On Saturday I went to a Barry Manilow concert with my mom. [Insert private snicker here, go ahead, everyone else did.] Actually, I was pretty excited to go. When I was in elementary school, I used to listen to my mom's Barry Manilow CDs and "choreograph" dances to "Mandy" and his other hits in our living room.
Approximately two decades have passed since then, but it turned out that I remembered a lot of his songs, some of which I've always known, but didn't realize were Manilow originals ("Copacobana" anyone?). Others were new to me like the song "I Made It Through the Rain." As he performed this song, I found myself captivated by the emotion in both the words and the music. It felt as though he were singing directly to me (something apparently also felt by a woman behind us who yelled, "RIGHT NOWWWWW," when he sang the lyric, "When can I touch you?" in another song, hehe).
Here's the chorus from "I Made It Through the Rain"
I kept my world protected
I made it through the rain
I kept my point of view
I made it through the rain
And found myself respected
By the others who
Got rained on, too
And made it through
The rain has poured off and on over the last year, but I've definitely come out wiser, hopefully stronger, and with an appreciation for the others who've been stuck in a downpour without an umbrella.
I Made It Through the Rain - Barry Manilow
I Made It Through the Rain - Barry Manilow
