The year I had my Son and this song was a punch in my gut. So emotional and so passionate. So much pain and longing in her beautiful voice. I cry Everytime. As my younger self, I cried every night.
She is such a sport for playing in front of that "normal/average" audience, the kind that buys Coolio, Spice Girls, Hootie and the Blowfish albums. But I know that people who write music or are signers, be them TLC or Garth Brooks, they all know how much emotion she puts in her music, her words are deep but her voice adds such emotion that can never be touched,. Her album "To Bring You My Love" was the best of 1995.
Quite a rarity for this many guests (4), all of them to stay on the couch for the duration, and for enough time left in the show to have a musical guest come to the couch. Kathy Ireland, Bill Maher, Kato Kaelin and PJ Harvey.
Reason #129,494 why Letterman was better than Leno. Jay calls her PJ. There's a clip of her playing on Letterman and when he goes over to greet her after the song he calls her Polly.
Compare: "Billie Jean is not my lover / She's just a girl who claims that I am the one / But the kid is not my son" with "C'mon Billy, you're the only one / Don't you think it's time now you met your only son?"
