Name: Living for Today
Channel: music: Heather T. Strong & lyrics: Kate Connick
Description: A dog's cancer diagnosis reminds us to cherish the moment while we still have time.

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A dog's cancer diagnosis reminds us to cherish the moment while we still have time.

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Reminiscent of the sounds of Joni Mitchell, Carol King and Joan Baez, Heather T. Strong's music is idealistic, humorous and folksy. Most recently, she co-wrote

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Song Info

Genre

Acoustic • Acoustic Folk

Charts

Peak #249

Peak in subgenre #27

Author

music: Heather T. Strong & lyrics: Kate Connick

Rights

2004 Heather T. Strong & Kate Connick

Uploaded

August 09, 2004

Track Files

MP3

MP3 8.5 MB • 128 kbps • 9:15

Lyrics

Bright eyes blaze with vigor.
Grown up, still full of glee.
Not just a dog, this boxer.
She's true family.

Simple pleasures for a dog:
Your time, your touch, your care.
Important as she is to you,
Life isn't often fair.

Your stroke her glossy coat,
Swap a biscuit for a sit,
Observe a swollen blemish,
Suspect it's not a zit.

Sudden sinking sense of loss.
Uncertain now the future.
Hope and fears are intertwined
With veterinary suture.

Don't worry 'bout what could have been,
Or count on what might be.
Celebrate the moment
Right now with you and she.
She lives in the present -
A brilliant gift, I'll say.
This watchdog isn't counting time;
She's living for today.

Priceless is her life.
Prayers that it might be spared.
Glassy-eyed, the vet himself -
You hadn't known he cared.

The verdict in - metastasis.
A crashing sense of dread.
To look into her soft brown eyes,
She's anything but dead.

The mercy of not knowing
Spares her any grief.
She'll live each day until she dies,
No matter if it's brief.

Don't worry 'bout what could have been,
Or count on what might be.
Celebrate the moment
Right now with you and she.
She lives in the present -
A brilliant gift, I'll say.
This watchdog isn't counting time;
She's living for today.

Enrich her life as best you can,
Then face that final choice.
No one knows her better.
She speaks through your voice.

Time to serve her favorite foods,
Get her extra toys,
Play hookey just to take a hike;
Indulge her simple joys.

Cancer's rude reminder -
Make the most of each dog day,
But you don't need a reason 
To do it anyway.

When they are gone, we surely grieve
For each lost boxer friend.
Now's our chance to make the most 
While we have the time to spend.

Don't worry 'bout what could have been,
Or count on what might be.
Celebrate the moment
Right now with you and she.
She lives in the present -
A brilliant gift, I'll say.
This watchdog isn't counting time;
She's living for today.

It might be weeks; it might be months.
A decade would be nice.
Sick or well, young or old,
There's truth in that advice:

Don't worry 'bout what could have been,
Or count on what might be.
Celebrate the moment
Right now with you and she.
She lives in the present -
A brilliant gift, I'll say.
This watchdog isn't counting time;
She's living for today.

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