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The playlist on Heath's funeral unraveled...

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belbbmfan:

--- Quote from: loneleeb3 on February 28, 2008, 06:24:38 pm ---Wow!
First off, I love that song!
Second 1979 was my first year as a teenager! Very important to me!
Third, on April 4th of this year I will be attending my Second Gay Rodeo. Had it not been for Heaths portrayal of Ennis I would not have gone to my first one much less my second one.
I owe all these amazing changes in my life to him. I hate to sound like some star struck stalker freak but it's true.
Watching Brokeback almost a year ago (4/10/07) changed my life. I saw in Ennis who I was and who I was destined to become if I didn't change. I don't think anyone else could have portrayed that role in a way that would have hit me so hard.
So again I say "Thank you Ennis/Heath for showing me the way".

--- End quote ---

Lee, you're story has been amazing. I completely agree with you.

ednbarby:
Chiming in late to say that "Wish You Were Here" and "Old Man" are two of my top three favorite songs.

I always loved the melancholy, bittersweet sound of both of them.  They've both come to take on deeper meanings as the years have gone by.

"Wish You Were Here" was the last song my Mom and I listened to together, holding hands, like we did many times when I was a teenager and we would sit listening in rapture to Billy Joel's "The Stranger" and "52nd Street" albums.  "Vienna" was our most favorite, followed closely by "Scenes From an Italian Restaurant."  It was Christmas Eve, 1992, when we sat holding hands listening to "Wish You Were Here."  After it was over, I told her how the wind at the end reminded me of my childhood - but not of the bad parts of which she was well aware - of the parts when I would lie awake at night listening to the winter wind howling outside my window and feel safe.  When she died, it became her eulogy.

Then, when Brokeback Mountain broke me in two, it became a eulogy to Jack - the wind clearly was him calling to Ennis.

Now it has taken on its deepest meaning yet.

And "Old Man" - that one I've always just loved on every level because it is just a beautiful, beautiful song, both lyrically and melodically.  And now, it speaks volumes.

I'm a lot like you were...




I'll love you and miss you always, Heath.

ednbarby:
Did you exchange a walk-on part in the war for a lead role in a cage?




Wow.  Just wow.

ednbarby:
And then there's "Shine On, You Crazy Diamond" (which I'm now listening to, as it immediately follows "Wish You Were Here" on the album of that same name).  Again, a song that will forever be about Heath to me.

Shine On, You Crazy Diamond

No one knows where you are, how near or how far.
Shine on, you crazy diamond.

Remember when you were young - you shone like the sun.
Shine on, you crazy diamond.
Now there's a look in your eyes, like black holes in the sky.
Shine on, you crazy diamond.

You were caught on the crossfire of childhood and stardom,
Blown on the steel breeze.
Come on, you target for faraway laughter,
Come on, you stranger, you legend, you martyr, and shine!

You reached for the secret too soon, you cried for the moon.
Shine on, you crazy diamond.
Threatened by shadows at night, and exposed in the light.
Shine on, you crazy diamond.

Well, you wore out your welcome with random precision,
Rode on the steel breeze.
Come on, you raver, you seer of visions,
Come on, you painter, you piper, you prisoner,
And shine.

mvansand76:
{{{{Barb}}}}

Thank you so much for sharing this...  I am going to download the entire album...

Mel

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