I'm away today but the beauty of automation means you get to read and hear of Video of The Day...

There is an elegance in life we all aim for to raise our belief in the civilization of love.  I think my mood lately in listening to some classic standards is in keeping with that tone.   Now please please don't assume I'm sad and lonely, I'm anything but.  Yet I've been working on a story of mine lately and reconnecting with the romantic side of me is something I've found through the music of Burt Bacharach, Frank Sinatra and a few others I'd rather just keep to myself.

From Frank Sinatra to Burt Bacharach, the music and words sung in the past are so pure in their message of love that you can't help but think love is easy, even if it is so hard.  It's like picking up a handful of sand, at first you have so much in your grasp and quickly it slips through your fingers.

About seven years ago I reconnected with the music of Burt Bacharach.  I shared that music with friends close to me and no one ever knew that the gift of Burt's music in my life was from my mother and father whom used to play it and sing it around our home when I was a mere toddler.  Song's like The Way to San Jose, Rain Drops Keep Fallin on my Head (BJ Thomas), The Look of Love (Dusty Springfield), I'll Never Fall in Love Again, If Anybody Had a Heart, Make It Easy On Yourself (Walker Brothers), What the World Needs Now, Promises Promises, Close to You,  Always Something There to Remind Me, The Windows of the World, and I Say Alittle Prayer... There are others but these stand out in my mind.

When the stars came out to cover many of Burt's best, this one song stuck out... One Less Bell To Answer performed by Cheryl Crow.  Wearing an elegant black dinner dress, the event just makes you wish for a night on the town in downtown Manhattan.  But when she starts to sing this song, I think you'll find it a beautiful and sad story about regret and lost love sung from the woman's perspective.   I hope you enjoy it, you'd be hard pressed to find another past performer giving such life to this tune.

One less bell to answer
One less egg to fry
One less man to pick up after
I should be happy
But all I do is cry
(Cry, cry, no more laughter)
I should be happy
(Oh, why did he go)
I only know that since he left
My life's so empty
Though I try to forget
It just can't be done
Each time the doorbell rings
I still run
I don't know how in the world
To stop thinking of him
Cause I still love him so
I spend each day the way I start out
Crying my heart out
(One less bell to answer)
I should be happy
(One less egg to fry)
One less man to pick up after
No more laughter, no more love
Since he went away
(One less bell to answer)
(One less egg to fry)
One less man to pick up after
No more laughter, no more love
Since he went away
He went away