Week Thirty-Nine: Sarah McLachlan (with Delerium) - "Silence" - Karma

So, I had to turn in my letter of intent to resign from my teaching position for the 2013-2014 school year last week, and it feels so surreal!!! All I have known for the last nine years is teaching, and now I am going to take a huge leap of faith at the age of 35 and make a career transition into the legal field.

No longer will I get to enjoy the shock factor when I reveal to others that not only am I a junior high teacher but that I also instruct at a Catholic school and have done so for the entire nine years that I have been teaching --- no longer will I get asked the utterly ridiculous questions, "So does that mean you're a nun?" & "Do you have to wear the school girl uniform too?" Revealing to others that I am a paralegal is just not going to have the same effect! And I doubt that many of you are celebrating this stellar event... regardless, Happy Catholic Schools' Week!!! :-D

This Delerium song, featuring Sarah McLachlan, seemed like an appropriate tune for my current circumstances because the music and Sarah's singing are so surreal-sounding. I love how this song starts out with Gregorian Chant. I attended Catholic school, myself, for many, many years (10 years - to be exact), and I had one choir teacher who loved Gregorian Chant. We would spend a full hour in chants of Gloria and Excelsis Deo and so on and so forth... it's very hypnotizing... the closest we ever get now at the school where I teach is when we sing the Agnus Dei at weekly Mass sometimes...

I am also including another one of my favorite Delerium tunes called "Incantation" (but this one features Kristy Thirsk) below the lyrics because I seriously doubt that I will ever revisit Delerium at a later point...

Give me release

Witness me

I am outside

Give me peace

Heaven holds a sense of wonder

And I wanted to believe that I'd get caught up 

When the rage in me subsides

Passion

Chokes the flower

Until she cries no more

Possessing all the beauty

Hungry still for more

Heaven holds a sense of wonder

And I wanted to believe that I'd get caught up 

When the rage in me subsides

In this white wave

I am sinking 

In this silence

In this white wave...

In this silence...

I believe 

I can't help this longing...

Comfort me... 

I can't hold it all in...

If you won't let me...

Heaven holds a sense of wonder

And I wanted to believe that I'd get caught up

When the rage in me subsides

In this white wave

I am sinking

In this silence

In this white wave...

In this silence...

I believe I have seen you...

In this white wave

You are silent

You are breathing

In this white wave...

I am free