I Hope You Dance

MCA Nashville, under Universal. The blessing is specific. Do not sit it out.

MCA Nashville released it. Universal owns it. A parent who has decided not to make the child afraid of the room. Dance, she says, when you have the chance.

Good counsel if the house has also taught which dances are beneath them. Give both.

The eight

Industry
6/10
A blessing written so it can be said, not only sung.
Household
9/10
A child, leaving. The love is the sending.
Piety
7/10
A hope, aimed past what the mother can control.
Courage
6/10
She tells the child to take the larger chance.
Republic
5/10
A private send-off a graduation can bear.
Temperance
7/10
Encouragement, not a shove into appetite.
Truth
7/10
She still says go toward the living.
Stewardship
8/10
A song to give a child on the way out the door.

Live historicallyThe next leaving, play this, and then say one thing you hope they refuse.

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Columbia · Sony Music Entertainment

Always on My Mind

Columbia, under Sony. Regret, specific. He was busy. She needed the words.

Columbia released Nelson's version. Sony owns Columbia. The record is not about a scandal. It is about the days he was preoccupied, and the sentence he saved for later, and the later that came too late.

This is one of the useful sad songs. It tells you what to do while the person is still in the house.

The eight

Industry
8/10
Nelson sings it like a man who cannot fix the year.
Household
8/10
A marriage, neglected in small ordinary ways.
Piety
5/10
Little things. He knows they were the devotion.
Courage
6/10
He admits the failure without a speech about his intentions.
Republic
4/10
A private debt.
Temperance
7/10
No excuse he is willing to rest in.
Truth
9/10
He did not tell her. That is the fact.
Stewardship
8/10
A song to play before the little things are all that is left to say.

Live historicallyBefore the day ends, say the small thing you have been saving. Do not wait for a version of this song.