For A Dancer Lyrics
This is my favorite Jackson Browne song right now... it's an incredibly moving meditation on death (especially "there is one dance you'll do alone", that line gets me every time). The absolute best part, however, is that, for once, death inspires hope. Jackson literally turns my frown upside down every time I get past the violin solo.
incredible song. to me, it's mostly about one of the sad truths in life: that one day everyone and everything we love will be gone. but it's all we've got, and you owe it to those you love to make the best of it.
probably my favorite jackson browne song, too.
Just wanted to set the record straight on this song, and for that matter, the Late For The Sky album. This album was released in 1974. Jackson's wife committed suicide in 1976. Some of the songs on the Pretender album are supposedly about the death of his wife, but he's said in interviews that most of the songs were already written before she died.
this song is existentialism
this song makes me cry.
when i was little, my mother would play jackson browne albums and i would listen and sing along. i came to know all the songs by heart, including this one. but over the years, i heard less and less Jackson Browne. Recently, his CDs have went back into my CD player, and, while I'm still little (just a teenager), the music has a completely different meaning to me because I am able to listen to and understand the lyrics. after listening to this song for years as a young child (like 5 to 8 years old), I finally put it back in the CD player at the age of 15 and I just started crying. It is an amazingly sad and beautiful song.
The song was written for a bisexual friend of Jackson's, Scotty Runyon. "Song For Adam" was about Adam Saylor.
this is one of my favourite songs it never gets old Jackson Browne is one of the very few singer song writers who can bring out so much emotion through his lyrics.
"Cause I know you'd rather we were dancing" Beautiful line
LUV LUV LUV the artist. Thanks for "Cause I know you'd rather we were dancing." When my elderly 2nd cousin was ill for a very long time (and death was expected), she told me many times that she didn't mind dying because she would be dancing in Heaven. She said each time I thought of her I should picture her and Abel (her spouse who had died a decade earlier) dancing. I have their very large engagement photo in my home; he's in his military uniform and she has the biggest smile I've ever seen. Sometimes death does not bring...
LUV LUV LUV the artist. Thanks for "Cause I know you'd rather we were dancing." When my elderly 2nd cousin was ill for a very long time (and death was expected), she told me many times that she didn't mind dying because she would be dancing in Heaven. She said each time I thought of her I should picture her and Abel (her spouse who had died a decade earlier) dancing. I have their very large engagement photo in my home; he's in his military uniform and she has the biggest smile I've ever seen. Sometimes death does not bring frowns; sometimes faith allows you to plan your beautiful dance in Heaven free from pain and sadness. GREAT song!
This song was actually written for the same Adam the song "Song for Adam" is about on Browne's first album.
I should add that this is one of my very favorite Browne songs. There are so many that my favorites depend on what catagory we're talking about. For the catagory of life, death, and how to live it nothing beats For A Dancer. I cry when I hear it.
I should add that this is one of my very favorite Browne songs. There are so many that my favorites depend on what catagory we're talking about. For the catagory of life, death, and how to live it nothing beats For A Dancer. I cry when I hear it.