Tin Man
A well-written song will always work on my emotions. Miranda Lambert’s song “Tin Man” is one of those. It is a great concept and a simple structure with no real chorus except the ooohs. She speaks of being broken-hearted and wishing she didn’t even have a heart. Then, the final verse expresses her desire to…
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Lest We Forget
A portion of “Recessional,” a poem by Rudyard Kipling, composed in 1897. God of our fathers, known of old—Lord of our far-flung battle line—Beneath whose awful hand we hold Dominion over palm and pine—Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, Lest we forget—lest we forget! The tumult and the shouting dies—The Captains and the…
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“But Oz never did give nothing to the Tin Man that he didn’t, didn’t already have. . . . So please believe in me. . .” (“Tin Man” by America; written in 1974 by Dewey Bunnell.) The Tin Man is a fictional character in the American fairy-tale, The Wizard of Oz. The Tin Man is…
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