# Songs to which you have an unexpected or unexpectedly strong emotional reaction **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 29, 2018, 10:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-which-you-have-an-unexpected-or-unexpectedly-strong-emotional-reaction/818764 "2018-07-29T10:59:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![cerberus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@cerberus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cerberus)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2018, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-which-you-have-an-unexpected-or-unexpectedly-strong-emotional-reaction/818764/41 "2018-08-07T05:17:52Z")
At last By neko case It hit really hard when my primary cat died after a long battle with cancer. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2018, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-which-you-have-an-unexpected-or-unexpectedly-strong-emotional-reaction/818764/42 "2018-08-07T22:43:00Z")
> [@wanderer2575](#): > > “Old and Wise” by the Alan Parsons Project. Could be one’s own musical eulogy. I just listened, inspired by different things which include your post, to _The Best Of Alan Parsons Project_ for the first time in maybe 30 years. I had the album on a cassette back then and “Old And Wise” was one of my favorite songs from it because it has a beautiful melody, but I really never listened really closely to the lyrics and my grasp of English wasn’t as good as now. But yeah, listening to it now and grasping the lyrics brought a little tear to my eye, because a dear uncle of mine died today, and he was a very musical man. He would’ve liked the song. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2018, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-which-you-have-an-unexpected-or-unexpectedly-strong-emotional-reaction/818764/43 "2018-08-07T23:31:23Z")
> [@wanderer2575](#): > > “Old and Wise” by the Alan Parsons Project. Could be one’s own musical eulogy. Utterly beautiful in many ways! I just had to send this to all my friends (old and young). ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2018, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-which-you-have-an-unexpected-or-unexpectedly-strong-emotional-reaction/818764/44 "2018-08-07T23:37:28Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > It’s getting harder for me to play “Dust In The Wind” on guitar, as more friends and family pass away. It’s impossible for me. I don’t know how to play. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2018, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-which-you-have-an-unexpected-or-unexpectedly-strong-emotional-reaction/818764/45 "2018-08-08T13:19:03Z")
Having grown up in Boston in the 1960’s, I always teat up at Camelot, particularly the reprise: Don’t let it be forgot That once there was a spot For one brief shining moment That was known as Camelot. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2018, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-which-you-have-an-unexpected-or-unexpectedly-strong-emotional-reaction/818764/46 "2018-08-10T13:25:41Z")
The deleted verse of Don McLean’s American Pie: And there I stood alone and afraid I dropped to my knees and there I prayed And I promised him everything I could give If only he would make the music live And he promised it would live once more But this time one would equal four And in five years four had come to mourn And the music was reborn ---
**Author:** ![Poysyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Poysyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poysyn)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2018, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-which-you-have-an-unexpected-or-unexpectedly-strong-emotional-reaction/818764/47 "2018-08-10T15:32:55Z")
“In My Daughter’s Eyes” by Martina McBride catches me every time I hear it ---
**Author:** ![ThisSpaceForRent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thisspaceforrent/32/345_2.png) [@ThisSpaceForRent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThisSpaceForRent)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2018, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-which-you-have-an-unexpected-or-unexpectedly-strong-emotional-reaction/818764/48 "2018-08-10T17:46:08Z")
_Looks Like Rain_ by the **Grateful Dead** can make the room very dusty. Awoke today, felt your side of the bed; The covers were still warm where you been layin’. You were gone, oh gone, my heart was filled with dread; You might not be sleeping here again. But it’s alright cause I love you, and that’s not going to change. Run me around and make me hurt again and again. But I’ll still sing you love songs, written in the letters of your name. The rain is gonna come, oh it surely looks like rain… tsfr [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-which-you-have-an-unexpected-or-unexpectedly-strong-emotional-reaction/818764.md?page=2)