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Song Praising Cape Canaveral's Environment and Our Enjoyment of It.

This is a new original song focused on the wonderful environment in which we are so blessed to live and the wonderful feelings experienced by the residents.  It uses imagery to conjure emotions and paint scenes.  Some of that imagery is more abstract than others, meaning that it is not necessarily clear to the reader, and is open to interpretation.  For instance, the chapel referenced in the first line has two meanings to me.  One is building sand castle towns on the beach, the other is the spiritual freedom that comes with taking a stroll on the beach (kind of like a church in its own sense, that we conjure up just taking it all in).  The medicine is the sun and sea air that cleanses us and helps reduce the stress and transport us to our happy place. The verses rhyme, but the refrain does not.  The refrain adds lines each time it is repeated, making it what we call a strophe.  This is done to build tension.  Tension is a word people use to basically describe an element within the po