ben taylor is sweet

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nothing i can do - ben taylor
ben wrote this song about his mom, carly simon. ben is probably the only singer whose show i have been to whose mom could audibly be heard between songs shouting from the crowd at the sound guys to "lower the bass" and "raise the vocals." funny. this indeed happened once upon a time many weeks ago at joe's pub. he handled it like a champ. because he is sweet. it was actually more helpful than bossy on her part, too. ben says his mom always wants to know if he has written any songs about her. (insert you're so vain joke here). this song is for mom, says ben. it's from his 2005 album, another run around the sun. [buy]

first morning ever to have seen the sun
must have run the other way
until she found that it was only getting earlier that way
when she spun one-hundred eighty degrees
and beheld the sweet light rising through the trees
she fell to her knees and she began to smile, because
she had been in darkness for a long long while,
she said
there is nothing that i can do but belong to you
heaven and earth and i find myself
singing this song for you
as luck would have it, it just so happens that there's
nothing i'd rather do ...

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