belive, that one day I4m gonna find my home in someone! > > > > > > Krysia > > _________________________________________________________________ > Windows Live: Keep your friends up to date with what you do online. > http://www.microsoft.com/middleeast/windows/windowslive/see-it-in-action/soci > al-network-basics.aspx?ocid=PID23461::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-xm:SI_SB_1:092010 > > - -- - -- Bev Okin-Larkin ------------------------------ End of basia-digest V14 #11 ***************************