Re: Touching song about a brother dying

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This gives me goosebumpsReb how very touching. Thank you for sending!Sent from my iPad

I just found this song by, and with, MÃ¥ns, a friend of us, on youtube. He wrote it (and is singing it) himself. It's about the death of his big brother, Staffan, who died from cancer in July two years ago (hence the title of the song, "July", and the line "July, July, cut in stone"). MÃ¥ns is a professional singer/songwriter, who has released several CDs. His music is usually more of pop/rock, but the lyrics in this song is very much his usual, poetic, style. He really has a way with words.Anyway, I was really touched by his words about the loss of a big brother. And I wanted to share.I found the verse especially poignant:"It was sunday night,and one of us was dying,I was listening to the silence of next year."And of course the last lines, about the incomprehensibility of a big brother who'd always be there for him, lay awake to wait for him, now, forever sleeping. And where he is asking the brother who is gone "Can you mend my broken sky?". Isn't "a broken sky" a very accurate description of grief?The youtube link is:

(as always, you may have to cut and paste).The lyrics goes (in case it's hard to hear):July

"Is there anybody there?

Electricity is out,

I can't find you anywhere.

Will you leave some love back home?

July, July cut in stone

Daddy, what is slipping through my fingers?

Daddy, what a poison in my heart.

It was sunday night,

and one of us was dying,

I was listening to

the silence of next year.

But I can't get around you,

No I can't get around you,

Are you sleeping?

Brother, let them crutches fly!

Can you mend my broken sky?

Every little thing you'd be

you lay awake to wait for me."---love/Reb