“You feel bad, let me tell you, we all get the blues Sometimes life is a burden, way down in your shoes When it’s bad, worse, worst (And when you’re feeling so bad) And you think you’re cursed (And you’ve got it sad) Well, if there’s one thing for the better that can turn you loose, It’s got to be rock and roll to fill the hole in your soul”….
ABBA what can I say - other than that I cried from the depths of nowhere the tears flowed - a mixture of deep damn gratitude for all they have given, that a soundtrack to so many of our lives was there in front of a packed audience decades on, that music lives on, that our bodies get older but up there in the lights another version of us still dances, intermingled with who we are now.
The past and present combined, the absolute love for 4 people so pure in intention, music channeled from another realm, sweet angelic voices, beautiful lighting, technology, magic, simply taken to a new land of hope and dreams and promise, whilst reflection on deep poignancy and reflection of all that has passed. When it ended I actually felt as though I had run an emotional personal marathon, I could hardly speak, wanting to somehow hold on to what felt like a transcendent experience to myself just for a few moments more.
I dabbed my eyes, turned to my daughter who was born decades after ABBA was born and said did you like it, and could see the same awestruck beauty in her face. She said she had a lump in her throat throughout the whole thing. Jon who never gets emotional at anything such as this was also visibly moved, we all were. So yes to joy and fun and happiness- but the deep bits hit like a laser in the dark, I truly hadn’t foreseen that.
It touched a ‘hole in my soul’ I didn’t know felt so unfed and empty. Thank you for the music, however we owe them so much more than that.
As they sing: I still have faith in you I see it now Through all these years that faith lives on Somehow There was a union Of heart and mind The likes of which are rare And, oh, so hard to find We do have it in us New spirit has arrived The joy and the sorrow We have a story and it survived I now understand why people go again… and again #abbavoyage#simplylove
Amanda Ellis
“You feel bad, let me tell you, we all get the blues
Sometimes life is a burden, way down in your shoes
When it’s bad, worse, worst (And when you’re feeling so bad)
And you think you’re cursed (And you’ve got it sad)
Well, if there’s one thing for the better that can turn you loose, It’s got to be rock and roll to fill the hole in your soul”….
ABBA what can I say - other than that I cried from the depths of nowhere the tears flowed - a mixture of deep damn gratitude for all they have given, that a soundtrack to so many of our lives was there in front of a packed audience decades on, that music lives on, that our bodies get older but up there in the lights another version of us still dances, intermingled with who we are now.
The past and present combined, the absolute love for 4 people so pure in intention, music channeled from another realm, sweet angelic voices, beautiful lighting, technology, magic, simply taken to a new land of hope and dreams and promise, whilst reflection on deep poignancy and reflection of all that has passed.
When it ended I actually felt as though I had run an emotional personal marathon, I could hardly speak, wanting to somehow hold on to what felt like a transcendent experience to myself just for a few moments more.
I dabbed my eyes, turned to my daughter who was born decades after ABBA was born and said did you like it, and could see the same awestruck beauty in her face. She said she had a lump in her throat throughout the whole thing.
Jon who never gets emotional at anything such as this was also visibly moved, we all were.
So yes to joy and fun and happiness- but the deep bits hit like a laser in the dark, I truly hadn’t foreseen that.
It touched a ‘hole in my soul’ I didn’t know felt so unfed and empty.
Thank you for the music, however we owe them so much more than that.
As they sing:
I still have faith in you
I see it now
Through all these years that faith lives on
Somehow
There was a union
Of heart and mind
The likes of which are rare
And, oh, so hard to find
We do have it in us
New spirit has arrived
The joy and the sorrow
We have a story and it survived
I now understand why people go again… and again #abbavoyage #simplylove
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