Ludo - Morning in May
I can't get this song out of my head at the moment, it just won't leave me alone. So I'm going to ramble about it. It's the last of four song in Ludo's "The Broken Bride" Rock Opera, and to appreciate it in it's entirity you really need to listen to the other 3... the whole thing basically tells the story of this guy who loses his wife in a car crash on a beautiful morning in May, 1989, and so he spends the next 15 years constructing a time machine to take him back and prevent the accident that killed her. Things don't go quite to plan though and he ends up almost literally going to hell and back in the process, from the dawn of time to the apocalypse, eventually destroying his time machine in order to save humanity even though it means he'll never get to see his wife again. The gods/spirits/immortals/whatever you want to call them take pity on him though, and reward him, and so eventually, at the very end of the third song, he makes it to the correct time on the morning before her accident... and the fourth song describes his feelings when he finally gets her back- only to be unable to prevent the accident (though he realised this, but wanted to see her anyway). This time around, however, he knows it's coming and so chooses to spend her last few minutes with her rather than apart from her.
The singer does a fantastic job of capturing the emotions- excitement, longing, trepidation, fear, panic... and anyone who's ever lost someone they love can relate to the guy in the song. He sort of... gets the chance to do what the rest of us can't but dearly wish to: to spend just a few more precious minutes with the one we lost. The guy's pain at losing her is almost palpable, and it's so incredibly touching to see his heart made whole again for those few short minutes. Truly, it has to be one of the most incredible songs I've ever heard... the story it tells is just... so wonderful. I don't cry at much... but damnit the first time I heard this song I did tear up. I just wasn't expecting it to be so deep, and touch so close to home.
"They tried to console me
But you're all the consolation I ever needed
Years of smelling the clothes you left behind
The photographs that seemed so far away
I don't need them now you turn to me
alive, awake, and blinking, baby
"Back so soon?" you ask, but I smile 'cause I never left at all."
Part 1: Broken Bride
Part 2: Tonight's the Night
Part 3: The Lamb and the Dragon
Part 4: Morning In May
Be warned though, the music style/genre is all over the place, it varies and suddenly changes even in the middle of a song XD
But I think that only makes it more interesting to listen to.
