Words and Musichttp://www.jennyweber.com/words-and-music/en-US2008-08-20T21:51:45ZSquarespace Site Server v5.0.0 (http://www.squarespace.com/)THIShttp://www.jennyweber.com/words-and-music/2008/4/2/this.htmlJennifer Weber2008-04-02T17:34:11ZThis
Blessed throbbing redundancy
Faintly cautious harmony
And steamy cant of sloe eyes
Softening a fierce and instant aura
This
Relevant incendiary modernity
Unfragile ageless mien
And curving lyric of a lip
Lush and precious real estate
This
Is and ever will be you
]]>Lifehttp://www.jennyweber.com/words-and-music/2008/1/14/life.htmlJennifer Weber2008-01-14T16:01:35ZA crust of bread and a corner to sleep in,
A minute to smile and an hour to weep in,
A pint of joy to a peck of trouble,
And never a laugh but the moans come double;
And that is life!

A crust and a corner that love makes precious,
With a smile to warm and tears to refresh us;
And joy seems sweeter when cares come after,
And a moan is the greatest of foils for laughter;
And that is life!

~Paul Laurence Dunbar

]]>Because I Love Youhttp://www.jennyweber.com/words-and-music/2008/1/3/because-i-love-you.htmlJennifer Weber2008-01-03T04:56:14ZBaby I don't think I'm gonna do
The things your hands make me want to
But if I did decide to go that way
The one that I'd surrender to is you
Because I love you.
Because I love you ...
For you I'd swim into the deep
For you I'd lose what I can't keep
For you I'd color outside the lines
For you I'd turn around on a dime
Darlin' I don't think that I should say
What I want to when you look at me that way
But if I ever say those fateful words
The only one I'll say them to is you
Because I love you.
Because I love you ...
For you I'd hold back the tide
For you I'd go back to the dark side
For you I'd smile that knowing smile
For you I'd walk that extra mile
Honey I don't think that I should see
The places you seem to want to take me
Because I'd leave a lot behind it's true
But if I change my mind I'll go with you
Because I love you.
Because I love you ...
For you I'd taste forbidden fruit
For you I'd take an alternate route
For you I'd chase that rainbow down
For you I'd forfeit any crown
Baby I don't think I'll learn that song
That tries to make a right out of a wrong
But if I knew you wanted me to sing it
No force on earth could ever silence me
Because I love you.
Because I love you ...
In your arms is paradise for me
In your eyes I see all I want to see
In your heart is the soul of my creed
In your hand is all the joy I need
Because I love you.
]]>XCIIhttp://www.jennyweber.com/words-and-music/2007/11/16/xcii.htmlJennifer Weber2007-11-16T12:36:18ZBut do thy worst to steal thyself away,
For term of life thou art assured mine,
And life no longer than thy love will stay,
For it depends upon that love of thine.
Then need I not to fear the worst of wrongs,
When in the least of them my life hath end.
I see a better state to me belongs
Than that which on thy humour doth depend;
Thou canst not vex me with inconstant mind,
Since that my life on thy revolt doth lie.
O, what a happy title do I find,
Happy to have thy love, happy to die!
But what's so blessed-fair that fears no blot?
Thou mayst be false, and yet I know it not.

]]>I Have A Dreamhttp://www.jennyweber.com/words-and-music/2007/11/13/i-have-a-dream.htmlJennifer Weber2007-11-13T01:39:17ZI have a dream, a song to sing
To help me cope with anything
If you see the wonder
Of a fairy tale
You can take the future
Even if you fail

I believe in angels
Something good in everything I see
I believe in angels
When I know the time is right for me
I’ll cross the stream -- I have a dream

I have a dream, a fantasy
To help me through reality
And my destination
Makes it worth the while
Pushing through the darkness
Still another mile

I believe in angels
Something good in everything I see
I believe in angels
When I know the time is right for me
I’ll cross the stream -- I have a dream
I’ll cross the stream -- I have a dream
]]>CXVI.http://www.jennyweber.com/words-and-music/2007/11/3/cxvi.htmlJennifer Weber2007-11-03T16:16:41ZLet me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come:
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.
]]>LXXXIV.http://www.jennyweber.com/words-and-music/2007/11/3/lxxxiv.htmlJennifer Weber2007-11-03T16:07:10ZWho is it that says most? which can say more
Than this rich praise, that you alone are you?
In whose confine immured is the store
Which should example where your equal grew.
Lean penury within that pen doth dwell
That to his subject lends not some small glory;
But he that writes of you, if he can tell
That you are you, so dignifies his story,
Let him but copy what in you is writ,
Not making worse what nature made so clear,
And such a counterpart shall fame his wit,
Making his style admired every where.
You to your beauteous blessings add a curse,
Being fond on praise, which makes your praises worse.

]]>LXXXVI.http://www.jennyweber.com/words-and-music/2007/11/2/lxxxvi.htmlJennifer Weber2007-11-02T14:28:38ZWas it the proud full sail of his great verse,
Bound for the prize of all too precious you,
That did my ripe thoughts in my brain inhearse,
Making their tomb the womb wherein they grew?
Was it his spirit, by spirits taught to write
Above a mortal pitch, that struck me dead?
No, neither he, nor his compeers by night
Giving him aid, my verse astonished.
He, nor that affable familiar ghost
Which nightly gulls him with intelligence
As victors of my silence cannot boast;
I was not sick of any fear from thence:
But when your countenance fill'd up his line,
Then lack'd I matter; that enfeebled mine.

~W.S.~

]]>In Memoriam A.H.H. (Excerpt)http://www.jennyweber.com/words-and-music/2007/10/28/in-memoriam-ahh-excerpt.htmlJennifer Weber2007-10-28T01:56:52ZDear friend, far off, my lost desire,
So far, so near in woe and weal;
O loved the most, when most I feel
There is a lower and a higher;

Known and unknown; human, divine;
Sweet human hand and lips and eye;
Dear heavenly friend that canst not die,
Mine, mine, for ever, ever mine;

Strange friend, past, present, and to be;
Loved deeplier, darklier understood;
Behold, I dream a dream of good,
And mingle all the world with thee.

Thy voice is on the rolling air;
I hear thee where the waters run;
Thou standest in the rising sun,
And in the setting thou art fair.

What art thou then?  I cannot guess;
But though I seem in star and flower
To feel thee some diffusive power,
I do not therefore love thee less:

My love involves the love before;
My love is vaster passion now;
Though mixed with God and Nature thou,
I seem to love thee more and more.

Far off thou art, but ever nigh;
I have thee still, and I rejoice;
I prosper, circled with thy voice;
I shall not lose thee though I die.

~Alfred, Lord Tennyson~

]]>How Do You Keep The Music Playinghttp://www.jennyweber.com/words-and-music/2007/10/25/how-do-you-keep-the-music-playing.htmlJennifer Weber2007-10-25T00:50:27ZLyrics by Alan Bergman / Marilyn Bergman / Michel Legrand

How do you keep the music playing?
How do you make it last?
How do you keep the song from fading too fast?

How do you lose yourself to someone
And never lose your way?
How do you not run out of new things to say?

And since you know we're always changing,
How can it be the same?
And tell me how year after year
You're sure your heart will fall apart
Each time you hear his name?

I know the way I feel for you is now or never
The more I love, the more that I’m afraid
That in your eyes I may not see forever ... forever

If we can be the best of lovers
Yet be the best of friends
If we can try with every day
To make it better as it goes
With any luck then I suppose
The music never ends.

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