What song do you like (or that moves you positively) in spite of yourself?

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Here is my example, to make it more clear.

I am a confirmed and nearly life-long atheist and skeptic. Nevertheless, in the right hands, the song “Lost in the Stars” gets me every time. Especially this part.

[QUOTE=Kurt Weill]

But I’ve been walking through the night, and the day
Till my eyes get weary and my head turns grey
And sometimes it seems maybe God’s gone away
Forgetting his promise that we’ve heard him say
And we’re lost out here in the stars.
Little stars, big stars
Blowing through the night
And we’re lost out here in the stars.

[/QUOTE]

To me it speaks to the essential loneliness and solitary nature of life, I guess. My life, anyway.

So what’s yours? Any subject, any point of view.

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*Zip City * Drive-By Truckers - D1 - 10) Zip City - YouTube

Ultimate Teen-age Angst and Disillusionment.

And I’m an old geezer.

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“Supper’s Ready,” for the same reasons as the OP. I’m a life-long atheist, but the last few minutes of the song, describing the Second Coming, always sends chills down my spine and makes the hair on my arms stand up.

Neal Morse became a hardcore Christian, and writes entire concept albums about it. When he went solo, I shied away at first because I didn’t want to listen to him going on and on about God. But I finally gave him a chance, when he released One, and I was blown away. The music is so freakin’ awesome, the lyrics can be forgiven. After a while, I even found myself singing along. The stories can be interesting, and invoke strong emotions… especially the middle-late part of ?.

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“calling occupants of interplanetary craft” by the Carpenters

At face value it is quasi-woo cheesy bollocks and yet…and yet. She sings it as if she truly believes it and so for the length of the song I’m happy to believe it too.

Ah, that voice!

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Anything Rob Zombie. It’s the weirdest thing, because I don’t like that genre of music (metal) at all, and his songs are all about zombies and death and horror. But I can usually count on a Rob Zombie song to cheer me up and energize me.

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I’m a non-believer myself but I will always always groove to Norman Greenbaum’s Spirit In The Sky.

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Another confirmed atheist here, but Amazing Grace always gets me.

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Ditto. It’s that fuzzed up guitar that does it.

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Yes. Best female singer of the 20th Century IMNSHO. I could listen to her sing names out of a phone book and be entranced. And “For All We Know” will always make me cry.

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I always hated the reference to “a wretch like me.” I’m no wretch, thank you very much, Christians. It does have a nice tune, though.

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Try the other one if you really want a tear-fest.

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John Newton was, though. If being a slave trader counts.

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I’m very much a Christian, but Tim Minchin’s “White Wine in the Sun” always moves me.

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Same here…non-believer, but the end of the song describing the rapture and the second coming gets me every time.

There’s an angel standing in the sun,
and he’s crying with a loud voice
‘This is the supper of the mighty one’
Lord of Lord, King of Kings
Has returned to lead his children home
To take them to the new Jerusalem

Actually, the whole last section beginning with “can’t you feel our souls ignite”.
Ah hell, everything from ‘666 is no longer alone’ in the Apocalypse in 9/8 section gives me goosebumps

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“Feed Jake” by Pirates of the Mississippi. It’s not a great song - especially on re-listen 25 years later - but just the sentiment - it gets me.