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Almost Like Being in Love
One day I was leaving the barn where I ride and found myself singing this song. Now trust me, peppy songs have never been my thing. On top of that I had no idea I even knew the words. Well, it just flowed out of me and I knew then that I would open the show with it. It brought full circle my love of and my faith in humankind.
The Look of Love
I don't know -- this song just melted into the core of me when I was a girl. the melody just lilts and the lyric is so simple and profound. Burt Bacharach and Hal David at their best.
I'll Be Your Baby Tonight
Hey, what can I say -- I will never get tired of singing this song. Bob Dylan at his raw best. Lusty love song.
On the Street Where You Live
This song lives in a deep and private part of me, the place where nothing -- not truth, not beauty, not even the muse -- is more important than loving and being loved. This song is part of my eternal quest to sing and to write the ultimate love song.
Moon River
Before the night this was recorded I had never sung this song except along with the Audrey Hepburn movie. Didn't even sing it in the shower. Didn't even sing it in rehearsal. We just found the key and the bossa groove. It was so much fun and I was so stoked because people were digging it and singing along with me.
I've Got You Under My Skin
For me this song is about body. Body craving. Body needing. Body wanting. Body missing. Body being willing to do anything to get what body wants but no body is there. The ineluctable torture of being human.
Quiet Nights
The embodiment of music, this song. The meaning of music. The cosmos where music was born comes directly and sweetly through this song. The ephemeral of all existence.
God Bless the Child
This is a lonely song and it's taken me all my life to be able to sing it with a sweet reverence. Ode to the human condition. Ode to the life of a woman.
Midnight Sun
Single-handedly the most beautiful and most difficult song in history. Can you believe those lyrics? Alabaster palace and Aurora Borealis. I heard this song when I was a girl and the night of recording LAVENDER was the first time I ever sang it for people. It heats and melts in my mouth.
One Note Samba
I wasn't even sure if John knew this song, but I feel so comfortable with him that we just held hands and dove off the cliff. I would like to sing this song for about an hour straight some day with a real Brazilian percussion section. Talk about flying!
Alfie
I realize now that as a child this song was a philosophical anthem for me. Then, I used to comfort myself with it. I'd sing it on the rooftops in Mexico. It was like having a mother hold me and tell me about life and love and what kind of woman to grow up to be. I love this song.
It Was a Very Good Year
All my life I loved singing songs that only men sang. But I always kept the gender-bending to myself. Until now. The human soul knows no limitations and no boundaries. I am this song when I sing it.
A Song for You
Songs are like people. Some of them you just love immediately and forever. The roots go so deep And you never see the end of them. This song lives in my roots.
House of the Rising Sun
This song is connected to the Wagnerian passion of my youth. I sang it in Acapulco when I was thirteen at a large patio restaurant for about two or three hundred people. Neither they nor I knew what was coming. I got up there with the house band and knocked everybody out. People were yelling and clapping and asking for more. I didn't know what to do. So in a daze I walked off stage. All I knew was that after that I was never the same. A torch singer was born.
What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?
To me this song is about deeply refined romantic love. The melody is mysterious. Just like love. The melody is difficult. Just like love. In truth it's hard to talk about. Just like love... Singing this song takes great trust and faith. Just like love. But the need to sing, just like the need to love, is stronger than all my fears.
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