Gizmo Varillas - Losing You (Audio only)

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This song is a response to the Orlando nightclub shooting. It is the deadliest incident of violence against LGBT people in U.S. history.

I was really touched by what I saw on the train that same day. I was on my way to work, and I saw two men sitting opposite me, crying, holding hands. I must have internalised that, and the next day this song just flew out of my mouth, word for word. I used the name Maribel as a way of putting myself into the shoes of one of the Latin mothers who lost their child.

This song is basically a letter to her.

"Maribel
Hear my cry, I heard it's true
My worries seem so small today
I heard the chilling news

Maribel
My thoughts go out to you
And all the mothers
Who loose their loved ones
In the violence too

It's the thought of losing you

Maribel
I knew your daughter well
My heart weeps for she no longer smiles
I'm now cast in a spell

Maribel
I know it's hard to live
Without the sparkle in her eyes
As memories blow in the wind

It's the thought of losing you"

Artwork by Murnau Den Linden