I'll Make A Man Out of You...

Maybe it's the Donny Osmond connection - totally unsure - but I have always loved this particular song from Disney's Repertoire, which is ironic, since I have girls. Of course, Mulan was a girl too. (To hear this particular song, left click on it once in the playlist to the right.)

Let's get down to business

To defeat the Huns

Did they send me daughters

When I asked for sons?

You're the saddest bunch

I ever met

But you can bet

Before we're through

Mister, I'll make a man out of you

Tranquil as a forest

But on fire within

Once you find your center

you are sure to win

You're a spineless, pale pathetic lot

And you haven't got a clue

Somehow I'll make a manout of you

I'm never gonna catchmy breath

Say good-bye to thosewho knew me

Boy, was I a fool in school for cutting gym

This guy's got 'em scared to death

Hope he doesn't see right through me

Now I really wish that I knew how to swim

(Be a man)We must be swift as the coursing river

(Be a man) With all the forceof a great typhoon

(Be a man) With all the strengthof a raging fire

Mysterious as the dark side of the moon

Time is racing toward us till the Huns arrive

Heed my every orderand you might survive

You're unsuited forthe rage of war

So pack up, go homeyou're through

How could I make a manout of you?

(Be a man) We must be swift asthe coursing river

(Be a man) With all the forceof a great typhoon

(Be a man) With all the strengthof a raging fire

Mysterious as the dark side of the moon

(Be a man) We must be swift asthe Coursing river

(Be a man) With all the forceof a great typhoon

(Be a man) With all the strength of a raging fire

Mysterious as the dark side of the moon

This morning, I really needed the song. I have been really down on myself this week, just grumpy about a lot of different things. But then I realized that I need to make a man out of me.

It just wasn't the little things that annoyed me, or the big things that festered, it was that I wasn't doing anything about any of it. I wan't moving to change anything, I wasn't composing myself and I wasn't using the strength I have been given to get through it.

What a wake up call. My anthem for the day!!