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Glen Hansard performs at The Roundhouse on May 23, 2026 in London, England. Lorne Thomson/Redferns/Getty Images Footage of Glen Hansard singing an apparently unreleased song at his final performance has surfaced. Hansard sang the song at a pub called the Wren’s Nest in the Strawberry Beds section of Dublin hours before he died in a motorcycle crash Wednesday night, according to RTE News.
Accompanying himself on acoustic guitar, the artist, whose milieu was life itself, sings, “Everything that could have been done has been tried and failed.” The moving song, whose morose lyrics describe the end of a relationship, takes on new meaning now in hindsight. “I’ll scream until I’m hoarse/You’ll find your way of course,” he sings. “I’ll try to speak so clear/You’ll only cut your spear/And time is the only thing that’s gonna fix this now.” Another man joins in on guitar by the end of the song, which gets a rousing applause at the end.
