Mike + The Mechanics - The Living Years Lyrics

So here I am twenty years later. I told my dad what I needed to tell him. Now my son is thirteen years old. Dad is still alive. My boy loves to talk to him and hear about what life was like before television.

I'm crying now talking about this. But you don't have to lose the link between the generations. Just let them keep talking.

Mike & The Mechanics - The living Years - Lyrics
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Every generation
Blames the one before
And all of their frustrations
Come beating on your door

I know that I'm a prisoner
To all my Father held so dear
I know that I'm a hostage
To all his hopes and fears
I just wish I could have told him in the living years

Oh, crumpled bits of paper
Filled with imperfect thought
Stilted conversations
I'm afraid that's all we've got

You say you just don't see it
He says it's perfect sense
You just can't get agreement
In this present tense
We all talk a different language
Talking in defence

Say it loud (say it loud), say it clear (oh say it clear)
You can listen as well as you hear
It's too late (it's too late) when we die (oh when we die)
To admit we don't see eye to eye

So we open up a quarrel
Between the present and the past
We only sacrifice the future
It's the bitterness that lasts

So don't yield to the fortunes
You sometimes see as fate
It may have a new perspective
On a different day
And if you don't give up, and don't give in
You may just be okay

So say it loud, say it clear (oh say it clear)
You can listen as well as you hear
Because it's too late, it's too late (it's too late) when we die (oh when we die)
To admit we don't see eye to eye

I wasn't there that morning
When my Father passed away
I didn't get to tell him
All the things I had to say

I think I caught his spirit
Later that same year
I'm sure I heard his echo
In my baby's new born tears
I just wish I could have told him in the living years

Say it loud, say it clear (oh say it clear)
You can listen as well as you hear
It's too late (it's too late) when we die (it's too late when we die)
To admit we don't see eye to eye

So say it, say it, say it loud (say it loud)
Say it clear (come on say it clear)
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Songwriters: B.A. Robertson / Mike Rutherford (gb)
The Living Years lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Concord Music Publishing LLC

Saaaay it Loud, that song makes me cry every time I hear it

My mom passed on Nov 3rd...and this song is always in my head - she loved this song and being from Germany - I remember her always singing to these lyrics, but understanding them...she was tough and hard, but really sweet and loving under all that ...whatever it was.....still trying to figure it out, but I think I know- People in general suck......

This is an amazing song

depressing song

I remember him every Oct 10, His birthday and as now I am the last I think of all my family that has gone before me, but sometimes I just wish it was different.

Cheguei aqui pelo American horror 1984....
Algum brasileiro aí?

Whis sick of all these "who's here" crap?

I am the same with everyone here who watched AHS:1984, and the moment this song played, I felt something that I forgot suddenly was remembered. I don't know, but I think I heard this song somewhere and probably forgot about it but I felt something right after hearing this song. Haha just sharing because I can't contain what I am feeling right now and that I might be overreacting.

Wunderschöner Song

Was habe ich diesen SONG geliebt.

One of the best songs ever produced.,the words say it all a place where many of us know all about.

My dad passed away on 12/12/2019 and I wasn't there to see him pass away 😢😢😢

Carrie Thomas80 I’m so sorry for your loss 😢 I hope this song comforts and brings you peace

This song caused me to patch things up with my dad before he passed. I owe a lot to Mike and the mechanics.

Echo in baby's tear... Beautiful. If the music don't move you, the lyrics will.

I was 19 when my Dad died at 52. Ten years later this song came on the radio as my husband and I left the hospital where my mother passed unexpectedly at 58. I can't hear this song without feeling those profound losses again. It's been many years and I miss them both terribly, but I love this song. It really speaks to me.

It speaks to everyone who has a heart and conscious.....

Who’s here after American Horror Story: 1984?

Thank you, folks.... been goin through that ever since... for generations. A perfect song that I hope will last forever.

😢 I AM INLOVE WITH THIS SONG since childhood I'm 25yrs old

My father, my dad, Charles R Crafts, passed away January 30, 2018. He was my best friend, my role model, & the person I now strive to be. I had moved to Wisconsin 2 weeks earlier to help take care of the family home due to his brother, my beloved uncle Georgie, passing away 3 months before. I was told my dad had pancreatic cancer on Tuesday morning. I went to sleep that night to start the long drive back to Maryland in the morning not knowing he wouldn't make it. I still blame myself today for not being there to say I love you 1 more time, just so he could hear my voice. I love you pops and miss you more than anyone will ever know....I just wish I could've told him in his living years

He knows.....

I 💙 this song reminds me of my dad.

This song KILLS ME, it reminds me of how my Grandfather and I were, we could just never sit and TALK to each other , I went in the Service and then He was gone and I have regretted how we left things........

So long as you remember him its all good....just remember to toast to him at least once a year....he'll know you still remember him.....

Ayyyyyyy mi Dio' mi tio was %1,000,000,000 right the music of the 1980's was fckn amazingly great.....I like this song I wasnt born yet but still a great beat

millennials and boomers: why not we quit screaming at each other.

I wasn't there that morning my father passed away.. I hated him for the cancer that he couldn't beat and leaving us all too soon.. he was a badass and he withered away in 11months to nothing, I'll never get penance for missing his final breaths

Miss you so much papa :(

@3.47 is why im here... 😔

“Every generation blames the one before”. Except for boomers. They blame millennials 😂

My mom loved this song. She heard it on the radio minutes before she got the call her own father had passed away. At that time, it was a new song. Both my mom and her dad shared a birthday. I dedicate this song to the two of them! I miss them so very much! The holidays are never quite the same without them! Though I no longer have either one of them by my side, they will always live forever in my heart, soul and mind. May one day, we all be reunited once again!

They're only gone physically....spiritually they'll both always live in your heart.....

This song gives me chills.

because its so true....touches everyone....

Who's here because Mike and the Mechanics and not AHS?

740 estúpidos que no saben nada de musica, han pasado por aqui...

I'm here beause my dad just diagnosed with cancer :(

Every time I hear or listen to this song, it makes me remember my lil brother ADEOLA. R.I.P. my blood.😪

Lyrics:

Every generation
Blames the one before
And all of their frustrations
Come beating on your door
I know that I'm a prisoner
To all my Father held so dear
I know that I'm a hostage
To all his hopes and fears
I just wish I could have told him in the living years
Oh, crumpled bits of paper
Filled with imperfect thought
Stilted conversations
I'm afraid that's all we've got
You say you just don't see it
He says it's perfect sense
You just can't get agreement
In this present tense
We all talk a different language
Talking in defence
Say it loud (say it loud), say it clear (oh say it clear)
You can listen as well as you hear
It's too late (it's too late) when we die (oh when we die)
To admit we don't see eye to eye
So we open up a quarrel
Between the present and the past
We only sacrifice the future
It's the bitterness that lasts
So don't yield to the fortunes
You sometimes see as fate
It may have a new perspective
On a different day
And if you don't give up, and don't give in
You may just be okay
So say it loud, say it clear (oh say it clear)
You can listen as well as you hear
Because it's too late, it's too late (it's too late) when we die (oh when we die)
To admit we don't see eye to eye
I wasn't there that morning
When my Father passed away
I didn't get to tell him
All the things I had to say
I think I caught his spirit
Later that same year
I'm sure I heard his echo
In my baby's new born tears
I just wish I could have told him in the living years
Say it loud, say it clear (oh say it clear)
You can listen as well as you hear
It's too late (it's too late) when we die (it's too late when we die)
To admit we don't see eye to eye
So say it, say it, say it loud (say it loud)
Say it clear (come on say it clear)

I lost my uncle on 5-27-19. He was like my second dad to me. He past away from cancer after a 18 month battle. I still have my parents but my uncle knew in his heart I loved him with all my heart. I was with him and family the day he passed. One of my hardest day in my life. I always tell family I love them everyday. Do this before they are gone.

FUCK American Horror Story. Long Live Paul Young

This song always reminds me of my family,I’m the black sheep of my family,I did wrong things,and was punished for it (and rightly so) then I grew up and worked hard and made my mum & dad very proud of me,were as my family stayed the same, my mum & dad passed away so I’ve close the book on them all, god bless you mum & dad always in my heart 😪

you're not alone.....there are many of us who are treated as the black sheep but it doesn't bother me much anymore because I know everyone has done bad as well in their lives....they just don't talk about it....they like to live in glass houses and throw stones....their day will come....don't worry....

80’s will never die

What a great song that both transcends time and relates to everyone with a pulse.

What. A. Vocal.

Say it before its to late to that special person X

Lost my dad in 1989 still miss him ,we never had a bad word ,ever,top man and x-Royal Navy

Here because I know and grew up with the original music, love Mike Rutherford's music and writing and have seen the man with the golden voice in several bands on several tours. Those here because of AHS I hope this is one step for you towards discovering the innumerable talents of them all.

Happy birthday dad xxx

I lost my granddad in March (92 years old) and my Russian uncle in April (45 years old) 31 days apart. They died no less than 31 days apart. So naturally this is the kind of stuff that speaks to you on another level. Thanks to M+TM for creating a timeless song. Music speaks when we don't have the voice ourselves. x

Exactly!!

I give to my husband this we been been married 43 years we got married I on 4 Dec 1976 he would love me and I will never leave him he stuck to like.glue

this song gives me Worship vibes

I. Said. It. Loud. I Said. It. To. Make. God. Proud

God. Is. Love.
Grady. Lee. Fitzgerald

My. Whole. Life

God. Bless Us. All

Cow. Boy. Grady

I miss Chet 😔

734 village idiots gave this a thumbs down? smh.

This will make me clear the relationship to my dad, hopefully.

Anybody with a heart can relate to this song in some way.

I lost both of my parents in a span of 5 years...my mom in 2013 and dad Feb of 2019...it was so much I wanted to say... This song hits me. Hard

as long as you keep their memory alive in you they will forever live in your heart....cherish the memories.....

Después de que termino AHS busque por semanas esta canción hasta que finalmente la encontré ♥️. Es muy bonita escucharla, me imagino la escena final de ahs 1984 y me pongo a llorar. La verdad fue un bonito cierre de la novena temporada a modo nostalgico... los 80's nunca moriran

Siempre en mi corazón♥️♥️ tío John , te querré eternamente ♥️♥️🌹🌹

This song was one of my favorite ones in the 90s; Dedicate it to my late father.

I recently told my father "The older I get, the wiser you become." He gave me a smile I'll never forget. Thanks, dad. I love you.

its amazing how life makes much more sense the older you get....

Every generation blames the one before ...how true Paul carrack.

Wunderschöner Song, einfach unsterblich

Nobody knows have much I miss my dad around the holidays I'm miss so much 😭 some time I just want to cry I'm 60 year old and I still cry when I think of him

as long as you remember him he'll forever be in your heart.....

The 80's will never die✨

My. Baby. Sister's. Daughter. She. Was. Born

My Sister. Do. So. Proud

Sends. Me. Picture. Right. Away

Her. New. Baby. Daughter

I. Looked. I'm Seeing. My. Grandma. My. Dad's. Mom. There. Clear. As. Bell

Baby. Her

Wondered. Also

That. You. Grandma. Back. Again.

Big. Time ?

She. Looks. N. Did. Very. Fast. So. Different. Then. My. Grandma. Her. Great. Grandma

I. Loved. With. All. My. Heart. As. I. Love. Her. Same. Also. Always.

Cow. Boy. Grady

Hey. Dad

The. Cowboy. Gimick. It's. To. Get. Chic's. Dad

Just. Like. I. Told. You

Your. Son

Grady

Wink

Cow. Boy. Grady

Always

Best song of all time!!!!

A POWERFUL message that knows no borders, cultures, languages or race. It’s too late when we die.......Thank you for such a beautiful song. ❤️

Love this song after I saw ending of amarican horror story,I always heard it in the 80s and was blah then

awesome song!

Wunderschöner Song

The eighties will never die!

My ex just committed suicide. This song really hits me hard. We weren't in a good place. I'm so sorry Matt.

This song always makes me cry.

it has the power to make the most man of man cry because it speaks the truth....

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Beautiful song

He was the guitar/bass player of Genesis

I'm here cause I watched AHS 9

Lindo tema.

Oh teehee I'm here from American horror story, please fooook off

For all those who have lost a loved one

My farther died in 1985 when I was 19 me and him did not see things the same way and we had a lot of arguments .. when he pass away all of a sudden of a heart attack at 50 years old , I never got to tell him I loved him I regret that and I live with that!! I’m 53 years old and I have 2 children my son 32 my daughter 22 and I look back at my life and I seen my son in me , and my dad in also but I learned from my relationship with my farther that there is allways a middle ground and that he was not allways right but I was not right ether !! So RIP dad and I love you and miss you so much .

he'll always live in your heart as long as you remember him....only gone physically not spiritually.....

Age brought me here!

Listening to this with tears running down my face it will be 36 years on the 4 th of December when my dad died and I miss him so much

thats my b day too !!

He'll always live in your heart as long as you remember him....

give Me Way.

I'm a Hiker, Pilot and a Flyer. Every Paper Airplane makes sense.

Tell the ones you love that you love them TODAY

so many chills from this

I heard it WAY before AHS 1984 but after hearing it used on that last a scene it felt deeper. I called my dad to tell him I loved him and will see him soon. Don’t wait

Cheesy 80s instrumentation, but poignant lyrics. When you lose your parents, no matter how many times you told them you loved them, it never feels like enough. I must have whispered "thank you" a couple dozen times in my mother's ear as she lay unconscious before she died hoping she'd hear it.

She did....she'll always live in your heart so long as you remember her....

American Horror Story brought me here this song is awesome

I haven't watched AHS in years. My father passed over two years ago.

I have no idea why, but this song percolated up in my brain and I had to hear it.

The 80's Will never die
-Montana

It came out in 1989, freaks

This is true in alot family's! Unfortunately!

This such a beautiful song and a tear jerker. Hits hard to how I feel about my life

AHS 1984 I loved the ending to this season made me tearful yet happy for Jingles. #The80sForever

Ok boomer