Provided to YouTube by MaverickXerces · DeftonesSaturday Night Wrist℗ 2006 Maverick Recording CompanyDrums: Abe CunninghamProducer: Bob EzrinEngineer: Brian ...
'Father, Son' by Peter Gabriel, every single time. He wrote it in 1999 as part of the soundtrack for the Millenium Dome show in London, but it's really about his close relationship with his father who was becoming increasingly frail with age, yet still continued to practice Yoga with the younger Gabriel - more cautiously as he declined. In interviews PG stated that his father asked him to play it at his funeral, which he eventually did after he passed at the age of 100 in 2012.
That alone is quite moving, but the song never fails to pull an overwhelming, visceral reaction out of me because my own dad, who I'm very close to, lives in constant pain due to a degenerative nerve issue and is gradually losing the use of his legs. This combined with my own struggles in life had helped us understand each other more but he's not getting any younger, and it scares the hell out of me. I play it every Father's day.
"Dogs, plows and bows
We move through each pose
Struggling in our separate ways
Mantras and hymns
Unfolding limbs
Looking for release through the pain
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Out on the moors
We take a pause
See how far we have come
You're moving quite slow
How far can we go?
Father and son
With my dad by my side
With my dad by my side
Got my dad by my side
With me"
I grew up with this album, and listening to it as an adult, especially after all the changes it sends a blade into my fucking heart.
"Ain't no talkin' to this man
Ain't no pretty other side
Ain't no way to understand
Stupid words of pride
It would take an acrobat And I already tried all that
I'm gonna let him fly."
A lot of Vashti Bunyan's songs have that kinda melancholy kinda nostalgic vibe that makes them ideal to cry to, but out of them all, "Against the Sky" always fucks me up the most.