“For the rest of my life, I’ll kind of feel like he’s going to come home.”
Bindi Irwin has been dedicating most of her performances on Dancing With The Stars US to her dad, but this week’s dance was especially poignant.
Faced with confronting the moment Steve Irwin died back in 2006, the 17-year-old was asked to choose the most memorable year of her life to make into a touching routine.
“It’s been nine years and I’ve never really dwelled on that point when he did pass away,” she told her partner Derek Hough in a pre-recorded video shown before her performance.
“I think I’m ready to tell that story.”
Before the dance, which was a contemporary performance to The Police’s ‘Every Breath You Take’, Bindi and her mother, Terri Irwin, reflected on Steve’s life.
“Steve and Bindi were just absolutely inseparable,” Terri said.
“I’ve never met anyone bigger, tougher, stronger, and yet more sweet and sensitive, especially when it came to Bindi.”
You can watch the full video of the performance below. Post continues after video.
Through a montage of family photos, Bindi starts to cry.
“It took a really long time to understand what actually happened,” Bindi said.
“For the rest of my life, I’ll kind of feel like he’s going to come home.
“No matter where I go, Dad will always be with me. His spirit lives on. I wish that he could fully understand how much he’s done for me and that I miss him.”
Her performance was emotional, brilliant, and acted as a perfect tribute to the relationship she shared with Steve. She received an almost perfect score for the dance, finishing with a massive 38 out of 40.
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Intelligent, well spoken, beautiful young woman, with good family values. A bloody good dancer too!
It's very touching, and I knoew it comes from a deeply emotional place... but I'm always amazed how this song is misinterpreted.
Sting wrote the song in 1982 in the aftermath of his separation from Frances Tomelty and the beginning of his relationship with Trudy Styler. The split was controversial. As The Independent reported in 2006, "The problem was, he was already married – to actress Frances Tomelty, who just happened to be Trudie's best friend (Sting and Frances lived next door to Trudie in Bayswater, west London, for several years before the two of them became lovers). The affair was widely condemned." In order to escape from the public eye, Sting retreated in the Caribbean where he started writing the song. The lyrics are the words of a possessive lover who is watching "every breath you take; every move you make".
Sting: 'I woke up in the middle of the night with that line in my head, sat down at the piano and had written it in half an hour. The tune itself is generic, an aggregate of hundreds of others, but the words are interesting. It sounds like a comforting love song. I didn't realize at the time how sinister it is. I think I was thinking of Big Brother, surveillance and control.'
Sting later said he was disconcerted by how many people think the song is more positive than it is. He insists it's about the obsession with a lost lover, and the jealousy and surveillance that follow. "One couple told me 'Oh we love that song; it was the main song played at our wedding!' I thought, 'Well, good luck.'" When asked why he appears angry in the music video Sting told BBC Radio 2, "I think the song is very, very sinister and ugly and people have actually misinterpreted it as being a gentle little love song, when it's quite the opposite."
Isn't a song how a person interprets it? Sting himself seemed to be confused. "I didn't realise how sinister it is" Another person, such as Bindi, interprets it in the way her father is watching over her. While Sting sees the words as Big Brother Bindi sees the words as comforting.