Happy Easter!

My Easter gift to you this year is Inspiration.

…Hopefully. The ugly egg is what you get if you don’t take Inspiration.

As I was uploading a video to my YouTube channel (which, incidentally, seems to be turning into a shrine to Bernadette Peters) I was listening to this song. Someone requested that I upload it, so as I was doing so I listened to the song. Now, I haven’t heard it in a while, and it’s from a wonderful musical Into the Woods (by Stephen Sondheim). The song is called No One is Alone (I believe it’s sung by Cinderella to Little Red Riding Hood) and has some of the most wonderful lyrics I’ve ever heard in a song. I heard these words and felt positively inspired. Not to do anything more than write a blog about it, mind you, but still – inspiration is inspiration! Absolutely beautiful words to go with an absolutely beautiful song. And – truly – words to live by.

No one here to guide you;
now you’re on your own.
Only me beside you -
still, you’re not alone.
No one is alone. Truly.
No one is alone.

Sometimes people leave you halfway through the world,
others may deceive you.
You decide what’s good.
You decide alone.
But, no one is alone.

People make mistakes;
Fathers, Mothers -
people make mistakes,
holding to their own,
thinking they’re alone.

Honor their mistakes
(everybody makes),
one another’s terrible mistakes;
Witches can be right.
Giants can be good.
You decide what’s right.
You decide what’s good.

Just remember:
Someone is on your side. Someone else is not.
While you’re seeing your side, maybe you forgot:
They are not alone.
No one is alone.

Hard to see the light now…
Just don’t let it go.
Things will turn out right now,
we can make it so.

Someone is on your side -

No one is alone.

The performance is Bernadette Peters at her famous concert a few years back at Royal Festival Hall London. I love the way she uses vowels. GENIUS.

Oh, and P.S. – I love that I tagged this post as both “Inspirational” and “Wasting Time.” HAhaha!!

Well, you know what? You decide. But be warned: You decide alone.

:P LOL

1. Candide Live on Broadway (2005)
2. A Lion Called Christian
3. Robert Palmer, Sparkling Wine, and Friday Decisions
4. Handel-Halvorsen Passacaglia
5. Are you SERIOUS?