Blog Challenge Day 2: Favorite Song

Coming off the Christmas Season (as my tree remains in the living room) I'm going to pick "Celebrate Me Home" by Kenny Loggins. It is the first song playing on my play list: turn on your speakers, turn off any other music, pour a diet coke (or drink of choice), listen to the words and you won't be sorry.

I heard this song many, many moons ago...and have always liked it. Just one of those that stuck - you know?!? I'm a lover of piano music. I love the simple instrumentals in the song. I love Kenny's voice - pure, real, and I secretly pretend he is singing to me and my beloved (where ever he is). I love the words of the song....CELEBRATE....one of my favorite actions in the world: celebrate someone, something, or simply celebrate life. HOME.... my favorite places in the world: the home I pay for and the true home I've always known 187 miles from my garage.

For me as a sassy single, my holidays have always included going to my Home, Celebrating at Home, and being surrounded by so many I love and those that love me. I do celebrate the Home that has given me so much, and most importantly the woman behind that Home. I know I'm a lucky one...not everyone has a home, memories from their home, or is presented with enough time to spend as much time as I do. I've always known Home to be a place of celebration. I love walking thru that black door and hearing Mother say, "Hellloooo." I treasure it each and every time. I have a black door, too.

Even without a family of my own (as in one for my very own Tiny Prints Christmas Card), I've celebrated so many in this home. I've wanted The Weymouth to be just that ...a place of celebration for others, me, and for those to come. Maybe that's why I go party crazy at Christmas (if you were wondering - I hosted SEVEN from Nov 30-Dec 18), jump at the chance to celebrate someone within these walls (bridal shower coming for LAB in April), or love a get together for no reason at all other than life itself.

I also love the length of this song...over 4 minutes. You know when you really love a song you just want to keep hearing the chorus and medley to go with it.

I'll end this post with one of the Hallmark Hall of Fame moments I create in my head: I can just imagine this song playing as a handsome someone (who "she" thought wasn't coming) comes thru the door of the Christmas Eve Celebration and meets eyes with her. He hugs her and they start dancing forgetting anyone else is at the celebration surrounding them. The End. [note: this comes from YEARS of Lifetime Movies, Romantic Comedies, and Hallmark Hall of Fame viewings - not healthy.]

The LYRICS
I'm going home today,
i believe me I've missed each and every face,
get there and play my music,
Turn on every love light in the place

It's time I found myself,
Totally surrounded in that circles
Oh,my friends

Please, celebrate me home,
Give me a number,
please, celebrate me home
Play me one more song,
That I'll always remember,
I can recall
whenever I find myself too all alone,
I can sing me home.

Uneasy highway,
Traveling where the Westerly winds can fly,
Somebody tried to tell me,
But the man forgot to tell me why,

I gotta count on being gone,
Come on mama, come on daddy,
Be what you want me as
I'm this strong, I'll be weak

Please, celebrate me home,
Give me a number,
please, celebrate me home
Play me one more song,
That I'll always remember,
I can recall,

whenever I find myself too all alone,
I can make believe I've never gone.

Please, celebrate me home,
Give me a number,
please, celebrate me home
Play me one more song,
...
Play me one more song,
Hey,
somebody said,
celebrate me home
i cant, wait to see ya,

i can't, wait to hold you,
you know i miss you, yeah.

come on and,
Celebrate, celebrate, celebrate me home,
Celebrate, celebrate, celebrate me home,

Well you know I'm finally here,
And you don't have to worry,
no,no...
no no no no no no

So come on and celebrate, celebrate, celebrate me home.