One last video post from YouTube for awhile....promise

Ok, as the title of this post states, this is one final video from YouTube that I wanted to share. A quick background on this song which I found out...this song was written by Melanie Safka after she performed at Woodstock in '69. She was inspired to write this because everybody in attendance were in such a joyful, peaceful mood. After a rainstorm during Woodstock, the attendees began lighting candles, and according to Melanie, it was a very beautiful sight.

Anyway, enjoy. Read along with the lyrics. I'm sorry, but I don't have a bouncing red dot to guide you through the lyrics.



Melanie "Lay Down (Candles In The Rain)"
Lay down lay down
Lay it all down
Let your white birds smile up
At the ones who stand and frown
Lay down lay down
Lay it all down
Let your white birds smile up
At the ones who stand and frown

We were so close there was no room
We bled inside each others' wounds
We all had caught the same disease
And we all sang the songs of peace

Lay down lay down
Lay it all down
Let your white birds smile up
At the ones who stand and frown
Lay down lay down
Lay it all down
Let your white birds smile up
At the ones who stand and frown

So raise the candles high
'Cause if you don't we could stay
Black against the night
So raise them higher again
And if you do we could stay dry against the rain

[Chorus:]

We were so close there was no room
We bled inside each others' wounds
We all had caught the same disease
And we all sang the songs of peace

Some came to sing
Some came to pray
Some came to keep the dark away
So raise the candles high
'Cause if you don't we could stay
Black against the night
So raise them higher again
And if you do we could stay dry against the rain

[Chorus (repeat)]