paroles de chanson Intro to A Song for You (Live at The Red Room, Chicago, 9/7/2023) - Mike Maimone

Thank you guys, thank you so much
Uhm, alright
Yeah, for real this is
We, we are celebrating tonight, so if you want
Be loud, have fun, uhm, we're
We're celebrating a remarkable man
My husband Howard Bragman
Please give it up for Howard

Check-check
We're also recording it
So, Shane, you good down there? We good?
(I'm good)
Cool, give it up for Shane down in the basement
He's recording (yeah)
Uhm, yeah, yeah, you can, yeah

So, ah
When we lost Howard I, I didn't know what
Ah, just so you know
You've been cat-fished into attending like a therapy session
Ah, when we (look pretty good for a catfish)
Touché

Uh, when-when, when we lost Howard I didn't know what to do, and
For a few months I couldn't do anything
And I realized that the thing that was missing was music
And I couldn't really put my emotions into words yet, into songs
So my, my therapy became to just learn the songs
That were really important to us

And so I want to start at the start, uh
What Howard first said to me on Scruff
And if you don't know what Scruff is
Ask the nearest gay person, they'll tell you, uh
Ah, he said you sound very soulful
Like the love child of, ah, Leon Russell and Randy Newman
And I was like this is not the ordinary Scruff message
So we trade (I thought it was Tom Waits and Dr. John)
Okay, yeah, that's a good one too

But, ah, he, he'd name-checked two of my favorite artists, and so I
I reached out to him and we traded numbers right away, and
Leon was definitely one of those special artists for us
And I never learned this song
And it, it would of only made sense that, that I did
So part of my therapy was learning this song, and
And playing it for him now

This is "A Song For You"