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  • The more I play this song the more I love it. Never get's old just better.

  • i love this song its definelty an oldie but goodie

    

  • I find this a million times better then the music that comes on the radio.

    And for a girl my age that is strange to say.(:

  • This is one of the best song ever,beautifull...!

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  • Check out Celtic Soul on youtube..search celticsoultribute great tribute to Van Morrison

  • muito bonita essa musica

  • I'd love to see Van sing this song live just once . He sounds so wonderfull .

  • Why does Morrison sound so good faking an American voice but when Adele does it it sounds forced and cheesy - even though she can sing. Maybe it's because Morrison wrote his songs and could play an instrument and sing - that's why it sounds natural.

  • log fire log fire log fire

  • @jasmina18 Yeah right. If Knobert Pattinfag was a troll you wouldn't say that. The cover she does is a joke compared to the ORIGINAL. It's called TALENT.

  • @jspin1103

    I would say the same thing! Not everyone evaluates songs, the artist who performs it! If he sang, someone completely different even you did not pay attention to my comment. But I wrote Rob and already a big deal!! It's an ordinary man! I do not care how the game or how it looks I like his version of this song! Kill me because I have a different opinion! A little distance! Tastes are different. More acceptance...

  • @jasmina18 Haa ha ok. I accept that you have bad taste.

  • @jspin1103 No need for the classless bashing and homophobic slurs.  Jasmina18 didn't say anything that warranted such immature disrespect. Grow up....the only things here in "bad taste" are your comments.

  • This is such a great song! I play it at the end of my day.Smooth

  • I've always said I don't need anybody to take care of me but now, while listening to this song, I realize that I was wrong

  • @18amira09 I always said I dont need anybody to make me whole. The more I said that the more I realized just how alone I felt.

  • Lol I still dont understand whats not to like?

  • Who are these 5 who dislike this song? Are they deficient or a little crazy? lol

  • @SMGLV both :)

  • Van Morrisons music hits me so deep,deep deep inside my soul,more than any other songwriter ever...

  • Please please! Change the settings to make this song available on mobile devices. Sometimes you gotta hear a little Van without getting out of bed. Oh yeah, and my computers broke :(

  • i saw moonlight mile and fell in love (:

  • @cmunguiaify Me too :~)

  • Chris griffin brought me here

  • proof of life

  • Such a shame pattinfag had to fuck with such a good song.

  • Great Song...........

  • i have listened to it 23987529383894753097 times... priceless..

  • Van Morrison sings with his soul crying not like Pattison..

  • Heres the thing.. Van didn't give a shit about style..he is a troubadour..a poet, and it doesn't matter if somebody 'sings this better', cuz..well, Van tells the truth in his voice.. Love you, brother

  • Who The Fuck Is Rob Pattinson?

  • moonlight mile bought me 2 this song, found it. nice.

  • nobody sings like this anymore.

  • @JMSalmeron

    as far as nobody sings like this any longer, check out John Legend I'll stay with you.

  • @JMSalmeron But thanks God he still does!

  • So Good.

  • How's that?

    I would play this song when getting ready for work/going out, and sit there listening, almost in a paralyzed state of mind taking it all in, and day dreaming of that perfect man singing these lyrics...

  • Love this song!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Great song!

  • I can't put it into words, but Van does that for me. This is my all time favorite song of all songs by any artist ever. Van is in a class that will only be appreciated to the fullest in years to come. Thank you - Van! I am a brown eyed American girl born of Irish descent and I have no roots.

  • @Cedarbee1 Hi! I didn't know this song, but I agree with you: when I hear Van Morrison's music it sounds like words are coming from a higher soul or an untouchable spirit. But yet, it seems like words are also from our common and simple lives. I don't know, but since I'm portuguese, with some celtic remains in my blood, I just feel these songs closer to me than all the crap I hear on the radio all day long.

  • this probably isn't the place to post such a sentiment ...i am a van lover and it sort of annoys me when people spew dribble like that on videos of him. i came to listen to van not have to read about how people think something that cant even hold a candle to this mans voice is somehow better. not to hate on the twihards but van has 40 years on pattinson and is a SINGER. he doesn't butcher the song but it is silly to even try to compare his warbling to this maestro of soul.

  • Don't absoloutly hate me but I think I prefer Robert pattinsons version.

  • No one can do it like Van!!!!!!!!!!

  • God, I love his voice. So much . . .soul. There's life, and just pure SOUL in it. I don't know how else to explain it.

  • Time

  • Thnx proof of life!

  • I will always have a special love for this. Derry down green - color of my dream.

  • hear it-tears how freelful...van morrison ILY 

  • I love you kim !

  • I heard this song....after the movie...and had to buy the album...as well...great song.

  • POXA...SINCERAMENTE UM DOS MELHORES DELE...

  • it's not so weird that this sounds better then Rob... This is a recorded version :P Rob's is live.. non the less Van Morrison is a Hero

  • @MesaTheinsane I still love Robert's voice despite what anyone says and I think he honors Van by singing it ♥

  • @pairadice415 i couldnt agree with you more :)

  • Iced water on tap in the desert.

  • Twosdayfull - I heard this from that movie too and had to find it. So good.

  • LOVE IT :):):)

  • Pattinson brought me here, and damn does he have a good taste in music. It's so much better when Van sings, though.

  • Yep - Watched "Proof of Life" tonight and was reminded how much I LOVE Van Morrison. I listen to him and it takes me somewhere I love to b. Thank you Van!!

  • Love you Van, you can be my lover any day

  • I wont lie, Pattinson brought me here, but this is so much more beautiful when Van sings it. I'm in love with this song.

  • moonlight mile!!

  • I watched the movie "Proof of Life" for the 20th time at least; heard this song and was taken by the words, the passion, everything . . . VM was one of the greatest performers of his time. This is really truly a meaningful song that took me back to the late 70s early 80s when love was truly meant to be something real between two people. Van Morrison was HOT! RPatterson, who?

  • Pattison wasnt even a thought when this GEM came out!!!

  • Beautiful ♥

  • wow i love this song. i havent heard it for years untill i saw that movie proof of life. Van, thanks man

  • Oh, five stars, ten stars, a hundred stars. I've never met that man, but this is the standard by which all women should live, oh yes.

  • can some1 please recomend some more van songs for me i got and it stoned me, crazy love, brown eyed girl and moondance

  • 1 Rob Pattinson fan

  • This song is so beautiful! It was used in the movie PROOF of LIFE. They played it right at the very end! Wow! Powerful! Umph! Wish I could me the man like so many of us! Thanks, Van!

  • Pattinson's okay, but just okay. This is legend, a perfect synthesis of word and music. Genius.

  • other than into the mystic this is my fave van song his voice is beautiful and the way he plays the guitar is amazing xx

  • I will dance at my wedding to this song!!

  • The quality of Van's voice can be summed up with the first "take" he sings. Please don't compare this legend to Rob Pattinson people.

  • Unbelievable...cannot find this song on Grooveshark??

  • van morrison is a pure legend, this has to be one of his many seductives songs,his voice and the playing of the strings... jee it tugs at my heart everytime!!! thank god for this talented man!!! xo (when he says at the end 'how was that?' every time i say, fucking brilliant!)

  • sorry I accidentally disliked it..... -__-

  • @RoLoBaSa2711 Haha, you realize you will be haunted by all Van Morrison fans for the rest of eternity? ;)

  • @Bloempje94 XD waahh....now ur making me feel worse!

  • omg i can't believe i just heard that major change right there +_+

    Its like ear drugs that you just can not get rid of of top in any way if you tried your whole life to do it...... i am so spech less right now...... +_+

    Yes i don't give a fuck who says I'm in deed on some type of crack but Robert pattinson sounds better with out a recoded track to his name. ( and yes i do hate twilight so don't say that I'm saying this because i am one of those people who are hooked on twilight i.d.g.a.f >:(

  • @jacksonlova2323: I just can't agree with you - I don't think his voice is better and he certainly can't play and sing the song in time.

  • Such a wonderful lovesong, it's soo romantic, but it's not at all cheesy or too much like Mariah Carey.. those types of lovesongs

  • HE IS THE BEST

  • first heard this song on moonlight mile and it is one of many masterpieces of that era thank you van morrison

  • i wish sum1 wud sing that to me and really mean it i wud love him till the day i die beautifull song thanku van,xxx

  • i know the great voice but who are these great guitarists who are so great at accompanying him. Blows me away how this all came to be, so beautiful. Nicely done, I love it. Ms. Sepulveda

  • wow!

  • Tonight was the first time I have ever heard this song. What an incredibly beautiful piece of music and art that is.

    That has to be one of the most incredible performances EVER.

  • First heard this over the closing credits from "Proof of Life". What a fabulous song. Have loved it since.

  • At the risk of being hated and bombarded with insults... I actually prefer Rob Pattinson's version.

  • @BrunetteBarbie21 (I secretly agreeBB21 Shhhhh...)

  • @V8Audio heeheehee! I won't tell.

  • @BrunetteBarbie21 i agree i like RP more! i believe its more from the heart! xD

  • @superbackar I honestly did not expect anyone to agree. I'm happy

  • @BrunetteBarbie21 i like them both for different reasons.

  • FUCK whoever pressed the dislike button. for real

  • oh, wow.....V.M. nur einfach göttlich

  • wow this is amazing

  • The real deal ... thanks Van!

  • I had to go through so many Robert Pattinson versions of this song to find the real one. FUCK Twilight.

  • What a great song and fine performance by Van Morrison too!! Haven't heard him for a while, and it was nce to be reminded of what a fine performer he is!!! Nandani Jaya

  • 1 dislike??? they must have just got dumped on..

  • haha the end of the song where he says "how was that?". Well, it was amazing if you want my opinion, Van.

  • love this song, so awesome

  • After watching "Proof of Life" I heard this song. I knew it was VM immediately & thought it was a brand new song!! Had to buy it and did........such a simple but delicious song......hope you have great speakers so you can adjust the bass and treble......to listen how Van makes every sung note and instrument sound an original Natural High of his and his alone......forever!!

  • @Twosdayfull I first heard it after 'Proof of Life' also ;-)

  • @Twosdayfull exactly my thoughts great movie great ending song :)

  • @Twosdayfull  Great song and great movie!!!

  • drinkin a 5th of jameson listen to van on st. patty's day i love this guy so much i'm a mick 100%

  • How was that? Well, it moves me now just as much as it did when I first heard it in 1971. The memories of happy days and great times are all within this masterpiece.

  • My God, I forgot just how much in love with this man I was.

  • Yea, its a classic and its only three chords, the whole song, amazing! Van could wrap his voice around the phone book and it would sound good.

  • love this song, reminds me of what once was...

    <3

  • Do I have to move to Ireland to meet a man who will reveal himself like this? Using this song in the last scene of Proof of Life with Russell Crowe was genius...

  • @crowechick66 Absolutely! So beautiful it hurts ...

  • And what would the world be "without songs like this".. So much love behind these words. Love is the best thing we have. I feel so good listening to the absolute "king" of emotions. I love someone.. And "without songs like this" emotions will not be printed on paper and sung by masters.. MAKE LOVE... PEACE

  • Cityskin, hubby and I did have it as our first dance song for our wedding in 2005.

  • too many of us are falling away from our true self for a moment of fame or power only to see in the end that we had every thing we needed in the eyes of the ones who love us.

  • I'm literally hypnotised by his lovely voice *_*

  • Stellar!! Used to go out drinkin' and drivin' all night in a huge game farm and listen to Van Morrison. Giving my age away here but, gas was .23-24 cents a gal. Only 8-track tapes in those days. Many fond memories. I'm getting all melancholy now and have to go. Enjoy.

  • me too and have i told you lately also :-)

  • all i can say is WOW...

  • i'm sorry if it looked offensive, i just don't like "sms language" is all. Even more when i'm listening to good music from the 60's and the 70's !

  • I first heard this track in the film "Moonlight Mile" (another great song). That movie has one of the best soundtracks I've ever heard. But this song is got me hooked on Van Morrison. I agree with my friend 'CitySkin09'-- I've always imagined playing this song at my wedding. Props to 'ebhughes' for this song and video.

  • Classic. Artful. . . raw passion, Up there with Cat Steven's live performance of Father and Son.

    Approved by Idaho Charley. . . five stars!

  • This song is the absolute perfect song to end "Proof of Life" with. She is driving away, he is watching her go. I love it!

  • The most romantic song on the planet, on this is coming from a girl who discovered this at the age of 16. I still listen to Van now at age 21, all of his genres. It'll be a dark dark day for me when he passes away. Something inside me will break, most likely my heart.

  • Forget Twilight-This song is on the movie 'Moonlight Mile''...

  • It really is lovely to see a good song with no dislikes isn't it?

  • I'm so ridiculously ashamed that I didn't know this was his song. I thought it was Rob Pattinson's :( How horrific.

  • @charlotte07071 me too, babe, nevermind O.O

  • @charlotte07071 lol but he does a good job :)

  • @charlotte07071 Which Rob Pattinson¿¿?? I only know some fag actor by that name...

  • @BilisNegra surprisingly im pretty sure its the same one, from twilight, but im not sure

  • @charlotte07071

    it's not horrific. see, i didn't know that the actor did a cover of it, i just found out about it and it is not bad at all. i recently had a conversation with a girl who thought "umbrella" was rhiannas song, and i didn't know what she was talking about. no need to be ashamed. and it took me long to find out that ugly kid joe wasn't the originator of cats in the cradle. it happens.

  • Hilarious! A few years back there were only one or two videos of this song.

    I was first introduced to it, when I watched "Proof of Life" with R. Crowe and M. Ryan, in which the song fit perfectly at the closing credits. Back then I thought, how can so few people know this song?? It's an absolute masterpiece!

    Anyways, I'm glad there's dudes out there who share my passion for this song.

  • @Winchester1973 Yes same with me and I remember stopping dead in my tracks on the way out to listen to this music and I agree it was perfect for the movie. The other sad thing is that I just found it on here now after checking the movie for the sound track. I knew right away it was Van the Man but had not heard the track. Great music.

  • finally someone put up the real one. GOLDEN

  • I'm snickering at you guys, I get the feeling you are suprised how involved this song is. I roughly count the right hand hits the strings about 600 time and the left hand.... I'm not even going to bother guessing but between all the hammer ons, pull offs, double stops and sliding back and forth has to be up close to a thousand times. Then when you figure i'll maybe practice on a few bars a week over and over to get it right, i'm damned near insane already :))

  • I love this song. The guitar work is great. I've been working on this song for a couple of months now and i'm just now half way thru it, one things for sure it certainly isn't an easy piece of music but its just so beautiful I have to spend the time to get it perfectly just a shame I cant sing for crap...but you gotta love Morrison I pretty much grew up with him.

  • @01jgh aaaaaaaaahhhhhhh does it actually take months?

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  • @01jgh oh right thats make sense, it very similar to some guitar work on astral weeks. where did you get the tab, or did you just figure it out?

  • Outrageous.

  • Could anyone recommend any other Van Morrison songs that are as soulful as this one?

  • @itfelldown It's not slow but wild night is brilliant, makes U want to dance

  • great song if you like this listen to Blind pilot 3 rounds and a sound

  • great song if you like this listen to  3 rounds and a sound -blind pilot

  • ha ha quite a few ppl watched proof of life! i did too, i ended up rewinding the credits to hear this again. very good song, infact perfect for my wedding day. think ill be listening to the other songs he does too cos im a new fan!

  • @markmccourt21 ...lol!, yep just finished watching it tonight here in New Zealand and thought it sounded like van so had to wait for credits and here I am now listening to it...great sound :)

  • @shhmokinjoe Ditto - thought it wasn't actually going to say the name though, had to wait right till the end of the credits. Has moved up the ranks of my favourites.

  • Agree, had to trawl through so many Pattison poo to get to this, worth it though. There are just some soundtracks that really get you listening. Heard this at the end of Proof of Life and went so well with the end sequence.

  • @darrentoes fucking magic mate, its a shame the Youtube optimisation team felt the need to link a Pattinson video to the search criteria of this absolute classic.

  • Just watched Proof of Life and found myself enjoying the credits more because of this tune. Can`t believe that pasty faced vampire nonce Robert Pattison`s piss poor cover has over 600,000 more views than this. Its a bloody crime.

  • @amthe14U2NV .....Couldn't agree more.........just no comparison...

  • @amthe14U2NV

    his cover is not piss poor. our cover of it sounds still worse than his, though it took a lot of time effort to get it only halfway right. same with a ton of classic songs, beautiful but hard to play perfect. so no need to put hobby musicians down, who like to play classic songs in their downtime. and i think it is a good thing if pattinson shows a sense for this kind of music it will get back into his follower's ears. and here i agree with you, this should have way more views.

  • omg! i agree! AWESOME SONG!!

  • You could play this song anywhere right now and people would listen to it... ask who sings it and buy on itunes amazon or what have you. it's uterly timeless.......

  • God, I love this song, and it is the song to dance to when you marry.

  • My husband I had had our first dance at our wedding to "crazy love" and the last song of the night was this one. We love it! Such a beautiful song.

  • Its a toss up between this tune and Art Garfunkle's cover of "I Only Have Eyes for You"

    for a wedding song.

  • If I ever get married, and that's a big fuckin' IF, I want to make this the first song I dance with my new bride to...

  • @CitySkin09 I'd marry you for that comment

  • @everybodysgreat -- Wow thank you.

  • @CitySkin09 EXACTLY‼

  • @CitySkin09 Good call. I thought the same thing when I first heard this song...except in my case it would be "groom" rather then "bride".