Songs that remind us of Heath....

[mvansand76]

I have seen some great song lyrics posted all over this Remembering Heath forum. Let's gather them here! What are the songs that remind you of Heath?

Here's one by Jake Holmes, a singer that I think Heath would have appreciated a lot. It's folky, a bit like Nick Drake, but a lot older, this song is from the early 70's.

Jake Holmes - Just as lost as me
Shadow eyes, in cloaks of answers
Withold their secrets eloquently
Here's a song for all the people
Just as lost as me
 
The easy way the knowing glances
Seeing light that i can't see
Here's a song for all outsiders
Just as lost as me
 
Private doors, straight and narrow minds
No matter how you look
To see you must be blind
Hide and seek
The king has got new clothes
Everybody understands, and everybody knows
 
Here's a song for walking wounded
Just as lost as me



Also Happy Ending by Mika, a song that June (bigheart) recommended last week and has been my favorite since then, a few days before the terrible news struck. It gives me goose bumps now.

Happy Ending lyrics

This is the way you left me,
I'm not pretending.
No hope, no love, no glory,
No Happy Ending.
This is the way that we love,
Like it's forever.
Then live the rest of our life,
But not together.

Wake up in the morning, stumble on my life
Can't get no love without sacrifice
If anything should happen, I guess I wish you well
A little bit of heaven, but a little bit of hell

This is the hardest story that I've ever told
No hope, or love, or glory
Happy endings gone forever more
I feel as if I feel as if I'm wasted
And I'm wastin' everyday

This is the way you left me,
I'm not pretending.
No hope, no love, no glory,
No Happy Ending.
This is the way that we love,
Like it's forever.
Then live the rest of our life,
But not together.

2 o'clock in the morning, something's on my mind
Can't get no rest; keep walkin' around
If I pretend that nothin' ever went wrong, I can get to my sleep
I can think that we just carried on

This is the hardest story that I've ever told
No hope, or love, or glory
Happy endings gone forever more
I feel as if I feel as if I'm wasted
And I'm wastin' everyday

This is the way you left me,
I'm not pretending.
No hope, no love, no glory,
No Happy Ending.
This is the way that we love,
Like it's forever.
Then live the rest of our life,
But not together.

A Little bit of love, little bit of love
Little bit of love, little bit of love [repeat]

I feel as if I feel as if I'm wasted
And I'm wastin' everyday

This is the way you left me,
I'm not pretending.
No hope, no love, no glory,
No Happy Ending.
This is the way that we love,
Like it's forever.
To live the rest of our life,
But not together.


[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvBIyJf6el0[/youtube]




Edited to add: the video is so poignant, the piece of string around his wrist with the balloon, the floating up to heaven. Damn. crying again.

[mvansand76]

Restless by the genius Alison Krauss...

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rp-xgWjHu90[/youtube]

[mvansand76]

Rickie Lee Jones - On Saturday Afternoons in 1963

The most as you'll ever go
Is back where you used to know
If grown-ups could laugh this slow
Where as you watch the hour snow
Years may go by

So hold on to your special friend
Here, you'll need something to keep her in :
"Now you stay inside this foolish grin ... "
Though any day your secrets end
Then again
Years may go by

You saved your own special friend
'Cuz here you need something to hide her in
And you stay inside that foolish grin
When everyday now secrets end
Oh and then again
Years may go by

[souxi]

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNEcQS4tXgQ&feature=related[/youtube]

[souxi]

This is in honour of those beautiful brown eyes.
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MODq81_cDKI[/youtube]

[Shakesthecoffecan]

 

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcOD3gXLteA[/youtube]

[Jeff Wrangler]

No clips or links or stuff, but just to add, a long time ago on the thread about songs that remind us of Brokeback Mountain, I mentioned that Desperado, by the Eages, reminded me of Ennis. I could say the same thing here, it reminds me of Heath--maybe because it reminds me of Ennis. 

[Verona]

I will never, ever EVER be able to hear "Can't Take My Eyes Off of You" again without seeing a smiling Heath singing and dancing in the bleachers.

 

[Ellemeno]

In the same spirit as the previous post, Golden Years.


[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlPpFPxti5Q[/youtube]

[Sandy]

I'm a big big big Queen fan and I've only now been able to listen to the lyrics without crying. 

QUEEN-No-One but You (only the good die young)

A hand above the water
An angel reaching for the sky
Is it raining in heaven -
Do you want us to cry?
And everywhere the broken-hearted
On every lonely avenue
No-one could reach them
No-one but you

One by one
Only the Good die young
They're only flying too close to the sun
And life goes on -
Without you...

Another Tricky Situation
I get the drowin' in the Blues
And I find myself thinkin'
Well - what would you do?
Yes! - it was such an operation
Forever paying every due
Hell, you made a sensation
You found a way through - and

One by one
Only the Good die young
They're only flyin' too close to the sun
We'll remember -
Forever...

And now the party must be over
I guess we'll never understand
The sense of your leaving
Was in the way it was planned?
And so we grace another table
And raise our glasses one more time
There's a face at the window
And I ain't never, never sayin' goodbye...

One by one
Only the Good die young
They're only flyin' too close to the sun
Cryin' for nothing
Cryin' for no-one
No-one but you