[dar-list] Hearing a line for the first time, again.

[mirinda.kovacs at thomson.com]

I loved this post! 

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From: dar-list-bounces+mirinda.kovacs=thomson.com at folkserv.net
[mailto:dar-list-bounces+mirinda.kovacs=thomson.com at folkserv.net] On
Behalf Of Blair Johnson Glass
Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2007 10:21 AM
To: dar-list at grassyhill.org
Subject: [dar-list] Hearing a line for the first time, again.

My husband, daughter and I just traveled to Florida to visit our
families over the holidays.  We've done quite a bit of car travel
recently, and we decided that we would make this trip an all-Dar trip.
Yesterday morning at about 4 am, I was driving and my husband was
sleeping and I was listening to Mortal City (the CD).  I was thinking
that it was possibly my favorite Dar CD, though I change my mind about
that sometimes.  It was my first Dar CD, and I've been listening to her
since I was 17.  I'm 29 now.

"Mortal City" the song came on.  It's not one of my favorite songs, but
it IS a song that has touched me at various points over the years.  It's
a song that I can appreciate.  I hadn't heard it in a while, so I was
listening intently.  It was dark, we were one of the only cars on the
road.  My husband and daughter were both lightly snoring.  I was
drinking in the song.

As I was listening, I had one of those moments where I know I've heard a
song a thousand times, but I feel like I am hearing parts of it for the
first time.  The line that really stood out to me was one spoken by the
male character in the song.  "Sometimes at night I walk out by the
river.  The city's one big town, the water turns it upside down..."  All
of the sudden, I had this image of the city, reflected upside down in
the water of the river.  OH!  Now I'm sure that's the image Dar wanted
to conjur all along, but I never really "got it" before.  I had just
never thought about it before!  This kind of thing happens to me a
couple of times a year, at least.  It's one thing I really like about
the music I listen to, that I can listen to it for years and years and
still get something new out of the lyrics.

Long live Dar.  :)

Blair
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