Grateful For Music Challenge Day 22

Song: Send Me A Song

Artist: Celtic Women

I'm in a weird mood today. I'm feeling so much better than I was yesterday (huzzah!) but I'm also feeling emotionally and mentally off. I guess I'm just sad. We began decorating out house for Christmas yesterday and it was fun (even though I was still feeling a little sick). I came across my puppy's stocking. I am debating if I should hang it up with the rest of our stockings (like we usually do) or if I should keep it in my room. It's hard getting into the spirit knowing he's not here. It's even harder realizing it's been almost exactly 5 months since he's been gone. And that life is going on as is always does. We're cleaning our house to get ready for company. Pulling out old recipes of holiday favorites. The decorations with years of memories attached. Getting ready for the best time of the year. I think it's going to be a "Blue Christmas" for me this year. 😢 There's a part of me that just can't feel happy. And I don't think I ever will.

I have this song on a playlist I created with songs about my dogs passing (some of which I've posted here). This song is suppose to try to conjure feelings of acceptance and peace that he's gone but still always with me. Each time I discover a great new song that I can't get enough of, or listen to an old favorite, I'm looking at it as a little gift from my dog. It lets me know he's still here with me and he wants me to be happy. Each time I hear songs I love I will sing them to him and think of him. Every time I write posts about him I start crying (like I am now!). I miss you puppy!💔 I feel you with me in the music 🖤🤍 Thank you. 

Take the wave now and know that you're free,

Turn your back on the land face the sea,

Face the wind now so wild and so strong,

When you think of me,

Wave to me and send me a song.

Don't look back when you reach the new shore,

Don't forget what you're leaving me for,

Don't forget when you're missing me so,

Love must never hold,

Never hold tight but let go.

Oh the nights will be long,

When I'm not in your arms,

But I'll be in your song, 

That you sing to me, across the sea.

Somehow, someday, 

You will be far away,

So far from me and maybe one day,

I will follow you,

And all you do,

'Til then, send me a song.

When the sun sets the water on fire,

When the wind swells the sails of your hire,

Let the call of the bird on the wind,

Calm your sadness and loneliness,

And then start to sing to me,

I will sing to you,

If you promise to send me a song.

I walk by the shore and I hear,

Hear your song come so faint,

And so clear,

And I catch it, a breath on the wind,

And I smile and I sing you a song,

I will send you a song...

I will sing you a song,

I will sing to you...

If you promise to send me a song.