Lyric Question? What's it mean?
 

Never knew what the line from It's Hard Letting You Go meant:

organ grinder's lullaby

An organ grinder is a guy who's kind of like a street musician, I think. And he's playing a lullaby. But i think it's metaphoric, not litterally she left him for an organ grinder's song. I think it means she found someone else who plays "a different tune" and she was seduced by it.

that's exactly how i see it too ... :)

I see a little bit more in it than that. In the movie Rebecca's husband was killed by a hit and run driver, so he was killed on the street and an organ grinder can be a street musician. So it's giving the image that the man may have gone "to sleep" listening to an organ grinder.

Becky

That's a really good interpretation! I forgot this song was associated with the movie.

in which movie?

wow, iv often wondered this, why didnt i think about askin u guys? lol

The song was written as a gift for the screenwriter of Moonlight and Valentino. The movie was based on her own life experience of loosing her husband early. I think her name was Ellen Simon, but I can't quite remember for sure. They considered using it in the movie with a female singer to represent Rebecca's character in the scene near the end of the movie where she's in the bedroom having her little breakdown. The timing didn't work out.

Becky

Her husband was Neil Simon, I think?

Her father was Neil Simon.

Becky