“Hey Carmen why did you hang up on me last night? I swear that comment wasn’t directed towards you. Steve went and ran himself into a wall.”

“Sorry I didn’t mean to Joey…honestly I didn’t. I will talk to you later on though. I am going to go and talk to Mr. Woods about choir,” she said giving him a kiss on the cheek.

“All right I will see you at lunch” Carmen walked into the choir room. She didn’t see Mr. Woods anywhere.

“Molly do you know where Mr. Woods is?”

“Um…I think he is in his office why?”

“Oh… I have been doing some thinking and I have decided maybe I would like to join choir”

“I didn’t know you liked to sing”

“Oh I absolutely love it…I just never really considered it that’s all”
“I hope you join we need some more choir members”

“I hope I do too” Carmen walked into Mr. Wood’s office.

“Carmen Coleman…I never thought I would see you in here”

“Well, I thought about joining choir for the longest time but I really recently just decided to act upon it”

“Good I am glad that you chose to join. I will have to listen to your voice now if that’s all right?”

“Of course I have time on my hands and of course if it’s all right with you if I can sing a song I wrote…”

“ Sure lets go into one of the practice rooms”

Carmen and Mr. Wood’s walked into a practice room.
“Do you want me to start?”

“Go right a head what’s the song called?”

“Top Of The World”

I wished I was smarter
I wished I was stronger
I wished I loved Jesus
The way that my wife does
I wish it had been easier
Instead of any longer
I wished I could have stood
Where you would have been proud
But that won’t happen now
That won’t happen now

There’s a whole lot of singing
That’s never gonna be heard
Disappearing everyday without
So much as a word somehow
Think I broke the wings off that little songbird
She’s never gonna fly to the top of the world
Right now

I don’t have an answer any of these questions
Don’t have no God to teach me no lessons
I come home in the evening
Sit in my chair
One night they called me for supper
But I never got up
I stayed right there in my chair

There’s a whole lot of singing
That’s never gonna be heard
Disappearing everyday without
So much as a word somehow
Think I broke the wings off that little songbird
She’s never gonna fly to the top of the world right now

I wished I’d a known you
Wished that I’d a shown you
All of the things I was on the inside
I’d pretend to be sleeping
When you come in the morning
To whisper good-bye
Go to work in the rain
I don’t know why
Don’t know why

Cause everyone’s singing
We just wanna be heard
Disappearing everyday without
So much as a word somehow
Wanna grab a hold of that little songbird
Take her for a ride to the top of the world right now

Mr. Woods couldn’t believe what he was hearing.
“ You wrote that?”

“Yes sir I did just last night actually”

“That’s wonderful…I would love you to be in choir”

“Great…um what period?”

“Second...that’s my bigger choir and better choir I think you will fit right in,”

“Okay thank you so much Mr. Woods”

“No problem”

Carmen walked out of the practice room with a smile on her face…she was going to be in choir.

Song Credit "Top Of The World' By: Dixie Chicks Album: Home