This upcoming week is my birthday week (I turn 24 on Tuesday!!) so I thought it was fitting that I chose a Madonna song for the Song of the Week, being that she is my all time favorite artist who I've adored and admired since I was 9 years old.
I also thought it was fitting that I choose my favorite Madonna song of all time, which is "Ray of Light," from her 1998 album of the same name. I remember taking photos of my television screen with my Polaroid camera when the music video premiered on TRL haha.
After giving birth to her daughter, Madonna totally reinvented her sound and image with this song (and album) and truly cemented her status as a legend and a pop icon. The song is based on Curtiss Maldoon 1971 folk song "Sepheryn," but "Ray of Light" is basically an entirely new song with its electronic beat and even some new lyrics. This is a complex, classic song that is not like many others out there, even all the pop songs that tried to duplicate its sound and style after its immense success. Enjoy!
Verse:
Zephyr in the sky at night I wonder
Do my tears of mourning sink beneath the sun
She's got herself a universe gone quickly
For the call of thunder threatens everyone
Chorus:
And I feel like I just got home
And I feel
And I feel like I just got home
And I feel
Faster than the speeding light she's flying
Trying to remember where it all began
She's got herself a little piece of heaven
Waiting for the time when Earth shall be as one
(chorus)
Quicker than a ray of light
Quicker than a ray of light
Quicker than a ray of light
(verse)
And I feel
Quicker than a ray of light
Then gone for
Someone else shall be there
Through the endless years
She's got herself a universe
She's got herself a universe
She's got herself a universe
And I feel
And I feel
And I feel like I just got home
And I feel
Quicker than a ray of light she's flying
Quicker than a ray of light I'm flying
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