Hi will be waiting ther for you . Love has no end it goes on after dead . My women pastaway when i was 24 now 6 years ago . I know she will be waiting ther
I was 11 in 1972. The words of this song hit me later in life. My father passed two weeks before my 38th birthday. His funeral was on the day before my birthday. It poured rain that whole day of the funeral, like the sky was crying with me. There's just no good time to lose someone you love.
I was born is 69. I was deeply moved by this song. My dad passed at the age of 61. I was only 38. Like you and so many, I felt lost and alone. What comforts me is the universality. Not one person is not affected by loss. "Want do we do?". Collectively. No one is immune to pain. Sure that doesn't minimize your own grief, but instead makes you cognizant others may be better equipped to comfort the mourners or those experiencing grief as they were themselves equipped to handle it and now can help another. Bless you. And, God never left His alone. Hugs.
I was 19 when this wonderful song was recorded. I felt so grown up then. Now suddenly I'm 71 and I don't know where all those years went. Looking back across the years, I had so much growing up yet to do, and now I'm the older generation.
I was alone for years till my beautiful Rosemary entered my life 35 years ago. She passed 9 months ago in May. Alone again. I miss her everyday. My Rosemary!
My Dad died when I was 9 .I remember I cried when my father died...Alone all my life for the love of such a great man.I m 85 now and have missed him all my life😢 Thanks for such a poignant song Gilbert🙏🥰
I know how you feel. I was a young girl of 17 when my Beloved Dad passed away in 1977. I'm 64 and despite moments of joy here and there, the crushing loss of my hero has forever changed me. The yearning to just see him again, has never went away. God Bless our Precious Dads
I understand completely. My amazing Father died when I was 11 years old, in 1975. My Mom and Dad were 42 years old when he passed away from a sudden Heart Attack. I dreamed about his passing 3 days before it actually happened. My Mom fell apart and couldn't even dial our push button phone. I had to handle the whole thing, which is what I did in my dream. God truly prepared me for what I had to do and I'm grateful for it. Four years later, the last dream I had of him, he said, I have to go now. He hugged me and disappeared. Fast forward to 2023, I had an NDE, and I got to see my Dad, and his Parents, my wonderful Grandparents. Dad smiled at me, walked up to me, and spun me around and I came back. Not my time, but just seeing them even briefly, did me a world of good. It was indescribable, but so amazing. I miss all 3 of them, and the pain of losing them has never left me. I was just too young. However knowing I will get to spend eternity with them in Heaven, gives me such great peace.
If you ever feel alone, come to the comment section of this video and see that we all have each other. None of us are ever truly alone. Love this song, so sweet and melancholy. I used to hear this on the radio and try to fumble through it on my piano. I hope if you are reading this comment you know that you are not alone. May God bless and comfort you all.
Mismo 1972, yo en mi primer trabajo (Lima-Perú), con toda la ilusión de la juventud, a mi adorado compañero de vida ni lo conocía, el haciendo una maestría en Finanzas en Bélgica ((Bruselas), la vida circunstancialmente nos unió, fuimos muy felices, hasta que el 25 de julio del 2020, la magia se rompió, un beso hasta el cielo Ronald Filinich, nunca te olvidaré!!!
Yeah, but you're just repeating what every generation says about the next generation. People of the 1940s said that about the music in the 50s, and the 50s about the 60s....and so on. Comments like this have been taken place since Ancient Greece. Adults just seem to forget what it was like to be young, and todays kids will become adults and say the same about tomorrows kids.
My Beloved Dad passed away in 1977 when I was only 17. This song always reminds me of that time when my heart was shattered. I had this on a 45 and would just play it over and over. I miss you my Sweet Daddy. See you in Heaven.
I was 16 in 1977. My father passed two weeks before my 38th birthday. His funeral was on the day before my birthday. It poured rain that whole day of the funeral, like the sky was crying with me. There's just no good time to lose someone you love.
@@rozchristopherson648 so sorry for the loss of your Beloved Dad. Being a young girl, my Dad was my Prince and Hero. He donated his body to science so my last vision of him was laying on his bedroom floor with paramedics pretending to revive him. I was young but I knew he wasn't alive. No goodbyes or even a hug. I had no closure and I'm still waiting for my hug. Here I am at 64 years old, grieving the greatest man I ever knew. Fortunately my Sweet Momma lived until I was 50. She truly was my Rock and Comfort. My profile pic is my little sisters and I a year after Dad's passing. My life was changed forever in 1977. Heaven was Blessed but we were broken. I Love You Daddy 💝💝💝
@@orlandosoto6080 so sorry for all your losses. My aunt was the last of 13 children. She always said she hated to be the only one left. She finally was reunited with her family about 7 years ago. I always told her to live her life with joy bc she would eventually be with them again. I truly believe she finally embraced her life again just like you need to. My faith tells me I will spend eternity with my loved ones, one beautiful day. God Bless You and always try to live life to the fullest. Our loved ones are just around the bend. 😇🥰😇
May be the word "happy" is not the right one to describe the real emotion this song can arise, but the thing is that when you are getting old even sad but beautiful songs like this can make you happy, because you realize that at that time you were really happy being surrounded by your family and friends and also neighbours that I in the meantime have unfortunately passed away. I wish you all real "happiness" in your present❤
This song make cry, my husband passed, my Son also passed, they fought the good fight, I believe that will see them again soon and very soon when we all get to heaven what a day of rejoice that will be when wevall see Jesus we will sing and shout of victory !
I am sorry for your losses. I do know that pain. I really believe God has carried me through some things I did not have strength to endure...... God bless
It’s January, 2023 and as I continue to listen to this song over the years, I think of both of my parents who have both passed away. My life has never been the same and I am left with a broken heart that will never heal. 💔 I love you Mom and Dad and I miss you both. 😢 🙏
There's so many of us. Orphaned later in life - just the way life is meant to be. If you're lucky, you will have so many great memories to cherish. I know I do, even when it wasn't all a bed of roses. But I'm truly grateful for what my parents gave me. I try to pass those many good things on to my children - just the way life is meant to be, if you're lucky enough to be blessed with children. It's allright to mourn. To miss your parents. To feel sad about the loss. But remember: it's a good sign. The feeling tells you that life has worked out just the way it should. Count your blessings. And know that you're not alone. Naturally.
My father died when I was 14. I memorized parts of this song and sang it after his funeral over and over again. Although it is a sad tune the melody is a peaceful one and it helped me with my grief.
This generation don't have any great songs. They don't have the love songs and song like this stuff who had meant something. It's the words is in the words. The words have a meaning that's a message. And the music and a message in the words today's music aint got no message. There's no message in this stuff. It makes no sense. They do whatever coming to mind to sell records to sell the songs that's all they care about.
Oh brother. GenX here…This is a clever song with a great hook. Guess what?There are still songwriters doing that. Why do Boomers always have to come to the comments and attempt to elevate their generation by putting down those that came after? Clearly you haven’t actually spent any time exploring the music of the generations that came after you. It’s such an ignorant and pointless boast. As if you had anything to do with it anyway. Also, this generation seems to be the only generation that does this.
One of the most honest songs ever written. Just tells it as it is in an unpretentious, straightforward manner. At 71 years of age I feel that I am on borrowed time and this song truly strikes a chord. I shall hopefully soon be reunited with the two most important people in my largely miserable life - my Mum and sister....
Ah yes, "a REAL man" You are a woman or wokey and can tell everybody what you want them to do or what a "Real Man" is ? The millions of men who died in WW1 and WW2 all cried about it.@@Modeltnick
Classic beauty: - music, - Lyrics, - the voice of an artist who simply sings and talks about something important. I was 13, 14 years old then and I miss this beauty. God bless you, Mr. O'Sullivan!
64 here. That takes me back to Dad driving me to hockey practice on A.M. radio!! CKLW...The Big 8 !!! Life was still wide open ! Miss you, Mom, and Dad... every day. Thank you for all you did for us.
Listened to this song a trillion billion times before, but never *heard* it until just now. What an absolutely beautiful song! The melody is spectacular! Wow!
In a little while from now If I'm not feeling any less sour I promise myself to treat myself And visit a nearby tower And climbing to the top Will throw myself off In an effort to Make it clear to whoever Wants to know what it's like when you're shattered Left standing in the lurch at a church Were people saying, My God, that's tough She stood him up No point in us remaining We may as well go home As I did on my own Alone again, naturally To think that only yesterday I was cheerful, bright and gay Looking forward to who wouldn't do The role I was about to play But as if to knock me down Reality came around And without so much as a mere touch Cut me into little pieces Leaving me to doubt Talk about, God in His mercy Oh, if he really does exist Why did he desert me In my hour of need I truly am indeed Alone again, naturally It seems to me that There are more hearts broken in the world That can't be mended Left unattended What do we do What do we do Alone again, naturally Looking back over the years And whatever else that appears I remember I cried when my father died Never wishing to hide the tears And at sixty-five years old My mother, God rest her soul Couldn't understand why the only man She had ever loved had been taken Leaving her to start With a heart so badly broken Despite encouragement from me No words were ever spoken And when she passed away I cried and cried all day Alone again, naturally Alone again, naturally
Dad died in 71 and I was 21... reminds me so much of Dad and Mom a strong lady she was and the cornerstone of our family...brings back so many memories... thanksgiving
My hero, my late Papa loved this quirky song- every time I hear it I relive those great days with my most respectable and handsome Papa- Love you Daddy wherever you are X
This song is sooo evocative poignant and Irish. It's been a landmark through my life. I love it so much.The Irish have a sadness and a joy that is just unmatched.
Was Gilbert also Irish? I loved this song and also Clair … but when it was a hit I was really small, (9) , and so didn’t know much about him … I knew that ‘Alone again naturally’ was a song that touched suicide & loss , because when I lost my sibling to suicide, it had great meaning to me 😢 🥰
It's a shame RUclips was bought by our evil rulers because it's a great place for things like this song that I haven't heard for decades and it just pops up.
I feel so for those whose parents passed away while they were young. My dad died when I was 61 and I still felt like a lost little kid. I can't even imagine...
To all that have loved and lost their heart to deaths cruel sting. We survive for a reason. Only God knows, but if we are patient. God will reveal his will. Praying for you and all your families.
I was a little girl when this song came out, I was a teenager in the eighties and light simple pop and rock was my thing. As an adult I started broadening my musical tastes,of course,and I can whole heartedly say nothing beats the music styles and the songs from the seventies. Songs told stories,some were catchy,some were intense,some were sad ,but 99 per cent were well crafted and you could feel there was talent and hard work behind. Please show me any of that in any of the lame tunes you hear now. Gilbert O Sullivan,like Tod Rudgren,Scott Mckenzie, Brian Protheroe or Al Stewart wrote some of the most beautiful songs I have ever listened to, I'm so glad we have Spotify or RUclips to keep enjoying them and to discover dozens of others who belonged in that glorious decade and are there for us to discover and listen to! Thanks for the video of this young Gilbert,!
Sorry for your pain BUT why not listen to the lyrics of Chris Martin..e.g. ‘Fix You’ & especially ‘The Hardest Part’ which was recorded years ago..of course I’m a Coldplay fan,so am biased,but I really think we should be open minded about music Classical,Pop etc etc All the best to you 👋
A true classic is timeless. This is timeless. Thank You Gilbert O` Sullivan. Beatles manager George Martin said they would have been proud of any of those beauties that Gilbert O`Sullivan released.
Jim Valvano the North Carolina State basketball coach who passed from cancer said there are three things to do to have a full day. Number one is to laugh to find humor in every day things. Number two is to cry. They can be tears of joy or of sorrow. Number three is to make time to be deep in thought. If you do those three things in a day that's a full day!!
Avevo 15 anni la vita era straordinaria bellissima spensierata e questa canzone che diventa malinconica mi fa tornare indietro in quei periodi bellissimi con amici che purtroppo non ci sono più.
My husband died June 8 and today is my 61st birthday. Even with my children, other family, and friends, I am once again alone naturally. Over the last couple of years we haven’t had the best of times in our 39 year marriage, I have so many mixed emotions right now; I wish I could have him back. I pray he’s out of whatever physical/emotional pain he was experiencing.
I was 13 when this song came out. I was “alone” then (never felt loved as a child) & I’m alone now - 52 years later. The difference now is that I’m happy being alone. Life is strange. Ppl are strange. There is solace in solitude. ❤
“Ruth’ in the Bible ( only four or five pages ) is about a women who lost everyone and everything and wanted to be alone, but her daughter in law ( Ruth) would not give up on her. I understand how you feel ( really) but stories like this are so up lifting they renew your spirit and belief again in people. ( yes I know it’s a difficult one) Ruth really does inspire. God bless you.
I remember hearing this tune being played quite frequently back in the 1970s. I always thought it sounded like a bright, cheerful, upbeat type of a tune all of these years, until I listened to the lyrics, just today. I can’t believe how depressing those lyrics are. And that “kid” was only 21 years old when he wrote that stuff. So, what did a 65 year old man do after listening to about the saddest song in history? Like the tune says, “”.
Iraq in 2003 and Afghanistan in 2013. I've never felt so alone and empty in all my life. We didn't get by "day by day"...it was "one second after the next and one breath after the next" until it all slowly added up to a year and we could go home. I was surrounded by thousands of other GIs going through the same deep, dark depression in a shit hole eight thousand miles from home. For those of you who've never experienced something like this, you have no right to ever criticize combat veterans.
I am 78 and my wife of 45 years passed away 5 years ago. She was an angel, she wouldn't even let me kill an insect. We added a phrase to our wedding vows "Until we meet in Heaven". I miss her so terribly. Some old songs are hard to listen to. I can never listen to "Honey" by Bobby Goldsboro. Bless everyone who has lost a loving spouse.
Parting from a loved one is Traumatic.No one can feel that pain.I could never understand why people just went on with their lives and not realise I d just lost a loved one (crazy thoughts but true) Best wishes and love to you. 🙏🤜🤛🥰
Una montaña rusa de emociones, melodía, letra, interpretación..es cerrar los ojos y viajar al pasado de una forma que solo pocas canciones pueden lograr...solo esta obra está a años luz de todos los regetoneros juntos, jamás, de todos los jamás llegarán siquiera a comparación alguna.
As for Gilbert's piano playing - he was taught to play piano by his best school house friend, Rick Davies. Rick also went into music, founding a band he named Supertramp!
I can imagine that would be so good played on sax. Gilbert O’Sullivan was my teenage music days - loved his music and all the rest of the 70’s music - such a wide range of great music in the day and didn’t know we were so lucky. So many favourites - Slade was a favourite for a good while, wizard, David Bowie, sweet, just so many different genres - not to forget elvis of course and just coming off the back of the fabulous 60’s - we were so lucky to have all that wonderful music in the day
What a hauntingly sad but beautiful song. I remember it from the good old days of the Second half of the twentieth Century when truth and reality had the upper hand.
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My beloved husband passed away...I whispered to him, wait for me on the distant horizon...One day I will follow you... Dearest Chris.❤️❤️
That made me cry..godbless you stay strong x
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Hi will be waiting ther for you . Love has no end it goes on after dead . My women pastaway when i was 24 now 6 years ago . I know she will be waiting ther
@@jonastona Hi. I know they are in a beautiful place and watch over us. They send their hearts to keep us going. 🙏
I was 11 in 1972. The words of this song hit me later in life. My father passed two weeks before my 38th birthday. His funeral was on the day before my birthday. It poured rain that whole day of the funeral, like the sky was crying with me. There's just no good time to lose someone you love.
indeed. BTW I was 14 and I still am moved by this song. "What do we do?"
I was 16.
I was born is 69. I was deeply moved by this song. My dad passed at the age of 61. I was only 38. Like you and so many, I felt lost and alone. What comforts me is the universality. Not one person is not affected by loss. "Want do we do?". Collectively. No one is immune to pain. Sure that doesn't minimize your own grief, but instead makes you cognizant others may be better equipped to comfort the mourners or those experiencing grief as they were themselves equipped to handle it and now can help another. Bless you. And, God never left His alone. Hugs.
I was 19 when this wonderful song was recorded. I felt so grown up then. Now suddenly I'm 71 and I don't know where all those years went. Looking back across the years, I had so much growing up yet to do, and now I'm the older generation.
I was 47 when my father died I cried and didn't care who saw
0% drugs
0% nudity
0% swearing
100% nostalgia
coming from that era God bless you
He's still going strong and still married (over 49 years now). A good bloke.
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Im a gen x... but i love this kind of music.
they had drugs and already were forced to become satanists if they wanted a contract for the elite music industry
I was alone for years till my beautiful Rosemary entered my life 35 years ago. She passed 9 months ago in May. Alone again. I miss her everyday. My Rosemary!
my condolences ... this was my mum's favorite song: she passed away in December 2022
u will see her again❤😢
I am so sorry….
you will see her again one day
Sending wishes for comfort for you
Still stunning beautiful. 2024
Never gets old, so beautiful
I agree.
Yet another Timeless song!
Classic ! Fair play to Gilbert !
A mi también
I enjoyed being 20 in the 70's more than now being 70 in the 20's.
LOL me too
Lol
You and Fran Lebowitz 😉
My Dad died when I was 9 .I remember I cried when my father died...Alone all my life for the love of such a great man.I m 85 now and have missed him all my life😢
Thanks for such a poignant song Gilbert🙏🥰
I know how you feel. I was a young girl of 17 when my Beloved Dad passed away in 1977. I'm 64 and despite moments of joy here and there, the crushing loss of my hero has forever changed me. The yearning to just see him again, has never went away. God Bless our Precious Dads
Im 50 and have 3 young kids. Hope im around to see them all grow up and do well in life.
God bless you❤
I understand completely. My amazing Father died when I was 11 years old, in 1975. My Mom and Dad were 42 years old when he passed away from a sudden Heart Attack. I dreamed about his passing 3 days before it actually happened. My Mom fell apart and couldn't even dial our push button phone. I had to handle the whole thing, which is what I did in my dream. God truly prepared me for what I had to do and I'm grateful for it. Four years later, the last dream I had of him, he said, I have to go now. He hugged me and disappeared. Fast forward to 2023, I had an NDE, and I got to see my Dad, and his Parents, my wonderful Grandparents. Dad smiled at me, walked up to me, and spun me around and I came back. Not my time, but just seeing them even briefly, did me a world of good. It was indescribable, but so amazing. I miss all 3 of them, and the pain of losing them has never left me. I was just too young. However knowing I will get to spend eternity with them in Heaven, gives me such great peace.
That's how I feel about my Mom.😢😊
I was born in 1972. However, I'm still listening to this masterpiece in 2024. 🎉🎉🎉
Great year 😊
LOL... I was born in 1960 and still listening 😂
I was born in 1997 .. I love this song very much.. I'm lone ranger
Me too
If you ever feel alone, come to the comment section of this video and see that we all have each other. None of us are ever truly alone. Love this song, so sweet and melancholy. I used to hear this on the radio and try to fumble through it on my piano. I hope if you are reading this comment you know that you are not alone. May God bless and comfort you all.
Hermosas tus palabras abrazos para ti y bendiciones.
@@user-rj5xe9bw9b ¡Gracias y que Dios los bendiga!
Mismo 1972, yo en mi primer trabajo (Lima-Perú), con toda la ilusión de la juventud, a mi adorado compañero de vida ni lo conocía, el haciendo una maestría en Finanzas en Bélgica ((Bruselas), la vida circunstancialmente nos unió, fuimos muy felices, hasta que el 25 de julio del 2020, la magia se rompió, un beso hasta el cielo Ronald Filinich, nunca te olvidaré!!!
@@vilmaazpilcuetadavalos6502 Mis condolencias. Mau Dios te bendiga y te traiga consuelo.
Merci
A beautiful example of melody in music often lost in today’s noise. ❤
100% correct
Strongly agree.
How true - pop music today reflects the soul of the culture - 💩
Yeah, but you're just repeating what every generation says about the next generation. People of the 1940s said that about the music in the 50s, and the 50s about the 60s....and so on. Comments like this have been taken place since Ancient Greece. Adults just seem to forget what it was like to be young, and todays kids will become adults and say the same about tomorrows kids.
@@user-ux7hd3jb2mThanks for your honest post! This is how I feel as well 😊😊😊
in 1972 I was going with my husband Bill and loved this song. We have been married 50 yrs. and still love this song!
good luck to you
Greetings from Russia
@@sergeymusatov2752 spasibo!🙏
@@sergeymusatov2752 Я люблю Россия! 🇧🇷🤝🇷🇺
@@AlanBoddy-fl2qp congrats to you both
@@belvinsweatt1274 Thanks so much 🙏
My Beloved Dad passed away in 1977 when I was only 17. This song always reminds me of that time when my heart was shattered. I had this on a 45 and would just play it over and over. I miss you my Sweet Daddy. See you in Heaven.
How beautiful your words make my heart sing.
I was 16 in 1977. My father passed two weeks before my 38th birthday. His funeral was on the day before my birthday. It poured rain that whole day of the funeral, like the sky was crying with me. There's just no good time to lose someone you love.
@@rozchristopherson648 so sorry for the loss of your Beloved Dad. Being a young girl, my Dad was my Prince and Hero. He donated his body to science so my last vision of him was laying on his bedroom floor with paramedics pretending to revive him. I was young but I knew he wasn't alive. No goodbyes or even a hug. I had no closure and I'm still waiting for my hug. Here I am at 64 years old, grieving the greatest man I ever knew. Fortunately my Sweet Momma lived until I was 50. She truly was my Rock and Comfort. My profile pic is my little sisters and I a year after Dad's passing. My life was changed forever in 1977. Heaven was Blessed but we were broken. I Love You Daddy 💝💝💝
I’m so sorry for your loss I too lost my whole family, I’m the only one left, let’s hope we see our love ones again someday 💕🙏🏼
@@orlandosoto6080 so sorry for all your losses. My aunt was the last of 13 children. She always said she hated to be the only one left. She finally was reunited with her family about 7 years ago. I always told her to live her life with joy bc she would eventually be with them again. I truly believe she finally embraced her life again just like you need to. My faith tells me I will spend eternity with my loved ones, one beautiful day. God Bless You and always try to live life to the fullest. Our loved ones are just around the bend. 😇🥰😇
I am 67 and this song still makes me smile and happy ❤❤❤❤
I'm 67 years old, too. I remember this song... ❤
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It makes me still happy too😊
This song is about death upon death, loneliness, and despair. Just curious, how does it make you happy? 🤔
May be the word "happy" is not the right one to describe the real emotion this song can arise, but the thing is that when you are getting old even sad but beautiful songs like this can make you happy, because you realize that at that time you were really happy being surrounded by your family and friends and also neighbours that I in the meantime have unfortunately passed away.
I wish you all real "happiness" in your present❤
This song make cry, my husband passed, my Son also passed, they fought the good fight, I believe that will see them again soon and very soon when we all get to heaven what a day of rejoice that will be when wevall see Jesus we will sing and shout of victory !
I believe if we are children of God, eternity with our loved ones was paid in full at the cross. So sorry for your losses.
Of course, you will be with them and your words are very beautiful they resonate with my heart.
I am sorry for your losses. I do know that pain. I really believe God has carried me through some things I did not have strength to endure......
God bless
You will be together again. They are watching over you. God bless you. X
Lost my husband and son too 🌺🌺
My Husband died 20 yrs ago, My Dad 28 yrs ago, miss them very much, time goes by, but the memories last a lifetime ❤
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It’s January, 2023 and as I continue to listen to this song over the years, I think of both of my parents who have both passed away. My life has never been the same and I am left with a broken heart that will never heal. 💔
I love you Mom and Dad and I miss you both. 😢 🙏
Ditto hugs to you
There's so many of us. Orphaned later in life - just the way life is meant to be. If you're lucky, you will have so many great memories to cherish. I know I do, even when it wasn't all a bed of roses. But I'm truly grateful for what my parents gave me. I try to pass those many good things on to my children - just the way life is meant to be, if you're lucky enough to be blessed with children.
It's allright to mourn. To miss your parents. To feel sad about the loss. But remember: it's a good sign. The feeling tells you that life has worked out just the way it should. Count your blessings. And know that you're not alone. Naturally.
Try and find comfort in knowing that you will be together again.
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My father died when I was 14. I memorized parts of this song and sang it after his funeral over and over again. Although it is a sad tune the melody is a peaceful one and it helped me with my grief.
I feel that.. .
Same here. Glad I'm not alone.
@@Jason1920 Definitely not alone; did the same thing myself and still do. Dad died the week my senior year of high school started.
Wonder... Soul Song...
Thanks.....Gilbert...
I totally feel it. God bless
Every generation likes to think its music was the best ever. Turns out, ours really is.
Total BS
Your knowledge of music is limited
If you had lived in the 1920s you would say exactly the same thing
This generation don't have any great songs. They don't have the love songs and song like this stuff who had meant something. It's the words is in the words. The words have a meaning that's a message. And the music and a message in the words today's music aint got no message. There's no message in this stuff. It makes no sense. They do whatever coming to mind to sell records to sell the songs that's all they care about.
Oh brother. GenX here…This is a clever song with a great hook. Guess what?There are still songwriters doing that. Why do Boomers always have to come to the comments and attempt to elevate their generation by putting down those that came after? Clearly you haven’t actually spent any time exploring the music of the generations that came after you. It’s such an ignorant and pointless boast. As if you had anything to do with it anyway. Also, this generation seems to be the only generation that does this.
@@LeonGreen-uf2ncThis is a blatantly ignorant statement.
@@Mixxie67 His name was not Jesus and I'll say it again.
His name is YAHWEH
One of the most honest songs ever written. Just tells it as it is in an unpretentious, straightforward manner. At 71 years of age I feel that I am on borrowed time and this song truly strikes a chord. I shall hopefully soon be reunited with the two most important people in my largely miserable life - my Mum and sister....
We are the fig tree generation! Time is up; be rapture ready.
If only I could convince myself to believe that. Unfortunately, for all of us, God is the final executioner.
Hang in, Dear! 🙂Look at the glass half full.
Wrong.@@erepsekahs
Chegar aos 71 anos e ver que nada foi mudado no mundo deve ser uma vida triste. Abraços 🇧🇷
Who can listen to this and not fight back a tear?
not me thats for sure lol......even after all these years
I’m crying now.
I can.
Does that make me a b@stard ?
You are right,
I ought to check my Toxic Masculinity and cry over every song on RUclips.
@@johnhagan-zr4pmWe only have a finite number of days to have feelings. It takes a real man to be honest about them.
Ah yes, "a REAL man"
You are a woman or wokey and can tell everybody what you want them to do or what a "Real Man" is ?
The millions of men who died in WW1 and WW2 all cried about it.@@Modeltnick
"It seems to me that there are more hearts broken in the world that cant be mended-left unattended"Amazing.
My late father used always advise me to treat other people with kindness. You never know another person's troubles is what he used to caution.
68 and still think its a great tune. Good luck to all of you.
❤
My daughter died of breast cancer, she was just 31 years. I struggle to share conversations of her, but love chafed. ☘️
So sorry for your loss, love 💔
Classic beauty:
- music,
- Lyrics,
- the voice of an artist who simply sings and talks about something important.
I was 13, 14 years old then and I miss this beauty.
God bless you, Mr. O'Sullivan!
MEU DEUS DO CÉU, COISA LINDA. TINHA 13 PARA 14 ANOS EM 72.
I turned 14 during the year 1972. Loved the music then.
isten to the wonderful versions of Nina Simone, Esther Phillips, Diana Krall, Pet Shop Boys, Neil Diamond, Tok Tok Tok.
Yes his songs always make me feel that somehow, somewhere, something very important is waiting for me.
The song made me cry thinking of my parents who have both passed away
One of the most beautiful melodies if not THE most beautiful melody ever written.
It`s definately up there with the very best.
64 here.
That takes me back to Dad driving me to hockey practice on A.M. radio!!
CKLW...The Big 8 !!!
Life was still wide open !
Miss you, Mom, and Dad... every day. Thank you for all you did for us.
Wow. I read that twice😢❤
The greatest song of life ever written....a gift for those with any compassion.
G O'S was a superb writer, singer and musician. Total respect
isten to the wonderful versions of Nina Simone, Esther Phillips, Diana Krall, Pet Shop Boys, Neil Diamond, Tok Tok Tok.
To my amazing late wife of 31 years, naturally.
Listened to this song a trillion billion times before, but never *heard* it until just now.
What an absolutely beautiful song!
The melody is spectacular!
Wow!
Totally agree
In a little while from now
If I'm not feeling any less sour
I promise myself to treat myself
And visit a nearby tower
And climbing to the top
Will throw myself off
In an effort to
Make it clear to whoever
Wants to know what it's like when you're shattered
Left standing in the lurch at a church
Were people saying, My God, that's tough
She stood him up
No point in us remaining
We may as well go home
As I did on my own
Alone again, naturally
To think that only yesterday
I was cheerful, bright and gay
Looking forward to who wouldn't do
The role I was about to play
But as if to knock me down
Reality came around
And without so much as a mere touch
Cut me into little pieces
Leaving me to doubt
Talk about, God in His mercy
Oh, if he really does exist
Why did he desert me
In my hour of need
I truly am indeed
Alone again, naturally
It seems to me that
There are more hearts broken in the world
That can't be mended
Left unattended
What do we do
What do we do
Alone again, naturally
Looking back over the years
And whatever else that appears
I remember I cried when my father died
Never wishing to hide the tears
And at sixty-five years old
My mother, God rest her soul
Couldn't understand why the only man
She had ever loved had been taken
Leaving her to start
With a heart so badly broken
Despite encouragement from me
No words were ever spoken
And when she passed away
I cried and cried all day
Alone again, naturally
Alone again, naturally
In verse 1, He didn't said "Wants to know"
@@MrHater-hk1ln I don't care.
You don't care about the comment you posted, because you just copied the lyrics and put it here without even reading it.
@@MrHater-hk1ln Really Sherlock? Again: I don't care. Stop being such a nerd.
Thanks for posting these incredibly precise, biting, tight, sweet/bitter, sad and cogent lyrics.
As a kid I somehow knew this was a good song.
Today it resonates in a way only the long years of our lives will reveal to us.
If we are lucky.
Perfectly. ❤
I always listen and cry to this song because I’m a very lonely person with depression.
The part where he sings 65 years old the only man she ever knew. Gets me everytime.
Me, too.
Yes ❤
Same❤
you dont understand how beautiful this song is till you feel the grief of the lyrics....no one writes a ballad like Gilbert x
Love this song. A masterpiece.
When my beloved pet passed, I felt this feeling.❤😢😢😢😢😢
This song so deeply touches the heart. It's beautiful. Gilbert O'Sullivan, such a remarkable talent.
I miss my Father it's been 19yrs, but still like yesterday when he died in cancer 😭
I feel your loss...my dad and mom!😥
More than half a century old, and this song keeps being so wonderful as the first day
Dad died in 71 and I was 21... reminds me so much of Dad and Mom a strong lady she was and the cornerstone of our family...brings back so many memories... thanksgiving
🌹ギルバートの歌声が心に沁みます‼️
🌹この曲🎵が出てから、ずっと好きでした💗
🌹当時、13歳の少女が今、60代の👵お婆ちゃんです🖌
🌹いい曲🎵は、時を超えても全然、色褪せしたりしないものなのですね🖌
I agree, I live in Illinois, and I love this Irish man's music. I'm in my 60s too. Rocking, Robin. God bless you.
Every time I hear this I think about my parents 🥺🥺🥺😥😥 I miss them so much 😔
🔥🇺🇸🇬🇧👍
My hero, my late Papa loved this quirky song- every time I hear it I relive those great days with my most respectable and handsome Papa- Love you Daddy wherever you are X
This song is sooo evocative poignant and Irish. It's been a landmark through my life. I love it so much.The Irish have a sadness and a joy that is just unmatched.
Was Gilbert also Irish? I loved this song and also Clair … but when it was a hit I was really small, (9) , and so didn’t know much about him … I knew that ‘Alone again naturally’ was a song that touched suicide & loss , because when I lost my sibling to suicide, it had great meaning to me 😢
🥰
@@sallygard63
Yes, he was and still is Irish.
His Waterford accent is unmistakable when he sings.
@@sallygard63With the surname O'Sullivan, you can't get more Irish than that
I think this might be the saddest song that I’ve ever heard - but quite beautiful in both it’s sentiment and execution. 🙏🍀
Very pretty song. This song reminds me of my late husband. He was a wounderful man.❤❤❤❤❤
Good luck to you and yours Mary.
@@user-py5ct1go2s thank you.
You'll see him soon Mary, God Bless you!
It's a shame RUclips was bought by our evil rulers because it's a great place for things like this song that I haven't heard for decades and it just pops up.
It's a shame you can't just enjoy it without having to make pointless statement !
@@Minchya You read and replied with that, do you know what irony means? lol
Ironically no ! haha@@ernsailor9041
Irony…evil rulers/great place
Just sift thru the filth….there’s still good stuff here!! Bypass the evil!!! Don’t let them win!!
I feel so for those whose parents passed away while they were young. My dad died when I was 61 and I still felt like a lost little kid. I can't even imagine...
That is true my dad died10 months ago I am 59 .I am the youngest it's still horrible at any age.
Legendary Song.of.a Legendary Singer..
.......back in time 1972 my good old days... HALF OF A CENTURY LATER HERE I AM...............now I'm 62!!!
I was 11 in 72 and this song would play on the radio. It always takes me back.
God be with those days when all of the sorrow the world brings was hardly a shadow on the horizon.
I listened to this at 12 yrs old and it is a sad song, sometimes my eyes would tear up. Beautiful melody and voice
One of the greatest songs ever written
..with the late Big Jim Sullivan on guitar...brilliant
To all that have loved and lost their heart to deaths cruel sting. We survive for a reason. Only God knows, but if we are patient. God will reveal his will.
Praying for you and all your families.
As a songwriter I’m constantly studying well crafted song like this. It’s the bridge that really has me impressed though
One of the greatest songs of all time !
At the age of 71 Now,Still.Singing.this Song..
Love this song,I do hold back tears,my husband mother and father have all gone so it resonates with me,I am only 61❤
So glad I have lived through the times when the best songs have been written.
This man was a genius, loved hearing his songs when I was a kid
He is...he is still alive, thankfully
I was a little girl when this song came out, I was a teenager in the eighties and light simple pop and rock was my thing. As an adult I started broadening my musical tastes,of course,and I can whole heartedly say nothing beats the music styles and the songs from the seventies. Songs told stories,some were catchy,some were intense,some were sad ,but 99 per cent were well crafted and you could feel there was talent and hard work behind. Please show me any of that in any of the lame tunes you hear now. Gilbert O Sullivan,like Tod Rudgren,Scott Mckenzie, Brian Protheroe or Al Stewart wrote some of the most beautiful songs I have ever listened to, I'm so glad we have Spotify or RUclips to keep enjoying them and to discover dozens of others who belonged in that glorious decade and are there for us to discover and listen to! Thanks for the video of this young Gilbert,!
Thank you God bless 🙏
You nailed it with that comment ❤
Sorry for your pain BUT why not listen to the lyrics of Chris Martin..e.g. ‘Fix You’ & especially ‘The Hardest Part’ which was recorded years ago..of course I’m a Coldplay fan,so am biased,but I really think we should be open minded about music Classical,Pop etc etc
All the best to you 👋
To be fair 99% were not well crafted at all. But this was a gem.
A sad song that will last forever!!! ❤
Maravillosa canción. Era un adolescente cuando la escuché la primera vez y me impactó.
A true classic is timeless. This is timeless. Thank You Gilbert O` Sullivan. Beatles manager George Martin said they would have been proud of any of those beauties that Gilbert O`Sullivan released.
Raymond always deals in eternal things such as loss, love, sorrow, joy. His songs never grow old or become outdated.
Jim Valvano the North Carolina State basketball coach who passed from cancer said there are three things to do to have a full day. Number one is to laugh to find humor in every day things. Number two is to cry. They can be tears of joy or of sorrow. Number three is to make time to be deep in thought. If you do those three things in a day that's a full day!!
Absolutely perfect. Have been listening for years . Im 69 . The sweetes Song ever ❤
Its a beautifal song
I was ten when I heard this song and always wondered how it seemed to slightly older people.
Avevo 15 anni la vita era straordinaria bellissima spensierata e questa canzone che diventa malinconica mi fa tornare indietro in quei periodi bellissimi con amici che purtroppo non ci sono più.
Lovely sentiment.
My husband died June 8 and today is my 61st birthday. Even with my children, other family, and friends, I am once again alone naturally. Over the last couple of years we haven’t had the best of times in our 39 year marriage, I have so many mixed emotions right now; I wish I could have him back. I pray he’s out of whatever physical/emotional pain he was experiencing.
God bless you honey. I'm going across the street and get a chocolate milkshake.im 62 nobody cares. But I'm I'm a bastard.. straight up
I was 13 when this song came out. I was “alone” then (never felt loved as a child) & I’m alone now - 52 years later. The difference now is that I’m happy being alone.
Life is strange. Ppl are strange.
There is solace in solitude. ❤
“Ruth’ in the Bible ( only four or five pages ) is about a women who lost everyone and everything and wanted to be alone, but her daughter in law ( Ruth) would not give up on her. I understand how you feel ( really) but stories like this are so up lifting they renew your spirit and belief again in people. ( yes I know it’s a difficult one) Ruth really does inspire. God bless you.
I remember hearing this tune being played quite frequently back in the 1970s. I always thought it sounded like a bright, cheerful, upbeat type of a tune all of these years, until I listened to the lyrics, just today. I can’t believe how depressing those lyrics are. And that “kid” was only 21 years old when he wrote that stuff. So, what did a 65 year old man do after listening to about the saddest song in history? Like the tune says, “”.
…..I cried and cried all day.
I really feel alone, I do have people around me but not one true friend,
Sad really for a lifetime of work ❤❤
I have never forgotten this song. It forms a part of my life.
Im crying right now 🥺
When you cry and release It makes room for more joy to come in.
Just Home from Vietnam, 390 days with an M16 in the jungle off the Cambodian border, god how alone I felt!
We were all alone then. 1st Cav 71-73
If I was old enough I would’ve been with you , your comment made me remember that there are heroes among us , thank you for you sacrifice
Man did i wear out this 45 on my record player back in '72
Iraq in 2003 and Afghanistan in 2013. I've never felt so alone and empty in all my life. We didn't get by "day by day"...it was "one second after the next and one breath after the next" until it all slowly added up to a year and we could go home. I was surrounded by thousands of other GIs going through the same deep, dark depression in a shit hole eight thousand miles from home. For those of you who've never experienced something like this, you have no right to ever criticize combat veterans.
아 정말좋다
한국사람이 있다니 ㅋㅋ
Beautiful song
This song brings slot of fond memories of growing up in the 60s I really enjoyed this type of music 😊😊
72 don't seem that long ago just a teenager time has really flown by. Always love this song.
I Was 15 when this song came out and still love it in 2024
I am 78 and my wife of 45 years passed away 5 years ago. She was an angel, she wouldn't even let me kill an insect. We added a phrase to our wedding vows "Until we meet in Heaven". I miss her so terribly. Some old songs are hard to listen to. I can never listen to "Honey" by Bobby Goldsboro. Bless everyone who has lost a loving spouse.
Parting from a loved one is Traumatic.No one can feel that pain.I could never understand why people just went on with their lives and not realise I d just lost a loved one (crazy thoughts but true)
Best wishes and love to you.
🙏🤜🤛🥰
Très touchée par votre temoignage😊
Una montaña rusa de emociones, melodía, letra, interpretación..es cerrar los ojos y viajar al pasado de una forma que solo pocas canciones pueden lograr...solo esta obra está a años luz de todos los regetoneros juntos, jamás, de todos los jamás llegarán siquiera a comparación alguna.
Wonderful...
The lyrics means nothing until you feel the grief
Again and again until there is no one left
Alone again, naturally
1972... I remember this song. I was in my first year of college.
I just love this song. Sadly, I’m old enough to remember when it first came out.
i was 12 when this song came out. 50 years later it's still my favorite...
A street musician played this on a sax in Sin City a few days ago and I knew God was there. This song is beautiful.
As for Gilbert's piano playing - he was taught to play piano by his best school house friend, Rick Davies. Rick also went into music, founding a band he named Supertramp!
I can imagine that would be so good played on sax. Gilbert O’Sullivan was my teenage music days - loved his music and all the rest of the 70’s music - such a wide range of great music in the day and didn’t know we were so lucky. So many favourites - Slade was a favourite for a good while, wizard, David Bowie, sweet, just so many different genres - not to forget elvis of course and just coming off the back of the fabulous 60’s - we were so lucky to have all that wonderful music in the day
Not god, Gilbert.
What a hauntingly sad but beautiful song. I remember it from the good old days of the Second half of the twentieth Century when truth and reality had the upper hand.
Love, love this old song. Too brilliant.
One of my favourite songs back in 72
What a classic. Never gets old. Thank you Gilbert O'Sullivan for this gift & masterpiece. Cheers, Raytona $ickWid'It Records
Story of my life.
Belle chanson. 18 ans en 1972. Les meilleures années. ❤
This song my cousin used to play it in his car ,he passed on a long time ago.