I wonder how many people listen to this song without understanding that it's written from the viewpoint of a man who's reflecting on his marriage from beyond the grave and realizing that it's too late to change the kind of man he was.

Patty, you are one of today's greatest song writers!

I wish I was stronger...I wish I loved Jesus the way my wife does...(Oh Patsie...I loved you so much...like all fools I learned late what love was...and like Ground Hog Day...I remember each failure...never to recover a love I lost...)

Not sure how many listeners know what an amazing composition this is, how it reverberates into so many country music recordings entitled "Top of the World." If you are listening, Miss Songbird, you are beloved.

Patty Griffin is an absolute treasure.

My favourite song of all time. And I'm a Joni Mitchell fan. What a legend. I also adore " when it don't come easy". Patti, Brandi Carlile and Joni.. add some Annie Lennox and I'm a happy man!

This song is like a beautiful gut punch. Been singing along with it for 18+ years.

@jenrobinson8072

3 жыл бұрын

She is beautiful. Like Martina McMbride.

@pattygriffin3232

3 жыл бұрын

❤️❤️

@apemess

2 жыл бұрын

Couldn't have said it better!

@jw6948

2 жыл бұрын

@@pattygriffin3232 i really hope that was you

Quanti nostri artisti possono raggiungere, l'espressività di questa grande artista:due chitarre ed una voce=un'orchestra di suoni ed emozioni incompsrabili

Raw honesty. Tragically beautiful.

One of the great singers and songwriters...

I am getting blessed with seeing her perform live in two months. I don’t know if I can listen to this song without having a full breakdown, but I am READY.

Everyone's goal should be to never have to relate to this song. Beautifully haunting, but sad.

@lance694

2 жыл бұрын

Honestly that's the case with like 90% of her songs. The woman makes nothing but masterpieces but my God if they don't just rip every ounce of joy right out of your soul and leave you in a puddle of tears by the time they're over 😭 Absolute legend!

@royberridge9039

2 жыл бұрын

Devastatingly something. Gorgeous. Sad. Truthful.

Patty is the loveliest of all the great American women performers/songwriters...and there are many...she touches my soul...

Wow....this song brought forward some feelings I buried...

Patty Griffin is a living legend.

4:08 I felt that in my gut. Musical genius.

Patty Griffin is a powerful and beautiful truth teller. I’ve always loved this song! ❤

If this video were a vinyl record, I would wear out the grooves.

So personal. So beautiful. Sincere.

Moved to tears, thank you !

@pattygriffin3232

3 жыл бұрын

You Welcome

God bless Ms Griffin

I absolutely love Patty Griffin 🌈💜♥️

wish i would have known pattys music earlier than i did fantastic singer song writer and guitarist

An amazing voice .We are all blessed by her gift......

Beautiful! She is one of my favorite artists.

Going to see her live at the Troubadour this October 2023

I'm literally shivering!!

😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 for years

This song reaches deep into me, her voice is so beautiful ❤

Wow, Patty, that was excellent! Well done!

Patty is amazing here and this is an amazing song. Dixie Chicks certainly gave the song there all and it's one if the few times a cover certainly matched or added to the original in a way that serves the song.

@jasonlafrance2942

2 жыл бұрын

Kelly clarkson did a pretty great version as well

Wow. I've heard this on the album and this is even more haunting and beautiful.

@pattygriffin3232

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks 💘

@timheidman4927

3 жыл бұрын

Definitely top of the world that song and singer thankyou

@pattygriffin3232

3 жыл бұрын

@@timheidman4927 You Welcome

God, this tears me up 🙏🏼❤️

wow! Patty Thank you!

@cathyanderson4645

3 жыл бұрын

Hey l would wear out the groves too😩🌈😎

Oh my how lovely!

Perfection

Damn, this is good

Magic

❤❤ Incredible.

Love

I've always heard it as "I don't have to answer any of these questions, don't have no GOD to, teach me no lessons" but lyrics list it as Guide not God. Thoughts?

she's brilliant

@happyfrancis

Жыл бұрын

Think it's Buddy Miller

Sure a beautiful sad song . Btw never heard this song until they did a cover on the voice!

@TheGeorgio64

4 жыл бұрын

The dixie chicks covered it on the album "Home" along with another Patty Griffin song "truth #2

@krd2331

3 жыл бұрын

Ugh 🤦‍♂️

wow!

Found my way to Patty by way of Natalie, Emily, and Marnie. Any road I guess.

@4RTigers

Жыл бұрын

Emmylou was my way to this amazing artist ❤

This is an excellent recording!!! What would it take to get her to do a live recording of “Florida” in this studio? I’ve still got a soul I can sell.

❤️ ✿❧🌿❧✿ ❤️

does anyone know what show this was from? I would love to see the whole performance!

@johnpepe180

3 жыл бұрын

I wish I did It would complete my PATTY GRIFFIN collection.......

@flydiegofly

3 жыл бұрын

Is the performance for this channel: kzread.info/dash/bejne/nXqMycV_hLjApKg.html

Could you list the other guitarist please? And say where this clip is from?

I went to Patty's Portland Maine show last year -- and something was very wrong (either she was not feeling well or the stage feedback sound was faulty because her voice was grossly out of tune -- which I never expected! And it continued throughout her show. I love RAIN -- and wish I didn't hear it that night, it was so off-tune. I'm thinking of going to the Boston show -- because there must have been a reason her sound was so off! I definitely need a 're-do'! I listen to her CD's all the time...

If you find yourself relating to the song, perhaps do the work and explore yourself, your personal history; talk to your parents while they're still living. I hope you find your closure in time.

@nursebridgie

2 жыл бұрын

💜

Maybe that's why the angels told Lot and his wife not to look back. I wish I was smarter... Longing for wisdom, life moves forward even in death.

I love this performance. Nitpicking, I know, but why breathe in the middle of "without" and "somehow"?

@copperdiablo2717

2 жыл бұрын

Her own timing,phrasing perhaps.

@royberridge9039

2 жыл бұрын

@@copperdiablo2717 Peace, brother. Singing 101. Never breath in the middle of a word.

Agreed. she is my hero for singing, songwriting, performance. Sometimes she drifts off pitch and that is cringy, but it's rare.

It's a pretty song but its also a weird song. The timing and the lyrics are like what is that?

The Dixie Chicks originally did this

@davidritchie5683

3 жыл бұрын

Maybe but Patty Griffin wrote it.

@tracyandrews5477

3 жыл бұрын

I know you did not just compare the Dixie Chicks with Patty Griffin.

@Ramx26x

3 жыл бұрын

No. They didn't. This song along with Truth N 2 was supposed to be included in a Patty's record around 2000-2001 but because of some problems with the label the album was delayed around 11 years. in the meantime around 2002-2004 some copies of that record were distributed and the Chicks (Previously called the Dixie Chicks) heard Patty and decided to grab some of the unreleased material and included in their Home album. obviously Patty approved it. after the hard time she was going through she took the chance to let her songs to be known even if it meant to be released by someone else first and then by her some day. People still believes Patty covered the Chicks when was kind of the opposite.

@lawrencewestby9229

3 жыл бұрын

@@Ramx26x is correct. The album "Silver Bell" was recorded in 2000 but it wasn't released until 2013.

@Serif96

3 жыл бұрын

Just like how Nine Inch Nails covered Johnny Cash's, Hurt i guess too, right - smh......

Brilliant.