Randy Newman - Marie

[MoonOfNeptune]

If this song doesn't break your heart, I wonder if you have one.

[lutherlabs]

This man is a genius. He makes this look very deceptively easy. Just try to deliver a song with such honesty, and you'll find it's not easy at all

[Jan96106]

This is a very complicated song. The melody is beautiful, and some of the words are romantic words anyone would long to hear: "You're a flower, a river, a rainbow." However, as the song progresses, Newman engages in verbal irony. "I never listen to a word you say, and whenever you have a problem, I just turn away." The song can be looked at in many ways: self-delusion, the realistically flawed love of a man for a woman, or not really love at all. Beautiful song with a biting edge.

[westport999]

I named my daughter Angela Marie ... i was so imperfect and she was and is so perfect. This song reflects my regret and my deep love for her.

[spatinco]

This song always makes me cry .. Marie was my mom's name ...

[niggercamel]

Damn, so great.

[1doctoma]

Heartbreakingly beautiful

[BrianRowan42]

Planes, Train and Automobiles kicks me in the teeth every time i watch it. Imagine the ending with Del sitting in the station bottle in hand singing this.

[FunUsernamesAreGone]

My name is Marie. :)

[Summergirls1000]

whoever disliked this is very sad

[chrissieravi]

Long before his incredible movie soundtracks....what a catalogue of songs. One of the best songwriters of all time.....................

[MoonOfNeptune]

I have absolutely no idea how someone writes a song like that.

[fionesidhe]

Classic example of an abusive man. Such raw lyrics.

[scarlett52x]

A drunk mans words are a sober mans thoughts xoxo

[MrsVidals]

im 14 and i love this song , probably bcz my name is Marie , haha but its really nice

[griqs]

Nujabes ftw. check him out.

[ariel0785]

@cclark775 It's this part that breaks my heart:

Sometimes I'm crazy

But I guess you know

And I'm weak and I'm lazy

And I've hurt you so

And I don't listen to a word you say

When you're in trouble I just turn away

[showbizben]

@ariel0785 That's the part that breaks my heart as well. It's so true it makes me feel like I let everyone I love down but he makes doing it sound beautiful, it tears me apart.

[ariel0785]

The lyrics just breaks my heart...

[schbrachbolidsei]

this genius is on the same level as mozart or schubert

[rjvos59]

best lovesong ever written....

[NextSuperStar89]

beautiful song!!!

[joemac92]

reflection eternal

[kjallesoft]

Enkel gepatenteerde dwazen amuseren zich zot als de satan en als pubers om volwassenen razend te maken .

Enkel dwazen die niemand ter wereld wil horen zien of aanzien, omdat iedereen

met het verstand op de juiste plaats vecht om er te geraken

Te moeilijk o mdomaars te bevattzen? dat hi jdod ga .

Nobody needs shitcake kakkers!In Holland ja daar eten ze shitcake! om het licht te zien...awel ja! Verlies u daar dan.

[jtpvg]

This guy is a musical poet!! That's all that really has to be said..

[lucychinn149]

Heartbraking. Randy Newman is astounding. Perfection.

[PatriciaK55]

Perfection. He knows he doesn't deserve her, and he has to get drunk to tell her he loves her. But it comes from the heart. He inhabits the minds of these characters so perfectly. And the music is so lushly romantic. It's always been one of my favorite love songs.

[AcousticUplift]

To me the underlying subtext of this song is that the 'love' in question is so inadequate that one can assume it's love but only as the protagonist understands it. Most of the song catalogues that the actions of the narrator don't really denote love at all. But hey, it's the best he knows to do. It is moving and sadly beautiful.

[hrothgleas]

@AcousticUplift Agreed, 100%

[hrothgleas]

@PatriciaK55 Perfection, exactly.

[Arlenoclast]

Thanks for uploading this. I've loved "Marie" for ages but have never seen a video.

[Hawkshaw33]

This is one of the best.

And I like his bell bottom jeans.

[byteontheez]

Randy Newman is a modern master of ballad writing. Old school type of song writing, along with Woody and all the American geniuses have gone away. Computers, goofy animation and political arguments now occupy the youth. It's over, that's all folks.......

[Treebard]

I loved this song the first time I heard it when I was 21, and I always will love this song, Marie. :)

[lonelygnome1]

that's not love. 

[joeblogsism]

My sister, a pianist and writer in her own rite, rewrote this song for mine and my wife's wedding song in 1981 and the sentiment and my love for my wife is still strong today. A few years ago, I took my daughter to see Randy in Miami. He played this song and my daughter looked at me and asked if I was crying. I told her why.

[Goldyman1212]

i don't care what lyrics he writes.

He will always sound like Toy Story to me.

[paschal421]

i always will love you Benee'

[suzeiki]

beautiful love song. thanks Randy.

[fro164]

randy looks like he has to sneze

[UMSMASTA]

This song is like a nice cool autumn evening. Just content.

[mightyluv]

The most beautiful love song ever recorded. So simple, so honest. Pure beauty.

[jbernard214]

SIMPLY GENIOUS QUITE POSSIBLY THE MOST GENUINELY TRUE LOVE SONG OF ALL TIME........................

[baldgood]

kenny rankins rendition is a classic  RIP KR

[lynnae29]

I just saw the movie "paulie" I really like this song.

[Dentakulator]

The shift after his first 'Marie' is like some sort of heartbreaking gas permeating my very being.

[crackfarm76]

this song makes me bawl

[princessjodii]

My mum was called Marie, she was the most beautiful woman inside and out! I lost her when i was 17 years old, im 22 now. I miss her xoxoxo

[muziekengeluid]

Touching...

[gordonw01]

So moving.Always brings me to tears.

[CraigasaurusLex]

Every time I hear this song, I come close to crying. Newman is sheer genius.

[imchiquitabanana]

I love this song.. I loved u that first time I saw you.. Would be very cute if u have a daughter named Marie :)

[GotNextVideo]

Do you really want to be singing to your daughter about how you can't express sincerity or affection unless you're drunk? It's supposed to be a pathetic plea for sympathy and love from a man who doesn't deserve it.

[benjaminlhaines]

@GotNextVideo  Well done, gotnext, I think you hit the nail on the head.

[MoveOverCasanova]

this is so real, lord, so beautiful

[yocam420]

nujabes - reflection eternal

[newrochellephoenix]

Song reminds me of an uncle .He was not one to express feelings-but he truly loved his wife.

[PopHorizonScanner]

In addition to the musical beauty of "Marie", the song also reflects Randy Newman's genius at assuming a character and disorienting the listener with an ironic change of perspective. In this case, a drunk, fallible, and probably unsympathetic man sings what one might suppose are the truest, most feeling and appreciative words of his life. Amazing.

[marvy1118]

What a great comment.

[fireblossom2u]

@PopHorizonScanner Well damn it. I wanted to say that!  Well done. Your comment touched me like the song.

[hrothgleas]

@PopHorizonScanner agreed, 100%. This failure of a man can come up with this total expression of love...

[hrothgleas]

@PopHorizonScanner I couldn't put it better. Amazing ability to write stories from perspective. This wreck of a human being conjures up some true beauty for the woman he loves and hurts...

[hrothgleas]

@PopHorizonScanner You got that just right. Sheer poetry from the depths of the soul of a degenerate. 'Probably unsympathetic?'

[Musicsmoke]

@PopHorizonScanner That's a beautiful interpretation..... but I guess, this ironic change of character perspective isn't as ironic as it is.... It's dramatical, it's probably more real than you'll guess....

I almost believe that it's almost true.... He is like that, maybe not always, maybe not from the outside, but maybe much more from the inside, this song is himself, and his love for Marie.

[Musicsmoke]

@PopHorizonScanner And you know how I guess I know that?? Because I wasn't disorientated at all by listening it, but full of understanding and emotions.....

[iamintheburg]

@PopHorizonScanner My lord, what an astounding critique......I CONCUR, MONSIEUR. Actually, I'd thought for years that this was some gay-90's fin de siecle sheet music tune that had faded from the popular favor. Then tonight I search it, and discover that Mr. Newman here composed the thing. Just amazing, I must say.

I loved it the first time I heard it. I always will love it. I guess I'll just consider it to be timeless in how a man's heart works.

[rockermanmatt]

@PopHorizonScanner The song is in the perspective of 'Johnny Cutler', the same character singing 'Rednecks' and 'Birmingham' (hence 'my wife's named Mary but she's called Marie etc), and shows him drunkenly telling his wife how he feels. Newman never actually liked the song as he thought it was too nakedly romantic.

It's all in the book - Randy Newman's American Dreams, which I suggest any Newman fan should get.

Nobody writes them like Randy.

[GotNextVideo]

@PopHorizonScanner Humanizing a complex, deeply flawed character is difficult for even a skilled novelist or screenwriter, but Randy can do it in a 3 minute song. It may be a different skill than the impressionistic poetry of Dylan or the the vulnerable sincerity of Lennon, but it's why Newman is one of the best lyricists ever.

[MrJaybuck]

you might've noticed in the song "birmingham" which was right after or before "marie" on the "good old boys " album, there's the line 'my wife's named mary but she's called marie" so it's a continuation of the character from that song...

[nata3211]

In general if you look at the album Good old boys, you'll see how Newman develops the character named Johnny Cutler as a representation of the individual an his struggle to reach the american dream. in Alabama 1927, Birmingham specifically the centre of the segregation.

[Jennirn2u]

I love this song. It is so tender.

[greatidear]

I guess marvy isn't hired for the smart comments...

[MoveOverCasanova]

..sometimes i´m crazy, and i guess you know..

[MoveOverCasanova]

yes, especially when you take the line before this.

but this intellectual level in a lovesong is surely not everybodies cup of tea

. but i like it very much, -

he is one that has to be precise to be real

[marvy1118]

In my world, this video would have 60,588,223 views.

[FloyedRose335]

He wrote this for his x-wife while he was married to his 2nd wife telling her how much he missed her. I saw him live and when he told the audience that you could tell it was hard for him but he still thought it was pretty funny.

[MoveOverCasanova]

you´re a flower you´re a river you´re a rainbow --

[musoid]

Such a brilliant piece of music, and brilliant lyric, one of the best ballads ever written that is indeed about a man confessing his flaws and weaknesses while still expressing the deep love that was so hard for him to show. Profoundly human and reflective of an experience we all have had either firsthand or indirectly.

[freezedriedpoop]

How could you, Marie?

[jasonsgroovemachine]

Beautiful, hopeful, sad... thanks Randy.

[lekezenman]

For the born-christians, then rebelling hard against it, then looking for yourself, now bit by bit ...seeing things in a slightly different way...this might aswell be the restart of an original full-backed delight.

Bernard

[lekezenman]

No wonder the open-minded Dutch people were his best match in Europe!

This Randy Newman is a musical genious, nerdy as he might even look to you today...

Bernard

[cristop5]

The song is brilliant. You can never put your finger on Randy Newman's lyrics. Sure he really does love her, but his love is a curse. Among his weaknesses he admits to one that is sadly unforgivable.

"when you're in trouble....I turn away.."

[busisanclaire]

dondev54, it is not ironic, he really mourned over this woman and would not be such a jerk to be sarcastic in that context. "honest" is the better term. It is not about beating your wife in delirium and apologizing next day, it is a real love song! He was man of the world enough not to make a great drama of a little stonedness!

[dondev54]

busisanclaire, it may not be ironic to the character who is singing this song on the album Good Old Boys dedicated to the South, but I think it might be to Mr Newman, who I don't think ever beat his wife.

[MoveOverCasanova]

it is dedicated to the south, but it is not a concept album, no "story", and Marie does really exist.

And i also am pretty sure that Newman did not beat a woman, and didn´t imply anything different

[sirfleabert]

listen to "fretkillr" on youtube for the best version....

[paulosham1]

@sirfleabert While he is a talented musician his version is nowhere close to Randy's.

[dondev54]

Its 30 years ago this year. Man am I getting old. lol

[Jbear9]

I have to listen to the twice when ever I come here:)

[baldgood]

please check out Kenny Rankin version of Marie. Possibly one of the best performances of any song in my opinion

[dondev54]

Dudes, remember this is supposed to be IRONIC! He's a useless husband to Marie; drunk, lazy and violent, but the booze brings out the remorse and romance in him.

[tbrenholts]

What sells it is the contrast between the melody and the lyrics. BOTH emotions are real. The song is about that place in between good and bad.

[mikerudjazz]

Yeah, that's right. But this captures his remorse. He doesn't deserve her, but he can only admit it to himself when he's loaded.

[rosesredvioletsblue]

So incredible.

He is brilliant....

thank you, for posting.

[RealiD1221]

oh and what a beautiful song. He really is a genius.

[RealiD1221]

Is Marie a real person? Was she a lover of his?

[bassintheham]

she's a character from good old boys

[zodiacbluesbaby]

Beautiful

[waynescooby]

Such a beautiful song.

[Hattonibrothers]

I love you Randy Newman...

Marie

[ladybluluv]

Wow, what a song..really beautiful

[frenfroe]

This is a serious contender for one of the best songs ever written.

[joeypropeller]

Agreed. This song destroys me every time I hear it.

[The420GREASER]

@frenfroe UR LAME RANDY NEWMAN IS A RETARD LIKE YOU! SORRY U SUCK...

[RWillemM]

Simply awesome (and he still is)!!!! Tnx!