I've only just learned that Dan Fogelberg died yesterday of prostate cancer, at the age of 56. Fogelberg was a unique and innovative talent who filled our lives with so many great songs. I almost became his personal assistant in 1980, but I didn't take the job because I was a single mom, and the job meant a lot of travel. I for one will miss him. My warmest thoughts and prayers go out to his family and friends.
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The music of Dan Fogelberg is the soundtrack of my college years. I loved him.
Ack! I didn't know. I love his music. That's so depressingly young.
"Longer" was Jim's and my song when we first got together and the Fogelberg tape was a staple on long car trips that Jim, Nicki and I took. He will be remembered.
"Netherlands" was an aria to me. Before I recognized that I have an operatic soul, Dan was singing my epitaph.
High on this mountain
The clouds down below
I'm feeling so strong and alive
From this rocky perch
I'll continue to search
For the wind
And the snow
And the sky
I want a lover
I want some friends
And I want to live in the sun
And I want to do all
the things that I
never have done.
Sunny bright mornings
And pale moonlit nights
Keep me from feeling alone
Now, I'm learning to fly
And this freedom is like
Nothing that I've ever known
I've seen the bottom
[ Lyrics found at www.mp3lyrics.org/GY4 ]
And I've been on top
But mostly I've lived in between
And where do you go
When you get to the end of
your dream?
Off in the nether lands
I heard a sound
Like the beating of heavenly wings
And deep in my brain
I can hear a refrain
Of my soul as she rises and sings
Anthems to glory and
Anthems to love and
Hymns filled with early delight
Like the songs that the darkness
Composes to worship the light.
Once in a vision
I came on some woods
And stood at a fork in the road
My choices were clear
Yet I froze with the fear
Of not knowing which way to go
One road was simple
Acceptance of life
The other road offered sweet peace
When I made my decision
My vision became my release.
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Ack! I didn't know. I love his music. That's so depressingly young.
"Longer" was Jim's and my song when we first got together and the Fogelberg tape was a staple on long car trips that Jim, Nicki and I took. He will be remembered.
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