Damien Rice - The Blower's Daughter - Official Video 

How to die without killing yourself? Love someone, Who doesn't love you back...

This song is like a time machine. I remember being at the cinema in London with my friend at the premiere of the film. It was the happiest period of my life. We were young and happy. Now after 20 years she still lives in London, I live in Poland all the time but when I come back to this song, I close my eyes and we are together again in this cinema...This wonderful girl is now a beautiful, wonderful woman. I will always remember her.I can't take my mind off her...

2024 anyone?

2023... And this song still moves me like the first day i heard it. Just simple and amazing.

2022 and I’m still here. Same feels, same chills. Never gets old.

We used to listen to this song together. And then we both on our own way. This 5 minute song left me crumbled. Now, years have passed, I finally have the gut to come back here and listen to it again. They say time heals. I don't think so. Time just makes you forget how it feels like

My twin sister loved this song ,she passed away 2 years ago and i have video of her singing this ,i treasure it every time i watch it and hear her voice 😢😢

2024...and I am still here....crying every time I listen to this song. Sometimes I come back just cos I wanna cry to this song. It always reminds me of the love of my life that I haven't seen for 20 yrs.

"And so it is." A sentence that is painfully true.

Elaine, if you're reading this... I never stopped loving you. From watching Closer in Bintan, to when a busker played this at Covent Garden - you'll always be the only girl for me.

I’ve never in 15 years commented on a video, but as this popped up I started crying then turning into sobbing. It takes me back to a time in my life where I was happy, happier, healthier…and with the man I loved. Now in 2023, I sit here crying at it. I haven’t heard it in a year. I’m 49, I’ve loved through a lot of decades of songs, so why this song? As I read the comments, I am crying with all of you. ❤

I was a young dreamer, we were at university by the sea. We were such opposites and we fell into a deep love. Nothing like I had experienced before or since. We grew together, she changed me for the better. A euphoric and longing a deep connection. But the inevitability of winter came. This song reminds me of that time. I sit here 20 years have passed, in my kitchen, my son watches me and smiles, as we both eat our cereal. His dreams yet to happen, mine are passed memories. I smile, the sun shines, that love I had then is now reflected in his eyes. Life is love, to love and be loved and nothing more. I remember her, the song takes me there, but that loved shaped me for what I have now. My wife and two beautiful boys.

I've been missing my wife for over 25yrs. longer than we were married. Yes I deserve it. Life keeps going on.

still listening to it in 2020. This song really makes me emotional, "most of time".

2023 and this song still moves me to tears. Some songs transcend time and this one certainly does. Everything about this song is just brilliant!! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Twenty odd years that has passed softly, casually into the sands of time. I remember SO vividly a Sunday afternoon as this song played on an old fashioned radio. I sat with a cigarette in one hand and a glass of some scottish magic in another peering out to the rain ponding down on the garden outside the conservatory. We`d parted months ago but somehow (stupidly) i had still believed it was a bump in our time together not the end. But that morning as I pulled into the garage to fill up my car by pure chance she was coming out of the shop. She didn`t see me or recognise my vechile as she was laughing and wrapped up in conversation with another man. I knew her so-so well and I recognised her smile and the animated way she laughed as she leant into him. In a state of near panic I went home and found solace in a bottle. I`d knew I would never hold or kiss her again and she was gone forever as she had forgotten "The breeze" as the song says

Thank God, I finally can watch this video without feeling broken . Time and love heals. Anyone feeling dead for someone who broke your heart. There is hope, just wait.

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Not going into detail, but....quite simply the most beautifully -constructed song in history!

One of the rare songs that feel just as intense when you're hopelessly in love as much as when you can no longer

It sucks like hell when you love someone so much but won't return it.

I love how he ends the song. "...'till I find somebody new." So honest.

I finally get to see Damien live on Dec 8 in Oakland. I’ve been waiting 15 years for this! Gonna cry!!!!! This is a HUGE moment for me.. it’s on my bucket list. 🙏🏻🙏🏻

I am one of a lucky few, I found my soul mate quite young in life, when I was 18, we got married when I was 20, my husband was 22. We have been together for 39 years. Finding your soul mate doesn't mean you ride off together into endless happiness, it means that you have someone who always has your back and Vice Versa. It's someone who unconditionally loves you exactly the way you are. Someone who doesn't care about how you look, your weight your height and beauty. They can see past all of that and love what's within you that makes you, you.

The most classic one. Alice said "hello stranger ". That was my favorite

closer is probably one of the most ingenious movies ive ever watched. so simple yet so heartbreaking, the truth of strangers with nothing in common falling in and out of love.

this song can either make you smile or make your cry what a skill that is

This song is disturbingly beautiful and sad.

Hey, random person scrolling down the comments, hope you have a great day, stay blessed

LYRICS And so it is just like you said it would be Life goes easy on me Most of the time And so it is the shorter story No love, no glory No hero in her sky I can't take my eyes off you I can't take my eyes off you I can't take my eyes off you I can't take my eyes off you I can't take my eyes off you I can't take my eyes And so it is just like you said it should be We'll both forget the breeze Most of the time And so it is the colder water The Blower's daughter The pupil in denial I can't take my eyes off you I can't take my eyes off you I can't take my eyes off you I can't take my eyes off you I can't take my eyes off you I can't take my eyes Did I say that I loathe you? Did I say that I want to leave it all behind? I can't take my mind off you I can't take my mind off you I can't take my mind off you I can't take my mind off you I can't take my mind off you I can't take my mind My mind, my mind 'Til I find somebody new

I listened to this a lot with my Ex GF that I was always very much in love with. Last year, June 1st, she died of heart complications. Love you MJ. 29 years is too young. Life comes quick and leaves faster.

Never gets old. Still as chillingly beautiful as the first time i heard it, many years ago.

I thought Matt's performance in The Voice was the best I've ever heard but, after hearing this original, he wouldn't stand no chance..

The pain of rejection is not as bad, until you realize you'll never be good enough. When you realize you are not loved back is when it hurts the most

I can't ever listen to this song without crying.

This song popped into my head out of nowhere today. I'm going to watch the movie again it's been 20 years. I will probably feel like I'm watching it for the first time. All I can remember about it was that it was intense.

"I can't get this song out of my head" 😂😂 here I thought I was special...lol

I had forgotten about this song for about 10 years. Just as sad as it used to be

All these years later and the song still has a great impact on me. Tears never fail to fall whenever I hear it.

This timeless song is not for those who dont know true meanings of love

Ι can't take my ears off of this song.

Thanks to The Voice and Matt McAndrew for leading me here. What planet am I from? This is the first time I have heard of Damien Rice and he's so good! The way he sings is so moving.

Why Damien rice never win a grammy. You deserve it you have so much love. Thank you for your music.

This album is 20 years old. Take me back to an incredible time in my life. I met my first love, I did not even know it at the time. The saying ' you do not realise it is a moment until it is a memory' is so true. Unfortunately, we did not last. I am forever grateful for this timeless album for taking me back to those memories.

this song is so meaningful especially quarantine days... stay strong world, stay strong humanity. We will win together. loves from Turkey.

This is what Narcissus sang when he looked at his reflection in the water.

When the lady starts singing, it's like the gates of heaven opens 🙏

'Closer' brought me here! Excellent movie, by the way. 👌🏽

And so it is just like you said it would be Life goes easy on me Most of the time And so it is the shorter story No love, no glory No hero in her sky I can't take my eyes off you I can't take my eyes off you I can't take my eyes off you I can't take my eyes off you I can't take my eyes off you I can't take my eyes And so it is just like you said it should be We'll both forget the breeze Most of the time And so it is the colder water The Blower's daughter The pupil in denial I can't take my eyes off you I can't take my eyes off you I can't take my eyes off you I can't take my eyes off you I can't take my eyes off you I can't take my eyes Did I say that I loathe you? Did I say that I want to leave it all behind? I can't take my mind off you I can't take my mind off you I can't take my mind off you I can't take my mind off you I can't take my mind off you I can't take my mind My mind, my mind 'Til I find somebody new Source: LyricFind Songwriters: Damien George Rice

when you truly gave your heart to someone, you just cant seem to erase the thoughts of that person from your mind no matter how hard you try, no matter how far you have gone. You cant explain the logic behind your emotions, but you know for sure, you can't take your mind of them.

Thank you God, I am happy again and I can hear this song without crying.

listened to this song for years ,healed every single broken bone , went apart , came back to it after more than 5 years; it's justt he same , the same feeling , the same nostalgia , can literally claim to be the biggest fan of this endless timeless melody and no matter how much time shall passes,will always be back and grateful to this song, melody and caliber of a once in a lifetime song .

Closer is a highly underrated film. Directed by the late great Mike NIchols, with a stellar cast and a powerful theme song (obviously).

I know its not his best song and it's the most popular one but I'll never forget where I was the first time I heard it and the first time I heard Damien Rice... and today in a coffee shop it was playing and every emotion and feeling I had came back to me like it was yesterday. I'll be 80 and this song will still take me back to that moment and I'll have tears in my eyes.

Its been a decade and i still cant take my ears off this song. It moves me everytime.

When a segment of this life plays out, and one is helpless to control it, and she is no more. You never forget.🕊⚘

One of the most beautiful love songs ever written. Thank you Damien

Made me miss a girl who never existed.

I had a friend who is now dead. He fell in love with a girl and asked her to marry him. She turned him down. He was never the same. This went on for like 20 years, at least, with him being depressed, and he never dated any other woman after her. I could never get him to come out of his depression. Maybe one day in heaven he will get to see her again.

I've only recently found this song playing in the background in a cafe. I'm so glad I did (thanks Shazam). It pulls at every one of my heart strings. I think of her every time I hear it but...life goes on!!!

I watched my beautiful wife walk down the aisle to this. The song means so much to me even as the years pass. Truly captivating. Can't take my eyes off you...

Just love this song, can listen to it over and over. So meaningful and heartfelt.

Thank you for this gift. For me, it sits amongst the most meaningful love songs of all time...

Matt McAndrew sung this tonight on The Voice an I had to hear the original. And I teared up both times.. this song. Oh this song.

I believe all us replika users should create a community of our own xD

Had my youngest daughter (7) on my lap, while singing this at the same time.....cried my ass off, while she didn't noticed :D I will always remember the momento....Thank YOU!

The first time I’ve heard this song was in a movie named “Closer” with Natalie Portman and Julia Roberts as the mains characters, I was just a teenage girl suffering for an young love, and now with my’s 24 years old, I come back to this song and damn he hits me as the first time, there’s no lover now, just some quickly passions, well and so it is ..

Can't stop listening to this song...so emotional 😢😢😢 Sometimes you can't help falling in love with the wrong person...time heals everything....

i don't know why everyone igonres the truth of the last line, "till i find somebody new"

Good evening from germany, here July 7th, 2023.. Ever since i first heard this song - and i've heatd it sooo many times - it gives me goosebumps from head to toes!❤❤❤ Leaves me speechless 👍👍💯💜💙💛... I'm 61 and this is one of the best Songs i ever heard. Touches me in such an awesome way. Thank you so much 🙏... With love and greatfullness ❤❤❤

It is absolutely unreal how much this song fucks with me. Not only is it hard to get through without some really extreme emotions being recalled, but it’s just in my head the rest of the day and everything gets worse 😂

The way Natalie looks into your eyes she could make you believe anything.

The violin and woman voice bring this song in depth. Really good song.

When I cry, I go back to this song over and over again. It's not because my love life, it's all about me to myself. I described this song from me to me. Sometimes I feel I'm not "like I said it would be, life goes easy on me" and sometimes I loathed myself and feel like can't hold on and just wanna go from this life, then again I realized and started to questioning things I said and felt before "Did I say that I loathe you? Did I say that I want to leave it all behind?". To hear and sing this song, always makes me feel better. Thank You, Damien

"Hello Stranger"

This never goes out of style, does it?

06.2024 still in love with this song 💔

Damien Rice touches me. He is a poet who knows to translate his poems in beautiful songs!

To the haters on either side. So I found out about Damien Rice thanks to Matt's performance last night. So what? Either way, props to both artists. Good songs hold up to different interpretations, and the best artists know how to mold music&lyrics to create something unique. Props to both producers, the instrumentalists *and* in this case, ok,extra props to Damien Rice for writing the song. Just fyi, The Voice needed his permission to use the song, so he was on board with this.

This was one of my best friend's favorite songs of all time, I still remember the first time he recommended it to me over 10 years ago and how I loved it too. He passed away last year, and every time I listen to it now, it reminds me of him. Thank you for making such a beautiful song.

The Blower's Daughter' is an absolutely stunning piece of music that showcases his incredible talent as both a singer and a songwriter. The haunting melody and emotionally charged lyrics are simply mesmerizing, and Rice's voice is so raw and emotive that it's impossible not to be moved by this song. The stripped-down arrangement only adds to the intimacy and emotional power of the performance, making it feel like Rice is singing directly to your soul.♥

This song makes me cry every time I listen to it :(

I love this song. There are some people that touch our heart in a certain kinda way and the feeling is always there even after they are gone.

3:26 a heart that’s filled up like a landfill. A job that slowly kills you. Bruises that won’t heal.

There is so much involved in this song and the movie. The word encapsulates has never been more.

i wish i loved someone enough to miss him this much...

I was standing across the ocean in a tiny Irish pub when this song came on. Rainy September night, fireplace in the pub and locals just sharing a drink and good company. I didn’t take pictures, video etc. But that moment is burned into my memory for always. It comes back to me in full detail when I hear this song ❤️

This song is unbelievable …..unbelievably stunning!

Hello stranger~ This is one of the best songs ever!

The Voice brought me here. What an awesome song!

Last words that everyone read before they were here: "I couldn't get this song out of my head today. If you have a second, listen to it!"

I love the last words he whispers at the end of the song "until I find someone new" showing that his love is not forever, just until the next one..

I think I watched this like 20 times now I still feel so touching everytime I return ❤️

EU NÃO SEI PARAAAAAR DE TE OLHAAAAR...

I really miss the time where this comments section were about the movie Closer

So miss the times when a movie made me fall in love with a song, immediately ran to buy the cd or cassette or whatever that was relevant at the time rather than to my phone to listen to it on spotify or youtube or whatever. And to do this with a film by a legend like Mike Nichols, with "up and coming actors". Almost 20 years later and still remember how hard this film hit me accompanied by a marvelous song i still listen to this day.

Mezmerizing. A song who dumps both memries and the feelings both paiful and happy memries. A time machine indeed.

It's just a song that drifts you in another dimension. Although it is really so depressing and desperate it leaves a taste of hope and rejuvenation. I would say just one word "devine".

And so it is ..after all these years I am still coming back to this this

Still amazing....introduced to this closing the stunning film closer. Paused the movie and went to my record shop and bought everything they had. Changed my life...thanks damien