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Seriously, HERE is the Sheryl Crow song, Out Of Our Heads that is apparently causing much stir on radio stations afraid to play it claiming its too political and controversial – ARE THEY SERIOUS (or SIRIUS?) The message is a positive one just asking people to basically think with your heart, and not your head and stand up to the fear running rampant in the world – essentially a choose peace over war theme song, so WHAT is wrong with that?! Here’s the video and lyrics below:

Out Of Our Heads

Lyrics: Bottrell/Crow Music: Bottrell

If you feel you wanna fight me
There’s a chain around your mind
When something is holding you tightly
What is real is so hard to find

Losing babies to genocide
Oh where’s the meaning in that plight
Can’t you see that we’ve really bought into
Every word they proclaimed and every lie, oh

If we could only get out of our heads, out of our heads
And into our hearts
If we could only get out of our heads, out of our heads
And into our hearts

Someone’s feeding on your anger
Someone’s been whispering in your ear
You’ve seen his face before
You’ve been played before
These aren’t the words you need to hear

Through the dawn of darkness blindly
You have blood upon your hands
All the world will treat you kindly
But only the heart can understand, oh understand

If we could only get out of our heads, out of our heads
And into our hearts
Children of Abraham lay down your fears, swallow your
tears and look to your heart

If we could only get out of our heads, out of our heads
And into our hearts
Children of Abraham lay down your fears, swallow your
tears and look to your heart

Every man is his own prophet
Oh every prophet just a man
I say all the women stand up, say yes to themselves
Teach your children best you can

Let every man bow to the best in himself
We’re not killing any more
We’re the wisest ones, everybody listen
‘Cause you can’t fight this feeling any more, oh anymore

If we could only get out of our heads, out of our heads
And into our hearts
Children of Abraham lay down your fears, swallow your
tears and look to your heart

If we could only get out of our heads, out of our heads
And into our hearts
Children of Abraham lay down your fears, swallow your
tears and look to your heart

I had tagged along to see KT Tunstall open up for Sheryl Crow and expecting a mellow, ok kind of show BUT instead was pleasently surprised to see both of these talented ladies put on awesome performances with only a couple ‘pop ballads’ throughout the night – these women can rock live! Their voices sounded great and powerful and both know how to play guitar like nobody’s business.

While I enjoyed the familiar songs like ‘Other Side of the World’ from KT and ‘A Change Will Do You Good’ from Sheryl, it was the songs I had not heard before from each that surprised me like Sheryl Crow’s ‘Motivation’ that helped to keep me moving and warm through an otherwise very chilly night (ALL you weather people are SO FIRED!).

To sum up the night in two words – Absolute Awesome!

Note to Molson Amphitheatre people – you guys REALLY need to workout the parking issues – at $20 per car there is NO reason we should be stuck waiting over 30 minutes to LEAVE the lot and just idling away – pure bullshit, hire the staff and work it out! That alone would make me reconsider EVER seeing another show at this venue.

Subnote: Oddly enough, 2+6=8 – the power of eight continues yet again…

Seeing Melanie C, especially in a club venue, was absolutely amazing! She was a great sport and really embraced the crowd who brought in various home made props and even blew bubbles during a few of her songs. Such a great energy and her voice sounds amazing live – the hilarity was how open the Phoenix was in allowing everyone to film & take pictures and throughout the show all I saw was cameras, cell phones and even a couple video cameras! Argh! Curses for not bringing mine, but as my friend said the memory of the event is in my mind … and my heart *sigh*….

Here’s a great interview of Mel on The Hour that talks not only about her career but also her views on the music industry – she knows her stuff!:

 

Thursday, May 8 I’m going to catch Melanie C (yes, the former Sporty Spice Girl) live in Toronto at the Phoenix Concert Theatre [link]. The venue is a club (ie not seating) and tickets are still available for about $40 (after extra charges) – so why not come on down and join me? 

Since splitting from the Spice Girls in ‘99, she’s proven she has far more talent and diversity, with millions of album sales and multiple hit single later, her range of piano ballads to guitar-laden rock coupled with great song writing and an awesome voice – can all be described in one word, ‘brilliant!‘. Mel has quickly became another favourite in my music collection.

She’s touring in support of This Time, (though officially launching in North America last month, I’ve been listening to it since its UK debut last year) the 4th album from one of Britain’s most successful female performers – to find out more check our her official website.

This will be an awesome night! – the ‘power of eight‘ continues…

Finally got to go for a run after missing them for a couple weeks (working waaay too much!) and realized I’m now passed 300 km! (for Sparta!!! sad I know, couldn’t resist)

I think a new challenge will be to see how many km I can run per month? Well that and getting my speed back down again – a few months off and have lost so much!