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

[kerkevik at planet-save.com]

Hi,
    gotta say, I'm right there with you Blair. Sometimes lyrics that
you've heard a hundred times can reach inside you and touch you as if
for the first time. It's one of the wonderful things about music like
Dar's.

  Ray.

> Message: 1
> Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 11:21:11 -0500
> From: "Blair Johnson Glass" <eblairj at gmail.com>
> Subject: [dar-list] Hearing a line for the first time, again.
> To: dar-list at grassyhill.org
>
> 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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