Okay, disclaimer, I know I posted this song before, but having recently recovered this version, I wanted to post it so everyone knows why I love this song:

This is my wife’s favorite movie but… I don’t know, for me its painful to watch. I actually mean that literally the horrible editing where they don’t hold a single shot for more than a couple of seconds throughout a good potion of the movie gives me a headache. The visuals are nice, but you barely get a chance to enjoy them. I’m also not a fan of Jukebox musicals. I never understood them. Write original songs or stop writing. I can’t imagine being okay with something I wrote being taken and performed out of context and without its original meaning in a musical that someone else wrote.

So perhaps its no surprise that the one part of this movie that I actually like… is the one song that is actually original. This is a rare gem in this movie.

So what’s the difference from the original? 

Honestly, the last 40 seconds. Ewan McGreggor is replaced with far more powerful vocals for the finale. It sounds infinitely more epic. No disrespect to Obi Wan Kenobi, but the replacement really intensifies the end of the song.

When to listen: Two different places; the death of a loved one. When the hero experiences the loss of his partner in the story or a love early on. Secondly, the ending, as you’d expect. The good guy has won the day, the person he loves stands with him as they look over the horizon to the world they helped save/create.

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-Jim