My dad who just passed away would always say that this is my song. I love you dad. Rest easy.✨💕 you taught me to be an independent woman. I’ve been on my own since 13 years old. Fought all these battles on my own .
Guy wrote this after a broken date with a nurse who had been working so hard and worrying about her patients even after she was off she kept falling asleep during their date. . When he let her go to bed, cutting the date short and left, later that night in his apartment, it was raining that night, she so moved him, he wrote this song for her in one night. He says he believes he was divinely inspired.
Dave Richardson was a Canadian police officer at the time he wrote the lyrics for this song. The words were originally a poem written for his girl friend, which he passed on to his close friend David Foster. Richardson explained his lyrical inspiration in an interview: "In 1970 I was dating a nurse, whom I would eventually marry in 1971 (it only lasted four years, though - we were both not ready for such a commitment). One night I went to pick her up at her apartment, as we had planned on going out. When she opened the door I saw that she was upset to the point of tears. She still had a housecoat on and had her hair wrapped in a towel after a shower. She told me that two elderly ladies she had been caring for in the hospital had died that day at work, and she felt terribly sad about it, as she had come to know them fairly well over a period of time. Anyway, she more or less vented her feelings and I just listened. After she was finished, she thanked me for listening, and said she would get ready for our date. She went into the bedroom and closed the door, and I sat and watched TV waiting for her to come out. When she didn't return, I knocked on the door but she didn't answer, so I went in to find her fast asleep on the bed, still in her housecoat and with the towel still wrapped around her head. I guess she was just exhausted after her emotional day. So, I put a blanket over her, being careful not to wake her, and went home and wrote the song in about fifteen minutes or so. It was absolutely inspired. I have always felt that all I did was hold the pen in my hand, and that God did the writing. The 'Be careful how you touch her, for she'll awaken' part, refers to when I put the blanket over her. 'The way she's always paying, for a debt she never owes…' - It wasn't her fault that the two ladies had died, and yet she felt so badly for them that she was crying.
I love love this song it holds so much truth in it.. reminds me of myself for my whole life, and now my youth has fallen, but thank God for the freedom in Him.
I have Always loved this song. I relate to the lyrics on a deep level. "Be careful how you touch her, for she'll awaken, and sleeps the only Freedom that she knows" and "the way she's always paying for a debt she never owes"... My husband was 😪 murdered at 23yrs old-I was 21-50 yrs ago. The tenderness & such a beautiful description reaches deep inside my soul.🌹 ❤❤️🔥💔💙🤎❤️🩹
@@elainemontaque1380 thanks for your kindness 🌹 He always called me "Lady"...so this song soothes my ❤ We don't stop loving those who die, we just embrace them as part of ourselves, for me anyway. 🌻🌷🌼🤎
This song…it always takes my breath away and puts a tear in my eyes.. just something about it. It’s done the same to me since the day it hit the radio waves in 1973…. I was 14. In high school. Those days were like no other 😢
I agree. I’m 59 yrs old. I remember this song so well. The words describe to a tee, my 13 yr old daughter. She took her own life. I cried when I heard it again. It has a whole new meaning than it did 47 years ago.
Because we live is world of suffering because of the things we attach to The bigger the trauma the bigger the impact of that the mind takes a picture of it and it become real when give think about it !! It take alot of work but you can retrain the brain and get rid of all the negative thoughts and replace them with new..
Which school did you graduate from? Same here, this song has been a favourite since. Batch ‘84 from Colegio de San Jose Recoletos (now University of SJR).
Megan Smith: I know these aren't your songs, but you have arranged several of my favorites with lyrics in such a way that turned out perfectly....and I am grateful. I wanted you to know your efforts are indeed appreciated. PLEASE keep up the great work! Thanks!!!
I'd like to dedicate this song to a beautiful lady that stands in New York Bay with torch held high she deserves it .. . What they are doing to lady liberty, our country is not right. I would gladly die for her.
Such a heartfelt song, it really resonates within my soul. My fiance' says this song reminds him of me. I suppose it's the sadness in my eyes and the love in my heart
I recently liked a comment to this song. But this era for young girls of all races Is what was happening to them. The instrumentals and harmonies worked and took away what was happening to young girls bk then. By every1 they trusted with there innocence
