Up With People

♥ YA MUSIC OUTREACH WORLD TOUR 2007 ♥

Thank you's all around: The homestays, the high school staff, the choir director and his secretary, the elementary school principals who worked through the meap obstacle, the chaperones, the food, the chronicle, the auditorium manager, the parents, the workshop participants, the 400+ who attended the 4pm show, the former & present YA's, the moms, the car pools, and the YA organization! I've never been prouder to be from

OUR TOWN!

I've heard it said ~ That people come into our lives for a reason

Bringing something we must learn ~ And we are led

To those who help us most to grow ~ If we let them

And we help them in return ~ Well, I don't know if I believe that's true

But I know I'm who I am today ~ Because I knew you:

Like a comet pulled from orbit ~ As it passes a sun

Like a stream that meets a boulder ~ Halfway through the wood

Who can say if I've been changed for the better? ~ But because I knew you

I have been changed for good

It well may be ~ That we will never meet again

In this lifetime ~ So let me say before we part

So much of me ~ Is made of what I learned from you

You'll be with me ~ Like a handprint on my heart

And now whatever way our stories end ~ I know you have re-written mine

By being my friend: ~ Like a ship blown from its mooring

By a wind off the sea ~ Like a seed dropped by a skybird

In a distant wood ~ Who can say if I've been changed for the better?

But because I knew you: ~ I have been changed for good.

"For Good" from the musical Wicked
"Give Me One Reason" by Tracy Chapman