Lightning crashes, a new mother cries(child birth is painful) It's about a woman giving birth in a hospital and down the hall at the same time an old woman was dying. It is about the peaceful passing of a life (an old mother whose children are grown), and the joyful if hectic arrival of a new life (the new mother and her baby).Īctually you're a little off. It is not about the girl who died in the car accident, nor is it about abortion, miscarriage, etc. It is there before us in plain sight, but hidden because we see the flesh most often rather than the spirit within. The glory coming out to hide is the spark of the divine hidden within all people. The pale blue-colored iris of a newborn baby represents the circle of life. The angel is both a symbol of the divine and of life, and the living people themselves (eyes opening for the first time in life, closing for the final time in death). The angel opens her eyes in birth, and closes them in death.
In other words, this song is about the cycle of life, death, and rebirth. But it was something that we hoped would honor the memory of a girl we grew up with and help her family cope with sorrow - which it seems to have accomplished - in a fashion in keeping with the theme of the song." The dedication to Barbara Lewis came after the song was written. What you're seeing is actually a happy ending based on a kind of transference of life. Nobody's dying in the act of childbirth, as some viewers think. "While the clip is shot in a home environment, I envisioned it taking place in a hospital, where all these simultaneous deaths and births are going on, one family mourning the loss of a woman while a screaming baby emerges from a young mother in another room.
“It seemed like the perfect song to end Walt’s last ride into town,” Golubić says.Before the doctor can even close the doorĮd Kowalczyk said, "I wrote 'Lightning Crashes' on an acoustic guitar in my brother's bedroom shortly before I had moved out of my parents' house and gotten my first place of my own." Kowalczyk says that the video for "Lightning Crashes" lends itself to many misinterpretations of the song's intent.
He confirms the show’s title, “Felina,” is an anagram for finale, and Robbins’ pioneering 1959 gunfighter ballad focuses on a Felina who kisses the narrator’s cheek as he dies. “To me, it was a lovely nod of respect to a band that had a very hard time of it,” Golubić says.Īs for Marty Robbins’ “El Paso,” the song Walt hears from a glove-box cassette tape as he’s driving a Volvo back to Albuquerque, Golubić says it was written into the script. Three years later, Ham committed suicide at 27. “Baby Blue” has an appropriately bittersweet history – the band’s label, the Beatles’ Apple Records, rejected its album Straight Up until George Harrison, then Todd Rundgren, finished its production. If someone uses a song in an incredibly iconic and wonderful way, the last thing I want to do is utilize it again,” he says.įive Revelations From the Near-Perfect Breaking Bad Finale “I thought, ‘Oh dear God,’ this song was in the Departed soundtrack. Golubić didn’t realize Scorsese had used it until it was too late. Gilligan, a Badfinger fan, wasn’t thinking The Departed when he picked “Baby Blue” for the finale. Although it appeared in Martin Scorsese’s The Departed in 2006, it’s obscure compared to classic-rock Badfinger fixtures such as “No Matter What” and “Come and Get It.” That is likely to change – the song’s Spotify streams jumped 9,000 percent in the first 11 hours after the Breaking Bad finale, and iTunes sold 5,000 copies Sunday night, according to Billboard, when it has never sold more than 1,000 in a week. “Baby Blue,” inspired by the late Badfinger singer Pete Ham’s ex-girlfriend, Dixie Armstrong, was a Number 14 single, the last Top 20 hit in the British band’s career.
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