The perfect song

So, today I will talk about “The Blower’s Daughter” written and recorded by Damien Rice, who is my favourite Singer of all times. It’s a song that talks about love, like most of the songs. The lyrics tell a story about a guy who falls deeply in love with a girl, who is always on his mind and he can’t stop thinking about her. For some reason it seems like it’s a forbidden love and relationship so they can’t be together.

Some people say the lyrics are about Damien Rice himself falling for a younger girl who is also the daughter of his clarinet teacher.
Some others say the lyrics are about a Celtic myth (Damien is irish, so that could make sense as well). The myth tells a story about the Wind’s daughter who falls in love with the Seas’ God. The Winds’ God finds out so he punishes his daughter forcing her to live on Earth like any other mortal. There was a way so they could both live together eternally under the sea, she had to learn to breathe underwater, but the Seas’ God was forbidden to tell his lover the reason she had to learn. She thought it was imposible to do so she never learned. 

When they both became elderly, the Seas’ God takes his lover to the water where she dies slowly. Then he returns to his kingdom to live eternally alone.

So the reasons of why it is my favourite song are mainly those: my top Singer wrote it and recorded it, the lyrics are just blowminding and the melody is just perfect. At the end of October I had the chance to see Damien Rice performing live in Santiago. He sang this song and it was one the best times of my life I recorded it so I could always watch it again and share.