Helen Espinosa at This life One Word At A Time said “our theme for Song Lyric Sunday is to post a song that was featured in a movie. It can be a song from a favorite movie, or one of your favorite songs that was featured in a movie.”
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Well this is not easy today because I am distracted. Also it does not seem long since I posted my most favourite movie song , Can’t take it in , by Imogen Heap, from The Chronicles of Narnia.
Well as I have written about that one recently I shall put my thinking cap, walk the dog and come back to this post.
Right I am back from my walk and I have come up with a song and film that I fell in love with in 2007 a beautiful story. A modern-day musical about a busker and an immigrant and their eventful week in Dublin, as they write, rehearse and record songs that tell their love story.
The plot of the film is : An (unnamed) Guy is a Dublin guitarist/singer-songwriter who makes a living by fixing vacuum cleaners in his Dad’s Hoover repair shop by day, and singing and playing for money on the Dublin streets by night. An (unnamed) Girl is a Czech who plays piano when she gets a chance, and does odd jobs by day and takes care of her mom and her daughter by night. Guy meets Girl, and they get to know each other as the Girl helps the Guy to put together a demo disc that he can take to London in hope of landing a music contract. During the same several day period, the Guy and the Girl work through their past loves, and reveal their budding love for one another, through their songs. Written by Charles Delacroix Details from here
GLEN HANSARD LYRICS
“Falling Slowly”
(with Markéta Irglová)
But I want you
All the more for that
Words fall through me
And always fool me
And I can’t react
And games that never amount
To more than they’re meant
Will play themselves out
[Chorus:]
Take this sinking boat and point it home
We’ve still got time
Raise your hopeful voice, you have a choice
You’ll make it now
Falling slowly, eyes that know me
And I can’t go back
Moods that take me and erase me
And I’m painted black
You have suffered enough
And warred with yourself
It’s time that you won
[Chorus:]
Take this sinking boat and point it home
We’ve still got time
Raise your hopeful voice, you have a choice
You’ve made it now
Falling slowly sing your melody
I’ll sing it loud
I sat and watched this film and cried and cried it is so beautiful and the songs in it are just so beautiful as as is the story. The songs are sung by the actors in the film Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová. Both talented singers.
The film is set in Dublin, the city where my father was born and though I am a Londoner it always feels like home when I visit. To see this beautiful story set in a place I know and recognize makes it all the more special! I cannot recommend this film enough!
Another song from the film!
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