# Realizations about songs **URL:** \ **Category:** Movies/TV/Book/Music/Etc\ **Created:** [May 24, 2021, 12:36am UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/realizations-about-songs/3000 "2021-05-24T00:36:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![soyleche](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/soyleche/32/42_2.png) [@soyleche](https://community.goactuary.com/u/soyleche)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2021, 1:07am UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/realizations-about-songs/3000/41 "2021-07-16T01:07:55Z")
I didn’t care about the spelling - people would figure out who I was referring to. ---
**Author:** ![Marcie](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/marcie/32/8789_2.png) [@Marcie](https://community.goactuary.com/u/Marcie)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2021, 1:11am UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/realizations-about-songs/3000/42 "2021-07-16T01:11:48Z")
Do we still have that :oyh: smiley? ---
**Author:** ![soyleche](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/soyleche/32/42_2.png) [@soyleche](https://community.goactuary.com/u/soyleche)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2021, 1:13am UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/realizations-about-songs/3000/43 "2021-07-16T01:13:54Z")
I understand - I just don’t particularly care. ---
**Author:** ![IPD](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/ipd/32/179_2.png) [@IPD](https://community.goactuary.com/u/IPD)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2021, 4:11am UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/realizations-about-songs/3000/44 "2021-07-16T04:11:54Z")
> [@twig93](#): > > Also been to two where the first dance song was “I Will Always Love You” which has an appropriate-seeming title, until you realize that it’s actually a break-up song Meh, my first dance song wasn’t about love but we liked it and it sounded nice. We also requested our band play songs that are more anti-love/breakup themed during the reception because they were some of our favorite songs. I think a lot of people know the real meaning of songs but don’t care because they like them anyway. ---
**Author:** ![OldTimer](https://community.goactuary.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/o/8797f3/32.png) [@OldTimer](https://community.goactuary.com/u/OldTimer)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2021, 1:59pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/realizations-about-songs/3000/45 "2021-07-16T13:59:54Z")
> [@Actuary321](#): > > On Sunday the 5th of July, we sang patriotic hymns during the service. (And LDS service) Often they will use the Star Spangled Banner as one of the hymns during the service as it is in the hymnal. This year they didn’t but the first hymn played in the postlude as people are milling about leaving the chapel heading to Sunday School class and such was … you got it, the Star Spangled Banner. I wasn’t sure what I was supposed to do. There is no flag in the chapel so I didn’t feel the need to put my hand over my heart, though upon further research maybe I should have. [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/JHWBxazG6pA/hqdefault.jpg "U S Army reservist stops pole vault mid attempt when he hears national anthem Rio 2016 YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHWBxazG6pA) ---
**Author:** ![soyleche](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/soyleche/32/42_2.png) [@soyleche](https://community.goactuary.com/u/soyleche)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2021, 8:31pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/realizations-about-songs/3000/46 "2021-07-26T20:31:52Z")
A couple more patriotic songs that have been on my mind for some reason: A verse from America the Beautiful: > [@](#): > > Oh beautiful for heroes proved > In liberating strife > Who more than self, their country loved > And mercy more than life This seems mostly to be talking about people fighting in wars and what not. Why “mercy”? I mean, I don’t know if they love mercy or not, but when I think of qualities of a soldier, “is a big fan of mercy” doesn’t come to mind. ---
**Author:** ![soyleche](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/soyleche/32/42_2.png) [@soyleche](https://community.goactuary.com/u/soyleche)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2021, 8:36pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/realizations-about-songs/3000/47 "2021-07-26T20:36:29Z")
Then there’s a song one of the directors of the choir I sing with wrote. Like most patriotic songs, it’s a real cheesefest, but it’s mostly all right: [![](https://community.goactuary.com/uploads/default/original/3X/d/6/d6bd7759e3c7ac053cefdc80b29728b885d5dd69.jpeg "To Be American") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tdg2vKKORTg) First lines: > [@](#): > > Our fathers fought the fight that gave us liberty. > Our mothers sewed the flags that wave for you and me. It’s sad that he couldn’t find anything better for mothers than “sewed flags”. If you want a traditional mother thing, something like “taught children sitting on their knee” is right there (of course, in better meter than I can do off the top of my head). ---
**Author:** ![dr\_t\_non-fan](https://community.goactuary.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@dr\_t\_non-fan](https://community.goactuary.com/u/dr_t_non-fan)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2021, 10:14pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/realizations-about-songs/3000/48 "2021-07-26T22:14:18Z")
> [@soyleche](#): > > Our mothers sewed the flags that wave for you and me. “Foreign Children” just doesn’t fit right. ---
**Author:** ![soyleche](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/soyleche/32/42_2.png) [@soyleche](https://community.goactuary.com/u/soyleche)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2021, 10:28pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/realizations-about-songs/3000/49 "2021-07-26T22:28:01Z")
That took me a minute. 😆 ---
**Author:** ![dr\_t\_non-fan](https://community.goactuary.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@dr\_t\_non-fan](https://community.goactuary.com/u/dr_t_non-fan)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2021, 2:01am UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/realizations-about-songs/3000/50 "2021-07-27T02:01:57Z")
Well, I hope no one is “offended” by it. ---
**Author:** ![soyleche](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/soyleche/32/42_2.png) [@soyleche](https://community.goactuary.com/u/soyleche)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2023, 10:54pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/realizations-about-songs/3000/51 "2023-06-08T22:54:06Z")
> [@soyleche](#): > > The person that wrote “You’re a Grand Old Flag”, with the line, “where there’s never a boast or brag”.., > > Had they just never met any Americans? I had another revelation about a patriotic song. In “My Country, 'Tis of Thee”, there is a line that says “land of the pilgrim’s pride”. Wouldn’t the pilgrims have viewed pride as a bad thing? [Previous page](https://community.goactuary.com/t/realizations-about-songs/3000.md?page=2)