Deborah Crooks: Music

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My father was a World War II vet and eventually would die in a Vet's Hospital.  During that time of visiting him in the hospital, I reflected a lot on how much the war had defined his life, even though he fought when he was only 18years old and lived many war-free years afterward. Likewise, nearly every many in my family had fought in some sort of war (my dad's side going back to the Civil War; my mother's having lived through many battles in Croatia). My heart was heavy with this as well as the fact of my dad's passing when I traveled to New York some six weeks after he died to do a yoga workshop with teacher who was visiting from India. Three days into my workshop, the morning of Sep. 11, 2001,  me and my classmates walked out of the studio to see the World Trade Towers falling in the immediate wake of a terrorist attack. I ended up staying in New York city, to practice with my teacher despite the smoke and chaos and wrote this song shortly after my return to California.

Dream Me from the 2003 release "5 Acres"

There's fighting all around

I here it in the sound of traffic,

TV news and war plane

I want to believe we can all be free

not running away from each other's hearts

Chorus:

Dream me

I'll dream you

Somehow, we'll make it through

There's fog over the bridge

that I want to build

to span the divide

between me and you

We've been through it all

taken every fall

let's hope we can learn

from all those mistakes

Chorus

I've known fear well

lived under its spell

I've walked alone

with all of my doubt

just take my hand

I'll try and understand

what it's like

to live in your skin

 

Chorus