The Singles Bar: Joel Brogon delivers stunning performance with ‘The Perfect Pair’
The singer-songwriter regales a tale about Alzheimer’s.
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Texas singer-songwriter Joel Brogon pays tribute to love and lost memories with an absolutely stunning new song. “The Perfect Pair,” which bookends his Garden of Memories: Songs of Family and Home Vol. II, babbles like a running brook tumbling down the mountainside. Guitar accompanies him, as his voice tears through the mournful, yet glistening, lyrics about Alzheimer’s patients and how time continues slipping from their fingertips.
“He reminds her of someone she used to know from not that long ago,” sings Brogon with the force of an anvil. “If she looks deep within his eyes it seems there’s a distant memory.” The words fall like confetti, surrounding both him and the listener with glowing warmth. It’s the sort of performance you won’t soon forget; it’ll sear into your brain. And when the hook comes, it’s like a hurricane of emotion. Brogon paints in pastel beauty, “She might not understand all that much, but she still knows his gentle touch, and love still makes them the perfect pair.”
“The Perfect Pair” sprouted from a visit Brogon took to see his “grandmother in the Alzheimer’s and dementia wing of her care home,” he says. “I watched as spouses would come and go, tending to their loved ones. The heartbreak on display was immense, but the tenderness that I witnessed was beautiful. Love still remembers, even when one doesn’t.”
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