I have watched this over and over and over now. I love Bowie, especially this song, to being with. Then the slight edits to the song and adding in space – real space as the International Space Station orbits the earth – and you have one helluva remake of “Space Oddity.”
This video completely sang by Col. Chris Hadfield while in orbit was uploaded May 12 and has well over 6 million hits so far. If you didn’t know, when a video goes viral, it takes days for the hits to actually catch up. So realistically, there are probably close to 8 millions hits so far. Most people will have seen this, I just love it, humility and humanity all in one go
I am a trained singer who is learning to play the Guitar, just for fun, but I have a passion for singing and music so deep, it is my 2nd hobby after football. I often ask myself if I could write a song, from scratch, what one would it be. And it would be this one. The lyrics and meaning are special to me.
We can dream
♫
It’s amazing how you Can speak right to my heart.
Without saying a word, You can light up the dark.
Try as I may, I could never explain
What I hear when you don’t say a thing.
[Chorus:]
The smile on your face
Lets me know that you need me.
There’s a truth in your eyes
Saying you’ll never leave me.
The touch of your hand says you’ll catch me wherever I fall.
You say it best when you say nothing at all.
All day long I can hear
People talking out loud (oooh).
But when you hold me near (you hold me near)
You drown out the crowd (the crowd, the crowd).Try as they may, they can never define
What’s been said between your heart and mine.
[Chorus:]
The smile on your face
Lets me know that you need me.
There’s a truth in your eyes
Saying you’ll never leave me.
The touch of your hand says you’ll catch me wherever I fall.
You say it best (you say it best) when you say nothing at all.
Cause you say it best (you say it best) when you say nothing at all.
[Chorus:]
The smile on your face
Lets me know that you need me.
There’s a truth in your eyes
Saying you’ll never leave me.
The touch of your hand says you’ll catch me wherever I fall.
You say it best (you say it best) when you say nothing at all.
‘Cause you say it best (you say it best) when you say nothing at all.
(You say it best when you say nothing at all.
You say it best when you say nothing at all.)
That smile on your face,
The truth in your eyes,
The look in your eyes,
The touch of your hand
Lets me know that you need me.
(You say it best when you say nothing at all.
You say it best when you say nothing at all.)
The smile on your face,
The look in your eyes,
The touch of your hand
Lets me know that you need me
I love music and just then my son showed me a YouTube video about Edinburgh, the song is sung in a VERY East Coast dialect and shows the beauty of my City. Edinburgh has its bad places, but the City is wonderful, the people amazing and it is a city about festivals and theatre and history
I hope you listen to the song, some parts many may not understand, but the song is about a lad from Edinburgh, what he did, what he did wrong, love, hate, being happy, and living in Edinburgh, and he also is Chasing Dreams, this would be the biggest message in the song
Enjoy my City, and good luck understanding the song
Please try and watch, if anything it shows my City and how much history there is, the message in the song is strong, I hope people get the meaning. I know these lads a bit and they are gaining some momentum in Edinburgh.
James Hillier Blount (born 22 February 1974), better known by his stage name James Blunt, is an English singer-songwriter and former army officer, whose debut album, Back to Bedlam and single releases, including “You’re Beautiful” and “Goodbye My Lover”, brought him to fame in 2005. His repertoire can be best described as a mix of acoustic-tinged pop, rock and folk. After recording on the independent American label Custard Records, Blunt won two Brit Awards, two MTV Video Music Awards, two Ivor Novello Awards, and by 2006 was nominated for five Grammy Awards. The following year, he released his second album All the Lost Souls (2007). Blunt’s third studio album, Some Kind of Trouble, was released in November 2010. Worldwide, Blunt has sold over 18 million albums, and his debut album, Back to Bedlam, is the best-selling album of the 2000s in the UK.
Blunt was an officer in the Life Guards, a cavalry regiment of the British Army, and served under NATO in Kosovo during the conflict there in 1999. While posted to Kosovo, Blunt was introduced to the work of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF or “Doctors Without Borders”). Since then, Blunt has supported MSF by holding meet-and-greet auctions at many of his concerts.
Because the British Army sponsored his university education, Blunt was obliged to serve a minimum of four years in the armed forces. He stated on an interview in his Back to Bedlam sessions that he chose to join the military as “his father was pushing for it, so that Blunt could obtain a secure work placement and income”. Blunt trained at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. He was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Life Guards, a unit of the Household Cavalry, where he rose to the rank of captain. One of his first assignments was to the British Army Training Unit Suffield in Alberta, Canada, where his battalion was posted for six months in 1998 to act as the opposing army in combat training exercises.
In 1999, he served as an armoured reconnaissance officer in the NATO deployment in Kosovo. Initially assigned to reconnaissance of the Former Yugoslavian Republic of Macedonia -Yugoslavia border, Blunt and his unit worked ahead of the front lines directing forces and targeting Serb positions for the NATO bombing campaign. His unit was given the assignment of securing the Pristina International Airport in advance of the 30,000-strong peacekeeping force; however the Russian army had moved in and taken control of the airport before his unit’s arrival. Blunt refused to carry out this order. There were less intense moments during Blunt’s Kosovo assignment. Blunt had brought along his guitar, strapped to the outside of his tank. At some places, the peacekeepers would share a meal with hospitable locals, and Blunt would perform. It was while on duty there that he wrote the song “No Bravery”.
A keen skier, Blunt captained the Household Cavalry alpine ski team in Verbier, Switzerland, eventually becoming champion skier of the entire Royal Armoured Corps. He had extended his military service in November 2000, and after an intensive six-month army riding course was posted to the Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment in London, England. During this posting, Blunt was interviewed about his responsibilities on the television programme “Girls on Top”, a series highlighting unusual career choices. He stood guard at the coffin of the Queen Mother during the days of her lying in State and was part of the funeral procession on 9 April 2002. Blunt left the army on 1 October 2002 having served six years.
James Blunt was just an ordinary lad, serving in the British Army and didn’t like what he seen. He is famous for songs like “You’re Beautiful” and “”GoodBye my Lover” James served in Kosovo in the Bosnia war and documented a lot on film, soon after writing a song about it. The video has been edited many times to suit agendas over war, the video below is the official one, and is graphic
But I think we all need to see bad things. More so the song is BRILLIANT. Please enjoy, and understand the song. James went back to Kosovo and met people he had before and did a gig for the families and Army still there. He is a remarkable man. In my opinion
If you cry when you have watched this, don’t worry, I did
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