{"id":46091,"date":"2014-10-13T07:00:36","date_gmt":"2014-10-13T14:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/?p=46091"},"modified":"2014-10-13T13:05:33","modified_gmt":"2014-10-13T20:05:33","slug":"everything-to-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2014\/10\/13\/everything-to-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Music Monday: Everything to me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s song is one of my old-time favourite, Mark Schultz. Mark was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.godtube.com\/watch\/?v=J0FFFCNU\" target=\"_blank\">given up for adoption as a baby<\/a>\u00a0and this\u00a0is the song he wrote to his birth mother:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"860\" height=\"484\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OPYaRJOWznk?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><em>I must have felt your tears<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\"><em>When they took me from your arms<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\"><em>I&#8217;m sure I must have heard you say goodbye<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\"><em>Lonely and afraid had you made a big mistake<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\"><em>Could an ocean even hold the tears you cried<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><em>But you had dreams for me<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\"><em>You wanted the best for me<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\"><em>And you made the only choice you could that night<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><em>[Chorus]<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\"><em>You gave life to me<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\"><em>A brand new world to see<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\"><em>Like playing baseball in the yard with dad at night<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\"><em>Mom reading Goodnight Moon<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\"><em>And praying in my room<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\"><em>So if you worry if your choice was right<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\"><em>You gave me up but you gave everything to me<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><em>And if I saw you on the street<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\"><em>Would you know that it was me<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\"><em>And would your eyes be blue or green like mine<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\"><em>Would we share a warm embrace<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\"><em>Would you know me in your heart<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\"><em>Or would you smile and let me walk on by<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\"><em>Knowing you had dreams for me<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\"><em>You wanted the best for me<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\"><em>And I hope that you&#8217;d be proud of who I am<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><em>And when I see you there<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\"><em>Watching from heaven&#8217;s gates<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\"><em>Into your arms<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\"><em>I&#8217;m gonna run<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\"><em>And when you look in my eyes<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\"><em>You can see my whole life<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\"><em>See who I was<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\"><em>And who I&#8217;ve become<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s song is one of my old-time favourite, Mark Schultz. Mark was given up for adoption as a baby\u00a0and this\u00a0is the song he wrote to his birth mother: I must have felt your tears When they took me from your arms I&#8217;m sure I must have heard you say goodbye Lonely and afraid had you made a big mistake Could<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2496],"tags":[232,2810,1334,2634,1728,1601],"class_list":["post-46091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-abortion","tag-adoption","tag-choice","tag-mark-schultz","tag-pro-choice","tag-pro-life"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46091"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47664,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46091\/revisions\/47664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}