"For All Our Days That Tear The Heart" by Jessie Buckley and Bernard Butler

After enjoying her amazing performance in the 2022 sleeper folk-horror film "Men," her outstanding work in the Charlie Kaufman film "I'm Thinking of Ending Things," and her brilliant and very quirky turn as Nurse Oraetta Mayflower on "Fargo," I have just discovered that the phenomenally talented Jessie Buckley can sing (she won an Olivier for playing Sally Bowles in a London production of "Cabaret!" with Eddie Redmayne as Emcee).

And what a voice on this devastating track, "For All Our Days That Tear The Heart," a collaboration with former Suede guitarist Bernard Butler. Everything--her voice, the instrumentation and arrangement, the narrative--all conspire to make this track one that wrings you out. Incredible.

I think, I feel, I fall, I fly
Try to change the lines
Stories of our time
We fight, we love, we dream, we want
To be the things we're not
For once in our lives

For all our days that tear the heart
Leave us nowhere
For all the years we left untold
Hurt we couldn't hold much longer

We shed our skin through life
We differ and multiply
Become ourselves in time
This place we called our home
Has fallen down to stone
Nowhere else to hide

Today I spoke to no-one
Couldn't whisper them a word
Till the lines burnt my soul
For all our days that tear the heart
Lead us somewhere
Somewhere else to start

And here is a jaw-dropping live version performed by Buckley and Butler on "The Late Late Show" in Ireland.

This track is from the Jessie Buckley and Bernard Butler album "For All Our Days That Tear The Heart" which was shortlisted for the Mercury Prize in 2022.
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