The entire legacy of Donny Hathaway is so divinely painful!
I know of no purer elixir of Blues than the Hathaway lyrics of It’s What I Do.
They are Billie Holiday’s Don’t Explain translated into bliss itself.
My pen pal, Monica Cottril, turned me on to Donny Hathaway. I was as “out to lunch” about him as the fool in Bougie Bachelorette’s delicious “Episode 28“.
Please listen to Donny Hathaway’s daughter Lalah teach everyone tuning in, including all the actors in the world, how to Be The Word Itself as well as the melody.
Beneath and behind “It’s What I Do” are musicians and artists of a profoundly Evangelical secret that is revealed later in their link.
Of course, the lyrics of It’s What I Do carry the entire meaning of the Judeo-Christian Revolution, the one still going on, despite the claim of a New World Order that would bury God in, as they say, “a Jack second”!
Don’t ask me why,
Don’t wonder how
It’s possible to love someone like you.
It’s cause you’re mine.
It’s cause you’re you.
It’s cause I’m Love!
It’s what I do!!
Ms. Hathaway’s ending on the word “do” – interrupted by the applause of an eager audience – has her perfect intonation thrown off for a second and a half, but once the applause dies down, she completes her exquisitely long breath with a calm trill that ends dancing magically on major 6-9-and 7, 6-9-7, 6-9-7.
Her return?
You’re been trying so hard to comprehend
What kind of love could cover all that sin?
Just know there’s nothin’ you could ever do
That would ever change my love for you!
This is clearly Donny Hathaway the Evangelist speaking on behalf of his Lord.
No human touched earth to fulfill those lyrics more completely than The Nazarene.
It was He, indeed, that sang It’s What I Do to a You called the entire human race!
Yes I know all there is to ever know,
Where you been and where you’ll ever go,
All your mistakes from yesterdays
And the ones you’ll make tomorrow!
You’ve been tryin’ so hard to comprehend
What kind of love could cover all that sin.
As I wrote John Nolte when submitting this to Big Hollyood, “It’s a short article because The Hathaway’s pack such a Huge Message all by themselves.”
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