9-8-11 - "Higher Love" ~ James Vincent McMorrow

This one's a cover of an '80s song that you might have heard, in all its synth-pop horn chorus glory.  But you won't hear trumpets in this drastically altered version - McMorrow brings it down real low with simple piano chords and ethereal falsetto vocals.  It allows you to focus on the lyrics and the cry for the titular "higher love" - love that supersedes the many injustices in the world.  "Without it, life is wasted time..."

Original Steve Winwood version:

"I could light the night up with my soul on fire

I could make the sun shine from pure desire..."