I can't believe people are still listening to this song in 2024, it's like soo old /s, if you are, you are a legend. This is one of my fav songs, music is timeless, hope people will be listening in 2025, Stay safe.
Can we just take a minute to appreciate the amazing age we live in? When this song came out, I would sit in wait, listening to the radio station with my tape recorder (I was 10 at the time). A song comes up that you like and you hit record. Then when it finishes, you hit stop, all the while hoping to catch as little of the radio DJ's voice as possible. Then when you want to listen to a song in your head, you first scramble through your recorded tapes (cassettes) and then forward through it until you get the song. And one day, your tape gets worn out and the song is all twisted, or your player pulls out the tape and you lost your favorite songs. I remember how sad I was when the tape that had this song got destroyed. Now, it is just 1 click on RU-vid or Spotify and typing of a word or two (or just "Hey Google" /"Hey Alexa...") and you get to listen to whatever version of whatever song you want to, in its purest quality, without any risks of it getting destroyed in the process.
I couldnt agree more. I remember stopping the recording and writing down the words. As of 03/08/2021 @03:19 I'm a 43 year old Irish guy all the best folks
Yeah I did same thing back in the days!!! Wait for hours for your favorite song hit record and stop before the DJ came back on. I got pretty good at it!!! Lol
He sang this live on a morning show in the UK today, the 21st May 2024, just playing his guitar. His voice is still excellent, and in perfect tune. So i had to see the video again.
Hazard was not his biggest hit, but as soon as I heard it, I thought it was the best song he'd written. I dare say it has stood the test of time 30 years on. Such a haunting story.
@@gordongekko3174 what you saying about these gens? That you think they'll promote it? I'm surprised you think that. Like on some dumb TikTok videos to ruin it?
@@sowhat... See these days we have to adapt to the current gen and the trends they do, a lot of songs voluntarily or involuntarily are coming back because the z y gens are using it in some stupid video, I am looking at the positive side atleast that highlights awesome songs like these which otherwise people won't know.
@@gordongekko3174 they say there's no such thing as bad promotion. They're wrong. Maybe you're too positive. Who cares if people don't find out anyway? Especially if it's not in a good way. Let them not find out. We know it at least. You're acting as if this is the Gospel of Jesus and it is our duty to spread it.
The sheriff did it! I met Richard Marx in Toronto in '94 at Much Music headquarters. I asked his opinion on who killed Mary and he asked ME what I thought instead. I told him that I thought the sheriff did it - and he said he was "inclined to agree". He was so kind (and so 4:43 cute!) to a giggly teenaged girl. He made a fan for life! I listened to this song (and many others from that decade) on repeat for many, many years! Not sure where you are, Richard Marx, but thanks for all the great music, sir, and for being kind to a kid!
@@cristinaraheem7239 mas vc viu que o Richard flagrou ela no carro com outro cara? E o lance daquele soldado que deixa a esposa e o filho e se abraça com outra mulher após passar por uma cortina?
Thank you so much for this. I've watched the video over and over I thought it was the sheriff as he's taking pictures of them at the beginning, then he pulls up in the car beside her, then at the end Mary is running away and you just see a car at the side of her (it must be the sheriffs car). This song is a masterpiece and I love the way the video and song combine to tell a story.
If youre still reading this in 2022 you have an excellent taste of music but you now growing older and older 😂 those sounds of the 80's and 90's won't ever come back again. Keep them alive and remind them. we wont ever hear those good music as those again...✌
listening to the music I loved in the 70s and 80s is fantastic for my mind it helps me calm down and remember different things every song has a memory, I have Alzheimer's Dementia I was Diagnosed at the age of 55 nearly 3 years ago, stay safe everyone and rock on!!!🤜🤛
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My friend's death! I only found out! She passed away on my sister's birthday. Rest easy M. I love you and always will forever and a day! Cancer bites balls!
Eulnglidis curbani p essa música eu ofereço para o exército da Coreia e todos os outros países olha bem o vídeo e veja a criança correndo o homem tentando salvar a vida do que vai o matá-lo olha bem meu amor a diferença entre uma criança e um adolescente correndo de um homem correndo atrás dele meu amor os governos são assassinos vocês são as vítimas meu amor todo o exército é a vítima de um governante não há nenhum nem outro que são salvos é um atirando no outro eu tô falando sobre vocês meus amores do exército quem serve o país está morrer por ele gente vocês meus amores eu quero que esse vídeo chega ele sim porque ele vai falar uma verdade para eles saberem abrir os olhos abrir a mente e os ouvidos para poder ouvir meu amor os governantes ele só querem tirar a vida de outras pessoas para possuir o que não pertence a eles isso significa morte evasiva que que é evasiva meu amor é onde você invade para poder matar o seu próximo para o governo possuir que não pertencia a ele e acaba morrendo milhares e milhares de soldados e milhares de milhares de famílias quando morre um marido ou um esposo ou um namorado ou noivo quem fica em casa esperando é a esposa os filhos ou namorado ou namorada meu amor morre todo mundo junto quando vai um vai todos significa quem tá em casa e quem tá servindo no exército o governo ele deveria olhar ao lado da família coisa que ultimamente eles não fazem porque eles só querem saber do lado do egoísmo da riqueza da soberba que eu tô falando a verdade e uma verdade gravada dói claro que dói mas eu tô falando para machucar mesmo sabe porque vocês são humanos vocês têm coração vocês têm alma vocês respiram gente o ser humano que respira tem que correr brava já falar para sobreviver não tô falando só dentro do exército não eu estou falando do lado de fora também quem procura é a família quem vê a família que enterra é a família mas o governo não enterra e não faz nada o governo só fica sentado numa cadeira mandando em tudo em todos e se achando poderoso sendo que não é e quem comanda a vida dele é Deus na hora que Deus fala assim ó tô tirando sua vida você não tirou de milhares de milhares de soldado de milhares e milhares de família de milhares de milhares de crianças que tem um pai tem uma mãe que está servindo no exército então você governante vai merecer tudo que eles passaram e Deus faz isso você pode ter certeza não por vingança mas para ele reconhecer que existe um Deus poderoso que manda tudo em todos inclusive nos governantes e não sei que está no governante ele primeiro arranco você depois ele tira a criança para poder salvar a criança mas depois que você fica o que vazio por dentro e quando ele tá oco o inimigo também não quer porque o inimigo ele quer a alma a essência e a vida
Love this song. I don't think Marx ever got the recognition he deserved. He had a lot of hits in the 90's but he's rarely mentioned among the greats of that era. I wore out the cassette I had with this song on it. He also collaborated with some great artists too. Loved Joe Walsh's guitar work on "it don't mean nothin'".
And to think, the great producer, David Foster, told him early on that he wasn’t going to make it, because he didn’t have the star factor. It just spurred Marx on, thank goodness.
This song is dedicated to my sister. I remember she wanted to listen to this song on repeat when it came on about 20 years ago. How time flies. I miss you
Saw him live in Sofia, Bulgaria in August. Amazing voice for his age, jokes, he even sang a couple songs he wrote for other artists that I had no idea were his! Definitely worth watching him live.
They are still being written, and still being sung. But they are no longer being marketed. Autotune is what sells now and it’s sad and soulless. But great songwriters still exist and are still perfecting their craft, they are just not so widely distributed by the profit oriented music industry anymore.
This song and Phil Collins, In the Air Tonight (I hate that song and refuse to listen to it in the car because whilst taking Drivers Ed that song, Danger Zone and I’ve Had The Time of My Life were the soundtrack to the State Police accident video they showed).
Richard's wife once asked him what he was writing and he told her that it was probably the worst thing he'd written and he would dispose of it. She asked him to sing it for her. When Richard had finished, his wife offered her opinion which was that it could be the best he's written so far. Thanks to Richards wife for saving this wonderful classic. It's not only one of the best songs I've heard in my 68 years on this earth but it's a story of human behaviour that we must never excuse but sadly have to accept as being among us until the end of time.
@@albertbavre3941 Everyone wants to mock, including you mate. NO, I wasn't there at the time however; I attended one of Richards concerts were he told everyone attending the story of that song. Mate, you're a damn fool that jumps to conclusions just like so many others that's making this world a misery. GROW UP!
This song has been in my head for nearly 20 years. Yet i only heard it once as a kid. I forgot the lyrics but kept the haunting melody. I just happened to click on Richard Marx Right here Waiting for you and saw this song as a suggestion. Clicked it and nearly started crying. Hauntingly beautiful song that intend to listen to over and over again!!!
I cant believe you wrote this! This is creapy.. This was played in my birthday when I was turning one.. And I'm 21 years old now and have been going around for 20 years remembering only the melody and not a single lyric. So this morning I just woke up with the melody in my head, first time it occurred to me to use sound hound.. And now I found it! :D
gunner gallian Obviously I didn't remember it on my own, growing up I was shown videos of this party but it was when all this technology wasn't available and the tape was in VHS so I haven't watched it in years! But I always remembered the melody
Xheliz i was just talking to a person before you about feeling and remembering pain as an infant and he was deluded. He said he remembers things from when he was one. So i came to this video and saw your comment and thought ooo not again. But yeh it makes sense with you but that guy was a nut
I am so in love with this song and the way he sings it. His voice has an ethereal quality, its raspy when he projects and this song has it all....... pain, a sad haunting quality, and a desperation that is both provocative and passionate. I LOVE the melody and the emotional quality of this song and the way he sings it. Its pure perfection.
I am 40 years old, and I had somehow gone my whole life without hearing this song, until my fiancé introduced me to it the other night! I absolutely love this song!!! What a treasure!!
yes -i agree !!its also sad that he split with cynthia rhodes-- she was so pretty and talented --she's the one from dirty dancing (the dance instructor)
Absolutely one of the saddest and most haunting songs I have ever come across in my 45 years of life. For some reason, I am drawn to sad, haunting stories and Melodies like this. In my opinion, this is the best song he ever wrote. I remember listening to this when I was back in high school, and feeling like it applied to my life in some respects. I have lived with a disability for virtually my whole life, and I have always felt like an outsider and an outcast, even among the people who should be most accepting and understanding. And so this song has always had a special place in my heart.
@@Rusty-mv1nc and yet, that isolation and separation from the group at-large has benefited my life immensely over the years. I don't rely on others to validate my on feelings of self-worth and value to the world. I have learned to rely on my own good sense and judgment and wisdom, along with accomplishing things to give me that sense of value on purpose. I see others around me who dedicate their lives, so it seems, to molding themselves into what they think everyone around them wants them to be or thinks they should be. It has given me a certain Inner Strength that I have depended on heavily over the course of my life. Friends are a great gift but good friends have been few and far between. I don't need people. I like having them around if they are genuine and good people. But I know that I can also live and be happy without them.
@@kylienagy8381 if you only knew! If you could comprehend how incredibly difficult and frustrating it is to try to socialize with people and make friends when you are living with poor vision your entire life. If you could only see the indifference, and how people feel they cannot relate to me, or believe that I am really so different from them. Even among my own family, there are those with whom I have no relationship because of conflict over what they believe I can or can't do, or what they think I should or shouldn't be doing. Or, imagine been trying to get a job in that field, only to have the person who is interviewing you tell you outright that they can't imagine how I can do the job because I don't see as well as they do. They imagine that if they had the same loss of vision, they wouldn't be able to function. And so they assume that I can't either. And I never get a chance to prove them wrong. That's the kind of Outkast I'm talking about. But it's not all bad for me. I have an amazing wife who likewise grew up with her own disability, and can relate too much of what I have experienced. I learned, many many years ago, through many difficulties, never to spend my life trying to measure up to someone else's expectations or beliefs of me. The result of such freedom is loneliness. That's what I'm talkin about. But I am grateful for such difficulties in my life, it has forged a certain strength of character that serves me well. And my two little girls, and boy to come, will grow up knowing and learning for themselves the differences are to be celebrated, not avoided or shunned.
Probably this is a fantasy of his own. He imagines what would happen if he do this and then what will have to tell when gets caught by the police... It is crazy but some people like this that's why so many serial killers exist.
My father recently told me that I loved this song when I was around three years old. Apparently I liked most of the music he listened to and kept on dancing, but this song must have been my favorite, he said. I'm 33 now and happy that he got me to “rediscover“ this beautiful song. Thanks, Papa! :-)
This song is one of those few that just hits the spot. Perfect tone, perfect instruments and an unsolved mystery. I heard Richard wasn't going to record this song because he didn't think it was 'quality'. I am so glad he recorded it anyway! Gives me chills...Thank you Richard, for some awesome music!
When Marx sings the line "I think about my life gone by, how it done me wrong...there's no escape for me this time..all of my rescues are gone"..its sound like he is breaking down and weeping. The rest of the song is him trying to keep his cool. A truly sad song indeed
I know exactly how you feel (although about 20 years earlier). I grew up with early 70s catchy pop ditties and then heard "Vincent" by Don McClean. It was like listening to poetry put to music.
I was played this Song by my Mother as a young kid, our relationship grew between this Song. My Mother's now dead and haunts me every time I listen to this Song. It makes me think of how great I had it with a loving mother whom cared for me... :/ What I'm saying is.. appreciate your Parents, never know when they'll be gone
+Matty Geez Sorry for your loss Matty - I know exactly what you mean. I beat myself up over things I should or should not have said or done. Too late now
He's extremely successful! According to Wikipedia, "He is the only male artist in history to have his first seven singles reach the Top 5 on the Billboard charts and has scored a total of 14 #1 singles, both as a performer and songwriter/producer." He's written a lot of songs for others as well, such as Luther Vandross, which won him a Grammy for "Dance With My Father."
"Hazard" My mother came to Hazard when I was just seven Even then the folks in town would say with prejudiced eyes "That boy's not right" Three years ago when I came to know Mary First time that someone looked beyond the rumors and the lies And saw the man inside We used to walk down by the river She loved to watch the sun go down We used to walk along the river And dream our way out of this town No one understood what I felt for Mary No one cared until the night she went out walking all alone And never came home Men with a badge came knocking next morning Here was I surrounded by a thousand fingers suddenly Pointed right at me I swear I left her by the river I swear I left her safe and sound I need to make it to the river And leave this old Nebraska town I think about my life gone by And how it's done me wrong There's no escape for me this time All of my rescues are gone, long gone I swear I left her by the river I swear I left her safe and sound I need to make it to the river And leave this old Nebraska town
Nossa Que história Triste, Preciso Chegar ao Rio, Eu juro que a Deixei no rio, Eu juro que a Deixei Sã e Salva, Fim da história, Ou' Se matou, Ou a mataram?🤔🤔🤔😢😢😢😥Quero Saber? Quem Fez a letra da música da história Dramatica Sabe! Opssão, Olhar o Filme Drama!
This song reminds me of 1992 summer when I was 13, and it was grey outside in a town 23 miles north of Seattle. It reminds me of my dad taking me and my brother camping and looking out the window and having so much to look forward to. I miss being a kid soooooo bad.
I miss the days when music like this one had a special message behind it, where the lyrics of the song painted a picture for the listener and told a story unlike todays music.
We still have some good songs. Not in the same abundance than we used to have though. This is a very clever song. What's sad is that the metaphors are lost on most people.
My mother came to Hazard when I was just seven Even then the folks in town said with predjudiced eyes That boy's not right Three years ago when I came to know Mary First time that someone looked beyond the rumors and the lies And saw the man inside We used to walk down by the river She loved to watch the sun go down We used to walk along the river And dream our way out of this town No one understood what I felt for Mary No one cared until the night she went out walking alone And never came home Man with a badge came knocking next morning Here was I surrounded by a thousand fingers suddenly Pointed right at me I swear I left her by the river I swear I left her safe and sound I need to make it to the river And leave this old Nebraska town I think about my life gone by And how it's done me wrong There's no escape for me this time All of my rescues are gone, long gone I swear I left her by the river I swear I left her safe and sound I need to make it to the river And leave this old Nebraska town
Thank you for taking the time to write out the words. It tells story but one that I still don't think after all these years is clear to a lot of people. Beautiful to listen to anyway.
- "Answer the question!" - "I didn't date her." - "You didn't date her? She made you jealous, didn't she?" - "Alright, sheriff, what's the point?" - "THIS is the point. Do you recognize this? How did you tie this 'round Miss Mary's neck?"
I'd forgotten this song until I heard it in a store just last week. My ears perked up and it was instant "Oh, yeah!" What a great song. Lyrical, haunting, amazing.
Mystical, scary, touching, different, timeless, emotional, makes you feel afraid of the devil out there in this world, and at the same time confident in all the good there is also out there in this world....what a song!
