A song that makes me cry

 

I want to share a song with you that is very dear to my heart. It makes me cry every time because we used parts of the lyrics in my mom's death announcement in the paper. I know this got heavy real fast. But I believe that sometimes we do have to be vulnerable, and I believe today is the day for me.

In September we it was my mom's 23^rd anniversary of her death. I can’t believe that it has been that long. I miss her every day.

The song is by Herbert Grönemeyer and it’s called Mensch.

I will have a link to the English lyrics here; due to copyright reasons, I am not going to copy them into this post.

The song is about the process of grief after the singer’s wife has passed away. The lyrics

'Cause we love
'Cause we live
I miss you, oh
'Cause we love
We live
I miss you

hit home pretty badly. The human is human or man is man because we love, we live, and we miss. Grief is deep, just like an iceberg; we only see a little bit of it, but there is so much more underneath it. Grief isn’t over in a month or a week. It can take years, and after 23 years, I am still grieving. I think I have never fully let myself grieve and just kept pushing the thought away.  

I can’t ever get through the song without crying. I have a hard time just reading the lyrics. I hope that even if you don’t speak German that the song, the music itself can convey the feeling of the lyrics.