2011 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog.

Here’s an excerpt:

The concert hall at the Syndey Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 11,000 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 4 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.

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This Time With You

THIS TIME WITH YOU

Music, Lyrics and Vocal Arrangement by Paulo K. Tirol

I take a breath and close my eyes,
And slow my world down for just a while,
And in the stillness, I feel You before me.
I let myself go, and open my heart to You

Pre-chorus:
In this special time.
With You, in this secret time.
With You, in this sacred time.
I can’t help but fall in love
In this time with You.

Refrain:
I love this time with You.
Only You,
Cause no one else could know me better,
No one else’s heart is closer,
No one’s whispers wake such wonder as Yours do.
And nothing else can make me stronger,
Nothing fills my heart with fire.
Nothing but our time together, me and You.
How I love this secret, sacred time with You.

Your arms so strong are my strength too.
Your tight embrace says “I’m with you.”
Your touch so gentle says through all that’s changing.
Through whens, wheres and whys,
The one thing that’s sure is You

(Pre-chorus and refrain)

Your heart to mine, we converse in the silence
Where so much is said wordlessly.
Lost in Your rapture, I gladly surrender,
Letting Your love move in me
With this time with You

(Refrain)

How I love this secret, sacred time
How I love this secret, sacred time
How I love this secret, sacred time with You.

Beautiful In My Eyes

Lucky

Do you hear me,
I’m talking to you
Across the water across the deep blue ocean
Under the open sky oh my, baby I’m trying
Boy I hear you in my dreams
I feel your whisper across the sea
I keep you with me in my heart
You make it easier when life gets hard

I’m lucky I’m in love with my best friend
Lucky to have been where I have been
Lucky to be coming home again

They don’t know how long it takes
Waiting for a love like this
Every time we say goodbye
I wish we had one more kiss
I’ll wait for you I promise you, I will

I’m lucky I’m in love with my best friend
Lucky to have been where I have been
Lucky to be coming home again
I’m lucky we’re in love in every way
Lucky to have stayed where we have stayed
Lucky to be coming home someday

And so I’m sailing through the sea
To an island where we’ll meet
You’ll hear the music, feel the air
I’ll put a flower in your hair
Though the breezes through trees
Move so pretty you’re all I see
As the world keeps spinning round
You hold me right here right now

I’m lucky I’m in love with my best friend
Lucky to have been where I have been
Lucky to be coming home again
I’m lucky we’re in love in every way
Lucky to have stayed where we have stayed
Lucky to be coming home someday

Love Never Fades, Love Never Fails

If I speak with the tongues of the earth, if the angels fill my mouth,
yet do not have love, I am but a sound.
If I prophesy and understand all things, if mountains shake by my faith,
without love I am nothing at all.

Refrain:
Love is patient; love is kind. Love rejoices in the truth.
It bears all things, believes all things,
it hopes all things, endures all things.
Love never fails.

If I give away everything I own, give my body to be burned,
yet do not have love, I gain nothing more. Prophecies will cease;
tongues will be silent. Knowledge will be no more, the partial pass away.

When I was a child, I talked, thought, and live like a child.
But now that I have grown, I have put these things aside.
My knowledge is imperfect now, then I’ll know as I am known:
that faith, hope and love remain, and the greatest of these is love.