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Watch the Academy Award-nominated film, Come See Me in the Good Light, on Apple TV. This is an additional scene from the film.
Written by Megan Falley, partner of Andrea Gibson.
About a year before Andrea left their body, we were on a long drive through the mountains of Colorado. Reception cut out. The music disappeared. Andrea asked me to sing instead. Flipping through the catalog of songs I know by heart, like a sparse human jukebox, I remembered one I’d been singing since I was seven: “Colors of the Wind,” from Disney’s Pocahontas. I cleared my throat and began. The lyrics returned from some deep vault of memory.
After, I thought I’d move on. Sing Joni or Lana instead. But Andrea stopped me. “Again.”
It was the most beautiful song they’d ever heard, they insisted. They loved the line: “we are all connected to each other, in a circle, in a hoop that never ends.” I must have sung it seven times on that car ride. Even after we pulled out of the mountains and the radio came back.
Again.
It became the song I sang whenever they needed soothing — in hospitals, in waiting rooms. It was the song I sang standing in a lightning storm a couple of days after their death, certain they were still listening. And it was the song I sang, inexplicably, to a room full of strangers at a karaoke party in London just a few nights ago.
There were a lot of people in the room.
But I was singing to an audience of one.
Now I know the music between us can never disappear.
If you want to see more of our love story, our Oscar-nominated film Come See Me in the Good Light is streaming on Apple. Take it with you. Pass it on.
Additional scene from: Come See Me in the Good Light
Artists: Megan Falley and Andrea Gibson
Director: Ryan White
Production Company: Tripod Media
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