Song of the Week: A Song for You - Donny Hathaway Version

Throughout generations of music people have written songs that have later on been covered over and over again by completely differing artists, some that just have such fantastically original takes on them. This weeks 'Song of the Week' is one of the covers that has been implanted into many peoples heart permanently since its release; 'A Song for You' by Donny Hathaway. As I'm from the 90's and Donny Hathaway died in the late 70's, unless someone in the future invents a time machine, I will not be able to ever experience how this beautiful song would have felt to be heard live by Donny Hathaway himself, but even listening in my bedroom through the recorded version via Spotify it has a large effect on me. One of the best genre's, in my opinion to ever EVER grace this world is Soul, and his version of this classic has so much soul, and it kind of makes doing whatever I'm doing impossible to continue. Multiple times during writing this post, I've kept repeating this song, and writing this has taken so much longer than normal because I just want to sit here and take it all in, theres just so much depth in it, and it has this feeling of a well experienced, and tired narrator that has been through so much, and seen so much and is finally alone with either this truly loved person or some sort of 'Ideal' thats personal to him. THAT is the primary thing that I love SO SO much about this, is that it feels like it truly is personal to Hathaway, himself and its so easy to visualize a whole entire life that has sparked this song. I can imagine myself, as an old man in my arm chair, whatever has become of my life is irrelevant, I can still see myself there, with this song playing and it would be a perfect summary song of a life. I've barely even started this 'Song of the Week' series of posts and its still making me feel better about current music, because I've got this golden oldie that is absolutely incredible, and yet a song from this year from the lovely Ellie Goulding is ALSO incredible, despite the complete differences in content, genre, tone it shows how my generation arent just surrounded by crap. So don't give up on music yet, throughout generations there's always those golden tracks that wonderfully represent each.