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It's all about the journey. Olympic Opening Ceremony... Peter, my stepfather, was there with the Irish swimmers and tweeted to me that he was watching Frank Turner & The Sleeping Souls (along with Ben Marwood and Emily Barker). This is amazing on lots of levels - FTHC got this fantastic opportunity to play to literally the whole world & that Peter immediately knew who he was and that he thought to tweet it to me while he is at his 5th olympics as an awesome swimming coach. Now crossing my fingers that Peter's swimmers do their best! When I wrote this blog last year about Frank Turner - http://www.whatstheruckus.com/2011/06/be-true-to-yourself-nicole-kibert-on-frank-turner/ - I foreshadowed amazing things for FTHC but never imagined an olympic performance... can't wait to see what's next! In the meantime, check out the FTHC video here for UK residents: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01l93y8/Olympic_Ceremonies_London_2012_Opening_Ceremony_Countdown/ and for everyone else: www.youtube.com/watch?v=It13YtFTQJU
FRANK TURNER - "Journey Of The Magi"
Moses was old, a chill in his bones.
Falling apart, he knew in his heart that his time had come.
As he lay in his tent in the hot desert sands,
he smiled at how he would never see his promised land.
He sang "I could have lived and died an Egyptian prince,
I could have played safe,
but in the end the journey's brought joys that outweigh the pain."
Odysseus sat tired and alone.
He'd always held out against all the doubts that he would come home.
But now he was here, his soul felt estranged.
His wife and his dog, his son and his Gods, everything changed.
He sang "I could have stayed and ruled as an Ithican prince,
I could've played safe.
But in the end the journey's brought joys that outweigh the pain."
Balthazar rode for seven long years, eastwards and far,
he followed his star, and it brought him here.
To a stable in ruins in some backwater town,
to a virgin defiled, no king but a child, too small for a crown.
He sang "I could have lived with my Gods as a Persian prince,
I could've played safe,
but in the end the journey's brought joys that outweigh the pain."
Paupers and kings, princes and thieves,
singers of songs, righters of wrongs, be what you believe.
So saddle your horse and shoulder your load,
burst at the seams, be what you dream, and take to the road.
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