the song is about the eternal craving for love from someone that won't give it. Neil from AustraliaStill brings tears to my eyes.Only Toto’s ‘Africa’ comes anywhere near. Chris from Pontypridd, WalesThe best song of the 1980s.We are all human and make mistakes but we're learning, and everybody can't survive without love. The song fits perfectly into the story's ending when Carrey's character is asking for forgiveness from Winslet's character and then both realizing it's just memory, and they can forgive each other. Tears that delight, and sighs that waft to Heav'n. 'Obedient slumbers that can wake and weep ' Labour and rest, that equal periods keep The world forgetting, by the world forgot.Įach pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd Harry White from CaliforniaThis played at the end of 'The Eternal Sunshine', a title using a quotation from the 1717 poem Eloisa to Abelard by Alexander Pope and recited in the movie by Kirsten Dunst:.I was stirred by the undercurrent of encouraging empathy for the forgotten ones.

Brian from MobileWas stationed on Guam when I first heard it.

Everybody's gotta learn sometime piano