This One's For You Baby (#NHBPM Day 15)

I am supposed to pick a song and dedicate it to my condition.  I thought a long time about this one.  I wanted to find a song that is upbeat, that I want to listen to all the time, that I can dance to and that has lyrics that say what I want them to say.  So I chose Michael Franti & Spearhead's The Sound of Sunshine.  It is an upbeat, dance-able song that makes me so happy to listen to.  How can you not jump up and dance, tap your foot or "car dance" to this song?  It makes me want to take the top down on my car on a sunny day and crank up the music on the freeway.

The lyrics:

• "Here I am Just waitin' for the storm to pass me by.  And that's the sound of sunshine Comin' down. "  To me a RA flare is the storm and I am waiting for it to pass me by.  The sunshine is the time after the flare. 
• "Some days you lose, you win, and the water's as high as the times roll in So I jump back into where I learned to swim"  Some days are good, some are bad, and I have to keep going and keeping on.  
• "Try to keep my head above it the best I can"  Means I am trying to keep it all together the best way I know how during the bad times.

I have embedded a video of the song for you to listen to from Youtube.

The lyrics to The Sound of Sunshine in the song really speak to me:

The Sound of Sunshine
One, two, three, uh huh
Yo, yo

I wake up in the mornin' at 6 'o clock
You say there may be rain but the sun is hot
I wish I had some time just to kill today
And I wish I had a dime for every bill I got to pay
Some days you lose, you win, and the water's as high as the times roll in
So I jump back into where I learned to swim
Try to keep my head above it the best I can
That's why

Here I am
Just waitin' for the storm to pass me by
And that's the sound of sunshine
Comin' down
And that's the sound of sunshine
Comin' down (down, down, down)
Eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh

One, two, three, uh huh
I saw my friend Bobby he said "What's up man?"
You got little work or 20 to lend
I opened up my hand he said "I'm glad to see"
They could take away my job but not my friends you see

And here I am
Just waitin' for the storm to pass me by (pass me by)
And that's the sound of sunshine
Comin' down
And that's the sound of sunshine
Comin' down

Yo, yo, here we go

I wanna go where the summer never ends
With my guitar on the beach there with all my friends
The sun so hot and the waves in motion
And everything smells like suntan lotion
The ocean, and the girls so sweet
So kick off your shoes and relax your feet
You say that miracles are never ceasin'
And every single song needs a little releasin'
The stereo bumpin' til the sun goes down
And I only wanna hear that sound

That's the sound of sunshine (of sunshine)
Comin' down
And that's the sound of sunshine
Comin' down (comin' down, down, down)

And I say
You're the one I wanna be with (yo, yo)
When the sun goes down (uh huh)
You're the one I wanna be with (I really wanna be with)
When the sun goes down, sing
You're the one I wanna be with
When the sun goes down
You're the one I wanna be with
When the sun goes...

That's the sound (that's the sound) of sunshine (of sunshine)
Comin' down (uh huh, uh huh)
And that's the sound of sunshine
Comin' down
Eh, eh, eh
When the sun goes down, when the sun goes down
Eh, eh, eh, eh (when the sun goes down)

So what song speaks to you?  Why? 

This post was written as part of NHBPM – 30 health posts in 30 days: http://bit.ly/vU0g9J