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By Pages:   1    2    3    Add Your New Review About The Song The Reviews about Upward Over The Mountain (page 1/ 3) ------ performed by Iron & Wine brilliant song | Reviewer: billy | 10/21/09 I heard the studio version of this song and I was amazed, and then I listened to the live version of this song on "norfolk" and I started tearing up. How can a man create such poetry. This song is achingly beautiful. Hard to explain... | Reviewer: Ciara Cullen | 7/24/09 To try and make this stand out from all the other reviews (not that I am insulting, they all made me cry IN A GOOD WAY!) I won't start out with "I love this song." I do, but if you have taken the time to read this, bless you. The comments above all made me see how good I have it. I sing this song to myself allways, whenever I think about my Mam (Mum or Mom for those who aren't Irish) in a bad way. She always jokes about how she nags because she cares, and it's true. If you love your Mam, show her this song, learn the words, and sing it when you take advantage of her. She loves you more than you could ever know. -C.Cullen Wow. | Reviewer: Sara | 7/16/09 This song is simply amazing, if that could even be one hundreth of the right word for the feeling it gives you. I suggest you listen to it on a live recording. It just takes your breath away again and again. Able to bring strong emotions out of even the most apathetic. Sam Beam is almost like an angel. a mother of a grown son | Reviewer: Anonymous | 4/8/09 I'm not a young man - I'm the mother of a young man. I'm grateful he introduced this song to me. Lots of levels here. Always makes me cry. There's this thing about raising a person - you succeed best when he leaves you and separates. Possibly far away. What kind of cockamamie system is this? But even when he and you succeed in "individuation" - there's a piece of you in him, and he can remember, and reflect on it, and if you're respectful, he'll make contact again from time to time. This sweet pain is what we signed up for. We just didn't know it at the time. What gets me the most is the "Mother, don't worry..." repetition. As if we could stop! Touched | Reviewer: anonymous | 1/10/09 This song is amazing.my friend just passed away a few days ago and his older sister sang this song and it just made me cry because if you really take the time to listen to the lyrics carefully......well it just leaves you breathless....R.I.P Darac&Nik Thankyou | Reviewer: Frank | 11/29/08 This song is a joy to listen to... A joy to play as well.. I just recently learnt how, It's really good fun and you can let rip a bit... I really love it, I can now safely say this is the first song with lyrics Iv'e learnt. My mosher friend saw these lyrics And simply could not understand them... At all... I'm asuming he was wondering were the part with drugs and rape came in... He wouldn't understand poetry :) reminds me of everything | Reviewer: Anonymous | 11/8/08 the first time i heard this song, i cried. i cried a whole lot, more than i thought a song could do. i'm a thirteen year old girl and this made me think of my mother. and it also, sadly enough, made me think of my friends, both boys, who have been getting themselves into a lot of trouble lately- drinking, drugs, sometimes the law, that sort of thing. i saw them in my head hearing this song. though i doubt either of them could ever be grateful to their parents for all that they did, because their parents are not really people to look up to. had to cry. | Reviewer: teemu | 9/21/08 I've loved Sam Beam and his music for a few years now. Every time I listen to an Iron&Wine song, I get a really rare, a strong, yet same time fragile feeling and sense of music and life. This song has so much soul in it, that it just keeps dragging you with it to a point where it strikes you to the head. I've had this album "Creek drank the cradle" for awhile now, and I've always loved this song. Every time I heard it I had to listen to it again and again. I don't know why, but it was just now when I really listened to the lyrics. I read the lyrics, as I was listening to this song, and I just couldn't help it. There I was, a grown man crying his head off. I love the way Sam uses words, the way he sings and plays. It's always so simple and pure, but never "simple" in a stupid meaning. To me, this is a song in it's purest and most beautiful form. A song, but never just a song. You can really feel a sense of love, guilt, remorse, maybe desperation, growing up, and hope. What am I talking about? As if I'm trying to put something, that leaves me speechless, into words. As you can see, I can only stumble. Beautiful song. These kinds of moments have so much in them. Reminds me of why I started to write songs myself. Second verse | Reviewer: peter | 8/27/08 "Mother I made it up from the bruise on the floor of this prison" "Mother I lost it all of the fear of the Lord I was given" "Mother forget me now that the creek drank the cradle you sang to" "Mother forgive me I saw a car for the shoes that I gave you" Just beautiful. Possible metaphorical terms bruise and prison??? The fallible, frail humanity is a prison for the right, proper, person that has been lost in rebellion. The prison is the fallible nature of the body causing temptation, and separation. The bruise is the the damage the action is causing within the prison which is relfected by a dark spot on the surface. I hope that makes some sense. To me this line is where the others follow from. Definately echoing rebellion and remorse. Loss of the fear of the Lord (childhood values?). Exchanging the car for the shoes seems metaphorical to me as well. Everything given by the mother (life, love, nurturing) was replaced by something with much less value (the shoes = how he treated his mother??) "Creek drank the cradle" - Creek = tempations of society, cradle = infancy, nurturing, protection under the mother's arms. Also references first verse. Those were some of my thoughts. What do you think, am I way off? memories-i love iron and wine | Reviewer: daniella-michelle | 8/23/08 everytime i hear this is song i find new meaning and see a different picture. this is about struggle and love and moments that should be always remembered. if you have memories after a son or parent dies, they will never die because youll always have memories! Add Your New Review About The Song By Pages:   1    2    3