At peace with the world for a few minutes...

@Niall Kielt Ali Farka Toure rocks! I've found out about this guy about year ago, primarily album The River. Definitely something different.

As to what puts me at peace with a world for a few minutes lately, it's this one:

 
The song "Fantastic Place" by Marillion does it for me every time.
In fact, the entire "Marbles" album takes me to that Fantastic place. :)



It's always a struggle
To let somebody go
It's a natural desire
To own your lover, I know

And you can screw a man down
Until he takes to drinking
He'll give you all of his money
You still won't know what he's thinking

Take me to the fantastic place
Keep the rest of my life away
Take me to the fantastic place
Keep the rest of my life away

Take me to the island
I'll watch the rain over your shoulder
The streetlights in the water
The moment outside of real life

I never could dream while I was sleeping
Put your arms around my soul
And take it dancing..

Take me to the fantastic place
Keep the rest of my life away
Take me to the fantastic place
Keep the rest of my life away

Take me to the island
I'll watch the rain over your shoulder
The streetlights on the wet stone
The moment outside of real life

Say you understand me
And I will leave myself completely
Forgive me if I stare
But I can see the island behind your tired, troubled eyes

Take me to the island
I'll tell you all I never told you
The boy I never showed you
More than I gave in my life
Take me by the hand
You'll either kill me or you'll save me
Take me to the island
Show me what might be real life
 
Brand New - Play Crack the Sky
A sincerely beautiful simple song. Only vocals and an acoustic, not much you could go wrong with. Spectacular lyrics, as is often the case with Brand New, and a one-of-a-kind climax of vocal overdubs. An absolute genius of a ballad.

 
I'll go with Manowar - Master of the Wind.

You can't spell Manowar without cheese, but God, is it a beautiful, if very simple, song. I imagine the morning dawning after a great storm, and me looking out of the window at the sun rising in the distance, carefully peeping through the clouds. Oh yes.

 
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