Songs that make you cry, every time, period...

[RetroLounge]

"The Blowers Daughter" - Damien Rice

And so it is
Just like you said it would be
Life goes easy on me
Most of the time
And so it is
The shorter story
No love, no glory
No hero in her sky

I can't take my eyes off of you
I can't take my eyes off you
I can't take my eyes off of you
I can't take my eyes off you
I can't take my eyes off you
I can't take my eyes...

And so it is
Just like you said it should be
We'll both forget the breeze
Most of the time
And so it is
The colder water
The blower's daughter
The pupil in denial

I can't take my eyes off of you
I can't take my eyes off you
I can't take my eyes off of you
I can't take my eyes off you
I can't take my eyes off you
I can't take my eyes...

Did I say that I loathe you?
Did I say that I want to
Leave it all behind?

I can't take my mind off of you
I can't take my mind off you
I can't take my mind off of you
I can't take my mind off you
I can't take my mind off you
I can't take my mind...
My mind...my mind...
'Til I find somebody new

[mac56]

1. "Stockton Gala Days" by 10,000 Maniacs

that summer fields grew high
with foxglove stalks and ivy
wild apple blossoms everywhere
emerald green like none I have seen
apart from dreams that escape me
there was no girl as warm as you

how I've learned to please
to doubt myself in need
you'll never, you'll never know

that summer fields grow high
we made garland crowns in hiding
pulled stems of flowers from my hair
blue in the stream like none I have seen
apart from dreams that escape me
there was no girl as bold as you

how I've learned to please
to doubt myself in need
you'll never, you'll never know
you'll never know...

violet serene like none I have seen
apart from dreams that escape me
there was no girl as warm as you
how I've learned to please
to doubt myself in need
you'll never, you'll never know
you'll never know...

that summer fields grow high
we had wildflower fever
we had to lay down where they grow
how I've learned to hide, how I've locked inside
you'd be surprised if shown
but you'll never, you'll never know

[Gormy Cuss]

2. Lydia

by Karen Poston.

Lydie lit a cigarette today,
Ancient fumbling fingers in her way
From a forty year old coffee cup she sipped a bit of gin,
Closed her eyes and let the memories in.

She lives in the old place all alone,
Keeps in touch with neighbours by the phone,
Grows herbs on the graves of her firstborn and his
father,
And the coal trucks never bother her.

Refrain:
Oh Lydie, let him go. the boy is gone,
Her mother struggled as she tore him from her arms,
Oh Lydia, your tears are heaven's rain,
But she never was the same.

A cotton dress and satin shoes,
Indian summer sun, dressed in amber hues,
Spending time with a coal miner's son,
To an old time fiddle tune,

The months went by just like a breeze that year,
They wed in June, and by the fall the boy was here,,
Word come down from big stone, there's a fire in the
mine,
And eleven men they couldn't find.

(Refrain)

She watched them pull him from the hole,
The overalls he wore were blackened by the smoke,
Lydie twice had had this dream and twice it had come
true.
And when she saw his father's boots she knew.

(Refrain)

Lydie lit a cigarette today...


************
(also Cat's in the Cradle by Harry Chapin)

A child arrived just the other day
He came to the world in the usual way
But there were planes to catch and bills to pay
He learned to walk while I was away
And he was talking 'fore I knew it and as he grew
He'd say, "I'm gonna be like you, Dad
You know I'm gonna be like you"

And the cat's in the cradle and the silver spoon
The little boy blue and the man in the moon
When you coming home, Dad
I don't know when
But we'll get together then
You know we'll have a good time then

My son turned ten just the other day
He said, "Thanks for the ball, Dad, come on, let's play
Can you teach me to throw," I said "Not today
I got a lot to do," he said "That's okay"
And then he walked away but his smile never dimmed
And said, "I'm gonna be like him, yeah
You know I'm gonna be like him"

(snip)
...But it's sure nice talking to you, Dad
It's been sure nice talking to you"

And as I hung up the phone, it occurred to me
He'd grown up just like me
My boy was just like me

[u4ic]

28. Cat's in the Cradle gets me everytime, too

as does One Tin Soldier and Living in Shame by the Supremes.

[Synnical]

86. Definitely

Thanks. We must have grown up together!

;-)

-Cindy in Fort Lauderdale

[benEzra]

141. +1 for Cat's in the Cradle (n/t)

[Sugar Smack]

3. "Martha", Tom Waits

"I Love", Tom T. Hall

"This Old House", Dolly Parton

"Eidelweiss" (?)

"Wendell Gee", REM

"Can't Find My Way Home", Eric Clapton

"Harvest", Neil Young


****dissolving**** :cry:

[Ally McLesbian]

5. Don't know the song, but...

I am writing a novel, and one of the characters in it is named Martha. A very tragic character, who is kicked out of her Omaha home as a teen for being transgender, and ends up working the streets of San Francisco.

Somehow she cleans her life up and becomes a flight attendant at United Airlines, only to die on Flight 93.

[Sugar Smack]

7. That sounds so interesting! My GOD!

I love writing; I've written several short stories but haven't had the ambition or the gumption to follow up on a novel. I would love to hear more about this. Good on ya!!!

:hi: :toast:

[Ally McLesbian]

11. Thanks...

You can find out more about my novel. I run a blog where I discuss some of the ideas that live in my head at the moment.

It's at http://perfectgirl-novel.blogspot.com

Thanks for your interest!

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

12. Operator, number, please: it's been so many years

Will she remember my old voice while I fight the tears?
Hello, hello there, is this Martha? this is old Tom Frost,
And I am calling long distance, don't worry 'bout the cost.
'Cause it's been forty years or more, now Martha please recall,
Meet me out for coffee, where we'll talk about it all.

And those were the days of roses, poetry and prose
And Martha all I had was you and all you had was me.
There was no tomorrows, we'd packed away our sorrows
And we saved them for a rainy day.

And I feel so much older now, and you're much older too,
How's your husband? and how's the kids? you know that I got married too?
Luck that you found someone to make you feel secure,
'Cause we were all so young and foolish, now we are mature.

And those were the days of roses, poetry and prose
And Martha all I had was you and all you had was me.
There was no tomorrows, we'd packed away our sorrows
And we saved them for a rainy day.

And I was always so impulsive, I guess that I still am,
And all that really mattered then was that I was a man.
I guess that our being together was never meant to be.
And Martha, Martha, I love you can't you see?

And those were the days of roses, poetry and prose
And Martha all I had was you and all you had was me.
There was no tomorrows, we'd packed away our sorrows
And we saved them for a rainy day.

And I remember quiet evenings trembling close to you...

[Sugar Smack]

15. Nooooo!

The song lyrics are just as horribly aching as the echo of the piano behind them. You MUST agree, MM. Oh, what a song! How does a person come up with that?

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

16. I LOVE old Tom Waits. I don't hate the new stuff, it's just not my thing.

To me, Tom Waits is piano, ballads, and stories about marginal street characters.

I appreciate that he's not a sellout and marches to his own drummer. But I just like the old stuff best, is all.

[Sugar Smack]

I bought "Nighthawks at the Diner" 3 times

only to loan it to people who NEVER gave them back. *grrrr* That CD is wonderful. I especially love "All my Friends are Married", and the opening bit: "It's cold out there: colder than the ticket-taker's smile at the Ivar Theater on a Saturday night".

:D

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

19. It is my favorite album that is the distilled essence of Tom Waits.

:thumbsup:

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

24. "I was getting a lot of visual and verbal insubordination from a

double knit character in the corner..."

"One of those nights..."

:toast:

[Sugar Smack]

26. LOL! This is supposed to be a sad thread! "And the toilet's

running, ah Christ, shake the handle, and the phone is ringing, and it's Missus Randall, sayin' 'Where the Hell are my goddamned sandals/ The dog chewed up my left foot'".

:rofl:

[cleofus1]

100. you live the life

you can't make up that stuff

[RetroLounge]

32. "Can't Find My Way Home",

by Blind Faith.

Shreds me... :cry:

RL

[Sugar Smack]

35. Tears me out of the frame.

Also, "Landslide", the Smashing Pumpkins version of it, does same.

:hug:

[RetroLounge]

36. and the Dixie Chicks' Version of Landslide...

:hug:

It's just one of those nights...

RL

[Sugar Smack]

37. Aw, baby.

:hug: :hug: :hug: I mean it. I mean it.

[hobo_baggins]

152. Good choice...the 4th verse of A Little Rain by Tom Waits does it for me

i tear up everytime i heard it

[Ally McLesbian]

4. "Without You" by The Badfingers

Harry Nilsson, Mariah Carey, and a number of other artists have done their own renditions of this song.

The real clincher is the Nilsson version.

I've always loved this song as a child, and I was pleased to see Mariah Carey do her rendition in 1993, as I was maturing into adulthood. Her rendition is very faithful to the Nilsson version, and is almost as good.

No I can't forget this evening
Or your face as you were leaving
But I guess that's just the way
The story goes
You always smile but in your eyes
Your sorrow shows
Yes it shows

No I can't forget tomorrow
When I think of all my sorrow
When I had you there
But then I let you go
And now it's only fair
That I should let you know
What you should know

I can't live
If living is without you
I can't live
I can't give any more
I can't live
If living is without you
I can't give
I can't give any more

Well I can't forget this evening
Or your face as you were leaving
But I guess that's just the way
The story goes
You always smile but in your eyes
Your sorrow shows
Yes it shows

I can't live
If living is without you
I can't live
I can't give any more
I can't live
If living is without you
I can't live
I can't give any more
No I
I can't live
If living is without you
I can't live
I can't give any more
I can't live

[PassingFair]

73. On the anniversary of John's death, I cry at this: Empty Garden

Empty Garden Lyrics

Music by elton john
Lyrics by bernie taupin
Available on the album jump up

What happened here
As the new york sunset disappeared
I found an empty garden among the flagstones there
Who lived here
He must have been a gardener that cared a lot
Who weeded out the tears and grew a good crop
And now it all looks strange
It�s funny how one insect can damage so much grain

And what�s it for
This little empty garden by the brownstone door
And in the cracks along the sidewalk nothing grows no more
Who lived here
He must have been a gardener that cared a lot
Who weeded out the tears and grew a good crop
And we are so amazed we�re crippled and we�re dazed
A gardener like that one no one can replace


And I�ve been knocking but no one answers
And I�ve been knocking most all the day
Oh and I�ve been calling oh hey hey johnny
Can�t you come out to play


And through their tears
Some say he farmed his best in younger years
But he�d have said that roots grow stronger if only he could
hear
Who lived there
He must have been a gardener that cared a lot
Who weeded out the tears and grew a good crop
Now we pray for rain, and with every drop that falls
We hear, we hear your name


Johnny can�t you come out to play in your empty garden

[Mad_Dem_X]

110. Damn - just reading those lyrics kills me

I have three: Empty Garden, Vincent by Don McLean, and Same Auld Lang Syne by Dan Fogelberg.

[Ally McLesbian]

115. Good choice...

Sir Elton is my favorite.

[Kali]

6. this song I can never remember the name or artist

but the story line is about a couple and at the end they are old and in the hospital in separate beds on separate floors - I think it is some country artist - female. Heard it a few times and even when I think of it it makes me cry.

[lizziegrace]

10. Kathy Mattea

"Where've You Been?"

I'll try and dig up the lyrics.

[lizziegrace]

13. Where've You Been?

Clair had all but givin up when
when she and edwin fell in love
she his touched his face and shook her head
indisbelieve and sighed and said
in many dreams i've held you near
no at last your really here

Where you've been i've looked for you forever and a day
Where you've been i'm just not my-self when you're away

he asked her for her for life
and she became a sales mens wife
he was home each night by eight
but one stormy evening he was late
her frightened tears fell to the floor
until his key turned in the door

Where you've been i've looked for you forever and a day
Where you've been i'm just not my-self when you're away

they never spend a night apart for sixty years she heard him snore
now there in the hospitle on seperate beds on different floors
clair soon lost her memory, forgot the names of family
she never spoke a word again, then one day they whelled him in
he held her hand and stroked her hair, in a fragile voice she said

Where you've been i've looked for you forever and a day
Where you've been i'm just not my-self when you're away
no, i'm just not my-self when you're away

[Kali]

18. choke - that's it

:cry:


she has a beautiful voice as well, but I don't think I have ever heard any other songs she has done.

[vikegirl]

8. Somebody - Depeche Mode

*sigh*

<snip>

I want somebody to share
Share the rest of my life
Share my innermost thoughts
Know my intimate details
Someone who’ll stand by my side
And give me support
And in return
She’ll get my support
She will listen to me
When I want to speak
About the world we live in
And life in general
Though my views may be wrong
They may even be perverted
She’ll hear me out
And won’t easily be converted
To my way of thinking
In fact she’ll often disagree
But at the end of it all
She will understand me


http://www.lyricsfreak.com/d/depeche-mode/39351.html

[Sanity Claws]

9. National Anthem

It doesn't bring me to tears all the time but there are times when it does.
Corny, huh?

[justabob]

22. Me too

really any of the 'patriotic' songs make me cry.

[lizziegrace]

14. I have two

"That's The Deal"
Kathy Mattea

There was a gentleman I knew
A stroke held his wife fast asleep
And his whole life had come down to
The vigil he would daily keep
I asked would he rather be free ?
And this is how he answered me
That's the deal, that's the bargain that you make
That if better turns to worse you will abide
That's the deal, if it were not for God's grace
I might be there in her place and she'd be right by my side
That's the deal
In my mind I still hear him talk
I keep those words like souvenirs
Brought from a place where couples walk
Arm in arm through this veil of tears
I pray someday for my own sake
I find the heart I'll never break
That's the deal, that's the bargain that you make
That if better turns to worse you will abide
That's the deal, if it were not for God's grace
I might be there in her place and she'd be right by my side
That's the deal
That's the deal
That's the deal

=================================================================

"Broken Vow"
performed by Josh Groban

Tell me his name
I want to know
The way he looks
And where you go
I need to see his face
I need to understand
Why you and I came to an end

Tell me again
I want to hear
Who broke my faith in all these years
Who lays with you at night
When I'm here all alone
Remembering when I was your own


I let you go
I let you fly
Why do I keep on asking why
I let you go
Now that I found
A way to keep somehow
More than a broken vow

Tell me the words I never said
Show me the tears you never shed
Give me the touch
That one you promised to be mine
Or has it vanished for all time



I close my eyes
And dream of you and I
And then I realize
There's more to love than only bitterness and lies
I close my eyes

I'd give away my soul
To hold you once again
And never let this promise end


I let you go
I let you fly
Now that I know I’m asking why
I let you go
Now that I found
A way to keep somehow
More than a broken vow

[SeattleGirl]

17. "The Living Years" -- Mike & The Mechanics

(Because it reminds me of my relationship with my dad However, while I wasn't there the morning he died, we did have the opportunity to resolve a lot of things before he died).

Every generation
Blames the one before
And all of their frustrations
Coe beating on your door
I know that I'm a prisoner
To all my father heald so dear
I know that I'm a hostage
To all his hopes abd fears
I just wish I could have told him in the living years.

Crumpled bits of paper
Filled with imperfect thought
Stilted conversations
I'm afraid that's all we've got
You say you just don't see it
He says it's perfect sense
You can't just get agreement
In this presenbt tense
We all talk a different language
Talking in defense

Say it loud, say it clear
You can listen as well as you hear
It's too late when we die
To admit we don't see eye to eye

So we open up a quarrwel
Between the present and the past
We only sacrifice the future
It's the bitterness that lasts
So don't yield to the fortunes
You sojetimes see as fate
It jay have a new perspective
On a different day
And if you don't give up, and don't give in
You may just be o.k.

Say it loud, say it clear
You can listen as well as you hear
It's too late when we die
To admit we don't see eye to eye

I wasn't there that morning
When my father passed away
I didn't get to tell him
All the things I had to say
I think I caught his spirit
Later that same year
I'm sure I heards his echo
In my baby's new born tears
I just wish I could have told him in the living years

Say it loud, say it clear
You can listen as well as you hear
It's too late when we die
To admit we don't see eye to eye

[MiwSher]

82. Just reading those lyrics makes me teary-eyed.

I didn't have a good relationship with my father until just before he died. I'm so thankful we were able to repair things somewhat but the memories still kind of hurt.

MiwSher

[SeattleGirl]

90. I know what you mean.

It's a bittersweet memory, but much better, I think, thank just a bitter one. :hug:

[justabob]

20. It is silly, but Puff the Magic Dragon gets me every time nt

[Burma Jones]

38. Not Silly if you have a seven year old boy.......

It gets me too

[justabob]

49. mine is nine :) nt

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

21. To hear you say my name, to see you search my eyes

To feel you touch my hand, it more than satisfies.
If I was not the first, just say I'll be the last
It's too much to expect, but it's not too much to ask.

Now I can only dream of being all you need
And I can only try to be the reason why
You think about today and forget about the past
It's too much to expect, but it's not too much to ask.

Now I can only dream of being all you need
And I can only try to be the reason why
You think about today 'cause the past is just the past
It's too much to expect, but it doesn't hurt to ask
It's too much to expect, but it's not too much to ask.



Mary Chapin Carpenter, "Not Too Much To Ask", from the album "Come On, Come On"

[justabob]

23. Silent Night sung by children

... anything sung by children, truth be told

[Sanity Claws]

53. Oh Holy Night

Your posting reminded me of this other carol. It's beautiful and brings tears to my eyes whether sung by a child or an adult.

[HEyHEY]

25. Puff the magic dragon

[jrandom421]

27. Mother of a Miner's Child- Gordon Lightfoot

She is my flower
And she blooms for the one who loves her best
The miners stop to watch her as she walks
They know her love is not for sale
She will never fail me 'cause I know
I watched her grow
And the mother of a miner's child
Waits for me beside the kitchen door

She is my light
In this place where the darkness never ends
She'll guide me where the tunnels twist and bend
She's the only one who listens when I tell her
I got less than I can spend
She knows the pace
Oh mother of a miner's child
Wash away the coal dust from my face

When the night shift's done
She'll be waiting by the table when I come
Searching for another dream to chase
Oh mother of a miner's child
I know that you still think about the day
When we'll be movin' on
Remember dear old Daddy and
The promise that I made to carry on

Sometimes I smile
In the cage where the cables softly hum
I'd curse that old straw boss to the bone
But the mother of a miner's child
Is waiting for her paycheck to come home
Come Saturday
And he is just a miner's boy
I hope that he will find a better way

She is my flower
And she blooms for the one who loves her best
The miners stop to watch her as she walks
They know her love is not for sale
She will never fail me 'cause I know
I watched her grow
And the mother of a miner's child
Waits for me beside the kitchen door

[MrSlayer]

29. Anything from Michael Bolton.

That is fucking painful shit.

[ncrainbowgrrl]

30. Ben Folds Five- Brick

Ben Folds Five Lyrics
Brick Lyrics
http://www.lyricsondemand.com/b/benfoldsfivelyrics/bricklyrics.html

6 am day after Christmas
I throw some clothes on in the dark
The smell of cold
Car seat is freezing
The world is sleeping
I am numb

Up the stairs to the apartment
She is balled up on the couch
Her mom and dad went down to Charlotte
They're not home to find us out
And we drive
Now that I have found someone
I'm feeling more alone
Than I ever have before

She's a brick and I'm drowning slowly
Off the coast and I'm headed nowhere
She's a brick and I'm drowning slowly

They call her name at 7:30
I pace around the parking lot
Then I walk down to buy her flowers
And sell some gifts that I got
Can't you see
It's not me you're dying for
Now she's feeling more alone
Than she ever has before

She's a brick and I'm drowning slowly
Off the coast and I'm headed nowhere
She's a brick and I'm drowning slowly

As weeks went by
It showed that she was not fine
They told me son, it's time to tell the truth
She broke down, and I broke down
Cause I was tired of lying

Driving home to her apartment
For a moment we're alone
Yeah she's alone
I'm alone
Now I know it

She's a brick and I'm drowning slowly
Off the coast and I'm headed nowhere
She's a brick and I'm drowning slowly

[no name no slogan]

31. "Is It Any Wonder" by the Chameleons (UK)

On the surface he seems sensible
But underneath the logic is crazy
Like a cat that walks with cruelty
Or a dog that always bites for no reason
I could feel the madness there
But I couldn't see the streets for the houses
And all the lies and fantasies
Were suddenly malicious and dangerous

With every passing day you put me through
What have I done to you?
Is it any wonder that I never close my eyes?

Sisters of normality
Collapse into convulsions of laughter
Knuckle walking animals
Are swaggering and spilling their anger
And they're almost walking upright
As they try to ape the madmen around them
But the slightest, kindest hint of love
Leaves them naked snorting like horses

If that's what's waiting for me on the ground,
I hope I never come down
Is it any wonder that I never close my eyes?

Here in this lullaby
We'll leave them all behind
Thoughtlessly wasting time
We'll be gone in the blink of an eye

Is this really where the story ends
For all those so called friends
Is it any wonder that they think I've lost my mind

If that's what they think then fine
We'll leave them all behind

Is it any wonder?

We'll leave them all behind
Hearing these words of mine

[Beaverhausen]

33. You'll Never Walk Alone - Rodgers and Hammerstein

When you walk through a storm
:cry:
Hold your head up high
:cry:
etc.

[Radical Activist]

34. None, but Coat of Many Colors by Dolly Parton comes close.

[jus_the_facts]

39. FREE ~ Prince

Don’t sleep ’til the sunrise, listen 2 the falling rain
Don’t worry ’bout tomorrow, don’t worry ’bout your pain
Don’t cry unless you’re happy, don’t smile unless you’re blue
Never let that lonely monster take control of u

Be glad that u r free
Free 2 change your mind
Free 2 go most anywhere, anytime
Be glad that u r free
There’s many a man who’s not
Be glad 4 what u had baby, what you’ve got
Be glad 4 what you’ve got

I know (my? ) heart is beating, my drummer tells me so
If u take your life 4 granted, your beating heart will go
So don’t sleep until you’re guilty, ’cuz sinners all r we
There’s others doing far worse than us, so be glad that u r free

Be glad that u r free
Free 2 change your mind
Free 2 go most anywhere, anytime
Be glad that u r free
There’s many a man who’s not
Be glad 4 what u had baby, what you’ve got
Be glad 4 what you’ve got


Soldiers are a marching, they’re writing brand new laws
Will we all fight together 4 the most important cause?
Will we all fight 4 the right 2 be free?


Free (be glad that u r free)
Free 2 change my mind (free 2 change your mind)
Free 2 go most anywhere, anytime (free 2 go most anywhere,anytime)

I’m just glad, I’m just glad I’m free, yeah (be glad that u r free)
There’s many a man who’s not (there’s many a man who’s not)
Glad 4 what I had baby, (be glad 4 what u had and)
Glad 4 what I got, oh yeah (for what you’ve got)

Oh I’m just glad, I’m just glad I’m free,yeah (be glad that u r free)
Free 2 change my mind (free 2 change your mind)
Free 2 go most anywhere, anytime (free 2 go most anywhere,anytime)
(be glad that u r free)
(there’s many a man who’s not)
I’m so... (be glad 4 what u had and for)
(what you’ve got)

[BobEPeru]

40. Hurt: as done by Johnny cash

[RetroLounge]

41. Yes!

and watching the video? Forget about it...

The look on June's face makes me lose it every time...

RL

[BobEPeru]

114. It's the only example I can think of...

where the cover is better than the original.

[WindRavenX]

42. ugh, that song makes me die a little

NEVER watch the video when you're depressed.

[RetroLounge]

52. When aren't I depressed?

is the better question...

RL

[lizziegrace]

59. I just saw that for the first time

It tore me up. I look at him and he seems so old and tired, then they show the footage of him young and full of life...

:cry:

[elehhhhna]

128. Yep. Every time. Also "Time after Time", any version...

[w8liftinglady]

135. Absolutely!

[ScreamingMeemie]

43. "Honey", "Mama Loved the Roses" In the Ghetto"...tons of them.

:hi:

[Burma Jones]

44. A few, but Iris Dement's Walking Home for sure.....

Tom Waits - On The Nickel http://www.lyricsdomain.com/20/tom_waits/on_the_nickel.html


John Prine - Souveniers, Hello In There, Sam Stone - http://www.jpshrine.org/lyrics/


Iris DeMent - Walking Home - http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/Walkin'-Home-lyrics-Iris-Dement/2168610700C18CC348256E280031F10E
also, Iris Dement's Our Town (which closed out the TV Series, Northern Exposure)

I saw Iris Dement perform Walking Home at the Birchmere in Alexandria, VA, it was quite the emotional experience and now it kind of makes me think of LynneSin's post about her Dad.....

[GoddessOfGuinness]

45. Brahms Requiem: "Selig sind, die da Leid tragen,"

"Blessed are they that mourn"

[Burma Jones]

47. The Fugue at the end of the third movement gets me

but when you're singing it, you don't get woozy......

[GoddessOfGuinness]

50. A dear friend of mine who died of breast cancer

was a violist. The morning I learned she'd passed away, I was at the KC getting ready to rehearse the Requiem. She had been scheduled to play the gig. In fact, she was in the middle of Verdi Requiem rehearsals a few days before, with another group, when she knew it was time...

I swear that I could feel her presence...even hear her playing...especially during the opening. She's sorely missed. :cry:

[DemoTex]

46. Bach's "Actus Tragicus."

Perhaps the purest and most perfect piece of music ever written. Here is an excellent commentary on Actus Tragicus from Granta 76.

http://www.granta.com/extracts/1432

[LeftyMom]

48. Who wants to live forever, by Queen

Words and music by brian may

There’s no time for us
There’s no place for us
What is this thing that builds our dreams yet slips away
From us

Who wants to live forever
Who wants to live forever....?

There’s no chance for us
It’s all decided for us
This world has only one sweet moment set aside for us

Who wants to live forever
Who wants to live forever?

Who dares to love forever?
When love must die

But touch my tears with your lips
Touch my world with your fingertips
And we can have forever
And we can love forever
Forever is our today
Who wants to live forever
Who wants to live forever?
Forever is our today

Who waits forever anyway?

-------------------
Yep, I cry every fucking time. Every. fucking. time.

[Mad_Dem_X]

111. Yes! I'd forgotten about that one

When he goes into "And we can have forever..." I lose it every time.

[miss_american_pie]

51. Puff the Magic Dragon

It always has. We don't even mention that song in my house.

Baby Mine from Dumbo. I'm sure I'll remember more later.

[latebloomer]

54. "Speak Low"

Writer(s): Nash/Weill


Speak low when you speak, love
Our summer day withers away too soon, too soon
Speak low when you speak, love
Our moment is swift, like ships adrift, we're swept apart, too soon
Speak low, darling, speak low
Love is a spark, lost in the dark too soon, too soon
I feel wherever I go that tomorrow is near, tomorrow is here and always too soon
Time is so old and love so brief
Love is pure gold and time a thief
We're late, darling, we're late
The curtain descends, ev'rything ends too soon, too soon
I wait, darling, I wait
Will you speak low to me, speak love to me and soon

[latebloomer]

55. Oy, I didn't know this was a Barry Manilow song

but nevertheless,it's beautiful and so sad.

When October Goes

Music by Barry Manilow Lyrics by Johnny Mercer

And when October goes
The snow begins to fly
Above the smokey roofs
I watch the planes go by
The children running home
Beneath a twilight sky
Oh, for the fun of them
When I was one of them
And when October goes
The same old dream appears
And you are in my arms
To share the happy years
I turn my head away
To hide the helpless tears
Oh how I hate to see October go
I should be over it now I know
It doesn't matter much
How old I grow
I hate to see October go

[bigwillq]

56. "The Promise" by Tracy Chapman

:cry:

[RetroLounge]

57. Yes, my wife suggested that one tonight...

I downloaded it... :cry:

RL

[bigwillq]

60. It's a very sad song

it was a song that an -ex and I use to listen to a lot. Sometimes I can't listen to it because it brings up some sad memories. :cry:

[RetroLounge]

62. Yeah, she got it on a CD from her recent -ex...

irony abounds...

RL

[pokerfan]

58. Afternoon Delight by Starland Vocal Band

The fact that this POS was ever recorded made me cry every time I heard it.

[pilgrimsoul]

132. Okay - you owe me a new keyboard

That was fucking hysterical!!! :rofl:

[wovenpaint]

61. "Fields of Gold" by Eva Cassidy

I have her CD "Live at Blues Alley" (after being "introduced" to her recently). Whenever I listen to her music, I get very emotional because it's so beautiful and, knowing that she's gone-and what could have been for her, makes it all the more emotional for me.
I also have Damien Rice's CD - that I HAD to have when I heard "Eskimo" , but now love the whole CD. But it has a somewhat sad tone so I have to be in the mood for it....but when I am....

[RetroLounge]

65. Wow! I've never heard of her.

her version of Time after Time is really good. Beautiful voice...

RL

[Theres-a]

97. She is wonderful

Coincidentally,just yesterday I was listening to "Who knows where the time goes" off of her "Imagine" cd,and crying rather loudly.Beautiful soul.Her fields of gold makes me cry ,too.

[Inspired]

126. I have a couple of her CD's too.

She was an amazing talent.

[alittlelark]

63. 'Tears in Heaven' by Eric Clapton.

It hits me on a very deep level I cannot explain.

[salin]

71. chokes me up, too.

no question why - he conveys the pain of his loss and it is hard not to be touched by it.

[alittlelark]

74. I am suprised no one else has listed it,,,

It seems so fitting for the posting.

[sendero]

64. Maybe not cry, but get choked up ...

... and really, I have no idea why this song gets to me....

Love and Anger - Kate Bush

It lay buried here. It lay deep inside me.
It's so deep I don't think that I can speak about it.
It could take me all of my life,
But it would only take a moment to

Tell you what I'm feeling,
But I don't know if I'm ready yet.
You come walking into this room
Like you're walking into my arms.
What would I do without you?

Take away the love and the anger,
And a little piece of hope holding us together.
Looking for a moment that'll never happen,
Living in the gap between past and future.
Take away the stone and the timber,
And a little piece of rope won't hold it together.

If you can't tell your sister,
If you can't tell a priest,
'Cause it's so deep you don't think that you can speak about it
To anyone,
Can you tell it to your heart?
Can you find it in your heart

To let go of these feelings
Like a bell to a Southerly wind?
We could be like two strings beating,
Speaking in sympathy...
What would we do without you?
Two strings speak in sympathy.

Take away the love and the anger,
And a little piece of hope holding us together.
Looking for a moment that'll never happen,
Living in the gap between past and future.
Take away the stone and the timber,
And a little piece of rope won't hold it together.

We're building a house of the future together.
(What would we do without you?)

Well, if it's so deep you don't think that you can speak about it,
Just remember to reach out and touch the past and the future.
Well, if it's so deep you don't think you can speak about it,
Don't ever think that you can't change the past and the future.
You might not, not think so now,
But just you wait and see--someone will come to help you.

[I Have A Dream]

66. "The Lighthouse's Tale" by Nickel Creek (I'm crying as I post this)

I am a lighthouse worn by the weather and the waves
I keep my lamp lit to warn the sailors on their way
I'll tell a story, paint you a picture from my past
I was so happy but joy in this life seldom lasts

I had a keeper, he helped me warn the ships at sea
We had grown closer 'til his joy meant everything to me
And he was to marry a girl who shown with beauty and light
They loved each other, and with me watched the sunsets into nights

And the waves crashing around me
The sand slips out to sea
And the winds that blow remind me
Of what has been and what can never be

She'd had to leave us; my keeper, he prayed for a safe return
But when the night came, the weather to a raging storm had turned
He watched her ship fight, but in vain against the wild and terrible wind
And me so helpless, as dashed against the rocks she met her end

And the waves crashing around me
The sand slips out to sea
And the winds that blow remind me
Of what has been and what can never be

Then on the next day, my keeper found her washed up on the shore
He kissed her cold face, and that they'd be together soon he swore
I saw him crying, watched as he buried her in the sand
Then he climbed my tower, and off the edge of me he ran

And the waves crashing around me
The sand slips out to sea
And the winds that blow remind me
Of what has been and what can never be

I am a lighthouse worn by the weather and the waves
And though I'm empty I still warn the sailors on their way

[Mikimouse]

67. The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald...

I have a vivid imagination and can almost see what is happening. Overwhelming sadness.

[NMMNG]

94. Same for me

:cry:

[nytemare]

68. "Travelin' Soldier" by the Dixie Chicks.

I feel bad for the girl with the bow in her hair.

[nytemare]

69. Forgot "Biko" by Peter Gabriel.

That one kills me at the end.

[MaggieSwanson]

70. Joni Mitchell - "Marcie"

My mom used to play her guitar while she sang this one, late at night when she thought I was sleeping.


Marcie in a coat of flowers
Steps inside a candy store
Reds are sweet and greens are sour
Still no letter at her door
So she'll wash her flower curtains
Hang them in the wind to dry
Dust her tables with his shirt and
Wave another day goodbye

Marcie's faucet needs a plumber
Marcie's sorrow needs a man
Red is autumn green is summer
Greens are turning and the sand
All along the ocean beaches
Stares up empty at the sky
Marcie buys a bag of peaches
Stops a postman passing by
And summer goes
Falls to the sidewalk like string and brown paper
Winter blows
Up from the river there's no one to take her
To the sea

Marcie dresses warm its snowing
Takes a yellow cab uptown
Red is stop and green's for going
Sees a show and rides back down
Down along the Hudson River
Past the shipyards in the cold
Still no letter's been delivered
Still the winter days unfold
Like magazines
Fading in dusty grey attics and cellars
Make a dream
Dream back to summer and hear how
he tells her
Wait for me

Marcie leaves and doesn't tell us
Where or why she moved away
Red is angry green is jealous
That was all she had to say
Someone thought they saw her Sunday
Window shopping in the rain
Someone heard she bought a one-way ticket
And went west again

[Hoooweee]

72. Shostakovich's 2nd Piano Concerto, 2nd movement

He wrote it just after he'd been given the boot from most of his posts in the early 50's after it was discovered that his 7th Symphony and others were really attacks on Stalin's totalitarianism.

[Cocoa]

75. 1000 dollar wedding

Gram Parsons

it's been a bad, bad day... :cry:

[ALago1]

76. "God Only Knows" by the Beach Boys

I love all music, am very knowledgeable about the art, but I can honestly say that I don't think I've ever heard any piece of music more beautiful than the last 45 seconds of that song...that includes all classical music too.

That may sound outrageous, but something about that melody and arrangement pierces me everytime.

[swag]

77. "jpgray is President"

I came in the door, I said it before
I never let the mic magnatize me no more
But it’s biting me, fighting me, inviting me to rhyme
I can’t hold it back, I’m looking for the line,
Taking off my coat, clearing my throat
My rhyme will be kicking it until I hit my last note
My mind’ll range to find all kinds of ideas
Self-esteem makes it seem like a thought took years to build
But still say a rhyme after the next one
Prepared, never scared, I’ll just bless one
And you know that I’m the soloist
So jpgray, make ’em clap to this

I don’t bug out or chill or be acting ill
No tricks in ’86, it’s time to build
jpgray easy on the cut, no mistakes allowed
Cuz to me, mc means move the crowd
I made it easy to dance to this
But can you detect what’s coming next from the flex of the wrist
Saying indeed that I precede cuz my man made a mix
If he bleed he won’t need no band-aid to fix
If they can get some around until there’s no rhymes left
I hurry up because the cut will make ’em bleed to death
But he’s kicking it because it ain’t no half stepping
The party is live, the rhyme can’t be kept in-
Side, it needs erupting just like a volcano
It ain’t the everyday style of the same old rhyme
Because I’m better then the rest of them
jpgray is on the cut and my name is rakim

Go get a girl and get soft and warm,
Don’t get excited, you’ve been invited to a quiet storm
But now it’s out of hand cuz you told me you hate me
And then you ask what have I done lately
First you said all you want is love and affection
Let me be your angel and I’ll be your protection
Take you out, buy you all kinds of things
I must of got you too hot and burned off your wings
You caught an attitude, you need food to eat up
I’m scheming like I’m dreaming on a couch wit my feet up
You scream I’m lazy, you must be crazy
Thought I was a donut, you tried to glaze me

Funky...

[cynatnite]

78. 10,000 Miles by Mary Chapin Carpenter

was done at a friend's funeral and I can't help but cry every single time.

[cynatnite]

79. Go Rest High on That Mountain by Vince Gill...

done at my stepdad's funeral. Haven't listened to it since.

[flvegan]

80. "Free Me" by Goldfinger

http://www.petatv.com/tvpopup/video.asp?video=free_me&Player=wm&speed=_med

Since most folks won't be able to watch the vid, here's the lyrics....

I didn't ask you to take me from here
I didn't ask to be broken
I didn't ask you to stroke my hair
Or treat me like a worthless token

But my skin is thick
And my mind is strong
I am built like my father was
I've done nothing wrong

So free me
I just wanna feel what life should be
I just want enough space to turn around
And face the truth
So free me

When are you gonna realize
You're just wrong
You can't even think for yourself
Can't even make up your minds
So my mind's a jail
I hate the whole goddamn human race
What the hell do you want from me
Kill me if you just don't know
Or free me

I just wanna feel what life should be
I just want enough space to turn around
'Cause you're all fucked
Some day maybe you'll treat me like you
I didn't ask you to take me from here
I didn't ask to be broken
I didn't ask you to stroke my hair
Or treat me like a worthless token

But my skin is thick
And my mind is strong
I am built like my father was
I've done nothing wrong

So free me
I just wanna feel what life should be
I just want enough space to turn around
And face the truth
So free me

When are you gonna realize
You're just wrong
You can't even think for yourself
Can't even make up your minds
So my mind's a jail
I hate the whole goddamn human race
What the hell do you want from me
Kill me if you just don't know
Or free me

I just wanna feel what life should be
I just want enough space to turn around
'Cause you're all fucked
Some day maybe you'll treat me like you

[SnohoDem]

81. Quits

Written by Danny O'Keefe, performed by BW Stevenson:

What do we call it now?
It isn't marriage anymore
Call it new, call it different
It's not the way it was before
Out of all the words to choose from
There's only one that fits
Call it what you want to
I'll just call it quits

We've come down to the place
Where love never fits
Call it what you want
I just call it quits

Turn and walk away
'Cross the desert of our hearts
Love turns to sand
And we've run out of time
You know we once had something
No words could tear apart
Now you be yours and I'll be mine
Come down to the place
Where love never fits
Call it what you want to
I'll just call it quits

Tell all our friends about it
That we just don't care
Tell them dreams are flowers
And our garden's bare
Call it separation independence
Divorce if that word fits
Call it what you want to
I just call it quits

We've come down to the place
Where love never fits
Call it what you want
I just call it quits
Yeah, call it what you want to
I'll just call it quits

[MiwSher]

83. "Memory" from CATS n/t/

[malmapus]

84. Taps

Heard it played too many times in my time in.

[hickman1937]

85. Dock of the Bay, Otis Redding.

Sitting in the morning sun
I'll be sitting when the evening comes
Watching the ships roll in
And I watch 'em roll away again


Sitting on the dock of the bay
Watching the tide roll away
I'm just sitting on the dock of the bay
Wasting time

I left my home in Georgia
Headed for the 'Frisco bay
'Cause I had nothin to live for
And look like nothing's gonna come my way

So I'm just...


Look like nothing's gonna change
Everything still remains the same
I can't do what ten people tell me to do
So I guess I'll remain the same

Sittin here resting my bones
And this loneliness won't leave me alone
It's two thousand miles I roamed
Just to make this dock my home

Now, I'm just...

[liberaltrucker]

91. And he died just before it was released

:cry:

[rockymountaindem]

87. Not cry, really, but Bobby Jean by Springsteen gets to me

Well I came by your house the other day, your mother said you went away
She said there was nothing that I could have done
There was nothing nobody could say
Me and you we’ve known each other ever since we were sixteen
I wished I would have known I wished I could have called you
Just to say goodbye bobby jean

Now you hung with me when all the others turned away turned up their noise
We liked the same music we liked the same bands we liked the same clothes
We told each other that we were the wildest, the wildest things we’d ever
Seen
Now I wished you would have told me I wished I could have talked to you
Just to say goodbye bobby jean

Now we went walking in the rain talking about the pain from the world we hid
Now there ain’t nobody nowhere nohow gonna ever understand me the way you did
Maybe you’ll be out there on that road somewhere
In some bus or train traveling along
In some motel room there’ll be a radio playing
And you’ll hear me sing this song
)This is the part where, even if I'm not really paying attention, it sneaks up on me and the last three lines really stick out in my mind. It's really sad.)
Well if you do you’ll know I’m thinking of you and all the miles in between
And I’m just calling one last time not to change your mind
But just to say I miss you baby, good luck goodbye, bobby jean

I really like how a lot of Springsteen's love songs are really *about* the girl, not just how the guy feels. As I guy, I like to think that if I could write love songs, they wouldn't be self-absorbed like so many generally are and they'd really be like Bruce's; actually *to* the girl, y'know?

[XemaSab]

88. "My Heart Will Go On" by Celine Dion

:P

[liberaltrucker]

92. Wish you could meet LTwife

She watches "Titanic" at least once a month;-)

[jrandom421]

121. You thought that was good...

Try Sarah Brightman's version in Italian. The moment when she switches from her pop singer voice to her opera voice is chilling.

[XemaSab]

124. I was being facetious

:hide:

[liberaltrucker]

89. The Dance...Garth Brooks

Looking back on the memory of
The dance we shared beneath the stars / above
For a moment all the world was right
How could I have known that you'd ever say goodbye? And now I'm glad I didn't know
The way it all would end
The way it all would go
Our lives are better left to chance
I could have missed the pain
But I'd have had to miss the dance

Holding you I held everything
For a moment wasn't I a king?
If I'd only known how the king would fall
Then who's to say?
You know I might have changed it all

And now I'm glad I didn't know
The way it all would end
The way it all would go
Our lives are better left to chance
I could've missed the pain
But I'd have had to miss the dance

Yes, my life is better left to chance
I could have missed the pain
But I'd have had to miss the dance
(Lyric by Tony Arata)

[Digit]

93. If Only You Believe in Miracles

If only you believe like I believe, baby
We’d get by
If only you believe in miracles, baby
So would i
If only you believe like I believe, baby
We’d get by
If only you believe in miracles, baby
So would i.

I might have to move heaven and earth to prove
It to you, baby
So we’re makin’ love and you feel the power
And I feel the power
Then there’s really nothing that we can’t do
If we wanted to, baby
We could exist on the stars
It’d be so easy
All we gotta do
Is get a little faith in you
Oh, I’ve been (to) so many places
I’ve seen some things
I know, love is the answer
Keeps holding this world together
Ain’t nothing better
Ain’t nothing better
And all the answers to our prayers
Hell , it’s the same everywheres, baby
Nothing ever breaks up the heart
Only tears give you away
Then you’re right where I found ya
With my arms around ya
Oh baby, baby, baby, love is a magic word, yeah
Few ever find in a lifetime
But from that very first look in your eyes
I knew you and I had but one heart
Only our bodies were apart
That was so easy, so easy
I had a taste of the real world
When I went down on you, girl.

If only you believe like I believe, baby
We’d get by
If only you believe in miracles, baby
So would i
If only you believe like I believe, baby
We’d get by
If only you believe in miracles, baby
So would i.

I can hear windmills and rainbows
Whenever you’re talkin’ to me
I feel like swirling and dancin’
Whenever you’re walking with me
You ripple like a river when I touch you
When I pluck your body like a string
When I start dancin’ inside ya
Oh baby, you make me wanna sing
Yeah, baby, baby, baby, baby
Oh yeah, all right
Baby, we’re sure doin’ it tonight
Everytime you come by, let me try
Pretty, please sugar on it
That’s how I like it
I can’t even believe it, with you
It’s like having every dream I ever wanted
Come true
I picked up your vibes
You know it opened my eyes
But I’m still dreamin’ yeah
And you’re right where I found ya
With my arms around ya.

[UncleSepp]

95. Cats of the Coliseum, Buddy Mondlock

I don't know why. Nothing about it is tearful, but it just gets me.

On edit: THere is a sample on this page. http://www.buddymondlock.com/shoppingcart_bm.htm

[lady raven]

96. This Woman's Work, by Kate Bush

[Rising Phoenix]

107. me too!

everytime!

[fight4my3sons]

133. Oh, that'a a great song! Get's me too. n/t

[Theres-a]

98. Johnny Cash

The cd is "My mother's hymnbook". It's acoustic. I got it for my husband for Christmas,he just cried and cried.I didn't expect to like it that much,but I find it very moving,and have played it several times.(The cry factor depends on the mood I'm in when I play it.)

[RetroLounge]

99. I've heard about that one

Cash can pull emotions out easily for me...

RL

[Theres-a]

101. It can also be comforting

Not just for crying.Worth picking up,considering all you've been through.Hope you have better days,and soon.

[RetroLounge]

103. I love J. Cash becomes he deals a lot

with sin and redemption...

RL

[Theres-a]

104. This is the only one I have

What should my next one be? Sin and redemption are topics dear to me,also.

[RetroLounge]

105. Live at San Quentin

Greatest Hits, the Columbia Years

All 4 of the American Recordings (his last 4) are a MUST.

RL

[Theres-a]

108. Noted.

Thanks.

[kick-ass-bob]

102. Clementine.

:crazy:


Clementine

In a cavern, in a canyon,

Excavating for a mine,

Dwelt a miner, forty-niner

And his daughter Clementine.

Oh my darling, oh my darling

Oh my darling, Clementine

Thou art lost and gone forever,

Dreadful sorry, Clementine.

Light she was and like a fairy,

And her shoes were number nine,

Herring boxes without topses

Sandals were for Clementine

CHORUS

Drove she ducklings to the water

Every morning just at nine,

Hit her foot against a splinter

Fell into the foaming brine.

CHORUS

Ruby lips above the water,

Blowing bubbles soft and fine,

But alas, I was no swimmer,

So I lost my Clementine.

CHORUS

Then the miner, forty-niner

Soon began to peak and pine,

Thought he oughter jine he daughter,

Now he's with his Clementine.

CHORUS

In my dreams she still doth haunt me,

Robed in garments soaked in brine;

Though in life I used to hug her,

Now she's dead, I draw the line.

[EstimatedProphet]

106. Amazing Grace on the bagpipes

[Theres-a]

109. Amazing Grace

Piano,guitar,acapella(sp?),choir,ANYTHING.I can even cry at Elvis's amazing grace.

[RetroLounge]

119. Exactly.

Any version, done any way, gets me every time...

RL

[oregonjen]

125. That was played at my Grandfather's funeral last July

I held my emotions in until then. While it was playing, tears started to flow.

[Mad_Dem_X]

112. Another one: Goodnight Saigon by Billy Joel

Reminds me of all those who have died in wars, and those they left behind.

[jane_pippin]

113. Lately, since it's all I've been listening to for months, these do it:

I Was Young When I Left Home
Man of Constant Sorrow
Like a Rolling Stone

All from the Dylan No Direction Home cds. The first is just a perfect song--restrained sadness kills me every time. (So of course I should listen to it 600 times a day--makes sense.) The other two it's just his voice that gets me. Especially the last one where he's all pissed off and just throwing it back at the audience. After my constant listening I don't cry so much as I feel a pain in my gut and a need to be somewhere other than where I am, doing something other than what I'm doing.

Johnny Cash songs and that Tom Waits song Sugar Smack mentioned also get to me.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

116. Holland, 1945 by Neutral Milk Hotel

Never really got to me until I actually read/comprehended the lyrics. The frenetic, uptempo music doesn't really match the tone and scope of the words.

Holland, 1945 by Jeff Magnum

The only girl I've ever loved
Was born with roses in her eyes
But then they buried her alive
One evening 1945
With just her sister at her side
And only weeks before the guns
All came and rained on everyone
Now she's a little boy in Spain
Playing pianos filled with flames
On empty rings around the sun
All sing to say my dream has come

But now we must pick up every piece
Of the life we used to love
Just to keep ourselves
At least enough to carry on

And now we ride the circus wheel
With your dark brother wrapped in white
Says it was good to be alive
But now he rides a comet's flame
And won't be coming back again
The Earth looks better from a star
That's right above from where you are
He didn't mean to make you cry
With sparks that ring and bullets fly
On empty rings around your heart
The world just screams and falls apart

But now we must pick up every piece
Of the life we used to love
Just to keep ourselves
At least enough to carry on

And here's where your mother sleeps
And here is the room where your brothers were born
Indentions in the sheets
Where their bodies once moved but don't move anymore
And it's so sad to see the world agree
That they'd rather see their faces fill with flies
All when I'd want to keep white roses in their eyes

[malmapus]

146. OMG someone else listens to Neutral Milk Hotel!!!

Awesoome!! I thought I was only one lol....

[Mojambo]

150. This one gets me as well. n/t

[donheld]

117. A Love That Will Never Grow Old

Go to sleep, may your sweet dreams come true
Just lay back in my arms for one more night
I've this crazy old notion that calls me sometimes
Saying this one's the love of your life.


Cause I know a love that will never grow old
And I know a love that will never grow old.

When you wake up the world may have changed
But trust in me, I'll never falter or fail
Just the smile in your eyes, it can light up the night,
And your laughter's like wind in my sails.



Lean on me, let our hearts beat in time,
Feel strength from the hands that have held you so long.
Who cares where we go on this rugged old road
In a world that may say that we're wrong.

[donheld]

118. I HOPE YOU DANCE

I hope you never lose your sense of wonder
You get your fill to eat, but always keep that hunger
May you never take one single breath for granted
God forbid love ever leave you empty handed

Chorus: I hope you still feel small when you stand beside the ocean
Whenever one door closes I hope one more opens
Promise me that you'll give faith a fighting chance
and when you get the choice to sit it out or dance,
I hope you dance (dance), I hope you dance (dance)

I hope you never fear those mountains in the distance
Never settle for the path of least resistance
Livin’ might mean takin’ chances, but they're worth takin’
And lovin’ might be a mistake but it's worth makin’
Don't let some hell bent heart leave you bitter
When you come close to selling out, reconsider
Give the heavens above more than just a passing glance

And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance,
I hope you dance (time is a wheel in constant motion always)
I hope you dance (rolling us along)
I hope you dance (tell me who wants to look back on their years and wonder)
I hope you dance (where those years have gone)

I hope you still feel small when you stand beside the ocean,
Whenever one door closes I hope one more opens,
Promise me that you'll give faith a fighting chance,
And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance,


dance (dance), I hope you dance (dance),
I hope you dance (dance) (time is wheel in constant motion always)
I hope you dance (rolling us along)
I hope you dance (dance) (tell me who wants to look back on their years and wonder)
I hope you dance (dance)(where those years have gone)
(tell me(dance) who wants to look back on their years and wonder)
(where(dance) those years have gone)

[AngryAmish]

120. Walk This Way by Run-DMC

[CBHagman]

122. A lot of what's in Les Miserables.

Just thinking about it makes me tear up. "Empty Chairs at Empty Tables," "I Dreamed a Dream," etc. I don't know if it's the age I am, but those lyrics just reduce me to a puddle every time.

Just a partial selection from "I Dreamed a Dream":

http://www.stlyrics.com/lyrics/lesmiserables/idreamedadream.htm

I dreamed a dream in time gone by
When hope was high
And life worth living
I dreamed that love would never die
I dreamed that God would be forgiving
Then I was young and unafraid
And dreams were made and used and wasted
There was no ransom to be paid
No song unsung, no wine untasted

But the tigers come at night
With their voices soft as thunder
As they tear your hope apart
And they turn your dream to shame

(Two verses follow, which I've omitted here)

I had a dream my life would be
So different from this hell I'm living
So different now from what it seemed
Now life has killed the dream I dreamed.

[khashka]

123. Tori Amos - Me And A Gun

5am
Friday morning
Thursday night
Far from sleep
I'm still up and driving
Can't go home
obviously
So I'll just change direction
Cause they'll soon konw where I live
And I wanna live

Got a full tank and some chips
It was me and a gun
And a man on my back
And I sang "holy holy" as he buttoned down his pants
You can laugh
It's kind of funny things you think
at times like these
Like I haven't seen Barbados
So I must get out of this

Me and a gun
and a man
On my back
But I haven't seen Barbados
So I must get out of this
Yes I wore a slinky red thing
Does that mean I should spread
For you, your friends your father, Mr. Ed
And I know what this means
Me and Jesus a few years back
Used to hang and he said
"It's your choice babe just remember
I don't think you'll be back in 3 days time
So you choose well"
Tell me what's right
Is it my right to be on my stomach
of Fred's Seville

Me and a gun
and a man
On my back
But I haven't seen Barbados
So I must get out of this

And do you know Carolina
Where the biscuits are soft and sweet
These things go through you head
When there's a man on your back
And you're pushed flat on your stomach
It's not a classic cadillac

Me and a gun
and a man
On my back
But I haven't seen Barbados
So I must get out of this


That breaks my heart everytime I hear it........

Khash.

[Flying Dream Blues]

127. What a Wonderful World--Louis Armstrong

Hammer and a Nail--Indigo Girls

One is about seeing the beauty in the world that is, another is about changing the world...go figure. :)

[elehhhhna]

129. "More Than This" Bryan Ferry & the theme from "to Kill A Mockingbird"

[DarienComp]

130. Jeff Buckley, "Hallelujah"

Well I heard there was a secret chord
that David played and it pleased the Lord
But you don't really care for music, do you?
Well it goes like this:
The fourth, the fifth, the minor fall and the major lift
The baffled king composing Hallelujah

Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah

Well your faith was strong but you needed proof
You saw her bathing on the roof
Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew you
She tied you to her kitchen chair
She broke your throne and she cut your hair
And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah

Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah

Well Baby I've been here before
I*'ve seen* this room, and I've walked this floor, you know
I used to live alone before I knew you
And I've seen your flag on the marble arch
But love is not a victory march
It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah

Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah

Well there was a time when you let me know
What's really going on below
But now you never show that to me do you
But remember when I moved in you
And the holy dove was moving too
And every breath we drew was Hallelujah

Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah

Maybe there is a God above
But all I've ever learned from love
Was how to shoot somebody who outdrew you
And it's not a cry that you hear at night
It's not somebody who's seen the light
It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah

Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah
Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah

[ncrainbowgrrl]

139. Oh yeah- that one gets me every time.

So moving. :cry:

[elshiva]

145. YEP!

:cry: Especially how he sings HALLEJUHAH! howls at the end

[elehhhhna]

131. Harvest Moon -- Neil Young

[xmas74]

134. Photographs and Memories-Jim Croce

Photographs and memories
Christmas cards you sent to me
All that I have are these
To remember you

Memories that come at night
Take me to another time
Back to a happier day
When I called you mine

But we sure had a good time
When we started way back when
Morning walks and bedroom talks
Oh how I loved you then

Summer skies and lullabies
Nights we couldn’t say good-bye
And of all of the things that we knew
Not a dream survived

Photographs and memories
All the love you gave to me
Somehow it just can’t be true
That’s all I’ve left of you

But we sure had a good time
When we started way back when
Morning walks and bedroom talks
Oh how I loved you then

(played at a relatives funeral who passed on too young)

Otherwise, Taps does it for me everytime. I used to volunteer to play the trumpet at vets funerals so that they could have a live performance of Taps. I didn't even know the people and it still took everything in me to keep myself together until I was done w/ the song.
I still cry every time I hear it or Amazing Grace as played on the bagpipes.

[w8liftinglady]

136. "Say it ain't so"-Weezer

Oh yeah, all right
Somebody's Heine'
Is crowdin' my icebox
Somebody’s cold one
Is givin' me chills
Guess I'll just close my eyes

Oh yeah,
All right,
Feels good
Inside

Flip on the telly,
Wrestle with Jimmy
Something is a-bubbling
Behind my back
The bottle is ready to blow...

Say it ain't so
Your drug is a heartbreaker
Say it ain't so
My love is a lifetaker

I can't confront you
I never could do
That which might hurt you
Just try and be cool
And I say - this way is a waterslide away from me
That takes you further every day (day)
So be cool

Say it ain't so
Your drug is a heartbreaker
Say it ain't so,
My love is a lifetaker

Dear Daddy,
I write you in spite of years of silence.
You've cleaned up, found Jesus, things are good or so I hear
This bottle of Steven's awakens ancient feelings
Like father, stepfather, the son is drowning in the flood
Yeah, yeah yeah, yeah yeah

Say it ain't so.
Your drug is a heartbreaker.
Say it ain't so
My love is a lifetaker

[RoyGBiv]

137. How Can I Help You To Say Goodbye?

It was playing on the radio when I left the hospital after Grandma died.

--

Through the back window of a '59 wagon
I watched my best friend Jamie slippin' further away
I kept on waving 'till I couldn't see her
And through my tears, I asked again why we couldn't stay
Mama whispered softly, Time will ease your pain
Life's about changing, nothing ever stays the same

And she said, How can I help you to say goodbye?
It's OK to hurt, and it's OK to cry
Come, let me hold you and I will try
How can I help you to say goodbye?

I sat on our bed, he packed his suitcase
I held a picture of our wedding day
His hands were trembling, we both were crying
He kissed me gently and then he quickly walked away
I called up Mama, she said, Time will ease your pain
Life's about changing, nothing ever stays the same

And she said, How can I help you to say goodbye?
It's OK to hurt, and it's OK to cry
Come, let me hold you and I will try
How can I help you to say goodbye?

Sitting with Mama alone in her bedroom
She opened her eyes, and then squeezed my hand
She said, I have to go now, my time here is over
And with her final word, she tried to help me understand
Mama whispered softly, Time will ease your pain
Life's about changing, nothing ever stays the same

And she said, How can I help you to say goodbye?
It's OK to hurt, and it's OK to cry
Come, let me hold you and I will try
How can I help you to say goodbye?

How can I help you to say goodbye?

-- Patty Loveless

[LeftyMom]

144. Oh yeah, that's a tearjerker

:cry:

[TallahasseeGrannie]

138. My Hometown by Bruce Springsteen

[2bfree]

140. Here lately it has been Cat Steven's Peace Train.

After Vietnam I thought we would have learned our lesson. :(

[Catch22Dem]

142. Eagles - The Last Resort

"You call some place paradise, kiss it goodbye"


THE LAST RESORT

She came from Providence,
the one in Rhode Island
Where the old world shadows hang
heavy in the air
She packed her hopes and dreams
like a refugee
Just as her father came across the sea
She heard about a place people were smilin'
They spoke about the red man's way,
and how they loved the land
And they came from everywhere
to the Great Divide
Seeking a place to stand
or a place to hide

Down in the crowded bars,
out for a good time,
Can't wait to tell you all,
what it's like up there
And they called it paradise
I don't know why
Somebody laid the mountains low
while the town got high

Then the chilly winds blew down
Across the desert
through the canyons of the coast, to
the Malibu
Where the pretty people play,
hungry for power
to light their neon way
and give them things to do

Some rich men came and raped the land,
Nobody caught 'em
Put up a bunch of ugly boxes, and Jesus,
people bought 'em
And they called it paradise
The place to be
They watched the hazy sun, sinking in the sea

You can leave it all behind
and sail to Lahaina
just like the missionaries did, so many years ago
They even brought a neon sign: "Jesus is coming"
Brought the white man's burden down
Brought the white man's reign

Who will provide the grand design?
What is yours and what is mine?
'Cause there is no more new frontier
We have got to make it here

We satisfy our endless needs and
justify our bloody deeds,
in the name of destiny and the name of God

And you can see them there,
On Sunday morning
They stand up and sing about
what it's like up there
They call it paradise
I don't know why
You call someplace paradise,
kiss it goodbye

[6000eliot]

143. "Vincent" by Don McClean

Always gets me choked up for some reason.

[ClusterFreak]

147. "Hail To The Chief"

...since January 20, 2001.:*

[u4ic]

148. Eleanor Rigby

:cry:

[enigmatic]

149. "Closing Time"- Tom Waits

Just a immensely moving piece of music, if only for the be jazzy coronet that washes over Wait's piano. The song itself always brings a tear to my eye, especially late at night and w/ a beer in my hand..

[Jean Louise Finch]

151. Nightswimming, by REM

Nightswimming deserves a quiet night
The photograph on the dashboard, taken years ago,
Turned around backwards so the windshield shows
Every streetlight reveals the picture in reverse
Still, it’s so much clearer
I forgot my shirt at the water’s edge
The moon is low tonight

Nightswimming deserves a quiet night
I’m not sure all these people understand
It’s not like years ago,
The fear of getting caught,
Of recklessness and water
They cannot see me naked
These things, they go away,
Replaced by everyday

Nightswimming, remembering that night
September’s coming soon
I’m pining for the moon
And what if there were two
Side by side in orbit
Around the fairest sun?
That bright, tight forever drum
Could not describe nightswimming

You, I thought I knew you
You, I cannot judge
You, I thought you knew me,
This one laughing quietly underneath my breath
Nightswimming

The photograph reflects,
Every streetlight a reminder
Nightswimming deserves a quiet night, deserves a quiet night

[aaronbees]

153. one of my favorite songs of all time...

great choice. I'd also say: "Blue" by Joni Mitchell.