Last week Jeff took me to a concert, so this week I took him to see Dar Williams. Obviously it was a great concert, since Dar herself is awesome. (The Ben Taylor Band opened for her and were pretty good too, I thought.) I didn't know most of the songs she performed, since I'd only heard the songs on Mortal City, but it was lovely to hear them first in concert, and I love just listening to her gorgeous, full, flexible voice (the performer's voice that mine will never be). The two encore songs were from Mortal City: Iowa
and As Cool As I Am,
which is my very favorite of all her songs. I hoped during the entire concert that she would play As Cool As I Am,
and when she did, I got up and danced, like most of the audience as well.
You play the artist, saying,
Is it how she moves, or how she looks?
I say, it's loneliness suspended to our own like grappling hooks,
And as long as she's got noise, she's fine.
But I could teach her how I learned to dance when the music's ended