Music Lyrics Monday: Something in the Way She Moves.

Something In The Way She Moves

Something in the way she moves
or looks my way, or calls my name
that seems to leave this troubled world behind.
And if I'm feeling down and blue 
or troubled by some foolish game
she always seems to make me change my mind

And I feel fine anytime that she's around me now
she's around me now almost all the time.
And if I'm well you can tell that she's been with me now.
She's been with me now quite a long, long time 
and I feel fine.

Every now and then the things I lean on 
lose their meaning
and I find myself careening 
in places where I should not let me go 
She has the power to go 
where no one else can find me 
and to silently remind me
of the happiness and the good times that I know
and then I just got to know then.

It isn't what she's got to say 
but how she thinks and where she's been 
To me, the words are nice, the way they sound
I like to hear them best that way
it doesn't much matter what they mean
she says them mostly just to calm me down

And I feel fine anytime she's around me now
she's around me now almost all the time.
And if I'm well you can tell she's been with me now
She's been with me now quite a long, long time 
and I feel fine

- James Taylor

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Perhaps this was written as a romantic love song. But for me, it's simply a love song that makes me think of her.

She's love. So she's still with me almost all the time. Laughing out loud. Reminding me to give bountifully of my time and talents. Encouraging me to do things, try things, and hope things. Always and forever. That won't change.

It won't.

These words from JT are speaking to me. Explaining how I feel lately. . . .in ways that my own words can't.

So. . . as of this morning. . . .

I feel fine.

Yeah.

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Happy Monday

Sing it, JT.


And this one for good measure. It's a favorite that the kids and I sing regularly at bedtime. Now it's hard to think of it and not think of Deanna. I can never, ever hear this song too many times. Ever.