to ... Get It Right ..&.. to be Strong Enough

So, I'm watching a whole bunch of Glee music videos with my daughter and she's telling me who's who and I'm trying to learn who isn't who, as well as put faces to the voices and names that I have so often heard about from her. We're on YouTube and just randomly exploring the suggested videos in the right margin. I'm not a huge Glee fan but my daughter is and has been to the point that she has their music on her cell phone and a rotation of wallpaper images for her laptop.

I really enjoy how they take so many "old" songs and create their own up-to-date theatrical versions. Many of the songs they sing can really bring back some memories. From songs like "ABC", originally by the Jackson 5, to their mash-up version of Duran Duran's "Hungry Like The Wolf/Rio". With the recent passing of one of my great personal favorite singers, Whitney Houston, I felt especially very appreciative of their versions of her earlier songs. Then, we reached a song I've heard my daughter play before but this song, as I learned today, is actually a Glee Original song called "Get It Right".

As we watched Rachel singing, I was listening to the lyrics and I can't say the exact part of the song that did it, but my eyes started welling up with tears. I've asked myself these questions on several occasions through out my life.

[CHORUS]
What can you do when your good isn't good enough?
When all that you touch tumbles down?
'Cause my best intentions keep making a mess of things
I just wanna fix it somehow
But how many times will it take?
Oh, how many times will it take for me
To get it right

There are so many phrases in this song that really hit home for me. Can anyone else relate?

There's a different non-glee song that is trying to come to my mind that has a similar phrase in the lyrics but I can't seem to think of it just now. Uhmm...Lemme come back to this....

Complete lyrics to the song is below the video player:






Get It Right lyrics

What have I done? I wish I could run.
Away from this ship going under
Just trying to help, hurt everyone else
Now I feel the weight of the world is
On my shoulders

What can you do when your good isn't good enough?
When all that you touch tumbles down?
'Cause my best intentions keep making a mess of things
I just want to fix it somehow
But how many times will it take?
Oh, how many times will it take for me?
To get it right
To get it ri-igh-ight

Can I start again with my faith shaken?
'Cause I can't go back and undo this
I just have to stay and face my mistakes
But if I get stronger and wiser
I'll get through this

What can you do when your good isn't good enough?
When all that you touch tumbles down?
...
But how many times will it take?
Oh, how many times will it take for me?
To get it right

[Bridge]
So I throw up my fist
Throw a punch in the air
And accept the truth, that sometimes life isn't fair
Yeah, I'll send out a wish
Yeah, I'll send up a prayer
And finally, someone will see
How much I care

What can you do when your good isn't good enough?
When all that you touch tumbles down?
Oh, my best intentions keep making a mess of things
I just wanna fix it somehow
But how many times will it take?
Oh, how many times will it take?
To get it right
To get it ri-igh-ight.

Lyrics source:
http://www.elyrics.net/read/g/glee-cast-lyrics/get-it-right-lyrics.html


Going back to the song that these lyrics was reminding of - I had blogged about this particular song before but I believe it was a private/friends-only blog on a different site a number of years ago. Any who, the song is by Stacie Orrico and it's called "Strong Enough". The questions that are similar in this song are:

Will my scars forever ruin God's plan?
~~~ and ~~~
Please can I have one chance to start again?

Complete lyrics on screen:



I believe the two songs are telling us to be strong, have faith, & to not give up on ourselves. No matter how much we mess up, as long as we continue to *DESIRE* to try again and to HO`OPONOPONO (make right) things in our lives, eventually life will work itself out in the end.


~*~ Jeremiah 29:11 ~*~
"For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." (NIV)

Me ke Aloha nui,
~-FLOW+~

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