I almost gave up. I came back from the Gulf War broken and hopeless. I turned to the drink and isolated myself. When things were at their worst my father came and brought me home and helped me in his gentle way, where army doctors and their pills couldn’t. He made me see that there was peace and goodness in the world. He passed seven years ago and I miss him every day. I’m still strong Da.
Sorry for your loss, I know what it feels like believe me, my wife passed 8 years ago and I still miss her, been alone ever since 'cos no one can replace her and no one ever will ! God it's hard !!!
This song literally saved me from committing suicide as a young adult. Kicked out on the streets at 16, abusive relationship after abusive relationship, homeless, wandering from town to town, going without food days on end, sleeping rough, turning to Salvation Army shelter only to have the manager in charge of it try and molest me in the middle of the night, feeling like no one would give a shit if I lived or died..then just as I thought of ending it all to stop the suffering, I heard this song, its words reached to me. Peter's voice of despair matched my own and Kate's message haunted me...her various versions of ''dont give up..'' Especially the part where she sings, ''don't give up 'cause somewhere there's a place where we belong, rest your head you worry too much, it's going to be alright, when times get rough, you can fall back on us, don't give up, please don't give up''...really helped me to hold on and not end it all...this soon became my survival song and I can easily say that 30 years later after hearing this song, my life took 360 turn...I am now living happy, 2 beautiful teenage children, a happy home, a man who works hard, loves me and treats me with respect...thank you Peter and Kate for this song and for helping me through hell...and Kate was right..there was a place where I belonged
Oh dear Dianna I’m so glad to read your testimony. Thank you for sharing. How wonderful to know all that has happened to you despite such hardship. Love from France
5 years ago my daughter was in a car accident. She had her license for a month. Her mom took the day shift and I watched over her on the night shift in the trauma center. I played this song for 3 months. I read the comments here and was fueled with hope. I prayed that my daughter would live. During those 3 months I witnessed all her friends that would visit late night. So many people showed up. I saw the human side of healthcare workers dote on her. Late at night when the friends and family left I was able to sit with her like many fathers don’t get to with a 16 year old. When the doctors told us she wasn’t going to recover, and we said our goodbyes. The time to say goodbye was a blessing, my prayers were answered; In those 16 years she lived a full life. She was an organ donor and lives on in several different recipients. I’m proud of the life she lived, and still lives by helping others. I still garner hope on her birthday and the day she passed through this song. #livelikeliv16
I'm so sorry for your unimaginable your loss , your daughter living on in others & is a miracle that I hope brings you some comfort I can't even imagine your heartbreak .. 😢
This came out a few months before the worst year of my life. I had always wanted to be a teacher, and in October 1986 I went to Ambleside, Cumbria to join a BEd course. In June 1987 I finally had to admit that I wasn't mature enough to cope and left having given up on the only career I have ever wanted. In September my mum became ill and died in December of Acute Myloid Leukemia. She was only 54 years old and I was only 20. Over the years I have tried to overdose 3 times but luckily I never succeeded. Now I am happily married, living in beautiful Cornwall and I teach English online to children all around the world. Please don't give up. Life is precious and it WILL get better. xx
It sure is, doesn't stop us from forgetting that life does indeed go on. Even when you're absolutely certain it won't. Not all wounds heal, but time dulls the pain.
One thing I truly love about RU-vid is being able to listen to music and read the comments to find out what the song meant to others. It's like listening to it with fresh ears... knowing what others have been through and still going strong! I love that there is a place to connect people through music. Makes me realise that we arent so different from one another after all. Sending love to everyone in these comments. 🖤
@Birdy Jax - I absolutely agree with you ❤️ it's so beautiful to read comments of all people from all parts of the world sharing their memories and feelings. Music is really connecting people, old and young generation from the whole world, it's very beautiful 😍🙋
Probably the most platonic love song ever written. It's not about feeling romantic feelings for another, or lust, or desire, it's about truly loving someone to the point that you want them to stay around because they make your world a better place. I appreciate a song that can touch into those emotions
The song is about the about harsh economic conditions in the UK during the early-80s. Character in song is an out of work man unable to find a job as are the many of others like him.
As a combat vet who struggles with mental health problems and alcoholism in a world where you feel so alone now I truly needed to hear this. Only stumbled across this video today as we received word of one of my favorite actor Matthew Perry passed away. Realizing how there’s been so many things from his interviews and book I relate to. It’s because of him I come across this song and will now hold it close to my heart and remember to not give up. RIP Matthew Perry
I also came here because of Matthew Perry. This song meant a lot to him, and he felt it was the soundtrack to his life. May he rest with the angels and may you find the peace you need - perhaps Matthew’s story, which I recommend you read (I read it a year ago when it came out) will help you overcome your struggles. He would feel his life was worth all the hardships if he knew he helped someone. May you find peace tonight, whatever you are. You matter. Never forget that.
I am listening to this song because of Matthew Perry's death. I hope you are overcoming your mental health problems and alcoholism. If you need someone to talk to. I am all here.
May we all encounter the peace we need. I trust God will keep on guiding us, we just have to open to the sincronicities, since I also came to the video through M. Perry.
Matthew Perry mentioned this song in a interview. Said he would like it to be the soundtrack to his book if there was one. He also signs all the books “Don’t give up” above his name.
I lost my son to suicide 3 years now, still feels like yesterday! This song is one I wished I had shared with him! Tears flow every time I listen. Find comfort in the memories I had and continue to pray for all that have gone through what my family has. We all have a purpose in this world! As the song goes, “Don’t give up”
@@oscardipiazza3883 thank you Oscar. I love my time visiting South America. I spent t days in Argentina and a total of 7 weeks in South America, visiting 13 countries in 1995. I did Central America the year before. I hope you will visit Ireland and I send you all my love.🇮🇪❤️🇮🇪❤️🇮🇪
I DO realise, Peter and Kate, are very very talented. In 2021, I was told Babooshka, is the Russian word for grandmother. I did not know that.I am 50, and I live in New Zealand.
In the past I've read a lot of hate for Kate Bush because of this song. She wouldn't go on concert with Peter to sing it with him and people hated her for it. I was just reading up on her bio tonight. She only did one concert tour ever, before the very first show one of the very important people involved fell through the stage floor 20 feet (almost 7 meters) to land on a concrete floor, and was so severely injured he died before the concert. This set the stage for a harrowing concert tour for her, and she refused to do it again. Additionally right around this time she was dealing with deaths in her close family that further traumatized her. Music had been her life since early childhood and she walked away in despair. So yes, she didn't tour with Peter and he had to find somebody else to sing the duet with live. Before you go hate on somebody, try imagining what its like to be in their shoes. Kate has an amazing voice, and had a sometimes flamboyant style similar to Peter's when he was in Genesis and the aftermath. They are incredible together on this song.
Heck, until I saw the other live performances PG was doing with other female singers here on YT, and even then I thought it was pretty cool that he performed this live just to give the song different dimensions. That's along sentence, sorry. But for all those Kate Bush haters (and I didn't even know that, for heavens sake until I read your comments) just remember, that the magic of this song, upon hearing it the first time with KB is really really hard to recapture the second time around, and especially live. Just savor the sweet, fragile yet untamed voice of Kate in this video. At 64 now, and since I was 25 when this was released on the album, I realize only now that I was looking for the WRONG THINGS in a woman as a life mate. I was totally wrong. And I seriously doubt I will get a 2nd chance.
@@allenvaughan1 Don't worry about the long sentences, I'm well known for my run-on sentences. It took me decades just to be able to START breaking the habit. But it's the way my brain works. And thanks for your positive response. You are lucky actually, I've never gotten to see Peter live, I really wish I had, the YT videos of his concerts all look awesome. And yes, Kate Bush was an incredibly talented singer. I first heard her on MTV back when they actually played music (around 85) and was hooked on her voice and the quirky background stuff in her songs along with the very interesting music itself.
@@isobeljames1328 This is not a live concert video, it's a music video recording. From what I've read she never sang it in live concert with him. This is "The official Don't Give Up video." - every live concert video I have seen had a different female vocalist. - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-98lNKjwYtaU.html - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-uzBs-wHwl9k.html - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-LZnPFiNIDiY.html - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-v3SVJrTODdc.html - so prove me wrong and find it.
Why would you hate somebody for going through all she went through. These people would want to get a crip.Totally agree with you 101%. Why would you hate anyone. They should practice compassion. They/ any of us will never know when we might be in the same position. And experience the same things as she did. Famous or not.
This song saved me when I was raped when I was 14. I've returned to it over and over again. It reminds me I'm still alive,and while I live there's hope that one day, one day things might actually be ok. I'm 50 now, and I still haven't given up.
This song and album saved my life when I was 28 years old with 2 small children, fighting the worst depression in my life. It was a lullaby that Got me through excruciating pain. I still weep . Thank you PG and Peace be with you all. Don't Give Up❤️❤️Fight like Hell
This was one of my brothers favorite songs. Today was his birthday. He was a marine and passed away at 36 years old. He knew 7 languages fluently. So sad. God will see that we see our loved ones again.
Watched this for the first time today thanks to a Matthew Perry interview. Even after he is gone, he is still making good things happen to people he didn't know.
Two years before this song came out in 1986, I was homeless, abusive father, unemployed, lost my girlfriend, a friend committed suicide - and I was interned into a psychatric ward. It was only one of the lowest times in my life. My life, heart and soul was completely carpet-bombed and ripped apart. I would have done anything to hear a sincere kind word then. Thirty-five years later, I'm college educated, home owner, with other landed property, a published author, retired tenured teacher, traveled the world - and even made the world a better place by working for the UN. This song always takes me back to where I came from that darkest part of my life thirty-five years ago. It makes me recognize myself from where I came from. It brings me quickly to tears. Thank you Peter. Thank you Kate.
Man can life hit us hard sometimes. I had a stroke 17 yrs ago and I lost all my friends for a long long time. People just didn't get what a stroke does to you, how it can rob you of your personality, your way of thinking, your everything but praise God. In the end my wife stayed with me and with such a deep love. She always believed In me and that God never leaves us or forsakes us. Well I learned how to read, write, walk and talk again and now I'm kickboxing, creating artwork and sharing hope with anyone I can. God is good and my roots just went deeper into trusting Him in the end. Hang on, whoever is reading this, God always has a way. Signed Through the valley...
I realize this is rude on my part, but don't you think you have to have a stroke to start believing in God? Especially since it was your god who gave it to you, according to your faith, as the driving force behind everything. Somehow, several of my friends after a stroke did not develop faith in God. Thanks to the hard work on themselves, doctors, family and their entire environment, they recovered with human, not divine, help. But if it helped you, that's cool, I wish you health and many more years. I just hope that this is not an example of disgusting religious propaganda that many people use in similar threads on the Internet, looking for vulnerable, lost souls...
@@yama3a We are not grateful for the millions of electronic bits in our computer. But when one of them fails, once fixed, we are grateful for it forever.
@@danroig351 Beautiful. Philosophical ones. Did you come up with it yourself? But what does this have to do with the topic, because we are not writing about computers here? For now, we cannot buy the human brain from Intel or AMD. The service is also at a low level. If the service had not been in use, it might have been possible to cure both the effects of a cerebral hemorrhage and the disastrous effects of religion on this noble organ...
I just watched an interview Matthew Perry did about his book. He mentioned this song. I wasn't familiar with it so I looked it up. Damn, I wasn't prepared for the emotions! This is an old song but it couldn't be more relevant today. So many people suffer in silence, isolate themselves. Matthew said, "Raise your hand, tell people you're struggling, you need help. DON'T GIVE UP."
I thought the same. I use to sing along to it. But now I'm actually listening to the words. RIP Matthew Perry, another loving caring man gone too soon. Forever remembered 🩵
❤ think everyone came here to comment because of M.P. He somehow led everyone to find this beautiful song. RIP. You legend❤ forever in so manys hearts 💕
My daughter died at the age of 28, almost 10 years ago, after a 13 year valiant struggle with cancer. She was amazing - graduated high school 1st in her class, varsity athlete, graduated college, got married!, worked full-time until two months before she had to leave us. Miriam NEVER gave up. To this day, this beautiful song brings me to tears. HR
Greatgreat loss my dear. Don't cry for her departure instead thank the Lord our God for the 28years He gave your daughter to you. I pray for your scars to heal soon... God bless you
I have a mother who listened to this song on repeat for several months in her darkened bedroom after she suffered from a complete mental breakdown when I was in Jr. High. She would listen to this song for hours at a time laying there in her bed crying. I have had a hard time listening to this song for most of my life but now that I am nearly 42 ...I understand why she had chosen this song to help pull her out of the darkness... It really is a beautiful song. Positive lyrics that helped my Mom get out of the storm. Thank you✌️.
I’m a British working class man(albeit educated) the mid eighties were like that. Exactly like that. I watched proud hard working people robbed of their dignity. Broke my heart.
Indeed. I was born in 1981 and remember the hardships as a young working-class child very well. My politics have changed, shifted and evolved over the decades - I'm very much a "small c conservative" - economically centrist and mildly socially conservative - but I will never forgive or forget what Thatcher and the Tories did (and continue to do) to the working classes.
I am from communistic Poland (still) and Warsaw pact, the socialism and democracy are a scam for all the mass media oriented, not looking for truth (so stupid) people :(
Simon, you're one of the few commenters who understands this is a POLITICAL song. And the rich have not yet begun to steal from us. It's indecent, but when will we fight back?
"Don't give up, 'Cause you have friends.' Knowing this gem was played at Matthew Perry's funeral is both comforting and heartwrenching. Thank you for all the laughs, you're a forever gem.
Matthew's belief kept him going, he was such a warrior, so hard to keep going when you are struggling, and despite all the darkness he kept fighting for his life over and over again.
Here I am a Brit living in the middle of a war in Ukraine and listening to this song from two fantastic artists keeps me going. We see no end to this war but the song keeps me going. X
I know how it is for all of you. I was very young then when the bloody war was raging in my beautiful Croatia. I could have gone to my uncle in Germany, but I didn't want to. Don't give up. Never! We didn't give up for 5 long years. For 5 years I didn't know what was happening in the world. We had no support from anyone. We were alone and abandoned by everyone. They just watched and waited for our defeat. They also gave us an arms embargo. Everyone sees how brave and skilled warriors you are. The end will come. Nothing lasts forever. If we could do it, so can you. Lots of strength and love to the brotherly people from Zagreb, Croatia and ty too.
Praying for you all over there,My grandparents were from Ukraine and I pray to GOD you all will be free soon and beat Putin..God is there with you all..Don't give up I watch everyday on tv whats going on over there and my heart just aches and wants peace for you all..Love you all..
I was at the train station one day with my headphones in and I was about to take my own life until this song played, so here I am today. Thank you Kate Bush and Peter Gabriel 💖
I am so happy you’re still here. Life is too beautiful to take it. I know it might not always go easy it’s not always just piece and cake. Sometimes we need to fight, sometimes we need to work. But after all it’s worth it because life has so much waiting for us. And if you’re feeling bad talk about it with people. I’m also here if you need someone. I just want to say you are loved even though sometimes you might feel you’re not. Sending you all my strength and love! Thanks for still being here :)))
@@Ilovestrangerthings011 I really needed this. thank you. thank you thank you. so many kind and selfless strangers out there in that scary world, yourself included. you have a good heart
love this song but allah who prevents me from nett end to my days when I remember that allah will never forgive me for this cruel act and that all my age does not deserve to be erased because of anger or because problems i love the songs but i won't let them influence my life
I live in Argentina and as a teenager I saw my father, like so many men, lose his job in the ninenties. There were so many men that no one needed, and my dad was one of them. I saw his desperation as he took off everymorning and came back empty handed in the afternoon, for two years he was unemployed...and this song brings it all back. He never gave up. And for that I thank him.
You are a warrior William. You've been through things that most would only experience in their nightmares, whatever they may be. Don't give up. Thank you so much for your service. This world is a safer place because of men like you. I know that doesn't help with the pain but please know how grateful we are to you 🙏
Yesterday I watched Matthew Perry's ( Chandler ) interview and he said this song helped him thru his recovery. I had never heard it so here I am. Thanks Chandler for holding on and still being here with us 💕
Yes! I watched that interview. Matthew’s honesty, laying himself bare in front of that audience and in his book will surely help countless people in need. I recognised the song as soon as he mentioned it, but I’d forgotten just how the simplicity of the video keeps the focus on the words. Beautiful pairing of two great talents.
True. Kate is unique. There is also a very moving live version of this with Pink singing the Kate Moss part. It's different, but also deeply felt, gives me chills.
Such an emotional video of them holding each other, clinging to each other, not letting each other go. So pure, so beautiful. Its genius in its simplicity.
So right. This glorious song lasts six and a half minutes but seems to only last three minutes. It ends too soon. Most modern songs last three minutes but seem to go on for six and half minutes.
I drink too much. I have problems with depression. There's no reason. I'm a healthy, sane,witty,good looking 52 year old man. This song hits my soul,i don't give up. I just pray for the day I dont have too fight...love to all.
Depression takes possession of many us...drinking adds to it....a vicious cycle.....find the PURPOSE Our Creator has for YOU...Ask HIM to help you......survive, it's important HE placed you on earth for a reason...find that reason....baby steps forward, upward....sending Positive Vibes
This song goes out to my daughter whi is suffering from Depression and ADD/ADHD. Don't give up my dear your father loves you and believes in you and we will get through this. Better days are ahead. I sent this to her to give her hope
Just hold on, nothing is solid in the rock. Ask God to show you what you need to do. Spirit is never sick. You can heal from all os life diseases, just connect back to the words of God and have faith. You have your life in front of you. Give yourself permission for a better life. Doctors clean the wound, and God heals. Blessings
I'm a retired addiction counselor. I hope that everyone out there struggling with an addiction will listen to this song and take it to heart. You do have friends out there, maybe people you haven't met yet, who can help. You are not alone and you are profoundly loved. Don't give up. Reach out for help.
I have complex post-traumatic stress disorder and sometimes it got so hard dealing with it,it felt like I couldn't go on. I didn't give up though and now after 31 years of intense effort I'm experiencing the best life I've ever had. I'm so glad I didn't give up! There are a lot of amazing people out there who are willing and able to help.
I am going to start a job as an addiction counsellor soon. Is there anything you would advise me? I have been thinking about the offer over and over and I am torn.
This song kept me alive while going through a rough patch. 10 months living in a car, sleeping in bathrooms while being a grad student. Even contemplating suicide.Today, i have a job and a safe place to stay. Never give up. Never resort to a permanent solution to a temporary problem.
So yes, this song is just for you: don't give up, whatever you have to go through in your life, this is exactly what your loving Mum should have say to you. Be strong and confident that, as from now, you have an Angel looking after you.
My wife died of cancer over ten years ago and I still feel her in my heart. This song helps me ease the pain of loneliness and hurt I feel every waking moment. Thank you, Peter Gabriel.
That's good.same me.And Musik is for me the best Medizin,when i have extrem pain...in my leggs. I miss my Partner my hold live bud he is the hold Live by me and in me.greeting
Rest in peace and power, Matthew Perry. I just read that this song was played at your funeral and I can see why there wasn't a dry eye in the house. I know you were there watching over all of your loved ones as they said goodbye to your earthly self. But your soul will live on forever, and you will be with them all as they continue on in their respective life journey's. And you will meet again, face to face, soul to soul, in time. Love lives on forever. It truly never dies. Keep shining onward, Matty. You are and were so loved. xoxoxoxoxo
was an alcocholic and 4 years ago i had a stomach bleeding , then my eyes opened and stopped drinking directly , like matthew says its a disease . i wish matthew was still here with all his friends and with us , and i hope that he still can help people with his book just like he wanted . and i really hope he is in a better place . this song will be playing more for me now , and matthew will be in my thoughts .
I've always thought of this as my wife and I's song.....and then I had a cancer fight. WOW, did it really become our song. I'm here, 10 years later, cancer free, working full time, and living a good life. If you ever find someone who really loves this song, and also really loves you, marry them. They get what marriage really is.
Update...It's happened...I met someone else and She is the most beautiful soul I have ever known. She has gone through so much and none of it has turned her against the World. I was overwhelmed with the comments that have been shared here and it's true, Don't Ever Give Up! I truely was in the worst place I have ever been in before but I can see the light again. Love to anyone and everyone out that needs it still. 26 year relationship has come to an end because my wife stopped loving me and had an affair and is now with the 'man' she replaced me with. I'm broken in so many ways but this song reminds me that my life isn't over. Two of the finest artists ever. A massive hug to anyone else out there who needs it X
I have shared your pain. The sense of abandonment and worthlessness is indescribable. It gets better. Every day, every week. Dark clouds come. And the wind of time will scatter them. You are not alone. Though separated from others who have known the pain. We are legion.
This has to be one of the most beautifully powerful duets ever sang by two people. It's as if two angels are singing it. Every note pronounced by Kate's voice seems to illuminate the soul, banishing every dark thought.
It's gematria... progamming.... yin and yang.... dark and light.... freemasonry... eclipse.... 9/11... twin towers... into one tower.... how did kate bush get to number one after 40 years... with an average song.... the kids would never have bought "running up that hill"... so how did it get to number one?.... it's the narrative... subliminal messages.
I know no one cares but I've dealt with severe mental illnesses and an eating disorder and have recently experienced a serious relapse. I came back to this song because this song reminds me not to give into this addiction and choose life. Specifically the lyrics "we're proud of who you are" reminds me that I have family who support me. "Whatever may come, and whatever may go, that river's flowing" are so beautiful too because it reminds me that life goes on regardless of what happens, just because things are rough it doesn't mean everything will stop. This song remains brilliant over the years.
Don't give up! I too suffer from depression. I'm much better now that my focus is on God. He's filled a huge hole in my life and it's no wonder because He made me! He's always there for you to call on Him. Then find a church to call home. Don't give up, you have friends or will have soon. I'm praying for you right now! 🤗
I watched this video 1000x after the only man I've ever truly loved walked out our home for the last time in 26 years. I spent 4 days and 3 nights curled up on the floor. I've learned how to forgive, I've learned that holding grudges is like squeezing broken glass. I didn't give up, I'm still here.
Truly you are here Debbie, draw on your inner strength and move forward. Life is a beautiful thing, and the hurdles are just that. Positive times ahead ……absolutely. Best, Graeme
Lost my best friend in the entire universe to suicide this past August, came across this song for the first time and it instantly brought tears. I don't want to go into the new year without her. I miss and love you so much Mommy!!!!
RIP to Matthew Perry. I listened to this song in high school and as a young adult a lot, too. I hope your soul and mind can get the rest they so badly needed. I feel you, man.
Praying for you wooloo and amymccrea. And all who are struggling with addiction, their sobriety, and so many other things in life that are so difficult like abuse, mental health issues, heartache, loss, health issues, etc. We are all one race… human. And being human is to be there for each other. You’re not alone. Prayers and love. 🙏🏼💜
This song saved my Life. From the verge of depression when I felt I am done, i was cutting myself with knife and burning myself to get rid of my depression and I didn’t know what to do. I ran into this song and started listening to this song and I told myself, you are a loser today and behind everyone else. But if you start moving forward 5 step every day and never give up one day you will catch up with the others and pass them and this will be the engine for your never ending growth and reaching to your dream destiny. I built a company, a big team, got my freedom, travelled to 65 countries and am excited to see what the rest of my journey looks like.
As a musician , I can hear how cleverly composed this song is and the constant shift from minor to major keys. When You hear PG in his despairing voice stating his loss and sadness it's in the minor key denoting sadness and solemnity. When KB provides her encouragement and comfort in her beautiful haunting voice, it's in the major key which always sounds bright, glad and happy! Very clever. There are few soungs which have this constant shift between types of keys!
This song was a favourite of my dear son Shane who tragically died in April this year. His mantra was never give up. He was my rock who is now a diamond shining in heaven looking down on us.RIP my darling man. Mum xx
I think 🤔 about this song like ... 'Yeah, I won't give up' ... I think there are days when we could all use a good six minute hug ... pretty sure that's how the slow dance was invented 🙃✌🥰
"No one wants you when you lose" So true, everyone expects you to take all life sh*t without ever complaining... and when you finally let a cry for help they don't remember how strong you stand times before.
This is probably the only song on RU-vid where I've liked pretty much every single person's comments. What a powerful song. Helped me through my depression in the early 90s. I owe a lot to Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush 🙏🙏
I send you love it's hard with depression I understand 😢I lost my son Nicholas he was Eleven years old as a mother it hurts 😢 please look after yourself sorry about what you are going through 😢😢❤
This song I shared with my youngest son, over and over. Corey suffered from a mental illness for the last 9 years of his life and died at the of 33, from an opioid overdose. I buried him 2 days ago and played it from my playlist at his funeral. I won't ever forget Kate and Peter and what they mean to me. xo
I spent 30 years in the infantry and when I came home I was lost i fought in wars and saw things no one should see, no one was bothered I suffer from ptsd, tbi and battle nerves then I met my angel and she has stood by my side through everything and this song means so much to me, I love it
Sir, I'm an Old 11B Gulf War Vet, I understand. U seen stuff no one should ever see, I'm a Policeman of 25 Yrs in Memphis I've seen my share to. I pray u are better now.... U can ALWAYS Talk to God, he will listen.
My husband is ex Air Force, two tours of Iraq in second Gulf War. He has PTSD and depression as well, but he and I are soul mates and I am his "wingman" through all his ups and downs. We won't give up, cos we have us.
I can't believe I've never heard of this song! But just now listening to Matthew Perry reading his autobiography, he said this is his favorite song, so I had to find it. I can see why it was so important to him. Rest in Peace, Matty.
However hard things might feel right now, they can improve and there is help out there and people who care, so check out the websites of MIND and the Samaritans. A lot of us have been through similar things.
There's still a lot of life and joy to be had yet for you Linda. Take it a day at a time while figuring out the big picture improvements you want, you can make it work. Hugs to you.
Linda, I'm alone too. I know the feeling. We have to remember that we're not really alone. GOD IS WITH US. He's our friend and we can talk to Him all day, every day like He's right there in the room with us. He is. We're not alone. We're lonely. When this lock down is over, we have to go out and put ourselves in HEALTHY, social situations where we can be around healthy, supportive people. Ok? I don't know you. But I'm sending my love and support to you out there. ❤️❤️❤️🙏🙏🙏 You're not alone. Love to you.
RIP Matthew Perry - this was his favourite song & favourite video. Matthew Perry will be remembered for not giving up, for realising the most important thing - IT’S NOT YOUR FAULT. He will also be remembered for making everyone laugh & helping millions by being vulnerable. He helped, he loved, he lived, he seeked the truth. Rest In Peace friend.
I was in a very dark place (suicidal) in my life in '87 when this song first came out. I listened to it over and over. It honestly helped give me the strength to continue on and look at life as a gift.
Don't give up! Like in the song! Maybe a good idea to listen to the new cd of Kaleo (A/B). It may give you strength. And of course Let us live together of Queen. Life is so wunderful. If I die I want to go over the rainbow bridge and welcome all my dogs (hounds). Keep up strait please
I've been fighting severe depression,anxiety and self hatred for decades. I've been on medication for a while,and it does help. But some days it can still be hard. I have given thought to ending it all in the past,but I try not to go there anymore. Everyday is a fight,no doubt. But,I'm still here. And that means something. Seeing an interview with Matthew Perry brought me here. And he's right,this is a wonderful song.
Vc é uma obra do Criador DEUS, tudo na vida tem um propósito, vc é única a semelhança do CRIADOR, suas gerações, as na vida é preciso sentar no colo de DEUS e ter uma conversa com ELE,quando estiveres triste, ore,agradeça à DEUS PAI,FILHO JESUS CRISTO, O ESPÍRITO SANTO, vc encontrará todo apoio, quedas virão ,mas DEUS ajudará vc a se levantar....
My wife turned my life upside down and terrosided my soul. I had to start again from scratch at 40 had nothing was using a credit card to get bus to work lost my job through depression. I turned it round just as fast as I lost it I now have 3 new business adventures and can't wait for the rest of my life.... Dont GIVE up x
Austin cole ,it's good to hear ur alive , through your ups and downs ,stay strong 💪 through this epidemic of c19,life is precious , hopefully we will be mask free god bless you , from 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪👌✌✋💟💟💟💟🇮🇪
I am an 80s child and I remember this song, but I heard it with new ears today thanks to the Kate Bush renaissance. I never knew it was her or really who Kate was. Wow, I missed out at the time. This song and video are so hauntingly beautiful and simple. So intricate and deep in its simplicity - my goodness, what a gorgeous song.
I remember it being used in TV public service ads for one of the suicide prevention hotlines. As much as I like this song, it still reminds me of those ads all these years later. I wonder how many lives this song helped save.
I usually listen to death metal, black metal, etc, but I have all the time in the world for Kate Bush. The first time I heard this was a recommendation from my dad, and when I listened to it, I cried my eyes out at how beautiful it is. You can't go wrong with Kate Bush, or Peter Gabriel!
This song is timeless. It was originally written in the perspective of an impoverished couple during the Great Depression, but it works in any circumstance, for anyone, anywhere, in any struggle.
Funny... I was thinking how appropriate this song will be in the coming Greater Depression when our economy crashes from debt. Everyone is leaving the Dollar Standard, due partly to OPEC greed, Biden dissing the Saudis, and as a reaction to our frequently over reaching and long-lasting political sanctions, grabbing money of anyone who ticks off the President. No one trusts that! We can't be police to a few nations and not others! We have lost as much as 1/3 of our economic power in the world, but we keep piling up paper debt. NOW Biden is trying to bail out China, the next Superpower, yet again? America has done that 3 times before. Taxpayers cannot afford it. Hang together guys - don't give up when it gets rough. God provides for even the birds.
@@Hevva67Oh good grief. Did I say that the world owes the US? No. I said our leaders owe us but failed. Maybe you've been staring at your own "inner light" too long to see how World Economic History affects us all. Perhaps your "light" blinded you. Let me help you see how what happens here involves you too. The dollar has been the world's standard currency for many decades for only 1 reason - American workers. As an American, I now pay so much for my goods and services that I have to work 50-60 hours a week to have money left to pay for a safe place to live, and it's only getting worse. How does that affect the world? We AMERICANS have personally supported OUR US economy, that prior to now, the entire world could count on to trade their goods in US dollars. We American workers made that strong dollar happen for you by working SO HARD all year. We are LUCKY if we can take more than 1 week vacation a year. You're WELCOME! My complaint is about our politicians' ruined faith with the world, destroying faith in our currency. Why would you make it about you? That dollar standard doesn't make Americans "only selfish". It means some Americans have supported our family's education. We have worked our BEHINDS off to invent and pay for a LARGE number of new and convenient things used around the world today. Are we the only ones inventing? No. Of course not. But US citizens' hard work and very expensive Insurance we pay for supports the Research and Development of medicines WE AMERICANS pay sometimes $500 per month for so everyone else in the world can have the SAME script for only $5! Our Gov makes it illegal for us to buy the cheaper drugs from your countries. We are forced to pay the high price for everyone else. That's 90% off for YOU, Dear! You're welcome! That's only ONE example how you benefit from the hard labor of United States citizens who pay high taxes and mandatory expensive insurance. You're welcome! I've clearly EARNED the right to complain about my own national economy. You have no idea what level of work Americans have upheld in the past to provide not only for ourselves, but to the benefit of everyone who uses what we pay high prices for. China stole most of our best inventions to sell them to you off slave wages. Do you like them? So is every nation interested in their own survival? Yes. Is mine? Of course! Does American Gov both hurt and help the world? Yes - all of that is true, I know. I'm not blind... but neither was my comment complaining about my President losing faith with the world egocentric, as you implied. An American President letting us slip hurts everyone everywhere. If we fail, it affects your economy too. Have you forgotten 2008? So take your self-loathing, jealous "light", and hate-filled comment elsewhere - you're peeing up a rope and getting it on everyone!
From Wikipedia: The song was inspired by the Depression-era photographs of Dorothea Lange, showing poverty-stricken Americans in Dust Bowl conditions.[1] Gabriel saw Lange's images in a book entitled In This Proud Land (1973). He felt that a song based on this was appropriate to difficult economic conditions in the United Kingdom.
Comme le temps passe .. déjà tout ce temps passé ! .. depuis la sortie de ce chef d'œuvre ! . Mais encore à l'écoute en 2024 ( .. et bien après encore ) ..
subwaysurfer lost my dad dec 1. I'm 43 but still feel like his little girl. Don't know what I'm going to do without him. If he said I could do something I knew I could. No matter how afraid I was. He was right, always right! I'm married and have children but if shit got tough it was him who could hug me and make it better. Lost my sister to suicide a few years ago, not sure I could've survived without him. He was my rock. Now that he is gone I feel like I need him more then ever. Whose going to make it ok now? 💔😓 I'm broken
Years and years ago at 21 my Father passed on after a year of pain with Cancer. My mum and me with our dog Jack (a funny crazy Doberman) went for a forest walk. It had been raining hard and when we got back to the car my mum realised she had lost a necklace which my dad had given her. Very sad. I put the old car radio on and this song was playing on the radio...... I said to mum lets look for it in the woods as its a message from dad. We did and found it glistening in a grass puddle. Thank you a great song. Miss you dad. 🌹
Watching this makes you realize what much of the modern music lacks now. Two people, being you know...adults. Singing beautiful lyrics from the heart. No auto tune. Beautiful.
I have been fighting with addiction since i was in my twenties. I am 48 today. I met my wife 12 years ago, she saved me in a way. When things get clearar every minute now, i feel more hopeful and i want to live. Keep fighting people, life can change. Viva L' amore
Given that they collaborated on many things over the years (Games Without Frontiers, No Self Control, Kate Bush Christmas Special, their cover of Another Day, etc.), I highly doubt that. Your proof?
This was in the charts when I was 16, the year my mother was hit my a bus and my dad took comfort in alcohol. I just wanted to hold onto my dad and tell him this but, he left me. I just wanted to make him better. Please let your loved ones in. My dad died 8 years ago now and I hope he knew I loved him. I tried over the years to get him to understand. He said I had my mums face and he couldn't lose her again. Let us in. We just want to help. ❤
unfortunately the world was sick and broken before this, now we can see the world for what it is.....i believe it is the planet fighting back, sayng i have had enough.
Listening to this having lost my job, house, career, having had 17 sessions of chemotherapy and cancer still growing and spreading.. But at 49 I have had a life.. some don’t get that ..💕
Back in 2015 this song I used to play over and over and I tried taking my own life by jumping off a bridge (I failed at that ) someone grabbed me to this day I would love to meet him and thank him what a great man he was to save someone who was at rock rock bottom this all happened in oswaldtwistle on fly over on route to Blackburn ❤ now I listern to this and smile cos I can still listern to it and makes me happy to know there is good people out there in the world ❤❤❤
Played this for my other half when we lost our son as a baby. Wanted him to survive the loss, to know he was so needed and so loved by me. An amazing man, I love him. x
There’s no greater pain than losing a child although I had seven children losing one nearly killed me it’s been a few years now but still very painful to deal with
I'm a survivor of lifelong trauma. This song was a song to myself. When I had nobody there for me I listened to this song. Kate Bush became my inner strength. Music can truly save a person.
@@danceyrselfkleen What an unnecessary comment. You do not know this person so you are no judge of their level of suffering. Only sociopaths have no empathy, therefore, judge your own words.
Live from the strong survivalist that you are and lean on your Creator who intimately knows you and every cell of your body. I lean on my God whose faithful presence keeps me afloat amidst decades of chronic pain. There's so much darkness and evil in this world, but it wasn't designed that way, and so I look forward to eternity where we finally will enjoy life the way God wants it (without evil, pain, & suffering). Do you know the Savior yet? Jesus said, "I Am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." (John 14) He's calling out your name. Just receive His 🎁 and say "Yes, I need You, Jesus! Show me your way and thank you for never leaving me!"
When I first heard this song, I was driving in my truck when it came on the radio. I had to pull over. I leaned my head downward and sobbed. It saved me from committing suicide! Thank you Peter and Kate!! Your song saved my life!! :)
This is easily one of the greatest songs ever written in any genre. Gabriel’s lyrics are some of the best ever put to paper. And that vocal bridge at the 2:50 mark is, I think, the greatest vocal bridge in pop/rock music history.
It's 3 am during a covid lockdown and I'm crying a whole river listening to this song. I have seen one failure after another pursuing my dreams and I just can't keep on going. I have been suffering from depression for 8 consecutive years and this song and all the really sincere comments for hard situations give me strength that my problems aren't so big and there's still hope for better days. Edit: I have my last course exam in 5 days. I have been trying for 8 years to finish my degree. And although I got rejected from many recruiters for this reason, I stay strong, I believe in myself and defininetely I won't give up. This is a very warm-hearted RU-vid section and all your dear comments made me come back to this supportive and bright song of Peter and Kate. Never give up on your goals. In the end it's the journey that makes you stronger! Dear fellow strugglers, I finally got my degree and I am stronger than ever! Keep on fighting, don't give up in front of any failure and depression that may occur. You are not alone, there's always a hug or a good word from someone that can make you smile. I really thank everybody for their supportive comments!
