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It's over now, you've had your fun,
Get up them stairs, go on quickly, don't run
Take off your shoes
The both of yous
And leave them down outside the door
Turn the landing light off, no wait, leave it on
It might make the night that much easier to be gone
And in the morning who'll be wide awake and eating snowflakes, oh as opposed to those flakes
We will (we will), we will (we will)!

That afternoon we spent the day with Uncle Frank, remember, and his wife, Auntie May
Well do you know, since then I've received up to four letters all of which repeat the same
They say thrilled to bits
Can't believe you came
We've relived it, both, over time and time again
And if there's ever a chance or even half
You might be our way, well, would you promise to stay
We will (we will), we will (we will)!

It's not easy pretending that you cannot hear
Once you've suffered the affliction within
It's no use in an ending to proclaim from the start
That the moral of the story's to begin

One Sunday next, if the weather holds
We'll have that game, but I bagsie being in goals
Not because I'm good, or because I think I should
It's just that, well, at my age I think standing still
Would really suit me best
Do we all agree?
Hands up those who do
Hands up those who don't
I see, well in that case will we please be kind enough
If not on Sunday, to go to mass on Monday
We will (we will), we will (we will yeah yeah yeah mm mm), we will!
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personno.1 On Apr 03, 2007
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Cover art for We Will lyrics by Gilbert O'Sullivan

A lovely but deeply melancholy song. The narrator would seem to be a Dad with no Mum evident in the song. She has left him or died, not clear, and he gets through the days cajoling his 2 kids, visiting relatives, having breakfast, playing football, all the time wondering how to start again without her. In most stories the moral if there is one is at the end, in this story the moral is there is no end, just beginnning, again and again.

I find the line "Turn the landing light off, no wait, leave it on It might make the night that much easier to be gone" very poignant, seeing him sitting alone when the kids are in bed, thinking.

Cover art for We Will lyrics by Gilbert O'Sullivan

oh my god my song got put on =D well i love this song i think it pretty much tells a story and the meanings pretty straight-forward when you listen to the lyrics except this one bit: "It's not easy pretending that you cannot hear Once you've suffered the affliction within It's no use in an ending to proclaim from the start That the moral of the story's to begin" what does that mean? =s

Cover art for We Will lyrics by Gilbert O'Sullivan

I knew this song for a long while before I began to feel an encroaching sense of the absent wife. Probably died, given how young are the children. Then the emotions come in a rush: Uncle Frank and Auntie May are no longer a lonely old couple, but concerned relatives; the light is left on for the benefit of the narrator, not the children; and an awareness that the singer is part talking to himself rather than the children.

Then the song becomes overwhelming, and we empathise with his grief because we sense it, rather being told. A wonderful song. Unpretentious, full of compelling detail, devastatingly emotional, and delivered in an authentic and original voice.

Cover art for We Will lyrics by Gilbert O'Sullivan

Gilbert was on the Danny Baker Show yesterday (13-2-16) and spoke about his lyrics including this one. He said it was based on things he's hear his mum say when he was a child - 'The both of yous' is very Irish and refers to Ray/Gilbert and his sister. His mum was a single parent at a time when that was not so common, especially amongst Irish Catholics so my earlier interpretation is only half right - the songs is sung from the child's perspective and the central figure is a lone mother - not a dad.

Cover art for We Will lyrics by Gilbert O'Sullivan

Dutch translation I'd love to hear your comments / Ik hoor graag je commentaar, vooral op dat trieste middenstukje... Ook benieuwd of het zingbaar is.

Beloofd, beloofd

't Is mooi geweest De pret is uit Hup, naar boven, trap op, en geen geren! Je schoenen uit, ja allevier, laat ze hier benee maar voor de deur Op de overloop..., licht uit! of nee, laat maar aan, want de nacht duurt dan vast een heel klein stukje minder lang. Want wie staan heel vroeg met de monden wijd, vol witte vlokken, als chocoladevlokken? Beloofd? Beloofd!   Ah, weet je nog, die superdag Bij ome Frank en vrouwlief tante Riet? Ja, je gelooft het niet, Maar van tante Riet kreeg ik minstens vier brieven steeds weer van “o, wat was het mooi, 'k geloof 't nog steeds niet echt dat jullie allebei, hier bij ons zo ontzettend lang... En als er ooit een kans is, hoe klein dan ook dat jullie in de buurt zijn, beloof dan dat je langskomt! Beloofd? Beloofd!”

´t Is niet echt vol te houden dat je niks mankeert als de pijn je teistert diep van binnenuit . ´t Heeft geen zin om te roepen dat bij de reis die je maakt niet het reisdoel telt maar slechts het reizen zelf.   En zondagvroeg, als het weer het houdt, Voetballen, maar – eerst gezegd - met mij op goal, Ja, ik keep niet goed; of dat het per se moet, Maar ja, op mijn leeftijd past het vast het best om rustig stil te staan. Zijn we 't allen eens? Ik wil handen zien Allemaal akkoord? Oké, in dat geval, ga dan alsjeblieft wel naar de kerk zo niet op zondag, dan toch wel op maandag. Beloofd? Beloofd.

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