# Songs that unexpectedly gut-punch you emotionally

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**Created:** [March 1, 2018, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-unexpectedly-gut-punch-you-emotionally/809820 "2018-03-01T15:25:58Z")\
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I watched “School Daze” for the first time in grad school and was gut-punched when they start singing “Be Alone Tonight”

not for what is it but because some friends had done it as a skit in college and one of them was later killed in a car accident senior year.

Oh, and Alexander O’Neal’s \*\*If You Were Here Tonight \*\*which her friends played each weekend on their college radio show after she died.

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_Wheels Of Confusion_ by **Black Sabbath**. Especially the last verse:

“The world will still be turning when you’re gone.”

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**Post date:** [March 8, 2018, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-unexpectedly-gut-punch-you-emotionally/809820/123 "2018-03-08T02:59:10Z")

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> [@wonky](#):
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> I get an expected gut-punch from Five for Fighting’s “100 Years,” which has many of the same mortality themes as some others in this thread. Gah.

The first song that I ever heard from him, “Superman (It’s Not Easy)” has that effect on me. The first time I heard it, it was played with scenes from 9/11 as a video tribute.

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**Post date:** [March 10, 2018, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-unexpectedly-gut-punch-you-emotionally/809820/124 "2018-03-10T23:00:33Z")

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The Stones’ “Child of the Moon” unexpectedly brought a tear to my eye, just now, as I was listening in the car.

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