I absolutely love this song and what it reminds me of.  One of the greatest people I will ever know.  He started as a casual friend from a bar and grew into a real friendship over time.  Mr. Reed sang this song at Deja Vu on Tuesday karaoke nights and it is my favorite that he has ever done.   I will let you listen, while you scroll down to read the rest, if you are so inclined.

For those that remember it, Deja Vu was a Piano Bar, and then later a Night Club.  For a few years, they also ran the best Karaoke in the area, due to the high quality song choices, microphones and hella awesome speaker system.  You really felt like you were performing in a quality venue when you had hold of that mic and were walking around the room.  They had 3 TVs with the lyrics on them placed about the room, so you would wander and still get the lyrics if you forgot them.   Most of us serious singers memorized the lyrics and practiced the songs before heading to the club, but it was helpful in case you needed them to have three screens to look at.

Oh, and we had the best KJs running it.  😉

But the best part of the place was meeting the folks that I still call friends today.  We don’t see each other very much anymore, now that Deja Vu has closed and Bentley’s has lost Mr. Reed as its head bartender.  It definitely feels like an age has passed.

Although I will always remember the karaoke as the starting point, as it was the first real place I called my own after my divorce and the beginning of my healing and starting to feel like I was maybe worth a shit again.    Now, having gone way past that stage and onto another, I look back as I hear this song and remember Deja Vu, all over again.  Pun intended.

And, I start to seriously think about the next stage of life, which has already started.  Where will I end up in this next age?  Who will I know and spend time with?  I’d like to think it will be some of the same, and some of the new.  But I am ready to move on.  I needed that time to get me through something, and now I don’t.

But I will always treasure the time I spent with those wonderful, Ordinary People at Deja Vu.

Walking the Path,

Me.