***BONUS POST*** - Week One Hundred and Thirty-Nine: Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová - "Falling Slowly" - Once Soundtrack

Yes, my dearest Blogland readers, you are getting a ***BONUS POST*** this week. "Why?" you ask.... Well, it's a combination of the fact that I have today off from work, that I am procrastinating because I really need to be shopping for some new work clothes, and that I had the pleasure of seeing Once at the Winspear Opera House yesterday afternoon (indeed, the same place where I just saw Brian Setzer a few weeks back)!

A friend with whom I used to teach contacted me a few months ago and told me that Once was coming to town, and we just had to see it! Now, I knew that it was based on a movie, and I knew that it was also based on a sweet little tale that centered around music. What I did not know is that it included a song that had appeared on my Pandora station quite a few times in recent months. I kept telling myself that I needed to create a post about this particular tune, but for whatever reason, I would talk myself out of it and post about something else. Perhaps it was just the universe's way of telling me that another, more appropriate opportunity would present itself in the near future. Below is the cover of the playbill and my ticket stub...

 

I don't know you, but I want you
All the more for that
Words fall through me and always fool me
And I can't react

And games that never amount
To more than they're meant
Will play themselves out

Take this sinking boat and point it home
We've still got time
Raise your hopeful voice you have a choice
You've made it now

Falling slowly, eyes that know me
And I can't go back
The moods that take me and erase me
And I'm painted black

Well, you have suffered enough
And warred with yourself
It's time that you won

Take this sinking boat and point it home
We've still got time
Raise your hopeful voice, you have a choice
You've made it now

Falling slowly sing your melody
I'll sing it loud