This Grateful Season - Music Like This

Tonight we saw Brandi Carlile at the Orpheum Theater and ho.ly.shit. what a show.We didn't have plans to go. A friend of a friend, who has now become a better friend, flat our bought us tickets. No real reason except that I commented on his Facebook status when he mentioned the show.I am a lucky girl because music and I have a complicated relationship to say the least, but the Universe is always trying to sneak it in on me. Tonight was a shining example of being brought back to the bare bones of the sounds, having voices in three-part harmony prickle your skin. Listening to lyrics that cut through my own numb soul, desires and aches laid out and sung to the rooftops.Sometimes I think, maybe I'll write a few songs, open the vein and let that blood flow again. There's gotta be something to it still for me. And I know I'll never be even half as good as what I saw tonight, but thank goodness someone is out there busting their ass to keep the torch burning.pride and joy - brandi carlileI believe this to be true There's nothing sacred, nothing new No one tells you when its time There are no warnings, only signsAnd you know that you're alone You're not a child anymore but you're still scared All your mountains turn to rocks All your oceans turn to drops They are nothing like you thoughtYou can't be something you are notLife is not a looking glass Don't get tangled in your pastlike I am learning not toWhere are you now? Do you let me down? Do you make me grieve for you? Do I make you proud? Do you get me now? Am I your pride and joy?