What an amazing big voice. What an incredible presence you could feel her pain in the words she belted out. You could feel the joy and the love and the fear. It was a beautiful set of songs and in just under a week of having her latest album "Head or Heart", I've already fallen in love with a couple of her new songs.
The first song that brought me to tears was her new song "The Words". It's a song about new love about being raw, and real, and going deeper. Why the tears? I remember that moment. That moment where I realized I was deep, deep in love. It was raw, and real, and scary. "The scariest part is letting go." So very true. Letting go, trusting. Believing. Believing you deserve love. Believing you can give love. Trusting that this time, this time you won't fail at the rest of the puzzle because as beautiful as love can be, it's only a piece of the bigger puzzle of a healthy, functioning relationship. And it's scary to let go and dive in.
Near the end of the concert, Christina sang "I believe", also from her new album. Again, the tears came, for who hasn't felt the pain of losing themselves? I know I have. A few times. (Um, you did read the paragraph preceding this one....right?) She dedicated this song to the audience. Noted that there were surely those of us in the crowd that may not have been having the best of days, or weeks, that she was going to fill the room up with love and surround us with it.
Eerily familiar. And I found myself taking a step back and really absorbing the energy of the crowd and sending out to BFF (she's sick!), Heini (for obvious reasons) and to EQ (because I love him!) - redirecting all that beautiful energy.
The emotion of her words are raw, add in how passionately she plays the piano and voilà: magic. A snippet of her lyrics:
‘Cause I have been where you are before
And I have felt the pain of losing who you are
And I have died so many times, but I am still alive
This is not the end of me, this is the beginning
(Hold on)
This is not the end of me, this is the beginning
And then she had the audience join in chorus. Much like this live version on Youtube. How incredibly powerful. Arizona and I were in section A. Our task was to sing "This is not the end of me, this is the beginning." Very apropos given the journey I've had over the past two years. The audience at the Danforth Music Hall great and much more into it than the video online.....we actually sang the band off the stage and kept it going for quite a few repeats. It was such a beautiful moment....tears rolling down my face and all.
During the encore, she played one of my favourite songs from her first album. "Penguin" It's more a cute fun song about soul mates. It's always choked me up.
It was a beautiful set of songs, performed by an extremely talented young lady.
Moments just feeling the music and lyrics.
Moments soaking in all that beautiful, loving energy and sharing it out again to those in need.
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