This was my dad's favorite movie. He and I watched it many times together before I was even in school. The image of the man in the red cap burnt into my mind for years and I couldn't remember why. My dad would always talk about visiting Paris, Texas. So much that it bothered my mom. I'd always feel nostalgic and sentimental when I hear Spanish/Mexican guitar. My father dies and 5 years later I stumble upon this. I don't know what to say.
The music is hypnotic! It has some outer world power and feel. I am sorry that your father has passed. Maybe sometime in the future you will indeed visit Paris Texas.
Sargeant saxophone, did your father ever get to go to Paris, Texas? And did he want to go before he watched the movie? or after? I mean, was it because of the movie? I truly love this movie and song.
I'm mexican... when i see the clip of this song, i started to cry... Ry Cooder could express the pain and nostalgic of this amazing song... even, also the fact that singer could paint the sad of this song... my favorite version...
Let us all honor the fact that it is one of America's greatest actors singing this most impossibly beautiful song. Known for years as a great character actor and beloved and admired by others in LaLa Hollywood who knew real greatness, Harry Dean Stanton never won a major award, and "Paris, Texas" was his only substantial lead role. Yet he was the very best at his craft. . And he was not a professional singer, yet he does the greatest singing job ever with this extraordinary song, and the great craftsman that he was, he gets all of the powerful emotions of this song just right. HDS kept singing this song until he was 91. RIP, Unsung Legend.
The best movie ever made for a rough father/son relationship. Love is strange, and maybe he was too old- maybe she’s too young, and maybe you’re just too important to lose. Sometimes the only way to love somebody is from the start; as a stranger.
Ry Cooder doesn't try to be the fastest guitarist, he concentrates on bringing out the guitar's beauty. His playing and Harry DS's raw emotion can soften the coldest of hearts. RC had to convince Harry DS that he was good enough to sing the song - I'm eternally grateful that he did. After recording his vocal, Harry DS said 'I can't stress too much how much Ry Cooder was an influence on me. Having one of the most respected musicians around like my singing reeally gave me the confidence to do it.'
And what a beautiful song written by a Mexican Composer born in Oaxaca! Jose Luis Alvarez! The Spanish original lyrics are so full of emotion! Love it!
The Kentuckian with the Mexican soul pairs with the greatest guitarist of our time for this kind of music to perform one of the most painfully beautiful renditions of the most deeply moving song of loss ever written anywhere. There is great wisdom here: African poet-philosopher and legendary singer activist said this: "The more painful the story a song tells, the more beautiful we must make the music. We do this to defuse the tension."
Simply tears me up every time I hear this. Both the instrumental version and the version (this one) where Harry Dean Stanton sings this heart-breaking ranchera. I was working on a creative project in NYC once and this soundtrack was playing - when this came on I stood where I was and bawled. Much to the amazement of the woman I was working with.
Viví muchos años lejos de mi querido Oaxaca, la tierra que me vio nacer. Aunque no soy de la Mixteca (nací en Valles Centrales, la capital oaxaqueña), siempre me sentía nostálgico al escuchando esta canción y se me escurrían las lágrimas por estar lejos de la tierra que amo con todo mi corazón.
This music means so much to me. I don't know what the singer is saying but the music cuts thru me like a knife. The music brings me to tears for reasons i don't understand.
+jamuga60 Im a huge Ry Cooder fan.. and if you like this song you will love Sailfish Evening from Alamo Bay OST. Listen here: redmp3.me/378137/ry-cooder-sailfish-evening.html
that's a song from oxaca Mexico, it means a lot from us , in the inside you might be Mexican if it make you feel something. even though I'm in London I've learned English in USA and some how I fell thankfull to USA but still sad being to far away from my home town
Canción escrita por el compositor Oaxaqueño José López Alvarez entre 1912 y 1915 ¡Qué lejos estoy del suelo donde he nacido! inmensa nostalgia invade mi pensamiento; y al verme tan solo y triste cual hoja al viento, quisiera llorar, quisiera morir de sentimiento. ¡Oh Tierra del Sol! Suspiro por verte ahora que lejos yo vivo sin luz, sin amor; y al verme tan solo y triste cual hoja al viento, quisiera llorar, quisiera morir de sentimiento. How far I am from the land where I was born! Immense nostalgia invades my heart; And seeing myself so lonely and sad like a leaf in the wind, I want to cry, I want to die from this feeling. Oh Land of Sun! I yearn to see you! Now that I'm so far from you, I live without light and love; And seeing myself so lonely and sad like a leaf in the wind, I want to cry, I want to die from this feeling.
Who knew perfection was a song lasting just four minutes and seventeen seconds...……...but that's what this song is. A song that moves you like no other.
Happy Birthday Ry Cooder! (March 15) My favorite soundtrack of all time. This song is so heartbreaking, nostalgic, and poignant. It's the perfect poem to lost love.
los Mexicanos tenemos muchas cosas de los Españoles y pues orgullosamente hablamos español, pero México es México y estas canciones llegan al alma saludos
A mí esta canción no me hace sentir mexicano; esta canción me hace sentir humano. Trasciende a la simple música para convertirse en un sollozo universal de la nostalgia por una tierra, un lugar, un hogar. Un grito de dolor sufrido por cualquier humano.
¡Qué lejos estoy del suelo donde he nacido! Inmensa nostalgia invade mi pensamiento Al verme tan solo y triste cual hoja al viento Quisiera llorar, quisiera morir de sentimiento ¡Oh Tierra del Sol! Suspiro por verte Ahora que lejos yo vivo sin luz, sin amor Y al verme tan solo y triste cual hoja al viento Quisiera llorar, quisiera morir de sentimiento Just in case ya wanna sing along
Que lejos estoy del suelo donde he nacido! inmensa nostalgia invade mi pensamiento; y al ver me tan solo y triste qual hoja al viento, quisiera llorar, quisiera morir de sentimiento. Oh tierra del sol!, suspiro por verte ahora que lejos yo vivo sin luz, sin amor; y al verme tan solo y triste cual hoja al viento, quisiera llorar, quisiera morir de sentimiento.
Ha logrado transmitir la sensibilidad propia del mestizaje (de muchos pueblos) de América Latina como nunca escuché de ningún otro estadounidense ¡Bravo!
I'm mexican... when i see the clip of this song, i started to cry... Ry Cooder could express the pain and nostalgic of this amazing song... even, also the fact that singer could paint the sad of this song... my favorite version...
Fun Fact: this song was written by a Oaxacan Mixteco musician who left his beloved home state to try to find work at the capital (Mexico D.F.) this is his song about missing Oaxaca. That's why it's called Cancion mixteca, because Mixtecos are from predominantly from Oaxaca.
I just watched this beautiful movie with great a magistral portrayed of the characters, and direcction the script by one prolific son of the YS, Sam Shepard; so full of emotions, so delicate, and with the magical soundtrack from the guitar of Ry Cooder, I just LOVE It , and from now on, its one of my favorite movies of all times. Harry Dean Stanton RIP 😢 !!
I love this song. I first heard it when Harry Dean Stanton came out on Letterman to push the movie. He sang it ad lib with the guitar guy backing him (Will?). He threw in a "grito", the crowd laughed thinking Harry was joking but he wasn't and he just kept going full speed ahead totally into it.
There was a fire, a man, seemingly forgets about his past, about himself. The most important thing, his family. You don’t need anything else, this movie just showing how relationships can be rebuilt, the purity of it, and the soundtrack… this movie is like therapy , everyone should try
Que lejos estoy del suelo dònde he nacido I am so far from the ground where I was born Inmesa nostalgia invade mi pensamiento Great sadnes come to my mind al verte tan solo y trizte cual hoja al viento when i see me sadnes like a leaf at the air O tierra del sol suspiro por verte O land of the sun I want to see you Ahora que lejos yo vivo sin luz, sin amor Now when i am far I live with out light, with out love
The first time I heard this, I was instantly reminded of Waltz for Zizi from Cowboy Bebop, and in someways I wouldn’t be surprised if this movie was an influence to the show in its nonviolent parts, especially in the concept chasing moments that have long gone with only opinions on what happened remaining.
This was my dad's favorite movie. He and I watched it many times together before I was even in school. The image of the man in the red cap burnt into my mind for years and I couldn't remember why. My dad would always talk about visiting Paris, Texas. So much that it bothered my mom. I'd always feel nostalgic and sentimental when I hear Spanish/Mexican guitar. My father dies and 5 years later I stumble upon this. I don't know what to say.
The music is hypnotic! It has some outer world power and feel. I am sorry that your father has passed. Maybe sometime in the future you will indeed visit Paris Texas.
Bless you and your memories
Sargeant saxophone, did your father ever get to go to Paris, Texas? And did he want to go before he watched the movie? or after? I mean, was it because of the movie? I truly love this movie and song.
Sargeant Saxophone - One of my favorite movies as well. A beautiful film with a soundtrack to match.
The same history for me , this song remenber me That beatiful time. Hi from spain. 2018
I'm mexican... when i see the clip of this song, i started to cry... Ry Cooder could express the pain and nostalgic of this amazing song... even, also the fact that singer could paint the sad of this song... my favorite version...
bravo Amigo....somone said he sang this impossibly beautiful song with his impossibly beautiful voice....
❤
my old memory films. I was 17 years old
Me too
Estoy de acuerdo contigo y soy un judio ruso que ama el idioma espanol. Es tan hermoso😈
Let us all honor the fact that it is one of America's greatest actors singing this most impossibly beautiful song. Known for years as a great character actor and beloved and admired by others in LaLa Hollywood who knew real greatness, Harry Dean Stanton never won a major award, and "Paris, Texas" was his only substantial lead role. Yet he was the very best at his craft. . And he was not a professional singer, yet he does the greatest singing job ever with this extraordinary song, and the great craftsman that he was, he gets all of the powerful emotions of this song just right. HDS kept singing this song until he was 91. RIP, Unsung Legend.
That's Harry Dean Stanton singing this song? Seriously?
@@phoenixobrien163 Absolutely.
He loved to sing Mexican songs.
At 90 years old he carried his last film, Lucky. Have you seen it? Really great and he sings in it. He died about a year later.
@@jschuler53 You are absolutely right. I have seen it and love it. He played that role as only a real Legend can RIP HDS.
The best movie ever made for a rough father/son relationship. Love is strange, and maybe he was too old- maybe she’s too young, and maybe you’re just too important to lose.
Sometimes the only way to love somebody is from the start; as a stranger.
R.I.P. Harry Dean Stanton (July 14, 1926- September 15, 2017) :(
Most movie buffs have this in their top ten
It’s a masterpiece
Soundtrack is beautiful too
Indeed, it's in my top ten!
Ry Cooder doesn't try to be the fastest guitarist, he concentrates on bringing out the guitar's beauty. His playing and Harry DS's raw emotion can soften the coldest of hearts. RC had to convince Harry DS that he was good enough to sing the song - I'm eternally grateful that he did. After recording his vocal, Harry DS said 'I can't stress too much how much Ry Cooder was an influence on me. Having one of the most respected musicians around like my singing reeally gave me the confidence to do it.'
Tears, only tears...
Tears.... yes, But only spawned of love... So the good kind
GOD
How incredible is Ry Cooder?
He must be one of the most brilliant musicians of all time.
Dean sure has a lovely voice.
PURE MAGIC!
And what a beautiful song written by a Mexican Composer born in Oaxaca! Jose Luis Alvarez! The Spanish original lyrics are so full of emotion! Love it!
The Kentuckian with the Mexican soul pairs with the greatest guitarist of our time for this kind of music to perform one of the most painfully beautiful renditions of the most deeply moving song of loss ever written anywhere. There is great wisdom here: African poet-philosopher and legendary singer activist said this: "The more painful the story a song tells, the more beautiful we must make the music. We do this to defuse the tension."
Simply tears me up every time I hear this. Both the instrumental version and the version (this one) where Harry Dean Stanton sings this heart-breaking ranchera. I was working on a creative project in NYC once and this soundtrack was playing - when this came on I stood where I was and bawled. Much to the amazement of the woman I was working with.
Viví muchos años lejos de mi querido Oaxaca, la tierra que me vio nacer. Aunque no soy de la Mixteca (nací en Valles Centrales, la capital oaxaqueña), siempre me sentía nostálgico al escuchando esta canción y se me escurrían las lágrimas por estar lejos de la tierra que amo con todo mi corazón.
This music means so much to me. I don't know what the singer is saying but the music cuts thru me like a knife. The music brings me to tears for reasons i don't understand.
That's the point bro
+jamuga60 Im a huge Ry Cooder fan.. and if you like this song you will love Sailfish Evening from Alamo Bay OST. Listen here: redmp3.me/378137/ry-cooder-sailfish-evening.html
+Factologist That's nice! Thank yo!
+jamuga60 The very same happens to me. Amazing!
that's a song from oxaca Mexico, it means a lot from us , in the inside you might be Mexican if it make you feel something. even though I'm in London I've learned English in USA and some how I fell thankfull to USA but still sad being to far away from my home town
This is an incredibly power piece of music.....................it carries a lot of water.
Canción escrita por el compositor Oaxaqueño José López Alvarez entre 1912 y 1915
¡Qué lejos estoy del suelo donde he nacido!
inmensa nostalgia invade mi pensamiento;
y al verme tan solo y triste cual hoja al viento,
quisiera llorar, quisiera morir de sentimiento.
¡Oh Tierra del Sol! Suspiro por verte
ahora que lejos yo vivo sin luz, sin amor;
y al verme tan solo y triste cual hoja al viento,
quisiera llorar, quisiera morir de sentimiento.
How far I am from the land where I was born!
Immense nostalgia invades my heart;
And seeing myself so lonely and sad like a leaf in the wind,
I want to cry, I want to die from this feeling.
Oh Land of Sun! I yearn to see you!
Now that I'm so far from you, I live without light and love;
And seeing myself so lonely and sad like a leaf in the wind,
I want to cry, I want to die from this feeling.
Gracias amigo desconocido
Thanks for your enghlish traduction
para agregarle sal a la herida
Your English is the best I’ve found because the deep sentiment comes through. Amy
Correction: Your English translation is the best I’ve found because the sentiment comes through just like the original Spanish version. Amy
Who knew perfection was a song lasting just four minutes and seventeen seconds...……...but that's what this song is. A song that moves you like no other.
Every time that I listen this song a tear begin to fall…… too touching….. love it!
RIP Harry Dean Stanton. Aside from his incredible acting, what a beautiful voice he had. A real shame he didn't make album after album.
i knew these people, these two people.......
That's just brilliant. So memorable. The best movie.
One of the best movie of all time🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
I weep a tear at every note from this tune! I shed my heart at every word I hear!
First heard this version 20 years ago. This tune became one of my favorites to hear and to sing.
Happy Birthday Ry Cooder! (March 15)
My favorite soundtrack of all time. This song is so heartbreaking, nostalgic, and poignant. It's the perfect poem to lost love.
RainyDayMerman 응 나두 좋아 빔 밴더스^#
Ry Cooder is a genius. He knows where your buttons are.
Great song, performance, guitar, singing, everything God Bless!
Is there anything more beautiful than this?
No. I can categorically say that. It is beyond words and beyond my comprehension.
NO!!!
Yes, the film
wow! Cada vez que esucho esta cancion me sangra el corazon y pese a que soy Español, me siento mexicano
los Mexicanos tenemos muchas cosas de los Españoles y pues orgullosamente hablamos español, pero México es México y estas canciones llegan al alma saludos
A mí esta canción no me hace sentir mexicano; esta canción me hace sentir humano. Trasciende a la simple música para convertirse en un sollozo universal de la nostalgia por una tierra, un lugar, un hogar. Un grito de dolor sufrido por cualquier humano.
ry cooder plays this so tenderly
RIP both Harry and Sam. Legends for all times.
¡Qué lejos estoy del suelo donde he nacido!
Inmensa nostalgia invade mi pensamiento
Al verme tan solo y triste cual hoja al viento
Quisiera llorar, quisiera morir de sentimiento
¡Oh Tierra del Sol! Suspiro por verte
Ahora que lejos yo vivo sin luz, sin amor
Y al verme tan solo y triste cual hoja al viento
Quisiera llorar, quisiera morir de sentimiento
Just in case ya wanna sing along
Que lejos estoy del suelo donde he nacido!
inmensa nostalgia invade mi pensamiento;
y al ver me tan solo y triste qual hoja al viento,
quisiera llorar, quisiera morir de sentimiento.
Oh tierra del sol!, suspiro por verte
ahora que lejos yo vivo sin luz, sin amor;
y al verme tan solo y triste cual hoja al viento,
quisiera llorar, quisiera morir de sentimiento.
Ha logrado transmitir la sensibilidad propia del mestizaje (de muchos pueblos) de América Latina como nunca escuché de ningún otro estadounidense ¡Bravo!
De hecho era aleman
I have to admit that Hispanic music often enters areas of human expression unequaled in any other culture.
Right on the money Leo..............................This music moves me like nothing else can.
I'm mexican... when i see the clip of this song, i started to cry... Ry Cooder could express the pain and nostalgic of this amazing song... even, also the fact that singer could paint the sad of this song... my favorite version...
Fun Fact: this song was written by a Oaxacan Mixteco musician who left his beloved home state to try to find work at the capital (Mexico D.F.) this is his song about missing Oaxaca. That's why it's called Cancion mixteca, because Mixtecos are from predominantly from Oaxaca.
I just watched this beautiful movie with great a magistral portrayed of the characters, and direcction the script by one prolific son of the YS, Sam Shepard; so full of emotions, so delicate, and with the magical soundtrack from the guitar of Ry Cooder, I just LOVE It , and from now on, its one of my favorite movies of all times. Harry Dean Stanton RIP 😢 !!
My favorite movie ever!!! ❤
Preciosa canción que emociona siempre. Versión maravillosa la de Ry Cooder
This movie made a lot of inpression! so beautiful filmed and the music magical!!
One of the best films and songs of all time!
Thank you. Infinite Love and Gratitude.
I love this song. I first heard it when Harry Dean Stanton came out on Letterman to push the movie. He sang it ad lib with the guitar guy backing him (Will?). He threw in a "grito", the crowd laughed thinking Harry was joking but he wasn't and he just kept going full speed ahead totally into it.
Brilliant story, love it.
There was a fire, a man, seemingly forgets about his past, about himself. The most important thing, his family. You don’t need anything else, this movie just showing how relationships can be rebuilt, the purity of it, and the soundtrack… this movie is like therapy , everyone should try
Me estruja el corazón
a musica mais bonita do mundo! como o filme!
Quisiera llorar,
Quisiera morir de sentimento. "Canción Mixteca" author Jose Lopez Alaves 1912
Hauntingly Beautiful !
Just stunning.
This is so lovely......
E Ry foi quém de facer cantar o actor. Parabéns! Uma joia (alfaiate)
Just enjoy and Lurrvve every minute of it!
such emotion
Que lejos estoy del suelo dònde he nacido
I am so far from the ground where I was born
Inmesa nostalgia invade mi pensamiento
Great sadnes come to my mind
al verte tan solo y trizte cual hoja al viento
when i see me sadnes like a leaf at the air
O tierra del sol suspiro por verte
O land of the sun I want to see you
Ahora que lejos yo vivo sin luz, sin amor
Now when i am far I live with out light, with out love
Immer wieder schön zu hören
IVE ALWAYS LOVED ITALIAN AND LATINO MELODIES!!!!!!
Ahh..my afternoon soothing sound
Mi querida Tierra del Sol ...Dear Land of Sun
Ry Cooder turned down the Rolling Stones who wanted him to join he was a musician not a slave to fame
It's such a beautiful song.
R.I.P. singer Harry Dean Stanton. 9-15-2017
Paris Texas, chef d'œuvre impérissable
So many nice memories - So viele schöne Erinnerungen
Just thousand of thanks for the uploading
like this one a lot
The rare recording of Demetrio Dehesa is the best version ever for me. However, beautiful song !
Que ganas de llorar
Heart-breakening.......
muy bonita, gloria a dios
I Love this!
Beautiful.
the time to cry is now
年に一回は必ず観る映画🎞✨
趣味がええ👍🏻
Incredible.
Beautiful x
gracias es muy bueno, superchivo
muy bonita Canción ...
***** ....such a talented musician, never ceases to amaze!
Love it!!!!
Meraviglia.
The first time I heard this, I was instantly reminded of Waltz for Zizi from Cowboy Bebop, and in someways I wouldn’t be surprised if this movie was an influence to the show in its nonviolent parts, especially in the concept chasing moments that have long gone with only opinions on what happened remaining.
That anime have a plenty reference of this movie
amazing
wonderful :)
Thanks for post ;-)
.muy bueno
Vaya con Dios, Harry Dean Stanton...
Lovely isn't it?!!
'Que Lejos Estoy' How far away from home!!!!!
That was Ry Cooder playing the guitar here in the clip from the film _Paris, Texas?_ I didn't know that.
gracias dios
Wow!
R.I.P. , H.D.S.
Yes, it really is.
No there isn't. This is heaven!
this fucking song eats at my soul
Equal parts beautiful and tragic
Video days 1991
I miss Harry Dean Stanton.
oneof the most sad and beautifull song ever ever written.......thos f...mexicans have the same kaimo as the greeks
What kind of music exactly is this? I know it´s mecican, but is it a subgenere?
This is a valse. A romantic song, traditional.
Flakey Foont Thank you very much¡
It is a slow ranchera. There are many of them from the Revolución Mexicana era.
Imaginense a Amores perros con esa rola
😭😭😭😭🌼🌻🌺🌸🌻🌼🌺🌸
Manuel solo gracias .
tears
cool
El Scorchio! musica.