Give It Up

...not to say that I'm turning my back on all the things I have to do. As it is, my workload has just this morning gotten heavier: I have a new research paper to submit on Wednesday, and new tasks to complete for the UP-CBA Alumni Homecoming this year (I was assigned to be the Homecoming "Queen" for this year, which in UP-CBA parlance actually means Homecoming "Slave"--in short, dakilang utusan). But never the mind, I'm taking this time out to listen to a song about giving up, not in the ayoko-na-goodbye-cruel-world mode na uso in movies, but a different kind of giving up... the kind that frees those who surrender and make themselves bound to Somebody else (to paraphrase from a Barbie's Cradle Song that goes: "when I'm bound to You, I feel so free...").

This song is called "Give It Up", also by Avalon (see post: "Renew Me") and it appears in their self-titled debut album "Avalon" (1996):

Dream a little dream,

dream a little while

Remembering a day when you were wide-eyed,

Gave the Lord your heart,

gave Him all your soul

But slowly you have taken back control

Now you're somewhere in-between

Your new world and your old routine

Dream a little dream,

dream a little while

Dream with me of how you think it might be...

To give Him all of your heart

(give it up give it up)

Give Him all of your life

(give it up give it up)

Give Him all of your soul

(give it up give it up)

Give it up, give it up...

Your choice is black or white,

not a shade of gray

Because in love there's no such thing as halfway

Devotion can't be swayed,

emotions can't be torn

He'd rather we be hot or cold than lukewarm

Bring the Father all your soul

(bring Him all your soul)

There's freedom in the letting go

Dream a little dream,
dream a little while
Dream with me of how you think it might be...
To give Him all of your heart
(give it up give it up)
Give Him all of your life
(give it up give it up)
Give Him all of your soul
(give it up give it up)
Give it up, give it up...