# 'Fess up! What mawkishly sentimental song makes you cry? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** music\ **Created:** [October 6, 2023, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fess-up-what-mawkishly-sentimental-song-makes-you-cry/991179 "2023-10-06T06:16:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 72
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2023, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fess-up-what-mawkishly-sentimental-song-makes-you-cry/991179/72 "2023-10-07T13:35:28Z")
I added some thoughts on the song I mentioned in that OP in a later thread: > [@IMHO, "Your Song" is the greatest love song written to date.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imho-your-song-is-the-greatest-love-song-written-to-date/411760/44): > > (I thought of the following after the edit window closed.) The character singing Marie has some of the same awkwardness that the singer of Your Song has, although in a much darker vein. In the second verse he praises Marie with some rather unpoetical metaphors: You’re the song that the trees sing When the wind blows You’re a flower, you’re a river You’re a rainbow. No serious poet or lyricist would put these words down in a love song. I think of them as “dumb-guy poetry.” But in their unad… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fess-up-what-mawkishly-sentimental-song-makes-you-cry/991179)._