Lady Blue, sing your song across the mountains
With the angels all around you on the climb
Lady Blue, spill your life in flowing fountains
Spin that water into springs of midnight wine
Only truth can set you free
Only love can see you through
Only you can do the magic you were always born to do
Cause heaven's heart belongs to you, Lady Blue
(from "Lady Blue" )
and this new little tribute lyric
And it's time to go up yonder
Before this fire inside turns cold
Absence makes the heart grow fonder
As we ride down this sweet sorrow road
(from "Sweet Sorrow Road" )
Seems like only yesterday when in 2005, a newly-married pair of wacky musicians decided to embark on what would eventually become one of the great musical adventures of their journey. Brandon had this little "private-eye" riff, and I added the slightly esoteric, but ever-so-sincere lyric, based on Brandon's frequent encouragements to my in-need-of-healing heart. Kind of an unlikely ditty for the bar crowds, but as I've certainly discovered at places like our own wonderful Blues On Grand, the scene at times isn't that different from a church...a church of the ragamuffins if you will. Sprinkle a little poetically meaningful "fairydust" between some Janis Joplin and Led Zeppelin and good old Leadbelly, and it gets surprisingly positive reception.
Lady Blue, do your dance in dark pavilions
Underneath the broken world above your head (that referred to our basement bedroom)
Lady Blue, send the message to the millions
That they can make the choice to be alive or dead...
That's one of the best things the Lady Blue journey has meant to me, letting the music and the musicians beside me, overtake me and make me come alive, in hopes of this "aliveness" spilling onto those listening and watching. Now we will do our best to carry that same spirit into our future musical endeavors, with a fond reverence for "the good old days".
What makes you come alive, lights you up inside like a Christmas tree and makes your soul cry out in rapturous delight (geez, the fairydust is a little thick today--sorry!)? Whatever that is, that is what your life should be filled with, surrounded with, consumed with, in order for that "aliveness" to burst forth to the maximum. Life is short, and we all have way too many "good" and even "better" things that are subtle gates blocking out the "best".
Bye-bye, sayonara, see you later, and once again above all...THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH for the support you given this band and these songs. Take care, try not to forget us, and hope to see you all again soon. We'll keep blogging here for a while to give updates on everyone's musical future and progress.
peace, tina
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