Sand and Water - Beth Nielsen Chapman

[@dm364]

My mom wants this song played when she passes. Damn it hurts to think of that day.
I guess all the more reason to cherish our time while we're both here in good health.

[@TrishBell1]

I stumbled upon this song 9 years ago when I was diagnosed with cancer. I would drive in my car by myself and play it so i could sob and deal with the fear I was having battling stage 3 cancer, and now 9 years later I am diagnosed again and looked the song up only to cry over it all again. This is a beautiful song with deep meaning for many not just Me.

[@elissaj64]

Do not give up, TrishBell.

[@lizpain7037]

Sending you love and healing❤️

[@billramsey4347]

TrishBell1 trish I hope my note to you finds you fighting at your best we all stand in amazement and wonder as people ( fellow humans) face battles and crisis my heart goes out to you my mind is with you in your extremity. Recently I had to come to grips with my religion. Finding out it’s truths and it’s origin has been very hard and the sorrow of losing the answers to all things spiritual has cost me friends and family members yet in the same breath this loss has given me freedom and perspective like I never have had before we all have battles but yours somehow seems so much more and you give each of us pause to reflect on the grace and purpose of life . Facing trials is always easier when you have time to look at who you’ve become because of them . Be positive be blessed and most of all keep up the fight perspective is the finest teacher. Thanks for giving me a bit of perspective

[@trishbell5162]

@@rockmegently4410 Thank you, this 2nd colon cancer diagnosis I beat the odds, all 25 lymph nodes were clear!The diseased area was removed. It is just annual colonoscopies and living life one day at a time.Good vibes back to you, we are warriors.

[@rockmegently4410]

@@trishbell5162 Yes we are! Thank you for letting me know how you are. ONE DAY AT A TIME-good way to live. Kath

[@LivermoreFilm]

ER brought me here. Beth’s voice kept me here.

[@RandySchartiger]

this beautiful song knocks it out of the park! I don't know how I found it but glad I did! Two years ago I lost my mother, and a year ago my daughter of 41 years died, and as if that wasn't bad enough my wife of 47 years left me over a year ago! This beautiful song is a great example of how music like this can somehow magically make everything better however bad tings can get! Thank you for sharing it! I wish I could hug Beth!

[@henriettap2805]

My beautiful son just passed in a car accident..the pain and sorrow are unbearable.Ive listened to this song over the years and passed it to friends who have lost a loved one not knowing my son would be going. Beth is so in touch with the raw human emotion. She's amazing. Be kind to everyone. Hug your children. Tell them you love them no matter what, even on the challenging days. Life is so precious..RIP my son Aaram 💙

[@Cutejess2407]

So sorry to hear of your loss ❤️❤️

[@dm364]

it's so wrong for a child to pass before a parent.

[@buckeyefangirl1976]

For my husband. Love of my life. Just thankful I still have his children. Our beautiful son and daughter.❤❤😓
Beautiful song. Thank you.

[@wvufreak56]

Buckeye Fangirl: God Bless you and your children.

[@roxannejames3306]

I just heard this song on a reel, my daughter’s anniversary is tomorrow, it couldn’t have come into my life at a more needed moment. I miss her more than words could explain .

[@daydreamer7618]

I remember when I first watched the ER episode with this song.. I thought, ' _what a beautiful song_ .' I recently started rewatching ER and this time, thank god it was easy to find out with google what the song is. I now have it on my Spotify favorites list 😊

[@summons1000]

Heard of this on an ER episode. Really choked me up. 😢 🙏🎩

[@slightlycrafty]

Just heard this song playing in the background of an ER episode... Tears flowing..... Beautiful

[@lindakraus8431]

I too first heard this song on an episode of ER and I absolutely love it!

[@hilaryadams8733]

@@lindakraus8431 i too heard it then as well.

[@marcopucci5675]

Me too, a few minutes ago :)

[@GeneralBS]

Yup carter and abby get a milkshake

[@megmoffitt56]

Me too

[@rossstoneman832]

When this cd came out, I was diagnosed with lymphoma. My eventual wife loved this album as she really related to it. I got better, got married, had children and lost her to breast cancer... my kids are 9 and 14. I love this music although it is tough to listen to.

[@TrishBell1]

I am a cancer survivor, and have lost many loved ones to it. This song is perfect in so many ways. I hope you are doing well.

[@rossstoneman832]

@@TrishBell1 - thanks. Things are improving. My kids keep me going. I’m sorry for your losses. Cancer is a random, heartless killer. 😐

[@salek1]

Love to you ...

[@garyfeigen5976]

If there were more artists like Beth we would be nicer people and the planet would be more peaceful

[@leonieperreault2895]

Watched a clip of ER ...this was playing and just a few words stung. Burying my grandfather Friday...

[@pcrolando]

Sand and Water und Christines Songbird sind für mich die schönsten Lieder auf dieser Welt. Einfach, doch so genial, sie beschreiben das Schicksal des Menschen auf einer sehr tiefen Einsicht heraus. Danke!

[@luvoldmusic9]

This is the way music should be. Simple, beautiful with meaning. Beth has real talent. I could listen all day!

[@stevesaunders6861]

more talent in her little finger than most superstars. yet little known here in the UK.

[@MrsMiamore1]

I miss you mum...I'll be seeing you ❤

[@caroledwards]

I lost my mother 2 years ago. I miss her so much. I will know her when I pass through the doors beyond the grave.

[@joelarama]

The tragedy around of some of the comments here is absolutely heart breaking. I too adore this song, it tears me apart thinking of loved ones that I have lost. I would like to send anyone and everyone who is as touched by this song a huge hug. Someone always cares…I do anyway. ☺️

[@eileenie6998]

I’m very touched this Monday morning by your words. I needed a hug today. Thank you.

[@joelarama]

@@eileenie6998 You are very welcome.

[@darlenenisley1505]

I lost my baby girl about two years ago. My joy has gone my world faded. Beautiful song.

[@willowbark5649]

@@darlenenisley1505 Darlene, I'm so sorry. I can't imagine your pain. You have my prayers and hugs. 💔🙏❤🕊

[@darlenenisley1505]

Thank you every kind soul that has wished me comfort. Every morning I awake and again am confronted by that horrible painful knowing again that she has left me.my heart and prayers are with you all. Darlene nisley

[@mrentertainer47]

Why I haven't been aware of this artist is my shame: such a lovely singer with beautiful lyrics and melody so soulful. I have just read about Beth (a short Bio) and I'm so moved by this lady of music.

[@ramona4913]

Recommended by Elton John on the Oprah show.

[@davidgodfrey4829]

That's what brought me here...

[@rickmilam413]

@Lisa Elissa Check out her duet with Paul Carrack (Ace, Squeeze, etc.) Song is In The Time it Takes. The album before this one, the one before her husband passed.

[@jeriolsen336]

This song is so intensely personal, sad and beautiful.

[@temanaia]

Yes me I’m 2020

[@sejjae]

To my Son Jeff such a life that was lost. I hope you are at Peace but you are so Missed I love ❤️ you 3/24/2021 💔

[@wvufreak56]

Sejjae: God bless you and strengthen you!

[@PecosBill1950]

May be the most heartbreaking song ever written.

[@folkmusicgirl]

Yes, this song tears at your heart and I think of loss all of us have experienced. I think of all those who lost loved ones from 9/11 to loss of a loved one from death or even the end of a relationship where the one who you love will never want to see you again......

[@superscoresprep5814]

I always felt that. I was lucky enough to see her at the Bluebird in Nashville (where this was taped!). How she ever gets through this song is beyond me. Brilliant songwriting, amazing voice, incredible heart.

[@steves4945]

listen to "Emily"

[@saralynnech]

This kind of love, man. It breaks my heart and gives me hope.

[@jenncastor7]

I came here to say this.

[@atay6413]

I do hope the British general public come across this song especially during this difficult time for us as a country.

[@jeremyfox2917]

Breathtakingly beautiful. Makes me cry every time I hear it. As does "All I Have". Voice, music, lyrics: the full package. Thank you, Beth.

[@aekelly]

All I Have was the only song of hers I really knew when my husband saw her cd in my collection (I'd gotten it just for that song)...and he got me Sand & Water because it was her latest album. (That's where the song is actually from). My dad had passed less than 2 years prior, and even though her songs were about a very different relationship, it expressed some stuff nobody had ever articulated for me....it was such a healing experience. 💕💕

[@johannahowardpurdy1340]

A friend just gifted me with the link to this song, saying it always makes her think of my daughter. K was widowed two weeks before her 26th birthday, just as Father's Day was about to begin. She and their 2 year old daughter witnessed the paramedics' attempts to save him, to no avail. They were the loves of each others' lives. Six years later she still struggles to move on but the loss and loneliness are crippling. My heart breaks daily for her and for my inability to help her. Their child is exquisite, the best of both of them, but scarred. To know that my friend sees all of this, and thinks of them, touches me very deeply 💜

[@llvann52]

Beautiful song. I’ve listened hundreds of times. It has never failed to move me to tears.

[@lostinidlewonder]

A beautiful song that deals with the pain surrounding the cancer death of her husband.

[@loridocker]

Every time I watch the ER episode with this song,I sob so hard that my chest hurts. 😭😭😭

[@blackbetty476]

i'm reassured i'm not the only one..

[@jonathandaniel7424]

Never head the song till that episode. Wow. They used it perfectly. Great song.

[@weedouthate]

This was the first time, I heard this episode. E.R. was always introducing songs like this. In the middle of all of the blood and guts, songs like these, brought a human aspect into E.R, allowed us to connect with our inner selves.

[@JoJoTinkRN]

I just downloaded this song because I heard it on an ER rerun the other day. I cried like a baby (so did my 6 year old), and I remember it from the first time I saw that episode.

[@kimblyannkamrudeen9372]

Me too... that's what brought me bk here

[@SicillianmanDon]

When in college I was looking at cd's, I saw this album and for some reason it called to me. I normally listen to heavy metal music. This album and artist are equally beautiful.

[@RandyR]

1st time for me to hear this. Dedicating it to the 6 deaths that I am dealing with . A beautiful song 😧

[@elissaj64]

I'm very sorry to hear of your losses.

[@eileenie6998]

Came across this haunting, beautiful song the day after Super Bowl 2022. Now this is music!

[@stanleyklein524]

Beautiful song. But the lyric "bursting towards tomorrow" simply is beyond beautiful.

[@oopsiedaisy2156]

And then there was the time Beth Nielsen Chapman cut my heart out and made me like it. Beth wrote this about her first husband, who she lost in 1994. So it's a deeply personal song that resonates with everyone on the planet. She's amazing.

[@IfILovedYou7]

She sang this in Derry N.I. in January 2023 just after her husbands death in Dec 2022. I think he must have encouraged her to go ahead with this tour ❤ she was fabulous❤despite everything- she explained how she’d written the song and sang it for her first husband

[@natalieallen5572]

This song always makes me cry when I hear it on ER or look it up. I’m so sorry for your pain ma’am. But this song is beautiful. Much love. ❤️

[@lorryyednak6579]

Truely a great piece of music. Had the opportunity to work one of her shows. It was a memory maker.
The best.

[@jill5954]

Elizabeth, that's exactly where I heard the song 1st time. On my Playlist now.

[@cindyhart3351]

I remember when Beth wrote this song. It was a very sad, difficult time. 😢

[@patriotbard]

Few lyrics and melodies match in perfection the sentiment that binds both as one as this song does from start bulding to its blissful end. In a class of its own

[@byssacpack]

i remember hearing this on the original charmed TV series when it first aired. it was so haunting i simply had to find out who sang it. always brings me to tears.

[@ftroop2000]

Was it the one with the Asian guy, who was a ghost?

[@derekb4977]

@@ftroop2000 yes mark charmed season 1 episode 4 amazing episode and great scene.

[@caroledwards]

Me too !
Such a hauntingly beautiful song that touches somewhere deep in the soul.

[@Shiloie]

Perfect love for all we who love...which is all of us

[@D16S06]

What a 'heart-kicker' ... a total overflowing bucket of emotions! ... ❤️🎙❤️🎸❤️

[@nickloughrey9841]

a masterpiece from a master songsmith!

[@eternity7477]

Amazing song. Amazing artist.

[@Scottdzl]

Charmed(original) S1E4. brought me here, touching 💔❤️

[@randalloliver6851]

Words can't even begin to describe

[@marjward313]

Hope holds us together

[@elizabethroth5350]

One of my favorite songs, from one of my favorite albums. I was gifted with it years ago, somewhere along the way lost it and had to buy it again. I must have listened to that album fifty times - and I cried almost all of the way through it, every time.

[@dannylaw7367]

Just beautiful and so talented.

[@shannonmoore4201]

Such a powerful, beautiful song

[@PurpleQueenBatz]

Beautiful song 💖 Always makes me cry

[@wholeyanasesame2067]

This is making me cry☹️

[@robertchapman3715]

I first heard this tune a long time ago, but recently madethe connection to all the young widows of servicemen lost and the agony of those left behind to "raise this child." Constantly to be reminded of the loss.

[@71morehead]

good thoughts. She wrote this as a tribute/catharsis to her first husband, who died from cancer. It is so incredibly heartbreaking to listen to. I really admire her use of language to create the images of longing and loss. Tying her son to his smile. the eternity of what creates sand and the depth of her love for him. Powerful

[@monds5276]

I will see you in the light of a thousand suns
I will hear you in the sound of the waves
I will know you when I come, as we all will come,
Through the doors, beyond the grave

[@xdwx6168]

BNC : I will always love you and all your songs! I have all your albums except the very last one because it is not for sale in where I am living now.
Keep up your great songs ! Thanks for such a lovely special motivated song released on 13 Apr 2020 at RUclips!

[@tvt723]

I can so relate!!!!!

[@lesliegrischow2860]

I lost my husband 9 days ago due to sudden unexpected cardiac arrest. This song. ❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@TrishBell1]

That is why I related to this song, as sad as it is, it is absolutely beautiful as it helps our tears to heal us.

[@salek1]

Love to you ...

[@lindakraus8431]

Strawberry sorry for you Leslie my husband died 6 years ago and every night is horrible for me I miss him so much I know you miss your beloved husband too,

[@lindakraus8431]

That should have read so very sorry for you Leslie

[@debbiewhitelock1552]

For my mum ❤💔

[@randalloliver6851]

Something wrong with the people that didnt make this woamn number one on the billboards omg what talent

[@joanneboyd8423]

A nice song for those who lost a good friend or loved one

[@p4h10oso]

What a complete performer.

[@vickilee771]

So moving ❤ and beautiful thankyou❤

[@charlesstone4523]

So so Lovely

[@bethkingsley4348]

Beautiful Song!!!! I think of son Nick while listening to it🥲

[@tarascott8000]

Made me think of Gorden Lightfoot RIP 2023

[@NancySayed-sc2zn]

Restorative and heartbreaking

[@marcvandenbussche8058]

Superbe chanson
Merci

[@niamhneevekinsella7951]

Absolutely beautiful ❤️

[@peted7985]

please also listen to Beth's beautiful song from the same album "No one know but you" , possibly even better than this . and one that i've never heard Beth sing in concert

[@Massivo07]

Deep feelings beautifully expressed. Love it!

[@KristinaUSA-x5n]

I have the CD although I should have it on my smart phone. I used to play it loudly at the Veteran's Memorial and think of those I lost and some cannot remember because of an inappropriately treated Traumatic Brain Injury with memory loss from a military police assault in 1992 when I was 16 at swim and dive practice and when I was in Germany near Ramstein Air Force Base in Mosbach and Dresden Germany and Siege of Sarajevo in May 1992 during the Yugoslavian Civil War.

[@willmcmillan1430]

Beautiful sentiments and images and wisdom...

[@anthonycotter8634]

Breathtaking gorgeous. Effortless vocals with so much emotion.

[@mdgarciab]

Beth is brilliant

[@michaeltheaney]

It is extraordinary to create something like this.

[@neilladd5799]

We are not alone anymore.

[@C.Steamer]

She wrote this about her husband dying of cancer. Fast forward to 2022, her next husband also died of leukemia.

[@lesliecancel7852]

stunning

[@Shadeedification]

Beautiful

[@polysuper]

Mam I love you...and miss you every day...x

[@jayweh]

for me, that's dawson's creek. not sure this specific song was in there, but it captures the feeling of that wonderful show.

[@jpreddy3665]

Elton John’s Oprah interview from 1997 brought me here..😢

[@opie1956]

Great song! Hello type in "Ron Howard Cover" listen to "The Dance" To all of us who have lost ones. Life goes that fast, and we will see them again that soon!

[@hellstromcarbunkle8857]

There's the horror of it.
We all, all, all die alone

[@johnoberg5084]

Be not afraid for your guardian angel is with you and shall lead you to behold the Author of all life.

[@randalloliver6851]

Way wouldnt this woman famous

[@mzmiller52]

Lupone brought me here. This is so much better.

[@brianseevers8086]

Elton brought me here

[@ajcarr1965]

Who's here on 9/11?

[@ftroop2000]

Sure this was on Smallville. At least it reminds me of it

[@ANNAMEL1223]

Ibid