He Lives in the Moment - VOCALS
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A few words about my dad…
Here’s the remix. I’ve included FLAC files that are dry and with FX. WORDS He lives in the moment When he’s happy, his face lights up His eyes glow When he’s concerned, overwhelmed, distraught His entire being is devastated He lives in the moment One moment Now If it happened 2 minutes ago It didn’t happen at all There is no future But there is a past He can time-travel to a foggy memory Pride fills in missing pieces But it’s real to him It’s the truth And maybe it really is the truth And what we thought we knew never was And now we’ll never know He lives in the moment Distracted by strangers, he gawks Captivated, lost in thought I try to bring him back Often resorting to waving my hand in his face Repeating “Dad? Dad? Dad?” over and over Even then, it’s hard to redirect him He’s stuck with curiosity He’s lost in the moment He lives in the moment Music transports him to the past Whisking him away He sings along He makes up his own songs He has a boom box and CDS of the Beatles, Simon and Garfunkel, and Joni Mitchell And classical recordings of Beethoven, Mozart, and Bach He comes alive when he hears these sounds But he doesn’t remember to push play He lives in the moment Repeating questions Repeating stories Each evening feels like the movie ‘Groundhog Day’ Never-ending lessons of patience But often He repeats the sweetest things possible Love, admiration, gratitude And I feel like the luckiest daughter With the kindest father He lives in the moment Sometimes he’s aware, lucid He’ll talk about his memory He’ll say he doesn’t remember anything But he’ll never forget me I want believe it’s true I cry, he cries Sometimes it’s a question he asks “Do you think my memory is going bad?” I say “yes.” Silence. Sometime he’ll say that not remembering isn’t so bad He’s happy I want to believe it And maybe he really is Because he lives in the moment.
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"He Lives in the Moment - VOCALS"
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