My little daughter died January 31st, 1996...I held her for six hours as she struggled. When we left the hospital, it was February 1st. When my husband started the car...this song began playing on the radio. ⭐️
@@michaelstubbs5191 She was my littlest angel. Of all my children. I made a very harsh decision (though). No pity for me. Only for her. Katie Darlin was already challenged...with cystic fibrosis. As she developed small bleeding spots on her brain....cerebral palsy...I made the unthinkable choice...during a medical emergency. “Let Katie fight. If she survives this...we will intervene forever.” Katie didn’t survive. I held her for six hours, begging her to come back to me. Every time her heart stopped. And her heart would begin again. Until the nurses asked me to stop crying and begging. “We love Katie, too...next time her heart stops...don’t cry...tell her it’s okay and you are okay.” When I did as they asked? Katie darlin’s heart didn’t beat again. She was two months old. And was velvet, with bright and kind, kind eyes. Before the spots on her brain came. Then she began flinching, if her feet were touched...and the spark faded from her eyes. Some call me “hard” or “cruel” for making that call. But I left it up to baby girl, for how her life would be. Oxygen for sure...wheelchair, definitely. And I would not have to ability to provide this, without government help. So I asked her to fight. One time. Before we committed to a long road, that would (probably) lead to a death by age thirteen or fourteen. If we were going to beg for money, from the state? She would have to fight HARDER. Does that make sense?
My mom passed away when I was 10 years old, I’m now 39. I was February 5th, this song was played at her funeral. I always play this song when I’m really down and want to feel close to her. It always brings me to tears
🎶🎶 My 🎶🎶 father 🎶🎶 passed 🎶🎶 away 🎶🎶 last 🎶🎶 November. 🎶🎶 🎶🎶 I 🎶🎶 too, 🎶🎶 love 🎶🎶 this 🎶🎶 song. 🎶🎶 🎶🎶 The 🎶🎶 neighbors' 🎶🎶 dog 🎶🎶 is 🎶🎶 barking. 🎶🎶 🎶🎶 I 🎶🎶 have 🎶🎶 to 🎶🎶 go 🎶🎶 to 🎶🎶 work, 🎶🎶 tomorrow. 🎶🎶
RUclips is the closest thing to a time machine we have. 90s music transports us all back to simpler times. This is one good takeaway that modern technology has provided to us.
agree. 90s was the best decade. 80s as well. I grew up in the 90s, experienced the transition to the digital era. 90s was the decade of freedom for me. eurodance forever. 90s movies and music was the best of the best. Golden decade. I wish every 2nd month would be like in the 90s....
We danced down a dark lane to this song in Savannah, Georgia. He held my hand and we ran through the hot, humid night. Fireflies and Spanish Moss. The twinkle of the gas light lamp posts. It started to rain and we smashed our prom shoes into puddles. Our wet clothes like a second skin, we pulled each other close and slow danced on cobblestones as we heard the last few minutes of this song filling up the Southern night sky...now I slow dance alone, and send this song out to the heavens to find him....thank you, Sophie. You were the perfect soundtrack to the last great beat of our hearts.
The year is 1998, you're 18, waiting at the popular shopping mall for your mates to join you, then this song plays in the mall and you start thinking about the girl you love. 23 years after, you're now married to that girl with two kids. Life is not easy but I'm thankful to God for everything He has given. Thankful to be a live and to have experienced the 80s and 90s.
I’m here because I grew up listening to Sophie in the 90’s. I was a teenager then. Now I’m a 38 year old man and the world as I perceive it, is a very different place. I have very fond memories of the music from this time. I still listen to all those great songs today. Thank God for all the artists, the musicians, the writers, poets, actors, directors, photographers and dancers. Through you all, we collectively have the opportunity to experience the many shades and nuances of life in such a visceral way.
She wrote this song about her daddy. She missed him after he passed. You can see in a few parts she looks like she wants to cry. This is for my 6y/o daughter. Daddy loves you babygirl!💝
I love reading the comments people have posted here. So many sad stories, but this song really seems to give people a sense of happiness in their sadness or a sweet memory of a loved one. It has meant many different things to me over the decades. It's been my favorite song for almost 30 years now.
sandy haqqy Sophie Hawkins has a beautiful voice and very attractive. I love her mellow tone which very calming and relaxing. I wonder whatever became of her.
@RM, I never knew that. I feel like I first heard it in a movie from the 90s & loved it or maybe a tv show, not really sure, then would hear it on the radio every so often. I haven’t heard it in a while though.
Working the nightshift as a young nurse, this song came on the radio playing softy in the nurse's station while we did out paperwork. So long ago, but ill never forget how i felt that night...❤
I Dedicate this song for my Brother who died when i was 8, he was 15had car accident, i hope that in other world i recognize him and we gonna play together once again
Appreciate this song even more. No auto tune, no drama, no whining and no vocal acrobatics. Just a sweet voice, meaningful lyrics and pleasant instrumentation.
@@thegreathadoken6808 it's a shame auto tune went from a gimmick to a tool then to mainstream. Vocal acrobatics as well, Mariah and Celine for instance, but so carried away with the riffy shrieking and screeching. What ever is considered artistry today isn't for me. Not a slam, just preference.
I searched for this sing for years because I only remembered the tune with no words. It was one of my favorites as a child. I was so happy when it all of a sudden popped up on a Spotify Playlist. I listen to it everyday since😊
I finally found this because I remembered the chorus, played it on guitar, then I recognized it sounds like the intro to "mirrors" by justin timberlake. Looked it up and miraculously found it. I can't imagine having this ear worm for months!
It is 2023 and this song still sends shivers down my system. My childhood memories, shepherding livestock across bushes of the slopes of Mt.Elgon. May anyone going through hardships in this life get everlasting peace.
@patrickbutaki , with your permission, Thank you , YOU helped me more than I could ever imagine reading your delicate and kind comment "... May anyone going through hardships in this life get everlasting peace " ( I am sorry for my broken English ) 🙏 Wishing you all the best .
same! it played on the radio growing up and I never knew the artist or title and so it bugged me for YEARS and I damn near cried when that episode came on lol
Just shut up wiffee you mean green did a green like Gordon Atkins did mre,? Who's the old dude in Kim's frame?brain Austin green.saved by the Bell for Jenny bell likey grandma abilula weaver
@TuanNguyen-dn9mb you just stopped looking, I promise you. There is some killer music out there, it's just not what multinational conglomerates are pushing on us
Reminds me of the time when my mother took me to my local mall as a toddler, strolling pass by the carousel, passing by the arcades, and browsing the retail outlets . Simpler, peaceful times.
I lost my husband in Dec. 2020. I forgot how touching this song is! He and I were married the year before this song came out. I never dreamed I would be a grieving widow when I found this song again. I have it on cassette tape. Thank you, Sophie for a beautiful song.
@@beking4 well there are various spellings of the name. My husband had the Coat of Arms and is of Scottish descent. There are Spires in my area that I am not related to. It is a possibility we could be though. 😊
@@bethspires3466 I descend from the Spiers family that came to KY at an early date from Maryland. Cool to know they may have come from Scotland. I take comfort in the beauty of the Sophie B. Hawkins song too. It gives me a certain peace.
My thoughts are with you, and all young widows. I am losing my husband to cancer and we are both young. It's heartbreaking and I cannot imagine the pain to come.
@@amazonviking83 So very sorry. It is the worst pain I have ever experienced. I miss him every single day of my life. My prayers are with you for peace and strength.
One morning I was singing this song my husband asked me what I was singing. I played it for him…it was the first time I saw him smile sconce he was diagnosed with cancer.
When I was a teenager I liked this song, didn’t really think about the lyrics and thought it was a love song. Somehow it’s come up for me now, a little over a month since my wife died completely unexpectedly, and I realize what it’s actually about. 💔 ❤️🩹
In the nineties, I was quite ill with a heart problem and I thought I was going to die. I was scared of leaving my son and I used to lie in my bed and listen to this, and would get a feeling like I was ready to go. Obviously I didn't go....but I still love this and I'm still ready. God's timing
Woow! If not for anything else, this song was written, sang n produced to shine hope in hopelessness and and ignite the spark of life in the looming darkness of death. It was written for you. Thanks for sharing
This song takes me back to the Tampa Bay Mall in the late 1990’s. I was around 5 years old walking around the second floor with my mom on a shopping trip. This song was softly playing over the mall sound system and I can remember those 90’s furnishings: green hall plants, white tiled porcelain flooring, and simpler forms of technology. I’m grateful to have had memories from the 20th century.
@Matthew Vargas Hold on to the memories.... I was in my mid-20s in 1995 and I remember very vividly hearing this song on the radio to and from work... so many memories!
I was in my late 30s in the the late’90s. This song takes me back to when my wife and eight year old daughter were alive. On June 20th, 1998 they were killed by a drunk driver who also died. Every time I hear this song I remember 1995 when we were all still together and everything was good.
My hamster died to this song....he looked at me and smiled. Layed down in the sawdust while I watched on.....keeping eye contact he winked at me then passed away. Iv kept his water bottle on the mantle.....a reminder of my furry friend of two years. Rest in sawdust heaven peewee.
@@TMan786I almost want to laugh, but I had hamsters before, nobody can tell me they aren't almost like cats and dogs. Still remember Julie and George and the 2 babies.
It use to bother me why beautiful songs like this get less than 10million views, and the junk they are putting out today gets a billion views. Now I understand that it takes only a special few to understand and appreciate this kind of music
It's the same reason why people travel but eat in chain restaurants & fast food joints instead of local diners, independent restaurants, & places that serve food specific to the region they are in or the ethnicity of the people. Most people don't want to be bothered with thinking about anything & don't want to feel anything deeply. Music like this makes you both feel & think.
Statements like "tHe JuNk ThEy ArE pUtTiNg OuT tOdAy" say nothing about music and everything about how old people lose the ability to understand and appreciate the world.
Feb 2024 I still sing this lyrics to my little son it really makes me calm and when my 5yr old boy is sad immediately I sing this he gets back to normal.❤❤❤cheers Sophie🎉
Jesus is the Way the truth, the life to eternity..A short account of my full Testimony: It was like a living horror movie. I can recall as a child laying on my bed, I remember being petrified after a girl said that I would go to hell. I remember being up by the ceiling and I could see the bottom of my bed, but I was too afraid to look at myself. Then immediately I was in a Tunnel of white bright light travelling at a phenomenal speed heading towards something, the walls of the Tunnel were illuminating light. I thought to myself 'what's at the end of this Tunnel' And instantly in my mind I heard ‘GOD’ Then I was terrified, twice I shouted 'I want to go back' Immediately I was back on my bed as if nothing had happened. Then to my stupidity at 18 years old, everything went downhill. I got involved with crime, paganism, and the occult years ago. I saw demons manifest in a room with a witness present. They were black see-through shadows with hooded heads and they swayed from side to side as if they had no rest. Identical to the film ‘Ghost with Patrick Swayze. I called on the Lord God and they disappeared. I heard the audible voice of Jesus Christ in a thundering voice in which told me to “Fear no evil’ from another separate encounter. Even after the hearing the Lord Speak, I still rebelled against Him, such was the strong Satanic hold on me. One incident one demon growled the word ‘Yes’ After I asked it a question, and a young boy looked over and heard it. Days later I saw an open vision from the Lord in which He revealed a part of Himself to me after I cried out and pleaded that He would prove Himself, and that I never wanted to ever see the group of demons again. I started to attend Church, I left my evil life behind, and started to warn people everywhere that Jesus Christ died on the cross to save everyone from eternal torment and give them eternal life. Romans 10:9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.... So glad I know the truth, this is just a small fraction of my whole testimony. Please accept Jesus Christ as your saviour. He died and rose from the dead, to pay the penalty for our Sin and for us to escape Hell. We will all be held accountable at the judgment, either saved or condemned... I Thank God I know the truth. The Occult is real, hell is real, Satan and his demons are real, The Kingdom of Heaven is real, Jesus Christ is Lord, and demons are subject to His name. Seek Jesus and His Kingdom. My Full testimony is on other social media sites…. I still do not like shadows, neither faint whisper’s... God knows the truth of my horrendous past experiences. My wife's best friend died years ago when she was young. I told her 'Sam, you need to come to know Jesus as your Saviour’, and told her that I have a bad feeling that something bad was going to happen ' Death'. She went on the street and told everyone that I was crazy after telling her my testimony from the occult…Within weeks she consumed alcohol and because she was epileptic, she had a seizure in a bath and drowned as a result. The Lord showed me this beforehand. Also, during another incident an older man got friendly with me during church, I didn’t realise that he was gay at the time, I was younger then, and one afternoon he approached me at home and continually wanted me to pray over him. I told him ‘No Huw that’s enough’. He went into the kitchen to get a drink of water, I got on my knees and said ‘God please sort him out. Instantly he came running in, threw himself on the sofa, God gave him a vision of hell. He wept uncontrollably. I have other experiences also. Even to this day years later, I still do not like hearing faint whispers and seeing shadows. The demons were identical to the film ‘Ghost with Patrick Swayze’. Prior to my conversion to Jesus and regarding my testimony, I was a criminal. A close friend committed suicide; another friend committed murder. I gave my testimony to those in the forces, some believed. If only all did, everyone will be held accountable at the judgment of Jesus Christ and will either be saved or condemned. There is no escaping that, Jesus is the hi way to the Kingdom. He paid the penalty for all our wrongs on the cross shamefully beaten, all for what? To save us all from eternal hell. This earth has been given over, cash will end, and in the soon coming future, the mark of the beast from the Antichrist will be forced. Revelation 13 16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: 17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. 18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.
In the mid 90’s I was struck by the haunting beauty of a song I would hear being played when I was out and about shopping, etc., at shopping malls, and in supermarkets. Due to the hustle and bustle, and background noise, could never catch the name...Over 20 years later....I am in a supermarket, hear the song being played on a retro-music station, and manage to catch a couple lines. Googled it, and here I am! I am blubbering (proudly) like a baby, as I experience this stunningly beautiful video. Thank you.
When I was a teenager, I caught a glimpse of this song by Sophie and fell in love with the tune. For years I tried to locate it because I couldn't remember the lyrics and I didn't speak English. But tonight I got it! Thank you for this melody that appeared in my life when I was happy and didn't know it.
The year is 1998. You’re in 7th grade but you’re home for a week sick with the flu. You sleep most of the time. Tv playing Dawson’s creek in the background and this song plays as you drift off to sleep. Life is good.
Lifes not that good. Your introduced to algebra and already start having crushes in pe while running laps. You work on your looks and style so you can be ready to make moves on girls.
I was 19 in 1998. And I was truly experiencing the real world for the first time. I'm proud to say I know what the world was like as an adult pre-9/11. I was working 3rd shift all the time during this year and This song played alot during the 3rd shift hours of factory night life. They also played alot of 80's music on that channel but it worked nicely for those nights. And many a morning I would get off work humming this tune stopping by the gas station and picking up a six pack of Busch light tall boys and a 24oz of Molsen Canadian because that beer just made me think like I was drinking from dried maple leaves. Had a very autumn feel to it! Even back then this song had a heavy feel of Nostalgia but these days its of years long past but also not so long ago. Thanks for the beautiful memories to this song Sophie!! I'll always love your music wherever or whenever I am.
Somehow the bad music video and her acting makes the song even more beautiful! Edit: Is the left glove a tribute to the Jackson family,, since this really sounds like it could be one of Janet's songs?
For some reason this song makes me think of my mom as well. Going to Burlington coat factory with me and my sisters shopping with my mom in the 90s and hiding in the coat racks.
You felt like springtime on this February morning In a courtyard, birds were singing your praise I'm still recalling things you said To make me feel all right I carry them with me today Now as I lay me down to sleep This I pray That you will hold me dear Though I'm far away I'll whisper your name Into the sky And I will wake up happy I wonder why I feel so high Though I am not above the sorrow Heavy-hearted 'til you call my name And it sounds like church bells Or the whistle of a train on a Summer evening I want to meet you barefoot, barely breathing As I lay me down to sleep This I pray That you will hold me dear Though I'm far away I'll whisper your name Into the sky And I will wake up happy As I lay me down to sleep This I pray That you will hold me dear Though I'm far away I'll whisper your name Into the sky And I will wake up happy It's not too near for me Like a flower, I need the rain Thought it's not clear to me Every season has its change And I will see you when the sun comes out again As I lay me down to sleep This I pray That you will hold me dear Though I'm far away I'll whisper your name Into the sky And I will wake up happy Oh-oh, as I lay me down to sleep This I pray That you will hold me dear Though I'm far away I'll whisper your name Into the sky And I will wake up happy I wonder why Mm, the sun comes out again When the sun comes out again When the sun comes out again When the sun comes out Oh, the sun comes out again When the sun comes out again Mm, comes out, comes out Oh, wake up happy 'Cause I pray
I was 21 and working at a long gone men's clothing store in the mall called J. Riggings. I remember many days and nights during the spring and summer of 1995, singing along to it under my breath while folding clothes and setting ads. Doesn't seem like much of a memory of anything important, but I liked the how this song playing softly in the background made something that was mundane and predictable feel like a quiet moment of introspection and happiness, if only for a few brief minutes.
Funny how the mind works eh? Everytime I hear this or Amy Grant's "Every Heartbeat", it reminds me of shopping begrudgingly at the mall with my mom. Hated it at the time, wonderful memory now.
This song always reminds me of my dearly departed mother. Though she wrote this for her father after he passed, I can understand every word of the song. I honestly think of her every day. I'm still recalling all the things you used to say, to make me feel aright, I carry them with me. Perfect wording. I love you, mom, and thank you, Sophie.
Oh dayim bruh I can't play this around the brothers coz they be like, bruh " was that shiz you playing and I'll be like, chill bruh this my shiz when you ain't around like what you doing here bruh ain't you spose to be somewhere right now lol 🤘😎 Not all us holmies listen to this but I do! Gives me a peace of mind💯
Then you forgot and it pops up when you with the boys and the guys are like dude wtf...I love this song. Now you are all men and respect each other and cry together cause shits hard. But you don't talk about it cause you got each other.
This song takes me back to the mid-'90s when my best friend who used to live across the creek would come over for sleepovers, we would watch VHS movies every Friday night and over-analyze everything about the world using English words that we shouldn't even know at 15. Things were really good until we started to grow up and have feelings for each other. It became such a mess that we got together and broke up twice within a year. To heal her heart she started seeing our mutual best friend. They are still together to this day, while I'm here on youtube reminiscing about the best and worst times of my life which was the 90s.
I lost my partner to an accident 22 years ago. I was driving and this song was playing on the radio at the time of the accident. I've never moved on, never married again. And i always come here to find solace. Rest well my love.
It is not often when we are blessed with a love so pure and powerful that it grounds us, never able to fly above the skies of a blissful paradise. Find comfort in that you were so fortunate to have found such a wonderful companion; one to have shared each other's time with. May the memories of your time together bring you peace and comfort.
First heard this song in FM stations, I think during 1997, I was still 15 yrs old. Knew the title of the song only in 2008 when I saw this official video and from that year until now 2023 I would visit this video once in a while just to relax and reminisce the life, all the memories and feelings during 90's. Personally, this is one the greatest songs ever created.
Some musicians deserves a seat on everyone's table, these people calms alot of souls, memories flipping around, music taking me back where i belong ooooh Sophie ,this cools me down whenever i think about my dad, my gone fiance 😢 i will always carry your hearts with me ,so broken 💔 inside but we move
These were the days when you only want to listen to the radio during weekends and wait for the top 10 songs and talk about it at school the next day. No phones, no ipad, no internet, no netflix, just a simple life, chillin. Damn I miss the 90s.
But... people definitely had the internet when this came out. And instead of wasting time watching Netflix, you just wasted time watching TV and thousands of commercials.
@@t.n.3819 Nope, not the same. You didn’t sit in front of the TV all day long, you went out, you did stuff, you lived, you connected to people and there wasn’t the whole internet world in your pocket that you just needed to check. And gosh that was good. So good.
I remember being crazy about this song when it first came out! I would watch this music video on MTV early in the morning. The nostalgia this brings me hurts my heart. Timeless treasure ♥️
"watch this music video on MTV early in the morning" .... THAT brought me back so much nostalgia as well!!! I'll be willing to bet you could've included "while getting ready for school" to the end of it! :)
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Underplayed? No offense, and I love the heck out of this song, but when it first came out, just about every single radio station played this literally 10 times per hour lol ....it definitely was NOT underplayed lol
I used to listen to this song and i remember i wrote the lyrics and posted it on my closet door. 1995, there's no you tube or spotify then. I always get emotional and excited at the same time everytime i hear this on the radio. What a lovely tune as always. Makes me reminisce my younger years. 😊 now it's on repeat on my spotify. I'm 47 years old btw and still belting out this song on my car and my kids face are in awe 😊 now i dedicate this song to my late father whom i dearly miss ❤ still a lovely song sung by a lovely lady.
This song brought light to me during a very dark time in my life. My grandmother passed suddenly in 2006 after celebrating her 56th birthday. She was interred on a warm February morning, and after I came home from the funeral this song played on a random playlist. I was 19 at the time and hadn't heard the song in years; I cried like a baby. Coincidence or not, it was comfort that I needed.
Yes Dawson's Creek was the best! I miss the music of the 90's. I recently moved to Wilmington where Dawson's Creek waa fimed. I am still finding filming spots and get super excited lol!! Such a fan girl!
This is one of my all time favorite songs. It always makes me think of my wonderful grandmother. She's been gone for a while but I always escaped to her. She loved birds, loved to cook, and loved her family. She seemed to naturally do the kind and correct thing. Thanks Sophie for a piece of art that allows me to feel that again.
I was in high school choir during my freshman year…. My choir teacher wanted all of her students to perform a song in front of the class to sing…. A lot of girls sang songs of artists that they enjoyed at that time…. I sang this song in front of my class nervously… this song means a lot to me…. I hold this song dear to my heart. Thank you Sophie Hawkins!!!
I've always loved this song. It always filled me with hope, joy and zen. Apparently I only listened to part of the lyrics, as I never would have guessed it was supposed to be a hopeful song about mourning. I've always loved the lines "It felt like springtime on that February morning" and "I will see you when the sun comes out again." What an artist.
Adding this song on my daughter's profile. I have brain cancer and I want to leave little bread crumbs so both of my angels know I'm always there. 82 baby here lmao so I just love Sofie. I'm always here for every step and I couldn't be any more proud and so thankful to have not only met you and birthed you both but I got to hold your hands as long as I could.
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This is for my sister, Valerie, who passed away 5 weeks ago. I miss you so much Valerie 💔
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Reminds me of my son. I lost him 11 years ago..I will always keep loving him. ❤love never dies
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I lost my mother this March.
@@rjpoetry3319 Trop désolée, mes condoléances 😢🙏
I'm so very sorry.
Sinto muito pela sua perda 😢
At 54 years old I remember when this song came out and still beautiful today and I wish they made more beautiful songs like this ❤️💛
song from a different era
I’m listening to Sophie B Hawkins As I Lay Me Down early June 2024
I’m listening to Sophie B Hawkins As I Lay Me Down mid June 2024
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Me too 🎶
My little daughter died January 31st, 1996...I held her for six hours as she struggled. When we left the hospital, it was February 1st. When my husband started the car...this song began playing on the radio. ⭐️
She's with the angels. Tragic for you both. RIP.
@@michaelstubbs5191 She was my littlest angel. Of all my children.
I made a very harsh decision (though). No pity for me. Only for her.
Katie Darlin was already challenged...with cystic fibrosis. As she developed small bleeding spots on her brain....cerebral palsy...I made the unthinkable choice...during a medical emergency. “Let Katie fight. If she survives this...we will intervene forever.” Katie didn’t survive. I held her for six hours, begging her to come back to me. Every time her heart stopped. And her heart would begin again. Until the nurses asked me to stop crying and begging. “We love Katie, too...next time her heart stops...don’t cry...tell her it’s okay and you are okay.” When I did as they asked? Katie darlin’s heart didn’t beat again.
She was two months old. And was velvet, with bright and kind, kind eyes. Before the spots on her brain came. Then she began flinching, if her feet were touched...and the spark faded from her eyes.
Some call me “hard” or “cruel” for making that call. But I left it up to baby girl, for how her life would be. Oxygen for sure...wheelchair, definitely. And I would not have to ability to provide this, without government help. So I asked her to fight. One time. Before we committed to a long road, that would (probably) lead to a death by age thirteen or fourteen. If we were going to beg for money, from the state? She would have to fight HARDER. Does that make sense?
I'm so sorry for your loss and your sorrow. May you get through with memories and songs of comfort.
No coincidence
So sorry for your loss.❤
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My mom passed away when I was 10 years old, I’m now 39. I was February 5th, this song was played at her funeral. I always play this song when I’m really down and want to feel close to her. It always brings me to tears
Sorry bro
Sending you peace
I feel your pain
How did she die an illness 🤒?
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RUclips is the closest thing to a time machine we have. 90s music transports us all back to simpler times. This is one good takeaway that modern technology has provided to us.
I feel like I’m in the mid 90s listening 👂 to these songs from 1996
Exactly why I make the videos that I make! 😉- totally agree with you by the way !
agree. 90s was the best decade. 80s as well. I grew up in the 90s, experienced the transition to the digital era. 90s was the decade of freedom for me. eurodance forever. 90s movies and music was the best of the best. Golden decade. I wish every 2nd month would be like in the 90s....
I like tacos
Well said! Agreed!
We danced down a dark lane to this song in Savannah, Georgia. He held my hand and we ran through the hot, humid night. Fireflies and Spanish Moss. The twinkle of the gas light lamp posts. It started to rain and we smashed our prom shoes into puddles. Our wet clothes like a second skin, we pulled each other close and slow danced on cobblestones as we heard the last few minutes of this song filling up the Southern night sky...now I slow dance alone, and send this song out to the heavens to find him....thank you, Sophie. You were the perfect soundtrack to the last great beat of our hearts.
Beautifully expressed
Such a beautiful and poetic discription. Thanks for sharing.
this made me tear up
how poetic
Thanks for sharing
This song always takes me back to my childhood in the 90s when everything made sense.
New Damage this was my high school days and they 90’s was such a great era
@@editorodriguez6554 It would have been cool to have gone to high school then I bet.
New Damage for sure the 90’s has the best type of music best shows sports was great in the 90’s, just a great era to have lived
Grunge Music. Michael Jordan at his peak. Less military conflict. Equality achieved.
So true.
The year is 1998, you're 18, waiting at the popular shopping mall for your mates to join you, then this song plays in the mall and you start thinking about the girl you love. 23 years after, you're now married to that girl with two kids. Life is not easy but I'm thankful to God for everything He has given. Thankful to be a live and to have experienced the 80s and 90s.
This song still plays in American malls trust me
I’m sorry, I read your last name wrongly
omg such a good paragraph...
I was 18 in 1998 hanging with my friends in India and listening to this song on MTV
Damn, exactly me and my wife and our kids, everything ❤
This song fills me with alot of memories and emotions. May everyone who is hurting find peace.
My mom passed in February of 2022. I heard this song today and I got so emotional I cried.
Copy that. Beautiful song.
@@georgetallabas9404 everything will be fine.
@@gabecollett very nice song
Amen
2024 and even at 30 years old, this song is as fresh as anything.
I’m listening to Sophie B Hawkins near the end of January 2024
0:26
Sophie was about 30 back then (born in 1964) so literally half a lifetime ago.
I’m 41 years old this October and am 10 and a half years older than you 😊
I am 65
you are a baby still
I’m here because I grew up listening to Sophie in the 90’s. I was a teenager then. Now I’m a 38 year old man and the world as I perceive it, is a very different place. I have very fond memories of the music from this time. I still listen to all those great songs today. Thank God for all the artists, the musicians, the writers, poets, actors, directors, photographers and dancers. Through you all, we collectively have the opportunity to experience the many shades and nuances of life in such a visceral way.
.. And now you are a succesful writer, in a creative field? They way you write, its so beautiful.
Beautifully put 😊
@@chrisgooi Thank you for the kind words Chris. ❤️
@@arineteg9752 Thank you Arinete. ❤️
Wow...what a great message
She wrote this song about her daddy. She missed him after he passed. You can see in a few parts she looks like she wants to cry. This is for my 6y/o daughter. Daddy loves you babygirl!💝
It is true Lyle
I noticed that as well
I have always associated this song with my father who passed away in 1995 and only found out later it was written for her father.
Now I’m trying to hold back tears.
Haha...gayyyy!!
I love reading the comments people have posted here. So many sad stories, but this song really seems to give people a sense of happiness in their sadness or a sweet memory of a loved one. It has meant many different things to me over the decades. It's been my favorite song for almost 30 years now.
Music like this helps me escape reality. I miss the 90s. Life was so much simpler.
70’s 80’s 90’s was so much better than now 🥰
omg best statement ever.. so freakin true... this new age stuff is just not the same
Make me flashback when i was still kid
Me too, i was a young teen when I fell inlove. With this song 💜 the 90s we’re great
Life was so simple and fun back then....😊
i love how innocent it sounds like a lullaby... 90s innocence never again
Very innocent indeed. .....
sandy haqqy Sophie Hawkins has a beautiful voice and very attractive. I love her mellow tone which very calming and relaxing. I wonder whatever became of her.
i agree with you..
My exact words right after hearing this song again
You are right, but the previous generation said the same thing about the 1970s and before them the 50s.
I dont think Sophie B realized just what a classic she created.. I love this song forever..
It will endure with real music lovers always.
She wrote it for her dad, in his memory
...because it came from the deepest core of her heart, thats why this song is simply timeless.
@RM, I never knew that. I feel like I first heard it in a movie from the 90s & loved it or maybe a tv show, not really sure, then would hear it on the radio every so often. I haven’t heard it in a while though.
One hit wonder...but it will always remain a wonder. 😍
Almost 30 years later...and this song still resonates with me.
Same
As I remembered Sophie Wrote this song for her father who died from cancer.
Always 🫶🏻❤️🔥💜
This song was made 13 years ago
❤❤❤❤ me too
A song like this is quiet loving and peaceful! Thank you Sophie B Hawkins!
I miss the simplicity of life, no cellphones, no social media.. I so missed the 90's, the last great decade for me.
True
💜
I agree
Exactly. Miss it so much
Thé 90s are everything...I still get grungy daily...lol
This music reminds me of when I was little, I would like to go back and live the 90's
Sophie's passion in this video is inspiring. She must have loved her father very much.
Working the nightshift as a young nurse, this song came on the radio playing softy in the nurse's station while we did out paperwork. So long ago, but ill never forget how i felt that night...❤
I Dedicate this song for my Brother who died when i was 8, he was 15had car accident, i hope that in other world i recognize him and we gonna play together once again
Sinto muito pela morte do seu irmão 😢 Que Deus console você e toda a sua família
Appreciate this song even more. No auto tune, no drama, no whining and no vocal acrobatics. Just a sweet voice, meaningful lyrics and pleasant instrumentation.
The very next year Cher would kickstart the auto tune trend. '94 was the last bumper year.
@@thegreathadoken6808 it's a shame auto tune went from a gimmick to a tool then to mainstream. Vocal acrobatics as well, Mariah and Celine for instance, but so carried away with the riffy shrieking and screeching. What ever is considered artistry today isn't for me. Not a slam, just preference.
And that’s cool too. Don’t need to shit on one genre to appreciate another.
i agree 100 %
It’s technically called “melismatic ululations.” Look it up.
I searched for this sing for years because I only remembered the tune with no words. It was one of my favorites as a child. I was so happy when it all of a sudden popped up on a Spotify Playlist.
I listen to it everyday since😊
😮happy for you dear
🎶🎶 I'm 🎶🎶 glad 🎶🎶 you 🎶🎶 found 🎶🎶 it. 🎶🎶
I had no idea who this artist was at the time, but when I first heard this song, I had to find out who sang it and where I could get it.
Yeah me too! It was my favourite song when I was 6/7
I finally found this because I remembered the chorus, played it on guitar, then I recognized it sounds like the intro to "mirrors" by justin timberlake. Looked it up and miraculously found it. I can't imagine having this ear worm for months!
It is 2023 and this song still sends shivers down my system. My childhood memories, shepherding livestock across bushes of the slopes of Mt.Elgon. May anyone going through hardships in this life get everlasting peace.
This songs brings back childhood memories😊
@patrickbutaki , with your permission,
Thank you , YOU helped me more than I could ever imagine reading your delicate and kind comment "... May anyone going through hardships in this life get everlasting peace "
( I am sorry for my broken English ) 🙏
Wishing you all the best .
Thanks my fellow Ugandan brother
2:14 2:14
One of the most beautiful songs of all time. Great talent. She's timeless. Eternal.
totally beautiful one of my guilty pleasures!
the song make me feel happy, even at office.
Stephen McArthur ...yes absolutely hauntingly beautiful.
Community reminded me this song exists. I think it's been stuck in the back of my head ever since I was a kid in the 90s.
same! it played on the radio growing up and I never knew the artist or title and so it bugged me for YEARS and I damn near cried when that episode came on lol
Gordon will wake up a geeten
Ha!likes floweer
Just shut up wiffee you mean green did a green like Gordon Atkins did mre,? Who's the old dude in Kim's frame?brain Austin green.saved by the Bell for Jenny bell likey grandma abilula weaver
Thank God for the reminder! The more the 90s are pieced together the better life is!
Anyone in 2024
☝🏼
I’m listening to Sophie B Hawkins As I Lay Me Down early May 2024
0:51
Yes❤
Same here. She's truly Majestic in every way.
Yes- I had this song in my head last night before bed. ☺️
Prettiest song of the 90's.
Love this song. It's about her Dad. So so bittersweet. I get it, always reminded me of my father too. RIP Daddy.
I miss those beautiful days back in 90s..
Agree.
I love the simplicity and beauty of this song.
Batang Pembo 90's Makati squad those were the days of our lives ❤️
Same...90s was such a great decade.
Things were different back then. I remember.
Easily one of the loveliest records ever made. It's hunting and heartfelt. Cheers, Sophie! ❤
Her best song by far. And the last few years up to the late 90s that music remained good.
Very true
@TuanNguyen-dn9mb you just stopped looking, I promise you. There is some killer music out there, it's just not what multinational conglomerates are pushing on us
Takes me back to simpler times as a child. What I would give to go back and live in those precious moments.
Reminds me of the time when my mother took me to my local mall as a toddler, strolling pass by the carousel, passing by the arcades, and browsing the retail outlets . Simpler, peaceful times.
I lost my husband in Dec. 2020. I forgot how touching this song is! He and I were married the year before this song came out. I never dreamed I would be a grieving widow when I found this song again. I have it on cassette tape. Thank you, Sophie for a beautiful song.
Sorry for your lost
@@beking4 well there are various spellings of the name. My husband had the Coat of Arms and is of Scottish descent. There are Spires in my area that I am not related to. It is a possibility we could be though. 😊
@@bethspires3466 I descend from the Spiers family that came to KY at an early date from Maryland. Cool to know they may have come from Scotland. I take comfort in the beauty of the Sophie B. Hawkins song too. It gives me a certain peace.
My thoughts are with you, and all young widows. I am losing my husband to cancer and we are both young. It's heartbreaking and I cannot imagine the pain to come.
@@amazonviking83 So very sorry. It is the worst pain I have ever experienced. I miss him every single day of my life. My prayers are with you for peace and strength.
One morning I was singing this song my husband asked me what I was singing. I played it for him…it was the first time I saw him smile sconce he was diagnosed with cancer.
When I was a teenager I liked this song, didn’t really think about the lyrics and thought it was a love song.
Somehow it’s come up for me now, a little over a month since my wife died completely unexpectedly, and I realize what it’s actually about. 💔 ❤️🩹
Im sorry for ur loss...my husband passed unexpected too; I know what ur going through 🌹
…when the sun comes out again…
It will, dear one
I agree, it’s taken on it’s intended meaning after losing my dad. Beautiful, hopeful, nostalgic song. I’m sorry for your loss 🙏
Mind blown same thing. I was today's years old when i realized this was a song about grieving
In the nineties, I was quite ill with a heart problem and I thought I was going to die. I was scared of leaving my son and I used to lie in my bed and listen to this, and would get a feeling like I was ready to go. Obviously I didn't go....but I still love this and I'm still ready. God's timing
Thank you for sharing that.
Such a beautiful song
Woow! If not for anything else, this song was written, sang n produced to shine hope in hopelessness and and ignite the spark of life in the looming darkness of death.
It was written for you. Thanks for sharing
@@benjaminwanyoike3156 very nice song
puts things in perspective...thx for sharing.
There aren't many songs that make you smile, tear up, and smother you in a blanket of peace at the same time. It's simply magical!
_ _ you SO hit the nail on the head.
I find silver springs by Fleetwood Mac to be similar :) amazing songs
ur comment is perfect, sums up just what I feel listening to this song
__ underrated comment
Here here
This song takes me back to the Tampa Bay Mall in the late 1990’s. I was around 5 years old walking around the second floor with my mom on a shopping trip. This song was softly playing over the mall sound system and I can remember those 90’s furnishings: green hall plants, white tiled porcelain flooring, and simpler forms of technology. I’m grateful to have had memories from the 20th century.
@Matthew Vargas Hold on to the memories.... I was in my mid-20s in 1995 and I remember very vividly hearing this song on the radio to and from work... so many memories!
grandes momentos mano
I heard this song plenty of times while walking downtown on lunch breaks
I was in my late 30s in the the late’90s.
This song takes me back to when my wife and eight year old daughter were alive. On June 20th, 1998 they were killed by a drunk driver who also died.
Every time I hear this song I remember 1995 when we were all still together and everything was good.
@@user-vv9np5iq7n Life can be very fragile. But it's especially cruel when at the hands of another person who is irresponsible or reckless.
I love the 90's, its so depressing that there are no more of songs like this. This style, genre, whatever; we all know what I'm talking about.
Even in her catalogue, this song is an outlier. It really is a unique beast of a composition.
When this song reaches the bridge I get shivers almost to the point of crying every time. Such a calming, beautiful, peaceful song!!
Hi Hannah🌸
music was SO much better .. its never gonna be like this again
Me too
I always liked Heidi, won't say the last name, but it would've been great to see her get beyond 19 and become a woman
Thank you Sophie for such a wonderful classic. This will surely never get old. Who is still listening with me in 2021?
I'm listening to Sophie B Hawkins As I Lay Me Down late November 2021
i;m listening
2022 here
Listening in 2022.
am here listening with u, in 2022
My hamster died to this song....he looked at me and smiled. Layed down in the sawdust while I watched on.....keeping eye contact he winked at me then passed away. Iv kept his water bottle on the mantle.....a reminder of my furry friend of two years. Rest in sawdust heaven peewee.
😂
😂
True story bros
Legend
@@TMan786I almost want to laugh, but I had hamsters before, nobody can tell me they aren't almost like cats and dogs. Still remember Julie and George and the 2 babies.
Let's show love to Sophie B hàwkins in 2024. Join me in this year. As I call you dear, you call me dear.
😂think I'm fucking thibuo......😂❤😎🥵
Tempo eh????!!! 😂 That reminds me id a glorious uproarious song in Spanish..... The sypllni stick in my head again not Sti here
Any there?
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It use to bother me why beautiful songs like this get less than 10million views, and the junk they are putting out today gets a billion views. Now I understand that it takes only a special few to understand and appreciate this kind of music
It's the same reason why people travel but eat in chain restaurants & fast food joints instead of local diners, independent restaurants, & places that serve food specific to the region they are in or the ethnicity of the people. Most people don't want to be bothered with thinking about anything & don't want to feel anything deeply. Music like this makes you both feel & think.
Yeah people will like what they want to like, but it's still pretty disappointing.
Statements like "tHe JuNk ThEy ArE pUtTiNg OuT tOdAy" say nothing about music and everything about how old people lose the ability to understand and appreciate the world.
Coz nowadays they love watching those twerking, almost naked, and so worthless songs.
I can listen to this for the next 100 years
Itai Charuka still listening l guess
ilovethissong
Itai Charuka all time classic
Amen to that...
My father passed away a month ago and going through songs I came across this so comforting x
I'm sorry for your loss. I read that Sophie wrote this song about her dad after his passing. Hugs.
My sister committed suicide 5 months ago
Sorry for your loss dear
Feb 2024 I still sing this lyrics to my little son it really makes me calm and when my 5yr old boy is sad immediately I sing this he gets back to normal.❤❤❤cheers Sophie🎉
I'm gonna try that! I have a 5 year old boy too.
2/24/24
2/24/82
My Mom says it's my "Golden Year"
I hope it's just like the "Light & Love " that this Song is All About.
Always 💜
Jesus is the Way the truth, the life to eternity..A short account of my full Testimony: It was like a living horror movie. I can recall as a child laying on my bed, I remember being petrified after a girl said that I would go to hell. I remember being up by the ceiling and I could see the bottom of my bed, but I was too afraid to look at myself. Then immediately I was in a Tunnel of white bright light travelling at a phenomenal speed heading towards something, the walls of the Tunnel were illuminating light. I thought to myself 'what's at the end of this Tunnel' And instantly in my mind I heard ‘GOD’ Then I was terrified, twice I shouted 'I want to go back' Immediately I was back on my bed as if nothing had happened. Then to my stupidity at 18 years old, everything went downhill. I got involved with crime, paganism, and the occult years ago. I saw demons manifest in a room with a witness present. They were black see-through shadows with hooded heads and they swayed from side to side as if they had no rest. Identical to the film ‘Ghost with Patrick Swayze. I called on the Lord God and they disappeared. I heard the audible voice of Jesus Christ in a thundering voice in which told me to “Fear no evil’ from another separate encounter. Even after the hearing the Lord Speak, I still rebelled against Him, such was the strong Satanic hold on me. One incident one demon growled the word ‘Yes’ After I asked it a question, and a young boy looked over and heard it. Days later I saw an open vision from the Lord in which He revealed a part of Himself to me after I cried out and pleaded that He would prove Himself, and that I never wanted to ever see the group of demons again. I started to attend Church, I left my evil life behind, and started to warn people everywhere that Jesus Christ died on the cross to save everyone from eternal torment and give them eternal life. Romans 10:9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.... So glad I know the truth, this is just a small fraction of my whole testimony. Please accept Jesus Christ as your saviour. He died and rose from the dead, to pay the penalty for our Sin and for us to escape Hell. We will all be held accountable at the judgment, either saved or condemned... I Thank God I know the truth. The Occult is real, hell is real, Satan and his demons are real, The Kingdom of Heaven is real, Jesus Christ is Lord, and demons are subject to His name. Seek Jesus and His Kingdom. My Full testimony is on other social media sites…. I still do not like shadows, neither faint whisper’s... God knows the truth of my horrendous past experiences. My wife's best friend died years ago when she was young. I told her 'Sam, you need to come to know Jesus as your Saviour’, and told her that I have a bad feeling that something bad was going to happen ' Death'. She went on the street and told everyone that I was crazy after telling her my testimony from the occult…Within weeks she consumed alcohol and because she was epileptic, she had a seizure in a bath and drowned as a result. The Lord showed me this beforehand. Also, during another incident an older man got friendly with me during church, I didn’t realise that he was gay at the time, I was younger then, and one afternoon he approached me at home and continually wanted me to pray over him. I told him ‘No Huw that’s enough’. He went into the kitchen to get a drink of water, I got on my knees and said ‘God please sort him out. Instantly he came running in, threw himself on the sofa, God gave him a vision of hell. He wept uncontrollably. I have other experiences also. Even to this day years later, I still do not like hearing faint whispers and seeing shadows. The demons were identical to the film ‘Ghost with Patrick Swayze’. Prior to my conversion to Jesus and regarding my testimony, I was a criminal. A close friend committed suicide; another friend committed murder. I gave my testimony to those in the forces, some believed. If only all did, everyone will be held accountable at the judgment of Jesus Christ and will either be saved or condemned. There is no escaping that, Jesus is the hi way to the Kingdom. He paid the penalty for all our wrongs on the cross shamefully beaten, all for what? To save us all from eternal hell. This earth has been given over, cash will end, and in the soon coming future, the mark of the beast from the Antichrist will be forced. Revelation 13 16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.
Beautiful song!!! 😍😍
Who's listening in 2019?
Still listening to love Sophie b Hopkins shes a great great singer we need more of these songs just sad where music has gone 😢 miss the 90s
And it sounds like church bells or the whistle of a twain
Just played it.
Happy Valentine's Day!!!! 💝
Lucia Reynal ...Me! Me! Took me 20+ years to finally find it, but well worth the wait!
In the mid 90’s I was struck by the haunting beauty of a song I would hear being played when I was out and about shopping, etc., at shopping malls, and in supermarkets. Due to the hustle and bustle, and background noise, could never catch the name...Over 20 years later....I am in a supermarket, hear the song being played on a retro-music station, and manage to catch a couple lines. Googled it, and here I am! I am blubbering (proudly) like a baby, as I experience this stunningly beautiful video. Thank you.
For me it was at the farmers' market. I hadn't been able to find out the song for decades.
@@samuelducanada.....oh ok.... that’s totally cool....this song 🎶 is so powerful and triggers emotions
When I was a teenager, I caught a glimpse of this song by Sophie and fell in love with the tune. For years I tried to locate it because I couldn't remember the lyrics and I didn't speak English. But tonight I got it! Thank you for this melody that appeared in my life when I was happy and didn't know it.
Where is music like this today.?? Like wtf happend? Really though
This is a hit.
The year is 1998. You’re in 7th grade but you’re home for a week sick with the flu. You sleep most of the time. Tv playing Dawson’s creek in the background and this song plays as you drift off to sleep. Life is good.
So good
Lifes not that good. Your introduced to algebra and already start having crushes in pe while running laps. You work on your looks and style so you can be ready to make moves on girls.
Algebra was easy it was the talking to girls part that was hard
I'm only here because I was watching Dawson's Creek on netflix and heard the song and I went wow this takes me back lol.
I was 19 in 1998. And I was truly experiencing the real world for the first time. I'm proud to say I know what the world was like as an adult pre-9/11.
I was working 3rd shift all the time during this year and This song played alot during the 3rd shift hours of factory night life. They also played alot of 80's music on that channel but it worked nicely for those nights. And many a morning I would get off work humming this tune stopping by the gas station and picking up a six pack of Busch light tall boys and a 24oz of Molsen Canadian because that beer just made me think like I was drinking from dried maple leaves. Had a very autumn feel to it! Even back then this song had a heavy feel of Nostalgia but these days its of years long past but also not so long ago. Thanks for the beautiful memories to this song Sophie!! I'll always love your music wherever or whenever I am.
Miss those days. No cellphones, no internet. Just a simple life. Miss the 80s and 90s.
Me too*
Me too and I never even lived them I wish I had 😔 so different from the world we live in now
@@LifewithKat2002 yeah Im not fond of todays day*
It was a different time indeed.
Me too i hate technologie
This melody has been stuck in my head for the last five years. It's been a long perilous journey but I've finally found it
Because she doesn’t say “as I lay me down to sleep” enough times for you to catch on to the title…
Yes, same here! I am not an English native speaker and I have finally catch the lyrics for the first time in 20
years! I love this song so much.
I had completely forgotten about it until it popped up in my recommendations.
Was playing piano just now and the melody stuck in my head and it brought me here humming it for google to figure out what it was, lol
Similar here. After months I found it with words "hold me dear"
my spiritual teacher said, when he heard the words , it sounded like a song to God. I agree...beautiful!
Yessss! That’s how I hear it too! 🩵🙏🙌🏼
My mother used to play her music in the 90s and I always think about my mom and the times in her car when I was a little kid. Rest in peace mom.
💜
Somehow the bad music video and her acting makes the song even more beautiful! Edit: Is the left glove a tribute to the Jackson family,, since this really sounds like it could be one of Janet's songs?
❤️
For some reason this song makes me think of my mom as well. Going to Burlington coat factory with me and my sisters shopping with my mom in the 90s and hiding in the coat racks.
@@Zakc1189 u hid in the coat racks? Lol wow. Me n my sisters did the same thing in the 90s at like k-mart and stuff...literally scaring customers 🤣
One of the most beautiful songs i have ever heard
You felt like springtime on this February morning
In a courtyard, birds were singing your praise
I'm still recalling things you said
To make me feel all right
I carry them with me today
Now as I lay me down to sleep
This I pray
That you will hold me dear
Though I'm far away
I'll whisper your name
Into the sky
And I will wake up happy
I wonder why
I feel so high
Though I am not above the sorrow
Heavy-hearted 'til you call my name
And it sounds like church bells
Or the whistle of a train on a Summer evening
I want to meet you barefoot, barely breathing
As I lay me down to sleep
This I pray
That you will hold me dear
Though I'm far away
I'll whisper your name
Into the sky
And I will wake up happy
As I lay me down to sleep
This I pray
That you will hold me dear
Though I'm far away
I'll whisper your name
Into the sky
And I will wake up happy
It's not too near for me
Like a flower, I need the rain
Thought it's not clear to me
Every season has its change
And I will see you when the sun comes out again
As I lay me down to sleep
This I pray
That you will hold me dear
Though I'm far away
I'll whisper your name
Into the sky
And I will wake up happy
Oh-oh, as I lay me down to sleep
This I pray
That you will hold me dear
Though I'm far away
I'll whisper your name
Into the sky
And I will wake up happy
I wonder why
Mm, the sun comes out again
When the sun comes out again
When the sun comes out again
When the sun comes out
Oh, the sun comes out again
When the sun comes out again
Mm, comes out, comes out
Oh, wake up happy
'Cause I pray
Thanks
Thanks much! I was able to sing along while the video was playing.
Love this song ❤
I was 21 and working at a long gone men's clothing store in the mall called J. Riggings. I remember many days and nights during the spring and summer of 1995, singing along to it under my breath while folding clothes and setting ads. Doesn't seem like much of a memory of anything important, but I liked the how this song playing softly in the background made something that was mundane and predictable feel like a quiet moment of introspection and happiness, if only for a few brief minutes.
Sweet memories ! Where was it ?
@@maduzor1053 It was the Towne East Mall in Wichita, Ks.
Still have a J. Riggings shirt that I never returned to an old boyfriend...the shirt was a better fit ;)
That's such a lovely memory (and I used to shop at J. Riggings - that store was the jam in the 90's)!
Funny how the mind works eh? Everytime I hear this or Amy Grant's "Every Heartbeat", it reminds me of shopping begrudgingly at the mall with my mom. Hated it at the time, wonderful memory now.
I miss the 90's!!!
Ditto
Me too the 90’s was my high school days and the best time of my life
Me too
Me four. Those magical and unforgettable teen years...
This song always reminds me of my dearly departed mother. Though she wrote this for her father after he passed, I can understand every word of the song. I honestly think of her every day. I'm still recalling all the things you used to say, to make me feel aright, I carry them with me. Perfect wording. I love you, mom, and thank you, Sophie.
Same here❤😊😢(=
This song is so near to my heart because of the people I loved! I whisper their names and I wake up happy! Thanks so much for hope!
It is a good song though
beautiful song. worthy dedication to her late father
The kind of song I play when homies aren’t around. You know when I’m having a moment.
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Oh dayim bruh I can't play this around the brothers coz they be like, bruh " was that shiz you playing and I'll be like, chill bruh this my shiz when you ain't around like what you doing here bruh ain't you spose to be somewhere right now lol
🤘😎 Not all us holmies listen to this but I do! Gives me a peace of mind💯
The homies won't get it. This kind of song helps you deal with the feels.
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Then you forgot and it pops up when you with the boys and the guys are like dude wtf...I love this song. Now you are all men and respect each other and cry together cause shits hard. But you don't talk about it cause you got each other.
This song takes me back to the mid-'90s when my best friend who used to live across the creek would come over for sleepovers, we would watch VHS movies every Friday night and over-analyze everything about the world using English words that we shouldn't even know at 15. Things were really good until we started to grow up and have feelings for each other. It became such a mess that we got together and broke up twice within a year. To heal her heart she started seeing our mutual best friend. They are still together to this day, while I'm here on youtube reminiscing about the best and worst times of my life which was the 90s.
I have no words for this song. This song gets me to the bottom of my heart. It is so beautiful Sophie!!! I just love it!!!!
26 Years Later - Over a quarter of a Century later - still as refreshing as the first day it was released.!!
I lost my partner to an accident 22 years ago. I was driving and this song was playing on the radio at the time of the accident. I've never moved on, never married again. And i always come here to find solace. Rest well my love.
Wishing all the best for you
Hope you find peace. 💞
More grace to you🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸
MHSRIP 🙏🙏🙏🙏
It is not often when we are blessed with a love so pure and powerful that it grounds us, never able to fly above the skies of a blissful paradise.
Find comfort in that you were so fortunate to have found such a wonderful companion; one to have shared each other's time with.
May the memories of your time together bring you peace and comfort.
When I was 11 I thought this was corny af but at 40 I can appreciate it. Love ya Sophie ❤
Beautiful, perfect, thanks...
This I pray that those mourning a loss be comforted
Nostalgia. Song takes me back to a place when everything was good. Lord if I could go back 🙏🏽😭 much simpler time.
First heard this song in FM stations, I think during 1997, I was still 15 yrs old. Knew the title of the song only in 2008 when I saw this official video and from that year until now 2023 I would visit this video once in a while just to relax and reminisce the life, all the memories and feelings during 90's. Personally, this is one the greatest songs ever created.
Some musicians deserves a seat on everyone's table, these people calms alot of souls, memories flipping around, music taking me back where i belong ooooh Sophie ,this cools me down whenever i think about my dad, my gone fiance 😢 i will always carry your hearts with me ,so broken 💔 inside but we move
These were the days when you only want to listen to the radio during weekends and wait for the top 10 songs and talk about it at school the next day. No phones, no ipad, no internet, no netflix, just a simple life, chillin. Damn I miss the 90s.
True and song hits/book. 😊
Can relate. No free floating anxiety back in the days!
An u try to tape record it without perfect but always got the dj chiming in
But... people definitely had the internet when this came out. And instead of wasting time watching Netflix, you just wasted time watching TV and thousands of commercials.
@@t.n.3819 Nope, not the same. You didn’t sit in front of the TV all day long, you went out, you did stuff, you lived, you connected to people and there wasn’t the whole internet world in your pocket that you just needed to check. And gosh that was good. So good.
I remember being crazy about this song when it first came out! I would watch this music video on MTV early in the morning. The nostalgia this brings me hurts my heart. Timeless treasure ♥️
Denise same here!
THATS CALLED ANGYNA
"watch this music video on MTV early in the morning" .... THAT brought me back so much nostalgia as well!!! I'll be willing to bet you could've included "while getting ready for school" to the end of it! :)
No dought
Denise hurts my heart too 💔🥰
I hated this song when I was a kid. Now I actually love the song at 37.
Same! I'm 37 too. haha. We didn't know better.
Such an under rated and under played song!
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Esemkay 1 ahaha thats the reality n the sad thing about Life
Underplayed? No offense, and I love the heck out of this song, but when it first came out, just about every single radio station played this literally 10 times per hour lol ....it definitely was NOT underplayed lol
@@mommyof3_908 No, not at all....and nice glasses by the way :)
@@hirthirthirt1693 haha thank you 😏
Anybody here simply because they just love this song!?
Yep!
Oh my lord ahahahahah made me day!!!
Yes! 😁
YES!!! The lyrics and vocals are gorgeous. This and "True Romance" are my 2 fav SBH songs.
Yes 😊
Love this song. Brings back my childhood. ❤🥰😍
I used to listen to this song and i remember i wrote the lyrics and posted it on my closet door. 1995, there's no you tube or spotify then. I always get emotional and excited at the same time everytime i hear this on the radio. What a lovely tune as always. Makes me reminisce my younger years. 😊 now it's on repeat on my spotify. I'm 47 years old btw and still belting out this song on my car and my kids face are in awe 😊 now i dedicate this song to my late father whom i dearly miss ❤ still a lovely song sung by a lovely lady.
Anyone still listening in 2021? 🙋♂️🙋♀️
I am listening 2021. Hello there 👂👋😊🎶🙌🙏☺️
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Hello, Greg's here.
Yes, remembering her fantastic concert, early 90s, in Hamburg, Germany
Abed sent me here. Shirley and Annie agreeing with him sealed the deal.
Same here and to be honest it's not a great song
@@alexploration-3354 *shrugs* it’s the lesser of two evils imo, lol.
Abed is the greatest
I agreed with Abed too 😁
Same!
There's is nothing worse than losing a son or daughter, god bless you 😥
Hi Elizabeth 🌸
This song is so beautiful. Like a chirping bird on a sunny morning. ♥️✨️♥️
This song brought light to me during a very dark time in my life. My grandmother passed suddenly in 2006 after celebrating her 56th birthday. She was interred on a warm February morning, and after I came home from the funeral this song played on a random playlist. I was 19 at the time and hadn't heard the song in years; I cried like a baby. Coincidence or not, it was comfort that I needed.
Made me teary reading that.
May GOD HELP YOU be with you
God moves in various ways
Brittany Marie God Bless you I miss my Grandmother too x
Exactly what this song is about...here, it’s dedicated to her late father.
They say you can't built a time machine but id say this song comes close to taking you back to a better time
The days when music brought a golden positive shift to the soul.
@Kale - AMEN!!!
@@benjaminwanyoike3156 What a WONDERFUL Way to describe it!!
Indeed
As I whisper your name to the sky.... I will wake up happy...
Finally, I found this masterpiece!The best song I've ever heard in my whole life.
Just beautiful
dawson's creek days..❤ sad truth that there are no more songs like this nowadays.. love being a 90s baby 🙆
Utada Hikaru love me some Dawson’s Creek
Yes Dawson's Creek was the best! I miss the music of the 90's. I recently moved to Wilmington where Dawson's Creek waa fimed. I am still finding filming spots and get super excited lol!! Such a fan girl!
they just don't make this kind of music anymore!
Nothing like the 80s and 90s
This is one of my all time favorite songs. It always makes me think of my wonderful grandmother. She's been gone for a while but I always escaped to her. She loved birds, loved to cook, and loved her family. She seemed to naturally do the kind and correct thing. Thanks Sophie for a piece of art that allows me to feel that again.
I was in high school choir during my freshman year…. My choir teacher wanted all of her students to perform a song in front of the class to sing…. A lot of girls sang songs of artists that they enjoyed at that time…. I sang this song in front of my class nervously… this song means a lot to me…. I hold this song dear to my heart. Thank you Sophie Hawkins!!!
I've always loved this song. It always filled me with hope, joy and zen. Apparently I only listened to part of the lyrics, as I never would have guessed it was supposed to be a hopeful song about mourning. I've always loved the lines "It felt like springtime on that February morning" and "I will see you when the sun comes out again."
What an artist.
Adding this song on my daughter's profile. I have brain cancer and I want to leave little bread crumbs so both of my angels know I'm always there. 82 baby here lmao so I just love Sofie. I'm always here for every step and I couldn't be any more proud and so thankful to have not only met you and birthed you both but I got to hold your hands as long as I could.
1982 rules, class of 2000 right there with you. sorry to hear of your prognosis!
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I hope your daughter finds this message one day. My mom passed almost a year ago and I still pray to find little crumbs of her anywhere
I hope you are still with us. You have me crying like a baby. Sending purple light and gentle hugs... (Your screen name is haunting)