Tom Rosenthal - My Life is a Song For You (Official Video)

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Camera & Lighting Trainee:
Dylan Gillah

Colourist:
Ciaran O’Brien

Participants:
Natasha Baiguerra
Flora Baker
Tilly Conolly
Julia Fresco
Michelle Gialanze
Lucy Hulatt
Gemima Hull
Amy Niven
Heeyon Park
Carol Parradine
Nego True
Ana Webb
Stephen Wood

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LYRICS :
I don't think I could sing this song to you
Hold my lips and power through
Think about a different day

I don't think I could do this without tears
Pick a moment, fly the years
What will there be left to say?

Oh my life is a song for you
Oh my life is a song for you

I don't think I could hide you in my mind
All those questions left behind
Answers in forgotten dreams

I don't think I could lead it like you lead
Read the books that you once read
Back in other lives

Oh you would hate this to be sad
The moments we've had
And I've just found out that life is a goddamn miracle
And the ending is a song
And there are a life time of words that I could say
But I've got none

I don't think I could love you any more
Take a minute feel it soar
I have got this till I'm gone

And if there is a light that tumbles through
How could it just not be you?
Hiding in the sun

Oh you would hate this to be sad
The moments we've had
And I've just found out that life is a goddamn miracle
And the ending is a song
And there are a life time of words that I could say
But I've got none

I don't think I could sing this song to you
Hold my lips and power through
Think about a different day

Oh my life is a song for you
Oh my life is a song for you

[annaa.]

Love how also bertie puts his fathers shoes on the piano

[celestemadden]

Bertie and Tom are the dream team, this was so beautiful

[songbirdellen]

Understated and stunning. What a masterpiece. Bringing together everyone's shared experience of grief and turning it into art to honour those lost and show how really they are all still with us. Cried from beginning to end <3

[biancar]

'my dad was and my dad is'
what a powerful line in the context of this song! perfect match.

[aydinnasirzadeh]

Tom and his art deserve more recognition for sure. Though I low-key feel so lucky to have his songs on my phone without letting the other people know him <3

[clairef]

10 years ago, my boyfriend and I decided to split. We stayed together from our 18 to 28 years old. We still loved each other, but we were not sure how to continue. Few weeks after, 13 september 2010, he didn’t come to his work. I was called, and I found him, alone, in what was our flat, dead from a heartattack.
Today I am a mum, I am in love with my husband. Nevertheless, I still read his letters and try to live the best I can.
Thanks Tom for being able to capture so well in words what is hidden in our hearts. See you in Paris next week.

[schmoyoho]

who’s chopping onions in this room, which is also dusty, and also is covered in cat hair, which i am allergic to 😭👏👏💖💖

[midori]

I'm already in tears. I can hear the words.

[rachelsophiexoxo]

This made me miss my Nana so much. She was this incredible cook and baker and she made clothes and raised 7 boys and ran a farm and drove a Land Rover without power steering! I wasted my time with her, the things I so desperately want to master now, she could have taught me. The cooking and the sewing and the making bread every day from scratch. My mum told me I had inherited her intuition when I cook and I cried into the pans on the stove. I have her apron and her salt pot with the little wedge of cork cut out the lid to fit a spoon in. Every time I add salt, I think of her.

[psychedelicphilosopher]

You, and everything that you are, will be okay. Breathe, rest, take care of yourself.

[adeline-music]

"and I just found out that life is a goddamn miracle" you truly never know how wonderful something until it is gone

[askingdads]

At 1:40 when he says, "thanks dad, " and smiles I get choked up in the best of ways. I am dad and I feel such pride for his father💛

[Susp]

I lost one of my dearest friends almost five years ago, she was only 22. Today it's her birthday and this song really touched me. I see her in every ballerina, in every leaf that floats and I think that she is always with me. We should talk more often about anorexia.

[emeliasoderlund]

People coming together and creating something beautiful out of something sad. Let's do more of that! x

[negarfard]

"I don't think I could do this without tears" indeed.

[jimenabvo]

This is gorgeous I lost my grandma a year ago & she was literally my second mother & it feels like she died a week ago the grief is real & I don’t know that the pain is going to go but instead i like to say thanks that I met her. I’m so grateful that I had her as my grandmother

[agnesgabriele]

My mom is sick. She has had alcohol psychosis since I was born and has been shouting at me day after day, calling me the devil until she moved out.
Since then I've seen her occasionally. Yesterday was the last time in a year. It was wonderful. I was crying in her arms in the evening and we were talking about all this. That she knows that she was sick and still is. This knowledge cannot be taken for granted. And this morning she yelled at me again and said that I should go home now. It's the same every time.
A message just came from her about how proud she was of me and that she had a guilty conscience.
Shit how much I love her
This song makes me miss the old times so bad, when she was healthy, caring and playing with me

[Ginger-Honey-Tea]

My grandpa died 10 days ago. It still feels unreal and I miss him terribly. He was such a great person and an Inspiration. I am glad that I knew him.

[maximilandriel]

My grandfather loved to travel... he worked so damn much his whole life. He never spoke that much... but it always was thoughtful when he did. I always thought he never loved me as much as my big sister cause he always traveled with her instead of me. Then there was my 18 Birthday and then christmas... I got a letter from him with an invitation for travelling with him. 3 months after Christmas he died... and when I was in that far far away country I was sure he was there with me and when I think to much about it I start to cry again. Your Music does something to me.. it's good I think. Thank you for your music ♡

[emilylw]

I've been fortunate enough that throughout my 18 years of life I have never experienced a death of any loved ones yet. Its something that quite honestly terrifies me because I know that any moment could be the last with the people I love. Death has always terrified me as well since I don't believe in an afterlife, so death truly will be the end in my mind. Even with all of this, this song helps me feel the emotions and prep for the inevitable that I know will have to come. Your music never fails to bring emotion out of me and I love that.