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Subject: Re: Celebrating Dan's life and music Author: Kelly [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 12/16/08 4:29am In reply to: Kelly 's message, "Celebrating Dan's life and music" on 12/16/08 4:04am The Reach http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3Z9M-QpDK4 Santa Fe & Todos Santos http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQSoPyBXGsQ Breathtaking.... Thank you Dan......for your music, your humor, your sweetness, your integrity, your wisdom, your light....and for sharing a part of your life with us. (thanks to the nazz for these front row seats!) Let it shine.... [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

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[> Subject: Re: Don't Lose Heart Author: Kelly [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 12/16/08 4:54am Don't Lose Heart http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxB2jUErffU This life is heartless and it's rarely just Full of sad betrayals and misplaced trust And it can suck your spirit just as dry as dust And steel your soul if you let it Ooh every life contains its sorrows and pains Its stormy weather and its rough terrains You watch me wrestle with my length of chain And smile so bravely as you tell me Don't lose heart, don't lose heart Though it feels like yours will fall apart Just remember when the road gets dark I will always be beside you Well, I spend my life pursuing fortune and fame Chasing rainbows in a shadow game And I'm not sure what I've lost is worth the gain Or why my soul remains so restless You've seen me stumble, Lord, you've seen me fall You shared my triumphs and you've seen me crawl When I think that I could lose it all You give me courage and you tell me Don't lose heart, don't lose heart Though it feels like yours will fall apart Just remember when the road gets dark I will always be beside you When the road gets rocky, and the ride gets rough And the best you got to give ain't good enough There will always be a place inside my love Where you can find shelter, where you can find shelter Ooh every life contains its sorrows and pains Its stormy weather and its rough terrains You watch me wrestle with my length of chain And smile so bravely as you tell me Don't lose heart, oh don't lose heart Though it feels like yours will fall apart Just remember when the road gets dark I will always be beside you Well, I will always be beside....beside you Thanks Dan. Love and peace to Jean, and to Dan's family, friends, and fans.

[> [> Subject: Re: Don't Lose Heart Author: mountainbird [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 12/16/08 5:50am Thanks, Kelly, for all the links. From what I can see of the times you posted, you had the same kind of night I had. I just wanted to share, since you provided the lyrics to "Don't Lose Heart," that the following lines are on the back on my mother's headstone. It took me 15 months to narrow my choice. I think it says it all. "Just remember when the road gets dark I will always be beside you" Hang tight, Everybody. Today might be a bumpy ride.

[> [> [> Subject: Re: Don't Lose Heart Author: Lori [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 12/16/08 9:03am Mountainbird, I have never looked at those words before............I know I have read them, but never felt them before. My life is kind of crazy right now, I feel them now. Thank you.

[> [> [> [> Subject: Re: Don't Lose Heart Author: mountainbird [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 12/16/08 3:23pm Lori, I listened for months while the headstone sat waiting. The front was ready but I refused to have it placed without something of Dan's on the back. He had written so many beautiful and poignant words. I played album after album over and over and then it happened. I was cleaning my house only half listening to songs I knew by heart and that line literally stopped me in my tracks. I had found it. The quotation marks are 8th notes and "Dan Fogelberg" is on its own line at the end. It's beautiful in its mystery. Is it from my mother to me or from me to my mother? To this day I don't have an answer.

[> [> [> [> [> Subject: Re: Don't Lose Heart Author: Kelly [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 12/18/08 11:35am Such a beautiful inscription. Seems it was meant to be, since the words found you when you weren't even looking.....maybe the same way they once found Dan. Love your idea for the eighth notes. Perfect choice.