1 year ago

Falling Slowly
Released: April 21, 2006 (The Swell Season)
May 22, 2007 (Once soundtrack)
Songwriter(s): Glen Hansard & Markéta Irglová
Producer(s): Glen Hansard

The song was written and composed while Once was in production.
The film's director and screenwriter, John Carney, developed the script around songs which Hansard and Irglová had provided to him.

The couple performed it at gigs in various European venues over the next two years.

At the 2008 ceremony after their Oscar win, Irglova made a speech about the song in which at the end of the speech she says, "This song was written from a perspective of hope, and hope at the end of the day connects us all, no matter how different we are..."

Falling Slowly :

I don't know you
But I want you
還未了解但已愛你
All the more for that
Words fall through me
說不出一言一語
And always fool me
And I can't react
開玩笑來不及反應
And games that never amount
To more than they're meant
玩起數不盡的玩意
Will play themselves out
玩不起最終反被玩弄

Take this sinking boat and point it home
猶如置於沉落中的船
We've still got time
仍有時間挽留一切
Raise your hopeful voice you have a choice
高聲說出我們以後
You'll make it now
兌現我們將來

Falling slowly, eyes that know me
漸漸下挫我倆互望
And I can't go back
不會退去
Moods that take me and erase me
情緒把我狠狠擊到
And I'm painted black
面色漸變沉重
You have suffered enough
餘下苦澀滋味
And warred with yourself
It's time that you won
我應取捨你是最終贏家

Take this sinking boat and point it home
猶如置於沉落中的船
We've still got time
仍有時間挽留一切
Raise your hopeful voice you have a choice
高聲說出我們以後

You've made it now
你取得最後
Falling slowly sing your melody
慢慢唱起你歌調
I'll sing along
我獨唱

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Here's my piano cover of Falling Slowly.
"Once" is a touching movie. Life is a boat that you cannot hold, which can reflect in the film.