The first time I heard this was during the toughest day of my life. Three hours earlier I watched a friend collapse and die of a sudden heart attack during a softball game. He was only 43 and one of the best athletes on our team. I had his cell phone and knew little about his family. I kept calling numbers until someone answered and I reached his ex wife who then gave me his current wifes number. I called her to the hospital not knowing that he had died yet (they keep tight lips if your not family). When she got there she wanted me and a few others from our team who were there to go in to talk to the doctors. I figured he must still have been alive if they were letting us come back. He then proceeded to tell her he past away due to a massive heart attack. The next 15 minutes I will never forget as she cried and screamed in front of us while we stood there silent.
How does this relate to the Hamburg song.? Well after I left the hospital that evening I was emotionally spent and I recalled the keen album was out. I needed some new music to calm me. I ran to Target and found it. I listened to it on the way home and when the Hamburg song came up it was like my friend was speaking from the grave to his wife. I thought the words were so fitting that he was now in a place with this greater awareness and she was still stuck here with the selfishness of her loss and not his gain. That's what anyone would feel I think and not a criticism of her. When we lose someone we greave over our own selfishness of losing/missing that person not realizing they are in a better place.
I know that's not was the songwriter wrote about but i was able to gain an entirely different meaning from it. I'll never forgot that day or this song.
The first time I heard this was during the toughest day of my life. Three hours earlier I watched a friend collapse and die of a sudden heart attack during a softball game. He was only 43 and one of the best athletes on our team. I had his cell phone and knew little about his family. I kept calling numbers until someone answered and I reached his ex wife who then gave me his current wifes number. I called her to the hospital not knowing that he had died yet (they keep tight lips if your not family). When she got there she wanted me and a few others from our team who were there to go in to talk to the doctors. I figured he must still have been alive if they were letting us come back. He then proceeded to tell her he past away due to a massive heart attack. The next 15 minutes I will never forget as she cried and screamed in front of us while we stood there silent. How does this relate to the Hamburg song.? Well after I left the hospital that evening I was emotionally spent and I recalled the keen album was out. I needed some new music to calm me. I ran to Target and found it. I listened to it on the way home and when the Hamburg song came up it was like my friend was speaking from the grave to his wife. I thought the words were so fitting that he was now in a place with this greater awareness and she was still stuck here with the selfishness of her loss and not his gain. That's what anyone would feel I think and not a criticism of her. When we lose someone we greave over our own selfishness of losing/missing that person not realizing they are in a better place.
I know that's not was the songwriter wrote about but i was able to gain an entirely different meaning from it. I'll never forgot that day or this song.