Oh Crap! – Musings of an Unperfect Mommy

Music Monday – Shower The People

January 18, 2021

It has been a rough month. My mother became ill and died two weeks ago. We also had two major house repairs – one right before and one right after Christmas. I’ve been spending a lot of time with a lot of people and yesterday everything just came to a head and I just lost sense of everything. I treated people I care about badly which means apologies are in order.

Tonight I was thinking about everything and trying to make sense of what I know, what I don’t know, and how I feel about it all. That’s when this song came to mind – Shower The People by James Taylor. It’s a song from 1976 which was when I was living in London and I’d like to say I heard it there first but it may not have been until the summer of 1977 when we came back to the States. This one definitely makes me cry every time I hear it.

It’s a simple song really – instead of bleeding out so to speak when your heart has been broken, lashing out when angry and not making up just shower the people you love with love. This means apologizing when wrong and not taking things personally forever when you’ve been made a fool of or had your heart broken.

This resonates with me right now because I guess I just couldn’t take anymore yesterday. On top of that I assumed some things that weren’t entirely true and threw a bunch of people under the bus to other people. This is going to require some major apology and patch up. Whether or not I totally trust certain people in my life, I still have an obligation right now to get along with them so some things can get done.

So, feeling like a true fool, I offer you this song. Heed it’s message people because life truly is short. My mother was 85 when she passed away which is a good long life. Unfortunately, I let too many things stand in the way of our relationship and now it’s too late. So – make up with the people you can, tell your children or parents you love them, put your pride aside and just do it before the opportunities slip by.

You can play the game
And you can act out the part
Though you know
It wasn’t written for you
Tell me how can you stand there
With your broken heart
Ashamed of playin’ the fool?

One thing can lead to another
It doesn’t take any sacrifice
Oh, father and mother
Sister and brother
If it feels nice
Don’t think twice

Just shower the people you love with love
Show them the way that you feel
Things are gonna work out fine if you only will do as I say

Shower the people you love with love
Show them the way that you feel
Things are gonna be much better
If you only will

You can run but you cannot hide
This is widely known
Now what you plan to do with your foolish pride
When you’re all by yourself alone

Once you tell somebody
The way that you feel
You can feel it beginning to ease
I think it’s true what they say
About the squeaky wheel
Always getting the grease

Better to
Shower the people you love with love
Yes and show them the way that you feel
I know things are gonna be just fine
If you only will, what I like to do to you

Shower the people you love with love
Show them the way that you feel
Things are gonna be much better, if you only wil

Shower the people you love with love
Show them the way you feel
Shower the people you love with love
Show them the way that you feel

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January 18, 2021

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