Pieces Of My Heart

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In response to Jim Adams’s Song Lyric Sunday

Pondering Existential Thoughts

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Prompt:

This week the theme is to find a song that makes you think about life

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Song That Made Me Pause and Feel the Pulse of Life

One song that has stayed with me long after the last note faded is “Life” by Conrad Sewell, a powerful, emotional track that goes beyond melody and rhythm to touch something deeper inside us.

Watch here: Conrad Sewell  – LIFE (Official Video) beautifully directed with raw emotion.

https://youtu.be/JwA7zo8eNRs?si=5xQmLDV32mQj_R-2

This song feels like a conversation with your own heart. The way Conrad sings, with vulnerability and strength intertwined, makes you stop and breathe.

It isn’t just about the word “life” as a title; it’s about the tender, fragile moments that make every breath meaningful. There’s a sense of yearning in his voice, as though he’s asking us to feel every fleeting second with full awareness – to love harder, forgive sooner, and live without regret.

In the video, you see him surrounded by violinists dressed in white, a visual metaphor for purity and simplicity.

It contrasts with the weight of the emotions he carries in his voice. To me, that juxtaposition represents what it means to be human. We carry depth within a fragile shell, and that tension between beauty and pain is where life truly lives.

Why this song resonates…

It reminds me that life isn’t measured in achievements or expectations, but in the moments that shape our inner world, the loves, losses, chances taken and chances missed.

There’s a universality in the lyrics and melody that makes you think about your own journey – your choices, fears, and hopes.

The song gently pushes us to reflect on how quickly time passes, and how precious every experience really is.

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And that’s the strange and beautiful thing about music… one song can make you feel connected to strangers because it speaks to something universal, like the thin thread that ties us all to love, loss, growth, and the pursuit of meaning.

Even if we don’t have all the answers , even if we never fully understand why we’re here, songs like this remind us to stay open, to stay present, and to cherish the fleeting light of every moment. Because life may move like a whisper… but its echo lasts forever.

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In response to Jim Adams’s Song Lyric Sunday

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February Music Birthdays

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Some songs don’t merely play. They arrive. Like morning.

For this week’s theme, I chose “Feeling Good”, famously performed by Nina Simone, a woman born in February (February 21, 1933)—a month that itself feels like a hinge between endurance and hope. Winter hasn’t quite loosened its grip, yet the light has begun to insist.

That insistence is the soul of this song.

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The Song

Title: Feeling Good

Songwriters: Leslie Bricusse & Anthony Newley

Originally written for: The Roar of the Greasepaint – The Smell of the Crowd (1964)

Iconic performance by: Nina Simone

Associated with: Nina Simone (solo performance; later covered by many artists)

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Why this song fits the theme

Nina Simone was born in February, and so was this song’s spirit. It is not a song about happiness handed to you. It is about claiming joy, sometimes audaciously, after survival.

A brief lyric excerpt shared for follow along, within copyright limits

“It’s a new dawn,
It’s a new day,
It’s a new life for me…”

Those lines alone feel like someone standing at the edge of themselves, testing the ground with bare feet.

The Human Tale Within the Song

Imagine a person who has known nights that overstayed their welcome. Not dramatic darkness, just the slow kind. The kind that teaches you patience, or resignation, or both.

Now imagine that person waking up one morning and realizing…Nothing outside has changed, but something inside has.

The birds were always there.
The river always ran.
The sky always knew how to hold the sun.

What changed was the listener.

Nina Simone doesn’t sing at the world in this song, she answers it. Her voice is not light; it is earned. It carries history, resistance, bruises disguised as wisdom. When she says she’s feeling good, you believe her precisely because it sounds hard-won.

This is not optimism. This is arrival.

February understands this. It is not January’s loud resolutions nor March’s confident bloom.
It is the quiet month that survives long enough to imagine spring.

Why I didn’t post the full lyrics

I’ve shared a short excerpt so readers can follow along, but the full lyrics are copyrighted and best experienced as they were meant to be – sung, breathed, and lived through the music itself.

Listen here & enjoy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHRNrgDIJfo

I recommend listening once with sound, and once with your eyes closed.

Perhaps feeling good is not about circumstances improving. Perhaps it is about the moment we stop asking permission to feel alive.

A new dawn does not ask what yesterday did to you. It simply arrives. And sometimes, that is enough.

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