Music, Music, Music

I can't put into words my families love (really obsession) with music. My earliest memories are of my Dad and his HUGE vinyl collection, playing albums ranging from the Beatles, Boz Skaggs, Creedence Clearwater Revival and Neil Young, to name a few. Trouper feels just the same and our relationship has been centered around our mutual love for music. In high school, Trouper and his family moved away from West Texas to Atlanta. During the year he was gone (he came back to Texas as soon as he turned 18) we wrote one another long, heartfelt letters and he always included a mixed tape. Yes, a cassette tape and on those cassette tapes he introduced this country girl to bands like the The Cure, REM and even The Moody Blues. Over the years, we have had a couple of songs we called "our song"; Eric Clapton's "Wonderful Tonight" and Dave Matthews Band "You and Me". Each one holds a special place in our hearts and will always bring a tear to my eye as I remember a special time in our life together.

Over the course of Trouper's "sleeping", one of the night nurses said that the hospital had music channels over the television system and gave the okay for us to turn it on for him. I was certain Trouper would appreciate this much more than us singing to him, I know he was probably itching to wake up and tell us to shut it up, we were killing his ears! So on Wednesday night, we turned the television on to the classic station, and within a few minutes, his stats went haywire and he became agitated. The nurse let it go on for a few hours but ultimately decided the stimulation was too much for him and turned off the music. I knew he wasn't truly agitated and was probably just wanting to wake up and ask us to either a)turn it up or b)turn the station because he didn't like the current song. Whichever of the two, it didn't matter, it let me know that he was still there, wanting to wake up and talk about music. And, just like Dave Matthews says, together, we can do anything and we would, as long as we have each other!

                                                         "You And Me"

Wanna pack your bags, Something small
Take what you need and we disappear
Without a trace we'll be gone, gone
The moon and the stars can follow the car
and then when we get to the ocean
We gonna take a boat to the end of the world
All the way to the end of the world

Oh, and when the kids are old enough
We're gonna teach them to fly

You and me together, we could do anything, Baby
You and me together yes, yes [x2]

You and I, we're not tied to the ground
Not falling but rising like rolling around
Eyes closed above the rooftops
Eyes closed, we're gonna spin through the stars
Our arms wide as the sky
We gonna ride the blue all the way to the end of the world
To the end of the world

Oh, and when the kids are old enough
We're gonna teach them to fly

You and me together, we could do anything, Baby
You and me together yes, yes

We can always look back at what we did
All these memories of you and me baby
But right now it's you and me forever girl
And you know we could do better than anything that we did
You know that you and me, we could do anything

You and me together, we could do anything, Baby
You and me together yeah, yeah
Two of us together, we could do anything, baby
You and me together yeah, yeah
Two of us together yeah, yeah
Two of us together, we could do anything, baby