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Nineteen Years Ago

from Hello Me To You by Victor Stranges

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"It is not the opening chord to Imagine. Rather, "Nineteen Years Ago" is basically a piano/vocal pop ballad, flowing, poignant and personal. The superb vocal performance, set in a deft and graceful piano accompaniment, peaks nicely in a string-laden crescendo finale."

Michael Ososki - Review You (2009)

"...the most emotional song of the 11 tracks here. The subject matter of loss, grief, and remembrance is highlighted by the use of mostly piano and voice with some bass and a few keyboard effects building up at the end. The imagery contained in lines like, “Sitting in the car with the radio/Crying to an AM Station/That song was my salvation…” is magnified exponentially by Stranges’s voice. Emotionally, the song hits with the weight of something like James Taylor’s “Fire And Rain”; the pain comes through so clearly as the song reminds us all that the weight of such losses…and the memories of what made someone so special, can remain through the years."

Heath Andrews - Review You (2009)

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It was only nineteen years ago
Sitting in the car with the radio
Crying to an AM station
That song was my salvation, yes

Something in the music spoke my pain
Something in the words I can’t explain
It was only nineteen years ago

It was only nineteen years ago
I remember walking out the door
I would see your face no more
It was only nineteen years ago

It was only nineteen sixty one
You were dreaming of your bride to come
And working in a foreign land
Though the words you would not understand

Must have been the strangest dream to dream
To live in a life of such extremes
It was only nineteen sixty one

It was only six years later on
You would hold her in your arms
Someone you could call your own
You’d no longer be alone

Just like the wind that sways the trees
When winter’s stealing every leaf
It was only nineteen years ago
When I had to let you go

© 2009 Victor Stranges

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from Hello Me To You, track released September 4, 2009

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