[PetitMortVampyre]

Now, while its a given I am stuck in the 70s, and I love my alternative bands, and celtic music, etc... I also love country (more the 90s than anything since 2001.. as that was when the fellow my heart may partially belong to til I am dead... and I broke up)

However, dummy me is sitting here listening to music on my computer... and up came a song that got me thinking (yes, smoke rises again) and I wanted so bad to share it here.... So, dammit, I will, cause thats just how I am!!!

The song is beautiful and when I 1st heard it, I thought of my childhood... I was teased not just for my name, but for the fact that at the age of 7 (and 2nd grade-I was born end of December so I was the oldest in class as I didn't *qualify* to go into 1st grade on time*) I had hit puberty. 5 ft tall, 100 lbs and most of it my uh, front end.... (hey the car humour works now) So I was fighting from the get go. I mean no 6th grader was built like me, hell none of the teachers either come to think of it. I have since had a reduction... cause my back was literally curving.. sadly I never got to be the ballerina I wanted to be, by the time the doctors agreed it was NOT cosmetic for a child!!!! Mind you they didn't tell me the damn things would grow back.. no where near what they were but still a backache! MY EYES ARE UP HERE!!!!!!!!!!

It also reminds me, my son was the smallest in class (didn't take after mom there) and he had to fight too. <sighs> And my ex husband, was seriously picked on by his brothers and the hell cat that I am, defended him, and they don't like me, cause I had a backbone, oh how hurt my feelings are... well they were then, now I don't give a damn.

So read the lyrics, and if you can, find the song online (I am sure you can hear it without *stealing* it). Its a wonderful song, and for those of you that are saps like me... here is a tissue!!!!

I'm a little boy with glasses
The one they call the geek
A little girl who never smiles
'Cause I've got braces on my teeth
And I know how it feels
To cry myself to sleep

I'm that kid on every playground
Who's always chosen last
A single teenage mother
Tryin' to overcome my past
You don't have to be my friend
But is it too much to ask

Don't laugh at me
Don't call me names
Don't get your pleasure from my pain
In God's eyes we're all the same
Someday we'll all have perfect wings
Don't laugh at me

I'm the cripple on the corner
You've passed me on the street
And I wouldn't be out here beggin'
If I had enough to eat
And don't think I don't notice
That our eyes never meet

I lost my wife and little boy when
Someone crossed that yellow line
The day we laid them in the ground
Is the day I lost my mind
And right now I'm down to holdin'
This little cardboard sign...so

Don't laugh at me
Don't call me names
Don't get your pleasure from my pain
In God's eyes we're all the same
Someday we'll all have perfect wings
Don't laugh at me

I'm fat, I'm thin, I'm short, I'm tall
I'm deaf, I'm blind, hey, aren't we all

Don't laugh at me
Don't call me names
Don't get your pleasure from my pain
In God's eyes we're all the same
Someday we'll all have perfect wings
Don't laugh at me
MARK WILLIS-DON'T LAUGH AT ME

Love, Light and Laughter
Corvette.

This post has been edited by PetitMortVampyre: 06 October 2007 - 08:01 PM

[dave420atya]

Sorry, I just don't do country or sad songs. Don't hate me for being a dedicated rocker, or should I say deadicated.
Did't a little girl sing that song?

[Joed]

I know that song...it's a good one. Along the same line, I also like "Moments".

Having full body casts and back braces when in school didn't help me to blend in either, so I know from whence you're coming from.

This post has been edited by Joed: 06 October 2007 - 09:59 PM

[darrel]

sorry, I can't say that I have heard this song, but I did have feelings for the lyrics. I commend you on your choice

This post has been edited by darrel: 07 October 2007 - 12:19 AM