Steuart Smith's guitar solo on this tune is truly exquisite. Beautifully melodic yet harmonically rich, even daring, it's the perfect segue between Shawn's great bridge and the last verse of this tremendous song. Every piece of this track is wonderfully understated, exactly where it needs to be - including Shawn's typically strong rhythm guitar parts, as well. Fat City was one of the best albums of the 90s as far as I am concerned.
Shawn Colvin is a perfect example of how it's best to seek out quality music rather than wait for mass marketing to present them to you. She had two main marketing pushes in the 90's, but the quality of her music goes much further than the radio-played "hits". And she is so great to see in concert.
I'm just discovering this woman, tonight, in southern France, on youtube... Where have I been all these years. Love this type of music and the music I used to listen to back in the 90's while in the US. Looking for more of her stuff! :) ---- WAIT WHAT??? Sunny Came Home - OF COURSE!!!!
That is usually how it goes with Shawn's fans. You hear one of her songs and you are hooked for life. I heard the song "Steady On" off her first record by the same name back in 1989 and have been a loyal fan since.
"It's a new breakthrough; it's an old breakdown" Yes, Shawn. That's what we're all feeling when you sing your songs. Thanks for putting it into words for us. We love you!
Let's not forget Shawn's writing partner and incredible guitarist...John Levanthal..an absolute genius producer and one of the greatest guitarists out there...he was a very integral component in her music and SOUND!!!
Hmmm - always thought she was based down in Austin, TX - they had a little kiosk of her stuff (including one of her Grammy’s I think?) in the Austin airport the last time flew though there……..???
Been looking for this song for a very long time(20years). I just recently found it. It took this long because I didn’t the artist name or the name of the song. Am loving the song all over again. Shawn-what a great voice voice you have.
I'm glad she did won that Grammy at the 40th ceremony for "sunny come home " well deserve...... which she won over r-kelly's "I believe I can fly"song....what a night to remember.....🤟😊👌🇯🇲
how come i've never heard of this woman until a few hours ago, but ever since then i've listened to about 6 of her songs and am now inspired to play guitar?
Anyone notice she first had the capo on the third fret in the beginning and between the fourth and fifth fret in the next and subsequent scenes and then broke her G string at 3:37? Us musicians notice stuff like that. No one does it better than Shawn. I saw her in Mobile AL a number of years ago. She was sick with the flu but did not want to cancel the event and disappoint her fans. That is dedication and a sure way to garnish the love of her fans.
This was my first introduction to Shawn Colvin. I subscribed to a magazine (yes, paper). I don't remember the name, but I can do some research if you're interested. The magazine came with a VHS tape of videos. This was on one of them... and I was blown away.
Shawn has always been a very special musician/performer. I've always found her music to be first class. What I've always loved is how Shawn would always have First Class musicians surrounding her...but, lest anyone get the idea that she was using this as some type of crutch, she would often be on stage (solo...just her and her guitar) and absolutely kill it. Shawn Colvin is an absolute musical jewel and I hope and trust that she is doing well. You are Super special Shawn, take care.
This song brings so many good memories. Back then I didn't know what it meant I just love listening to her voice and the beat. Now that I know more English I like this song even more. Thanks for the good memories
brookdalebill I can't just listen to this song once. it puts me in a trance and I have to sit and listen to it over and over again. Shawn is very easy on the eyes.
@VanityKillsABC Good ear! Joni actually played percussion on the song Object of My Affection on this album. She met Joni because Joni's husband at the time (Larry Klein) produced much of the album and played bass on it.
Private: ‘Blue Sun’ ‘Twin Flames’ January 10, 2023 - Austin - Happy Birthday Shawn Colvin Blue Sun - I used to dream in colors now I dream only in blue since the rainbow came surrounding me with you it circled the sun it lasted all day I watched the colors run down into the sea till there was nothing left but eternal blue surrounding me with my vision of you encircling my heart a kaleidoscope of blue twin flames on the horizon singing our song in flashes that night twin souls as one voice singing along to that brilliant sight I shine on you you shine on me both of us are sacred bound by Divine light I’m bound to you you’re bound to me like deep blue is bound to the sea it was the last day of Saint Peter’s festival in Gloucester on the beach when the rainbow came so far out of reach with the colors of our dream a halo rainbow around the sun there to teach that nothing is as it seems except this love of many colors sent to us from above binding me to you many colors bleeding into one blue sun sinking not receding the color that will not run end I wrote this during ‘Occupy Boston’ and took the train down to Gloucester for the festival and while on the beach this phenomenon did occur. It lasted all afternoon and everyone saw it. I’ve never seen anything like that before or since. And from that beach you can see the twin lighthouses prominently so I thought I’d insert ‘Twin Flames’ here. Wishing you a blessed birthday Angel/Candlekin. Peace Twin Flames when we are touched by beauty we know we’ll never be the same loving forever becomes our duty to breathe gently on the flame when all around me was base and mean you more than touched me I was filthy but you kept my soul clean you showed me where she’d be you did more than show the way you wrapped me in the blanket of her voice you did not let me stray even when I had free choice when I begged for one touch you held me in both hands where the cold was too much you laid me down in warm sands when I was sure I was all alone you let me see her and to know that she had known all along that we were of one flame one eternal love song it was she who breathed so soft until I became able to conceive of the loft from whence she came to help me breathe on my own as part of a twin flame here I have outgrown the need to know how we burn or how two can be one having forever to learn how to see that two always have been three end I was reading ‘A Course In Miracles’ when I wrote this. The book posited correctly I think that the ego interferes with our ability to perceive or ‘hear’ or ‘feel’ the gentle promptings of the Holy Spirit or other spiritual influences but when we get it out of the way we can be led to beautiful insights and realizations as I was led to realize that you are my guardian angel Shawn. So, thank you for guiding me through a nightmare with your beautiful voice, spirit and example. I’d like to think I’m ‘home’ now and safe. I’m content. I love you forever my beloved darling Shawn Colvin. Kisses. Michelle
Brandon Moore I knew you when you were a dinosaur back when the Celts were new on the scene. I met you in battle and you beat me down a cosmic stream of forgetfulness but now we're here and now we 'know' that it's safe in the stratosphere with all the fire breathing love eating dragons of yore Merry Christmas to you dear friend. Love. Clan Colvin@@brandonmoore7497
Shawn is a great artist and has a great collection of albums Each one an absolute treat Had 'A Few Small Repairs' and 'Whole New You' on earlier; might slip on 'Fat City' later for a Colvin Day A great one indeed
this is my first time hearing this song, since i was only 5 or so when this came out. Its a great song, catchy and great lyrics! Is she still making music??
January 10, 2024 - Maine - Another Round of Blues Please, Make Mine a Double January 10, 2023 - Austin Happy Birthday Shawn Colvin Angel/Candlekin Goddess King of Orion My Everything What A Broken Heart Is When you meet an angel and she catches your eye your feet turn to stone as she leaves for the sky knowing you’re too heavy to fly that’s what a broken heart is she says it’s her birthday and you say…”mine too” one ten fifty six she’s says it’s significant not for her for you that’s what a broken heart is thirty five years fly by you’re gettin’ ready to die will she say hello as you pass through her sky? I know the answer that’s what a broken heart is 84000 different delusions plus or minus one she says that’s zen there will be a place for you she doesn’t say where she doesn’t know when it all makes you stronger if you ache if you wait that much longer but you ‘know’ she wasn’t talking to you you’d rather be crazy than be tied to what’s true left inside after she locks up fate’s zoo we came down together maybe I’m goin’ home alone and I try to be brave but synchronicity and parallel universe theory will have me rollin’ in my grave it’s bad enough how fate unwinds without the slap in the face who has to suffer and who gets grace who gets found who gets lost without a trace but that’s what a broken heart is then I think about how you got through when I don’t know what to do how you reached inside and pulled yourself out how you cried when you were full of doubt somethings are the way they are and words just can’t explain so you color them blue you just keep walkin’ and you try to stay true then a little voice reminds me "you can sing too" that’s what a broken heart makes you do end And I can't help thinking that that little voice belongs to you Angel/Candlekin so I do and I will for you. Forever for you. Peace Dear blessed beloved eternal Angel/Candlekin, I would like to take this occasion, our 68th birthday, to express to you something of how your song: ‘Cry Like An Angel’ has affected me all these years. The first time I heard it was, synchronistically enough on the occasion of our shared 32nd birthday at Passim where you said it was your birthday and I said: “mine too” (like the Beatles song) and showed you my license and you said: “I’m sure this is significant somehow”. A very cruel thing to do to a philosophy major who had studied Jung deeply because of all the synchronicity he had already experienced prior to that occasion. So, I was sufficiently shocked and bewildered to be struck dumb and left without asking the obvious question: “like how exactly?”. Of course it would have taken the fun out of it and some eventual jail and hospital time if you’d told me then so I just left and thought about it for 35 years. I didn’t tell you that I had a D28 just like yours. I didn’t know that we both were sober in AA for 5 years and I had my medallion on me. Did you? I didn’t know that we both were avid runners or that we were born on the exact same parallel of latitude 42.77 during the great ice storm of 1956 that featured the lowest barometric pressure reading ever recorded to that date. Check it out yourself. Or that it was called an ‘anti-cyclone because it rotated counterclockwise (like us) or like me at least and it travelled from east to west. You were born in a town along that parallel that started with Vermill and me in a town on the other end that ended with Verhill. Or that we both were afraid of horses. I didn’t tell you that I was a voice major (having finished philosophy) at UMB as part of my therapy of 5 years 2x’week that I was in the middle of because of the trauma of having had a 20 y.o. man urinate in my mouth when I was 10 while his two friends laughed hysterically. Ask Betty Jo Salmeron, MD how many sessions I wept through while realizing how much damage had been done by all the abuse I suffered. I gave you notarized permission to do so. Did you? But as fate would have it I found out I could sing and after a semester of caterwauling through excruciating voice lessons I went through chorus, then chamber singers and got invited into the UMB Jazz Ensemble ‘The UMBiance Singers’ and that we would perform at the NY State College Jazz Festival around the time you were doing the Philadelphia Folk Festival but I was really studying folk music with Geoff Bartley at the time and I had potential but was well behind you due to the extra trauma I went through and yet there I was shaking your hand after all that on a parallel path. We both set fires as kids. Both went camping in Rambler station wagons. Both hated school. Both had parts in ‘The King and I’. Both of us got abused by our fathers for leaving the cellar door open. Both had deep issues with our mothers. Both Scottish on the father’s side. My paternal grandmother was born in Scotland according to my mother who said she had “a beautiful singing voice’. I was the only one in my family who sung so I didn’t share the blessing you had in that respect. You were 42.5 when you gave birth. My mother was 42.5 when she gave birth to me. My only sister died 11 days before your only daughter was born. I started learning your songs starting with ‘Knowing What I Know Now’ with Geoff Bartley and did play them in the subway for awhile. Your line: “may we all find salvation in professions that heal” helped propel me into social work school though I did have motivation of my own wanting to do 12th step work on an advanced level I guess. And because you so freaked me out that I could not help but feel as if this song had special cosmic, mystical relevance to me even though you wrote it before that occasion I think but around the same time cause I met you first in ’87 when I said to you: “you’re the best singer I ever heard”. I have asked myself a million times: “what are the odds that the only person I ever said that to, while I was a voice major singing through deep trauma, would turn out to be the only person I ever met to this day born the same day let alone being present on that shared and pivotal birthday? Astronomical to the point of absolute impossibility. So, can you forgive me now for having a deep, abiding, secret thought that somehow I had a cosmic, mystical connection to you that would compel me to write over 100 poems to and about you? So, like significant how exactly? Are you in Heaven? Are you listening? I hope so. I would like that. btw I don't cook either. Peace We Love and worship you forever beautiful great wise good and graceful Geoff Bartley 'Godfather Of Folk'. Kisses Shawn Michelle Callie
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Criminally underrated talent
@Lewis9700 Shawn Colvin Round Of Blues is one of my personal favorite song
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@@brandonmoore7497 One of my favorites also
Steuart Smith's guitar solo on this tune is truly exquisite. Beautifully melodic yet harmonically rich, even daring, it's the perfect segue between Shawn's great bridge and the last verse of this tremendous song. Every piece of this track is wonderfully understated, exactly where it needs to be - including Shawn's typically strong rhythm guitar parts, as well. Fat City was one of the best albums of the 90s as far as I am concerned.
Shawn Colvin is a perfect example of how it's best to seek out quality music rather than wait for mass marketing to present them to you. She had two main marketing pushes in the 90's, but the quality of her music goes much further than the radio-played "hits". And she is so great to see in concert.
Saw her 3 or 4 times in concert back in the day.....Just amazing!!! 🤩
@@saraliza3137 You're lucky. I only saw her once, and she didn't do this song. But it was still a fantastic performance.
I'm just discovering this woman, tonight, in southern France, on youtube... Where have I been all these years. Love this type of music and the music I used to listen to back in the 90's while in the US. Looking for more of her stuff! :) ---- WAIT WHAT??? Sunny Came Home - OF COURSE!!!!
That is usually how it goes with Shawn's fans. You hear one of her songs and you are hooked for life. I heard the song "Steady On" off her first record by the same name back in 1989 and have been a loyal fan since.
Richard Hammond So true! Same here :-)
Shawn Colvin?...Another round of blues? Yes please!! Make mine a double!!!
"It's a new breakthrough; it's an old breakdown" Yes, Shawn. That's what we're all feeling when you sing your songs. Thanks for putting it into words for us. We love you!
Here I go again loving this song
Let's not forget Shawn's writing partner and incredible guitarist...John Levanthal..an absolute genius producer and one of the greatest guitarists out there...he was a very integral component in her music and SOUND!!!
John levanthal...the Grammy award dude....😎👍🇯🇲
Undeniably Gorgeous, Shawn surely ruled ('Big Time') back in the day. ❤😊❤
Didn't hurt at all that she could clearly sing as well. 🎵🎶💜🎶🎵
this is a talented and beautiful woman.
She resides in CT now, and we are glad to have her.
Cheers!
FrankC32
Hmmm - always thought she was based down in Austin, TX - they had a little kiosk of her stuff (including one of her Grammy’s I think?) in the Austin airport the last time flew though there……..???
Been looking for this song for a very long time(20years). I just recently found it. It took this long because I didn’t the artist name or the name of the song. Am loving the song all over again. Shawn-what a great voice voice you have.
I'm glad she did won that Grammy at the 40th ceremony for "sunny come home " well deserve...... which she won over r-kelly's "I believe I can fly"song....what a night to remember.....🤟😊👌🇯🇲
Sings like an angel. And plays a mean guitar, too. Thank you.
Pretty Woman, Miss Colvin is! Hats off to her.
Shawn Colvin for ever 🤍
how come i've never heard of this woman until a few hours ago, but ever since then i've listened to about 6 of her songs and am now inspired to play guitar?
awesome song! and singer, not to mention (although it's not featured here) one hell of a guitar player. still sounds great, after all these years.
top musica
Anyone notice she first had the capo on the third fret in the beginning and between the fourth and fifth fret in the next and subsequent scenes and then broke her G string at 3:37? Us musicians notice stuff like that.
No one does it better than Shawn. I saw her in Mobile AL a number of years ago. She was sick with the flu but did not want to cancel the event and disappoint her fans. That is dedication and a sure way to garnish the love of her fans.
Takes me back to Carbondale, IL. I lived there in 92 and it was her hometown.
I grew up on Fat City, Steady On, and Cover Girl Shawn Colvin's music feel s like home to me. ❤️
Thank you, dear Anthony Peake! That was that! That song was significant! Thank you dear Colvin for creating that song!
Breathtakingly beautiful!
That's what you call music
BIG TUNE...🔥🔥🤟😎👍🇯🇲
Wow she is so beautiful. I never heard this song before
One of her best and a foundational Alt music song.
@@zephead4835 oh OK, thank you for letting me know
I also came across her accidentally and her music should be heard by everyone and let's shout her name from the mountain tops ❤
Great song and wonderful artist!! One of my FAVS :)
True...😎👍🇯🇲
This was my first introduction to Shawn Colvin. I subscribed to a magazine (yes, paper). I don't remember the name, but I can do some research if you're interested. The magazine came with a VHS tape of videos. This was on one of them... and I was blown away.
you can feel she has a lot of people/family who love her. it comes thru in her songs
Great observation. 💖
Interesting, now that you mention it. That seems right.
She reminds me of me in this song.
The video is so 90's ... Love it!
The quintessential coffee shop...a must for that decade 🤍
Shawn has always been a very special musician/performer. I've always found her music to be first class. What I've always loved is how Shawn would always have First Class musicians surrounding her...but, lest anyone get the idea that she was using this as some type of crutch, she would often be on stage (solo...just her and her guitar) and absolutely kill it. Shawn Colvin is an absolute musical jewel and I hope and trust that she is doing well. You are Super special Shawn, take care.
The beauty of youtube, discovering Shawn.
She was so pretty and still is. I love how she hasn't changed her hair style and herself in general. So authentic!!🙂🥰❤
Her best song
Such a good singer-songwriter - but who knew she could pull off such a hot, sultry video as this? Whew! *fanning self*
I knew. Just saying.
Magic song.
My favorite Shawn Colvin video!
The sheer beauty of this woman, in her younger days, was spellbinding!! She was a goddess like Venus!!
smeltriver09 she looked her best here . to think she pushed thru horrific bouts of depression to create the songs she did- what a beautiful warrior
A chorus in your eyes , another "Round of Blues" ...... So Awesome !!!!
This song brings so many good memories. Back then I didn't know what it meant I just love listening to her voice and the beat. Now that I know more English I like this song even more. Thanks for the good memories
She was beautiful and talented. She probably still is in 2013!
crackerman3772! Yes, she is something of an inspiration, all right - and in 2018!
love her voice
Shawn Colvin Rounds Of Blues is one of unheard and my personal favorite song
love this old tune.
Love this album and Shawn.
U R great ❤
Along way from Carbondale...I love your music from the get go..❤
This is the ninety-est of nineties songs you will ever hear
and angelic voice ,great thought-provoking songs ,and beautiful guitar arrangements. One of my favorite all-time songs and videos
Mesmerizing!
brookdalebill I can't just listen to this song once. it puts me in a trance and I have to sit and listen to it over and over again. Shawn is very easy on the eyes.
I'm with you...strange how that happens...
I totally agree, very beguiling tune, I have it saved on replay (see my comment below) and can listen over n' over!
Amazing song
Unforgettable song!
A great track when it first came out, and still a great song now.
her voice is as fucking beautiful as her lyrics! x33
Thx Shawn - love you!
Love this song--hear it every morning at the Corner Bakery Cafe!!
Very hot in this vid.
Love it!!!!!
Shawn can still lay it down even with a broken G string! This one of my favorite songs of hers.
I used to hear this song in Publix. Love this song.
Its fun to hear the way she throws her voice around, up and down, in trills and rolls. Kinda like my canary does.
wow so great
I found this song one day. So love it. Shame, it took so many years to hear it.
Ti amo!
Found this last night. Brilliant!
Gabriel to Shawn " here are Your wings!!" Shawn ;" Aw Shucks!!'
Great voice. Great video!
Had a memorial service today...I knew, at some point, this song would come up....here we go again...healing....
she's from south dakota, vermillion
Shawn is a true treasure!
Cheers!
FrankC36evolving
a lot of Zack Snyder´s perfect shots!!!
Ееее Zack Snyder 😎
@VanityKillsABC Good ear! Joni actually played percussion on the song Object of My Affection on this album. She met Joni because Joni's husband at the time (Larry Klein) produced much of the album and played bass on it.
Rien n'a dire toujours au top 2022🍺🍻🍻💯🇳🇨🇳🇨💯
❤❤❤
Private: ‘Blue Sun’ ‘Twin Flames’
January 10, 2023 - Austin - Happy Birthday Shawn Colvin
Blue Sun -
I used to dream in colors
now I dream only in blue
since the rainbow came
surrounding me with you
it circled the sun
it lasted all day
I watched the colors run down
into the sea
till there was nothing left
but eternal blue
surrounding me
with my vision of you
encircling my heart
a kaleidoscope of blue
twin flames on the horizon
singing our song in flashes that night
twin souls as one voice singing
along to that brilliant sight
I shine on you
you shine on me
both of us are sacred
bound by Divine light
I’m bound to you
you’re bound to me
like deep blue
is bound to the sea
it was the last day
of Saint Peter’s festival
in Gloucester on the beach
when the rainbow came
so far out of reach
with the colors of our dream
a halo rainbow around the sun
there to teach
that nothing is as it seems
except this love of many colors
sent to us from above
binding me to you
many colors bleeding into
one blue sun
sinking not receding
the color that will not run
end
I wrote this during ‘Occupy Boston’ and took the train down to Gloucester for the festival and while on the beach this phenomenon did occur. It lasted all afternoon and everyone saw it. I’ve never seen anything like that before or since. And from that beach you can see the twin lighthouses prominently so I thought I’d insert ‘Twin Flames’ here. Wishing you a blessed birthday Angel/Candlekin. Peace
Twin Flames
when we are touched by beauty
we know we’ll never be the same
loving forever becomes our duty
to breathe gently on the flame
when all around me was base and mean
you more than touched me
I was filthy
but you kept my soul clean
you showed me where she’d be
you did more than show the way
you wrapped me in the blanket of her voice
you did not let me stray
even when I had free choice
when I begged for one touch
you held me in both hands
where the cold was too much
you laid me down in warm sands
when I was sure I was all alone
you let me see her
and to know
that she had known all along
that we were of one flame
one eternal love song
it was she who breathed so soft
until I became able
to conceive of the loft
from whence she came
to help me breathe on my own
as part of a twin flame
here I have outgrown
the need to know
how we burn
or how two can be one
having forever to learn how to see
that two
always have been three
end
I was reading ‘A Course In Miracles’ when I wrote this. The book posited correctly I think that the ego interferes with our ability to perceive or ‘hear’ or ‘feel’ the gentle promptings of the Holy Spirit or other spiritual influences but when we get it out of the way we can be led to beautiful insights and realizations as I was led to realize that you are my guardian angel Shawn. So, thank you for guiding me through a nightmare with your beautiful voice, spirit and example. I’d like to think I’m ‘home’ now and safe. I’m content. I love you forever my beloved darling Shawn Colvin. Kisses. Michelle
@arthurshepherd8757 Shawn Colvin Round Of Blues is one of my personal favorite song!
3:17
Brandon Moore I knew you when you were a dinosaur back when the Celts were new on the scene. I met you in battle and you beat me down a cosmic stream of forgetfulness but now we're here and now we 'know' that it's safe in the stratosphere with all the fire breathing love eating dragons of yore Merry Christmas to you dear friend. Love. Clan Colvin@@brandonmoore7497
great
Der havde jeg gerne været, sikken magi
Anthony Peake brought me here 😊
Na rubu znanosti ;)
What kind of lives do the ones who disliked this video lead? We know they are insane.
Great song Great album. Tragic 1992 haircut. Sad 90s music video set in the obligatory dusty southwestern gas station.
wow,i'm liking this!
Lord she was hot.
Shawn is a great artist and has a great collection of albums
Each one an absolute treat
Had 'A Few Small Repairs' and 'Whole New You' on earlier; might slip on 'Fat City' later for a Colvin Day
A great one indeed
@terrybeaton You said it, I completely agree. You describe her perfectly.
Ja takoder.
:)
Yeah, read it! Snookie apparently ran a bar somewhere in the southwest desert!
@terrybeaton You said it, I completely agree. You describe her perfectly.
J.J
Just saw her perform with KT Tunstall. Both are amazing talents. Sadly, Shawn did not feel like playing much of her own music that night. Still great!
love it!
I love Shawn. the last time I saw her in concert she had gained 50 -60 pounds. I
did not recognize her.
If you like Shawn Colvin, you'll also probably like Mary Chapin Carpenter.
Agreed!
Ah yeah. I second that!
this is my first time hearing this song, since i was only 5 or so when this came out. Its a great song, catchy and great lyrics! Is she still making music??
It's Mike Nagy!!!!
Loved every second of it, found out about you from The Simpsons.
A round of real distance from 700+ days , not today.
January 10, 2024 - Maine - Another Round of Blues Please, Make Mine a Double
January 10, 2023 - Austin
Happy Birthday Shawn Colvin
Angel/Candlekin
Goddess King of Orion
My Everything
What A Broken Heart Is
When you meet an angel
and she catches your eye
your feet turn to stone
as she leaves for the sky
knowing you’re too heavy to fly
that’s what a broken heart is
she says it’s her birthday
and you say…”mine too”
one ten fifty six
she’s says it’s significant
not for her
for you
that’s what a broken heart is
thirty five years fly by
you’re gettin’ ready to die
will she say hello
as you pass through her sky?
I know the answer
that’s what a broken heart is
84000 different delusions
plus or minus one
she says that’s zen
there will be a place for you
she doesn’t say where
she doesn’t know when
it all makes you stronger
if you ache
if you wait that much longer
but you ‘know’ she wasn’t talking to you
you’d rather be crazy
than be tied to what’s true
left inside
after she locks up fate’s zoo
we came down together
maybe I’m goin’ home alone
and I try to be brave
but synchronicity
and parallel universe theory
will have me rollin’ in my grave
it’s bad enough how fate unwinds
without the slap in the face
who has to suffer
and who gets grace
who gets found
who gets lost without a trace
but that’s what a broken heart is
then I think about how you got through
when I don’t know what to do
how you reached inside
and pulled yourself out
how you cried
when you were full of doubt
somethings are the way they are
and words just can’t explain
so you color them blue
you just keep walkin’
and you try to stay true
then a little voice reminds me
"you can sing too"
that’s what a broken heart makes you do
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And I can't help thinking that that little voice belongs to you Angel/Candlekin so I do and I will for you. Forever for you. Peace
Dear blessed beloved eternal Angel/Candlekin, I would like to take this occasion, our 68th birthday, to express to you something of how your song: ‘Cry Like An Angel’ has affected me all these years. The first time I heard it was, synchronistically enough on the occasion of our shared 32nd birthday at Passim where you said it was your birthday and I said: “mine too” (like the Beatles song) and showed you my license and you said: “I’m sure this is significant somehow”. A very cruel thing to do to a philosophy major who had studied Jung deeply because of all the synchronicity he had already experienced prior to that occasion. So, I was sufficiently shocked and bewildered to be struck dumb and left without asking the obvious question: “like how exactly?”. Of course it would have taken the fun out of it and some eventual jail and hospital time if you’d told me then so I just left and thought about it for 35 years. I didn’t tell you that I had a D28 just like yours. I didn’t know that we both were sober in AA for 5 years and I had my medallion on me. Did you? I didn’t know that we both were avid runners or that we were born on the exact same parallel of latitude 42.77 during the great ice storm of 1956 that featured the lowest barometric pressure reading ever recorded to that date. Check it out yourself. Or that it was called an ‘anti-cyclone because it rotated counterclockwise (like us) or like me at least and it travelled from east to west. You were born in a town along that parallel that started with Vermill and me in a town on the other end that ended with Verhill. Or that we both were afraid of horses. I didn’t tell you that I was a voice major (having finished philosophy) at UMB as part of my therapy of 5 years 2x’week that I was in the middle of because of the trauma of having had a 20 y.o. man urinate in my mouth when I was 10 while his two friends laughed hysterically. Ask Betty Jo Salmeron, MD how many sessions I wept through while realizing how much damage had been done by all the abuse I suffered. I gave you notarized permission to do so. Did you? But as fate would have it I found out I could sing and after a semester of caterwauling through excruciating voice lessons I went through chorus, then chamber singers and got invited into the UMB Jazz Ensemble ‘The UMBiance Singers’ and that we would perform at the NY State College Jazz Festival around the time you were doing the Philadelphia Folk Festival but I was really studying folk music with Geoff Bartley at the time and I had potential but was well behind you due to the extra trauma I went through and yet there I was shaking your hand after all that on a parallel path. We both set fires as kids. Both went camping in Rambler station wagons. Both hated school. Both had parts in ‘The King and I’. Both of us got abused by our fathers for leaving the cellar door open. Both had deep issues with our mothers. Both Scottish on the father’s side. My paternal grandmother was born in Scotland according to my mother who said she had “a beautiful singing voice’. I was the only one in my family who sung so I didn’t share the blessing you had in that respect. You were 42.5 when you gave birth. My mother was 42.5 when she gave birth to me. My only sister died 11 days before your only daughter was born. I started learning your songs starting with ‘Knowing What I Know Now’ with Geoff Bartley and did play them in the subway for awhile. Your line: “may we all find salvation in professions that heal” helped propel me into social work school though I did have motivation of my own wanting to do 12th step work on an advanced level I guess. And because you so freaked me out that I could not help but feel as if this song had special cosmic, mystical relevance to me even though you wrote it before that occasion I think but around the same time cause I met you first in ’87 when I said to you: “you’re the best singer I ever heard”. I have asked myself a million times: “what are the odds that the only person I ever said that to, while I was a voice major singing through deep trauma, would turn out to be the only person I ever met to this day born the same day let alone being present on that shared and pivotal birthday? Astronomical to the point of absolute impossibility. So, can you forgive me now for having a deep, abiding, secret thought that somehow I had a cosmic, mystical connection to you that would compel me to write over 100 poems to and about you? So, like significant how exactly? Are you in Heaven? Are you listening? I hope so. I would like that. btw I don't cook either. Peace
We Love and worship you forever beautiful great wise good and graceful Geoff Bartley 'Godfather Of Folk'. Kisses
Shawn Michelle Callie
The cool outdo was cut. Boo!
Where is the location of the diner they were in?