Indigo Girls - Come on Home - Benaroya Hall 9-12-2012 Seattle, WA

[@lemlimelemonlime4300]

Exquisite!!! Thank you Ladies!!! ♥ ♥ ♥

[@tantraman10]

Saw them, last, with the Tucson Symphony Orchestra. The combination of their voices, the exquisite lyrics....and the lush backing of the orchestra....OMG....

[@sonyablackie]

Thank you for posting this! I was there and what an awesome concert! Thought I had the entire encore on video, but my phone wigged out. Anyway, this was a lovely song!

[@pamshappydogs]

I take everything she writes so personally-I guess we all do, in a way, with the artists we love most. This song has always seemed to capture the love she has to give, and does, to someone...some very blessed someone. "The team you're hitched to has a mind of its own," reminds me of the Buddhist sayings about Monkey Mind and comparing our thoughts to a horse running away with us rather than controlled by us--and in this song, she's warning her loved one not to let their thoughts get the best of them--"don't believe everything you think"--and remember the important things--the one important thing: Love. There are always so many spiritual allusions in their music: "It's always like the scene of the last supper here," and "There's a bag of silver for a box of nails/It's so simple the betrayal/Though it's known to change the world and what's to come." Thoughts of the sacred and how personal and relevant on a daily basis is are never far from these two women who I admire with all of my might. With all of my heart, which is always, always yours. Namaste, Pam Come On Home-- INDIGO GIRLS-Emily Saliers Dark clouds are comin' like an army Soon the sky will open up and disarm me You will go just like you've gone before One sad soldier off to war, enemies that only you can see. Dishes stacked, the table cleared It's always like the scene of the last supper here You speak so cryptically that's not news to me The flood is here it will carry you And I've got work to do. Come on home, the team you're hitched to has a mind of its own But it's just the forces of your past you've fought before Come back here and shut the door I'm stacking sandbags against the river of your troubles. There is fire there is lust Some will trade it all for someone they could trust There's a bag of silver for a box of nails It's so simple the betrayal Though it's known to change the world and what's to come. Just come on home, the team you're hitched to has a mind of its own But it's just the forces of your past you've fought before Don't you recognize them anymore I'm stacking sandbags against the river of your troubles. There's the given and the expected I count my blessings while I eye what I've neglected Is this for better is this for worse You're all jammed up and the dam's about to burst. I hear the owl in the night I realize that some things never are made right By some will we string together here Days to months and months to years What if everything we have adds up to nothing. Come on home, the team you're hitched to has a mind of its own But it's just the forces of your past you've fought before Come back here and shut the door I'm stacking sandbags against the river of your troubles.

[@CHill-lg6mj]

You're right! Can you explain why she's stacking sandbags? Isn't that a defense against the neglectful person?