First time i heard that, i didn’t get it until the very end so…yeah. Gut punch.
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This one starts out simply, but before you realize it you’re having your heart stabbed. “Goodbye” by Steve Earle, this version accompanied by Emmylou Harris:
[/QUOTE]That’s one of the best songs ever written. Emmylou’s version is on her album Wrecking Ball.
‘Feelin’ Good Again" - Robert Earl Keen.
After caretaking and my husband’s death and grieving and sleepwalking for 3 years, I met a guy. He introduced me to Robert Earl. And this song was <is> me
Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah, by any artist gets me every time. I am amazed that anyone thinks that is a religious song!
Tommy Körberg singing Anthem from Chess
And you ask me why I love her
Through wars, death and despair
She is the constant, we who don’t care
And you wonder will I leave her - but how?
I cross over borders but I’m still there now
How can I leave her?
Where would I start?
Let man’s petty nations tear themselves apart
My land’s only borders lie around my heart
When I heard Paul McCartney’s For No One, my literal thought was that it was like a punch in the gut. It evokes heartbreak.
Harry Chapin’s Cat’s in the Cradle always makes me tear up.
John Lennons ‘Mother’, always gets to me. I lost my Mom early in life too.
Ozzy Osbourne’s Changes. When I was first separated from the ex-Mrs. Guest I listened to these lyrics once
I feel unhappy
I am so sad
I’ve lost the best friend
That I ever had
She is my baby
I love her so
But it’s too late now
I’ve let her go
and well, not so much now, but then and for a long time after…well you know.
Other than that, Taps and Amazing Grace on the bagpipes does it every single time
How do you interpret:
I’ll stand before the Lord of Song
With nothing on my tongue but Hallelujah
?
“Three Wooden Crosses”. “Who gave this to my mama, who read it to me!”
Randy Crawford’s Fly Away. It was around at a time I was dumped - a couple of years later it came on in a bar, and I just had to get out of there.
Oh it has religious imagery, sure. It it is about forbidden love affairs, and betrayal. Here is an article you might find interesting,
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/exclusive-book-excerpt-leonard-cohen-writes-hallelujah-in-the-holy-or-the-broken-20121203
Photograph by Nickelback. I know it is common for hipsters to rag on Nickelback, but the first time I heard this song was when I was driving home from my grandma’s funeral and it really got to me. I knew I’d never go back to the town she lived in again (there was no reason to go back), never get to enter her house again, never see her again.
This is the second time you have mentioned Emmet Swimming, and I asked you about them before with no answer. I am good friends with their drummer Tamer Eid. We went to Dead concerts together in the early 1990’s and hung around George Mason during their formative years. They never “quite made it” although they should have. My favorite song by them is “Broken Oar”.
I always thought this song was about unrequited love. He was telling someone that he wasn’t whole without them. Turns out nope, he wrote it for his wife.
That makes the song much better to me for some reason. I always thought it was a sad song about unrequited love.
When I first hear it on CD, I thought that Godspeed (Sweet Dreams) by the Dixie Chicks was just a nice lullaby. Since I found out about the backstory, I can’t listen to it without feeling that gut-punch.
A song that has been a gut punch from the start is Sweet Old World by Lucinda Williams, for obvious reasons contained in the song.
Cats in The Craddle ,Harry Chappen and Simple Man, Skynard
I forgot one of mine, but watching the Oscars just reminded me. “This Is Me” from “The Greatest Showman” is amazing and always hits me hard (in a good place).
Dawes, “A Little Bit of Everything.” It ruins me every time.
Lorelei, by the Pogues: - YouTube
But if my ship, which sails tomorrow
Should crash against these rocks,
My sorrows I will drown before I die
It’s you I’ll see, not Lorelei