MUSIC MONDAY #2 - STOP LOVING YOU by ToTo

I usually listen to cool and lite jazz, but there are times that I prefer upbeat music, sometimes dance music, sometimes head-banging or sometimes (like this time) foot tapping.

ToTo is one of my favorites, and a few months back my 4 year old finally came across their music and just simply fell in love with some of them. Now she's addicted to them. She had them uploaded in her MP and you can see her moving with the beat (even pretending to use drumsticks) and hear her sing out louder than supposed to be since she's wearing her headsets and not hearing herself mumble words not really so. I hear this song often and so decided to get the lyrics and sing them with her. Now she almost get all of the words right ;) Thus, this week I will be sharing with you what my Anya sings all the time...I can say I even have LSS (last song syndrome) with the constant playing.

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STOP LOVING YOU by ToTo
Reflections in my mind, thoughts I can't define
My heart is racing and the night goes on
I can almost hear a laugh, coming from your photograph
Funny how a look can share a thousand meanings
Well-intended lies, contemplating alibies
Is it really you, or is it me I'm blaming
A distant memory flashes over me
Even though you're gone, I feel you deep inside
Dance beneath the light with that look in your eyes

Chorus:
I can't stop loving you, time passes quickly and chances are few
I won't stop till I'm through loving you, girl

There's a window in a heart, I've tried to look through from the start
You're never really sure what someone else is thinking
Someone's broken something new, another altered point of view
Just a certain someone's conscience playing
I held it in my hand, I did not understand
What lives inside the wind that cries her name
Tried to catch a shooting star, what seems so close can't be that far
I'm living in a dream that's never ending

Dance beneath the light with that look in your eyes

Chorus:
I can't stop loving you, time passes quickly and chances are few
I won't stop till I'm through loving you, girl

(Instrumental break)

Dancing with that look that's in your eyes

Chorus:
I can't stop loving you, time passes quickly and chances are few
I won't stop till I'm through loving you, girl

Chorus:
I can't stop loving you, time passes quickly and chances are few
I won't stop till I'm through loving you, Loving you

FUNNY ARGUMENT

Can't help but hide my smile last night when I heard my 4 year old having having a hushed argument with her 17 year old carer as they listen to her MP5. I was just hearing bits and pieces of what they are whispering about but I know it's about the lyrics of some song my little one asked me to upload for her. (If you have read my previous post at my at-a-blink blog, you would have known that her favorite singer is TOTO.)

Anyway, a few minutes later she was beside me and her uncle at the dining asking " i bless the rains in africa, right? RAINS not RAIN?". We actually were stunned for a while thinking what really is it. She is definite that it is "rains" with an S as opposed to her yaya's "rain". We're not sure, and so I promised her to look it up...and here it is:

AFRICA by Toto
I hear the drums echoing tonight
But she hears only whispers of some quiet conversation
She's coming in 12:30 flight
The moonlit wings reflect the stars that guide me towards salvation
I stopped an old man on the way
Hoping to find some long forgotten words or ancient melodies
He turned to me as if to say,
"Hurry boy, it's waiting there for you"

Chorus:
It's gonna take a lot to drag me away from you
There's nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do
I bless the rains down in Africa
Gonna take some time to do the things we never had
The wild dogs cry out in the night
As they grow restless longing for some solitary company
I know that I must do what's right
As sure as Kilimanjaro rises like Olympus above the Serangetti
I seek to cure what's deep inside, frightened of this thing that I've become
(Chorus)
Hurry boy, she's waiting there for you
It's gonna take a lot to drag me away from you
There's nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do
I bless the rains down in Africa, I bless the rains down in Africa
I bless the rains down in Africa, I bless the rains down in Africa
I bless the rains down in Africa
Gonna take some time to do the things we never had


"ANYA YOU'RE RIGHT, IT IS RAINS!"

Haha. Funny how such matters to a 4 year old, and funnier still is it is a song most kids do not even know about. And it's just ONE amongst many adult songs she sings.