A year (from Old English gēar) is the orbital period of the Earth moving around the Sun. For an observer on Earth, this corresponds to the period it takes the Sun to complete one course throughout the zodiac along the ecliptic.
In astronomy, the Julian year is a unit of time, defined as 365.25 days of 86400 SI seconds each.
There is no universally accepted symbol for the year as a unit of time. The International System of Units does not propose one. A common abbreviation in international use is a (for Latin annus), in English also y or yr.
Due to the Earth's axial tilt, the course of a year sees the passing of the seasons, marked by changes in weather, hours of daylight, and consequently vegetation and fertility. In temperate and subpolar regions, generally four seasons are recognized: spring, summer, autumn and winter, astronomically marked by the Sun reaching the points of equinox and solstice, although the climatic seasons lag behind their astronomical markers. In some tropical and subtropical regions it is more common to speak of the rainy (or wet, or monsoon) season versus the dry season.
Christina Judith Perri (born August 19, 1986) is an American singer-songwriter and musician from Philadelphia. Her song "Jar of Hearts" charted in the United States after it was featured on the Fox television show So You Think You Can Dance in 2010. Rolling Stone named her the "Band of the Week" on October 26, 2010. On May 10, 2011, Perri's "Jar of Hearts" was featured on Glee (Season 2, Episode 20 "Prom Queen"). Also, on June 27, 2011, Perri's "Jar of Hearts" was featured on Switched at Birth (Season 1, Episode 4 "Dance Amongst Daggers"). One of her songs, "A Thousand Years", has been in the Twilight saga movie Breaking Dawn.
Perri grew up in Bensalem, Pennsylvania (a suburb of Philadelphia) with her older brother, Nick Perri, who formerly played guitar with Shinedown, Silvertide, Perry Farrell and Matt Sorum. Her father is from Italy. She attended Archbishop Ryan High School as a member of the class of 2004. She taught herself how to play guitar as a 16-year-old by watching a videotape of Shannon Hoon from the group Blind Melon performing on VH1.
Elena Jane Goulding (born 30 December 1986), known professionally as Ellie Goulding, is an English singer-songwriter. In 2010 she became the second artist to both top the BBC's annual Sound of... poll and win the Critics' Choice Award at the BRIT Awards in the same year, following Adele's win of both in 2008. After signing to Polydor Records in 2009, she released her first EP in 2009, An Introduction to Ellie Goulding, followed by her debut studio album Lights in 2010. Her album debuted at number one on the UK Albums Chart and has sold over 650,000 copies in the UK. "Lights" was released in America March 8th 2011, where the title track has been certified platinum by the RIAA (excess of 1 million units sold) .
Goulding is a soprano, and her musical style has been compared to that of Kate Nash, Meiko, Lykke Li and Tracey Thorn.
Goulding was born and brought up in a small town near Hereford, Herefordshire, the second of four children. She began playing the clarinet at the age of nine, and at 14 began learning guitar. She attended Lady Hawkins' School in Kington, where she won a main part in a school production, the Wizard Of Oz, as the scarecrow. She started songwriting at the age of 15 and while in college she won a singing competition.
Peter Malick (born November 28, 1951, Brookline, Massachusetts) is an American, Los Angeles based musician and record producer, known for his work with blues musicians and for early collaborations with Norah Jones.
In the late 1960s Malick was a member of the band Listening. Listening was signed by Vanguard Records in New York when Malick was aged sixteen. His talent as a blues guitarist landed him a gig with blues pianist Otis Spann, who invited Malick to live with his family in Chicago. Over the years, Malick backed up and toured with blues greats including Muddy Waters, Big Mama Thornton, and John Lee Hooker.
Later, Malick was a conductor and musical director for the national touring company of Hair (musical).
Malick next joined the James Montgomery Band, recording two albums on the Capricorn label, "First Time Out" and "High Roller".
From 1978 to 1981, he made a living playing cards. In 1990, Malick returned to music and moved to a Boston home base, maintaining a busy tour schedule. In 1996, Malick released two independent records on the Conqueroot/Mr. Cat Records label.
Fineday or Kamiokisihkwew (born ca. 1852 – unknown; but after 1935) was a Cree war chief of the River People band of Plains Cree. He participated in the North-West Rebellion of 1885 (notably the battle of Cut Knife). Described by a contemporary as "brave in all things," he was a skilled warrior, hunter, trapper and (in later life) a powerful shaman.
Fineday's memories of the North West rebellion were published by the Canadian North-West Historical Society in 1926.
David G. Mandelbaum, in the introduction to his extensive study of the Plains Cree cites Fineday as his principal informant.
The sight of burnt out ruins
makes me depressed
fumes at the skyline
I'm so impressed
we cant't avoid it all
it's the place where
nothing happends
casualities of the evolution
we're living in delusion
we can't avoid it all
wen soll ich mein Herzchen schenken
now the time has stopped the moving
we have never used our mind
years are gettin colder
just memories left behind
it's so dark and tall
it's a rise and a fall
we can't avoid it all
wen soll ich mein Herzchen schenken
now the time has stopped the moving
we have never used our mind
years are gettin colder
just memories left behind
I went home for Christmas to the house that I grew up in
Going back was something after all these years
I drove down Monterey street and felt a little sadness
When I turned left on Laurel and the house appeared
And I snuck up to that rocking chair
Where the winter sunlight slanted on the screened-in porch
And I stared out past the shade tree
That my laughing daddy planted on the day that I was born
And I let time go by so slow
And I made every moment last
And I thought about years
How they take so long
And they go so fast
Across the street the Randol's oldest daughter must have come home
Her two boys built a snowman by the backyard swings
I thought of old man Randol and his Christmas decorations
And how he used to leave them up 'til early spring
And I thought of all the summers
That I paced that porch and swore I'd die of boredom there
And I thought of what I'd give to feel another summer linger
Where a day feels like a year
And I let time go by so slow
And I made every moment last
And I thought about years
How they take so long
And they go so fast
Then the door flew open, and my mother's voice was laughing
As she called back to my daddy, "Come and look who's here"
The pieces fell apart
Your friends have gone astray
The person in the mirror seems so cold and far away
I've lost my only friend I made so long ago
When the world just seemed so simple
And the time just seemed to go
But your troubles just began
Put everything on hold
Give yourself a chance to breathe
Let the panic settle in but hold the trembling in your knees
You first begin to weigh all the choices in the end
Has your time got you where you wanted
And I'll keep walking, dreaming bout the places I will go
And feel happy for that day
And I'll keep walking, spite the road blocks slowing up my pace
I want to get so far away
It seems you lost yourself in the years to come and pass
Watching dreams all disappear
like a phoenix from the ash
It seems you did your best
But your best has kept you fallin through the cracks
And you begin to fold waiting for the world to put you where you want
Cause the pieces fell apart
Your friends have gone astray
Will the person in the mirror even make it through the day
I know that I'll keep walking, dreaming bout the places I will go
And feel happy for that day
And I'll keep walking, spite the road blocks slowing up my pace
I want to get so far away
And I'll keep walking, dreaming bout the places I will go
And feel happy for that day
Evening fades away
Another page to turn the corner
And gently put away
To sleep and wake another morning
And you are standing there with your long hair
Along your shoulders, along your shoulders
The desert treats you well it's hard to tell
You're getting older, a little older
And so the many years have taken toll
And you're beside me even though
Here to face another day
The sun has given wrinkles to your skin
The years we'll never see again
I pray to God don't let them end
Stars, the lonely lights
The desert night falls around us
A lies upon this sand
Woman and man still undivided
And you are standing there with your long hair
Along your shoulders, along your shoulders
The desert treats you well it's hard to tell
You're getting older, a little older
Sundown on the desert
Coyote calling ooh
Here's to me and you together
Our love is strong, hanging on for all these years
And so the many years have taken toll
And you're beside me even though
Here to face another day
The sun has given wrinkles to your skin
The years we'll never see again
I pray to God don't let them end
Don't let them end
Funny feeling my guts intuition doesn't know
No bravery could convince you
To more or less say no
Your explanation hasn't gone over yet
But I'll give you one more chance
To open up and just let go
There's no easier way out of this place I'm claiming this lie to you
face to face to face to
That's no way for you to treat me my dear
Someone you chose to lie to all these years
There is no other title that I can find for us
Even though you can believe that this could
Work and bleed and breathe and be for us
Your interpretation of my expectations
Caught up in your picture frame
Have defined my eyes and made me turn up down and inside
There's no easier way out of this place
I'm claiming this lie to you face to face to face to
That's no way for you to treat me my dear
Someone you chose to lie to all these years
It's gonna take a lot to get you to completely
Forgive me for letting you down I'm not exactly what I really was back then
Played along for so long
Then you saw what I really was I was wrong for so long
What do I do with my other type of slum life
So on to you delight
For the rest of the night I'm yours
Whatever you want
are there years between us?
have you seen me when i didn't see you?
its so good to know that someone can
love me as much as i think you do...
do i love you?
your a fool if you don't know
or maybe i'm so good at hiding
even the truth is hidden from you
but somehow i doubt that your
as smart as i could ever be
but still my question remains
is our love meant to be?
cause it feels too good to be true
can someone love me so much more than i love myself
is this all true?
does love resonate in your heart
like the songs say it does?
i can't even begin to believe my dreams
Faded photographs, the feelings all come back
Even now sometimes you feel so near
And I still see your face like it was yesterday
It's strange how the days turned into years
Years of hanging on to dreams already gone
Years of wishing you were here
After all this time you think I wouldn't cry
It's just that I still love you after all these years
Night time gently falls, another day is gone
I turn around to find you're still not here
I leave the hall light on in case you come back home, finally
I've been saying that for years
Years of hanging on to dreams already gone
Years of wishing you were here
After all this time you think I wouldn't cry
It's just that I still love you after all these years