A delicate live performance of a sad song for Dutch TV, made even sadder by the last twenty seconds.
A YouTube commenter posted this Kierkegaard quote below the video, and it seems entirely fitting for Elliott.
What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so formed that when the sigh and cry pass through them, it sounds like lovely music.... And people flock around the poet and say: 'Sing again soon' - that is, 'May new sufferings torment your soul but your lips be fashioned as before, for the cry would only frighten us, but the music, that is blissful.' • Søren Kierkegaard, Either - Or
That hit me in the feels, I don't mind telling you. Figure 8 remains one of my favourite albums of all time. Thanks for sharing, Martin.
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