Last Thursday Natalie explained that she wrote this song for the 13 year old daughter of a friend. The girl tried to kill herself and happily failed. Natalie wrote the song to show her that no matter how bad things are life is worth living. The girl's mother told Natalie that after she got the song and learned that Natalie had written it just for her she went into her room, turned the volume up and played it over and over again for the next two days. After Natalie told us this story she sang the song and before the end she was crying so hard she had to stop a couple of times to compose herself and so did everyone else.
@ianrobertson interesting. She never mentioned this during her VH1 performance of Storytellers from 2005. She goes on for 4 minutes about what inspired the song and her intent behind it but nothing about a friend's attempted suicide. When she talks about the 10k Maniacs song, "What's The Matter Here?" On the same show she gets choked up and had to compose herself. I going to search for video of what you mentioned. Thx
@ianrobertson interesting. She never mentioned this during her VH1 performance of Storytellers from 2005. She goes on for 4 minutes about what inspired the song and her intent behind it but nothing about a friend's attempted suicide. When she talks about the 10k Maniacs song, "What's The Matter Here?" On the same show she gets choked up and had to compose herself. I going to search for video of what you mentioned. Thx
Last Thursday Natalie explained that she wrote this song for the 13 year old daughter of a friend. The girl tried to kill herself and happily failed. Natalie wrote the song to show her that no matter how bad things are life is worth living. The girl's mother told Natalie that after she got the song and learned that Natalie had written it just for her she went into her room, turned the volume up and played it over and over again for the next two days. After Natalie told us this story she sang the song and before the end she was crying so hard she had to stop a couple of times to compose herself and so did everyone else.
(PS) The girl is fine now.
@ianrobertson interesting. She never mentioned this during her VH1 performance of Storytellers from 2005. She goes on for 4 minutes about what inspired the song and her intent behind it but nothing about a friend's attempted suicide. When she talks about the 10k Maniacs song, "What's The Matter Here?" On the same show she gets choked up and had to compose herself. I going to search for video of what you mentioned. Thx
@ianrobertson interesting. She never mentioned this during her VH1 performance of Storytellers from 2005. She goes on for 4 minutes about what inspired the song and her intent behind it but nothing about a friend's attempted suicide. When she talks about the 10k Maniacs song, "What's The Matter Here?" On the same show she gets choked up and had to compose herself. I going to search for video of what you mentioned. Thx