I was driving home one night having flown in from a trip. Lived 50 miles outside Dallas in the country...it was a snowy, cold late night and I was in the middle of a 35 year long drug and alcohol addiction. Married with two kids, a musician who came off the road to marry and go to work for Sony Broadcast. Finishing a pint of JD on the way home, late, in the middle of nowhere when this song came on, and I slowly came to a stop in the middle of a 2 lane road and turned the lights off, no cars in sight either way. If you aren't or weren't an addict, you can't appreciate the chilling feeling of being caught, being found out, in such an intimate way by each stanza of Wilcox's song. I completely understood why Baker took the dive through the window to land in the courtyard. I wiped the tears off my face, turned the lights back on and started my truck. I had played nights with other musicians and had been so blown away by their playing I simply stopped in the middle of the song. I was blessed to play great original music with great musicians but I had never been as moved as listening to Wilcox's song that night. Of course, it took me three years or so to, with the Lord's help, get sober and in that time, I screwed everything up as a dad and husband beyond belief. Not a new story by any means, but an incredible song...especially Brecker's horn part.

@winstonsmith478

3 жыл бұрын

Sincerely glad you made it... and I agree this song is brilliant.

@sunglass68

2 жыл бұрын

thanks for writing your response. It touched me.

@michaelfoxbrass

2 жыл бұрын

God bless you, my friend. I’ve been at that intersection and I made a good turn over 30 years ago. Brecker’s haunting tones and Wilcox’s knowing words beautifully capture the yearning pain and ecstatic forgetting that my addiction(s) presented me. Life is more vivid, difficult, interesting, and joyful now than I’d ever have imagined while I was drinking and using.

So true for me and so many

Beautiful 😢

I can't say how much I love this song. I sing it often when I feel heavy with the tonnage of sadness that our world is now.

I’d love this to be played at my service because it is so true, so insightful about what it’s like to grow old as an addict...

Amazing , thank you for sharing

This song aches of the emptiness of heroin addiction and the unhappy ending of suicide. So lonely and sad, a soul lost.

my goosebumps are getting goosebumps heah. i'd only heard this by k.d. lang and i guess assumed she'd penned it. it always grabbed me anyways but knew nothing of david wilcox' (not THAT one) incredibly elequent peon to chet baker. i'm floored. it's just so beautiful.

quite lovely

Such a beautiful, sad song sung so expressively. Having worked with many people living (and sometimes dying) with addiction, I experience strong waves of sadness anytime I listen to it.

Excellent combination of music and images..... well done.... thanks for sharing.

Very nicely done. One of my favorite compositions, extremely good image choices

beautiful

fing beautiful!!!!

Thank you for doing this

Good things and bad things happen in this life. We have to take the good with the bad.

Kudos to the video choices. Always loved the song. This video adds another beautiful aspect. Thanks!

Laura? I'm guessing. You did an exceptional job of photo selection, placement and timing. Wonderful complement to such a beautiful, sad, and moving song.

Quite the horn blower...!!! So easy to get lost in. Really love the song but can't seem to get it right....,

Addiction can take many forms. In Chet Baker's case, it was to drugs and music, which so often went together (and still do.) Less famous (or infamous) and dramatic, but not that much less toxic in the collateral damage to those around us, is addiction to such things as work, empire-building, and ego-tripping. And when the empire fails to materialize, the ego trip leads to comeuppance, alienation and hopelessness, and the workaholism leads to despair, loneliness, and possibly an early grave, then what is left? Where does the leading man (or woman) is this real-life film noir turn? Stay tuned...

0:00 - 0:22 Pretty useful for samples, I've used it for a beat or two.

A masterpiece of songwriting. Wilcox does it perfect here. What really sucks is that KD Lang covered the song, and GOOFED UP one of the lines -- Lang left out the "dow" following the word 'wind' -- totally missing the whole idea. Still, kudos to you, David Wilcox, one of my favorite songs ever.

@buddhistsympathizer1136

6 жыл бұрын

I respectfully disagree. Although I understand the reference of 'window', I think using 'Wind' is more pleasing to the ear. As a lyric, 'sends me out into this window' doesn't really make sense

@dbradx

3 жыл бұрын

@@buddhistsympathizer1136 Except that this song is about the moments right before Chet Baker actually went out a hotel window, so it makes absolutely perfect sense. That's my beef with K.D.'s cover - she muted the meaning of the song.

@Chris-od8si

8 ай бұрын

I think kd was quite deliberately interpreting the song to have a broader meaning (ie making it about a more general experience than just that of Chet) which she was perfectly entitled to do as a singer and an artist. You are perfectly entitled to not like her choice or her version, but it’s not a “goof” or mistake. She changed the lyrics to suit her feeling, her interpretation as many singers and artists do with the material they record. No one is obliged to like it (although her version is very popular with many, myself included).

@tom1600x1050

8 ай бұрын

@@Chris-od8si Eh, but no -- it was a mistake. I love KD's singing -- my favorite one of her is 'Constant Craving'. Her rendition of this song has great feeling. But David Wilcox's writing is superb, delicate, intricately planned, and the "dow" adds a powerful message of despair to the song. The flower is stretching out in the w i n d --- but like a drug addict, is limited by the pane of glass -- ouch -- so the 'dow" and the end of "wind" is a beautiful detail. It's limited by the window. Wilcox sings the syllable 'dow' softly, so most likely, when KD listened to the song, maybe she didn't hear it? Or forgot? But it's a mistake. Even pros like KD make mistakes.

@Chris-od8si

8 ай бұрын

@@tom1600x1050 I respect your opinion, although I disagree that is likely. I think she changed the lyric just as she changed the title of the song, to make it broader and so she could relate to it more (going through a window being specific to Chet’s tragic death, and something she likely didn’t want to sing). I guess we’ll have to agree to differ on this one, but best wishes to you. It’s a beautiful song anyway.

Who is playing trumpet in this video??

@utubeXthereforeXuare

7 жыл бұрын

Would like to know. Maybe David Wilcox can post the answer on his website.

@ErikBjrgum

6 жыл бұрын

Randy Brecker

Shame that Lang changed the title of this wonderful tribute to a very talented man. Sadly, it diminishes the story and the life of Chet Baker which is embodied in this song.

And

David, if you're reading this (probably not) but if you are, how about writing songs for my novel 'Jakk's Journey'? It is about a teenager who builds a spaceship, flies to Betelgeuse, meets sexy aliens, and learns how to be a human (the theme). Many great possibilities for songs. If interested, contact me (google my name "tom sulcer").

David Wilcox, I don't know your struggle but I don't buy your phrasing. The way you turn the phrases of this song, and how it was written. You have too much confidence, or you portray too much confidence which leads me to find your 'rendition' to be insipid.

@futuredave2

Жыл бұрын

This comment is maybe the dumbest thing I’ve ever read.

@seanparker4746

7 ай бұрын

gzucc WTF are you talking about?

@gzucc

7 ай бұрын

WTF do you care? @@seanparker4746