Country and family are messy
Dispatch from Belfast: What Van Morrison tells us about in ‘The Healing Game’
Today, on the eve of the Van Morrison concert at the Europa Hotel in Belfast, I took a tour they call “The Mystic of the East,” the tour of his childhood haunts. I saw where he was born on Hyndford Street, his elementary school, Orangefield Academy and Cyprus Avenue, where I was to learn later from two other fans at the piano bar, corroborating my cabbie’s story, Van Morrison gave a street concert a fan would die for. (Zoom in on the plaque on this lead photo…)
In this video that I share, “The Healing Game,” Belfast’s most soulful warbler sings about the hold home has on you, whether you grant it permission to have that lock-hold on you or not. I invite you to click and sink into some mellow time with it and go home again.
Here I am again
back on the corner again
back where I belong
where I’ve always been
Everything’s the same
It don’t ever change
