This song still makes me cry. My mom and dad are getting ready to celebrate 58 years and my mom has Alzheimers and is at the point she doesn't recognize him. My dad stays at her bedside everyday at home. When I heard Kathy was going to be at Bluebird Cafe this week for hospice I bought tickets! I hope she sings this song.This is for Mom & Dad. Thank you very much Kathy. Lesli
This song makes me cry for about the same reasons. My dear, sweet grandmother had it. The last time I saw her, I kissed her on the forehead as I placed my cheek to her face, the memory makes my cry to this day. Of all the souls I've known, I have loved her most.
The first time I heard this song was on my car radio. I had to pull the car over to really listen to it. I am glad that I did because my eyes teared over.
I love that song. I've worked with the elderly for years and several times I would be told that they had only known each other for a few weeks and got married. Married until one of them would pass away. Together 40 + years and never stopped loving each other. My husband passed May 24th,2912 ,married to each other 27 years. Just 2 days before he passed we sat holding each other and told each other how much we loved each other. I really miss him a lot, but the thing I miss the most is him saying to me,"Have I told you today that I love you?"
This is one of my most favorite Kathy Mattea songs. My Dad and I made amends on Christmas Day about 6 years ago. A month later he was diagnosed with Dementia. It was an awesome Christmas present. He still lives at home and he and my Mom have been married for 69 years in November. I imagine that this song has more of a special meaning to you now Kathy. God Bless you and Jon for writing this wonderful song. 🦋🌈🌹🙏 From a proud Canadian 🇨🇦🌞🤟
My wife and I went to a CD debut last night at the Silver Tassie in Letterkenny County Donegal for alzheimers disease, and she mentioned this song to Shaun Doherty of Highland radio. We love this song. Greg and Margaret Drake
I went to high school with Kathy and she was always a great singer. At a reunion I told her she sounds live like she does on the records, and I consider that to be a huge compliment.
You will! :-) We celebrated 40 years of being together (34 married) today. If somebody can put up with me that long, then there IS somebody for everybody!
The song is actually about her husband's parents. They both became afflicted with Alzheimer's Disease and her husband wrote this song as a way of trying to cope. There's a marvelous version of this song by Patti page in which Kathy Mattea and Suzy Bogguss provide back up vocals.
Like every other commentor I admit I cry every time I hear this song. More importantly, the song brings to the surface how wonderful my wife is and how lucky I am to have been married to her for more than 23 years now. I wouldn’t want to live without her and I think we cry during this song because we know the power of love is the most wonderful and beautiful thing about living.
This song has so much meaning to me I understand it was written by Kathy mattea's husband about his grandparents what a coincidence I was just a child back in the 80s and my grandparents we're married for exactly 60 years were both dying in Baptist hospital and they were alone in their beds on separate floors and it was summer so I spent every day and night with them one night I would stay with my grandmother on one floor and then the next night stay with my grandpa on the other so this really touch me in ways that I could never express just love the way Kathy mattea song it may have been meant for her husband to write that song Kathy was meant to have song it literally brings tears to my eyes forever holds a place in my favorite music collection
sorry to hear that...my grandma had alzheimers as well...we went to see her and when we left she had such a sad look on her face...it broke my heart....last time i saw her alive...God bless you!
Thank God I'm not the only one crying over this song. I just got home from the Philadelphia Folk Festival 2008, where Kathy performed Saturday night. It was the 1st time I heard her, and the 1st time I ever heard this song. I'm a guy, and I'm not supposed to admit that a song can bring tears to my eyes, but this one does. This couple's love, so precious, so fragile. It never dies, not even when they do. I want to learn to play and sing this song, but I can't get through it w/o choking up!
I'm so glad I looked up this song, I used to listen to this as a child and just cry my eyes out. I'm 24 and I still cry LOL. Very touching stories. God bless
This is probably my favorite song ever. I basically grew up listening to Kathy Mattea, & some of her songs-especially this one-have contributed to my view of the idealistic love.
@pjm290 My father has Alzheimers. This was a favorite song of his every time I hear this I think about my dad and the irony of this song being one of his favorites. He once told me how much he would hate to be in the hospital in separate beds on different floors. Mom and dad have been married 51 years. I know how unfair this disease is and I wish you happiness and peace. Life throws us some whoppers sometimes. Live life now. I am truly sorry for your loss.
Saying good bye is hard...we all have to do it,and in turn at sometime in our life someone will be telling us goodbye...love your family,friends and even your enemies!! Life is short people!!! Live like there is no tomorrow!!
this is one of the most poignant love songs I have ever heard, and whisperingwind, it reminded me of camping at Sugargrove with my wife in the West Virginia Mountains, gonna do it again, make memories we'll never forget.
I went to see Kathy perform last week, when she described this song and its origins i laughed rather to hard. Apparently the last 'where have you been' she wasn't all nostalgic and emotional... and i quote 'grandma was pissed' ;0)
My high school senior daughter sang this song at her vocal recital the other night. She knows I like country music (she does too) and selected this song. I taped it and cried thru the whole thing. Absolutely beautiful. Thanks
I first heard this song in 1999 and immediatley equated it with the relationship and marriage of my grandparents. I travel this week to attend the memorial service of my grandmother. There were married 78 years! Within moments of hearing of my grandmother's death, this song played on my iPod at work. I became a basketcase. Now I plan on using the lyrics of this song at her memorial service... I can hear my grandfather saying "Where've you been? I'm just not myself when your away."
Great song and video! My wife and I have met Kathy 4 different times over the years and she is always very nice to us! My wife’s mother died of Alzheimer’s disease and she cried as she hugged Kathy the first time we met her. Thanks for the pictures and autographs Kathy!
My Grandmother spent her last years in an old folks home and her dementia got worse the whole times before she passed away. The last time she saw me the first thing she said to me was "Where have you been?". This song will always have a big place in my heart. Arg!
I'm a 30yr old mama's boy. Always have been and always will be. She is my best friend and I love her like no other. We found out last week she has inoperable lung cancer. She is 59. I thought I wouldn't have to face her mortality until she was well into her 80s (or heck, even 90s!). But instead, I am facing this now. And it hurts to much. I keep my face on and my composure together when around her. This song, though, has me crying harder than I care to explain. I love you mom.
I used to watch my mother cry when she heard this song..............now I am crying.....amazing song by an amazing woman!! Thank you for this memory :)
This has been one of my absolute favorite songs, since the day I first heard it. I saw you perform it live and I started crying two notes into it, all the way to the end. I'm sure you're used to seeing that.
Thank You so much Kathy for singing this song. It makes me feel alive and human. I feel like I have never felt before when I listen to this song. You are beautiful and have an angelic voice. Again, Thank You!
I worked for many years in Hospice and Palliative Care. Whether losing loved ones, physical abilities, independence, mental faculties, or memory, all were grieving some loss. This song is what I would tell newbies to listen to, to try to connect with their own feelings. It always brought a tear to my eyes. Still does.
@pjm290 great words.....special. I am fearful my father may have the onset of this awful disease which from what I understand only gets worse. this song makes me cry too.....guys are allowed to cry. thanks for your post.
This is love, just simply put a beautiful song that always reminded me of the love that I saw in my wifes grandparent's eyes. I hope I can show her that I love her this much
If this isn't about what love is all about, I don't know what is. An incredibly beautiful, powerful song by an artist with the voice of an angel. I still cry when I hear it.
One of my favorite songs of all time, I cry every time I hear it, every time I sing it, it's just very moving. It's love like this that makes life worth while.
Took me 8 years to remember the partial lyrics I knew to this song and finally try google to find it leading me here. Made me cry like the first time all over again : ]
I was on the 91 frwy.Cal. when I 1st. heard this. have the tears ever whelled up in your eyes as you are driving the frwy. at 70mp., then had to try to get to the hard shoulder to bawl like a baby?! True love my friends, true love. Problem is that 'the powers that be' are doing this sort pf thing to couples all the time. Some have been together decades.
I don't know if Kathy wrote this, but whoever wrote it is a genius. I volunteer at an old age home, and there is a couple there, who made me think of this song, so I had to find it here.
I'm 52, and I haven't met anyone like that yet. But I am still alive, so ya never know. I was married, but he passed a long time ago. And we used to listen to this song together, and he said he imagined we could be that couple in that hospital. But he passed at age 29 (suicide). I was 37 at the time. I am not that optimistic anymore, cuz I live in NYC where it is illegal to be over 29. But I am always hopeful, so long as I have a beating heart.
Thanks for this song. It was recently the two year aniversery of my grandma's death and it will be the one year of my grandpa next month. This song reminds me of them. Especially the part about sixty years, because when my grandma passed away they had been married for about 65 years. Once again thanks.
Boy when you pay attention to this song the ending chokes ya up big time. Yeah Kathy big fan here ! Not an alhimerze desease person, , but my anxiety fear of separation anxiety is what hit the mark for me. But I'm all better now, and totally alone with no FEAR! YEAH
A true classic!! My grandparents are now separated by death and she's in the nursing home alone, but they will meet again one day!! God bless anyone suffering w/ Alzheimers!!
My parents both died last year, within two months of one another, after 65 years of marriage....my father had alzheimer's also...this song brings the tears and memories...but yet I find myself listening to it from time to time...
At the time this song came out I had just lost my grandfather to dementia. My grandparents were married within weeks of meeting. He may not have always remembered her name or that they were married but he always remembered he loved her and wanted to be married to her.
What a spellbinding performance!! Not a note missed & sung with so much feeling. It even had a lump in the throat of an old cynic like me. Thanks so much for posting it.
I cried when she told us about losing a player during her Christmas show two years ago. I gave her hug, For my mother died and a freind cancer, a friend's mother passed away from cancer.
Wonderful post! Her voice is so beautiful and this has always been one of my favorite songs...touching...it's right up there with Colin Raye's "Love Me".
First time I ever heard this song I love it my woman told me to listen to it and I imagined it was her singing it to me and its so how she makes me feel
Indeed where have you been? We met so very long ago, one simple kiss remembered all these years, your face imprinted on my heart. now I've found you again... where have you been? My heart is healed by your smile again.
This song still makes me cry. My mom and dad are getting ready to celebrate 58 years and my mom has Alzheimers and is at the point she doesn't recognize him. My dad stays at her bedside everyday at home. When I heard Kathy was going to be at Bluebird Cafe this week for hospice I bought tickets!
I hope she sings this song.This is for Mom & Dad. Thank you very much Kathy. Lesli
This song makes me cry for about the same reasons. My dear, sweet grandmother had it. The last time I saw her, I kissed her on the forehead as I placed my cheek to her face, the memory makes my cry to this day. Of all the souls I've known, I have loved her most.
This is one of the most beautiful songs I have ever heard in my life.
One of the most beautiful songs written...and sung to perfection by Kathy Mattea. Makes me tear up each time I listen to it.
The first time I heard this song was on my car radio. I had to pull the car over to really listen to it. I am glad that I did because my eyes teared over.
Such a beautiful song......always has me in tears - Love you Kathy.
I love that song. I've worked with the elderly for years and several times I would be told that they had only known each other for a few weeks and got married. Married until one of them would pass away. Together 40 + years and never stopped loving each other. My husband passed May 24th,2912 ,married to each other 27 years. Just 2 days before he passed we sat holding each other and told each other how much we loved each other. I really miss him a lot, but the thing I miss the most is him saying to me,"Have I told you today that I love you?"
The most beautiful song I've ever heard!!!!!
This is one of my most favorite Kathy Mattea songs. My Dad and I made amends on Christmas Day about 6 years ago. A month later he was diagnosed with Dementia. It was an awesome Christmas present. He still lives at home and he and my Mom have been married for 69 years in November.
I imagine that this song has more of a special meaning to you now Kathy. God Bless you and Jon for writing this wonderful song. 🦋🌈🌹🙏 From a proud Canadian 🇨🇦🌞🤟
My wife and I went to a CD debut last night at the Silver Tassie in Letterkenny County Donegal for alzheimers disease, and she mentioned this song to Shaun Doherty of Highland radio. We love this song.
Greg and Margaret Drake
One of the most beautiful and sad songs I have ever heard. Never fails to make me cry.
Best song I've ever heard ....I've been a pro player for over 50 yrs
What a versatile musician. In my opinion,she's more at home in this small venue than in a concert hall. But that dosen't pay the bills.
I went to high school with Kathy and she was always a great singer. At a reunion I told her she sounds live like she does on the records, and I consider that to be a huge compliment.
This song is so Beautiful. Babe, she is singing about us!
My mom is in heaven now singing this to my Dad who is still here..they were married 62 years
You will! :-) We celebrated 40 years of being together (34 married) today. If somebody can put up with me that long, then there IS somebody for everybody!
Absolutely Stellar performance.... My favorite Female vocalist.... GREAT !!! song
The song is actually about her husband's parents. They both became afflicted with Alzheimer's Disease and her husband wrote this song as a way of trying to cope. There's a marvelous version of this song by Patti page in which Kathy Mattea and Suzy Bogguss provide back up vocals.
Like every other commentor I admit I cry every time I hear this song. More importantly, the song brings to the surface how wonderful my wife is and how lucky I am to have been married to her for more than 23 years now. I wouldn’t want to live without her and I think we cry during this song because we know the power of love is the most wonderful and beautiful thing about living.
That just reaches right inside and pulls your heart out. . .what an unbelievable song!
This song has so much meaning to me I understand it was written by Kathy mattea's husband about his grandparents what a coincidence I was just a child back in the 80s and my grandparents we're married for exactly 60 years were both dying in Baptist hospital and they were alone in their beds on separate floors and it was summer so I spent every day and night with them one night I would stay with my grandmother on one floor and then the next night stay with my grandpa on the other so this really touch me in ways that I could never express just love the way Kathy mattea song it may have been meant for her husband to write that song Kathy was meant to have song it literally brings tears to my eyes forever holds a place in my favorite music collection
sorry to hear that...my grandma had alzheimers as well...we went to see her and when we left she had such a sad look on her face...it broke my heart....last time i saw her alive...God bless you!
Thank God I'm not the only one crying over this song.
I just got home from the Philadelphia Folk Festival 2008, where Kathy performed Saturday night. It was the 1st time I heard her, and the 1st time I ever heard this song.
I'm a guy, and I'm not supposed to admit that a song can bring tears to my eyes, but this one does.
This couple's love, so precious, so fragile. It never dies, not even when they do.
I want to learn to play and sing this song,
but I can't get through it w/o choking up!
I love her. I cry every time I hear this song. Where has she been?
Her husband Jon Vezner wrote such a beautiful song....my dad has Parkinson's Disease....and the song touches me even more...if that is possible.
She has a beautiful voice. A natural vibrato that really compliments the cello.
Excellent performance of a beautiful heartbreaking song.
I'm so glad I looked up this song, I used to listen to this as a child and just cry my eyes out. I'm 24 and I still cry LOL. Very touching stories. God bless
This is probably my favorite song ever. I basically grew up listening to Kathy Mattea, & some of her songs-especially this one-have contributed to my view of the idealistic love.
@pjm290 My father has Alzheimers. This was a favorite song of his every time I hear this I think about my dad and the irony of this song being one of his favorites. He once told me how much he would hate to be in the hospital in separate beds on different floors. Mom and dad have been married 51 years. I know how unfair this disease is and I wish you happiness and peace. Life throws us some whoppers sometimes. Live life now. I am truly sorry for your loss.
Saying good bye is hard...we all have to do it,and in turn at sometime in our life someone will be telling us goodbye...love your family,friends and even your enemies!! Life is short people!!! Live like there is no tomorrow!!
i like that song, kathy mattea will give a concert in my town in 2 weeks from now, i ll be able to enjoy her sining on live :)
this is one of the most poignant love songs I have ever heard, and whisperingwind, it reminded me of camping at Sugargrove with my wife in the West Virginia Mountains, gonna do it again, make memories we'll never forget.
I went to see Kathy perform last week, when she described this song and its origins i laughed rather to hard. Apparently the last 'where have you been' she wasn't all nostalgic and emotional... and i quote 'grandma was pissed' ;0)
My high school senior daughter sang this song at her vocal recital the other night. She knows I like country music (she does too) and selected this song. I taped it and cried thru the whole thing. Absolutely beautiful. Thanks
I first heard this song in 1999 and immediatley equated it with the relationship and marriage of my grandparents. I travel this week to attend the memorial service of my grandmother. There were married 78 years!
Within moments of hearing of my grandmother's death, this song played on my iPod at work. I became a basketcase.
Now I plan on using the lyrics of this song at her memorial service... I can hear my grandfather saying "Where've you been? I'm just not myself when your away."
Great song and video! My wife and I have met Kathy 4 different times over the years and she is always very nice to us!
My wife’s mother died of Alzheimer’s disease and she cried as she hugged Kathy the first time we met her.
Thanks for the pictures and autographs Kathy!
My Grandmother spent her last years in an old folks home and her dementia got worse the whole times before she passed away. The last time she saw me the first thing she said to me was "Where have you been?". This song will always have a big place in my heart. Arg!
I work with the elderly every day and also am getting older... so appreciate this
I sang this for my hubby at our reception. Love this song.
Watched this video in my nursing class today when discussing Alzheimers, dementia, and delirium. Many tears from the class. Beautiful song.
I'm a 30yr old mama's boy. Always have been and always will be. She is my best friend and I love her like no other.
We found out last week she has inoperable lung cancer. She is 59. I thought I wouldn't have to face her mortality until she was well into her 80s (or heck, even 90s!).
But instead, I am facing this now. And it hurts to much. I keep my face on and my composure together when around her. This song, though, has me crying harder than I care to explain. I love you mom.
Beautiful song and can't be sung better than by this lady.
I don't care how much of a tough man you think you are...this song will make you cry everytime you listen to it.
crap ... after 20 years I still can't hear this song without crying. just beautiful.
Such an amazing song!❤
I used to watch my mother cry when she heard this song..............now I am crying.....amazing song by an amazing woman!! Thank you for this memory :)
This has been one of my absolute favorite songs, since the day I first heard it. I saw you perform it live and I started crying two notes into it, all the way to the end. I'm sure you're used to seeing that.
I've been trying to find this song for so long! So glad I found it!! Always touches my heart!
i dont know how she can sing this without crying!
I cant listen to this without crying.. I really miss my dad.. And this makes me think of him so much..
I have played this to widows/widowers, like myself and we have all wept knowing just how they felt. A beautiful and soo so true song.
Thank You so much Kathy for singing this song. It makes me feel alive and human. I feel like I have never felt before when I listen to this song. You are beautiful and have an angelic voice. Again, Thank You!
I worked for many years in Hospice and Palliative Care. Whether losing loved ones, physical abilities, independence, mental faculties, or memory, all were grieving some loss. This song is what I would tell newbies to listen to, to try to connect with their own feelings. It always brought a tear to my eyes. Still does.
We played this song at our wedding 15 years ago today! I still love it as much now as I did then.
@pjm290 great words.....special. I am fearful my father may have the onset of this awful disease which from what I understand only gets worse. this song makes me cry too.....guys are allowed to cry. thanks for your post.
This is love, just simply put a beautiful song that always reminded me of the love that I saw in my wifes grandparent's eyes. I hope I can show her that I love her this much
If this isn't about what love is all about, I don't know what is. An incredibly beautiful, powerful song by an artist with the voice of an angel. I still cry when I hear it.
One of my favorite songs of all time, I cry every time I hear it, every time I sing it, it's just very moving. It's love like this that makes life worth while.
Such a wonderful talent and this song always makes me cry....sending love from Canada 🇨🇦
Took me 8 years to remember the partial lyrics I knew to this song and finally try google to find it leading me here. Made me cry like the first time all over again : ]
I was on the 91 frwy.Cal. when I 1st. heard this. have the tears ever whelled up in your eyes as you are driving the frwy. at 70mp., then had to try to get to the hard shoulder to bawl like a baby?! True love my friends, true love. Problem is that 'the powers that be' are doing this sort pf thing to couples all the time. Some have been together decades.
My sweetheart and I will celebrate 30 years next year. Where did the time go? But I love her more than I did all those years ago.....
Won Grammy for Best Song AND Female Vocal in 1990.
I don't know if Kathy wrote this, but whoever wrote it is a genius. I volunteer at an old age home, and there is a couple there, who made me think of this song, so I had to find it here.
I'm 52, and I haven't met anyone like that yet. But I am still alive, so ya never know. I was married, but he passed a long time ago. And we used to listen to this song together, and he said he imagined we could be that couple in that hospital. But he passed at age 29 (suicide). I was 37 at the time. I am not that optimistic anymore, cuz I live in NYC where it is illegal to be over 29. But I am always hopeful, so long as I have a beating heart.
Thanks for this song. It was recently the two year aniversery of my grandma's death and it will be the one year of my grandpa next month. This song reminds me of them. Especially the part about sixty years, because when my grandma passed away they had been married for about 65 years. Once again thanks.
This is a really beautiful song!!!! :)
Boy when you pay attention to this song the ending chokes ya up big time. Yeah Kathy big fan here ! Not an alhimerze desease person, , but my anxiety fear of separation anxiety is what hit the mark for me. But I'm all better now, and totally alone with no FEAR! YEAH
This song makes me cry!
A true classic!! My grandparents are now separated by death and she's in the nursing home alone, but they will meet again one day!! God bless anyone suffering w/ Alzheimers!!
what talent...country sure misses these talents...ty for posten.....
i've spent the last 20 years tearing up whenever i hear this song.
This is one of the few songs that made me well up when I heard it the first time, it's so beautiful and powerful.
Just a remarkable song! :)
I've always just adored this beautiful song..and her voice is just adds to it!!
Reminds me of my grandparents. Chokes me up every time.
I grew up on this song and to this day is the best love story I've heard and it still makes me cry
Love how she performs Don Henry's song!
My parents both died last year, within two months of one another, after 65 years of marriage....my father had alzheimer's also...this song brings the tears and memories...but yet I find myself listening to it from time to time...
Simply amazing!!!! This song was my first introduction to Kathy Mattea and still brings me chills!!!
At the time this song came out I had just lost my grandfather to dementia. My grandparents were married within weeks of meeting. He may not have always remembered her name or that they were married but he always remembered he loved her and wanted to be married to her.
Kathy Lawson
That's what True Love does to people!!
It would do the rest of the world a whole lot of good to embrace it!! xo
As the British sometimes say, "I've gone a huge, wet, snotty wobbler". This song tears me a new one, every time.
Talk about singing from your heart
What a spellbinding performance!! Not a note missed & sung with so much feeling. It even had a lump in the throat of an old cynic like me. Thanks so much for posting it.
I cried when she told us about losing a player during her Christmas show two years ago. I gave her hug, For my mother died and a freind cancer, a friend's mother passed away from cancer.
this is one of those songs that can make me bawl like a baby.
This song still makes me cry. I wish Kathy would make more music.
I was directed to this link from a Facebook friend, and I do not think I have ever cried so hard over a song in my life.
such an amazing song and great talented singer.
Brilliant Song cleverly written in Third Person Perspective and wonderfully sung
Timeless classic. Love it live. ♥️♥️
what a beautiful song
Love ,love ,love it. Great song by a wonderful singer.Thanks for this . RCAKEN. ENGLAND.
Wonderful post! Her voice is so beautiful and this has always been one of my favorite songs...touching...it's right up there with Colin Raye's "Love Me".
First time I ever heard this song I love it my woman told me to listen to it and I imagined it was her singing it to me and its so how she makes me feel
Indeed where have you been? We met so very long ago, one simple kiss remembered all these years, your face imprinted on my heart. now I've found you again... where have you been? My heart is healed by your smile again.
This song gets me everytime...WoW!
i can relate this song to the movie THE NOTEBOOK. i saw it tonight amazing movie.
but this song is very touching.
This is one of the best about 'true love'! SWAK!