Spirit of the West

Last night, TT and I went out for dinner with some friends in Yaletown and then headed over to the Commodore hoping to get tickets for the sold out Spirit of the West concert. A friend of ours was teasing me about Secreting myself into the concert. He kept asking me if I was visualizing getting the tickets.

I realized at that point that I wasn't at all visualizing getting tickets but I was seeing TT and I in the Commodore with our friends and having a great time. Well, we got there and walked up to the ticket window and asked if they had any tickets and they did. We paid and walked right in. During the show in a moment of stillness and presence, I looked around at my friends and the band on stage and thought, "yep, this is pretty much exactly how I saw it in my mind."

We had a really great time. During the show, they introduced one of their songs called Goodbye Grace. One of the other guys in the band sings this one, not the usual singer. He said he wrote it about his son who was born prematurely at Grace Hospital. They spent 3 months at the hospital not knowing what was going to happen or if he would even live. Then he said that this is the first time they have played at the Commodore that his son could walk in through the front door with everyone else. But, he still preferred to come in the back door with his dad. Then his 19 year old son came out on stage and joined them for the song, playing the tambourine and a shaker. It was sweet and such a lovely song. The whole moment was a bit of a tear jerker. Even for the robot.

Here are the lyrics to Goodbye Grace

the angel watching over me
was needed someplace else
kicked out the feet from under me
and watched me fall to earth
i learned a thing or two, you know it
it's true
goodbye grace
there are no words i'd rather say
than goodbye grace
never want to see your face again
three long months of going steady
no promises were ever made
everyday hands scrubbed and ready
to rock the cradle with you grace
i am indebted to you, you know it
it's true
goodbye grace
there are no words i'd rather say
than goodbye grace
never want to see your face again
valentine's day and i'm walking your wings again
i don't come with red ribbons or a long stemmed rose
my heart is pounding hard in my chest again
i need you now, and everything you know
i am indebted to you, you know it, you know it
it's true