This one’s perhaps a bit dark and depressing, but addreses a common issue amongt seniors - isolation and loneliness:
3 Likes
Good work, but, yes, too depressing for me.
***
The issues mentioned in the song are very real to the average working class senior (70+).
My mother lived to 92. All her friends were dead. All her brothers and sisters were dead. She lived in a block of flats designed for old people. All the people who lived in the block when she moved in, and had made friends with - dead.
For the last 5 years of her life she was house-bound. The only visitors were nurses and carers, and a volunteer from a charity that took her out in a wheel chair once a week to ASDA.
I lived about 200 miles away, but I visited every couple of months.
I was 68 when she died, and have my own “getting old” issues.
***
When I used to drive a bus, I’d get a pensioner get on, show me their bus pass and then start chatting about the weather or some such. I always let them ramble on, as I knew that I might be the only person they talk to that day/week.
3 Likes
I do several months of solitude/isolation every year when my wife returns to her home country to care for her elderly father. It was during one of these 3.5 month stretches, earlier this year when the idea for the song was born.
1 Like
Very cool. I am your latest YouTube subscriber #333. I will be jamming some electric guitar leads over your track tonight!
-J.D.
1 Like
Hi Ian,
there’s a true beauty to this song. You’ve captured the essence of the theme in the music as much as the lyric.
All the best
Jonathan
1 Like
Thanks as always Jonathan! 