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00:00:03Next, on Great Performances...
00:00:05If you will open your hymnals to page six.
00:00:07Church is in session when Josh Groban takes to the stage
00:00:11in London's intimate Union Chapel for an unforgettable concert
00:00:14featuring iconic songs from the silver screen.
00:00:17This is the Godfather theme. I'm going to sing you a song I can't refuse.
00:00:26Legendary hits from the Broadway stage...
00:00:29Nothing's gonna harm you...
00:00:31Not while I'm around...
00:00:35Personal favorites...
00:00:37I've looked at life from both sides now...
00:00:41From women losing still somehow...
00:00:46And uplifting classics...
00:00:48You raise me up...
00:00:51So I can stand for content...
00:00:55This has been a total dream come true to come back here tonight
00:00:57And sing some songs that have meant a lot to me.
00:01:00Josh Groban...
00:01:01An Evening at Union Chapel...
00:01:03Starts right now.
00:01:04You raise me up...
00:01:07To more than I can be...
00:01:14Major funding for Great Performances is provided by...
00:01:22And by contributions to your PBS station from viewers like you.
00:01:34Hi.
00:01:55I'm doing well.
00:01:56You have the best two missions that have been united in the world over 10 years.
00:01:56I can't recommend you interview the
00:02:04Don't give up, it's just the weight of the world
00:02:14When your heart's heavy, I will lift it for you
00:02:21Don't give up, because you want to be heard
00:02:31If silence keeps you, I, I will break it for you
00:02:43Everybody wants to be understood
00:02:50Well, I can hear you
00:03:02Everybody wants to be loved
00:03:10Don't give up, because you are loved
00:03:29Don't give up, it's just the hurt that you hide
00:03:38When you're lost inside, I, I'll be there to find you
00:03:47Don't give up, because you want to burn bright
00:03:57If darkness blinds you, I, I will shine to guide you
00:04:09Everybody wants to be understood
00:04:16Well, I can hear you
00:04:27Everybody wants to be loved
00:04:35Don't give up, because you are loved
00:04:46You are loved
00:04:51You are loved
00:04:55You are loved
00:04:57You are loved
00:05:04Don't give up
00:05:06Don't give up
00:05:07Don't give up
00:05:10Everyone needs to be loved
00:05:21You are loved
00:05:21When your heart is feeling lonely
00:05:23When your voice cannot be heard
00:05:25You can't always see the end
00:05:28You can't always see the end
00:05:29You don't need to find the words
00:05:30You are someone I believe
00:05:32When the tears fall from above
00:05:35Golden red
00:05:36Golden red
00:05:36Now I'm with
00:05:37When I'm with you
00:05:38You are loved
00:05:42You are loved
00:05:51You are loved
00:06:00You are loved
00:06:01You are loved
00:06:31Hello, lovely London.
00:06:34It's so wonderful to see you again.
00:06:39To be back in this gorgeous place, and to be here after so many years, I was planning
00:06:45on coming back a lot more, and then, you know, a lot of things happened since I was here
00:06:51last.
00:06:52We've been through a pandemic, we've been through all kinds of turmoil in the world, and there
00:06:56is no place I would rather be than in this space with all of you to come back here to
00:07:00this glorious city.
00:07:01So thank you so much.
00:07:01You haven't changed a bit.
00:07:25You look at me with uncertainty.
00:07:30You look at me with fear in your eyes like you're about to fall away.
00:07:48But don't be afraid to change your colors now.
00:07:53I've known you all summer and you're all so long.
00:07:59I see you hesitate to fall now.
00:08:04But it's a pretty good view from down here too.
00:08:12And when the wind takes you, it takes me too.
00:08:18And when you change colors, I'll change mine too.
00:08:23Try not to think and I will try too.
00:08:29And when you let go, I will let go too.
00:08:36I knew you.
00:08:38I knew you when you were green and small, like a feather on a wind.
00:08:45So long.
00:08:47So long.
00:08:48You know I will miss you when you are gone.
00:08:52But don't be afraid.
00:08:54But don't be afraid if you just can't hang on.
00:08:57Or feel too long.
00:09:09I'm going to fightòng down here.
00:09:15I know and you are alone.
00:09:16And you are sorry.
00:09:25But don't be afraid I could HER interest
00:09:44The cold air is pushing hard on you
00:09:49I know what you're saying I can't feel too
00:09:54You'll go through changes, I'll go through them too
00:10:00But don't be afraid, oh no, don't be afraid
00:10:05Cause when the wind takes you, it takes me too
00:10:11And when you change colors, I'll change mine too
00:10:16Try not to think and I will try too
00:10:21And when you let go, I will let go too
00:10:57Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
00:11:16Thank you very much
00:11:19I wrote a song, you know, while we were going through the pandemic
00:11:24And I wanted to write a song that, you know, actually, you know what, now that I think about it,
00:11:31I actually wrote it before the pandemic.
00:11:32And it was one that has really rung true for me since then.
00:11:36It's a song about gratitude.
00:11:38It's a song about taking all the things that are in front of us when we have them and really,
00:11:44really taking them in, truly taking them in.
00:11:45If there was one small silver lining to all of that tragedy, it was that we really appreciated the here
00:11:50and now.
00:11:51I also wrote the song kind of about thinking about when I was younger.
00:11:53I am a student of arts education.
00:11:56I had a public arts education growing up in Los Angeles.
00:12:00And certainly in America, those programs are getting cut at a very, very drastic rate.
00:12:06And I always thank my folks for having a piano in the house.
00:12:11It's a very privileged thing that I had, a musical instrument in the house.
00:12:15So this one is for the here and now, and this one's for my folks.
00:12:18This is called Granted.
00:12:37Granted.
00:12:38Granted.
00:12:39Granted.
00:12:42Granted.
00:12:58Granted.
00:13:01Granted.
00:13:04Granted.
00:13:08Granted.
00:13:10Never take a single out.
00:13:12Never take a single breath for granted.
00:13:13The stories are yours.
00:13:16Go back.
00:13:18Tomorrow's unrecided.
00:13:20Dears are counted on this planet.
00:13:24So never take a single breath.
00:13:26Take a single breath for granted.
00:13:30Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
00:13:36Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
00:13:40Maybe it's time you bet on yourself
00:13:47Listen to your heart, just listen to your heart
00:13:51And nobody else
00:13:54So go find out who you are, only you know who you are
00:14:01So you have to lose is your best life. Yeah, so go ahead. If you have a dream, go on
00:14:10chase. If you feel hope, don't mess. If you find love and grace, never take a single breath for granted.
00:14:20The story's yours gone, tomorrow's a sight. I guess I count it on this planet. So never take a single
00:14:33breath, take a single breath for granted.
00:14:36Oh, oh, oh, oh.
00:14:43Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
00:14:49Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
00:14:50Sometimes the greatest of all, as you'll ever know, are where we'll let it go. So let go.
00:15:03Maybe our brightest day is still waiting for us, the unknown.
00:15:10Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
00:15:17If you have a dream, go on chase. If you feel hope, don't mess. If you find love and grace,
00:15:28never take a single breath.
00:15:30If you have a life, go find it
00:15:34The story's yours, go write
00:15:37The days that I'm counting on this planet
00:15:41So never take a single breath
00:15:43No, take a single breath
00:15:45Oh, oh, oh, oh
00:15:51Oh, oh, oh, oh
00:16:00Oh, oh, oh, oh
00:16:14Thank you very much
00:16:35Thank you very much
00:16:38Oh my goodness, I am so excited to have just the most amazing musicianship on stage with me tonight
00:16:42This is just so, so incredible
00:16:45And this gentleman here has been with me for my whole career
00:16:49We've been doing things like 5 a.m. TV shows when I was 18 years old
00:16:53Like everything, we've earned our grays together, truly
00:16:58I will say this song is a Celine Dion song
00:17:01Who is one of like my greatest heroes
00:17:03She's actually the reason why I'm even here
00:17:05Because I stood in, it's a whole long story
00:17:06You can read it and Google it
00:17:09My reverence and respect for Celine truly knows no bounds
00:17:13So when you're going to do a Celine song, you can't do it the way she did it
00:17:16She did it in English and that's like, that's it
00:17:18So we translated it into Spanish
00:17:21Mr. Tariq Oconi on the guitar, everybody
00:17:23Thank you
00:17:26Thank you
00:17:45Thank you
00:18:00Jamás sentà en el alma tanto amor
00:18:06Y nadie más que tú, mi amor
00:18:11Por ti rey, llorĂ©, renacĂ, cambiĂ©
00:18:19Lo que tuve, di, por tenerte aquĂ
00:18:25Y sé que despedirnos es mejor
00:18:32Sufriendo pagaré miedo
00:18:38Ya nada se da igual
00:18:41No tengo que aceptar
00:18:45Y hallar la fuerza en mĂ para este adiĂłs
00:18:51Aléjate, no puedo más
00:18:57Ya no hay manera de volver el tiempo atrás
00:19:05OlvĂdate de mĂ
00:19:07Y déjame seguir
00:19:11Solas con mi soledad
00:19:18Aléjate
00:19:19Y a ti mi otro
00:19:22Y me enseñaré a seguir sin tu calor
00:19:29Y jamás entenderé
00:19:34Qué fue lo que pasó
00:19:36Si nada puedo hacer
00:19:40Aléjate
00:19:56No voy a arrepentirme del ayer
00:20:03Amándote y ser mujer
00:20:07Por el amor aquel
00:20:13Por serte siempre fiel
00:20:16Hoy tengo que ser fuerte y aprender
00:20:22Aléjate
00:20:48Aléjate
00:20:50Y a ti mi otro
00:20:53Y a ti mi otro
00:20:54Y me enseñaré a seguir sin tu calor
00:21:00Y jamás entenderé
00:21:05Qué fue lo que pasó
00:21:07Si nada puedo hacer
00:21:11Aléjate
00:21:24Aléjate
00:21:35Aléjate
00:21:37Y a ti mi otro
00:21:38OlvĂdate de mĂ
00:21:40OlvĂdate de mĂ
00:21:41Y déjame seguir
00:21:45Solas con mi soledad
00:21:51Aléjate
00:21:53Y a ti, Dios, mi mercenaria, seguir sin tu calor, y jamás entenderé que fue lo que pasó, si nada
00:22:14puedo hacer, aléjate.
00:22:23Y a ti, Dios, mi mercenaria, seguir sin tu calor, y jamás entenderé que fue lo que pasó.
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00:35:01Thank you, Mr. Sondheim.
00:35:02For those incredible gifts.
00:35:07I think it is now my pleasure to welcome to the Union Chapel stage for the first time my
00:35:11wonderful Orianna Robbes, everybody.
00:35:13Show her your love.
00:35:21Hello.
00:35:25Welcome.
00:35:31But we're going to do one of our favorite songs.
00:35:34This is a Joni Mitchell song.
00:35:35We both, I know, really, really love Joni.
00:35:36And this is a song that is about perspective.
00:35:38And it's one of those songs that no matter when you sing it,
00:35:40where you sing it, it always touches a nerve.
00:35:44So thank you for joining me tonight.
00:35:46This is called Both Sides Now.
00:35:59Rows and flows of angel hair
00:36:03And ice-cream castles in the air
00:36:09And feathered canyons everywhere
00:36:13I've looked at clouds that way
00:36:17But now they only block the sun
00:36:23And rain and snow on everyone
00:36:28So many things I would have done
00:36:33But clouds got in my way
00:36:38I've looked at clouds from both sides now
00:36:42From up and down
00:36:45And still somehow
00:36:47Those clouds, illusions I recall
00:36:51I really don't know clouds
00:36:56At all
00:37:07Moons and dunes and the ferris wheels
00:37:11The dizzy dancing way you feel
00:37:16As every fairy tale comes real
00:37:21I've looked at love that way
00:37:26But now it's just another show
00:37:30You leave them laughing when you go
00:37:35And if you care, don't let them know
00:37:40Don't give yourself away
00:37:45Don't give yourself away
00:37:46I've looked at love from both sides now
00:37:51From give and take and still somehow
00:37:55It's love's illusions I recall
00:38:00I really don't know love
00:38:04At all
00:38:07At all
00:38:08At all
00:38:16Tears and fears and feeling proud
00:38:20To say I love you right out loud
00:38:25Dreams and schemes and circus cries
00:38:30I've looked at life that way
00:38:35But now old friends are acting strange
00:38:40They shake their heads
00:38:43They say I've changed
00:38:45Well something's lost
00:38:47Well something's lost
00:38:48But something's gained
00:38:50In living every day
00:38:55I've looked at life from both sides now
00:38:59From win and lose and still somehow
00:39:04It's life's illusions I recall
00:39:08I really don't know life
00:39:27I really don't know life at all
00:39:43I really don't know life at all
00:39:43I mean I don't know life at all
00:39:48I mean I don't know life at all
00:39:52You laugh at all
00:39:55You laugh at all
00:39:56You laugh at all
00:39:56I don't know life at all
00:39:57I'm working on a film song album
00:40:01Which I'm really excited about
00:40:02We're actually going to be doing
00:40:03Some sessions here
00:40:04While I'm here
00:40:06And there are so many incredible songs
00:40:09From the film music world
00:40:12and we haven't quite figured out like all the songs we want to do there's
00:40:15there's so many great ones and I kind of put out a request on social media to
00:40:19kind of tell me like which ones you thought and oh you've got lots of
00:40:21opinions on what what should be done please continue to send me your
00:40:25opinions this is a song that I just I just really really like and I wanted to
00:40:29do it for you tonight I'm gonna introduce it because I think you are you
00:40:32already know this is from one of your one of your greatest British legends of
00:40:35all time
00:40:52how could I just let you walk away that you'll be
00:40:57without a trace when I stand here taking every breath with you
00:41:06you'll be all
00:41:14how can you just walk away from me when all I can do is watch you leave
00:41:21cause we've shared the laughter and the pain and even shared the tears
00:41:29and you're the only one who really knew me at all
00:41:36so take a look at me now
00:41:40there's just an empty space and there's nothing left to remind me
00:41:48just the memory of your face take a look at me now
00:41:55there's just an empty space but to wait for you is against the eyes and it's all I've got to
00:42:06face
00:42:08oh
00:42:12I wish I could make you turn around
00:42:16turn around and see me cry
00:42:21there's so much I need to say
00:42:25so many reasons why
00:42:27you're the only one who really knew me at all
00:42:33so take a look at me now
00:42:39there's just an empty space
00:42:43there's nothing left here to remind me
00:42:47just the memory of your face
00:42:50take a look at me now
00:42:54there's just an empty space
00:42:58but to wait for you is all I can do
00:43:02and it's what I've got to face
00:43:07oh
00:43:11oh
00:43:17oh
00:43:18oh
00:43:18oh
00:43:19oh
00:43:19oh
00:43:20oh
00:43:20oh
00:43:21oh
00:43:22oh
00:43:23oh
00:43:26take a look at me now
00:43:30there's just an empty space
00:43:33But to wait for you is all I can do
00:43:38And it's what I've got to face
00:43:41Take a look at me now
00:43:45There's just an empty face
00:43:49You coming back to me is against the odds
00:43:53And it's what I've got to face
00:44:04Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,
00:44:19oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,
00:44:20oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,
00:44:20oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,
00:44:21oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,
00:44:22oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
00:44:34So I did a song for the American Film Institute, the AFI, for Francis Ford Coppola.
00:44:40He asked me to sing the Godfather theme for his inauguration and his lifetime achievement
00:44:43award at the AFI, which was like, I was very nervous because like, you know, when Francis
00:44:48Ford Coppola asks you to sing for something, you know that you better get it right.
00:44:53So I learned it in Italian, and then I found out like, oh, no, no, no, no, no, Mr. Coppola
00:44:57would like it in Sicilian.
00:44:58I'm going, okay.
00:45:02Okay, okay.
00:45:04Because you don't know who's out there.
00:45:05You got to do it right.
00:45:06You got to do it right.
00:45:07Or, you know, you never know.
00:45:10And so it was a great honor, great honor to learn this song in Sicilian and to do it for
00:45:14Mr. Coppola.
00:45:15And we got this arrangement for it, and we had the arrangement basically for this setup.
00:45:18And so we thought, oh, let's do a little Sicilian in this beautiful chapel.
00:45:23This is the Godfather theme.
00:45:24I'm going to sing you a song I can't refuse.
00:45:27But the Sicilian title is Bruxa la Terra.
00:45:30If you need to sing and hear them.
00:45:47It says, let's do a little,
00:46:30She keeps I know
00:46:35Bruce a lot
00:46:37Yeah, I am
00:46:41City
00:46:47Oh
00:48:37Thank you very much.
00:48:40Beautiful strings.
00:48:40Thank you so much.
00:48:41Beautiful.
00:48:45So, some of you I met before and you said you first heard me on Ally McBeal, which is really,
00:48:49really cool.
00:48:50That show, I think that show is pretty big here.
00:48:52And, you know, I get asked sometimes, you know, how do you feel about the songs you did when you
00:48:57were very, very young?
00:48:58And my answer to that is that I actually love singing them now more than I ever did when I
00:49:03was a kid because I was getting these really, really lofty songs of love and loss and all these things
00:49:09that as a 17-year-old I had not been through yet.
00:49:11And so, to have the chance to go back now and to sing them as a 44-year-old man
00:49:15who has truly lived is really a joy.
00:49:21And it makes me appreciate these songs.
00:49:23On Ally McBeal, I was in a beautiful chapel singing this song and I thought we're here at Union Chapel,
00:49:27we should do it again.
00:49:27This is called To Where You Are.
00:49:49Who can say for certain, maybe you're still here.
00:49:56I feel you all around me, your memory is so clear.
00:50:05Deep in the stillness, I can hear you speak.
00:50:12You're still an inspiration, can it be that you are mine?
00:50:22I'm forever alive.
00:50:27And you are watching over me from up above.
00:50:37Fly me up to where you are beyond a distant star.
00:50:47I wish upon tonight to see you smile.
00:50:54If only for a while to know you're there.
00:51:02A breath away's not far to where you are.
00:51:15Are you gently sleeping?
00:51:19Here inside my dream.
00:51:22And is in faith believing all power can be seen.
00:51:30As my heart holds you just one beat away.
00:51:36I cherish all you gave me every day.
00:51:42I cherish all you gave me every day.
00:51:44Cause you are mine forever now.
00:51:58I cherish all you gave me every day.
00:52:20are beyond a distant star. I wish upon tonight to see you smile. If only for a while to know
00:52:37you're there. Up round the way's not far to where you are.
00:52:50I know you're there. Up round the way's not far to where you are.
00:53:03Up round the way's not far to where you are. Up round the way's not far to where you are.
00:53:33Always like when life throws you crazy things, as it often does, our thing that we would always say to
00:53:40each other is like,
00:53:40well, yeah, but babe, we have to be the constant. We are the constant in all this while everything is
00:53:44just going haywire around us.
00:53:46And so when I told Benj and Justin that that's kind of like what we what we call ourselves is
00:53:52the constant.
00:53:53They're like, that's really good. And let's like let's let's draw on that.
00:53:57And so we kind of like developed this song that is really about that to me. That is something that
00:54:03it is about.
00:54:03It all could be could be about your parents. It could be about a pet. It could be about a
00:54:07teacher.
00:54:08Whatever that is, and certainly in the world that we are in, I need to hold on to those anchors
00:54:14in my life more than ever before.
00:54:16And if you feel the same way, maybe the song resonates with you, too.
00:54:19So this is the song that came from that. This is called The Constant.
00:54:39You keep me from going hundred. You keep me from holding up my walls.
00:54:51You keep me from holding up my walls. You're the center where the wind goes. You're an elder in the
00:55:00shadows.
00:55:01You lie a fly to pull me from the fall. You and me, we can weather it all.
00:55:16Even through our darkest days. Even through our worst mistakes.
00:55:24Though the steady ground may break. We are the constant.
00:55:30And even when the storm sweeps through. Crumbling the world we knew. I know I can hold to you.
00:55:42Because we are the constant. We are, we are, we are, we are.
00:55:51We are, we are, we are, we are, we are
00:55:57You hold me and you're my heart
00:56:02You learn me like I'm the back of your hand
00:56:12You're the anchor when drifting
00:56:16When the ground's around me shifting
00:56:19And you lift me up and you give me stormward to land
00:56:28Even on the darkest days
00:56:31Even through our worst mistakes
00:56:35Though the steady ground may break
00:56:39We are the constant
00:56:41And even when the storm sweeps through
00:56:45Crumbling the world with you
00:56:49I know I can hold to you
00:56:53Cause we are the constant
00:56:56We are, we are, we are
00:56:59We are, we are, we are, we are
00:57:06We are, we are the constant
00:57:11We are, we are, we are, we are
00:57:18We are, we are, we are, we are, we are
00:57:25Even on the darkest days, even through our worst mistakes, though the steady ground may break, we are the constant.
00:57:40And even when the storm sweeps through, trouble in the world we live, I know I can hold to you,
00:57:51cause we are the constant.
00:57:56We are, oh, we are, we are.
00:58:01We are, oh, we are the constant.
00:58:08We are, we are, we are, we are.
00:58:15We are, we are, we are.
00:58:29Thank you for being the constant for me all these years.
00:58:32You're my constant.
00:58:38Oh my goodness.
00:58:40This song, I heard this song in the back of a taxi cab in Dublin, Ireland,
00:58:43while I was promoting my first album.
00:58:46And I was in the back of a cab, and I'd split a few G's that night.
00:58:51And I was feeling it, and I was kind of like dozing off in the back of the cab,
00:58:53and all of a sudden this song comes on the radio.
00:58:56And I'm like, this is the most beautiful song that I've ever heard in my life.
00:58:59And then I was there. I was at my hotel. Life goes on.
00:59:01We came back to L.A., and I started working on my second album, Closer, with David Foster.
00:59:05And we were working on something else.
00:59:07And then somebody came in the studio and said,
00:59:10hey, this song is out of Ireland, and I think Josh would really sing it quite beautifully.
00:59:15What do you think?
00:59:16And I said, that's my drunken taxi cab song.
00:59:21That's, yes. Absolutely yes.
00:59:22So I don't know what we were singing.
00:59:23We totally put it aside, and we sang this song.
00:59:25And to be honest, we didn't know this was a hit song.
00:59:27It's a very, like, beautiful, but not the kind of song you would normally hear on the radio.
00:59:31And so when I recorded it, I thought, oh, this rocks, but I don't think any, maybe nobody will hear
00:59:36it.
00:59:37So, you know, to be able to go around the world and have a song that is an anthem in
00:59:41every single country,
00:59:42and I am so proud of that fact.
00:59:44I'm so, it's so wonderful that people have that.
00:59:46And so, London, I know you are a vocal crowd.
00:59:49You've been so wonderful tonight.
00:59:50So if you will open your hymnals to page six,
00:59:55and you want to sing along with me,
00:59:57it would be my privilege to do so with you.
00:59:59This is called You Raise Me Up.
01:00:00You guys are amazing.
01:00:01Thank you so much again.
01:00:56When I am down
01:00:59And all my soul so weary
01:01:03When troubles come
01:01:07And my heart burned in beer
01:01:11Then I am standing
01:01:15And waiting here in silence
01:01:20Until you come
01:01:23And sing a while with me
01:01:27You raise me up
01:01:32So I can stand on mountains
01:01:36You raise me up
01:01:40To walk on stormy seas
01:01:46I am strong
01:01:49When I am on your shoulders
01:01:53You raise me up
01:01:58To more than I can be
01:02:18You raise me
01:02:21You raise me up
01:02:22So I can stand on mountains
01:02:26You raise me up
01:02:30To walk on stormy seas
01:02:36To walk on stormy seas
01:03:11I am strong
01:03:14I am strong
01:03:16I am strong
01:03:17I am strong
01:03:17I am strong
01:03:17I am strong
01:03:20You raise me up
01:03:23To walk on stormy seas
01:03:26You raise me up
01:03:31You raise me up
01:03:54To more than I can be
01:04:03You raise me up
01:04:06You raise me up
01:04:06You raise me up
01:04:09To more than I can be
01:04:18You raise me up
01:04:20You raise me up
01:04:23You raise me up
01:04:40To walk on stormy seas
01:04:45You raise me up
01:04:45You raise me up
01:04:46There is a lot of division in the world right now,
01:04:48certainly a lot of division in my country,
01:04:50and to be in a profession where I can, you know,
01:04:54in this case, quite literally congregate people under one roof
01:04:57and share something that everybody loves together
01:05:03during a time when everything out there is just yelling at us
01:05:07at how scared and angry we should be all the time at each other.
01:05:11To be able to sing songs that I think reflect that also
01:05:14certainly keeps me sane during crazy times such as these.
01:05:19And so this is a song that I sing it because, like,
01:05:25I need to hear it over and over again.
01:05:28Another one of my favorite composers is Paul Simon.
01:05:30He's somebody that just has always resonated with me,
01:05:32one of the great lyricists that we've had.
01:05:35And this song, I think, to me, like,
01:05:38represents the, you know, the beauty of our similarities
01:05:41and the beauty of our differences
01:05:42and what it means to be there for people
01:05:45and to share something together.
01:05:47Be a bridge.
01:05:49Be a bridge as often as you possibly can,
01:05:51and you never know what troubled water
01:05:54you are helping people over.
01:05:56I know that's cheesy to say,
01:05:59but it is very, very true.
01:06:15When you're weary,
01:06:20you're feeling small.
01:06:25When tears are in your eyes,
01:06:32I'll dry them all.
01:06:40I'm on your side.
01:06:47When times go up and friends just can't be found.
01:06:58Like a bridge over troubled water
01:07:07I will lay me down.
01:07:18I will lay me down.
01:07:20When you're on your down now,
01:07:25When you're on the street.
01:07:30When evening falls so hard.
01:07:38I will comfort you.
01:07:42I'll take your part.
01:07:46I'll take your part.
01:07:50When darkness comes.
01:07:54The pain is all alright.
01:08:00Like a bridge over troubled water
01:08:08I will lay me down.
01:08:13Like a bridge over troubled water
01:08:20I will lay me down.
01:08:25Like a bridge over troubled water
01:08:33I will lay me down.
01:08:37I will lay me down.
01:08:39I will lay me down.
01:08:40Oh, like a bridge over troubled water
01:08:44Travel away from you.
01:08:46I will travel.
01:08:47Sail on, silver girl.
01:08:51Sail on, silver girl.
01:08:52Sail on by.
01:08:57Your time has come.
01:09:00Come on to shine.
01:09:04All your dreams are on their way.
01:09:12See how they shine.
01:09:19All your dreams are on their way.
01:09:25See how they shine.
01:09:27See how they shine.
01:09:30Oh, Lord, the bridge over troubled water
01:09:38I will ease your mind
01:09:43Like a bridge over troubled water
01:09:50I will ease your mind
01:10:02Like a bridge over troubled water
01:10:12I will ease your mind
01:10:21I will ease your mind
01:10:45Okay, I'm going to sing one more for you,
01:10:48but this has been a total dream come true
01:10:50to come back here tonight
01:10:52and sing some songs that have meant a lot to me.
01:10:54This song is probably one of my top
01:10:55one or two favorite songs ever
01:10:57and I'm sometimes scared as a singer to tackle songs
01:11:01because I think I'm the first person to say
01:11:03nobody needs to hear the 500,000th version of this song
01:11:06but then you hear what the arrangement does
01:11:09and you hear the production
01:11:10and you hear, oh my gosh, I think I can sink my teeth into this.
01:11:13So this is a song that has meant a lot to me
01:11:16and doesn't really need an introduction
01:11:18but I wanted to close with this one
01:11:20because I love you guys very much.
01:11:22This is Somewhere Over the Rainbow.
01:11:49Somewhere Over the Rainbow
01:12:05There's a land that I heard of once in the love of mine.
01:12:28Somewhere over the rainbow, skies are blue, and the dreams that you dare to dream really
01:12:52may do come true.
01:12:58Someday I'll wish upon a star and wake up where the clouds are far behind me.
01:13:13Where troubles melt like lemon drops, away above the juny tops, that's where you'll find me.
01:13:34Somewhere over the rainbow, bluebirds fly.
01:13:46If birds can fly over the rainbow, why, then why can't I?
01:14:04Someday I'll wake and rub my eyes, and in that land, beyond the skies, you'll find me.
01:14:19I'll be all laughing, taffodil, and leave the silly cares that fill my mind behind me.
01:14:36Oh, somewhere over the rainbow, bluebirds fly.
01:14:53If birds can fly over the rainbow, why, then why can't I?
01:15:14If happy little bluebirds fly beyond the rainbow, why, oh, why can't I?
01:15:32Oh, somewhere over the rainbow, why, oh, why, oh, why, oh, why, oh, why, oh, why, oh, why.
01:16:05Thank you so much.
01:16:24Thank you so much.
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