Het is altijd genieten van de intense optredens van de Ierse singer/songwriter Damien Rice, zoals hier van zijn lied Trusty And True. Het komt van zijn album My Favourite Faded Fantasy uit 2014 en hij speelt het tijdens een huiskamerconcert in Parijs i 2017.

Het nummer begint rustig en ingetogen, maar opeens is daar een tweede stem van een vrouw, waardoor ik kippenvel krijg. En vervolgens gaan geleidelijk aan meer mensen uit het publiek (ik vermoed leden van een koor) uit volle borst & meerstemmig mee zingen. Ik krijg er tranen van in mijn ogen!

Trusty And True
We’ve wanted to be trusty and true,
but feathers fell from our wings.
And we’ve wanted to be worthy of you,
but weather rained on our dreams.

And we can’t take back,
what is done, what is past.
So fellas, lay down your fears.
‘Cause we can’t take back,
what is done, what is past.
So let us start from here.

We never wanted to be lusty or lewd,
nor tethered to prudish strings.
We never wanted to be jealously tuned,
nor withered into ugly things.

But we can’t take back,
what is done, what is past.
So fellas, lay down your spears.
‘Cause we can’t take back,
what is done, what is past.
So let us start from here.

And if all that you are,
is not all you desire.
Then come.

Come, come alone,
come with fear, come with love.
Come however you are.
Just come, come alone,
come with friends, come with foes,
Come however you are.
Just come, come alone,
come with me, then let go.
Come however you are.
Just come, come alone,
come so carefully closed.
Come however you are,
just come.

Come, come along,
come with sorrows and songs.
Come however you are.
Just come, come along,
come let yourself be wrong.
Come however you are,
just come.

Come let yourself be wrong.
Come it’s already begun.