In nursing school I did an oncology rotation. One of our patients was a mother who had only a few weeks to live. Her two young daughters, maybe 8 and 13 years old, had a board game spread out all over the bed as she slept. They giggled and moved the pieces across the board. I was listening to a lot of stars of the lid at the time and every time I entered the room this track played through my head. Now a dozen or so years later when I hear this track I’m reminded of the beauty of that scene, the innocence of the two girls perhaps aware of their mother’s impending passing, perhaps not.
I lost my gran two months ago. She passed away from a heart attack, with Alzheimer's. It still feels unreal. I'm a huge fan of SOTL so this song reminds me of her. That last moment was so intense that is hard to describe. My English is not very good and its difficult to me to express it but for the first time in my 25 years, I felt intense love and compassion. Even with Alzheimer's she still remembered that I was her grandson and gave me a caress on the cheek. I'll never forget that. Thank you for everything, nona.
RIP Brian. Your music has been a huge part of my life, and I was blessed to be able to see you perform and hear these albums. Breaks my heart that you and Adam drifted apart over the years. Thanks for all the memories.
“We talk of strong personalities, and they are strong, until the not-every-day when we see them as we might see one woman alone in a desert, and know that all the strength we thought we knew was only courage, only her lone song echoing among the stones; and then at last when we have understood this and made up our minds to hear the song and admire its courage and its sweetness, we wait for the next note and it does not come. The last word, with its pure tone, echoes and fades and is gone, and we realize-only then-that we do not know what it was, that we have been too intent on the melody to hear even one word. We go then to find the singer, thinking she will be standing where we last saw her. There are only bones and sand and a few faded rags.”
My uncle passed this year at 32 of cancer. This song always meant a lot of things for me but now it represents the love we shared growing up together and the good times. This album makes me melancholly but it also grounds me in my natural feelings at the moment. I tend to escape the sadness but i appreciate how comfortable i can be in my emotions with this record. Love and peace, Stars of The Lid.
and, along with the rest of this magnificent album, helps me work on my thesis day after day during my anxious twenties that i'm living right now. truly magical stuff
this is an awesome piece of music ,it brings a tear thinking about my moms last days on this earth and the sadness..days go by and still I think of you///
I'm in the ICU right now. Only the machines are keeping her alive and they have only given her a few hours, maybe a day, but everything is shutting down. A friend recommended this. I don't want her to suffer but I don't want her to go. This is so hard
I hope I can play this at my mother's funeral, I know maybe I'm taking the title too literally but somehow it's exactly right, this song always makes me think of my mom, who has been chronically ill for most of my time on this earth. She raised me by herself. I experienced her rage and intense loneliness, sadness, very often as a child and an adult. I always wanted to help, but knew that I couldn't. I'm filled with sadness and appreciation for her, whenever I listen to this. It just brings me to tears every time. When Part 2 starts, I imagine my mom's spirit being released from her burdensome body, as she experiences some kind of perfect bliss in those final moments after death.
I love your eyes, my dear Their splendid sparkling fire When suddenly you raise them so To cast a swift embracing glance Like lightning flashing in the sky But there's a charm that is greater still When my love's eyes are lowered When all is fired by passion's kiss And through the downcast lashes I see the dull flame of desire
@@sweetwheatsy ... what was it? Did a meteor fall down? If you go on a roadside picnic you may meet a stalker who can guide you to where the meteorite fell. They say there is a room there.
I finished the movie now, and when i recognized this song in the final i can't explain how happy i was. Tarkovsky wasn't wrong when he says that without sorrow, life would be worse, because would be no happiness either.
What an awesome song and worthy memories and stories. I would like to add my own. My mother passed away when I was 2(unexpectedly) . It is nice listening to this song and part 2. It is like I can feel her emotions when I look back in a chest with things for me she had pictures of me and my family and of her(my grandmother had extra stuff in there added she passed away last year), I seen her school grades and report cards....Way better than mine. Music of her era. It is nice to feel what I never had. I am glad she saved things for me to have and to know her a little. This beautiful track brings it home.
powerful music, it makes me feel nostalgic, sometimes in a warm and loving way, other times in a cold and distant way, as if I'm going to eventually forget everyone that has since passed away.. the movement of part 2 makes me feel powerless in a way, the harmonies coming in imperturbable waves. this music evokes deepest darkness in me, but I'll feel better for having acknowledged it. anyone feel similar or am i just weird?
Not weird; music has the ability to evoke powerful emotions in those who have deep feelings. I look at this ability as a treasure in our lives. You haven't really lived unless you can appreciate the wide range of feelings that are imparted in our lives!
Mind-blowing...what a transition! So incredibly beautiful... I watched my mother die a few years back of cancer and this composition put me in a very peaceful place of reflection.
I just found out my mother was taken to hospital; been feeling sick these past few days. She needs to have an operation. I mean I don't want to think she's dying but... you know.
