I’M NOT GONNA MISS YOU
With co-writer Julian Raymond, Glen Campbell won a Grammy Award for writing and performing the theme song of the film Glen Campbell: I’ll Be Me, “I’m Not Gonna Miss You”; and the song was also nominated for an Academy Award. By the 2015 award season, Glen Campbell was too sick to make public appearances and is now living in an assisted-living facility. Tim McGraw performed “I’m Not Gonna Miss You” at the 2015 Academy Awards. As suggested by the title, “I’m Not Gonna Miss You” is about the impact of Alzheimer’s on Glen Campbell’s own life and the lives of those he loves; the song begins:
I’m still here, but yet I’m gone I don’t play guitar or sing my songs They never defined who I am The man that loves you ’til the end You’re the last person I will love You’re the last face I will recall And best of all, I’m not gonna miss you Not gonna miss you
(February 2015) |