Erasure - Roskilde Festival
At Dyrskuepladsen, Roskilde, Denmark
June 29, 2017
At Dyrskuepladsen, Roskilde, Denmark
June 29, 2017
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MusicTranscript
00:00Thank you, thank you.
00:17We dreamers have our ways of facing rainy days and somehow we survive.
00:29We keep the feelings warm, protect them from the storm until our time arrives.
00:41Then one day the sun appears and we come shining through those lonely years.
00:55I made it through the rain, I kept my world protected.
01:03I made it through the rain, I kept my point of view.
01:10I made it through the rain and found myself respected by the others who got rained on
01:23too and made it through.
01:37You know, every time I sing this song these days I think about my grandfather.
01:41My grandfather was this Russian immigrant who supported my mother, my grandmother and
01:47myself for most of his life and although I'll always be grateful to him for that,
01:54the real reason that I'll never forget grandpa was because he was the first person in my
01:59family that actually noticed that I was musical and I don't know how he did that because we
02:04couldn't afford an instrument or anything but grandpa just got it.
02:08He just figured out that I was a musical kid, you know, and I remember that on Saturday
02:14afternoons he used to take me over the Brooklyn Bridge into Manhattan to a little record your
02:19own voice booth that he found in Manhattan for a quarter and for a quarter and a quarter
02:24in those days was a lot of money and he used to put his quarter in and he used to try to
02:28get me to sing anything and I was so young I didn't know what he wanted me to do but
02:36the first time he did it he tried to get me to sing happy birthday to my cousin Dennis
02:40and I just wouldn't and we have the 78, the scratchy 78 record.
02:46Hey Brian, could we play this 78 record for my friends here?
02:50Alright, I have to work, come on, go ahead.
02:53That's grandpa.
02:54Sing it, sing it.
02:55I have to work, sing it.
02:56Sing it, sing it.
02:57I have to work, sing it.
02:58Sing it, sing it.
02:59I have to work, sing it.
03:00Sing it, sing it.
03:01I have to work, sing it.
03:02Sing it, sing it.
03:03I have to work, sing it.
03:04Sing it, sing it.
03:05I have to work, sing it.
03:06Sing it, sing it.
03:07I have to work, sing it.
03:08Sing it, sing it.
03:09I have to work, sing it.
03:10And it was on for 10 minutes.
03:13He just wouldn't give up, you know, and every Saturday afternoon he would take me to try
03:17to get me to sing and eventually one Saturday afternoon I sang something for him and I liked
03:25it.
03:26I liked it.
03:28It wasn't so much the singing, thanks, it wasn't so much the singing that I liked but
03:33it was the music that I liked.
03:36I felt, even at that young age, I felt like I was connected to something.
03:42I understood it.
03:43I just understood music.
03:46Anyway, years later when Mandy went number one, we played Carnegie Hall and I invited
03:59everybody I'd ever known to Carnegie Hall and I invited my family too and Grandpa was
04:04there and Grandpa was in the audience and when I walked out on stage scared to death,
04:09Grandpa stood up and gave me a standing ovation and because he stood up, the whole audience
04:13stood up so I got my first big standing ovation.
04:19And when they sat down, he wouldn't sit down.
04:23He just kept standing there and applauding and I looked at him, you know, and my fear
04:28just vanished because I knew what he was thinking, you know, he was thinking, there's my grandson
04:34on the stage of Carnegie Hall, down the block from that 25 cent record your own boy's booth.
04:41What a life.
04:44I made it through the rain.
04:48I kept my world protected.
04:51I made it through the rain.
04:54I kept my point of view.
04:57I made it through the rain.
05:02I found myself respected by the others who got rained on too.
05:11I made it through.
05:13Come on, Bobby, sing it, bro.
05:15Go ahead.
05:16Come on, sing it.
05:17Come on, Bobby.
05:18I made it through.
05:20Come on, sing it, Bobby.
05:22Sing it.
05:24I made it through.
05:31Looks like we made it.