SEED PODS LiDoña Wagner 2022
Terry Bergdall
Three songs on my playlist are about being awake on life's journey and taking an affirmative relationship to the realities one encounters.
A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall
Kurt Elling
Album: The Questions
In the final verse, after describing many troubling encounters, his crucial point is to notice and pay self-conscious attention to it all: "I'll know my song well before I start singin'."
I Can See Clearly Now
Holly Cole
Album: Don't Smoke in Bed
It is as if she's proclaiming, "this is precisely where I should be, and I am extremely grateful for it." It strikes me as courageous. I find her delivery of this song to be profoundly inspirational.
Hallelujah
Leonard Cohen
Album: Live in London
There are no rose-colored glasses in this song. "Our love is not a victory march / It's a cold and it's a broken 'Hallelujah'." But "hallelujah" none-the-less and all the more powerful because of its clear lucidity with wide open eyes.
1 comment:
I enjoyed thinking about artistic inspiration in terms of song lyrics. I certainly agree that Hallelujah is one of the greatest lyrics of all time. Sometimes a line of a song from earlier in my life comes to me for an apparent no reason, and I puzzle over its beauty. For example, the line, “Casting down their golden crowns around a glassy sea,” seems so mysterious to me, like a glimpse of a world in a Maxfield Parrish painting.
Thanks for this good beginning to this series.
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