I don’t know the song, so you may be right but, seeing as how it was Marvin Gaye’s father who KILLED Marvin Gaye, I somehow doubt Marvin wrote a song about his father’s death.
“Night Shift” was actually by the Commodores, about Marvin Gaye and Jackie Wilson. It was written after Gaye’s murder and Wilson’s death (Wilson had had a heart attack in 1975 while playing a Dick Clark show in Cherry Hill, NJ, and fell to the stage headfirst, and the blow to his head put him in a coma that he never recovered from. He spent the next 8 years and change in a vegetative state, finally dying in 1984).
Two that are guaranteed to trigger a sobfest are John Prine’s Souvenirs and the schmaltzy Teddy Bear by Red Sovine.
::sniff:: Would somebody please pass a tissue.
"You are my sunshine, my only sunshine"don’t know the name, my mom used to sing it to me at night. When I was about 12 I decided it meant that she was gonna die and I’d never really get to know her.
Why yes, I’m an odd kid. And yes, she’s still alive.
I have to go with this one as well. Always has, always will. It’s something to do with never having the time to spend with your loved ones. I think I’ll go play Legos with my son now, even though I told him I couldn’t earlier.
<<sniff>>
Oh, and **In My Life ** by the Beatles.
My goodness, did that just bring back a stream of memories - that was on a home recorded cassette my brother used to play over and over again when I was about 8 years old. Never knew the lyrics except for ‘Daddy, Daddy, come and see…’, and I’ve never really pursued the mystery of who/what it was. Many, many thanks for that.
“Don’t you (forget about me)” and “I will wait for you” both because of Futurama.
That’s Casimir Pulaski Day. I saw him do it in concert and I was a wreck. I wasn’t ever all that into the song until then, but ever since, I can’t listen to it without crying. I even saw some random girl singing it on YouTube once and started bawling. (Didn’t help that she reminded me of my best friend from high school…)
Also DfrntBreign Yes I was wrong,at the time my concentration wasn’t of the highest (And I was still turning in for work aswell)order and because of the sad associations I have with the song I’ve never felt the desire to buy it or even Google it.
Cheers for the info.
Though I've never cried to this song, it seems to me like the most heartfelt song of its kind. The love he feels towards her is so obvious:
It’s incredible.
For me, the song **Eli, The Barrow Boy ** by the Decemberists makes me cry every so often. The way the protagonist works his whole life just to by his love a nice piece of clothing, only to have her taken away from him. The Decemberists are the only group who can really take me to another time and place with their music.
But the one song that will make me cry, guaranteed, is Green Fields Of France covered by the Dropkick Murphys (I’m not sure who sang the song originally). The feeling it gives me goes from sorrow in the beginning to complete rage when the narrator asks the fallen soldier:
It makes me think of just how many people have died because others’ greed.
Only because it’s the only version I know with subtitles “Der Weg” by Herbert Gronemeyer (The video is my mum’s memorial video, which it happens to be the fourth anniversary of this week.)
I’d also add Badly Drawn Boy’s A Minor Incident