Repost!! Because I'm Back Here Today! Cure for Home Sickness - David Rudder - Song For a Lonely Soul
Wednesday, November 24, 2010I get Homesick..often
In spite of the horror stories I read and hear about in Trinidad..
because as always Being home is a colored memory for me that may not always tie into the REALITY
I rely on my bloggers living in Trinidad to reconcile the Rose Colored Memory with the TRUTH of life at home..
But still i know in part that I live in illusion...
But some days I almost cry,
There is vice and evil everywhere..
Why not be in a place that requires no explanation of my needs and loves,
Of what is innate to me..?
That i can find joy in Just hearing a voice speak in a tone or say a phrase that can make my spirit warm ...?
Still some days I cry...
I miss the sounds of rain...
Somehow its different at home
I miss the smell of a temporarily clean world after the rain..
I love to hear men call out to each other in passing..
and unlike the sisters that Live there now..
I miss the little hail up from a random man in the street...
In our trini cadence...
"Ey Sweetness...."
[they might not be saying that now]
But Rudder Helps...in particular today
Song for a Lonely Soul...[how apropos]
Song For a Lonely SoulSoca music take me back to my island [x 4]Oh how I long for island breezes and to see..My woman roll like a steel drum solo ringing through a calypso nightDon’t get me wrong, this big city really made a man of meBut a concrete jungle drum can’t play no calypsoNo no noSoca music take me back to my island.
A mind excursion it can take meTo a far off country roadSticky mango juice, running down my naked chestAnd sturdy people who can still smile a mile into their painPut their shoulders to the wheelAnd their Gods will do the restAnd in the end, they will pass the testSoca music take me back to my island.
Trinity mountains, Trinity mountains calling me homeMaking me high, calling me home, making me highSing a soca melody, you can sing it and be freeSing a happy soca melody my friend, sing a soca melodyYou can sing it and be freeAnd in this freedom, there will be no endSoca music take me back to my island.
In particular for me...
growing up in Tobago, Signal Hill Alumni Choir was a pride and joy
To hear them sing , all genres, was a pore raising, awe inspiring , pride inducing thing.
My Mom worked with them when I was growing up...so I got to see the inner workings of the choir. Rehearsal was a treat..I would sit on the floor of the stage while they surrounded the piano..and John Arnold the director then would piece together the Complex melodies..and then the MOVES! Perfect!
I was lucky to perform with them , either in joint productions with my steelband, or with the dance company [Children's Academy of Dance...now TAPA and the now defunct NDTC] or representing Tobago in the Inter Island Cultural Shows..[haha..i remember dancing in a number, changing to play pan, and then changing back to go dance again..anyways ah Rambling..lol...follow the ramble]
The chorus behind Rudder is ALWAYS the Alumni Choir...regardless of who it really is..i think I heard them do this song once...it brought me to Tears..[I cry too damn much .maybe cause I'm Pisces..hahaha]. I see faces I know..and know me..And the music just seems Elevated here..
Ever Rudder..
More than Music and Melody..
Its like a Psalm..
Cooling to the senses..
He refers DIRECTLY to me..
Reverence to all the things that make MY Existence important and beautiful, My TRIN-BAGONIAN existence..
Thank you Rudder..
You restore me..
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Now playing: David Rudder - Song for a Lonely Soul
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