I don't know if anyone will see this comment but this song means so much to me. I just shead so many tears very single time I listen to it. I am a 17 year old girl who has been suicidal most of her life. Just now recently I have gained enough self confidence to live my life on. I just want to say to all the people who feel lost and scared out there to not give up. Life is such a beautiful thing and your beautiful bright eyes don't need to fade.
We’ll have all the time in the world to exist in a different dimension. Right now this dimension is worth experiencing with everything it’s got, pleasant and not so pleasant. With the beauty of Nature, animals and Music- an eternity isn’t enough, so of course it’s worth living. May the Joys be many and the valleys not so low(and short!) 🙏🏻
This song is really a tearjerker for me. I lost my young son aged 22 in a tragic motorbike accident in Aug 2017. He was young, full of dreams and had his life ahead of him. Those "bright eyes" just closed in an instant on that fateful day. Missing him so much.
I lost my sister to cancer 10 years ago. She was so full of life and so brave. This song is for her, for her bright eyes that suddenly burned so pale and finally closed to sleep in death.
I’m sat here playing this song to my dying rabbit. She’s 10 years old and this song reminds me of her and her mate running in our Grassy garden in the sun and her life. RIP Hobnob 2023
I’m sorry, my bunny was around the same age as well, this song reminded me so much of her due to watership down, they’re both with the black rabbit now
@@cryptid5930 yes. Well we had a whole family of bunnies all related apart 3 who we used to breed, we had them for like 10 years and this horrible disease wiped them all out clean and the rabbit I was commenting about was the second to die. I will never forget that ever.. RIP My beautiful furry babas
Going through clinical depression right now. It's like grieving... grieving for the peace of mind that you've lost, grieving for the happiness that can't be found, grieving for the person that you used to be. This song seems so appropriate right now😔
Brian Fiore if you are in a depression it is not wise to listen to music ; it sickens your emotions .....you will get more depressed.........it remembers you to the one you lost ....to better times that are gone .....to,all kind of earthly troubles........THE BEST THING TO DO IN TIME OF DEPRESSION IS TO REMEMBER GOD.......CAUSE GOD HEARS YOUR CALLS TO HIM AND HE WILL HELP YOU EVEN IF YOU DONT BELIEVE IN HIM....HE WILL HELP YOU SIMPLY BECAUSE YOU ASKED NO ONE FOR HELP BUT GOD.......MOSES ASKED GOD ONCE : HOW DO YOU REACT TO THOSE WHO ASKS YOUR HELP BUT THEY DONT BELIEVE IN YOU.....AND GOD SAID TO MOSES : I TELL THEM HERE I AM TO HELP. MOSES WAS AMAZED BY THIS ANSWER....
not to sound disrespectful but can you please keep your religion out of this and allow us to enjoy the music? op doesn’t seem to be in the best mental state right now, and if they cope through music, then we should respect that 🖤
I KNOW YOU ARE A NICE PERSON AND THANKS FOR YOUR RESPECTFULL REACTION.....BUT I HAVE A QUESTION .........AND PLEASE ANSWER IT IN A NICE MANNER........: WHY ARE WE CREATED?
I lost my 18-year-old cat Stella two weeks ago today. I was listening to this song and brought me to tears over how much it made me think of her. One thing I will always remember about her is her bright eyes-she would remind me of an owl at times, when I would come downstairs to see her dark silhouette against the window, her eyes reflecting back at me. They were very expressive eyes, too-you could always tell what she was thinking. On the day she died, I remember her laying down, but not closing her eyes-they were dull and lifeless. It all happened so suddenly-one day she was happy and active as an 18-year-old cat can be, and the next, she could barely move. From her symptoms, she seemed to be dying of kidney failure, and there was nothing to be done. We made her as comfortable as possible until she passed away in the early hours of the morning. I still remember finding her with her eyes still open, but the light had gone from them. “How can a light that burned so brightly suddenly burn so pale?” indeed. I’ll miss you, Stella.
My 21 years old cat died stretched out on the rug in front of the fire while I was stroking him... Kidney problems... 💔 Broke my heart. Beautiful tear 😢 jerking song ♥️
I'm sorry your loss very sad. I seem to be going through the same with my 18 Yr old tigs. Just all of a sudden happening so fast. He's getting so tiny 😢😢 hurts so much 😢😢😢 so scared of losing him..❤❤❤
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@@OlafShiel He's the author of the original novel Watership Down. As if his passing wasn't bad enough, it was the same day Carrie Fisher died. At that point, I was like, "Okay, 2016, I give. You win. UNCLE. Just don't take anyone else." And one day later, Carrie's mother Debbie Reynolds followed her.
The saddest song I've ever heard. I always think of all my pets who've died over the years. I have other songs that remind me of the people I've lost. But this one.. definitely goes out to all the sweet pets who shared their lives with me ❤️
I lost my 19 year old girl kitty recently and I listened to this and was hoping she had found her mother and sisters after her journey into heaven. I imagined them all young again, fit and healthy and so happy to see each other again. Playing and happily reunited.
My Mother is a singer and when she was 29 she sang this on a recorded cassette SO beautifully. She sounded like a beautiful angel. Now she's 52 and has five albums. But I will NEVER forget her singing this when I was 9.🤧
I miss you mom... You were great. You did everything for us, and now we fight eachother instead of fighting together... Now, one year after your death I can somehow live my life but it's so very hard. I didn't noticed how much you helped me. I love you mom. R.I.P. 19/12/17
This is the most beautiful song that I've heard. I even named a rabbit of mine Bright Eyes 😊! In remembrance of this song and all of those who found comfort and confidence in it, you are loved ❤!!!
For my daughter and grandson... we have been given the infinite capacity to love our children... to loose a child is beyond devastating - there are no words. She was a part of me and so was her baby... a part of me died when they died - In loving memory of Nicole and Declan - Hugging you in my dreams always.
Me too. I have heard of this songs for over 40 years now but never paid attention to the lyrics. I always like it just because of its beautiful melody. I only recent googled about the song and its lyrics. I now know what the message of this song is. I can’t stop crying now every time I hear it as I could stop all my departed love ones;(-.
this is a good song for mourning those we have lost. We must mourn. As a nation, as a world. It must be acknowledge, this profound horrible loss. Then we can reclaim life, and run through the wildflowers, all of us, everywhere. upload THAT to social media. ❤️ healing.
@@hardworker5588 oh fuck off, tell that to the familys that lost loved ones to COVID. Way to take a beautiful, heartfelt song and inject it with that right wing conspiracy koolaid.
The most beautiful part of the song is, that they seemingly are painting a painting, only with words and music... They are telling a story, on how death is not something to be feared, but can be serene and beautiful in it's own way... If you cannot cry at the chorus, then you don't have a heart, for sure.
Lost my dad very recently to a sudden heart attack and I've been getting through the pain simply by trying not to think about it. My mum asked me to learn and sing this song for a concert in a couple of weeks. I couldn't stop crying for twenty minutes after it was done. I felt nothing but pure sorrow. I have never missed someone so much or had a song speak to me on such a profound level.
Simply one of the most beautiful songs ever sung, the emotions involved whilst listening to this song is absolutely off the scale !! his voice is the clearest i have ever listened to and i echo all of the comments below, it is an absolute masterclass
My son and I used to sing this song on the way to school, he loved it because I used to call him bright eyes.. unfortunately he's passed away now. I played it at his funeral this song just gives me so many memories... X
This is one of my all time favourite songs...listening to this after so many years still brings a tear to my eyes....and am sitting here winding down, listening to this classic, and just am remembering my 6th Grade Teacher....Mr Nattrass (whom has long passed)...he was firm and really the first Teacher that I really didn't like....but listening to this song, brings me back to that upper Primary classroom back in '86 when I was just 10 and remembering that he used to always read to us for the last hr of the day, classic books like Watership Down, and then we would spend movie afternoons watching the movie version of whatever book he read...I would like to have gone back to thank him (along with all my other Teachers from days long past)
Simon and Garfunkel have been a constant in my life, something I could fall back on. they were there for me at every turn, and whenever I hear one of their songs, it brings back so many memories. I don't know where I'd be without music in my life. It sounds like a very quiet world.
My Dad just passed away. I came upon this song when we discovered he had cancer. It made me realize how much he loved what he did like mowing and just watching squirrels in his back yard in his later eighties and then the distant look in his eyes knowing it was coming to an end.
I dedicate this song to my good friend Charmaine Grace who passed away on 15/2/2016 at the age of 19. She shone bright in life but then burned pale towards the end of her short life.
+Matt Cash I am also sorry to hear of your loss Matt. Like you I lost a good friend while he was still in his teens. There's a lot of truth in the old and sad saying "The Star That Burns Twice As Bright Shines Only Half As Long". I lost my friend more than twenty years ago and all I can tell you is that I found comfort in having known him and in knowing that his pain was over. Your pain will never completely fade but I promise you'll be able to find solace and comfort from knowing that you were Charmaine's friend and had the privilege of seeing her star shine. All the best to you and I hope you find peace.
My mother died yesterday after a 10 year decline from dementia. This song encapsulates what I feel, how my vibrant creative mother withered away so slowly over such a long time, rendering the memories of who she was before the disease feel like dreams from long ago, leaving me with the cold reality of her tiny, withered body giving a last shuddering breath and going still.
Aw we listened to this for my rabbit too oh yeah I forgot I had two rabbits oh well R. I. P general and Veronica all the animals we've lost will be watching over us
I listen to this song and think of my mum who's eyes where so full of life and warmth, then slowly watching them become weak and weary as cancer eventually took her from us and she let go. 4 years on and still aching for you
One of the most beautiful songs ever written about mortality, I've listened to it at least 100 times and never grow tired of it. I first heard it when I watched "Watership Down," an extraordinary story by itself. One point of clarification is needed here. The song was written by Jeff Stephen(lyrics) and Mike Batt (music). Paul Simon is not even performing on this cut, so attributions to "Simon and Garfunkel" are incorrect.
I remember this from my childhood. I'm 6-2, 20 stone, enjoy everything from Rave to Iron Maiden. But I still love this song. To everyone who likes this song - it is beautiful and there is no shame to love it. To everyone who purports to hate this song - I pity you for losing your souls or else you are in denial and trying to appear tough. You are pathetic to point a judgemental finger at something that is to someone's taste, even if not to yours. Grow up!!!
@@Snandra66 he was a bit sharper than I think he needed to be; in fact, Art Garfunkel did this song entirely alone Paul Simon wasn't involved with it at all... it's the theme tune to the movie Watership Down :) Written for the movie and Art Garfunkel was asked to perform it... :)
My paralysed baby bunny just died and listening to this has helped me to know she'll be okay where ever she goes. She was such a bright little sole gone within seconds but will always have a place in my heart. R.i.p my sweet little Bubbin. 😞💔💔
I always loved Watership Down as a kid. Such a beautiful film. This song has forever struck a chord with me. I have no Idea how I got through the last few days. I could never understand why they call it The Dark Night Of The Spul, when it is more like many months. This is my only place where I feel I can reach out and hope there are others who relate. Because of the amount of sedatives in my system, I had to take stimulants just so I could get up and get done what needed to be done. I'm now absolutley worn down like never before. But I'm always soothed with my music, my electric blanket and loads of sleep. I gotta stop self abusing, but it's so hard, and sometimes I truly wished I was dead. That God would just take me away. But I know I'm stronger than than that. Life is hard, but you learn very valuable lessons. ❤️🌹⭐️
Watership down. Don't get me wrong.good episode and they way it sung bright eyes. Before the big bright flash was beautifully done though on black mirror was good
Estoy viendo (tardíamente) un episodio de Black Mirrow, q me quedaba pendiente, y me reencontré con este pedazo de mi adolescencia....allá x los 70 🥹 (si...muchísimos años atrás) y tuve q pausar y venir acá a escuchar esa canción como originalmente la escuchaba, cantada x este maravilloso dúo. Una nostalgia agridulce me recorre el alma y me hace lagrimear más de lo q esperaba. Qué bella es la música, q nos abre estas compuertas y dispara esta estampida de sentimientos trenzados a recuerdos q parecían olvidados....🤷🏾♀️ (Tengan una buena vida!🙋🏾♀️🩷)
This song makes me cry like a baby... every time. Reminds me of my dog growing up... really captures that feeling after losing a pet "Bright eyes, how can you close and fade?" :'O
I used to sob my heart out as a child when this song played in Watership Down. I hated this song, Ive since learned to appreciate Simon and Garfunkel for the beautiful lyrics and wonderful music that they created.
I just can't listen to this song without crying my eyes out! It's so sad and beautiful all at the same time....and I think of my dear dad who passed away over 13 years ago. He had naturally sad eyes, but when he'd laugh, his eyes would light up, brightly. I miss him so much.
Ugh why do I do this to myself?! Missing you brother and my dear daddy!! Life is never the same without you both xx peace be the journey till we meet again xx
I was born into the Gypsy life in the U.K in the late 70's and this song epitomizes the beautiful spirit of that dream like world. The film Watership Down also reflected this, the hardships and the haunting beauty. It was poetry lived and breathed. This never ceases to make the heart swell with joy in remembrance.
I lost my cat who died quite young at age 12. This song made have a good cry and made be peace for it. Rest in piece, hope your rainbow bridge trip was peaceful and quick.
I'm so sorry for your loss! My female black cat named "Imageing (Imaging)" about your cat's age died too from cancer on August 24th 2020 before she could make it to Halloween when a full moon appeared (since her name "Imageing" (due to being a black cat) known as "Image of a Spooky Cat"). I've missed her so much!
We live in an age where people avoid true emotion in favor of cruel ignorance. This song has a true emotion that most are too cowardly to confront and experience.
On a gravestone of a young French soldier who died in the Battle of the Somme is inscribed: "to my son, since your eyes have closed, mine have never stopped weeping."
I’ve just started listening to songs of my childhood and this is one only difference I’ve truly learned to listen and not just hear the lyrics. So so beautiful.
This song gets a bad press. It does not compete with anything written by Paul Simon but what does? Paul Simon is probably one of our finest, living song-writers. This song was written by Mike Batt who also wrote The Wombles of Wimbledon. I quite liked that song but high art it was not.This song? It is associated with rabbits and children traumatised by being taken along to a film about said bunny rabbits and seeing death in all its glory (my brother did it to my youngest sister and they both bear the scars to this day!)I sing this song in my choir and I struggle. Every time I come to "How can you close and fail", I think of all those bright eyes I have known: mum, dad, Anna, Richard, Barbara, Aunty Mary, Pat, June, Johnny, Sue, Wayne, Martin, all my lovely aunts and uncles on and on and I find it hard to keep singing.. I think this is actually a really powerful song about loss. It is beautifully arranged and Art Garfunkel sings wonderfully as always.
Saw the movie when I was a little kid, I can't remember a lot of it, but i knew the song. I searched for it and just understood the lyrics, now sitting on my couch crying like hell.
I would love this song to be played at my funeral one day. Its so beautiful, and Watership Down demonatrates death in such a tragic and beautiful way that I've never seen a movie do since it. it shows so many rabbits passing so tragically, and then when its Hazels turn, we see what happens afterwards, and its so peaceful.
I went to my nanny's funel today😭and I'm still up set now because she was my favourite person in my family😢😭😭💔💔💔😇😇😥😵😵😵😰😭😭😭😪😖😿but she had cancer 🏥🏥🚑I miss her!!!!
I don't know if anyone will see this comment but this song means so much to me. I just shead so many tears very single time I listen to it. I am a 17 year old girl who has been suicidal most of her life. Just now recently I have gained enough self confidence to live my life on. I just want to say to all the people who feel lost and scared out there to not give up. Life is such a beautiful thing and your beautiful bright eyes don't need to fade.
Hey katie I'm shane. I hope u are doing well😃
“rife”
i hope u njoy yoyr life right now...
You go girl!
Life is precious and beautiful
We’ll have all the time in the world to exist in a different dimension. Right now this dimension is worth experiencing with everything it’s got, pleasant and not so pleasant. With the beauty of Nature, animals and Music- an eternity isn’t enough, so of course it’s worth living. May the Joys be many and the valleys not so low(and short!) 🙏🏻
This song is really a tearjerker for me. I lost my young son aged 22 in a tragic motorbike accident in Aug 2017. He was young, full of dreams and had his life ahead of him. Those "bright eyes" just closed in an instant on that fateful day. Missing him so much.
So sorry for your tragic loss. God bless. 🙏🏻
Aww bless you sorry for your lose 😭 xx
I am so sorry. 😭
😪sorry for your loss..I lost my brother that yr
Sorry for your lost. Remember he is with you in Spirit!
Black Mirror has introduced, hands down some of the most beautiful songs to me. So glad I found this one! ❤️
Mee too i was so stoked when they made new season i liked it wish there were more episodes
I love it
Same here x)
Same here xD
Same
I lost my sister to cancer 10 years ago. She was so full of life and so brave. This song is for her, for her bright eyes that suddenly burned so pale and finally closed to sleep in death.
😪😪😪😪
My sister too is dying a terrible death from cancer. We used to raise rabbits together. This song gut-punches me on two levels.
I feel your pain brotha ... such a touching moment and you couldn't have picked a more perfect song.
Nice work mate 😪
Hmm
@@robbyqld the. Keep well
I’m sat here playing this song to my dying rabbit. She’s 10 years old and this song reminds me of her and her mate running in our Grassy garden in the sun and her life.
RIP Hobnob 2023
I’m sorry, my bunny was around the same age as well, this song reminded me so much of her due to watership down, they’re both with the black rabbit now
@@cryptid5930 yes. Well we had a whole family of bunnies all related apart 3 who we used to breed, we had them for like 10 years and this horrible disease wiped them all out clean and the rabbit I was commenting about was the second to die. I will never forget that ever..
RIP My beautiful furry babas
Just finished watching Black Mirror season 6 and I’m glad it showed me a new song it’s so beautiful glad to add it to my list of treasures ❤
I’ve been a big fan of Simon and Garfunkel. I couldn’t imagine Just now finding out about them. Been my jam for over 20 years.
They say you can listen to this song when you get sent to the eternal oblivion
Going through clinical depression right now. It's like grieving... grieving for the peace of mind that you've lost, grieving for the happiness that can't be found, grieving for the person that you used to be. This song seems so appropriate right now😔
Lost me gran n others m8. No song better
200 %
Brian Fiore if you are in a depression it is not wise to listen to music ; it sickens your emotions .....you will get more depressed.........it remembers you to the one you lost ....to better times that are gone .....to,all kind of earthly troubles........THE BEST THING TO DO IN TIME OF DEPRESSION IS TO REMEMBER GOD.......CAUSE GOD HEARS YOUR CALLS TO HIM AND HE WILL HELP YOU EVEN IF YOU DONT BELIEVE IN HIM....HE WILL HELP YOU SIMPLY BECAUSE YOU ASKED NO ONE FOR HELP BUT GOD.......MOSES ASKED GOD ONCE : HOW DO YOU REACT TO THOSE WHO ASKS YOUR HELP BUT THEY DONT BELIEVE IN YOU.....AND GOD SAID TO MOSES : I TELL THEM HERE I AM TO HELP. MOSES WAS AMAZED BY THIS ANSWER....
not to sound disrespectful but can you please keep your religion out of this and allow us to enjoy the music? op doesn’t seem to be in the best mental state right now, and if they cope through music, then we should respect that 🖤
I KNOW YOU ARE A NICE PERSON AND THANKS FOR YOUR RESPECTFULL REACTION.....BUT I HAVE A QUESTION .........AND PLEASE ANSWER IT IN A NICE MANNER........: WHY ARE WE CREATED?
I lost my 18-year-old cat Stella two weeks ago today. I was listening to this song and brought me to tears over how much it made me think of her.
One thing I will always remember about her is her bright eyes-she would remind me of an owl at times, when I would come downstairs to see her dark silhouette against the window, her eyes reflecting back at me. They were very expressive eyes, too-you could always tell what she was thinking.
On the day she died, I remember her laying down, but not closing her eyes-they were dull and lifeless. It all happened so suddenly-one day she was happy and active as an 18-year-old cat can be, and the next, she could barely move. From her symptoms, she seemed to be dying of kidney failure, and there was nothing to be done. We made her as comfortable as possible until she passed away in the early hours of the morning. I still remember finding her with her eyes still open, but the light had gone from them.
“How can a light that burned so brightly suddenly burn so pale?” indeed.
I’ll miss you, Stella.
So sad, I’ve lost many of my cats over the years and this song breaks my heart with longing for them to be back with me..
My 21 years old cat died stretched out on the rug in front of the fire while I was stroking him... Kidney problems... 💔 Broke my heart. Beautiful tear 😢 jerking song ♥️
I'm sorry your loss very sad. I seem to be going through the same with my 18 Yr old tigs. Just all of a sudden happening so fast. He's getting so tiny 😢😢 hurts so much 😢😢😢 so scared of losing him..❤❤❤
Black mirror always coming with the perfect songs
Stunning Song. They don't make music like this anymore thats for sure.
this song made the film "watership down" the masterpiece that it was.
yes a masterpiece
Magic
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My heart has joined the Thousand, for my friend stopped running today.
RIP, Richard Adams.
Amen
Did he write the book or direct the movie?
Died of a blood disorder aged 96
@Anna Dayton ironically Richard Adams actually was said to dislike this song .
@@OlafShiel He's the author of the original novel Watership Down. As if his passing wasn't bad enough, it was the same day Carrie Fisher died. At that point, I was like, "Okay, 2016, I give. You win. UNCLE. Just don't take anyone else."
And one day later, Carrie's mother Debbie Reynolds followed her.
The saddest song I've ever heard. I always think of all my pets who've died over the years. I have other songs that remind me of the people I've lost. But this one.. definitely goes out to all the sweet pets who shared their lives with me ❤️
No one could ever sing this as beautifully as Art! He's awesome!
Art is the best
Shouldn't stop you from trying though. 🙃🙃
I came here because my cat just died an hour ago, after 16 years of true companionship...and I wanted to cry.
I'm going to miss him :(
I lost my 19 year old girl kitty recently and I listened to this and was hoping she had found her mother and sisters after her journey into heaven. I imagined them all young again, fit and healthy and so happy to see each other again. Playing and happily reunited.
Happened to me yesterday. They won’t be forgotten.
Cat 😹 😆
My Mother is a singer and when she was 29 she sang this on a recorded cassette SO beautifully. She sounded like a beautiful angel. Now she's 52 and has five albums. But I will NEVER forget her singing this when I was 9.🤧
I miss you mom... You were great. You did everything for us, and now we fight eachother instead of fighting together...
Now, one year after your death I can somehow live my life but it's so very hard. I didn't noticed how much you helped me.
I love you mom. R.I.P. 19/12/17
This is the most beautiful song that I've heard. I even named a rabbit of mine Bright Eyes 😊! In remembrance of this song and all of those who found comfort and confidence in it, you are loved ❤!!!
For my daughter and grandson... we have been given the infinite capacity to love our children... to loose a child is beyond devastating - there are no words. She was a part of me and so was her baby... a part of me died when they died - In loving memory of Nicole and Declan - Hugging you in my dreams always.
So sorry for your loss ... A child and a grandchild ... I have no words!
thank-you
I'm thinking of you today. My sister lost her beautiful daughter who had a newborn.....
We lost our beautiful son our only child...My wife died inside
I can't listen to this song without sobbing like a lost child.
Philip Hunn me too. Every time.
Philip Hunn me too
Oh yeah, this gets me crying like a newborn every time.
Me too. I have heard of this songs for over 40 years now but never paid attention to the lyrics. I always like it just because of its beautiful melody. I only recent googled about the song and its lyrics. I now know what the message of this song is. I can’t stop crying now every time I hear it as I could stop all my departed love ones;(-.
You're not alone believe me
When this virus is over, i'm playing this on repeat and running though a field of Sunflowers.
this is a good song for mourning those we have lost. We must mourn. As a nation, as a world. It must be acknowledge, this profound horrible loss. Then we can reclaim life, and run through the wildflowers, all of us, everywhere. upload THAT to social media. ❤️ healing.
Sweetie, it was never real. Unless you think the Flu originated sometime in late 2019
When its over.. cute
@@hardworker5588 oh fuck off, tell that to the familys that lost loved ones to COVID. Way to take a beautiful, heartfelt song and inject it with that right wing conspiracy koolaid.
@@hardworker5588 you also never have a real brain lol
The most beautiful part of the song is, that they seemingly are painting a painting, only with words and music... They are telling a story, on how death is not something to be feared, but can be serene and beautiful in it's own way...
If you cannot cry at the chorus, then you don't have a heart, for sure.
My daughter just passed away about an hour ago. I called her Bright Eyes. This song came to mind. Thank you for this one💜🌹💜
After one hour you write things?
Lost my dad very recently to a sudden heart attack and I've been getting through the pain simply by trying not to think about it. My mum asked me to learn and sing this song for a concert in a couple of weeks. I couldn't stop crying for twenty minutes after it was done. I felt nothing but pure sorrow. I have never missed someone so much or had a song speak to me on such a profound level.
Simply one of the most beautiful songs ever sung, the emotions involved whilst listening to this song is absolutely off the scale !! his voice is the clearest i have ever listened to and i echo all of the comments below, it is an absolute masterclass
My son and I used to sing this song on the way to school, he loved it because I used to call him bright eyes.. unfortunately he's passed away now. I played it at his funeral this song just gives me so many memories... X
Charlotte Greenxx ❤
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This is one of my all time favourite songs...listening to this after so many years still brings a tear to my eyes....and am sitting here winding down, listening to this classic, and just am remembering my 6th Grade Teacher....Mr Nattrass (whom has long passed)...he was firm and really the first Teacher that I really didn't like....but listening to this song, brings me back to that upper Primary classroom back in '86 when I was just 10 and remembering that he used to always read to us for the last hr of the day, classic books like Watership Down, and then we would spend movie afternoons watching the movie version of whatever book he read...I would like to have gone back to thank him (along with all my other Teachers from days long past)
for all the bright eyes that close and fade to soon
@@withgoddess1119 Our loved ones never leave us. X
@@SuperBking1340 I'm going through some stuff with my late cousin and that rly helped ty sm ur an angel 💔💔😭😭♥️
@@SuperBking1340 Our loved still living in our hearts.
@@withgoddess1119 n CLARETS
ME 2
Simon and Garfunkel have been a constant in my life, something I could fall back on. they were there for me at every turn, and whenever I hear one of their songs, it brings back so many memories. I don't know where I'd be without music in my life. It sounds like a very quiet world.
My Dad just passed away. I came upon this song when we discovered he had cancer. It made me realize how much he loved what he did like mowing and just watching squirrels in his back yard in his later eighties and then the distant look in his eyes knowing it was coming to an end.
I never thought there will be a song about death that could be described so beautifully
I dedicate this song to my good friend Charmaine Grace who passed away on 15/2/2016 at the age of 19. She shone bright in life but then burned pale towards the end of her short life.
+Matt Cash Sorry for the loss of your good friend Matt.
Thank you
+Matt Cash I am also sorry to hear of your loss Matt. Like you I lost a good friend while he was still in his teens. There's a lot of truth in the old and sad saying "The Star That Burns Twice As Bright Shines Only Half As Long". I lost my friend more than twenty years ago and all I can tell you is that I found comfort in having known him and in knowing that his pain was over. Your pain will never completely fade but I promise you'll be able to find solace and comfort from knowing that you were Charmaine's friend and had the privilege of seeing her star shine. All the best to you and I hope you find peace.
Thank you x
Also sorry to hear Matt.
My mother died yesterday after a 10 year decline from dementia. This song encapsulates what I feel, how my vibrant creative mother withered away so slowly over such a long time, rendering the memories of who she was before the disease feel like dreams from long ago, leaving me with the cold reality of her tiny, withered body giving a last shuddering breath and going still.
God, my rabbit just died. Thought this would b appropriate to listen to. Hysterical full body sobs. Not a good idea. RIP Pandora.
Shannon Talviharju rest in peace. I'm sorry about your rabbit :(
Thanks so much for your condolences
Your rabbit is listening to you and this song on the other side
Aw we listened to this for my rabbit too oh yeah I forgot I had two rabbits oh well R. I. P general and Veronica all the animals we've lost will be watching over us
2 years late but still... RIP Pandora 😔❤
cant listen to it without the tears flowing luv it
I listen to this song and think of my mum who's eyes where so full of life and warmth, then slowly watching them become weak and weary as cancer eventually took her from us and she let go. 4 years on and still aching for you
Art Garfunkel is on the very top level of vocalists who have ever lived.
One of the most beautiful songs ever written about mortality, I've listened to it at least 100 times and never grow tired of it. I first heard it when I watched "Watership Down," an extraordinary story by itself.
One point of clarification is needed here. The song was written by Jeff Stephen(lyrics) and Mike Batt (music). Paul Simon is not even performing on this cut, so attributions to "Simon and Garfunkel" are incorrect.
This song will ALWAYS put me to sleep. Not because it's boring but it's more of a lullaby, soft and mesmerizing.
.. I was raised , being a teenager amongst their beautiful music and lyrics .. RESPECT to both .. they made it great together
I remember this from my childhood. I'm 6-2, 20 stone, enjoy everything from Rave to Iron Maiden. But I still love this song. To everyone who likes this song - it is beautiful and there is no shame to love it. To everyone who purports to hate this song - I pity you for losing your souls or else you are in denial and trying to appear tough. You are pathetic to point a judgemental finger at something that is to someone's taste, even if not to yours. Grow up!!!
This show brings back memories of days gone by, whether those memories are good, bad or just down ..
The demon of 79!!
This is why I love Simon & Garfunkel, I just can't explain it, it's just so b-e-a-utiful...
+"Marky Mark" Markus Gaming/LurkingFan4 its only a art song forget paul simon
jovi565 Okay?
I Love them too!
@@jovi565 bit sharp, but you're right Art Garfunkel wrote this alone
@@Snandra66 he was a bit sharper than I think he needed to be; in fact, Art Garfunkel did this song entirely alone
Paul Simon wasn't involved with it at all... it's the theme tune to the movie Watership Down :)
Written for the movie and Art Garfunkel was asked to perform it... :)
My paralysed baby bunny just died and listening to this has helped me to know she'll be okay where ever she goes. She was such a bright little sole gone within seconds but will always have a place in my heart. R.i.p my sweet little Bubbin. 😞💔💔
Makes you think of those we've lost and loved over the years and the limited time we have on the Earth.
This is how the end of the world sounds.
I always loved Watership Down as a kid. Such a beautiful film. This song has forever struck a chord with me. I have no Idea how I got through the last few days. I could never understand why they call it The Dark Night Of The Spul, when it is more like many months.
This is my only place where I feel I can reach out and hope there are others who relate. Because of the amount of sedatives in my system, I had to take stimulants just so I could get up and get done what needed to be done. I'm now absolutley worn down like never before. But I'm always soothed with my music, my electric blanket and loads of sleep. I gotta stop self abusing, but it's so hard, and sometimes I truly wished I was dead. That God would just take me away. But I know I'm stronger than than that. Life is hard, but you learn very valuable lessons. ❤️🌹⭐️
May God give you the strenght to carry on!
my dog just died that I've had for fifteen years. this song I'm unable to listen to n not cry
+Makoeyes Onme sorry about your los its so hart i dont know what to say else
Reminds me of my dog that died a while back, makes my eyes well up every time I hear it
so here is another song that suggests death is like dream state. i definitely believe that. I just hope when I die, it's a good dream.
Eric West same here and when I die I'm having this playing in the church just so people can remember me
Well said, death is another journey
i also
Bright eyes!!!
Eric West its not a dream Eric. The only way to heaven is through Jesus Christ. Or you can go to hell. Investigate Eric x
Black Mirror - Demon 79 brought me here. Wow, what an episode, what an ending, what a song!!
Watership down. Don't get me wrong.good episode and they way it sung bright eyes. Before the big bright flash was beautifully done though on black mirror was good
So beautiful 💗 I cry every time i hear this even when i try my hardest not to. 😪
I agree. I also listen to this song when someone I love passes on. And I always cry to this song.
Estoy viendo (tardíamente) un episodio de Black Mirrow, q me quedaba pendiente, y me reencontré con este pedazo de mi adolescencia....allá x los 70 🥹 (si...muchísimos años atrás) y tuve q pausar y venir acá a escuchar esa canción como originalmente la escuchaba, cantada x este maravilloso dúo.
Una nostalgia agridulce me recorre el alma y me hace lagrimear más de lo q esperaba.
Qué bella es la música, q nos abre estas compuertas y dispara esta estampida de sentimientos trenzados a recuerdos q parecían olvidados....🤷🏾♀️
(Tengan una buena vida!🙋🏾♀️🩷)
This song makes me cry like a baby... every time. Reminds me of my dog growing up... really captures that feeling after losing a pet "Bright eyes, how can you close and fade?" :'O
I used to sob my heart out as a child when this song played in Watership Down. I hated this song, Ive since learned to appreciate Simon and Garfunkel for the beautiful lyrics and wonderful music that they created.
NOT Paul simon
Bright Eyes expresses how I feel when someone I know and care about is called home. Thank you for posting this rendition I was able to finally cry.
I just can't listen to this song without crying my eyes out! It's so sad and beautiful all at the same time....and I think of my dear dad who passed away over 13 years ago. He had naturally sad eyes, but when he'd laugh, his eyes would light up, brightly. I miss him so much.
Ugh why do I do this to myself?! Missing you brother and my dear daddy!! Life is never the same without you both xx peace be the journey till we meet again xx
Una de mis canciones preferidas de siempre, son muchos años escuchándola y nunca me canso de ella, Art Garfunkel es muy grande
I was born into the Gypsy life in the U.K in the late 70's and this song epitomizes the beautiful spirit of that dream like world. The film Watership Down also reflected this, the hardships and the haunting beauty. It was poetry lived and breathed.
This never ceases to make the heart swell with joy in remembrance.
Crying so much - I recently lost my cat at a young age... Tears me apart knowing I won't hold him again
Eternal oblivion here we come
I lost my cat who died quite young at age 12. This song made have a good cry and made be peace for it. Rest in piece, hope your rainbow bridge trip was peaceful and quick.
I'm so sorry for your loss! My female black cat named "Imageing (Imaging)" about your cat's age died too from cancer on August 24th 2020 before she could make it to Halloween when a full moon appeared (since her name "Imageing" (due to being a black cat) known as "Image of a Spooky Cat"). I've missed her so much!
Wunderschönes Duett von Simon und Garfunkel 🥀💕ich liebe sie seid meiner Jugend so schöne Stimmen🥀 große Könner🎸 💕Danke
Duett? It's only Art.
“Not a dry eye in the house”. What an Epic Song. ThankYou my friend Rabbi.
We live in an age where people avoid true emotion in favor of cruel ignorance. This song has a true emotion that most are too cowardly to confront and experience.
Oh my god.. This song is so full of memories.. I cried the whole video because it was the time when I was happy..:(
On a gravestone of a young French soldier who died in the Battle of the Somme is inscribed: "to my son, since your eyes have closed, mine have never stopped weeping."
I have massage for all: Don't forget that angelic voice! God bless you Ira! 💙
I’ve just started listening to songs of my childhood and this is one only difference I’ve truly learned to listen and not just hear the lyrics. So so beautiful.
Another beautiful song from Art Garfunkel!
This song gets a bad press. It does not compete with anything written by Paul Simon but what does? Paul Simon is probably one of our finest, living song-writers. This song was written by Mike Batt who also wrote The Wombles of Wimbledon. I quite liked that song but high art it was not.This song? It is associated with rabbits and children traumatised by being taken along to a film about said bunny rabbits and seeing death in all its glory (my brother did it to my youngest sister and they both bear the scars to this day!)I sing this song in my choir and I struggle. Every time I come to "How can you close and fail", I think of all those bright eyes I have known: mum, dad, Anna, Richard, Barbara, Aunty Mary, Pat, June, Johnny, Sue, Wayne, Martin, all my lovely aunts and uncles on and on and I find it hard to keep singing.. I think this is actually a really powerful song about loss. It is beautifully arranged and Art Garfunkel sings wonderfully as always.
una mckillen it was written by Mike Batt ( 1976 ) and solo performed by Art Garfunkel ( 1979 )
I miss my Father... Gone too soon.. He always brings laughter to our family.. How can a light that burn so brightly, suddenly....
Where has this song been all my life? :D
on youtube
Tom jones
Hiding under the bed with the Oogie Boogie Man.
***** Good point. :)
My heart has joined the thousand for my friend stopped running today.
Yes, the title of this needs to be changed. It was just Art Garfunkel and... OMG... what a strong and yet emotional song. Love it!
If you're here from Black Mirror, then grow up and stop letting everyone know you're here from Black Mirror. Anyways, anyone here from Black mirror?
Simon and Art Garfunkel were the best band ever, thats until they split. I loved this song from since I can remember.
The melancholy and the nostalgia..get the tissues😂😂🤣😭
So beautiful. Always been one of my favourites.
i just heard this music on watership down and it really touched me, i shall memorize it and sing it to my kids ^^
This is the most underrated song I've ever heard.
a wonderful classic, those little wabbits from watership down in 1978, with hazel leading them, RIP the late john hurt.
Be vewwy vewwy quiet. I’m bwutally muwduwing wabbits.
Can't find words for this incredible song. It goes beyond them. burning like fire
This song is the one... To make me miss u so much. I'm crying because in this life I can never hold u again
Bravo! So beautiful!
I was alright till I started reading the comments. Now Im crying too.
WATERSHIP DOWN, LIKE IF ALL U CAN SEE IS BUNNIES, BUNNIES EVERYWHERE! AND U INEXPLICABLY BURST INTO TEARS HEARING THE FIRST BARS!!!
Bunnies that tear one another into bloody pieces
Bunnies that are eaten alive
Revel Cat You obviously haven’t seen the ending to watership down. A dog is let loose and...well it does not end well for the traitors
@@OlafShiel "Dogs aren't dangerous!"
Chessking E4 John Cena: “Are you sure about that?”
I can’t listen to this song without thinking about the brutality of Watership Down 😭
Saw the movie when I was a little kid, I can't remember a lot of it, but i knew the song. I searched for it and just understood the lyrics, now sitting on my couch crying like hell.
I would love this song to be played at my funeral one day. Its so beautiful, and Watership Down demonatrates death in such a tragic and beautiful way that I've never seen a movie do since it. it shows so many rabbits passing so tragically, and then when its Hazels turn, we see what happens afterwards, and its so peaceful.
Heartbreakingly beautiful!!! 💖
I went to my nanny's funel today😭and I'm still up set now because she was my favourite person in my family😢😭😭💔💔💔😇😇😥😵😵😵😰😭😭😭😪😖😿but she had cancer 🏥🏥🚑I miss her!!!!
My bunny passed a few months ago and this song still doesn’t fail to make me cry. my princess of a thousand enemies, they never caught her
Watership Down 🙏
I can't believe how beautiful this song is. My heart just tears to pieces. 😭
One year ago i lost my bunny. It was a brother for me... this song gives me memory's about him❤️
i LOVE THIS SONG!!!!!
This is that kind of music , of lyrics , that can heal souls ... Memories of my teenager time ... I still love it as a grandmother ... 💗
One of the prettiest songs ever to be used in a traumatic children's movie