A beautiful, poignant new balladic, trumpet-filled number by the Irish singer-songwriter and band leader Neil Hannon about his late father, heralding the new album, Rainy Sunday Afternoon, on 19 September. Hannon says of the song: “My kind and intelligent father had Alzheimer’s for the last decade of his life. A cruel and all too usual punishment these days. The lyrics are a simple and unadorned observation of his final year. No profound statements. No poetry. The music does all the emotional heavy lifting. I suppose sometimes you just have to meet painful events head on. In order to accept them and move on.” This single also follows another, Achilles from the album. Rainy Sunday Afternoon will be the first Divine Comedy album since 2019’s Office Politics, and out on Divine Comedy Records. To enjoy and explore more by The Divine Comedy, see also the other embedded links below.
The last time I saw the old man
He was moving very slowly
And he didn't seem to know me
His hands seemed so fragile and gray
I was worried I might break them
Showed him pictures but he didn't understand
The last time I saw the old man
The last time I saw the old man
He was talking very strangely
In ever decreasing circles
His eyes looked upon landscapes of fog
Full of laughter and forgetting
As we left, the sun was setting on the land
The last time I saw the old man
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