Sing Your Heart Out

Transcript

This is how your life is already wonderful.

I was just thinking about singing your heart out.

The other night I went to karaoke with my friend Chris Guida and we decided to sing some songs and get up on stage and do some performances and gosh it feels good to have those eyes on you and sing your heart out and show something special. Show something of yourself, something real.

I remember so many times people have said this to me in different forms, David Robinson told me he was on a cruise and they had a karaoke competition. I think he told me he did Bohemian Rhapsody.

Every singer was rated on their singing ability and their entertainment quality and he got the lowest score for the technical talent and the highest score for entertainment.

Or some people say you get up there and maybe you are drunk and maybe you don’t hit every note but when you put the passion of course people are engaged, people are captured by what you are showing of yourself.

Of course it’s better to have the technical skill to go along with the passion but its the passion that counts so much.

I decided to get up and sing My Way the Frank Sinatra’s English version and I love this song because there are parts in there, especially a few lines:

For what is a man, what has he got?
If not himself, then he has naught
To say the things he truly feels
And not the words of one who kneels

This is something that yes, it resonates deep within me like yes, you tell the truth. You have seen the things you truly feel. That is something that is so wonderful, so powerful, so potent in this life.

I noticed a lot of people at this Mexican karaoke bar in downtown Guadalajara Lafayette I guess… Americana I guess.

My friend Bere told me the other week “we’re Mexicans, we put salt and lime on everything including our heartaches”. You listen to these songs and so many of them are about heartbreak in one way or another and everyone has their little twist. Some are more healthy than others.

Thats the warning.

When we get up there or when we even listen to music and these things go into us perhaps even at a subconscious level and we don’t realize the lyrics that we are letting into our minds.

Like a form of programming if we are not conscious about how we are choosing where we are programming our programming.

So there’s this song “Yo ya no vuelvo contigo”.

I’m not getting back with you again and its kind of tragic because it’s like the guy is singing to the woman like “The truth is I regret having ever met you and what I want is that you leave, just tell me how much I have to pay and I will give it in cash.”

That’s harsh, that’s really harsh and really nasty just imagine the kind of person that would think like that to say those type of things.

There’s another song which is one of the healthiest of these breakup or heartache songs, the one that came up was Selena’s “No me queda más”.

No me queda más
Que perderme en un abismo de tristeza y lágrimas

There’s nothing left. I will lose myself in an abyss of sadness and tears.

You can tell this song isn’t the most positive but there is something very sweet about this song which is where she says “I know you have denied that we ever had love, that there was ever anything between us but now we are just friends and pretending nothing ever happened.”

“But for me that was the greatest love of my life” which is really sweet because it speaks about the validity of our own experience. Even if someone gaslights us, even if the world tells us that something isn’t true and we know it in our hearts, that is ours and can never be taken away from us.

So that’s beautiful. That’s the first time I ever heard that song in karaoke and now I know almost all the lyrics.

It’s dangerous because after practicing that song so much I felt the heartache and was rubbing that salt and lime on my heartache, right?

But there’s another song I want to sing next time. I don’t think anyone’s sang it but it’s this lovely song its called Oye like listen.

Oye, abre tus ojos, mira hacia arriba
Disfruta las cosas buenas que tiene la vida

So it’s like listen, open your eyes, look above and enjoy the good things that life has to offer.

This is this really sweet song where the verses are just describing little scenes or scenarios of walking or seeing a horse passing by with chariot. This horse is in no rush.

In the song it says:

Que no corra por dinero

Like this horse wouldn’t even run if you paid him.

And it’s a really sweet and happy song and the message is to be aware of the songs that we sing, the stories we tell ourselves and the things that we glorify because those things sing into our identity and if we’re not careful we might choose the things that perpetuate our suffering rather than embrace and enjoy our pain and move forward into greater happiness.

Thanks for listening and have a wonderful day.