Richard Thompson - A Heart Needs A Home Lyrics

This is the best video in the internets.

Magnificent

Beautiful song beautifully performed. Witn the bonus that, 15 seconds in, you've completely forgotten about Whisperin' Bob

For June my love of 41 years & wife of 40 years. ❤️🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Beautiful and brittle. This makes me flow with stillness and joy.

Not bad 😜

37 people didn’t get this...?

What great delivery. Everyone on TV should aspire to the hosts level

Sublime

3 things: Dont' not expect what you would, know that you're free, and don't underestimate how much people need it (friendship, in my case). Beneath that, don't glamorize it so much that you need the fourth thing up. But I love you. I'm not that happy.

This song sung and played by R&L will always make me cry and break my heart. This is from someone who will likely (like millions on this planet) be alone... no one who will love, the inability to love back...

If a heart is broken, then where would the home be? That will always be a personal question.

Utter simplicity, perfection and sheer class

My favorite all time song.

Does anyone play an acoustic guitar more beautifully than that?

Like a refreshing ice cold drink from a mount stream on a hot day.   Simple, delicious and very satisfying.

Linda would have looked nice with a bit of makeup, she has a nice face

Wow, wonderful.

jeez I wanna be cool and get into Sufi religion like this lot!

Just wonderful

If you don't look at the video you'd think it was Carly Simon

Doesnt sound anything like Carly Simon.

My dad would of loved this song x

Just Beautiful

Does anyone know if you can buy the audio for this? I just downloaded the version on iTunes that has Old Grey Whistle Test next to it, but it's not the same. Sounds like the studio version, it certainly has a lot more backing accompaniment. I want to put this on a CD for my dad.

god he should have never left her!!!! I love you both!! great song!!

Wow this is fab ! Richard and Linda ace !

Richard & Linda. Two birds with one stone.

dullarddom hmmm...

Not sure I understand this comment.

Tough exposed song, done with beautiful ease

We have lost so much...

Her voice is perfection.

Genius. utterly beautiful.

Linda's recorded performances from back then have stood the test of time better than her contemporaries. She sings like the song is more important than the performance, but at the same time she is making it technically spot on.

Quite beautiful.

Heart rending...Linda's voice is right in my range and what a delight to sing with her on this song :-)

Richard and Linda were just magical together saw them in 1980 at Theatre Royal in Stratford East London they were magical

Especially on Dimming of the Day

this introducing common-tader is a creepy 'whisperer', no?

Sheer perfection.

The beauty of this made me cry.

Difficult to sing that way. Plain, almost no vibrato, no weird vocal growls, or trills, or falsetto, or any other ornamentation to hide behind. It makes you feel very exposed. As with a lot of things, it looks a lot easier than it actually is.

She sings it so well.

I thought so too.

deenibeeniable who also sings that way is Marilynn McCoo of 5th Dimension. Songs are glossy but her vocals are pure.

Great comment Deen.... So true!

Love this

I had a double DVD of the "best" of Whistle Test. Why this wasn't on there I'll never know. Only just discovered this song today. Truely beautiful.

I have the four-disc boxset and it is included. A very haunting performance

Samuel Simmons it's on a follow up cd check it out

Thought this song was about Richard Thompson's girlfriend who was killed in the crash which also killed Martin Lamble.

That's what I heard but maybe you know different. Hauntingly beautiful song anyway.

no, I don't know ..... you are right, doesn't really make any difference, it is Hauntingly Beautiful regardless of the details....

You're thinking about Crazy Man Michael, on the Liege And Lief album.

I just somehow doubted Linda would be singing about Richard's girlfriend's death

sunrajah And you'd be right to doubt.

Indian givers? that's discrimination 😂 lol

OK she's singing too sloooow

too slow for what -- your addled sense of time & emotion?

OH, I didn't see your other comments ... your an idiot, never mind

@sunrajah what others comments?

it's called a rib cage lol

it's cold in there?

Rufus wants to see the bright lights with Linda 😂 lol

all she's thinking about is going for a swim. She has her bathing cap on. 😂 pool party.... segway into mighty mighty boss toned

beautiful song.. thanks for posting!

AGREED,each to their own,stick to the spice girls,this is pure gold,and English gold,V.RARE

MAGIC!!!
My favorite song from Richard and Linda Thompson!!!
HAPPY (68th) BIRTHDAY, LINDA!!!
(born 23 August 1947)

This made me cry

Yes. Indeed.

Machiavelli 2050 it still does to me.

You big baby. I didn't cry, there are just all these ninja cutting onions around me.

fantastic beautiful song...

A heart needs a home... but it will only find that home in itself...

absolutely stunning, thanks for sharing!

What a truly beautiful song, wonderfully sung.

Jesus...

The 40 years that have now passed since this recording have done little to diminish its impact, a feat few can achieve , and even fewer seldom get this close to perfection ,

i wish there was a bob harris nowadays

Harris was a fucking asshole

@milsub59 Are you not thinking of Rolf?

Him too fella :o)

"Tongues talk fire and eyes cry rivers-" one of my favorite lines ever from a totally magic song

Really? I'm almost as old as Richard and I knew all about how wrong that phrase was even more than 30 years ago, so right back at you.

Wikipedia: "Indian giver is an American expression to describe a person who gives a gift and later wants it back, or something equivalent in return. It is based on the experiences of early European settlers and pioneers like Lewis and Clark when trading with Native Americans." So hardly an ethnic slur, more an observation. Nothing wrong with the phrase in the context of the song.

over all, i'd say white man givers would prove the best phrase to coin for that behavior, and it goes on today at Standing Rock

Hans, will you just piss off with your "ethnic slur" crap. You PC militants are the creepiest bores . You diminish language and creative expression so much. You sound like a proper pain in the hole.

Come a little closer, bend over and I'll give a right proper 'pain in the hole', big boy!

Beautiful, I always think she's thinking about Nick Drake when singing this as he died only a,month before the recording of this Ogwt she was very close to him:)

+Chris Moore It's about God (Allah, I suppose). It's about she and Richard converting to Sufism, a mystical form of Islam.

where is the last chord?

Linda not only has an incredible voice, but she has those classic English looks. So beautiful.

@Bill Brennan Linda's mother was Scottish and she spent most of her youth in Scotland. Richard's father was Scottish but as far as I know he lived in England all his youth

Well then... classic United Kingdom looks! She is a beauty.

Sounds like you've had some trouble telling the difference, mate.

Bill Brennan that's me

@Patrick C Eh??

"tongues talk fire and eyes cry rivers........"

melts me.

This is such a pleasure! Thank you for the post x

Two people in love who know the value of that incendiary *thang*. That's that performance to me. As a rt fan, it's interesting to note this, coming as it does from album after 'Bright Lights'. Our Rich had a bit of a hit with that, and wax probably, in his wonderful way, trying not to do - for artistic integrity's sake what he'd just done. Maybe

great song but how good was the footage of whispering Bob in his velvet jacket? priceless

Memories great memories still sounds great

Sorry, but I find that dull 'n' dreary. It doesn't uplift the soul and you go away with a feeling of 'downness'. If that is what is intended, then it's highly successful. Those worry lines are probably set permanently by now.
 'It takes a worried (wo)man to sing a worried song'

..as is your want dotjoiner. But if you go away with a 'feeling of downness' then God only knows why you came to a particularly sad love song to get your musical jollies in the first place!!
Even at that stage in her life, the woman had more of a sense of life in her little finger than you will probably experience in all yours!
Would 'A Heart Needs A Home' not have tipped you off as to the nature of the song as against-let's say-Murder On the Dancefloor!

 

One word: catharsis.

+tailight1000 dotjoiner is a troll at best...clueless more likely

its its own special thing

This is an example of why film and sound recordings were such important inventions. we will always have this moment in time.

sounds a bit pretentious. words are fun. you can put them together and make them sound like meaningful poetic statements but when asked to explain. dumbstruck.

oh, is that a fact. how do you know that?

Yes, but sometimes it is possible to get carried away with better and best, especially watching this. She is one among the greats. The ways Linda does "Withered and Died" is another really beautiful thing.

What's so right about this is what's so wrong with so much music today: two voices and one guitar and stunning beauty!

Bloody great.

You're all wet. Your "claim" is absurd.

love this,a beautiful song .............lonely people of the world ,wake up before its too late

Love the understated menace of the presenter

it ain't about them, it's about god - which I found kinda disappointing after how deep it is as a love song. still beautiful though

I'm a hard-hearted old bastard, but this surely brought a tear to my eye...

Speaking off BBC ...I really thought Benny Hill was a genius and Mr. Bean was just plain funny. Linda is a decent and versatile singer but, I've seen Mary Black several times and as far as voice clarity and diction ...I haven't heard anyone come close to Mary Black. I'm from the USA and have traveled both continents. Best group ever .....hands down ...Pink Floyd. Seen them 3 times and if they would have toured again ...I would have swam the pond for one last concert. All done....!

Yippitydodah? I'm not in any doubt who the twat is here, but thanks for your observation

this is the dickhead host who called the new york dolls "mock rock"..wanker

Is the capo on the 3rd or 4th fret?

that was the great Bob Harris

Sweet music given to the definition of life...

Was that Bill Hader introducing them?

Richard's dress certainly make it look cold in that studio.

Beautiful.

Hybrid picking at the end!

Cleapatr, thanks for sharing. I had never heard this gem before. Of course I have heard of Richard and Linda Thompson. I can remember reading Melody Maker and seeing the adverts for "Pour Down Like Silver". I was a teenager in the U.S. so I thought I was cool at the time reading an English music newspaper. Linda's voice is so pure and clear. I would love to hear her sing Jimmy Webb's " The Moon is a Harsh Mistress".

Surprised Richard isn't wearing gloves

This is just brilliant.

faultless

Just perfection. Has anyone worked out the exact guitar tab for this version. It doesn't look ridiculously hard, but RT always makes it look easy!

I actually prefer this to the studio version.

You and me both.

Drowning

Richard and Linda Thompson had the most perfect voices ever...pity their marriage was'nt as in tune, shame...a loss which, I'm sure we all feel today