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smith
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Registered: January 1970
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Do you have a song or songs that, whenever you hear them, you stop and the tears just kinda turn on?
I can't hear "Danny Boy" or Judy Garland singing "Somewhere Over the rainbow" without embarrassing myself. Bagpipes too, they get me if the tune is forlorn.
{{{hugs}}} smith :'-(
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oh wow, oh god, music, i could go on forever. okay:
"here's to the night" -- eve 6; specifically when the orchestration kicks in at the line don't let me let you go... this song'll be in the "take three" story of mine (not the one for contest), it's so .. oh gosh. you have to hear it if you haven't.
"the end of the world" -- skeeter davis
"save yourself" -- sensefield; 'cause i wanna learn / how you save yourself / for someone who / could love you for you / so many times we just / give it away / to someone who / couldn't even remember your name ...
"ana's song" -- silverchair; quite personal.
"my favourite thing" -- silverchair; first time i heard this i felt like i got punched in the stomach...
"after all these years" -- silverchair; ...and then when i recovered, 2 songs later i got hit in the stomach again: "every father's pain / casts a shadow over a broken / son / you'll be whole again / and i'll be whole again...
i think i've gone on too long, heh .. sorry. i have a LOT; i have CDs burned geared specifically just to cry and purge my guts out to. i can list more if anyone's interested..
my void does not want.
-- 2.13.61.
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one more, and then i'm done for real, i'm sorry! i can't believe i forgot this one; it's by a band i can't stand, but a friend sent me a card with the lyrics written all out, by hand, imploring me to pull out of eating disorder.
"someday" -- nickelback. the entire song, all the lyrics. one of those 'gee, was it written for me' sorts.
someday, somehow
gonna make it alright, but not right now
i know you're wondering when
(you're the only one who knows that)...
my void does not want.
-- 2.13.61.
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The one that will do it for me almost eveery time these days is"Lover Lay Down" By The Dave Matthews Band
People will tell you where they've gone
They'll tell you where to go
But till you get there yourself you never really know
Where some have found their paradise
Other's just come to harm
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One that usually gets me, or actually a couple that get me going are from Freddie Mercury and Queen....
First up is from the Highlander Soundtrack (Heh, a sword movie, who'da thunk it with me, eh?), a little song called "Who Wants to Live Forever." Another one of Queen's songs that gets me is Freddie's last one. "The Show Must Go On."
Another song that kinda transports me and gets the tears going is a Pink Floyd song, "Wish You Were Here," and all which that implies.
I just thought of these two as I'm typing this, so I have to include them. There's an old song by Bonnie Tyler, I think, "Total Eclipse of the Heart." It kills me a lot. And there's an old Motley Crue song, believe it or not, "Without You," that kinda gets me in a fit state some times, you know, old slow-dance stuff.
Oh well, let's see what everyone else says to this one. Good Post smith! 
It's not the wolf you see you should fear, but all the ones he howls with. Don't be afraid of the song, but don't piss off the choir.
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smith
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On fire! |
Registered: January 1970
Messages: 1095
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now I'm only falling apart....Turn around Bright Eyes........" God, I LOVE that song.
Here are a couple more:
"The Dance" Garth Brooks
"Separate Lives" Phil Collins
"Only Lonely" Hootie & the Blowfish (my song dedicated to me by me)
"Break Your Heart" Bare Naked Ladies
"I'm Movin' On" Rascal Flatts
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Hey, I'll try to post some songs as soon as I figure out the names, but I had to stop right here, and ask "girl misplaced" about the one mentioned.
"save yourself" -- sensefield; 'cause i wanna learn / how you save yourself / for someone who / could love you for you / so many times we just / give it away / to someone who / couldn't even remember your name ...
That the name of the song, and who it's by???
Brian
To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.
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-- and it's by a band called sensefield. 
my void does not want.
-- 2.13.61.
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Oh man I cry frm so many songs. Usually only when I sing along. The vervepipe Freshman gets me everytime though. Damn thats a rough song. Hmm what else a lot of camp songs make me cry, or at least get teary becuase the bring back memories I oculd list a billion of them if you want and all the lyrics but noone else would know them prolly... But here is the vervepipe lyrics
When I was young I knew everything
And she a punk who rarely ever took advice
Now I'm guilt stricken, sobbing with my head on the floor
Stop a baby's breath and a shoe full of rice
I can't be held responsible
'Cause she was touching her face
I won't be held responsible
She fell in love in the first place
For the life of me I cannot remember
What made us think that we were wise and we'd never compromise
For the life of me I cannot believe we'd ever die for these sins
We were merely freshmen
My best friend took a week's vacation to forget her
His girl took a week's worth of Valium and slept
Now he's guilt stricken sobbing with his head on the floor
Thinks about her now and how he never really wept he says
Why are you wearing that stupid man suit?
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Thanks girl misplaced.
The one that does it for me is Foreigner's "I Want To Know What Love Is"
That song will ruin my night in a heartbeat.
Brian
To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.
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"The Boxer" oldie Simon and Garfunkel...
"Always forgive your enemies...nothing annoys them quite so much." Oscar Wilde
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the keyboardist of the verve pipe, doug corella, was the assistant to my orchestra conductor in high school, when i was in 10th grade. he used to talk about the band a lot, and we were like, "yeeeeeah, sure, whatever. EVERYONE says their band will make it," and then a year later, there they were on the radio.
and now, for a TMI, because it's late and i ramble when i'm late, and that song triggered the memory:
he was there at orchestra camp when i did something very, very stupid. he felt guilty because it was him who lent me the dollar to buy the coca cola that assisted with the stupid act. after the ER trip he held my head in his lap the whole way back into town, with his hands over my ears so i wouldn't hear what the chaperone in the front seat was saying about me.
i know that all sounds unbelievable, but it's true. i'm sure they've got an email address that could be used to find out. i was in email contact with him for about a year after he finished that college credit at our school, but then the Fame Thing happened, and he was too cool for pre-band friends.
ugh, sorry. point of all this -- i love that song, even if the memories it brings back are painful.
my void does not want.
-- 2.13.61.
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Wow, I love music. It seems that almost any song can make me cry if my mood is right.
BETTE MIDLER "The Rose"
"Wind Beneath My Wings"
BILLY GILMAN "What's Forever For"
K'S CHOICE "Not An Addict"
STAIND "It's Been A While"
"Outside"
OUR LADY PEACE "Thief"
"Right Behind You (Mafia)"
"Somewhere Out There"
Oh there are soo many more...those are just the ones that popped into my head first!!
you can find the words to these songs at http://www.azlyrics.com/
danielle
"To the world you may be but one person, but to one person you may be the world!"
"Some people love you and some hate you.. those who hate don't know what they're missing and they're missing out!"
"Never underestimate your power to change yo
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but i got hit again, The Melancholy CD, if you will. for true, i'm the most hopelessly unhappy person in the world. this song came up and i burst into tears, literally in my room, thinking of myself and my predicament that'll never be solved, thinking of all of you here and things that have come up tonight in a few threads.
this is for all of us. find this song, if you can. this is an amazingly gorgeous band called something corporate. this song is called "walking by." because i'm a soul-sadist, i've italicised the parts that sting the most, to me anyway.
Your grand dad left home for the circus. He was young just like me,
with hope to explore. He married a girl in Virginia.
She could swing the trapeze; they could sleep on the floor.
Your mother was born in December, on the one sunny day that winter gave up.
She had warm summer eyes that flickered like fireflies,
when she stared at the world.
So why do you leave these stories unfinished,
my Cheshire cat doorstop with tears in her eyes?
Why do you look when you've already found it?
What did you find that could leave you
walking by?
She was raised in a New England village.
Then she moved to LA with her firefly stare,
and you loved sunset strip when it sparkled,
you grew up and you sparkled, but why don't you care?
So why do you leave these stories unfinished,
my Cheshire cat doorstop with tears in her eyes?
Why do you look when you've already found me?
What did you find that could leave you walking by?
These nights I get high just from breathing.
When I lie here with you I'm sure that I'm real,
like that firework over the freeway.
I could stay here all day but that's not how you feel.
So why do you leave these questions unanswered?
The circus awaits and you're already gone.
My Cheshire cat doorstop with fear in your smile,
what makes it so easy for you to be walking by?
And what did I do that you can't seem to want me?
Why do we lie here and whisper goodbyes?
Where can I go that your pictures won't haunt me?
What makes it so easy for you to be
walking by?
also by something corperate -- "konstantine". it's very long, twice as gorgeous musically as "walking by". i'll only post the best snippets of it though, for fear of pissing people off. :-/
"and then you bring me home
afraid to find out that you're alone
and i'm sleeping in your living room
but we don't have much room to live..."
"and there was hope in me that i could take you there
but dammit you're so young
well i don't think i care
and if i hurt you
then i'm sorry
please don't think that this was easy
then you bring me home
cuz we both know what it's like to be alone
and i'm dreaming in your living room
but we don't have much room to live..."
"my Konstantine, you
spin around me like a dream we played out [computer screens]*
and i said
did you know i missed you? [x7]
oh god i miss you..."
( *the actual lyric is "played out on this movie screen", but 'computer screens' fits the rhythm perfectly and just .. fits.)
i'm sorry. i should be knocked out at night, i get the worst at night i'm sorry.
my void does not want.
-- 2.13.61.
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oh yeah, I almost forgot about that one Andy, thanks...here's one I remembered last night at work that usually gets me when i'm not watching out for it. I'm not sure of the band, but it was on the Dare Devil sound track. It's the song that's playing as Elektra is practicing with her sais and she gets up like she's a ghost rising from the dojo floor. I think it's called Bring Me To Life.
And if you want something that had held back Teen Angst written all over it, look up an old Rush song called Subdivisions. It's a little heavier than a crying song, but it gets your heart going and lets you have some pathos at the same time.
It's not the wolf you see you should fear, but all the ones he howls with. Don't be afraid of the song, but don't piss off the choir.
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That one gets me once in a while, especially since I was a huge Foriegner fan, back in the day, LOL, but there was another song that kinda has that same subtle power as well. Another movie song. It was the amin theme from the movie D.A.R.Y.L., and the song at the end. It was called "Somewhere I Belong." Just plain gut numbing crying music.
It's not the wolf you see you should fear, but all the ones he howls with. Don't be afraid of the song, but don't piss off the choir.
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crying may have spelled it wrong
my void does not want.
-- 2.13.61.
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timmy
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Has no life at all |
Location: UK, in Devon
Registered: February 2003
Messages: 13796
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I have so many:- "The Boy I love is Up in the Gallery" - Old English Music Hall song
- "Hello" - Lionel Ritchie
- "Unchained Melody" - various
- "Cavatina" - with words. Cleo Laine
It's no good. Too many. I just cry.
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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Indeed, where to begin?!
I guess I better just go by examples I've heard recently which are still relatively fresh in mind.
I've attended many concerts by Peter, Paul and Mary over the years. For obvious reasons, "Puff, the Magic Dragon" is one of the songs they make an audience sing-along out of. I have never (ever) been able to make it through the entire song (especially that third verse). And by the way, for those who think this song glorifies the use of marijuana, know this: the first time I ever heard it was when the record was still brand new (I was about 7 at the time), and Captain Kangaroo staged a puppet show to it on his TV show (for those of you who may not know, "Captain Kangaroo" was a very popular and very highly respected host of a children's TV show back in the '60s; so if the song was good enough for Captain Kangaroo, it should be good enough for anybody).
David mentioned Simon and Garfunkel's "The Boxer". I certainly second that most enthsiastically. What an awesome record that is (and not just because of the words, either): the way it keeps buiding more and more with each of those deceptive cadences until it finally resolves. Wow! Even more so for me, though, is that album's title song, "Bridge Over Troubled Water", which long ago proved to me beyond a shadow of a doubt that music has the power to heal. This one day, I was in probably the foulest mood I had ever been in; but then later that day, I heard that record, and I just felt so much better (and didn't Art Garfunkel give one of the most beautifully impassioned vocal performances of all time on that record?).
Danielle mentioned a couple which I'd also like to concur with and add to. The first Billy Gilman song I ever heard was "Oklahoma" (I was "channel surfing" once, and saw the video); and I can't recommend highly enough his latest CD, "Music Through Heartsongs", songs based on the poetry of that immensely talented young visionary Mattie Stepanek (especially track 5, "It Happened Anyway", which relates of a thing that shouldn't happen to anybody). As for "The Divine Miss M", she's also repsonsible for what has to be one of the funniest records of all time (a possible new thread?), a ribald rarity called "You're Moving Out Today" (probably the only record in pop music history in which the most prominent instrument is the contrabassoon!).
A few nominations from the Broadway stage: "Somewhere" from "West Side Story"; "Where is Love?" from "Oliver!"; "I Don't Know How to Love Him" from "Jesus Christ Superstar (and, while we're on the topic of Andrew Lloyd Webber, "Pie Jesu" from his "Requiem").
Moving now from the Broadway stage to the opera house: Verdi's "Otello"; and Puccini's "Madama Butterfly" and "La Boheme" immediately come to mind right now (it's a good thing the opera season hasn't begun yet, or else I'd find myself filling up this whole page of the message board!).
Along with opera, classical music is my "main" musical interest; and so it would perhaps stand to reason that most of my choices for this survey would be the "slow movements" of longer compositions (for example: the "Largo" from Dvorak's "New World" Symphony, and the slow movement from Beethoven's Piano Concerto #4). To these I must add the Symphony #4 of Gustav Mahler (the last movement of which is a setting of a poem which is a view of heaven as seen through the eyes of a child, ending with a quiet, peaceful, heavenly lullaby).
To conclude (at long last!), I'd like to add my "thumbs up" to D'Artagnon's for smith's starting this thread (and by the way, D'Artagnon, "D.A.R.Y.L." is one of my all-time favorite "happy tears" movies, too; but I guess that would make for another thread, wouldn't it? [ ].
We do not remember days...we remember moments.
Cesare Pavese
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I am a softy when it comes to music. Bawlin like a schoolgirl. hehe (No disrespect to the female gender intended!)
Too many to list.
I do love this thread. Keep it up smith. You are a reason to shine.
Hugs,
Kevin
"Be excellent to each other, and, party on dudes"!
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3 colours red -- "beautiful day"
chrono cross (video game soundtrack, PS1) -- "the girl who stole the stars" (instrumental)
chrono cross -- "they who are gone"
counting crows -- "amy hit the atmosphere"
counting crows -- "raining in baltimore"
counting crows -- "colorblind"
matchbox 20 -- "rest stop"
our lady peace -- "4 AM"
(this would be my current playlist. i'm so uncanny for taking an awesome day and sending it to the tubes with music, ha!)
my void does not want.
-- 2.13.61.
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