{"id":54,"date":"2004-11-10T11:17:24","date_gmt":"2004-11-10T10:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/?p=54"},"modified":"2011-03-08T08:49:13","modified_gmt":"2011-03-08T08:49:13","slug":"i-hope-you-dance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/11\/10\/i-hope-you-dance\/","title":{"rendered":"I Hope You Dance&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I thought I&#8217;d start posting lyrics that I really like. It&#8217;s always bothered me that song lyrics are never afforded the same respect as poetry gets. The first two are topical as they hasve both been covered by Ronan Keating, and are either on release now or about to be! Strange.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>I Hope You Dance<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Lee Ann Womack<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I hope you never lose your sense of wonder,<br \/>\nYou get your fill to eat but always keep that hunger,<br \/>\nMay you never take one single breath for granted,<br \/>\nGOD forbid love ever leave you empty handed,<br \/>\nI hope you still feel small when you stand beside the ocean,<br \/>\nWhenever one door closes I hope one more opens,<br \/>\nPromise me that you&#8217;ll give faith a fighting chance,<br \/>\nAnd when you get the choice to sit it out or dance.<\/p>\n<p>I hope you dance&#8230;.I hope you dance.<\/p>\n<p>I hope you never fear those mountains in the distance,<br \/>\nNever settle for the path of least resistance<br \/>\nLivin&#8217; might mean takin&#8217; chances but they&#8217;re worth takin&#8217;,<br \/>\nLovin&#8217; might be a mistake but it&#8217;s worth makin&#8217;,<br \/>\nDon&#8217;t let some hell bent heart leave you bitter,<br \/>\nWhen you come close to sellin&#8217; out reconsider,<br \/>\nGive the heavens above more than just a passing glance,<br \/>\nAnd when you get the choice to sit it out or dance.<\/p>\n<p>I hope you dance&#8230;.I hope you dance.<br \/>\nI hope you dance&#8230;.I hope you dance.<br \/>\n(Time is a wheel in constant motion always rolling us along,<br \/>\nTell me who wants to look back on their years and wonder where those years have gone.)<\/p>\n<p>I hope you still feel small when you stand beside the ocean,<br \/>\nWhenever one door closes I hope one more opens,<br \/>\nPromise me that you&#8217;ll give faith a fighting chance,<br \/>\nAnd when you get the choice to sit it out or dance.<\/p>\n<p>Dance&#8230;.I hope you dance.<br \/>\nI hope you dance&#8230;.I hope you dance.<br \/>\nI hope you dance&#8230;.I hope you dance..<br \/>\n(Time is a wheel in constant motion always rolling us along<br \/>\nTell me who wants to look back on their years and wonder where those years have gone<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3 class='related_post_title'>Related Posts:<\/h3><ul class='related_post'><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/archives\/2021\/02\/07\/the-storm-a-teen-and-a-musical-poem\/\" title=\"The Storm &#8211; A Teen, and a musical poem.\">The Storm &#8211; A Teen, and a musical poem.<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/archives\/2010\/06\/21\/happy-now\/\" title=\"Happy Now\">Happy Now<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/archives\/2010\/04\/18\/park-life\/\" title=\"Park Life\">Park Life<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/archives\/2010\/01\/16\/thats-entertainment\/\" title=\"That&#8217;s Entertainment\">That&#8217;s Entertainment<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/05\/21\/tell-me-your-secrets-and-ask-me-your-questions\/\" title=\"Tell me your secrets, and ask me your questions.\">Tell me your secrets, and ask me your questions.<\/a><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought I&#8217;d start posting lyrics that I really like. It&#8217;s always bothered me that song lyrics are never afforded the same respect as poetry gets. The first two are topical as they hasve both been covered by Ronan Keating, and are either on release now or about to be! Strange. I Hope You Dance &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/11\/10\/i-hope-you-dance\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I Hope You Dance&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1,10,5],"tags":[228],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-lyrics","category-music","tag-lyrics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pwn4r-S","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":892,"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions\/892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}