I’ve seen this around, here and there, but only recently got sucked into kind of listening to it on a loop. Moods must create audio grooves like lock tumblers that particular tunes only really fit into when activated.
It’s hard to articulate exactly what’s so moving about it, but it’s layered. I didn’t expect this guy to look like a kindly old(ish) german fellow. The song’s melody has always had a timeless melancholy air to it, and this extra quiet, extra slowed down version really serves that air.
It’s the age of the musician- not OLD-old, but a long ways away from the 80s teenage or young adult years that accompanied the song during it’s heyday. The voice- matured, softened, broken a bit. The instrumentals- muted, perfected, polished with practice.
The melody of the original song, which does lend itself to some creative genius all its own.
Most importantly, I think- and why this is a good example of how some songs simply require video footage as accompaniment and context- it’s the people in the audience who are singing along, most of them about the same age as the singer, most of them with faces full of tears and gratitude.
And you understand, once you’ve been in a similar place perhaps in wildly different circumstances, that they are at once transported to a distant time and place, as a different person entirely, with greater energy and loftier goals and dreams than have survived today- and they are saying goodbye to that place, and that person, with a near perfect dirge.
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