Wednesday, December 16, 2009

A reading of "Dying Song" by me...




I've finally manage to find how to express what this song means for me !!!! After 3 years after I first heard it, and now I've understood why it made me feel so good when I heard it first in 2006... I just couldn't express it, but now....





Here is a kind of commentary by me about this wonderful song :




"Dying Song




I'm going away forever


I'm going away forever


Never coming back this way


Never coming back to this place


What I need is a heaven


What I really need is a heaven


A place to go where I can really be


A place to go where


I can really be


Where I can really be




Dreaming my life away counts for nothing


Dreaming my life away counts for nothing


But nothing ever is the end


No nothing ever is the end




It's sure been a full life for me baby


It's sure been a full life for me yeh


It's sure been a full life for me baby


It's sure been a full life for me


It's sure been a full life for me baby


It's sure been a full life for me yeh


It's sure been a full life for me baby


It's sure been a full life for me


It's sure been a full life for me baby


It's sure been a full life for me yeh


It's sure been a full life for me yeeaah




It's sure been a full life for me..."
To me, this is a kind of hymn to the life that you've lead before your death.
That you musn't regret anything that happened in your life, and that you musn't be affraid to die, now that you've reviewed all your life...
It's a little like in the song "Ascension" to me, even if it's not the same ending, as in Ascension there's a kind of rebirth... Here it's a human being confronted to his own death and reviewing all that He lived in his life...
I love so much this song... Even if it may sound strange, it's so sad and optmistic at the same time... you know ?
I'd really like to die with this state of mind... Not being affraid of dying, not regreting anything in my life... Be happy to enter the last phase of your life... Be at peace with yourself...I think it needs a lot of work to achieve this point of your life... It's not the same thing as a suicide, it's compeletely different to me, it's the idea of accepting your own death, thinking about all you achieved in your life... And that "Nothing Ever is the End" because you've left something behind yourself, artistically or humanly, anyway, that you've left your trace behind yourself...
It's really weird, because I'm sure most of people see this song as a sad song or a suicide hymn, but, maybe because of what I was living at the time I first heard it, I prefer to see this wonderful song as optimistic...
And yes, it is possible to write songs about death that are optimistic... and that's the best songs ever, because they go beyond the only sad and depressing image of death that all the world has...
Death is not so bad when you know that it's the good time for it and that you've at least achieved something in your life...