Nobody said, “Don’t stop dreaming.”
To my knowledge no elected official, minister of a church, dentist, doctor, school teacher or police officer will ever say, “Don’t stop believing…”
Although Steve Perry and Neal Schon are credited for sucking the wind out of the universe to come up with the unending reminder to never stop believing; the total process of this songs reality required the entire band.
Percussionist Steve Smith built the pattern around several tom-toms which heightened the presence of newcomer Jonathan Cain’s fingers lightly placed on keys that unlock deeper wishes held tightly inside the American dream.
Before the chorus ignites the horizons we were born to chase Perry shares, “Working hard to get my fill, everybody wants a thrill. Payin anything to roll the dice, just one more time. Some will win, some will lose; some were born to sing the blues. Oh the movie never ends, it goes on and on and on.”
Don’t stop believing…
Your car may one day run out of gas with no means to refill. Your child’s school could close forcing education into the alleys of everyday survival. Food lines take shape in places where happiness once grew and in the shadows a ray of light becomes the lyrics a poet holds while aimlessly chasing mirages on a long drawn out highway taken over by plant life.
Don’t stop believing…
From the ashes that brought purples mountain majesty to a standstill inside Yellowstone National Park arose the virgin stem of an extremely determined lodge pole pine that wasted no time to share its fingerprint with a passerby. Chief Joseph of the Nez Pierce Nation grew tired only when time placed his people on a trail that would change the seven generations that would follow his passion to protect all living things.
Don’t stop believing…
Thick skin is earned. Those fifty stars featured next to thirteen red and white stripes will forever preserve the loyalty, determination, dedication and perseverance of the pioneers before us. Now it’s our time to lead, to succeed, to take from the chunks of concrete that lay freely on a surface beamed by our ancestors as being unstoppable and make it a foundation for the future to stand on.
Don’t stop believing…
What we do today. How we react, ignore, turn from and fight against will without a doubt affect or infect every level of the family tree waiting to chase the light the sun shall bring. No day will pass that the sun won’t rise in the east and rest in the west. No day will occur longer or shorter than twenty four hours. Everyday you might have to push a little bit harder challenging the curve in your aging back to reach its breaking point but in the end there’ll be reason for doing what you’ve set out to accomplish; a set of eyes staring back from a mirror that comes with no judgment only words of wonder, “Did you believe?”
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