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A Music Moment - share a lyric line from your favorite song!
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Here's one that most people won't recognize.
From "For a Friend", by The Communards (Richard Coles & Jimmy Somerville), 1988.
It's ostensibly about a young man whose friend dies of AIDS.
But it's one of the saddest and most moving songs about love & loss that I have ever heard.
"...As I watch the sun go down, watching the world fade away,
All the memories of you come rushing back to me.
As I watch the sun go down, watching the world fade away,
All I want to do is kiss you once goodbye, goodbye..."
You really have to hear it:
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I've not heard this song before. I remember that time and every thing that went along with it.
What I find interesting about this songs is that if you don't listen to the lyrics, the music and tempo seem pretty upbeat to me. It's sad but I feel its also life affirming. Does that make any sense?!
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This is one of my favorite songs. I was living in San Francisco and this song came out during the AIDS epidemic in 1988 where friends and acquaintances were dying every week. I was a volunteer at Hospice of San Francisco and helped a lot of guys whose families had completely disowned them or, worse, told them AIDS was God's punishment (if death by disease is God's punishment then I guess we're all going to be punished at some point).
A lot of times, my "help" was just sitting with them so they weren't alone. I would listen to this song and it was very cathartic. Of my core friend group of four people (including me), only two of us lived to see 30. When I first found out I had prostate cancer, my immediate thought was "well, I've been living on borrowed time for almost 40 years."