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***This article is part of the ongoing Lyrics I Love series: short interpretations of the meaning and story behind one song with lyrics that move me. Keep Me In Your Heart (Warren Zevon Cover) by Apey, released 10 September 2010 Shadows are falling and Im running out of breath Keep me in your heart for. **Here’s a good live version by Eddie Vedder honoring Zevon (and David Letterman) *Here’s an article for more context on Zevon, the album, and this song. You can now listen to the Lyrics I Love playlist on Spotify.
#Warren zevon keep me in your heart full#
Listen to song and read the lyrics for full effect. And just the idea that Keep Me in Your Heart could have easily died along with Zevon is a testament to the importance of creation and of truly living until your last breath. After I learned the story, I listened to this song and had to wipe a tear from my left eye. Maybe I’m an emotional guy-okay, I am an emotional guy- but if you have a beating heart, I find it hard to imagine your not being moved by this one. Ultimately, you end up with what surmounts to a mini-movie playing just for you. Or the soothing melody that wanes you into a daydream. Perhaps suggesting a simpler ask from his loved ones. Never mind the subtle cleverness of the lyrics like how he adds “for a while” into the song (but not the title).

As he is suffering through his final breaths, he asks the people he loves to remember him fondly. The idea that Zevon wrote this beautiful song for the loved ones he would soon leave behind makes it so dramatic. This song is about the final acceptance stage of dying. It’s a song that just melts you to the core. It’s a deeply moving yet gentle ballad that deals with love, loss, and death. SoundCloud SoundCloud Home Stream Library Search.
#Warren zevon keep me in your heart for free#
Play over 265 million tracks for free on SoundCloud. Keep Me in Your Heart is the final track on that record. Stream Keep Me In Your Heart For A While (Warren Zevon Cover) by Adam M. In the face of his tragic diagnosis, battling and struggling through physical and mental deterioration, the lifelong troubadour created and released the album The Wind (2003), and then died two weeks later (at the young age of 56). Below are two YouTubes: in the first he performs the song. His aversion to doctors is what killed him he hadn’t seen one in twenty years. Warren Zevon was a great musician and composer who struggled with various addictions all his adult life. I hope nobody reading this ever truly has to answer this question, but that’s exactly the hand Zevon was dealt. This song, Keep Me in Your Heart, was recorded for his last album, The Wind, and written when he knew he was dying. What would you do if you were diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer and told that you had only three months to live? You know I’m tied to you like the buttons on your blouse “Sometimes when you’re doing simple things around the house “These wheels keep turning but they're running out of steam”
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Note: the text of this song's lyrics is not under the same copyright license as the wiki's encyclopedic text, it is used under fair use/ dealing.Songwriter: Warren Zevon / Jorge Calderon The song is also available in sheet form in The Warren Zevon Guitar Songbook. It was also used in an NCIS episode, Honor Thy Father and an episode of Constantine, A Whole World Out There. It also appeared twice on the tribute album Enjoy Every Sandwich: Songs of Warren Zevon, first as a performance by Jorge Calderón and Jennifer Warnes and second as a strings only version arranged by Van Dyke Parks. Both were included in the soundtrack release. It was also featured in the 2009 film Funny People alongside another Warren Zevon song Numb as a Statue. The song would also appear on the 2006 compilation album Reconsider Me: The Love Songs. The song would serve as the title for the 2003 documentary Warren Zevon: Keep Me In Your Heart. It may be the last song on the album, but it was the first song I wrote." On reflection it might be a little bit of a ‘woe is me’ song, but it made me realize what I was going to do with the rest of the time. Instantly I realized I’d found what to do with myself. I picked up the guitar and found myself writing this kind of farewell. He told VH1 that "I don’t think anybody knows quite what to do when they get the diagnosis. Zevon intended the song to be his final farewell. "Keep Me in Your Heart" is the final track of Warren Zevon's final album The Wind, released in 2003.
