There was not a dry eye in the room except for Charles Blount. He asked why is everyone crying? I'm still here! He did get the transplant.

What a heartfelt reaction. Thankfully his Dad is still with him. He had stage 4 kidney disease, and would not have survived without this song. A distant relative heard the song and was able to have the correct blood type for a kidney transplant. The power of music was able to save his life.

@ALittleMoreOfLisa

2 жыл бұрын

Oh, I'm so happy to hear that. 🙏 Wow, the power of music really is incredible. The fact that someone heard it who was able to give him a second chance at life is unbelievable 😊

@witchfromthenorth5294

2 жыл бұрын

The real irony is that the donors names is Also James Blunt

@shantaylor3686

2 жыл бұрын

@@ALittleMoreOfLisa This was done in one take. Everyone was crying apart from James dad

@starmnsixty1209

2 жыл бұрын

Wasn't he lucky to have a celebrity for a son... In any case, though, it couldn't have helped with my own father, but I hope the old boy's truly grateful for being in such a better situation that most of the rest of us. There is an older song "The Living Years" by Mike+the Mechanics which is perhaps more honest (and hard-hitting) in that it deals with that journey we all have to take some day- rich and poor, famous, and "nobodys."

@JoyLynn1973

Жыл бұрын

​@@witchfromthenorth5294 I thought I read the donor's name was the same as the dad, Charles, instead of James, or so I thought.

This was the first time James had sung this to his dad and he refused to use 'Auto-Tune' because he wanted this recording to be 100% real and genuine for his dad, so it was recorded exactly as you see it. To be honest, I don't know how he managed to keep himself together. His father had only just recently been diagnosed with stage 4 kidney cancer, so that's why this was so emotional for James. Both men were officers in the British military previously. This video is an absolute work of art.

I'm glad you said that about the pat on his arm at the end. So many people stop the video before they get to that part and to me it's the most telling moment of their relationship. No matter if James says "it's my turn to chase the monsters away" it's still his dad doing his best to comfort him and be the strong one, he was never going to let his son carry a burden while he's there to shoulder it. It's a beautiful song and a beautiful video, and yours was a great reaction to them both.

@prephampaul

2 жыл бұрын

I noticed and felt this same way, love the pat on the arm at the end, that most reaction videos cut off or miss. Powerful message in a simple gesture!

Beautiful reaction, emotional, observant, articulate ….you completely got it and expressed yourself and your feelings perfectly. Thank you for sharing your heart and soul so freely and eloquently

I've lost count of how many times I've listened to this incredible song and every time, I've need some tissues. To all those who lost their dads and never had the chance to say the things they needed to say (like me) all I can say is our dads are always with us, still loving us, and they understand our emotions, and in many cases, have the same regrets. God bless... 🙋‍♂

I just found this song about a week ago & have watched lots of reactions & have yet to make it through without tears. The pain & anguish in his face when he sang this song just tears me up. I lost my Dad 18 years ago & this song brings that time all back. I agree with you, it was cathartic.

This man's voice is absolutely incredible. The singer Meatloaf has a powerful voice very similar to him.

What stands out to me, is his bravery for putting into the public sphere such personal, and heartbreaking thoughts.

The lyrics are, as you said, perfectly worded. I can't think of any other song that comes close to this, with the possible exception of Pink Floyd's Time. What brilliance to draw on the analogy of monsters, stories, and leaving the lights on. Life always goes full circle. This song is transcendent - musically, lyrically, emotionally.

I feel for your reaction. I reacted about the same way when I first heard this. I lost my dad a long time ago, back in 96, before I even turned 30 (how's that for dating myself?) and even for that long ago this song still hit me hard. He died from a long battle with cancer. He was the strongest man I ever knew and I watched cancer and the treatments just ravage him until there was nothing left. He was the fire chief in our small town for over 25 years so he was given a fireman's funeral service, which was the most amazing thing I've ever been a part of. The line of trucks in the precession for him was over 5 miles long. At the funeral, I know that if this song would have been played there, it would have devastated me, without question.

I worry about people who watch this and don't get emotional. I cry every time I watch it. I lost my dad in 2018 so it hit me hard.

@stephanietip

2 жыл бұрын

I know exactly what you mean.I am crying now.I will probably never get through the song without tears.My dad has been gone nearly 20 years.

@milissaleatherwood6837

2 жыл бұрын

I watched reactions to this for like a month straight and kinda built up a tolerance to it but I hadn't seen it in awhile and watching this started crying again.

luckily his dad made it but its one of the most beautiful songs I have heard, and he made this in 1 take.

Another amazing fact about this story, is that his father had already donated a kidney himself. Such a great song❤️❤️❤️

to me, the words that get me, are,Dont be afraid, its my turn to chase the monsters away...

I lost my dad when I was 6. I can still remember the day when he died. I was just a kid that time and thought he'll just gone not long. But as years gone by, it's hard to live without him. After my dad died, my mom left me and I grew up with my aunts. I had no siblings so I'm just on my own. I really wish I had the time to say goodbye to him and hug him last time. Forever in my heart.

It hits so hard and it makes you think of your parents . Just as you said

A good cry isn't a bad thing. So true. 💯❤️. Heartfelt reaction.

His father is still alive

It is a musical master peace

Your parents are your biggest supporters and cheerleaders and to lose one, or both is one of the toughest loses you’ll experience in life. Lost my dad in 2002 to cancer and this song is difficult to get through. Haven’t gotten through it once without the tears flowing. Miss you dad.

No need to be sorry. I like people who respond normally to songs, & this particular song is so emotional. I had teary eyes everytime I watched people react to it.

Lisa, so beautifully done. Thank you for sharing you heart as well. ❤

Thank you Lisa. Lots of men cannot communicate their emotions as well as you queens/princesses can. I watch your videos because you are WAY better at this than I am. Love and respect to you and your family. Thank you again for sharing this. What a song. What a message.

Lovely reaction video. One of the most memorable songs of my life.

It's ok to cry little sister! Sometimes there is beauty in tears and sometimes some of the most wonderful things spring up from tragedy. So you go right ahead and cry 😢 it's ok

What a lovely reaction and I can see and feel what a lovely person you are. Much love from Switzerland. Xx

Sorry Lisa, I forgot to congratulate you on a lovely reaction to this beautiful song. It gets all of us who've lost our parents in the same way, believe me.

Yes, thankfully James Blunts father survived going through his kidney disease. His cousin actually gave him one, which is incredible. God bless him. My dad died of terminal cancer, I was 30, not so young but still difficult to see him go. My mother died a few years later on from dementia so it was a terrible time for the family. Ofcourse there are many many people going through this terrible time & sincerely think of my parents every day. I'm sorry to hear of your father RIP xx

I call these kind of songs "full circle" songs. They punch you in the heart and then heal it with a profound emotional journey by the end. It's perfect.

watching this, I just want to give you a big hug. My dad is on a downfall, that is why this song give me much. It somehow prepare me for what is coming.

It was his dad. Colonel Charles Blount.

My father passed in 2006 and my sister in 2012.

Thank you for giving feedback on the last pat on the arm. So many reacters stop the video before even seeing that!

One my favourite James Blunt songs.x

@ALittleMoreOfLisa

2 жыл бұрын

Aaah yeah, such a lovely tribute to his dad. And I hear it has a happy ending too...his dad found a donor kidney so that's awesome 🙌 Hello & welcome to the channel 👍😊

Piękna, autentyczna reakcja, jesteś cudownym człowiekiem to widać i czuć, dziękuję Lisa :) jestem Twoim nowym fanem :)

somehow ive stumbled across a reaction video of this song and have super guilts for not going to see my own dad this weekend. Crazy how certain songs/lyrics can strike chords within us n play our emotions like instruments. Thanks for ur reaction. Ill go back to sobbing

You are so lovely...and your react is so truthful, thank you...often they can be so fake here.... you are so not... bless you xx 😘

Beautiful girl...great reaction and such a warm heart you have 👍💕

Like the reaction. 😀 Greetings from Norway. 😀 ❤️

Lisa, you are a lovely, compassionate woman.

A NICE REACTION ,,,,THIS IS MY SOUL CLEANSER,,,,,MAKES THIS 61 YEAR OLD HIPPIE CRY EVERYTIME

Beautiful reaction thank you I lost my mum and I put this to missing my mum ❤️❤️🐈🐈🇬🇧

Beautiful and very emotional song! Thanks for sharing 🎉

A lyrical masterpiece

Engaging, restrained with assured clarity......i liked this reaction. Your interjection after just over a minute of the song was...erm....substantial. So well done for extrapolating so much information at that point. However, for those of us who have difficulty in rationalising and certainly articulating the emotion evoked by this beautiful song, thankyou for helping. Like so many, I would have loved to have been able to express my love for those I've lost but am unable. Empathy through shared experience is good i think?? Well for me, at any rate. Many thanks for a powerful reaction.

beautiful reaction. everything will be fine.

Beautiful reaction Really.. ❤

My dad passed 2019,when I was done visiting him in the hospital,when I got in my truck to leave this song played as I left e ery day,this song I wish I could have sang to him

My dad has stage 4 cancer snd I just found this song. I’m glad to know his dad got the kidney he needed and is doing well. A beautiful reaction. RIP for your parents who have passed away.

@ALittleMoreOfLisa

2 жыл бұрын

Aww I'm so sorry to hear about your dad...my thoughts are with him, you & your family. 🙏🏻 And thank you for your kind words ❤️ It's tough when you've lost a parent, especially around this time of year, because they've just always been there when you were growing up. So when you don't have them anymore, times like these are bittersweet. It does get a little easier as time goes on, (as they say, time does heal), but you never stop missing them or wishing they were still here. But I do believe they're never truly gone...they're always with us in a way. 😊

@jenniferbooth9348

2 жыл бұрын

@@ALittleMoreOfLisa absolutely they are still around us even after they pass.

@cindykelly3367

Жыл бұрын

A friend of mine sent this song to me just weeks after husband passed away. I cried every time I heard it. Then and now. My hus and died on our son's 35 th birthday.

im loving the females reactions to this video everywhere,....all mothers and daughters and females in general must watch this....never underestimate the bond between a father and son...no matter how cold they are during their lives....if you separate, dont hold the kids back from their father....

Beautifully Sad.....two words that don't usually go together 💜

Both Blunt and his father served in the military and when James's was sent to Kosovo it has been reported that when his father said goodbye, his dad said, "you are not my son and I am not your father, we are just two grown men saying goodbye ".

Definitely his dad. I served with his dad in the Army.

🙏❤🙏

Now try Iam Tongi during his American Idol audition.

I was the good boy, I did what I was told. I was molested at 8. I did not know my father at that time, he was known as 'uncle Billy'. He was not involved in my life until my mom left and I was left with this stranger that supposedly was my father. He 'became' my father when I had no one else. He has been dead since 2020, he loved his grandson, (my boy), he never "loved" me. I know why he didn't love me. Such is life.

Great reaction 👍❤️ sad song 😭

Loved your reaction. You are a wonderful person and I'm a new sub!!

Your crying make me cry And Um dying...

I think you would really enjoy home free and their cover of go rest high on that mountain. Also Voiceplay has some very fun songs both groups have super bass singers too. Lovely reaction, cheers from Arizona 👍🍻😎

The truth is.... The more precious someone is to us, the harder it is to accept the fact that they might die, sometimes you even convince yourself there's no way they could die.

Post my dad at age 12. This is a beautiful tribute. Hits me hard every time. Please accept a hug from me.

I like the song but really fill like I couldnt understand the feeling within it. I was beaten by my step dad and he died at 40years old and didn’t fill a thing my Nan who I was closest 2 passed and I had no feeling same as when my uncle passed and my real dad I don’t really care for I really wish I could fill the emotions from a good song I fill I may be broken.

That was actually his dad. You should listen to his song the greatest

This song just slays me. Currently losing my dad to dementia...he's chosen to no longer eat or drink to hasten his death. My mother died when I was 1 of glioblastoma...he just wants to see her again.💔

@GeePeeSterRace

2 жыл бұрын

❤

James's dad had stage 4 kidney disease and would die with out a transplant (he only had 1 kidney because he had been a live donor in the past) James and his sisters weren't compatible. This song was recorded in one take and after the video everyone in the studio was crying and James' dad said ' what's all this fuss I'm not gone yet'. After the video was released a distant cousin saw it, came forward and was a match. The transplant worked and his dad is still alive. All proceeds from the song were donated to Help For Hero's a UK veterans charity as both James and his dad had been in the army.

I feel your pain, I have lost both my parents within a 10 year span and when I was only 40.

I lost my dad over 10 years ago and every time I hear that song it brings back memories the good times I had with him I never close my eyes I'm always thinking of him And my mother also passed away 5 years ago And my sister 2 years ago also passed away Thank you for that beautiful song monsters

@melonenschadel7573

2 ай бұрын

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Ok watch afew if your reactions and loved your honesty which its hard to find with reactors...curious to see who you react to in the future...a hint dimash kudaibergen singing SOS at slavic bazar is a must....stay real and healthy you have a new Fan here in germany!!!

heartbreaking song and video

This was filmed in one take. The director wanted to redo the parts where he chocked up and he wouldn't let them

His dad after being a kidney donor years ago became ill himself with stage 4 kidney failure but a distant cousin came forward and was a match so his dad survived but he didn't know that when this was recorded

Hate to admit it but this song is one of the only songs that can make me cry. Just the intro that voice & the pain in his eyes

Sending you all the love that I have in my heart right now ❤️‍🩹

It's legitimately hard to talk after that.

Hi Lisa! This is my first viewing, and you're lovely. FYI, I'm in Louisville, KY, US. The word I believe you were grasping for was 'BRUTAL'. 😆 I'm a sub now! I'd love it, if you'd react to his powerful anti war song 'No Bravery'. It also brings tears. ✌ Cheers!

No matter how many times I watch this it never fails to make me cry. My mom died a little over a year ago, she was only 44 then my little sister just died a little over a month ago

😔❤❤

Crying 😢

The line "your not my father I'm not your son, we're just 2 grown men saying goodbye" comes from his dad who was a Colonel in the British Army saying to James who was a Captain in the British Army and one of the first into Kosovo when he got deployed 😔😥

recommend jelly roll - save me sad and beautiful

Lisa one thing is you must not do is preempt a video before seeing the whole video then react,happily his father is ok after having kidney disease.but anyway nice reaction.👍

@ALittleMoreOfLisa

2 жыл бұрын

I understand what you mean. This was a genuine first time reaction & I didn't know the background or what had happened since this was released. The way it was worded was that it was a final goodbye because his father had passed. I think many people not knowing the history would probably have assumed the same thing. Since this reaction though, I have learned through the comments that his dad is doing OK & is still with us. 🙏🙌

😘😘

Try James Blunt, "the girl that wasn't w

Take care

New sub, fantastic reaction, That was his dad, thankfully his dad received the transplant, extra fact,both James and his dad were military officers so showing emotion was not the norm for them ,this period went hid dad was very sick ,it was James way of showing how much his dad meant to him, Lisa you might check out his other song no bravery, what few people know during the ballads conflict James as a tank commander refused an American General order to fire on Russian troops, the British Generals backed James decision and as one described it James decision prevented and escalation and would have led to all out war with Russia kzread.info/dash/bejne/mZxok7mxld2fgKg.html

Lisa, I hope you will react to "Hurt" by Johnny Cash. Thanks.

👍🙏

My friend lost her dad to cancer

This was done in one take with no auto tuning. That was his father who had stage 4 kidney failure. Fortunately a donor was found

Lisa I am giving you a thumbs up but there is no way I can listen to this song because it hits way too close to home.

How about: Realize... by THE FLAMING LIPS? :)

@ALittleMoreOfLisa

2 жыл бұрын

Will add it to the list...thank you 👍

I lost my brother…this song gets me every time…😢

Can anyone tell me a more emotional song

Can you please react to the new Tears for fears song called The Tipping point Just released It blew me away omg Please

Calked reaction not commentary

Great video, but are you open for feedback!? 🤗

@ALittleMoreOfLisa

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you. Yes of course.

@starrazz

2 жыл бұрын

@@ALittleMoreOfLisa you have a great honest and heartfelt present. Next time maybe, you could sit with your front to the camera instead off sideways 🤔. You have potential , Nice Job 👏🤩

I'm sorry 😔, but Tongi IAM has already taken over this song from James. Not only does IAM sound better 🎤, but his story is also much more emotional 😭. James, I'm sorry 😔, but when you sing this song now, it seems like you're just doing a karaoke version 🎤🎶 of IAM's.

@Itsyourboy_ray

11 ай бұрын

james blunt definitely sounds better. youve heard millions of singers like tongi but when you hear james blunt youll know who it is

You waffle too much