Gran Torino ... its best part

The film is so-so (although a huge box office success in the USA). The song, which plays as the credits roll, is the best part by a long, long mile. I'm not quite sure why I find it as affecting as I do ... but I do. Some of the lines are genuinely poetic (I think):

So tenderly your story is
nothing more than what you see
or what you've done or will become
standing strong do you belong
in your skin; just wondering

or

these streets are old they shine
with the things I've known
and breaks through the trees
their sparkling

your world is nothing more than all the tiny things you've left behind

Brilliant stuff Mr Eastwood, brilliant.
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