White Wine In The Sun (2021) by Tim Minchin: BACK
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This is the first year I have no parents to celebrate with. This hits hard.
sorry to hear this , hope everythings okay
My condolences to you, a very difficult part of life. Tim lost his mum last month. Supposedly, he still performed this song, but was understandably choked up when he got to that lyric.
I am so very sorry. May good memories bring you joy amid the grief.
It's so hard, I'm sorry. Sending you peace. ❤
So sorry ❤. It's such a hard part of life. I hope you can find peace.❤❤❤
This is why I love this man! He's a professional, he's performed this song an absolutely ridiculous number of times, and he still gets choked up. A testament to how good the song is and his own emotional investment in it. So good!
He’s also a good actor ;)
@@chirilily lol cynic
@@chirilily Sometimes you don't need to act... and sometimes when you're acting, it's not fake.
@@chirilily If he is, he is a VERY, VERY good actor. Or, something has happened (or impending) in his life since writing the song.
It's masterful! It's Christmas! It's real for many!
It's difficult to remember back to when your kid was young and not get choked up, let alone the generation above you.
"..and my Mum." is my stumbling block also. She was the one that pulled us all together for Xmas each year and It's just not the same without her.
Same here… my mum died on Xmas eve 2015… so Xmas is very bittersweet now... But you gotta pass on those traditions that you loved so much and pay it forward to keep those memories alive. Sorry for your loss.
Wish I still had my dad and mum but I do have my brother and sisters drinking white wine in the sun 💕💕💕
Just lost my Mom this year, and hard when the realization hits. Definite respect to him for choking up and the emotions
@houstondragon the first year is the hardest! I'm sorry for your loss! I lost my Mom when I was 20 years old back on Nov 6, 1998 after she battled cancer for 15 years. It does get easier.... and it does get harder....I don't care how old a person is, they're never ready to lose their Mom! I wish you the best for this season and every season after!
It's really weird when you have a favorite artist like Tim that you've known for so long and you feel like you're a close friend to him, you see him singing an old song about his family, getting emotional about how much his life changed, and you just cry through the whole thing like this thing happened to a friend, but again, he has no idea who you are hahaha damn, music is weird. This song is amazing, Tim is amazing.
I feel like this with Tool’s song Wings for Marie. Just raw feels.
@@angelaryder7777 I'll have to look up Tool's song "Wings for Marie"! I am Marie! Thank you for that tip! Merry Christmas, Angelaryder7777!
100% ♥️♥️ it gets me everytime
Condolences to you and the family Tim on the passing of your beautiful mum a few weeks ago. Thinking of you this Christmas x
The best Christmas song ever. Hands down. Thanks, Tim.
agreed and it should be on the radio instead of all that other noise they put on.
Amen to that
@@elliotjay2273 /this. I mostly hate "Christmas music"
I came to the comments to say exactly this. And also to add: 🥺
Preach sir Alex
good to see I'm not the only one who can't get through the complete song without having sudden sight problems and breathing issues :) Thanks for the perfect Christmas song Tim. been enjoying it for years and it "hits" as well (if not better) as the first time ...
Every...damn... time!! ;)
For some reason, someone always starts cutting onions...
@@danielhowell6605 yep.
32 seconds in...
It's just my allergies.
To feelings.
At 31 I was drinking white wine in the sun, 9000 miles from home. And this song broke my heart time and time again, in the best way.
Imagine having your dad write this song about you. I can’t. What an amazing father/daughter relationship- and I’m sure he’s just as wonderful with his son. Beautiful.
I'd rather be the one to get "Lullaby" written to
Pure gold
@@isaacpianos5208 haha yeah it’s hilarious!
Only thing that might come close is imagining your son writing this song about you. How proud I'd be if my son grew up to tell his own daughter this about our family - now there's a life goal :)
@@br3669 well I can’t have kids, but that is a beautiful idea ❤️ I’m sure you have very loving kids x
And it's time to open up Christmas 2023 with the weeping through this brilliantly crafted emotion fest of an Xmas song. Thank you as always Tim Minchin.
And this Christmas he’ll be missing his mum too 😢
My dad’s been gone for 12 years but I love singing along with Tim and thinking of my dad every year. Thank you Tim ❤❤
@@janetmiddleton2535 Ah yes. I admit- I am à songwriter and when I first found this song I realized it would get harder and harder to sing. But that is its profound beauty and he was strong enough to bring us this emotional masterpiece.
Right because holding back tears wasn't hard enough with this damn song without you breaking down, thanks a lot Tim 😭😂
That exhale around 4:19 is such a sign he was just about hanging on. Must be so, so hard to spend so much time away from his family.
I was reading all of these tears comments and got it, but wasn't there until the 9000 miles away part. And now I can't stop sobbing now.
Hands down my favourite Christmas song. Especially hit home when I was living in Norway and came home to NZ for Christmas with our newborn daughter. ❤ Still brings tears to my eyes.
God jul!
Saw this live just before covid hit and had a 'moment' with the complete stranger next to me when we both recognised the intro. Should have had tissues to hand.
I'm 20 and I have autism. Christmas is a pretty rough time for me, and although I don't have children, and I'm not particularly close with my family, but this song was very kind, and I'm so glad people have this feeling of family always there.
I never expected someone to make a secular Christmas song. This is absolutely beautiful. A true work of art.
There are lots of secular Christmas songs! But this is definitely the best.
@@shannonjkeever477 You're right on both points. It's been a year, but I think I was referring to the way Tim activity removes christ from Christmas.
Ah, I see. ☺️
Seeing Tim choke up on his own damn song, when I've never made it through past "And you my baby girl" at the latest... priceless. Thank you, Tim.
I keep coming back to this performance vs others that are available because I find it hits differently. It moves me every time how emotional he gets because I can only imagine how different Christmas looks now for his family than when he first wrote the song. It makes me reflect on how my Christmases have changed and how children are growing. His precious infant daughter would no longer be an infant but his message for her still holds true.
My women's chorus sang a choral arrangement of this song in 2017. I chocked up on a particular line every time. "These are the people that make you feel safe in this world." Every time. I love this song so very much. Thank you, Tim.
This song will always make me cry in the sweetest way. I think it is extra powerful this year, thinking about the change in Tim's family Christmas after the death on his mum recently.
We love you Tim and your music is timeless
Anybody else watching this over and over? It's breaking my heart and making me smile at the same time❤
Well done Tim Minchin.
This is always going to be my favorite Christmas song, and what a lovely version ❤️
By the time you read this, I'll probably be gone. Discovered Tim in Upright, one of the funniest yet moving shows I've ever seen. Tim and I share a lot of his religious philosophy, and I grew up in Australia before moving to Florida, where one tends to keep this these things to oneself. But, just like like him, I really do love Xmas and all of the emotion and "safe space" that comes with it. So, after 70 years, I can honestly say that this is far and away the finest Xmas songnI've ever heard. Thanks so much, Tim.
Sorry for typos - I'm writing from an ICU bed which makes for a crummy writing desk. Tx again, Tim,
I hope you're still here. I hope somehow things turned around. If you're still counting the days, I hope you go with love and peace. And if you're already gone, I hope wherever you are now, you're at rest and in no pain. Whatever the case, I think you have excellent taste in Christmas songs, and I see and appreciate you.
My son is 6 and my daughter is 5 months.
This song has me at my desk at work bawling my eyes out as i listen to this 6 letter word sing words directly from my heart.
Thank you Tim. For being you.
Edit: i want to expand. Ive been questioning how do i share the significance of a holiday to my children when i, myself, am jaded by all the information ive obtained directly disputing my childhood.
Then you made it clear. Its not about the presents, or the religion, or the food. Its the people who will always be there for you and embracing them with everything you got.
Ginger?
What 6 letter word?
@@JB-ru2zb what else?
@@entwood th-cam.com/video/KVN_0qvuhhw/w-d-xo.html
@@JB-ru2zb You better have at least a tinge in your fringe...!
A close family member of mine died on Thanksgiving this year. Thank you for helping me to remember them as they were. They will continue to live on in my head. Christmas won't be the same.
Am I the only one who imagines the chorus as what I would imagine an afterlife to look like? I die and all my loved ones are waiting there for me in the sun by a beach, drinking white wine...
Not the only one!
That’s a beautiful thought ❤
I don't believe in Heaven, but the chorus does sound like a vision of heaven to me.
That's the thing that hits me the most. This song will outlive Tim, his dad, his brother, sisters, gran, and his mum. The sentiment is eternal despite the limited time we have on earth. Thats why the celebration of a birth of someone 2000 years ago is absurd and still meaningful. Everyone brought into the world, no matter how austere their nativity, deserves to have a cadre of family to support them.
You may have missed the point, but whatever feels dreamy I suppose.
I had my family secret Santa today, and all through out it I was just struck by the facts that I love my family, and that it was nice just to be around them. To be there with them. When I was younger... I just thought we'd drift apart, thought I wouldn't want to know them once I could be on my own. But I love my family. I love them so much. They're beautiful people and I know they're not perfect, not by any means, but like Tim said here, they make me feel safe.
One of my cousins and his wife brought their baby to the party. The little baby was the first child of someone of "my generation" of the family and it just... the little tyke was so sweet, barely four months old and I love him. Barely even met him and I love him. When he's older, I hope I make him feel safe in this world. I hope I can help him when he needs a hand, or even just chat and catch up. Learn and grow little man, and I look forward to getting to talk to you when you can understand me.
Thank you Tim.
I don't plan to have kids myself. Even if I get into a long-term relationship like that I just couldn't stomach bringing someone into this world. But now that that little one is around I just... I don't know. Every fear I have about the future the world is headed towards... they seem to weigh that much more heavily. I know his life will have pain in it, that's just part of life, but I don't want him to deal with anything more than he has to. I don't want him to have to deal with a world that is falling down around him. I love him, love my family, and I just... I can't stomach it. It's... it's hard to not just want to give up but I don't want to just lay down and let those I love suffer more than is part of life.
I know that human evolution and cultural norms and all these other things are probably influencing me. But that does not make my love for my family mean less. They only helped it come to life. There is a beauty and a value in love, that I think can transcend all else that I can feel: Transcend despair, cynicism, and apathy. Transcend my mistakes and my missteps. Transcend my very life itself. My life can have value to me, I think, regardless of all else, if I live it with love and for love.
We each contain multitudes. An entire internal world to know and by knowing, love. To live in a world where we may know each other and the world itself more deeply, where we can love and live without malice or unnatural catastrophe... that goal is so beautiful and powerful that it might just be able to pull me above all else. At least when i get so emotional.
It is cliche, but that does not make it untrue: Peace and love mates, peace and love.
It's not Christmastime until I hear this song. Thank you, Tim.
I am 21 and Autistic. Christmas for me is always about family and being together. I have had a hard time lately with Uni and depression and this song makes me and my mum cry. We also lost my great grandmother(who's favourite drink was white wine) on Dec 23rd 2018(mum's birthday), right before this was released we got the news that a family member had died by suicide after decades of serious illness and agony, Christmas was her thing. Hug your daughter for us all and let her know that it does get easier eventually. It is an uphill battle but the hill can be conquered.
I love that you and your mum both commented on this!
😔
hope this Christmas is easier for you :)
Caderyn, A friend of mine told me this was her " new favorite Xmas song and to check out TH-cam". so here I am. total coincidence, my mother's birthday is also December 23! last night she turned 88! Merry Christmas.
ok autismo
I went to see Tim Minchin live in Birmingham in December 2010, a week before I moved out of my childhood home to try and make my own way in London. He played this song as the second encore and it just ruined me. Brought out all of my feelings about moving away from the home I've always known but in such a healthy way, helping me decontextualize it as being happy that I'll always have somewhere where I'm loved no matter where I go or what I do. I still listen to this song every Christmas and choke up. My first niece or nephew is due in the New Year and I'll make sure to introduce it to them too :)
Happy Christmas
I've missed this voice so much.
One of my all-time favorite songs. Such a lovely hymn of familial love and the importance of family. As we get older and love ones pass on, this song becomes even more meaningful because it really opens our eyes to how finite life is and how quickly time passes us by. Before we know it... it will all be over. So... cherish the time you get together. Drink that white wine. Enjoy the sunshine together. One day we will drink our last wine and enjoy our last ray of sunshine and Christmases with our ‘mums and dads’ will become just a memory.
My son was killed in a car accident when he was 22, and this song turns on the waterworks every time! Maybe that's why I love it - maybe I love it in spite of that. Either way, it's an incredible song with an incredible message at its heart!
I'm so sorry for your loss. May his memory always be a comfort
@@BigCheese77 Thank you! They truly are - I cherish them more each year.
Please accept my sincere condolences on what must be a devastating loss.
@@cynthiahogan4598 Thank you!
Gets me chocked up every time and I'm Jewish
Even here in the Netherlands this song touched me deeply and choked me up. It exactly conveys the message and feelings I'm struggling to pass on to my four children, even though my own family has barely ever had these moments. But I am building it myself with my wife as this is so, so precious.
Thanks, Tim, for touching our minds and souls and showing us the way things ought to be.
This song is not just for Christmas, it's an all year round absolute masterpiece. My favourite song ever.
🥰🥲🫥
Spot on! Personally this song makes me all teary eyed thinking about the barbeques my parents will hold with my siblings, uncles, aunts and cousins each summer. With me and my mum sitting by the lawn drinking white wine and eating strawberries as my dad grills. My absolute favourite time of year that.
I was tearing up in the cinema watching this
While I love that this song is included, I am disappointed at the editing of the audience response.
In my opinion, as someone who was there for the live performance, the real beauty was the way the audience picked up and sang the lyrics, but only when Tim got choked up.
Quite literally, the finest Christmas song, ever ever written, perhaps one of the bests songs of any genre ever written. This song gets me every single time.
I just posted this on Amanda Palmer's forum -as I do every year. You are a beautiful soul.
Aussie Expats in germany bawl over this every single year.... #realtears #Imnotcryingyourecrying
Not only Aussie Expats - germans (here) too! Wishing you a lovely season.
Right back at you.
(that was supposed to be a heart emoji.)
This song has me sobbing every time. I have no idea how he gets through it.
Tim! The most beautiful version yet. Well done, brother.
Thanks, I needed a good cry...
Thank you SO much for this song Tim.
What a great job he has!! All he has to do is rip his chest open, dig his heart out with his bare hands, shred it and pour it out into a song. And if that wasn't easy enough...all he has left to do is perform that song flawlessly, with feeling and as personally as possible...oh and try like hell not get choked up!!!
E Z P Z Wine and Cheesey!!
This particular arrangement is so self-realized, grounded and heartfelt it breathes a completely different life into the song itself. Thank you so much for being vulnerable with us and bringing it back 💕
You phrased that SO well. I feel the same way.
Given Dawkins' decline into "anti-woke" bs, getting mad about people discussing things like white privilege, diversity, and inclusion of minorities, and being transphobic the lyric about wanting to break bread with him might be worth a revisit. I'm not saying we shouldn't talk with people we disagree with, I very much think we should, but calling him out specifically in the song elevates him to a position of respect that I don't think he really deserves.
All of that said this is one of my favorite Christmas songs and that bit doesn't lessen its overall meaning or sentiment. I hope I can see you in person again someday, the concert we went to with you in Seattle was amazing
give it a rest Kevin.
Well done Tim, now I'm crying too 🥺... I really love this song and the way you interpret it💜
Just gets better every year to be honest Tim. Stunning!!!
Well, that's me in in floods of tears for a while. Thanks, Tim, and merry Christmas.
I lost my dad this year. This song is just pure emotion through love. If i could play 1 song on piano this would be it. ❤
First time I ever heard this was live, end of 2010 just before Christmas during the orchestra tour. (Opening night at Birmingham NIA). It had been my dads funeral the day before. Needless to say I sat and wept…. That night was perfect for me. A fantastic and funny distraction from the events of the previous weeks plus it helped me properly start the grieving process. I’ll always be grateful for hearing this song that night…. Cheers Tim :).
I have watched this countless times and cry every time. Love you Tim Minchin! ❤
This song used to be beautiful but mourning to me. Now it's powerfully positive.
I didn't feel safe when I was growing up. My 3 month old son will. He's surrounded by people who want to make him feel safe in the world and last week I watched him be handed round the room as we introduced him to my partners amazing extended family. This song was in my head as the emotional soundtrack the whole time. In fact I dont think I've stopped singing it since he was born.
Thank you Tim x
Listening to this compared to the live version from 14 years ago... This version has so much more sadness behind it. Not in a bad way, but the nostalgia is palpable. It reminds me of how my Christmases have changed and how I miss my family.
Good on ya', Minchin.
I'm not sure how many times you've performed this gorgeous song (I've personally lost count of the times I've seen you), but being such a true Aussie muso, it still shows the raw emotion. @tim Thanks for being you ❤
Oh the Humanity of it all!!.... You Bastard!! Brings a tear to my eye every damn time.
I stop whatever I'm doing to listen to this song whenever I come across it. And I tear up every single time ❤️
Wow, I’m not able to watch Back where I am so seeing this surprisingly drop is phenomenal. My favourite Christmas song by far!
That guy shouting "Love you Tim" at 1:37, Cool dude.
Damn.
It never stops being a beautiful song. I think it's becoming heavier for all of us as time goes on
I've always enjoyed this song, but I just had the chance to see Back, and when I realized he was ending on this, I started bawling and a half hour later I haven't stopped. It's been a decade of loss for my family; starting eight years ago we lost my uncle to cancer, two cousins to suicide, both my maternal grandparents, my aunt in a car crash, and now my remaining Grandpa no longer remembers who most of us are. We normally have Christmas at their place, but with the Alzheimer's and both being in their mid 80s, we decided it was best this year to stay home so they wouldn't risk catching the family cold. Though I believe it was the right decision, knowing that this might be Grandpa's last Christmas (he has cancer now too) left me utterly heartbroken.
This song is just as powerful in evoking memories as it is in sowing anticipation. I can look back with gratitude for the holiday seasons spent with those no longer with us, and it redoubles my thankfulness for those we still have. I'm not an atheist like Tim, but his vision of Christmas as being all about family is a beautiful one. Whether you believe or not, the love we share with each other is the most important force in the world. Thanks for reminding us of that with this song, Tim.
I can listento this song (and many others) endlessly! so much beauty.
This son breaks my heart, it came out after my mum died, my sister died a few years later,
so to me the chorus is
ill be seeing my gran, my brothers and sister my nan and my mum, drinkin white wine in the sun.....and to me thats them in heaven....although my brother is stilla live. the others are all gone.
When he says "my grandmom," The English auto captions display it as "grinding my mom." Separately: what a damn gorgeous gem of a performance. This man doesn't stop progressing.
One of my favorites!
This is the one Christmas song I listen to every single year. Mostly because I think it's great but also because I'm from the Southern hemisphere and it's nice to have a song that's not about snow
hello, how are you doing it is nice meeting you here.
Favourite Christmas song. Love it so much that I listen to it all year round. Just beautiful ❤
This song has made me emotional for the last 10+ years, but this version... damn. It hits hard, but that's why I love it.
I know Tim says this is all about Christmas, but I can't stop feeling that it has another meaning, that of missing those who have passed away - The 'Drinking white wine in the Sun' somehow makes me think of meeting those we have lost. I know I might be totally wrong, but somehow I feel that us all meeting up 'after' and drinking white wine is an amazing way to think of passing ..... I am SO SORRY if this upsets people, but I couldn't get the idea out of my head ... All my thoughts, and PLEASE keep writing Tim, I have to say, of all the videos, this one makes me cry every time .. Thank you so much 💔
Go with that Steve. Im not sure thats what he meant, but think he would be happy for you to take whatever you feel from the song. Not sure where you are from, but down here in Aust, we love a white wine in the sun during our Christmas holidays.
Fuck, TH-cam has a dark sense of humor. Recommending this on the first Christmas I'm away from family
turns me to mush, cried so much for this song, especially this performance! Tim you are a ledged best crimbo song ever
My what a great artist you are. Thank you for sharing with the world.
Didn't quite catch the last 30 seconds or so through the tears in my eyes...
This song always gets me choked up, but seeing Tim also so emotional while singing it really got me.
So much emotion... such a beautiful song. 💗
I love this song so much. Tim Minchin is a musical genius.
i'm glad it's not just me who cries at this song
Did something happen? I have never seen Tim getting this emotional over this song, I love it though
He lives on one side of Australia his parents the other and covid restrictions were really bad over there they.were not aloud to travel
@@sarahbaker379 thank you, I feel incredibly bad for him now
this is the 4th time I listened to this today and each time I have cried🥲🥲🥲
The most beautiful christmas song i know!
*_Love the performance and ESPECIALLY the message!_*
Been a great tradition for me :)
Babe wake up, new White Wine in the Sun dropped
I don't believe just 'cause ideas are tenacious it means that they're worthy". So brilliant it brought tears to my eyes.
Happy Christmas Tim, I'm not a believer but parts of it are wholesome and harmless to play along with. Sometimes it even feels nice in a world where so many things are hard to bare.
Gutwrenching, somber and sublime. Didnt know this song of Tim. Now looking forward to the next Christmas time.
Thank you ❤
This is so painful now he has lost his mom
Greatest Christmas song from an atheist ever, prove me wrong.
Oh this is my husband's favorite. He lost his little brother a few years back and we love to think of him sitting, waiting for us with some white wine in the sun
This is my favorite Christmas song. Brings me to tears every year.
Thanks for posting this. Just shared it with family.
Halfway through this, I messaged my dad, if he wanted me over around Christmas. I won't have many years left with him, you know.
From sweet memories of first hearing it as I sat up all night making presents for my kids when they were wee and we were broke, to being unexpectedly blindsided by it the first Christmas without my own Dad, it's fully part of the emotional makeup of my life now, and it never fails to move me.
This song will never stop making me emotional, and I can totally understand why even after performing it so many times over the years, it still has that effect on you as well. You're a good man, Tim, and a wonderful father I have no doubt about that.
Damn. This is perfect!
this is one of my favorite songs from you. that small hang up on that first chorus made me cry. merry Christmas tim.
re watching i think i might have misread the hang up the first time oops
@@fiskmactaggert5030 what did you misread it as?
@@VioletEmerald that they had passed
This will be the first Christmas that I don’t see my mum and dad. Rest well both of you.