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

[Howie]

Hi Blair-

Yes, you're ageing well!

-Howie
One who knows

At 11:21 AM 12/27/2007, Blair wrote:
>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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