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Genre: Music
Date of upload: Oct 25, 2009 ^^
Rating : 4.859 (433/11,865 LTDR)
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My mother died in a car accident on September 19th, 1990 when I was 26....I heard the news from my younger brother who lived in the same city at the same time....it changed me completely....my life was never the same....i go on....i work....i love....i laugh....i cry....but im different.....this song made it all easier to deal with.....i still work and strive and play and laugh....thank you for making it make a little easier.
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One of the most emotive and grossly underrated Eurythmics tracks ever in my humble opinion. The song was inspired by an Aunt of Annie Lennox in Aberdeen who sadly took her own life in 1987.
Sadly, the video was never shown on MTV in America at the time because it was perceived as dealing with issues around the occult, and could cause "outrage in certain sections of American society". So much for 'the land of the free'!!!
Annie is a wonderful person, still has a home in Aberdeen where she was born, and has (personally) raised over £60 million over the years for various medical research and welfare charities around the world for people and animals in need. Good on ya Annie!
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My mother died when I was 57. Parenting me had to have been a nightmare, so I think of the “where 57 winters took their toll” line as reflecting that struggle. She was in so much pain near the end that morphine was her only relief, and the onset of a final comatose phase prompted those closest to her at the moment to quietly facilitate a fatal overdose. No one can tell her what to do now. I believed in her like Elvis Presley singing live from Las Vegas. Fly over me angel.
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Although this song was written about the suicide of a woman, when it came out, my father had just died and I was still in shock and these words haunted me and yet summed up everything that I was feeling for the loss of my wonderful dad. x There was really heavy fog during the week he passed away and a little blackbird flew lost and hit my front door so loudly that I opened the door. I wondered if it was him calling to tell me he was still around. My Angel, fly over me, my angel. Where did you go
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There was a time when I, sadly, and nearly, ended the life I live in. The album, and this song came out at that time back then. It was like a wake up call in a way. It's been nearly 30 years of battling to survive, in which I shouldn't be, yet, here I am. Annie is truly an icon who has touched the world in ways most of us can only slightly imagine, yet, she is humble and fierce in her approach to the new, and her fight for the weak. And she will say "she's only a woman doing her best to do the right things". And Annie, AND Dave, too, continue on doing just that... though they part time to time for personal projects and life, they always reunite and they create. What a beautiful thing that is. Her voice, like a very few others I love, can paint a landscape of emotions that will remind you... You Are Alive! Peace.
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@Xipify
12 years ago
Yes she had one of the greatest voices in her genre but she also had, it seems to me anyway, an ability to emote her songs that crossed over. You -feel- her songs. You feel them on her albums. You feel them in her videos. You felt them in her live shows I am told, especially in smaller venues. It's rare and not many have it or the ability to sustain it consistently. One of my top 3 female vocalists in her genre....maybe top 1 depending on my mood. Woman is totally amazing.
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