The Daily Boost #716

Try defying gravity + BONUS

Let this funk version of “Defying Gravity” get you moving!

Beneath the lyrics (excerpts only), I offer a bonus video that’s somewhat different from my usual Daily Boosts. It’s a recent segment from the PBS NewsHour that concerns music’s impact on health. Especially fascinating to me is the finding that the benefits of music-making (whether instrumental or vocal) are amplified when the music is made with others. Maybe the segment will interest you, too.

DEFYING GRAVITY
Stephen Lawrence Schwartz

Something has changed within me
Something is not the same
I'm through with playing by the rules
Of someone else's game

Too late for second-guessing
Too late to go back to sleep
It's time to trust my instincts
Close my eyes and leap

It's time to try defying gravity
I think I'll try defying gravity
Kiss me goodbye, I'm defying gravity
And you can't pull me down

I'm through accepting limits
'Cause someone says they're so
Some things I cannot change
But till I try, I'll never know

Too long I've been afraid of
Losing love I guess I've lost
Well, if that's love, it comes at much too high a cost

I'd sooner buy defying gravity
Kiss me goodbye, I'm defying gravity
I'm defying gravity
And you can't pull me down . . .

Unlimited 
My future is unlimited  . . .

So if you care to find me
Look to the western sky
As someone told me lately
"Everyone deserves the chance to fly" . . .


(My thanks to the songwriter, Third Reprise, and Amanda Barise.)

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Your Bonus Boost

(My thanks to Jeffrey Brown, Renee Fleming, and Francis Collins, via PBS NewsHour.)

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