Dance with My Father" is the RIAA Gold-certified title track to singer and songwriter Luther Vandross' fourteenth studio album. With Richard Marx, Vandross wrote the song based on his personal experience. The lyrics recall childhood memories with Vandross' father, who used to dance with him and his mother.
This song shown especially if you’ve had your own challenges in life, knowing for sure that you are loved is all any of us are really looking for in our earthy existence.
If we’re lucky, that’s something we get from our parents. Perhaps from a spouse, partner or lover. Maybe a life-long friend.
If just one single person in the world makes you know for sure that you are loved, then the world can be a magical place.
So, whilst Luther Vandross is singing about his personal experience as a child, his song is so powerful because he’s really singing it for all of us. Reminding us what it’s like to be loved unconditionally.
Of course, all good things come to an end. Usually before we’re ready for them to draw to a close.
Maybe we get over it after a while. Perhaps we meet someone who helps soothe our pain and, gradually, we re-discover feelings we thought had gone for ever.
Sometimes we spend the rest of our lives wishing we could relive those days again. We never get over our loss. Numbness comes to define our lives and we go out of our way to make sure we never feel a loss like that again. We push people away who want to help and we retreat into a world filled with sadness and regret.
We all deal with situations like this very differently.
I wish I could tell you there was one “right answer”…one fail-safe way that takes the pain away and helps you get on with your life.
I’m sorry to tell you, there isn’t a magic answer hiding somewhere just waiting for you to find it.
Whether we’re able to move on with our lives or not, there will always be a memory inside. There will always be that feeling we’d give anything to recapture, even just for a moment.