Simply put, I love this song. The original is one that often finds me taking pause, closing my eyes, and hitting repeat a few times.  

I am also a bit of an acapella snob, for well founded reasons. When it was announced that this was the song that they were going to preform, it stung.  I apathetically had been watching most of the “special episode”, nit-picking.  I settled in, for what I feared, was going to be a disheartening let-down of one of my beloved songs.

and then

they started singing.  My beloved and I both were STANDING in-front of the TV.  The volume was low as our little ones were sleeping.  I felt each and every note strike deep into me.  I felt the beginning of tears welling up in my eyes.

Say what you will about music, about what drives you, what reaches you, touches you, pulls at your soul, this was one of the most exquisite things that I have had the pleasure of watching, hearing, and feeling.