Elvis Costello - Veronica
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- Elvis Costello - Veronica. This song was written by Elvis Costello and Paul McCartney, who plays the Höfner bass in this recording.
Elvis Costello - Veronica. Esta canção foi escrita por Elvis Costello e Paul McCartney, que aqui toca seu baixo Höfner.
My name is Veronica and Elvis Costello was born on the same day and year as I am, I'm currently caring for my mother who is 89 and has dementia, this song brings tears to my eyes. Great song!
Tears of love and sorrow are the most powerful things one can ever experience in a lifetime moms spirit will always be near you,,,,, ,
Hi Veronica. God bless you and your Mom 💗.
My name is Sharon Veronica Veronica--yes, double Veronica in my name--and I love this song too--it's my theme song, and life is a quick blur and this day is coming for me.
I'm talking care of my 89 year old Dad and he just started with this recently and it's very scary to think it's not going to get any better 😟
God and Jesus bless you and your family always Veronica 🙏💕🙏
We are all so connected .. thanks for sharing 💖
@@sharonpetner5171 partners veronica also. Just love ... just love.
I have spent the last 30 years caring for dementia patients. This hits very hard and true.❤
I did not appreciate Elvis Costello until I grew up and my mother died. Such a beautiful song. Thank you mister Costello. Thank you for the memories. Thank you for performing a song that wrenches tears from my eyes and puts a smile on my face.
I've loved this song since the day it came out, but it gained increasing relevance when my mother was losing her battle with Alzheimer's. Even as the disease robbed her of so much of who she was, she never lost that loving smile and twinkle in her eye.
when I first heard this song, I was in my 20's and loved the tune. When I was in my 30's I started to listen to the words. When I was in my 40's my mother had Alzheimer's and when I was in my 50's she was dead. I wished I had paid more attention in my 20's
I heard this song when I was about 12 and it stuck with me since. It was only a few years after I lost my great grandma and made profoundly aware of time.
Denise Becker@❤️same for me😢
This is one of those songs that grows as we grow older. Kind of amazing!
Me too .exactly how i feel.
So sorry for your loss. I lost my Aunt Rita Sentilles Hebert in 1987. We knew nothing about the disease in the south. I call it the mind worm and it's such a sad death. The first time I heard Veronica I immediately knew it was about Alzheimer's .Rest in peace all that have died from this horrible illness
"And picked upon the bones of last week's news ... She spoke his name out loud again ...". 😢 That just breaks my heart.
Listen to the lyrics, emotional song. I’m 49 and remember when this came out in the late 1980s. Time goes quick. As you get a little older you realise that.
This must be one of the most perfectly crafted pop songs ever.
This , I think, is one of the finest songs ever written and performed. I think it's a shame that many people have never heard of it. Everybody, please share this song with everybody that you know. It is just that cool of a song.
the backstory is also incredibly touching, Elvis wrote this song for his grandmother who had Alzheimer's
he wrote it for his grandmother who had Alzheimer's
This song is beautiful. I remember hearing it back in the 80s when I was a kid, and I never understood it. My mom is sitting in a retirement home, with dementia, at 75, on a memory care floor. For some reason, this song just popped into my head and I had to google it. I had no idea, all these years, that this was about Costello's grandmother who suffered from Alzheimers. Very tragic. I get very teary eyed watching this now, as I can completely relate to it :'(
I did not no myself what this song was about all I knew was it had a very nice upbeat uplifting sound to it that i liked there was a arcade i would go to in Huntington beach all the time when the song came out they had a vidio juke box there at the time, when i played it there i finally figured it out,,tears of love and sorrow are the most powerful things we will ever experience while we are here,,,,,,,,,,,
I too just came to this realizaton after actually sitting down and listening to the lyrics of this song at 50. And it made tears come to my eyes!
Sorry Elivis that I did not listen sooner! Thanks
no one close me is suffering yet but, now that I know the backstory I get a bit choked up too, I guess I suffer from too much empathy
When I was young and still living at home, my mom would take care of an elderly friend of the family with Alzheimer's. Her name was Belen, and often she would sit very quiet and still in her favorite chair. That line in the song reminds me of Belen. Such a nice lady. She passed on, and my mother also passed away in 2020,. My mom also suffered from memory loss in her later years. May they both rest in peace. ❤
I always thought this was a great song but seeing this video adds a whole new emotional dimension.
one of his most haunting lyrics to one of his most upbeat tunes from this era, about his grandmother Veronica who suffered from dementia in later life.
I had no idea. That's heartbreaking.
Wow, I just watched the video for the first time, saw your comment and it really brings a completely different meaning to what I thought was maybe an ex girlfriend or something. 😞
@@kristyottomeyer5466 -How could anyone on the planet dislike this song or video?Apparently 102 do...
I believe one of the things elvis had on his mind when he wrote this song was love and sorrow are two of the most powerful things we will experience while we are here,,,,,
This makes me weep. Beautiful song.
I am in my 40's and I understood the song as I heard it. I love the meaning of it, great tune!
My mom was an elementary school teacher for decades. She was loved by her students and I still receive warm thoughts from her friends and former students to this day. She became afflicted with Alzheimer's disease. It was a long, slow goodbye. We lost her a bit at a time. At times, her disease was a source of conflict within our family. Elvis Costello's song is a beautiful tribute to his grandma, my mom, and anyone else who has lost a loved one to this terrible disease.
a good teacher lives on in the hearts and minds of her students,
they remember what she no longer could, and will carry that for a lifetime...
such a wonderful gift to give to the world.
When the song came out 1989 I was working as a custodian at a sanitarium for the elderly I would always do my best to liven up every ones life the best I could while working there it was always gut wrenching for me to see a relative visit someone only once in a great while they would come to life and be so happy to get a visit from a loved one when the visit was over i would hear them crying in their rooms knowing they would not get another visit in a long time i would feel the grief with them during the time i worked there I learned love and sorrow are the most powerful things we will experience while we are here,,,,,
I remember getting frustrated at nana because she was always a grump and then one day she said to me, the worst thing you can say to me as I said it before. They know they are declining but we don't listen.
I love this song, but I can't watch the video, because I always end up crying like a baby. I spent 17 years working as a CNA, working in health care facilities, taking care of the elderly. I can listen to song and get through it, barely. One of my last patients was a woman with Alzheimer's, who was very sweet, but slowly losing her faculties. Leaving her and leaving that line of work was very hard, but all of us have to move on. The sad thing about health care is , we can prolong your life, but we can't always prolong the quality of it.
Exactly...i stopped it at 1:37
Thank you for your love and service to others in their time of need this what the Bible calls loving your Neighbor as Yourself. Your a good person.
When the song out in 1989 I was 28 working at a sanitarium for the elderly always did my best to liven things up for everybody there,the hardest times for me was when somebody there very old got a rare visit from a loved one they would be so happy,but after the visit was over they would be crying in their rooms after the visit I would feel the pain with them ,I had to quit that job
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Wait until it happens to a loved one
A girl I used to work with ( still friends with ) is named Veronica, her mother named her this because she loved this song. Veronica plays the song all the time on her mother's birthday.
I remember taking my wife and 3 year old son to see my grandmother. She lived by herself on a farm in western Pennsylvania. Every few minutes she would say "who's the boy", it broke my heart. I watch this frequently to remind me of her. I have a picture of Grandma Mary Ihnat, My son and my late wife just to left of my chair. It must be dust or smoke that's in my eyes.
One of my favourite songs of all times. Unparalleled Elvis and Paul.
I can never make it through this video without the water works coming on full force.
Elvis Costello is truly a musical genius.
Love this song...it use to remind me so very much of my Grandmother...now Im the grandma and I see my life behind me and cherish this song even that much more.
I bawl like a baby everytime I watch this video. The topic, Elvis being vulnerable, the thought that it could be any of us or has been people we love. The encapsulation of a life in the imagery. Macca laying down a sweet bassline. Beautiful work Declan.
An absolutely brilliant song by a lyrical genius - It's difficult for young people to understand that old people were young once, but they were. This song sums it up in a marvelously toe-tapping fashion. First rate!
that is the thing, once upon a time we were all somebody's baby boy or girl, we come into this world in the same way that is, being born & one day we all will die, the real shame of it is that isn't enough to bind us together for a high tide lifts all boats
I lost my father six months ago, I told him that he shouldn't worry about me, I had plans for my life and how I intended to work as hard as I could to fullfill them. His final words to me were "I have all faith in you"
This song reminds me of the fact that although he was my father, I didn't really know him as a person that well.
Nicholas, so sorry to hear about your dad. My mom is 86y and lives with me. Its challenging but still grateful to have her with me. Everyday is a new day to be unwrapped and see what God has for me.....I try not to take anything for granted and so happy on the days she remembers who I am....that is a reward in itself.
I think it's important to remember who she was during her active life because all of those experiences make her who she is. Although Alzheimer's robs people of that identity it's up to us to keep that identity alive.
This song always manages to choke me up
This video to this song is utterly brilliant...Elvis plays the part so well...my dad died of dementia and Elvis captures and gets inside the mind of this lady and the prison of her own thoughts..clever video and well executed
It is songs like this that define the best of us. He stayed by his Moms side and loved her, even though it was mostly to do with a time when he was not yet born. He was able to see beyond the veneer of a parent and loved the woman she was. She did not have to be Mom, she was Veronica, and he loved her. I especially love the track in the recording where he sings along over the prerecorded song.
God bless your Veronica. This song just speaks volumes ,it makes me happy, and sad at the same time.
Could be any girl. What a fantastic song.
Brilliant songwriting! Two greats, Elvis and Paul. Excellent bass line by Paul McCartney as usual.
When my ex wife and i was expecting our first child we was visiting her grandmother who was suffering Alzheimer's we told her we was getting married this was the last present memory she had till her passing away. When our daughter was born i wanted to call our daughter Veronica in memory of that moment we told her grandmother as this song reminded us of that time and to this day i still get tears when i hear it.
I remember when this song came out but because I didn't have cable I never watched the video until now. It's also the first time that I'm aware that it was co-written by Paul McCartney. While it wasn't my introduction to Elvis Costello (that was his duet with Annie Lennox on the Eurythmics track "Adrian") it was my introduction to Costello as a stand alone musician. It's a great song and the video makes it all the more interesting.
This song reminds me of my grandmother.
3 and a half minutes of pop perfection
Can't ever watch this video without tearing up. No matter how many times I see it!
I can't either
Nobody writes songs like this.....Costello=GENIUS
It was co written with someone that you may have heard of. Paul McCartney?
Does sound kinda familiar. Give us another hint?😎
Paul McCartney and the Beatles always did love the music of Elvis.
+Owen Daniels Wait, what?
William Walls It be true! The Beatles loved Elvis.
I love this song more now that I have more yesterdsys than tomorrows. It brings me to tears now however because when it came out I was too young to really understand what it was about. But now that I am very senior I understand the sadness of forgetting one's life.
Yes... this song is very sad.....but even though.... I fell in love with it, when I was much younger. Now I understand it.... my mom has Alzheimer's disease and she is now "Veronica"
+Marilyn Marquez , thank you... your comment made me cry... my father passed away from Alzheimer's the day before his 70th birthday. Of course, for - I think - nearly 5 years before that, he didn't know who I or my mother or my sister were anymore. That was just over 16 years ago and, uh, I still miss him too, too much. He was the nicest, sweetest person I ever knew - and I've been quite the non-success. Oh well... at least I have an understanding of the truth of much in the world. At least I have that. Oh and a bunch of friends who think I'm pretty neat. huh, wow... still crying here. Oh yes... I was upstairs in 'Smith & Caughey's' department store here in Auckland, New Zealand in 1995. Suddenly, who's walking towards me with a furry hat on and a minder right behind him? Elvis Costello. What do I think of to say? "Hi, Elvis". He replies, "Hello". That's the extent of my genius when I have a musical legend walking towards me... "Hi [name]". Sometimes I wonder what I have between my ears. Anyway, I love this song and thanks, Marilyn. It's been good to cry again but, uh, yeah... still going. Well, take care... *hug*
"....and I've been quite the non-success".
No you haven't. I read what you wrote and I loved it. It's a little song in itself. You could turn it into a poem. You've touched upon stuff I'm dealing with. That's success. Thank you.
Nicolas. Here's a spur of the moment poem inspired by your words :o)
Your comment made me cry,
69 suns & moons I saw
perfect in the sky.
69 suns and Moons but 64
were all the ones I needed
for the good times I had in store,
16 years is not so much
for where we're going to be
always together - to touch & hold & see
To truth&understandstanding
To sweetness and the rest
This is just the warm up to the main event.... a test
Here's to saying "Hi"
And not taking your chance to say what you wanted to say
Here's to saying bye - & thinking of me on any moon lit night or sunny day.
my ma has dementia just sad
I dont get why people comment on songs just to insult the artist or try to start an argument. Music is a subjective thing where no one is right or wrong. All in all there are two types of music good and bad. For everyone what falls into each off these is different, so just try to stay away from what you think is bad. Just to add amazing song. I gave up my night of study before the final exam in my weakest subject in college to see him live and it was the best thing I ever did.
"It was all of sixty-five years ago,
When the world was the street where you lived"
Lovely wordage, Mr Costello.
such a beautiful happy sounding song, but it's achingly sad.
+ziaone Such is life . . .
Elvis Costello is amazing. Always has been, always will be.
You know, you can ignore that this is Elvis Costello and Paul McCartney, yet you cannot deny that this song and video is among the finest pieces of music video ever recorded. Wow! What an overpowering example of "How might we discuss this?" And nevertheless it is beautiful music. Well done, Elvis and Paul!
Every time I see Elvis Costello now, all I can think of is that he wore big frame glasses 3 decades before the hipsters glombed onto doing it. He literally did it before it was cool and made it cool because he did it.
Actually I think that it was Buddy Holly who first made it cool.
I have no doubt that you're correct, however being a child of the late 70's and early 80's, the only memories I have of Buddy Holly are courtesy of Don McLean. He was just a little bit before my formative years.
Kevin AQ that lady comment was meant for you. Peace man.
Jackson Henderson you're correct. According to my father, the last great musician was Roy Orbison. It was all downhill after him.
This music video elicits the most powerful/ emotional reaction from me than any other music video I’ve ever experienced.
Hi I recommend a song called 'Where I Come From' By Robert Nix
His accent so surprises me! I've only loved him as a singer. It's delightful.
What a great song and beautiful dedication.
Wow, it's amazing how many times he over dubs his lead vocal to get that full rich sound of his singing voice. Kudos to the producer of the recording.
Reading that he wrote this about/for his mother made it that much more poignant. Beautiful song, wonderful video.
It was his Grandmother.
Love Elvis Costello.....
My favorite song by my favorite Elvis!
This is one of the best DAMN performers I've ever seen
One of the best videos ever... RESPECT
Miss my momma she left me I needed her
Love Elvis's music, seen him a few times - now this song has special significance, my poor old mum is going down the same route as Veronica.......great that this song is up-lifting and not maudlin about this nasty condition 👍
Seriously, I'd pay a ton of money just to hear this guy TALK!!!
What An Absolutely Brilliant Artist Who Has A Majestic Legacy. His Autobiography'Unfaithful Music& Disappearing Ink',Is Just Simply Brilliant. What An Unbelievable Artist. Cheers Mr Costello.
Beautiful. I didn't catch this song for over a decade, and it still can get tears in my eyes...
A simply beautiful song
my mother has had alzheimers for 6 years now - my sister in law told me of this video - it really hit home and my heart. thanks elvis
I have always loved this song, but when I lost my mom recently to Huntington's this song took on a whole new meaning. RIP
All of my teachers would sing this when ever I walked in the room. But I still love this song :) I love my name
I absolutely LOVE this song! ❤️
old school! takes me way back. a veritable treasure indeed!
Costelo every mind has thinking likle they wants , I am a healer and love great music and you are one of the best That made me happy
Everybody was young. Once. Everybody had dreams. Once. Everybody had a first kiss. Once. But that was a long time ago and we are no longer young. But once....
We all should remember this when we zoom past an old person, or fidget at their stories. They're us, and we're them.
Oh yes.... young once. I am achingly so very aware now of how we grow old. Am also so chillingly aware of the icy, fearsome pain of the process involved. God bless us all. Revere your youth, your crazy ridiculous youth. God bless again for the precious colorful concise memories we may be bestowed with of youth awash with tears of joy and lonely pain as well.
A TIMELESS CLASSIC! 80'S MUSIC RULES!! I JUST REALIZED HOW MUCH ELVIS COSTELLO SOUNDS LIKE BONO FROM U2!!, the dj
Send him all the positive thoughts and energy you can spare. Shocked and saddened by his cancer diagnosis. He's such an amazing musical artist. I hope I will see him on tour soon. ❤
Sad when people get old and confused...when my dad was fading out with cancer at age 74 I tried to cheer him up talking about the good life he had lived...didnt seem to help...but I'm glad he lived a good life.
Hows great to get to see this video and hear this great song again! I loved it when it came out in 1989.
a remarkable tribute to a beloved family member... all should be so lucky
Such a great and meaningful song.
Someone I care about a great deal introduced me to this song. We haven't spoken for a while but I listen to this song quite often and think about my John.
This song reminds me so much of my Mom! Love you! Shirley Sue.
This is the Elvis song I know the best. People tell me my voice reminds them of Elvis' and I take that as a compliment.
A great song with powerful imagery, from a great artist. Amazing as ever.
This is about us when we get older and get demencia and only live in the past and not now. This is what we remember. My mom passed away last year, remembered 40 years ago, but not yesterday, now my dad is in the same place. The only good thing about it is that no one really knows how miserable they are....they are in the past.....let's hope our past is happy!!
Sweetest, gentlest song. Reminds me of my grandmother, and especially my wife's grandmother. Songs like this help us share our humanity. Thank you, Declan!
From Wikipedia:
"Veronica" is a single from Elvis Costello's 1989 album Spike, co-written by Costello with Paul McCartney. The song "Veronica" was co-produced by T-Bone Burnett and Kevin Killen, and features Paul McCartney on his iconic Höfner bass. In 2004, Entertainment Weekly voted it one of Costello's top ten greatest tunes.[1]
The song focuses on an older woman who has experienced severe memory loss. Costello's inspiration for this song was his grandmother, who suffered from Alzheimer's. When talking about the song on a VH1 interview, Costello reminisced about his grandmother having "terrifying moments of lucidity" and how this was the inspiration for "Veronica". In his 2015 autobiography, Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink, Costello wrote of his collaboration with McCartney, "I'd brought an early version of "Veronica" that you would have recognized […] All the words I'd already written were about my paternal grandmother, Molly, or more formally, Mabel Josephine Jackson. In fact, her Catholic confirmation name, Veronica, provided the very title of the song".
"Veronica" and its accompanying video depicts an aged woman, probably nearing the end of her life in a retirement home, engaging in detached reminiscences from her life from young girl to young womanhood (played by Zoe Carides). The video for "Veronica" featured Costello delivering a spoken-word monologue to the camera, and occasionally singing the song softly over the original vocal track from the recording. The video, co-directed by John Hillcoat and Evan English, earned an MTV Video Music Award for Best Male Video.
Beautiful song❤❤
My grandmother spent the last few weeks of her life in a nursing home. Mentally she was fine but she had a roommate in the final stages of life who kept speaking out loud as though she were having memories similar to ones shown in the video, fleeting, jumping from year to year. "Thank you for the dolly, Papa", things like that. I hope it brought her some comfort.
Gets me every time......So well done.
randomly thought of this video and remembered loving it, so glad to see it has over 1M views
My spanish teacher always used to sing this song when she would call my name! I love Elvis Costello[:
Still love this song!
This song touches me more each time I hear it. My own mom is very old but still mentally OK. We always have fun laughing.
My aunt just died of Alzeimer's on Thursday. She was so sharp before the dementia set in. It makes me want to cry.
when i was 18 i was mad about my uncle,when i was 25 i started missing him when i was 33 he died now am 40 and i have done every thing he told me to do and now i have a lovely family 1 and 3 years old ,a wonderfull job my house ,car,etc. and to many tears because my old man is not here any more
A beautiful tender video that shows the sensitive, vulnerable side of EC
I absolutely love this song !! the lyrics are just so.."WAAUW"...!!!..something to think about ..it has a kind of romantic sadness when he sings about her when she was young but even now-when she's old-he still doesn't know "what goes on in that pretty little head of hers"?? oooohhh and her name was veronica.. ooooooowww..brilliant lyrics !!!!!!
A wonderful song, but the happy melody belies the sadness in it
I dong know what year this video came out on vh1 but I had 3 children, now 29,28 and 22 and we all had this taped and watched it over and over, we all would tear up at the end, we all thought she died there. We also took care of a great great aunt at the time and the same stories came up and now she has died. We all still bring up the song in such a touching memory. My daughter is pregnant and I think I will mention naming her baby Veronica if a girl. Thanx Elvis and Paul from my children and I
YOU RIGHT ABUOT THIS SONG KEEP HELP SOMEONE WHO NEED TO. HERE WAND YOU DOWN.
We all get old and such, lose our minds.
It's so very, very touching, and he delivers it like no one else could.
He is slightly light on those awful, dehumanising nursing homes, Elvis can be scathing, which is slightly surprising, but then again, it's not about them, is it?
Such a masterpiece. Thank you for posting this! I have always loved this song, the video was top notch too.
Elvis cowrote it with Sir Paul McCartney. Declan hit #19 in Billboard, 6-24-89. God bless ya, for postin' it. Thanx!
Thanks for tha memories
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