This is a bonus song in the the self titled album by The Fray (2009). I recently came across this and was surprised that I never heard it before. This is unfortunately a really depressing song, yet the lyrics really stick to me.
As my time in London is coming close to its expiry date, I am forced to think about my near future. Uncertainty certainly describes what I am feeling at the moment. It is scary to think that what I now call home, won't be in 4 months time. My plans for the future has been thrown into uncertainty and all I can do now is pray for some clarity and guidance on what path I should take.
One day, I was supply teaching and was taking my students into the hall for a special assembly. As our class entered the hall, this song was being played in the background. The students were told that a teacher was leaving, and as a surprise, the whole school will be singing this song to the teacher on her last day. As the students begin to sing the song as a rehearsal, it started giving me chills up my spine. It doesn't do justice with me telling you this; it has to be something you have to experience yourself in a hall with 500 students singing this song together.
It gave me memories of when I left my teaching post in Geraldton. I remember the principal calling out myself and some of my fellow teachers to the front of the assembly. I recall how sad it was to be at the front. If the school sang this song to me at that moment, I'll probably be crying my head off and it doesn't matter whether I am a guy or not.
Teaching has given me a mixture of good and bad memories (mostly good). Although I am regaining my passion through supply teaching in London, I can't see myself having my own classroom again. Last week I was offered a teaching position for the next academic year for a school I have been doing supply with, as the deputy said she was impressed with what I was doing. However, I rejected the offer. There is too much pressure from others and myself to be a teacher. I don't want to relive what I went through last year and how depressed I was in my job.
I do put my hats off to all teachers around the world and I do think that we are ONE of the greatest professions in this world (as perfectly described by this song)!
I've been wanting to start sharing some music I have been listening to. I first heard this song through a movie trailer: 'Love in a Buff'. The singer,Wanting Qu, isn't a well known artist but she writes her own songs and has just been signed up by an independent Canadian company who will release her first album in April.
I always believe that every situation in life can be represented by a song and I guess when I came across this song, I was experiencing something positive. Enjoy!
