Songs of Pain
King of Pain - The Police
Two Outta Three Ain’t Bad - Meat Loaf
Hurts So Good - John Mellencamp
Love Hurts - Nazareth
Ordinary Pain - Stevie Wonder
(I Love It When You) Call Me Names - Joan Armatrading
He’s pecked to death but he loves the pain
And he loves it when she calls him names
Songs of Pain
King of Pain - The Police
Two Outta Three Ain’t Bad - Meat Loaf
Hurts So Good - John Mellencamp
Love Hurts - Nazareth
Ordinary Pain - Stevie Wonder
(I Love It When You) Call Me Names - Joan Armatrading
Hurting Each Other - Karen Carpenter
Stiletto - Billy Joel
“She’s so good with her stiletto
That you don’t really mind the pain”
Songs of Pain
King of Pain - The Police
Two Outta Three Ain’t Bad - Meat Loaf
Hurts So Good - John Mellencamp
Love Hurts - Nazareth
Ordinary Pain - Stevie Wonder
(I Love It When You) Call Me Names - Joan Armatrading
Hurting Each Other - Karen Carpenter
Stiletto - Billy Joel
Pain is So Close to Pleasure - Queen
The Masochism Tango - Tom Lehr
Songs that make you feel patriotic without being nationalistic
America - Simon and Garfunkel
Songs of Pain
King of Pain - The Police
Two Outta Three Ain’t Bad - Meat Loaf
Hurts So Good - John Mellencamp
Love Hurts - Nazareth
Ordinary Pain - Stevie Wonder
(I Love It When You) Call Me Names - Joan Armatrading
Hurting Each Other - Karen Carpenter
Stiletto - Billy Joel
Pain is So Close to Pleasure - Queen
She - The Monkees
New category:
Songs about the birth of a child
With Arms Wide Open - Creed
Songs about the birth of a child
With Arms Wide Open - Creed
Danny’s Song - Loggins & Messina
Songs about the birth of a child
With Arms Wide Open - Creed
Danny’s Song - Loggins & Messina
Isn’t She Lovely - Stevie Wonder
Songs about the birth of a child
With Arms Wide Open - Creed
Danny’s Song - Loggins & Messina
Isn’t She Lovely - Stevie Wonder
Blessed - Elton John
About one he hopes will be conceived.
Bayaker
February 1, 2026, 1:36pm
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Songs about the birth of a child
With Arms Wide Open - Creed
Danny’s Song - Loggins & Messina
Isn’t She Lovely - Stevie Wonder
Blessed - Elton John
We’re Havin’ A Baby - Ray Stevens
Songs about the birth of a child
With Arms Wide Open - Creed
Danny’s Song - Loggins & Messina
Isn’t She Lovely - Stevie Wonder
Blessed - Elton John
We’re Havin’ A Baby - Ray Stevens
(You’re) Having My Baby - Paul Anka and Odia Coates
SunUp
February 1, 2026, 3:16pm
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Songs about the birth of a child
With Arms Wide Open - Creed
Danny’s Song - Loggins & Messina
Isn’t She Lovely - Stevie Wonder
Blessed - Elton John
We’re Havin’ A Baby - Ray Stevens
(You’re) Having My Baby - Paul Anka and Odia Coates
Papa Don’t Preach - Madonna
See the new parentheses.
Songs about the birth of a child (not Jesus)
With Arms Wide Open - Creed
Danny’s Song - Loggins & Messina
Isn’t She Lovely - Stevie Wonder
Blessed - Elton John
We’re Havin’ A Baby - Ray Stevens
(You’re) Having My Baby - Paul Anka and Odia Coates
Papa Don’t Preach - Madonna
Housekeeping.
Songs about the birth of a child (not Jesus)
With Arms Wide Open - Creed
Danny’s Song - Loggins & Messina
Isn’t She Lovely - Stevie Wonder
Blessed - Elton John
We’re Havin’ A Baby - Ray Stevens
(You’re) Having My Baby - Paul Anka and Odia Coates
Papa Don’t Preach - Madonna
Georgia Rae - John Hiatt
“Locky for you, Child, you look like your mother!”
Songs about the birth of a child (not Jesus)
With Arms Wide Open - Creed
Danny’s Song - Loggins & Messina
Isn’t She Lovely - Stevie Wonder
Blessed - Elton John
We’re Havin’ A Baby - Ray Stevens
(You’re) Having My Baby - Paul Anka and Odia Coates
Papa Don’t Preach - Madonna
Georgia Rae - John Hiatt
Beautiful Baby - Don McLean
Songs about the birth of a child (not Jesus)
With Arms Wide Open - Creed
Danny’s Song - Loggins & Messina
Isn’t She Lovely - Stevie Wonder
Blessed - Elton John
We’re Havin’ A Baby - Ray Stevens
(You’re) Having My Baby - Paul Anka and Odia Coates
Papa Don’t Preach - Madonna
Georgia Rae - John Hiatt
Beautiful Baby - Don McLean
Cat’s In the Cradle - Harry Chapin
pass
knoodler:
pass
Then maybe we can go back to @Buck_Godot ’s topic, that somehow got ignored (simulpost?).
Songs that make you feel patriotic without being nationalistic
America - Simon and Garfunkel
Become America - The Call
SunUp
February 1, 2026, 7:53pm
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Songs that make you feel patriotic without being nationalistic
America - Simon and Garfunkel
Become America - The Call
America The Beautiful - Ray Charles
Songs that make you feel patriotic without being nationalistic
America - Simon and Garfunkel
Become America - The Call
America The Beautiful - Ray Charles
Great Southern Land - Icehouse
Wheelz
February 1, 2026, 9:02pm
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Songs that make you feel patriotic without being nationalistic
America - Simon and Garfunkel
Become America - The Call
America The Beautiful - Ray Charles
Great Southern Land - Icehouse
This Land Is Your Land - Woody Guthrie
To me, it is a hopeful ode to what America could and should be. Written as a protest song in response to the popular “God Bless America,” which Guthrie found pretentious and hypocritical.