Saturday Playlist: Mother (Roslyn)
By the mid to late 1990's when this video first came out, my mother had already been long dead. This is probably just as well because I know she wouldn't have appreciated the sentiment. However, it's a very accurate way of putting the relationship between me and my mother around the time I left the family home. It had been my idea to leave at the age that I did, not that she did much to stop me. The letters exchanged between us sounded a lot like this, right down to the fake "Yes, everything is fine" when in reality I was anything but.
I don't want to give the wrong idea. I did love my mother a lot, as daughters do. However, the first time I heard this on the radio 20 years ago I thought of her instantly and that time was brought back to me. And whenever I think of her now, sadly, this is the tune that usually runs in my head.
Click to viewI don't want to give the wrong idea. I did love my mother a lot, as daughters do. However, the first time I heard this on the radio 20 years ago I thought of her instantly and that time was brought back to me. And whenever I think of her now, sadly, this is the tune that usually runs in my head.