Sam Fender - Spit Of You (Official Video)

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  @UbiquitousRomp · 4 years ago (edited)

  My 19 year old lad sent me this song as I&apos;m not seeing as much of him as I would like after splitting with his mum 3 ears ago. Se we call it our song now....THANKS Sam<br><br>UPDATE 3 YEARS ON. &nbsp; My Alfie is now 23 and is living with me for a while and we are learning to play the guitar together via You Tube tutorials. &nbsp; It&apos;s great to create a common goal with my lovely lad after such a long struggle after our familiarly break up..

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  @samfendermusic · 4 years ago

  This video is so beast! &nbsp;It was the most amazing experience to film with Stephen Graham, <br>genuinely one of the best actors this country has ever seen &amp; such a lovely bloke. So proud of this one!!

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  @ScoBol-bj3bx · 3 years ago

  Lost my middle son, only 29years old due to addiction. He was a beautiful &nbsp;person,caring , funny strong &nbsp;hard working &amp; handsome. I miss him so much. This song connects to me. He was a spit of me &amp; I hope some day I will see &amp; meet with him again. Had a great 9 months with him before his passing. God bless all who has connection through this song.

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• EL

  @el101-y4t · 4 years ago

  My old man passed away last year.<br>Due to the pandemic, I wasn&apos;t allowed to visit him in the hospital where he withered day after day, alone.<br>He owned a bar, where he used to organize live music events.<br>I remember our grey and sad town coming alive during these events, little bit happier, little bit more alive.<br>The nights pretty much always ended up in red (he had the habit of offering to drink to everyone) but he never really cared that much, all he wanted was to share his love for music with anyone who passed by.<br>He loved his job so much and I guess that&apos;s why, despite being a loving father, he was never really present when I was a kid.<br>We started to get closer in the last three years, more or less, bonding over our shared love for music.<br>I remember him constantly asking me to go with him to that concert there, this vinyl exhibition here. <br>But I also remember me constantly refusing because I was battling depression, thought still thinking that we could eventually go, once I got better, that we still had time.<br>Joke&apos;s on me because I got better and he got worse and time has run out now.<br>This song has brought back lots of unresolved feelings in me.<br>Thank you Sam, perhaps I needed this.

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  @joeevans266 · 4 years ago

  This was my relationship with my dad, i cant remember ever having any deep meaningful conversations with him, not many i love yous or hugs but i always thought the world of him, he just wasnt that kind of person with me. He was a big drinker and had a toxic relationship with my mother which created a pretty terrible home life for many years. I was about 17 and came home from football practice to find out that hed walked out on us, i was upset but wasnt surprised, i had a little cry on my own in my room, punched a hole in my wardrobe and that was it. I didnt hear from him for months, had no idea where hed gone then finally got a call, he was living in Spain. Over the next 12 or 13 years i had minimal contact with him, not through choice but he would be constantly changing numbers and i couldnt get hold of him, i did manage to fly out to see him 3 or 4 times in those 13 years and he never returned to the uk. I was 29/30 and got a call from the British consulate, he was found living homeless on the streets and had been taken in by a charity, i was told he seemed to be suffering from memory loss, was in a bad physical condition and would keep disappearing. I booked a flight out on my own straight away to search the streets to try and find him and found out hed been taken to hospital, i found out where it was and got a taxi there, he was almost unrecognisable and he had no idea who i was. He was diagnosed with vascular dementia, a kind of dementia that can be brought on by drinking. Over the next 3 months he stayed in hospital and between flying between the UK and Spain i would look after him, buy him clothes and the kind of things he used to like, cut his hair, trim his beard. In that time he would have spells where his memory would come back, hed know who i was and we would talk like wed never been apart yet he also seemed to be totally unaware of the situation he was in, then he would just stop talking and hed start staring straight through me like he had no idea who i was again. Although he had spells where his mental condition seemed to get better his physical condition rapidly deteriorated. I had to return home to the UK on Christmas eve as i had a 6 month old baby, was self employed and had a house to pay for, i just couldnt keep spending any more time and money out there. That was the last time i saw him, i woke up one morning about a month or so later to a voicemail from a Spanish nurse saying that hed died, it was in Spanish and i barely understood a word but i knew what she was saying. Im 35 now with two daughters and the older i get the more i keep seeing my dad in myself, we look and act almost identically. I never questioned any of the things my dad put me/us through and he never acknowledged it, i never asked him why he left. I wish i could meet him again as an adult because i feel like i only knew him as a child and the older i get and the more i learn about myself the more i start to feel like i could have understood him. I suppose on a positive note its given me the self awareness i need to aknowledge my own faults and i can use that to be the best father to my daughters i could possibly be. RIP Dad, i still love you x

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  @Harvester236 · 4 years ago (edited)

  When he played this at Glastonbury, a man next to me teared up. I asked if he was okay, he told me he lost his father a few months prior and had only just mended their relationship in time before his death. I gave him a hug, being thankful for still having a father. This song really speaks to a lot of people.

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• MA

  @markosborne9297 · 4 years ago

  I’m a 51 year old man and I can’t tell you how much I love this lad’s music. He’s a generational talent. Look after him.

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  @Astridologist · 4 years ago

  This song was close to making me cry when I heard it but after seeing the video I’m bawling. My dad and I get along but don’t talk and when we do it’s typically about my brother. Two weeks ago my grandfather died and I saw my dad cry for one of the first times in my life. A week after that my dad got diagnosed with a blood clot. I think it’s time I learn to talk to him, life is precious

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• CH

  @charlottefielke6754 · 1 year ago

  I am a bottle of red wine deep and when I tell you this comment section has me bawling.. I mean like weeping so hard it gave me a headache. I love my father to bits, he is one of the only men in my life that I genuinely look up to and respect. Seeing all the sons and fathers in this comment section talking about how they want to do better and be better as fathers honestly restores so much faith for me. I hope to god Mr Fender has read these comments too and can measure through you all just how impactful his music is. Genuine love to you all x

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  @TheRetroFuture · 4 years ago

  The best musician of our generation. I am honoured to be here to witness this mans growth. God speed Sam x

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  @thejonnybell · 4 years ago (edited)

  Rarely do I hear a song where both the music and the lyrics sum up exactly how I&apos;m feeling. I&apos;m 34 and don&apos;t talk to my dad because he is an emotional abuser and it&apos;s something I struggle with every day. Last night I went for a drive somewhere quiet, had this on repeat. I cried and cried and cried, it was exactly what I needed. Thank you with all my heart Sam!

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• QU

  @QuartusV1 · 1 year ago

  This song completely captures the feeling of being a young man lost in the chaos of modern life and not knowing how to relate to someone who&apos;s from a time when men didn&apos;t talk about their feelings.

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