Daddy speaks to me though music ...
January 24
Up until a few years ago or so I would always avoid intentionally listening to a certain Luther Vandross song. I don't remember or not if Luther was a regular artist my parents would listen to during our family lake trips or BBQs... But I remember that night I got the call that I would no longer see my dad on this side this Luther Vandross song was playing on the radio as I drove to meet detectives at the hospital. I barely listened to the words as I drove to meet my mom and siblings but I knew everytime I heard that song after that night it brought me to tears and I never wanted to hear it. Fast forward about 5 years later (yes I had been avoiding the song that long) my oldest daughter and I were driving home from her daycare and that song came on the radio, I immediately changed the radio station. My daughter 4 at the time began to "scold" me a little and she says " why did you turn off that song, that's paw paws song" I'm shocked because I had never told anyone let alone my little girl about this song and why I didn't want to hear it whenever it was played. My spirit told me then, that night when you heard that song on the radio that was your daddy telling you he loves you
My dad loved him some Anita Baker...I remember as kids when we would all pile up in his Blue Lincoln that he kept on so clean lol. He would always keep the radio on 106.5 it was a jazz station back when I was younger. Anita Baker Sweet Love and other classics would always be playing. One song in particular that I remember and I've grown to love is Been So Long. I recently had the pleasure of attending one of her concerts and she explained she wrote that song when she first got to LA to begin her journey as an artist. She explained her feelings of hopelessness and how she felt isolated and alone but knew she had to keep pressing on. Anytime I long for my dad I play that song. The part where she says
I think you take for granted
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My dad loved him some Anita Baker...I remember as kids when we would all pile up in his Blue Lincoln that he kept on so clean lol. He would always keep the radio on 106.5 it was a jazz station back when I was younger. Anita Baker Sweet Love and other classics would always be playing. One song in particular that I remember and I've grown to love is Been So Long. I recently had the pleasure of attending one of her concerts and she explained she wrote that song when she first got to LA to begin her journey as an artist. She explained her feelings of hopelessness and how she felt isolated and alone but knew she had to keep pressing on. Anytime I long for my dad I play that song. The part where she says
I think you take for granted
I'll always be here just because I love you It doesn't mean I won't disappear...I'm reminded of the words my dad would always say to us "your day is a coming" I'm not gonna be here forever so you better get it together... And towards the end of the song she says "won't you come home, see about me...
...come See about me... I feel like that's my dad wanting me to talk with him❤️.. especially on the days I'm just really struggling with his absence.
I've added those songs to this tribute and although the artists intentions probably weren't to make a song singing to your children,more like a significant other or something if you just listen and take a word or phrase or two..or just listen to the melody you too would be able to feel the spirit through the melody.
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