Sing-along Café 2025-04-03

Our songs about celestial events theme turned into "celestial events and other changes".

So, days changing with sunrises and sunsets, the equinox marking the seasons changes, and the motions of the moon and planets turned into the seasons of our lives, and then, trying to change the world, because "that's just the way it is" doesn't make sense when everything changes, always.

We enjoyed lots of excellent old songs, even when we couldn't think of how they fit into the theme (Red wine changes me, is how). We talked about how some melodies seem to have come from an eternal source, divine inspiration, or from somewhere in our DNA, they're so good and comfortable and singable right away, as if they've been there always, or alternatively from outer space (David Bowie). We talked about how a song can make you cry or move you so much that you need to stop the car, pull over and stop to listen. Then there are songs that seem sad, feel melancholy, but are very hopeful or even joyful, and of course the opposite happens too.

We taked a lot. We talked about diet and exercise and health too. We decided that "The Café" should start serving fruits and vegetables instead of baked goods or potato chips as our nibbles. Some of us are in that season of life where we need to change some of our habits or face increased risk of poor health.

We sang several minutes past 8:30 and didn't remember to talk about what theme to have next. Since some of our songs were about changing the world because of injustice and inequality, we'll look at my Songs for Equality, Diversity, Inclusion playlist.

Here are some of the songs we sang:

The Way it Is by Bruce Hornsby & The Range
Change the World by Eric Clapton
What Was I Made For by Billie Eilish
Sundown by Gordon Lightfoot
Castle on the Hill by Ed Sheeran
Red Red Wine by UB40
Moon River by Audrey Hepburn and Henry Mancini
I Can See Clearly Now by Jimmy Cliff
A New Day Has Come by Celine Dion
Marry You by Bruno Mars
Changes by David Bowie and by Butterfly Boucher
Change by Christina Aguilera
Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez by the Danish National Symphony Orchestra
Bittersweet Symphony by Verve
Northern Lights by Death Cab for Cutie
Northern Lights by The Jerry Cans (10/10 recommend)

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