grace

Grace is an angel, Grace is absurd
In the face of anger, she brings me kisses undeserved
Ralston Bowles, Carwreck Conversations (cd), 2004-Soft Butter Records

Do you ever read or hear something and think, "man, i wish i had written that"?----ummm, yeah, it happens to me several times a day, usually more---today i was listening to some music that i am not even sure where i got it from and in the middle of it was this song, "Grace"---i know, there are a gazillion songs named "Grace" and a lot of them are great songs--e.g. "Grace" the Irish song about Grace Gifford and Joseph Mary Plunkett, an IRA leader who was captured at the GPO (General Post Office) during the Easter uprising in 1916 in Dublin--and their tragic one-night marriage before his execution at dawn the next day--Anthony Kearns of the Irish Tenors does a great version---you can find it on YouTube---no, that all deserves more time than i have or energy for tonight--------but i had heard the Ralston Bowles song, well a lot of times, and I guess I had never really listened to the lyrics--it is a pleasant enough melody--no, it is a good melody with just his voice and either a mandolin or a guitar played in a high octave that is kinda folk, maybe kinda country--but tonight for some reason I heard the lyrics and then had to look them up on the web to make sure i had heard them right----the lyrics are more than good enough to stand alone as poetry, but the song with his voice and phrasing--well i am going to try to order the CD from Amazon before i go to bed--the lines I quoted--i hope i can remember them well enough to quote often==="Grace is an angel, Grace is absurd/in the face of anger, she brings me kisses undeserved"----- and isn't that what grace is supposed to be? mercy or kindness given to us when we don't deserve it---good stuff
-will-