TIME AFTER TIME, LITTLE JIMMY SCOTT – The Vampire's Wife

Look at this heart-breaking piece of film of Little Jimmy Scott singing Time After Time and giving his thoughts on what a song is meant to be. He is a vast talent and a beautiful man; we met him at my husband’s Meltdown Festival in London in 1999. Love Susie. x

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRmUWeD9YR0

Time After Time

A time for summer skies

For hummingbirds and butterflies

For tender words that harmonize with love

A time for climbing hills

For leaning out of windowsills

Admiring daffodils above

A time for holding hands together

A time for rainbow coloured weather

A time of make believe that we've been dreaming of

As time goes drifting by

The willow bends and so do I

But all my friends whatever skies above

I know a time for spring

A time for fall

But best of all

A time for love

A time for holding hands together

A time for rainbow coloured weather

A time of make believe that we've been dreaming of

As time goes drifting by

The willow bends and so do I

But all my friends whatever skies above

I know a time for spring

A time for fall

But best of all

A time for love

Songwriters: Jule Styne / Sammy Cahn

AH, MY DEAR ANGRY LORD

I love this terse little poem by the English poet, orator, and priest, George Herbert about the contradictory nature of religious belief, its good and bad sides, and its joy and sorrow. There's nothing like a bit of hard religion on a Sunday morning!!

NO TEAR-FLOODS OR SIGH-TEMPESTS

In A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning, the English poet, John Donne, likens his relationship with his wife, Mary, to a spiritual entanglement between two souls as he says farewell to her before he goes on a mission to Europe. I love the lines ‘let us melt and make no noise/no tear-floods, nor sigh-tempests move’. Beautiful!

THE CARNIVAL IS OVER

I have just a simple song for you all from 1967, all the way from Australia (where my husband is), by The Seekers. I love this song, melancholy but so stirring, and Judith Durham, dressed in what looks like something from the archives of The Vampire’s Wife, is so touching. It is a song full of tears about the end of things and love’s enduring presence. We adore this song here at The Vampire’s Wife.