Okay, I swear I wasn't drinking last night! However, Rob and Craig have now both identified the song Michael sang as "King of the World". I'm assuming this would be the same "King of the World" he performed at Feinstein's, but that was a totally different song.
Do these lyrics seem familiar to the people that were there last night?
Is it warm?
Is it soft against your face?
Do you feel a kind a' grace inside the breeze?
Will there be trees?
Is there light?
Does it hover on the ground?
Does it shine from all around,
Or jes' from you?
Is it endless and empty,
An' you wander on your own?
Slowly forgit about
The folks that you have known?
Or does risin' bread fill up the air
From open kitchens everywhere?
Familiar faces far as you can see,
Like a family?
Do we live?
Is it like a little town?
Do we get to look back down at who we love?
Are we above?
Are we everywhere?
Are we anywhere at all?
Do we hear a trumpet call us
An' we're by your side?
Will I want, will I wish
For all the things I should have done,
Longin' to finish
What I only jes' begun?
Or has a shinin' truth been waiting there
For all the questions everywhere?
In a world o' wonderin', suddenly you know;
An' you always know...
Will my mama be there waitin' for me?
Smilin' like the way she does
An' holding out her arms,
An' she calls my name?
She will hold me just the same...
Only heaven knows how Glory goes,
What each of us was meant to be.
In the starlight, that is what we are.
I can see so far...
If so, then I swear this is an Adam Guettel song called "How Glory Goes".
Oh don't mind me, this is the same part of my brain that needs, say, Brooklyn to make logical sense.
"Too young to hold on and too old to just break free and run" - Jeff Buckley