I saw them in concert once and they sounded terrific live. So many of their songs are mellow and lovely, they can't help but sound romantic. And, as I was single at the time of this concert, I remember feeling very lonely. Maybe I should try to catch them now that Bryan can take me.
This song, "To Live is to Fly" was written by someone else. And this live version is with only a guitar whereas the studio version is full-band and wonderful. But this is all that was posted on YouTube.
It has been a theme song of mine for a long, long time. Between graduating from college and this past year, I had never lived in one state for more than 2 years. So yeah, to live was to fly.
Now that we've been here for 3 years, and hope to be here for several more, I'm beginning to feel a little nostalgic for the flying-life. But we can take this song to be metaphoric, and while in one place, living still requires flying.
Days up and down they come
Like rain on a conga drum
Forget most, remember some
But don't turn none away
Everything is not enough
Nothing is too much to bear
Where you've been is good and gone
All you keep is the getting there
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Okay I've got a bunch of random names, many from musicals:
1. Jud - "Poor Jud" from Oklahoma
2. Plutarch, Claudius, and Brute (short for Brutus) - "Sobbin' Women" from Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
3. Admetus, Augustus, Alonzo, James, Jonathan, Plato - "Naming of Cats" from Cats
4. Abraham - from the kids' Sunday school song "Father Abraham"
5. Nicholas - as in Saint Nicholas from "The Night Before Christmas"
6. Ned - from an old folk song I learned in elementary song called "Foolish Questions" :-)
- Emily L.
I love their versions of "Come Calling" (his and hers). It's so creative how they tell the story from the two perspectives.
Love,
Suzanne
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