If you have not seen/listened to the full performance you need to do it. This man takes hold of you from the moment he starts walking in with his guitar, right before he sits to play this, and he just lays it out for you showing how to sing your heart and soul out for the world to hear and see!! Just beautiful!!
This gutted me and hollowed me out. I was not prepared to cry on this lonely, cold morning. I am a widow of a few years and feeling despair most days. This made me cry - and I never cry any more. I thought I'd used up all of my tears. There hasn't been anything worth crying about that is as bad as everything I have lost. Wow. I literally stumbled across this on my YT feed and I am so very, very grateful. What an amazing piece of art this song is. Thank you and bless....just....BLESS xo
Before I truly knew what real grief was all about this piece would not have done much to me. But now.. FUCK.. Tethered to a bird of sorrow... Everything around you is burning.. Good gawd.. My heart is broken..just broken MY SON..my son..My son HOPE of some returning.. I Scream like him.. but It's inside.. Oh..that screaming voice.mm😥😢😭 Torture..Beautiful torture...
@@lindseywarren44 and even in the depths of our despair we find it in ourselves to hold someone else's hand and help them cope, because helping them helps us too....take care guys be strong even when it seems easier to let go
@@christofourie1409 As a child of a suicide, that rings so true to me. Because once it is shown to you by example that this is a viable way out, it imprints on you. It makes the possibility more real somehow. Because of that, I have always striven to try to cope and hang on. It sounds so trite to say "better days are coming"....but it is such an enormous truth. Thank you for your comment and sharing your heart. Bless xo
It's such a sad lonely place to be, sometimes we pretend to others we are okay, but deep down inside sadness keeps returning, I take each day as it comes, a bird a dog the sun can give me a moment of hope I can remove this sorrow, I feel for all of you I wish you love and hope, music bought us here, yet we don't know each but we are connected more than we know, sadness is so cruel.x❤️🩹
God damn I love Glen Hansard. I saw him play a solo gig this past weekend in Brighton. Just incredible. He played this song and he talked about how he wrote it for his mother after his father had passed. The emotion comes through in every performance. Just a true talent and passionate songwriter the world is better place for him ❤
"It is an absolute privilege, honour and miracle to find one of my songs sharing a playlist with this masterful performance by Glen Hansard." - Julian Henley.
He's an Oscar winner for Falling Slowly in 2008 from the film Once. Here in Ireland he's very well known, but he's not someone who chases the limelight. He's been around for a long time and carries on the great tradition of powerful singer-songwriters.
I had the privilege of seeing this amazing artist in London in the wonderful musical Once years ago....a true artist with depth and soul....his songs and the words give me hope when hope had all but died....he makes me believe again and want to live, and love , again.
How lovely! I'd heard of him, but never sat and listened. This version especially hit hard. I'm a Scot and I've been to that venue he is performing in. That caught my eye before the song did. So, so pleased I took time to listen! It's gorgeous. I am very pleased to hear that you found positivity and hope. Bless and be well xo
Been listening to Glenn do this and so many other heart cutting pieces for such a long time now ; and he never fails to sing his heart right out of his chest!! An alltime credit to music itself.......especially in that which reeks of the human condition. All hats off...... ron
I said goodbye to someone I truly loved. The friendship and love was lopsided and I realized it. I know I did the right thing but it still hurts so bad. This song really killed me and I can't stop crying. Love hurts.
GLEN.....You never stop.........always the BEST. This song says EVERYTHING it needed to say and.......I....feel the same....every word. Much Love to you GLEN.
Soulful performance with so much heart! I walked the floors of that Library many, many moons ago and it brought back memories. Now living Downunder. Thank you🙏
This is my first time listening to him. It popped up in my feed. Him sitting in front of a piano, so I clicked on it. I'm trying to teach myself piano. I saw a looking my age, same beard. I liked it a lot. The sound from a real piano is so much better than electronic. I have a Legato, Williams, Digital. Has all the keys, that's nice. I enjoy playing it. But a real piano. Nothing like it. Good song 👍
I love finding a singer who is talented.As you follow them you start to seethe depths of there talents and are blown away. I hope one day to hear this live.
I have loved him for years. He sang and helped to organize the musicians and song at Shane Mac Gowans funeral 4 months ago, that funeral itself was an amazing gathering of some of Ireland's best. Johnny Deep was a pallbearer, it is worth the 2 1//2 hr. livestream.
Love you Glen! Saw you in Ann Arbor Michigan. Some guy yelled " You're brilliant" He was right! Have watched "Once" again and again. Has a special place in my heart. For me the meaning of Once is that some experiences in life only happen Once, at the intersection of very unique circumstances! Thank You!!!!
I don’t have many word as this man’s voice and lyrics have just made me me cry and feel love at the same time 😮,what a phenomenal vocals ,😢Just wow dude ❤🫡🙌🙌
He does the soundtrack for the movie version of the play Once with Marketa Irglova. I strongly recommend giving the soundtrack a listen! Very heartfelt.
Than i... will tell you...KEEP GOING. I have a depression and never heard this song before, its beautiful, and its telling us....there is love coming again. So you and I, we have to keep our head up, and survive, and wait till the sun will shine again in our lives. I wish you all the best 💪🍀
There are some artists who have this incredible ability to emote to such an extent when they perform that it's almost visceral. It's raw, it's pure and their authenticity is like a punch to the gut. The emotion they pour in to their lyrics, melodies and performances feels tangible at times. Damien Rice is one of those artists. Jeff Buckley was another, as was Johnny Cash (think 'Hurt'), but the master has to be Glen Hansard. It's been almost two decades since I first heard his music - Falling Slowly - and nearly 20yrs on his music is every bit as mesmerising. If you haven't heard it, 'Time will be the Healer' is another masterpiece of his.
Was on a business trip and bumped into Glen Hansard one midweek afternoon in the merrion hotel in dublin about 15 years ago, chatted for a few mins. I'd already suspected, but it removed any doubt. This man is a truly rare treasure.
Took me a while to react after listening to this. So many unknown emotions were ignited. What a poetic and strongly emotional song. Agree with others as to why this video has not got millions of views and likes. Glen you are an an amazing artist. Hope to see you live one day.
Glen Hansard has always been incredible! So thankful that his voice with this song crossed my path today. I will now binge on his music for the foreseeable future. Thank you Glen.❤️🩹
Songwriting at it's best. No AI, no ProTools, no pitch correction, just pure soul. Even the slightly "false" chord at 02:09 is kinda beautiful. A human is making music. 🤩 Well done, sir!
Leave the familiar for a while. Let your senses and bodies stretch out Like a welcomed season Onto the meadow and shores and hills. Open up to the Roof. Make a new watermark on your excitement And love. Like a blooming night flower, Bestow your vital fragrance of happiness And giving Upon our intimate assembly. Change rooms in your mind for a day. All the hemispheres in existence Lie beside an equator In your heart. Greet Yourself In your thousand other forms As you mount the hidden tide and travel Back home. All the hemispheres in heaven Are sitting around a fire Chatting While stitching themselves together Into the Great Circle inside of You. Hafez (1325-1390) Khwāja Shamsu d-Dīn Muhammad Hāfez-e Shīrāzī
