I promise you we won't be like the others We won't go running for cover

Artist of the day - Ben Platt
Song of the day - Rain

Since the world might be ending or feels that way...and we are all
(hopefully) trapped in our homes for a bit, I thought it might be the perfect
time for my psychological well being to bring back an old past time of mine as
we wait to see what the future holds. What better way to count these days of
"self distancing" than by song? And since when I'm not alone with my
thoughts I'm (crosses fingers, masked) in an ER face deep in possible Covid, I
need something to take my mind away from the pandemic. So let's see what the
soundtrack to a viral outbreak might sound like.

Today's song I really became obsessed with specifically by the video...more
specifically by Ben Platt's absurd solo dancing that I can't get enough
of.  Here I thought I only wanted Platt singing to me on a Broadway stage
through buckets of tears and spit as we both uncontrollably cried in public for
2.5 hrs    (see Dear Evan Hansen).

But right now, something about the video and song speaks to this thing
inside of us that is in the middle of all this despair but can still choose to
be hopeful. And sure maybe we need to dance solo at a gas station to get
there. So here's to the broken yet still hopeful and open and solo dancers, this one's for you.



You say you've been through this before

You gave away all your secrets

To someone who up and left you in pieces

I know the feeling, believe me

I know the prices you've gotta pay

I'm sacrificing my freedom

And all just to get somebody to see me

Nobody said it was easy

My heart's been broken and broken and broken and broken

But I keep, keep on hoping and hoping and hoping and hoping

That if it keeps on breaking and breaking and breaking and breaking

Them one day it'll open and open and open and open and open for you

Hey!

I know we've both been afraid

But we can't run from the wind and the thunder

When we're dancing under the rain, the rain, the rain

Hey!

I know we got what it takes

Ain't gonna run from the wind and the thunder

When we're dancing under the rain, the rain, the rain

We're dancing under the rain

Breathe deep, let it wash over you

We're slowly becoming lovers

I promise you we won't be like the others

We won't go running for cover

My heart is broken and broken and broken and broken

But I keep, keep on hoping and hoping and hoping and hoping

That if it keeps on breaking and breaking and breaking and breaking

Then one day it'll open and open and open and open and open for you

Hey!

I know we've both been afraid

But we can't run from the wind and the thunder

When we're dancing under the rain, the rain, the rain

Hey!

I know we got what it takes

Ain't gonna run from the wind and the thunder

When we're dancing under the rain, the rain, the rain

We're dancing under the rain

Broken and broken and broken and broken (we're dancing under the rain)

But I keep, keep on hoping and hoping and hoping and hoping (dancing under the rain)

That if it keeps on breaking and breaking and breaking and breaking

Then one day it'll open and open and open and open and open for you (oh)

Hey!

I know we've both been afraid

But we can't run from the wind and the thunder

When we're dancing under the rain, the rain, the rain

Hey!

I know we got what it takes

Ain't gonna run from the wind and the thunder

When we're dancing under the rain, the rain, the rain

We're dancing under the rain

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