DESCRIPTION:
Live performance of "The Gathering of Spirits" by Carrie Newcomer
Performed at the Buskirk Chumley Theatre in Bloomington, IN
Produced by WTIU

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FULL LYRICS:
Let it go my love, my truest, .et it sail on silver wings
Life's a twinkling and that's for certain, but it's such a fine thing
There's a gathering of spirits, there's a festival of friends
And we'll take up where we left off, when we all meet again

I can't explain it, I couldn't if I tried
How the only things we carry are the things we hold inside
Like a day in the open, like the love we won't forget
Like the laughter that we started and it hasn't died down yet

Let it go my love, my truest, .et it sail on silver wings
Life's a twinkling and that's for certain, but it's such a fine thing
There's a gathering of spirits, there's a festival of friends
And we'll take up where we left off, when we all meet again

Oh yeah, now didn't we and don't we make it shine
Aren't we standing in the center of something rare and fine
Some glow like embers, like a light through colored glass
Some give it all in one great flame, throwing kisses as they pass

Let it go my love, my truest, .et it sail on silver wings
Life's a twinkling and that's for certain, but it's such a fine thing
There's a gathering of spirits, there's a festival of friends
And we'll take up where we left off, when we all meet again

East of Eden, but there's Heaven in our midst
And we're never really all that far from those we loved and miss
Wade out in the water, there's a glory all around
And the wisest say there's a 1000 ways to kneel and kiss the ground

Let it go my love, my truest, .et it sail on silver wings
Life's a twinkling and that's for certain, but it's such a fine thing
There's a gathering of spirits, there's a festival of friends
And we'll take up where we left off, when we all meet again
And we'll take up where we left off, when we all meet again.

Carrie Newcomer's music has always explored the intersection of the spiritual and the daily, the sacred and the ordinary. Over the course of her career she has become a prominent voice for progressive spirituality, social justice and interfaith dialogue. Her ability for sharp observation of the world lead the Dallas Morning News to rave, "She's the kind of artist whose music makes you stop, think and then say, 'that is so true.'" She has been described as "a soaring songstress" by Billboard, a "prairie mystic" by the Boston Globe and Rolling Stone has declared that Newcomer "asks all the right questions." Author Barbara Kingsolver wrote, "She's a poet, storyteller, snake-charmer, good neighbor, friend and lover, minister of the wide-eyed gospel of hope and grace."