What brings a tear of joy to your eye?
Yusuf Islam wrote many great songs and one of those is Father and Son.It brings a tear to my eye every time I hear it. It is a tear of joy generated by a sad experience.
My father once had a terrible fight with one of my brothers.He threw him down the stairs.I was about fourteen and in my bedroom and heard the shouting and the banging on the thin cardboard like walls.
In truth my father was right to engage with his son, my brother was being led astray and was staying out all night,two of his friends had recently died of drug overdoses. So my father was right to be concerned.
It’s not for me to say his confrontation with my brother was the wrong way to go about solving the situation ,but at the time it felt wrong and indeed frightening . Although thankfully no one was hurt.
This line from Father and Son brings a tear to my eye every time I hear it. Over many years it has turned from a tear of sorrow to a tear of joy.
“Oh how can I try to explain….cause when I do he turns away again”
It’s the fact my dad was trying to save his son and doing the best he could and that’s what makes me now cry tears of joy.
Nothing in life is simple or straight forward,we can only do the best we can to make things better.
Father and Son will always be a special song to me.
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