Damien sings 'A Song For You' (VIDEO)

Damien sang 'A Song For You' by Leon Russell (Donny Hathaway version) on The Voice Season 7 Finals on Monday, December 15, 2014 for Team Adam Levine.

Well, this was about 99% good. But Damien ends up slipping up and forgetting the lyrics at the start of the second verse, leading to an awkward couple seconds of dead air. But man ALIVE, did he ever make up for it with the rest of the performance. He did some absolutely gorgeous, effortless runs, as if he knew he had to make up for the flub with pure passion. By the end of it, I didn't even care if he messed up or not. I think this may have been Damien's best vocal, neck-and-neck with "She's Out of My Life".

Blake wishes he could be critical, but he just can't say anything bad about Damien or this performance. Pharrell says we need more of the church-infused passion that Damien delivers each week in his vocals. Gwen says that sounded like Damien's record, and she could imagine that being on his record. Adam, meanwhile, admits he made Damien sing so many songs he didn't know over the course of this competition, so for this week, he just wanted to do something with Damien that everyone would expect. And he's happy with the choice, because Damien absolutely killed it, offering up one of his best ever performances. Strangely, none of the coaches mention the lyric flub, which makes me wonder if it might not have been a purposeful artistic choice to simply elide that lyric. Either that, or the coaches just don't get hung up on details. Who knows?

But what do you think of Damien?

Watch the full performance video of Damien singing 'A Song For You' here:

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