You Gotta See This!

In 1957, the year I was born, Ewan MacColl wrote a folk song called "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face". It would later become a signature song for Roberta Flack, and was also recorded by Celine Dion, Johnny Cash and Leona Lewis. It's a beautiful song that says "The first time ever I saw your face, I thought the sun rose in your eyes, and the moon and stars were the gifts you gave". I have felt that way 3 times in my life, first when I looked into my wife's eyes, then when my daughter was born, and most recently when my granddaughter was born. We see God when we look into the eyes of those we love.

Today's blog (4th in the series about the FIVE SENSES) is about SIGHT. Vision plays such a big role in songs, I believe, because "Seeing is Believing". Like a familiar melody, we immediately recognize "A Face in the Crowd". Think about when you are waiting for friends or family to arrive at the airport. In a big herd of people, you can instantly see them. Many people, and many songs, make reference to Love at First Sight. Because love is the subject of multitudes of songs, it is understandable that the songwriter would tell us about the first time they saw their loved one, or about wanting/needing to see them again.

A lot of songs are written while songwriters are away from their loved ones, while they are on tour for example, and those songs express their loneliness (often in a crowd) and their desire to see their love again. "See You Later, Alligator" wrote Billy Haley & The Comets. "See You Soon" sang Coldplay. And "See You Later, See You Soon" wrote Stephen Kellogg & The Sixers. A standard from the Great American Songbook is "I'll Be Seeing You", which tells us that the singer will be "seeing" their loved one in "all the familiar places" eventhough they are apart.

Hank Williams and Todd Rundgen each wrote a different song called "I Saw The Light". George Strait admits "I Saw God Today", looking into a baby's eyes. Many of us feel that way, George. The Beatles also saw a lot: "I've Just Seen A Face", "You Won't See Me" and "I Saw Her Standing There". So did Creedence Clearwater Revival: "Have You Seen The Rain?", "Long As I Can See The Light" and "Lookin' Out My Back Door".

Like Miley Cyrus, let me say "See You Again".

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