FIRST TIME HEARING Mike + The Mechanics - The Living Years

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[jimmeltonbradley]

The singer, Paul Carrack is a one of those truly great British rock singers who has never really recieved the recognition he deserves.

[jwhiteuk]

All you lucky people who still have a go see him today and tell him you love him!

[tomhedges]

My dad died in 2006 and my sister rang me to give me the news. i dropped everything, jumped into the car to make the 100mile journey to support my mother. Just 10 minutes into the journey this came on the radio. I was in floods of tears driving, even though i had had a brilliant and loving relationship with my father. Every time I hear this I am back in my car in 2006!

[rkgator]

If you don't shed a tear while listening to this you are either not listening or don't have a heart.

[kingfisher_man]

I've grown up listening to this song. Yet 40 years on, it still has me in tears.

[TheLastCrumb.]

Wow, I'm 47 and in tears from this song. I'm going out right now to tell my dad I love him.

[jaidee]

I was adopted by my grandparents, I never met my father and was abandoned by my mother. In 1985 I was serving in the army in Germany, I was called to the regimental HQ and handed a telegram. Before digital comms existed telegrams were too expensive for most people so were always treated seriously. My father/grandfather had died earlier that day. I was given compassionate leave within 5 minutes and later that day I was driving home from Germany to the UK to go to his funeral.
There was a radio station in Germany for the British Forces call BFBS, British Forces Broadcasting Service. They played this song, it had just been released and it was the first time I'd ever heard it. I was driving foot to the floor to get home as quickly as I could, but I had to pull over because listening to the words made me cry my eyes out.

My father/grandfather served in the military during WW2, I don't think he could have been prouder of me than when I left home at 16 to join the army. Whenever I had leave I spent some time at home and we talked for hours about things that had been important to him. We didn't see eye to eye on everything, but I've come to realize over the almost 40 years since he died, how much I value the things he believed were important: integrity, truth, honour, doing the right thing, for no other reason than it is the right thing to do.
I immigrated 6 years ago and live a life I couldn't have imagined living 10 years ago, he would have amazed at how I live today. I still miss him and still sometimes find myself wishing he was still alive so I could talk to him about things.

It took 25 years before I could hear this song without thinking of my father/grandfather, remembering my drive to the UK and not cry. Even now listening to this, I have a lump in my throat and my wife is wondering what's wrong with me. Some songs say something that we all know is a truth we can't deny this I think is perhaps the best example of that.

[bleanboy]

Love Mike & The Mechanics, bloody song always makes me cry and I'm in my 70s.

[abmeizfj]

I’m 63 years old and my Father passed away 24 years ago. Every time I hear this song or watch a reaction video I want to call my Dad. So everyone take time and call a love one because one day they aren’t going to be here. Do it before it’s to late.

[DavidLender]

Never fails. I cry every time I hear this song.

[jimbobs]

"i wasn't there that morning when my father passed away" is the one line that gets me because i never got to say goodbye, that was two years ago and i am teary eyed as i write this

[jeffstevens]

The amazing vocals of the wonderful Paul Carrack. Bless him.

[rootyroot]

My dad died in my arms 2 days ago on Xmas day (25-12-2024) after nearly a 14 year battle with Multiple Myeloma, He was ion that much pain relief and on a syringe driver so he was out of it, I took a bluetooth speaker and played all his favourite music, this was the 2nd to last song before he took his last breathe. He wasn't just my dad he was my best friend we did everything together, my heart is broken and life is never going to be the same.

[randysiler]

You don't understand what your parents went through until you become a parent.Then to tell them you get it now is the greatest gift to give them.Do it in the Living years while you have time.

[McDevittMike]

Mike + the Mechanics was a side project of Genesis guitarist Mike Ruttherford.

[adellittle]

Thank God for people who can write songs like this and sing them.

[pacman]

"I'm sure I heard his echo in my baby's new born tear" 😭 this line always kills me and finishes the song with goosebumps

[zinnia]

Only someone who has gone through grief can really know how devastating it is. The Living Years speaks to everyone who has lost a loved one, the pain, the sorrow and regret. What you said and what you didn't get to say are endless thoughts 😢

[Edd]

As a boy, this really hit home that my parents wouldn't be there forever.
As a man, I WAS there when my father passed away (2021).
This always makes me think of him.

[BRIDINC]

This song was released in 1988 the day before my father died of cancer in hospital after 10 years fighting what they had told him would take him in 4/5 years, I was 16. I've never been able to listen to it without crying buckets.😥😥