Day: September 2, 2017

Song Lyric Sunday — Breath

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This week’s Song Lyric Sunday theme is “breathing/breath.”

The song I chose, “You Take My Breath Away,” was written by Freddie Mercury and was recorded by Queen. It was released in 1976 on the album “A Day at the Races.”

This song is allegedly about Freddie Mercury’s female lover Mary Austin, who he lived with for six years and remained friends with until his death in 1991. Austin and Mercury split up in 1980 when Mercury decided he preferred male partners. Upon his death, Mercury left Austin his house in London.

Ooh ooh ooh ooh
Ooh ooh
Ooh ooh ooh take it take it all away
Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh take my breath away ooh
Ooh ooh ooh ooh
Ooh you take my breath away

Look into my eyes and you’ll see
I’m the only one
You’ve captured my love
Stolen my heart
Changed my life
Every time you make a move
You destroy my mind
And the way you touch
I lose control and shiver deep inside
You take my breath away

You can reduce me to tears
With a single sigh
(Please don’t cry anymore)
Every breath that you take
Any sound that you make
Is a whisper in my ear
I could give up all my life for just one kiss
I would surely die
If you dismiss me from your love
You take my breath away

So please don’t go
Don’t leave me here all by myself
I get ever so lonely from time to time
I will find you
Anywhere you go, I’ll be right behind you
Right until the ends of the Earth
I’ll get no sleep till I find you to tell you
That you just take my breath away

I will find you
Anywhere you go
Right until the ends of the Earth
I’ll get no sleep till I find you to
Tell you when I’ve found you
I love you

Written for this week’s Song Lyric Sunday prompt.

Climate Change

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This is not supposed to happen here. The high temperature in San Francisco yesterday was 106 degrees. That broke the old record of 103 for the city. And the previous high for San Francisco on September 1st was a mere 90 degrees in 1952.

According to the National Weather Service, this highly unusual heat wave is supposed to continue through Labor Day. In fact, they said today may be even hotter than yesterday, possibly setting a new record high temperature for the City by the Bay.

Worst of all, like most residences in this typically cool city, my house is not air conditioned. Not even a single room air conditioner. Just a few ceiling fans. And when the temperature outside reaches 106 degrees, all ceiling fans do is circulate hot air. It’s not much cooler inside a home with no air conditioning than it is outside.

Well, hopefully this heat wave will abate in a few days and San Francisco can get back to its more typical high temperatures in the mid- to upper-sixties at this time of the year.

Written for today’s one-word prompt, “continue.”

SoCS — Nothing is Certain

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You’ve heard that old saying, “In this world, nothing can be said to be certain except birth, death, and taxes.” I believe it was Benjamin Franklin who said that, but I’m not 100% positive. So I’m going to Google it to be sure. Be right back.

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Okay, I’m back. Turns out I was right about who said it, but wrong about what he said. What Ben actually said was, “In this world, nothing can be said to be certain except death and taxes.”

I misremembered what Franklin said. The word “birth” was not in his quote. He only said “death” and “taxes.”

Well, that really screws up my response to this week’s Stream of Consciousness Saturday prompt, which was to write a post using the word “birth.”

But wait. Leaving out “birth” doesn’t make any sense to me. You can’t pay taxes or die if you were never born, right? You need to exist in order to pay taxes. You need to exist in order to cease to exist. Hence, you need to have been born in order to deal with the certainties of death and taxes. You get my point, right?

Oh well. He’s Ben Franklin. He’s one of our Founding Fathers. So even though he missed “birth” as one of life’s certainties, I suppose we need to give him a wide berth.

Written for today’s Stream of Consciousness Saturday prompt from Linda G. Hill. We are supposed to write a prompt using the words “birth” and/or “berth.”