"IN ACTING, I FIND IF YOU BELIEVE IT, YOU DISCOVER A TRUTH AND IT'S QUITE SPIRITUAL" - HEATH LEDGER

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Written for Heath and Matilda Ledger
You're My Littel Girl
Caelia Adams Piano & Vocals - 2010
Uploaded by Caelia2008

Lyrics:
Your smile reminds me so much of me.
Your laughter fills my heart.
Your playfulness in everything you do.
I never feel apart from you.
I'm sorry that I couldn't be there to catch you when you fall, to be there for it all.

Chorus
My Mattie, oh I love you baby. My Mattie, you are the diamond in my world.
If you ever wonder how I feel, just look up in the sky.
The star that shines the brightest is my love for you.
Just know your daddy always thinks about you all the time.
I'll always love you. You're my little girl.

If you ever want someone to listen, just know I haven't disappeared.
Whenever that you need me, just know that I'll be there to take away your tears,
to listen to your hopes and dreams, to help you find your way.
I'll be near you every day.

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Heath Ledger's Mom & Sis On Young Matilda - "She's Full Of Energy Like Her Dad"

I found the Interview including with Heath Ledger's mom and sister talking about 5 year old young Matilda - video with Heath's mother and sister talking....I found the comments interesting, including what Sally Bell said about Matilda, "she's quite amazing, I'm really surprised every day that I see her, she's polite (the article states this as "she's got light") and Kate added "she's full of energy". Sally, "full of energy like her dad.....I see a lot of similarities - both. I hope that Michelle's getting ready for all that...the energy." Posted on May 14, 2010

Also, Sally said: "It's a great honor that they're bestowing on Heath, having a scholarship in his name.... I think it's just amazing, the sponsorship that's gone into it, the generosity of people.”

Source

Text with the video:

Some of the brightest talents from the outback hit the red carpet for Australians in Film's 2010 Breakthrough Awards at the Thompson Hotel in Beverly Hills Thursday night, and RadarOnline.com was there to catch all the happenings on a night the late, great Heath Ledger was honored with a scholarship in his name.

Many in attendance, such as Australians In Film spokeswoman Sophie Scarf, praised the late star of The Dark Knight for the “incredible generosity” he displayed to his countrymen.

"He's housed hundreds of Australian actors," she said. "His house in LA was almost like a halfway house."

Ledger died at the age of 28 in January 2008 from an accidental overdose of prescription pills.

Trailer For Heath Ledger's Final Film

14 pictures of Heath

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Another interesting article:

A studio banks on a young Aussie actor to be the face of a summer adventure movie

By Lori Reese | May 15, 2001

Source: ew

Heath Wave

''Can I get you something?'' asks Heath Ledger, star of ''A Knight's Tale'' (in theaters May 11). ''Do you want some water? A Diet Coke?'' Yes, you heard right: EW.com goes to meet the Australian actor, 22, who isn't just ONE of the selling points for the summer comedy cum Middle Ages jousting saga, he's THE selling point -- and suddenly we've stumbled into an episode of ''Twilight Zone'' scripted by Miss Manners -- or maybe the editors of TigerBeat. Expectation: big star attitude. Reality: He's the perfect host.

Even so, there may be a few benighted moviegoers who don't yet recognize Ledger's name. But by now, even these people (peasants!) have seen his face -- on billboards, TV ads, magazine covers. The actor's been on the rise ever since his attention grabbing role as Mel Gibson's rebellious son in ''The Patriot.'' The same studio, Sony/Columbia, is also behind ''Knight,'' which just happened to be in production in Prague when Ledger's ''Patriot'' hit theaters. So an ensemble story about a wannabe knight and his friends has been transformed, if the splashy poster is to be believed, into a story about a guy who ''will rock you.''

Yet his ''Knight'' costars say the actor hardly notices the furor. ''He's walking around with a $40 million plus film on his shoulders like he's been doing it all his life,'' says Paul Bettany, the English actor who plays Geoffrey Chaucer (yes, the famous one) opposite Ledger's aspiring knight who transcends class to become a champion jousting stud. ''I just have to laugh at those posters, though'' adds Bettany. ''They make him look so butch.''

Butch enough to best an box office juggernaut like ''The Mummy Returns''? Ledger doesn't seem worried -- unless it's about you being thirsty while he talks about the knight life. (Um, we'll take that glass of water, thanks.)

You've said that when you tried out for your first U.S. role, in the Fox TV series ''Roar,'' you were a wreck. Are you more confident now?
No! I'm the worst auditioner, really, really bad. I mean, you're being judged and I'm just so aware of it that it consumes me. I can't relax, I'm tied in knots, so the voice is very taut and tense. You're so aware that you're acting 'cause you're sitting across from this lady with a piece of paper who's going, ''I'm. Going. To. Shoot. You. If. You. Don't. Blah, blah, blah,'' in this emotionless voice. It's foul. I hate it.

You've played a modern Petruchio in ''10 Things I Hate About You,'' a knight, a soldier. What's your role in ''The Four Feathers,'' with Wes Bentley and Kate Hudson, like -- another big adventure?
Any child that would dream of being this character would be twisted. He's accused of being a coward. He's not. But society deems him one, because he hands in his resignation the night they're going off to the Sudan to fight.

Yet this is something like the fifth remake of the classic wartime coming of age story -- it's a story about courage, isn't it?
It's very cool. The director, Shekhar Kapur (''Elizabeth'') is brilliant. Shakhar, shaky. Salt shaker. He's an intense man, demands a lot from you, 24 hours, seven days a week without fail for the entire shoot, total commitment. So your head is just FRIED, but it's worth it. Four months in Morocco! I didn't get a day off on the whole shoot.

You, not Mel Gibson, were on the cover of Vanity Fair when ''The Patriot'' came out. How has life been different since then?
I was really slapped with the change when I went back home for two weeks. My hometown, Perth, is tiny -- 2 million people -- and it's the most isolated city in the world. So it's a big deal if you're from there and you're in this industry. It was a shock. Every move I made was written down and documented and released the next day on the front page of every f---ing paper. You kind of want to feel that if there's one place in the world that is always the same, it's your hometown or the town you grew up in. And it's gone now.

How do you deal with intrusive people?
You have to find the comedy in it. People around me don't realize how funny their reactions to me are and how funny everyone else is. Last night in New York, I went out to some bar and this big dude came up to me and stands like THIS close to my face shouting, ''ARE YOU HEATH LEDGER, ARE YOU HEATH LEDGER, ARE YOU HEATH?'' over and over and over again, until I was like ''Yes!'' And then he was like, ''WERE YOU IN 'THE PATRIOT'?'' Really obnoxious. So I just turned around to him and explained, like I do all the time, ''What would you think if just a complete f---ing stranger comes right up to you and gets in your face?'' Regardless of who it is, there's no excuse. If someone's an asshole, they're an asshole. I don't tolerate it. I'm polite about it. But I don't tolerate it.

Other actors say that being a celebrity is like becoming public property. True?
Exactly. It's like you're eating dinner in a restaurant and someone asks if they can take a photo with you and you explain, ''No, I'm out relaxing, I'm not working.'' And they're looking at you like, ''But... what? Aren't you just like that chair over there? I can take a photo of that chair. It's mine! It's ours!'' Whatever. I'm not really that bothered about it, I guess. I'm just talking about it because you asked.

Originally posted May 10, 2001

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Oh, What a Knight

WITH A KNIGHT'S TALE, CAN HEATH LEDGER SHED HIS ARMOR FOR A JOUST WITH FAME?

By Dave Karger | May 18, 2001

Heath Ledger will always remember the day he saw the poster for A Knight's Tale. The young Australian actor, who made a splash in the U.S. costarring in last summer's The Patriot, was in London working 18-hour days on the period adventure Four Feathers when the one-sheet arrived. There he saw his own eyes, larger than life, staring back at him, with the words ''HE WILL ROCK YOU'' emblazoned below his steely face. And he realized the advertising blitz for a $40 million enterprise would be all about...him.

''I got really nervous. I think I started shaking,'' recalls Ledger, who, months later, is clearly still uncomfortable with being the focus of Columbia Pictures' marketing campaign. ''Sure, the story is based around this knight's character, but it's about a group of people. It's an ensemble piece -- it always was....It was like, F -- -! I've done all this work, but ultimately, these guys are making decisions that could either really make or break my career. And it's out of my hands.''

Heath Ledger, welcome to superstardom. Whether he likes it or not, A Knight's Tale, about a British commoner who impersonates a master jouster, has been positioned as a teen-idol-making vehicle for Ledger, akin to what William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet was for Leonardo DiCaprio in 1996. Like that film, A Knight's Tale is a classic story featuring anachronistic flourishes -- in this case contemporary music and dialogue -- that's targeted squarely at younger audiences. And although Ledger perceives the movie as an ensemble piece -- his character, William Thatcher, does have a ragtag band of buddies -- the 22-year-old actor is the face on the billboards, trailer, and TV ads. And then there's that poster.

Which isn't to say Ledger isn't deserving of the attention. As Thatcher (and his royal alter ego, Sir Ulrich von Lichtenstein), he sings, dances, romances, and, of course, jousts. And the studio is banking on the hope that in two-plus hours, a new Leo -- or at least a new action hero -- just might be born.

Columbia execs have no problem admitting that they're pinning one of their two summer tent poles (the other being July's Julia Roberts romantic comedy, America's Sweethearts) on Ledger's hunky mug. ''We went through various choices [for the poster],'' says Jeff Blake, the studio's president for worldwide marketing and distribution. ''But I gotta admit, when it came to putting a head of armor on that image, it just didn't seem like a good idea.''

Indeed, even the film's writer-director feels the role fits Ledger like a metal glove. ''In the movie he plays that character, but he's also playing Heath Ledger,'' says Brian Helgeland, the L.A. Confidential co-screenwriter who made his directorial debut with 1999's Payback. ''I mean, Clint Eastwood plays Clint Eastwood, Mel Gibson plays Mel Gibson. Bruce Willis is a movie star because people like that Bruce Willis persona. You look at Heath and you feel like you know him, even though you don't.''

At New York City's Regency Hotel bar, the extremely fidgety Ledger is shredding his cocktail napkins. Sitting with a Camel Light in one hand and a Heineken in the other, the surprisingly tall (6'3") actor lets go of those vices only to grab a handful of crayons and doodle urgently on the white paper squares that rip apart from the force of his strokes. "I have very little patience. I get bored really quickly," says Ledger, whose mania is reminiscent of Mel Gibson on a talk-show couch, only jacked up a few notches (and with a lot more F-words). "I have ADD, I'm convinced."

It was that impatience that caused Ledger, the oldest son of Kim, an engineer, and Sally, a French tutor, to develop a love for acting and dancing while studying at Guildford Grammar School in his hometown of Perth. "I hated the school," he says. "It was about teaching kids how to fire semiautomatic weapons. It was breeding an army for the country. It was like 'Be proud for the school, fight for the school.' And I wasn't falling into that f---ing system. I'm not a patriot to a flag; I'm a patriot to my family. I found myself getting A's from the teachers that I really loved and f---ing failing miserably with the people I didn't."

After graduating at 16, Ledger cured his restlessness with a 2,700-mile soul-searching road trip to Sydney, which he knew was home to Australia's entertainment scene. "If I was going to portray a person or an emotion, I had to at least be able to portray myself," he says, adding, "I had 80 cents in the bank account. So I had to get a job." After appearing in a handful of Aussie productions, he landed the lead role in the 1997 Fox adventure series Roar. Though it was considered a Braveheart rip-off and canceled after one season, the show helped lead to bigger roles in 1999's 10 Things I Hate About You and last year's Revolutionary War drama The Patriot, in which he played Mel Gibson's son.

When Columbia execs saw early footage of The Patriot, they realized Ledger could carry his own film. "From the time I read the [Knight's Tale] script, he was always the person that we wanted," says studio chairman Amy Pascal. "We offer him everything." That includes the lead role in the upcoming Spider-Man, which Ledger declined. "I just don't care for comics," he says. "Never have. Never cared for Spider-Man. It would have been stealing someone else's dream." The role eventually went to Tobey Maguire.

Ledger sees his relationship with the studio a bit differently from Pascal. "I was their investment," he says bluntly. "They saw me and they invested money in me in The Patriot and said, 'Okay, let's pop him out in that, let's get another product, let's promote it, and let's bring in the bucks.' Slightly f---ing frustrating. It's an intimidating move on their part." Pascal responds: "I don't see him as a product. He's at a time where he's having to sell a movie that is mostly on his back, which is a scary thing the first time you do it."

Though he may sound like the reluctant superstar, Ledger insists he's simply being realistic. "People [at Columbia] are really worried right now," he continues. "It's called insurance. 'See, [the film] is tracking!' They're so all about their digits that they forget about word of mouth and trusting in a good film.... I've seen the movie and I loved it, so we all are successful." Admits Columbia's Blake, "Let's face it: When you look at the competition--The Mummy Returns and Pearl Harbor--there's no question we want to compete and survive. So we're being aggressive."

Part of the studio's aggressiveness involved asking Ledger to embark on a 12-city North American promotional tour. "I'm fighting that. It's a negotiation process," says Ledger, who eventually agreed to a scaled-down version of the trip. "I flew from Perth to Sydney, the next day to L.A., the next day to Dallas, the next day to Atlanta, the next day to Chicago, and the next day to New York," he says. "I think that's compromising." While Blake says Ledger is "certainly doing what we need him to do," it's not without a fight. Says the actor, "You've got to stop and say, 'Well, no, I'm not a politician.'"

Maybe not, but Ledger has become something of a punchline--if only to his close friends. "You should hear the f---ing messages I have on my answering machine," he groans. "'You gonna rock me, man?' I'm just getting so much f---ing flak from them, it's not funny." (One can only imagine the ribbing had he accepted that Spider-Man role.)

Perhaps to avoid such pigeonholing, Ledger's follow-up projects will veer far away from teen territory. In Four Feathers (based on the same book as the 1939 film), from Elizabeth director Shekhar Kapur, he plays a British military officer who is viewed as a coward when he resigns before a battle. "It's deep, deep, deep," says the actor. "It's not a movie that teenagers are supposed to come in and understand. It's, like, beyond that." As Miramax cochairman Harvey Weinstein, who's one of Four Feathers' producers, puts it, "This is 'Say goodbye to your one-minute moment of Heath Ledger, Teen Idol.' He wanted to lose that image and take on a tougher role." Later this month, the actor will head to Louisiana for two weeks of shooting opposite Billy Bob Thornton in Monsters Ball, the story of a father and son who work on death row.

As promising as Ledger's career looks now, there was a time when Hollywood didn't consider him the next big thing. A few years ago, Weinstein, who has made a career out of nurturing young talent like Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, rejected Ledger for a lead role in a still-uncast European soccer flick called Calcio. "Oh yeah, isn't that ironic?" Ledger says with a grin. "Thanks, Harvey!" Both parties admit they needed to clear the air before shooting began on Four Feathers. "He joked about it in his kind of passive-aggressive way," says Ledger. Weinstein cracks, "I said, 'I don't even know whether I saw [your screen test] or not; that's how good you were, Heath!'....He's brilliant in all his movies," Weinstein adds quickly, "but even he admits he's not the best at auditions."

For now, Ledger professes indifference to A Knight's Tale's eventual box office victory or defeat. "If the movie comes out and it bombs, it's not my money that's going to be lost," he says. "And what that does to my career, I don't really care. If it's the end of it, then fine. I came in, had a sniff, and left. It's that sort of ruthlessness I guess you just have to have to be able to brush that off."

He's also had to fend off considerable tabloid interest in his love life, spurred on by a relationship with an actress nine years his senior. Ledger met Boogie Nights star Heather Graham in Prague last summer while he was shooting A Knight's Tale and she was filming the upcoming Jack the Ripper thriller From Hell; they've been together since. "It's funny," says Ledger, explaining his attraction to more mature women (previous girlfriends include Roar costar Lisa Zane, in her mid-30s when they dated four years ago). "You find a lot of women, when they get older--older than I am, anyhow--they don't have to pretend to be older anymore. So they go back to being young."

So, what if A Knight's Tale does turn him into a Leo-size luminary? Again, Ledger professes indifference. "A lot of people think ambition or success and they think dollars," Ledger says. "My ambition is all in my head. I'm on a f---ing journey. I'm on a walkabout. It's about collecting wisdom of emotions and heart and self and understanding. Being absolutely comfortable with your body and life and the earth, sun, and moon being the only truths. That's what my success is, getting underneath that." For once, he stops doodling. "At the f---ing end of the day, that's the only thing you're going to carry with you when you die." Good luck fitting that on a poster.

Originally posted May 18, 2001 Published in issue #596 May 18, 2001

From Oh, What a Knight
I especially like this portion:

"A lot of people think ambition or success and they think dollars," Ledger says. "My ambition is all in my head. I'm on a f---ing journey. I'm on a walkabout. It's about collecting wisdom of emotions and heart and self and understanding. Being absolutely comfortable with your body and life and the earth, sun, and moon being the only truths. That's what my success is, getting underneath that." For once, he stops doodling. "At the f---ing end of the day, that's the only thing you're going to carry with you when you die."

Ladies Heath held hands with - I just adore how he cocooned his lady friends' hands:
Naomi Watts from August 2002 to May 2004. Met doing Ned Kelly I think.
Heather Graham met in Prague, while Heath was filming A Knight's Tale, she filming Jack the Ripper thriller
Lisa Zane met doing Roar together
Michelle Williams met doing Brokeback Mountain

A quote of Heath that I especially like:
...“The power of belief, in a sense — it’s one of the strongest of all. And like religion, if you strongly believe in something, it comes true and it becomes a reality. In acting, I find that as well. If you believe it, you discover a truth and it’s quite spiritual…. Along that path, in discovering that character, you discover a lot about yourself.” end quote ~ I so love this.

FOR FUN AND THEN SOME ~ WITH HEATH LEDGER

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When Wrong Is Taken As Right
Ignorance is not bliss. It is just ignorance. And it can be deadly. Just ask the people in this story.

This Is Governmentally Sanctioned Crime

On Election Day (Did you hear the Announcement?) Leasing Utah Wilderness for Oil and Gas Extraction

And I don't only write about personal things, which I also do. Or write of Rafael Nadal. Rafa is playing tennis in France currently. I missed the match. Here is the bare bones information...

Round 2 Rafael Nadal defeated Nicolas Almagro 3-6, 7-6(2), 7-5.

Round 3

Rafa vs Tommey Robredo

November 12, 2009, Thursday on Court Central

The match is scheduled to start not before 7:30 p.m. local time
1:30 p.m. USA EST

In Doubles
Rafa and Juan Monaco lost 6-4, 5-7, 13-15 to Christopher Kas and Philipp Kohlschreiber in the first round.

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or Heath Ledger... another recurring theme on this blog.

My life is varied and so is my internet home. This blog.

This post is the satisfaction of including Heath Ledger.

Okay, I know he is not mortally with us, but he personally was never mortally in my life. So, for me he is as alive as ever in my experience. However, it definitely saddens me that he isn't still making his beloved movies and directing his first.

I include my latest video with Heath starring in it and also someone I now consider my friend although we only met on youtube has a couple I include below.

Posted this in the wee hours this morning...
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Heath Ledger ~ Fever ~ Sung by Bobby "Blue" Bland
Okay this isn't perfect. I wish the effects at the end when they are fighting, then holding and rocking one another had turned out better. But it was fun to make and is at least acceptable. I am still on a learning curve.
Uploaded by me, ilovemylifesblog

True Confessions
Monday night this week, I woke up after going to bed very late only after a couple hours of sleep - I had been working on the above video and went to bed with it unfinished. The dream that I was having was the reason I awoke. I can't admit here what I was dreaming. I will say only that Heath was in the dream. I haven't remembered dreaming for a very long time. And this one "knocks the socks off me" - an expression. Here is the definiton that I just retrieved from googling ~ knock the - or one's - socks off: to have an overwhelming effect. (My bolding and italics.) At first, going back to sleep seemed the thing to do, but in short time, I realized I didn't want this dream to end and I wanted to be conscious of what was happening, so do I have to say, I stayed awake until I was satisfied with the ending? A little willful imagination was deemed happily acceptable by me. I felt good the whole next day even though tired, I felt ebullient (again a little google defintion for you: overflowing with fervor, enthusiasm, or excitement; high-spirited). And the next night - last night - stayed up all night long to again work on the video. Had some iMovie issues that kept me having to do it over. And tonight I told myself to go to bed very early. Well here it is 8:30 p.m. and I am still at this computer speaking to no one in particular.

I seem to have many readers who just come here, but leave no interactions. I don't get that, but certain things just have to be surrendered to.

I felt I had to blog about Darfur, which I did just before beginning this post. So, soon I have to discipline myself and get me back to that bed where I dreamed of Heath.

Text from my Youtube sidebar:
Some just are born with something special and that quality doesn't go unnoticed by many. Heath presented us with something special to savor. One of the things enjoyed here is his special sex appeal. Those who have it, underwhelm us with their outward awareness that would show they know they have it. It is part of the charm and what makes them so undeniably a magnet for our hearts.

I don't smoke and don't encourage it, although it may appear that I do in this video I put together. It is simply that Heath smoked in "I'm Not There" quite a bit and at the same time he was delivering the "Fever".

"I'm Not There" cast

Pictures of Heath arriving during day 7 of the 64th Venice Film Festival on September 4, 2007 in Venice, Italy. Where one of three of his films opening there was I'm Not There These photos are at Zimbio, which always gives the photographers credit.

I have been to Venice, so I at least can feel close to Heath in that I have sat in these boats for many rides as Heath does in these pictures.

and at
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Help us get "The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus" in our local theatres in the USA. It is our last chance to see Heath on screen in a new film. Don't let us be left out. Go to this link to the-imaginarium-of-doctor-parnassus to Demand It.

And now for someone's videos who are always exceptionally good. She's got the talent!
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Heath Ledger - I Did It My Way by Revolution Renaissance. The name of the album is New Era.
Uploaded by jopicca

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Pictures of Heath Ledger with his daughter Matilda. The song is Happy Everafter in Your Eyes by Ben Harper, which was the result of Heath's request to have a song written for his new baby daughter.
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SOME LEAVE BEHIND THEIR ESSENCE FOR US AND IT IS BEAUTIFUL ~ FOR HEATH

A spirit that stays in our heart long after
the mortal body has left us

has a hold on us that only the depth of our feelings
knows.

Words are inadequate, although we try.

I cannot explain it.


I hadn't seen a Heath Ledger movie until after
he passed away.

And now I have. And now I am sad.


Watching the videos of his daughter last night,
I felt my heart sink into my body.

The weight was strong.
The tears coming up with no warning, surprised me.

I pushed hard against them.

Why I cry over someone I had nothing but
distant observance of

is a mystery.

It is just that I feel a connection to life through him ~

I don't know why and it doesn't matter

I don't have to have a reason.

Here is to the connection that is welcome
and enriches me

as SPIRIT of LIFE never dies.
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Heath Ledger ~ Gone Too Soon
Uploaded and text by lucierose04
"Tribute to an unforgettable actor and an unforgettable man. He's now the most beautiful angel."

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Matilda Rose Ledger ~ October 28, 2009 ~ 4th Birthday
Born October 28, 2005
Uploaded by mpires2009
Heath asked his friend Ben Harper to write this song as a lullaby for his beautiful Matilda. It's called "Happy Ever After In Your Eyes"

A Look Back at Heath Ledger as a Father

Vogue October 2009 ~Michelle Williams

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Happy Ever After Is In Your Eyes
written by Ben Harper at Heath Ledger's request for Matilda Rose Ledger

Lyrics

The morning sunrise spread her wings
While the moon hung in the sky
Held the sea in your hands
And happy ever after in your eyes

Couldn't leave you to go to heaven
I carry you in my smile
For the first time my true reflection i see
Happy ever after in your eyes

Every star in the night
Promises the dawn
I will be there if you fall
To ever so heavily rest upon

All that I can give you
Is forever yours to keep
Wake up every day with a dream
And happy ever after in your eyes

Happy ever after is in your eyes

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Click this post's title for song Here Comes the Sun
Text with this video by the poster, alexg1985:

Heath Ledger ~ His Favorite Song

"The body of Heath Ledger was cremated in Australia on Saturday and his remains were laid to rest.

Michelle Williams read Shakespeare at the service and some of Ledger's favorite songs were played, including the Beatles' Here Comes the Sun.

After the service, mourners gathered at a beach side restaurant and many, including Williams, went fully clothed into the ocean as they watched the sunset."

A another video from my Heath Favorites playlist at youtube

Dedication to Heath at We are the Masses

Sweet Heath Ledger and his dog

HEATH ~ THIS WORLD WAS NEVER MEANT FOR ONE AS BEAUTIFUL AS YOU

Heath and Jake in Brokeback Mountain
Heath deserved the Oscar for this role of Ennis Del Mar

Maybe This Time - Fan Tribute for Brokeback Mountain

Heath in I'm Not There

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Video of Morning Yearning by Ben Harper
Video directed by Heath Ledger

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Heath is proof that we are connected by the Spirit of Life.
His spirit was bright and continues to shine in our souls.

"Morning Yearning"

A finger's touch upon my lips
It's a morning yearning
Pull the curtains shut, try to keep it dark
But the sun is burning

The world awakens on the run
And will soon be earning
With hopes of better days to come
It's a morning yearning

Another day, another chance to get it right
Must I still be learning
Baby crying kept us up all night
With her morning yearning

Like a summer rose, I'm a victim of the fall
But I'm soon returning
Your love' s the warmest place the sun ever shines
My morning yearning.

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Michelle Williams speaking of her former partner, Heath Ledger:

His family and I watch Matilda as she whispers to trees,
hugs animals,
and takes steps two at a time,
and we know that he is with us still.

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Matilda Rose Ledger
Matilda's Song
Uploaded by AshleeRBradley
Text from poster's Youtube page sidebar:
This is a tribute to Heath Ledger & the two great loves of his life, Michelle & especially Matilda Rose. Heath asked his friend Ben Harper to write this song as a lullaby for his beautiful Matilda. It's called Happy Ever After In Your Eyes

"Happy Everafter In Your Eyes"

The morning sunrise spread her wings
While the moon hung in the sky
Held the sea in your hands
And happy everafter in your eyes

Couldn't leave you to go to heaven
I carry you in my smile
For the first time my true reflection i see
Happy everafter in your eyes

Every star in the night
Promises the dawn
I will be there if you fall
To ever so heavily rest upon

All that i can give you
Is forever yours to keep
Wake up every day with a dream
And happyever after in your eyes

Happy everafter is in your eyes.

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Here Comes the Sun - A favorite song of
Heath Ledger

Uploaded by alexg1985

Text at the poster's sidebar at Youtube:

The body of Heath Ledger was cremated in Australia on Saturday and his remains were laid to rest.

Michelle Williams read Shakespeare at the service and some of Ledger's favorite songs were played, including the Beatles' Here Comes the Sun.

After the service, mourners gathered at a beach side restaurant and many, including Williams, went fully clothed into the ocean as they watched the sunset.

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Family, friends, celebrities farewell to Heath Ledger
from Perth Now

Heath Ledger's life in pictures

You Take My Breath Away
(different song than in the video just below)

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Tribute
Uploaded by MrsLauraLedger

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Although I believe Heath didn't kill himself intentionally, I find some of the words in this song ~ Vincent ~ cause me to think of Heath. All I have is my feelings from my reading various things about Heath. I can believe that he was shy as I read and I can believe he was in despair over his break-up with Michelle and not being able to see his beloved daughter, Matilda Rose Ledger near the end of his life. It is too bad that he had too many conflicting prescribed medications that were lethal. When we are young and going through the loss of love in our lives, we don't always think clearly.

Uploaded by MrAdamBurns

Lyrics

Vincent

Starry, starry night
paint your palette blue and grey

look out on a summer's day with eyes that know the darkness in my soul.
Shadows on the hills
sketch the trees and the daffodils

catch the breeze and the winter chills

in colors on the snowy linen land.
And now I understand what you tried to say to me

how you suffered for your sanity
how you tried to set them free.
They would not listen
they did not know how

perhaps they'll listen now.

Starry, starry night
flaming flowers that brightly blaze

swirling clouds in violet haze reflect in
Vincent's eyes of China blue.

Colors changing hue
morning fields of amber grain
weathered faces lined in pain
are soothed beneath the artist's loving hand.

And now I understand
what you tried to say to me
how you suffered for your sanity
how you tried to set them free.
perhaps they'll listen now.

For they could not love you
but still your love was true
and when no hope was left in sight on that
starry, starry night.
You took your life
as lovers often do;

But I could have told you
Vincent
this world was never meant for one as beautiful as you.

Starry, starry night
portraits hung in empty halls

frameless heads on nameless walls
with eyes
that watch the world and can't forget.
Like the stranger that you've met

the ragged men in ragged clothes

the silver thorn of bloody rose
lie crushed and broken
on the virgin snow.

And now I think I know
what you tried to say to me
how you suffered for your sanity
how you tried to set them free.
They would not listen
they're not list'ning still
perhaps they never will.