I know a lot of you don't like Celine Dion. But this song has always been a song between my girls and I. If you would just take the time to listen to the lyrics of the song and hear the song. I think you will understand why this song means so much to me when it come to my girls.
I would not be here today if it wasn't for them and the love I have for them..
Cheers to my girls,
I am here to today because you love me....
All The Way-a Decade Of Song
Because You Loved Me
For all those times you stood by me
For all the truth that you made me see
For all the joy you brought to my life
For all the wrong that you made right
For every dream you made come true
For all the love i found in you
I'll be forever thankful baby
You're the one who held me up
Never let me fall
You're the one who saw me through through it all
You were my strength when i was weak
You were my voice when i couldn't speak
You were my eyes when i couldn't see
You saw the best there was in me
Lifted me up when i couldn't reach
You gave me faith 'coz you believed
I'm everything i am
Because you loved me
You gave me wings and made me fly
You touched my hand i could touch the sky
I lost my faith, you gave it back to me
You said no star was out of reach
You stood by me and i stood tall
I had your love i had it all
I'm grateful for each day you gave me
Maybe i don't know that much
But i know this much is true
I was blessed because i was loved by you
You were my strength when i was weak
You were my voice when i couldn't speak
You were my eyes when i couldn't see
You saw the best there was in me
Lifted me up when i couldn't reach
You gave me faith 'coz you believed
I'm everything i am
Because you loved me
You were always there for me
The tender wind that carried me
A light in the dark shining your love into my life
You've been my inspiration
Through the lies you were the truth
My world is a better place because of you
You were my strength when i was weak
You were my voice when i couldn't speak
You were my eyes when i couldn't see
You saw the best there was in me
Lifted me up when i couldn't reach
You gave me faith 'coz you believed
I'm everything i am
Because you loved me
You were my strength when i was weak
You were my voice when i couldn't speak
You were my eyes when i couldn't see
You saw the best there was in me
Lifted me up when i couldn't reach
You gave me faith 'coz you believed
I'm everything i am
Because you loved me
I'm everything i am
Because you loved me
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Hope you're doing better FE.
Hey:)
Seriously. Whatever works for you and your girls is important. I just won't be singing along. EVER. ~big smiles~
If you have this love with your girls, and this....damn...this LOVE, consider your life complete. You are one lucky person. I can only hope.
You ask any parent what they would do for their child????? See what the answer would be,..
I LOVE my girls... And I LOVE my grandsons.
and I LOVE my daughters..
Don't get m e wrong I Love my girls.
Glad for you and your gals though.
I know there is no other song that could possibly express the love I have for my girls..
so I understand. It doesn't matter who the artist is, if the song speaks to you- that's what matters.
This post and the comments on this post reminds me of a phase my oldest daughter when through...I think it was a Mariah Carey phase. She liked a song and played it over and over.
I barely survived it.
That said, the lyrics are good, FastCarGirl, and while I am unfamiliar with the song, I can see the relevance.
Rated for a family's love and interdependence.
What I find interesting is that lyrics that one might generally assume to apply to a female/male relationship seem to have such meaning within a parent/child relationship. Reading the lyrics, it seems perfectly appropriate. It is just a bit of a surprise.
The reason for my surprise is that a female/male relationship is generally thought of as being reasonably reciprocal, with both parties giving and both parties taking is some sort of rough aggregate parity. Or at least those that work and are healthy (which may be as much of a fantasy as anything about romantic love).
Whereas parent/child is inherently asymmetrical. However, per the song lyrics, from a singer/love object perspective, the 'love object' (for lack of a better term -- 'lover' doesn't seem appropriate at this level of generalization) is primarily providing:
1. Belief in the singer.
2. Faith in the singer.
3. Love.
4. Attention, presence.
5. Devotion.
All of these things seem like they can appropriately apply to a child's love for a parent. Up to a point. And some more than others.
I think the main thing is that a child can simply be there and have faith that their parent will be there for them and provide the most important thing with is care, attention, and love.
Parents can sometimes be not only "all that they can be" to live up to a child's faith in them but sometimes a parent can become a better person than they could ever dream they could be. And some of that comes from the fact that not only do they love their child, but their child, in fact, has a sort of belief and faith in them that can mean an enormous amount to a parent.
So, Yes.
I get it.
At least in a certain way that may have nothing to do with what you meant.
But maybe it does.
I just thought that it seemed obligatory for all the commenters to register their hipness bona fides or, to say it in a less snarky way, express their thoughts on the singer before adding generally supportive comments.
Being perhaps overly abstract, I wanted to get right to the core of it by laying bare the underlying dynamics of the relationships.
Writing is always way more about the writer than the subject.
I didn't mean to write War and Peace.
:-)
xoxoxo,
So many hearts of stone here today!
Rated for healthy ears.
;-)
Cheers to daughters! xoxoxo
I am going through a very rough time right now. Arguing with my girls has never been easy for me. It breaks my heart when we are not talking. We don't argue very much, but when we do it is like WWIII. Probably because they are so much like me, stubborn, bullhead, strong mind, and very independent.
Being a parent is never an easy job, and it is a job that never ends. Being a single parent is even harder. It has actually been the hardest job I have ever done.
They mean the world to me, and honestly I wouldn't be here today if I didn't have their love or the love for them. The love between the three of us is such a special bond, that we have all made it through so much in life because we did have each other.
I am in no way the "Perfect Parent", I made mistakes just like any other human being, and no one is perfect. I will say that I worked all and hard to give them the best life I could give them. I did the best I could with what I had, I busted my ass to give them the world.
I love them and they mean the world to me.
We will get through this just we have in the past. I will be okay and make it through this rough time in my life and over come all the obstacles in my way right now.
I am being strong and trying to stay positive..
Thank you all once again for being here.. Love ya all.. many hugs..
anemic- Glad to see you around here on OS. I have been missing you and thinking about you. Email me..
I do have a wonderful and powerful bond between my girls and I.
Onecorgilover- I just knew you would and could rate to this song. The songs you mentioned I love them too.. Thank you