Speak to me so tenderly. Its heartfelt chords and haunting backups will chill your soul and many will be crying by the end of the song. Dan Rittenhouse gives hope to those grieving in his Poem . The Blue Note Boys have a new one to jam with, doing pieces in a members only room, music that lifts the spirit away from tragedy, which waits just behind the next open door, tragedy that waits while our lungs fail, like an asthmatic gasping for an open window, from air that is too hot to breathe. Very deep stuff, maybe a bit too intense for some considering the circumstances, yet we all handle things our own way.
Reality can bring personal fears to the surface and the truth can be refreshing medicine.
Sitting Here by the Outsiders starts off with a Doors feeling and builds into a tone poem that one would almost expect to be hearing in a 60's full of smoke New York City coffee house. This song reminds me of thought patterns, i.e. confusion, realization, yet interuptions by underlying unanswered questions. I would label this song genius all the way through and its ending is a smooth harmonic pleasure. Though Joel 's guitars are now silent, they play on in memory. When I'm with you, I get lost in my mind.