I’M NOT GONNA MISS YOU
“I’m Not Gonna Miss You” is a song recorded by American country music artist Glen Campbell and The Wrecking Crew. Co-written by Campbell and producer Julian Raymond, the song was released on September 30, 2014 for the soundtrack to the documentary Glen Campbell: I’ll Be Me, which focuses on the singer’s diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease and his final tour. “I’m Not Gonna Miss You” is the last song to be recorded by Campbell. The song was nominated for Best Original Song at the 87th Academy Awards and won Grammy Award for Best Country Song. Raymond discussed the inspiration behind the song: “[Campbell] had a hard day of people asking him about Alzheimer’s and how he felt about it. He didn’t talk too much about it, but came up to me and said, ‘I don’t know what everybody’s worried about. It’s not like I’m going to miss anyone, anyway.’” (More from Wikipedia)
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)
