Songs to make your heart sing (part III): I'm gonna do it all

Ever since I took part in Hilda Carroll's 'songs to make your heart sing' I've been haunted by songs that do just that.

I came across a new song yesterday.  Driving north and west through the sunshine and showers of the west highlands.  Listening to the Tom Morton show, flickering on and off the radio as I lost reception in the depths of a glen, or when Glasgow and Shetland lost their digital connection.  He played a song by Karine Polwart called 'I'm gonna do it all'.

It was one of those songs that made you sing out loud.  Made you feel fired up and passionate and angry.  Made me think of people I knew who had that fire in their belly to do it all.  People who'd got set back, knocked back by fate, by ill health, by circumstance.  Who were still fighting, struggling, demanding with every breath to do it all.

Which made my eyes fill with tears.

Funny that, how the songs that make your heart sing are the ones that break it too.

Anyway, enough of the emotion, here's a snippet of the amazing lyrics, and a link to a starburst of the song: I'm gonna do it all some day.

I’m gonna fly in a silver winged space rocket
I’m gonna pick out the stars and put them in my pocket
I’m gonna bring those stars back down
So I can spread celestial light around
I’m gonna do it all some day

Dedicated to everyone who's going to bring those stars back down, and do it all some day.

Comments

[Scott McArthur]

It's great to hear such a nice song and the words are amazing! Weird that you mention Tom Morton as well. Tom was an inspiration to me a few years ago as I set out (with my mate in Auz) to help people remember the old Glasgow Apollo (www.glasgowapollo.com).

I was actually on his show once and he is as nice a chap as they come.

http://www.inthewilderness.com/apollo/index.asp?s_id=3&m_id=5

[Joanna Young]

Hi Scott

I always like to find connections - always something to learn from them, about ourselves, about each other, about the stuff that holds the world together...

Thanks for the link on the Apollo. I'd wondered about your mybloglog profile but never got as far as clicking through to find the connection before. It looks like a good project to be taking forward.

Joanna