"SWIM" -- I'm Swimming!!

Sometimes you hear songs or see music videos that instantly strike a nerve or make an impression on you.  I think that's all the more true when you're facing something that's not the norm for your life.  I know, for me, that's the case.  Whether it's sitting in church and singing those old hymns that I've probably sung hundreds of times in my life or whether it's a new song that I've just heard for the first time, I find myself really concentrating on the words of the song and finding some application to my present life.  I guess facing your own mortality does that.

Tonight, through an online support group that I've become a member of, I heard the song "SWIM" performed by the rock band Jack's Mannequin (who, quite frankly, I've never heard of before) and whose lead singer/pianist/song writer is a guy named Andrew McMahon who was diagnosed with leukemia in 2005.      As someone fighting cancer, I can SO relate to this song.  I've gotta swim!!

Hope you enjoy the music video and that you will find inspiration in it, too, in whatever circumstances you are facing.  We all face trials in our lives -- some more than others.  Hopefully, we will all remember to "SWIM." 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sA8PaIw5gcE

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(Song Lyrics copied below.)

"You gotta swim
Swim for your life
Swim for the music that saves you
When you're not so sure you'll survive."

"You gotta swim
And swim when it hurts
The whole world is watching
You haven't come this far
To fall off the Earth"

"The currents will pull you
Away from your love
Just keep your head above"

"I found a tidal wave
Begging to tear down the dawn
Memories like bullets
They fired at me from a gun
Cracking the armour, yeah"

"I swim for brighter days
Despite the absense of sun
Choking on salt water
I'm not giving in
I swim"

"You gotta swim
Through nights that won't end
Swim for your family, your lovers
Your sisters and brothers and friends"

"Yeah you gotta swim
For wars without cause
Swim for these lost politicians
Who don't see their greed is a flaw"

"The currents will pull us
Away from our love
Just keep your head above"

"I found a tidal wave
Begging to tear down the dawn
Memories like bullets
They fired at me from a gun
Cracking the armour, yeah"

"I swim for brighter days
Despite the absense of sun
Choking on salt water
I'm not giving in
I'm not giving in
I swim"
"You gotta swim
Swim in the dark
There's no shame in driftin'
Feel the tide shifting
And wait for the spark"

"Yeah you gotta swim
Don't let yourself sink
Just find the horizon
I promise you it's not as far as you think"

"The currents will drag us away from our love
Just keep your head above

Just keep your head above
Swim

Just keep your head above
Swim

Just keep your head above
Swim."


Rachel