Mumford & Sons - After the Storm

15 Dezember 2021 20:56

 

Hi Armand,

I would like to get in touch with you. In the book by Paul Begheyn SJ I read that the song After the storm by Mumford & Sons reminds you of my uncle Frans van der Lugt sj. I would like to use this. I would like to hear more about this choice.

Best regards,

Anne Claire van der Lugt.

I sent this message to Armand Blondeel via LinkedIn on December 5th. He gave his reaction the same day and today permission to add it as a blog.

Armand's answer

Hi Anne Claire, nice of you to pick this up like that.

As you could read in that piece of mine, in the spring of 20214 we had already paid attention to the precarious situation in which the steadfast Frans found himself in the Katwijk Chronicle and the media also paid a lot of attention to it. Frans' violent death had a major impact and coincidentally it happened just before a four-year reunion at the former Breul site in Zeist. The song After the Storm came to me almost immediately, because it brought everything of that moment together in both music and lyricism. Frans lived like a storm, where he was a fresh wind of prosperity blew. He always stood upright in the storm and was there for his fellow human beings. Certainly there in Homs he chose for others and not for his own safety. An all-destroying storm raged in Homs. The feeling that the brutal murder (also spread on image in the media) was of a raging storm and after that storm followed disbelief and the necessity of resignation and looking at what an impact the way of life and life's work of Frans turned out to have. It also played around Pentecost, the festival of inspiration. This is proof that Frans's inspiration can always remain there as a landmark. Follow the lyrics of the song and the associations with the life, work and death of Frans all fall into place. It was also very nice that Paul Begheyn had me read my piece during the mass at the reunion and afterwards the song After the Storm also made a great impression on those present. Everyone felt the connection with Frans. I don't think Frans was afraid of death either, because he knew that love, faith and togetherness are all we need in this life to fulfill our life task. That too is in the Mumford and Sons issue. With predecessors like Frans on our life path, no one walks alone. That's in the number too. I think the connotes are right for everyone who listens to the song and gets to work with the lyrics. In fact, the song is about a dying man who draws faith, support and courage from the love he experienced with his wife during their life together. In the case of Frans with the people around him. Nice that you, as a niece, also draw inspirational things from Frans' life's work!

Sincerely!
Armand

Lyrics Mumford & Sons - After the storm

A wonderful idea behind the song and of Frans if you ask me. Listen to the song via this link and read along with the lyrics below.

And after the storm,
I run and run as the rains come
And I look up, I look up,
on my knees and out of luck,
I look up.

Night has always pushed up day
You must know life to see decay
But I won't rot, I won't rot
Not this mind and not this heart,
I won't rot.

And I took you by the hand
And we stood tall,
And remembered our own land,
What we lived for.

And there will come a time, you'll see, with no more tears.
And love will not break your heart, but dismiss your fears.
Get over your hill and see what you find there,
With grace in your heart and flowers in your hair.

And now I cling to what I knew
I saw exactly what was true
But oh no more.
That's why I hold,
That's why I hold with all I have.
That's why I hold.

I will die alone and be left there.
Well I guess I'll just go home,
Oh God knows where.
Because death is just so full and mine so small.
Well I'm scared of what's behind and what's before.

And there will come a time, you'll see, with no more tears.
And love will not break your heart, but dismiss your fears.
Get over your hill and see what you find there,
With grace in your heart and flowers in your hair.

And there will come a time, you'll see, with no more tears.
And love will not break your heart, but dismiss your fears.
Get over your hill and see what you find there,
With grace in your heart and flowers in your hair.

Writers: BENJAMIN WALTER DAVID LOVETT , EDWARD JAMES MILTON DWANE , MARCUS OLIVER JOHNSTONE MUMFORD , WINSTON AUBREY ALADAR MARSHALL