Your most painfully beautiful song

[Quint]

I’m not a religious person, but every time I hear Alison Krauss sing “Down to the River to Pray” I wish I was.

[Lucky_13]

@ThirdCultureKid

I was about 13 and feeling particularly low, so my dad sat me down on the couch, put on Bridge over Troubled Water by Simon and Garfunkel, and hugged me all the way through.

And yes, I’m crying now, just thinking about it.

I started to cry when I read your post.

Also, a song I forgot to mention in my first post: “Con Te Partiro” by Andrea Bocelli. I know it was overplayed a few years back, but I still love it and find it moving.

Lastly, the Wednesday I returned to work after a couple of days of being sick at home, the local country music station played “Love, Me” and “Where Have You Been?” within an hour of each other. I mentioned them both in my earlier post. Perhaps the programming director at KKGO is a Doper as well?

[TroubleAgain]

@ThirdCultureKid

I was about 13 and feeling particularily low, so my dad sat me down on the couch, put on Bridge over Troubled Water by Simon and Garfunkel, and hugged me all the way through.

And yes, I’m crying now, just thinking about it.

Dammit, I’m at work. You folks making me cry have to stop it!

[JonScribe]

Two that I don’t think have been mentioned:

Famous Blue Raincoat by Leonard Cohen and Take It With Me by Tom Waits.

[Rico]

The oldies classic Since I Fell For You can bring me right down.

Al Jarreau’s version (with David Sanborn) is by far the best.

[ExTank]

Dead Can Dance’s Host of seraphim.

Sarah McLachlan’s Angel.

Melissa Etheridge’s This War Is Over.

Pink Floyd’s The Gunner’s Dream.

Just about any version of Amazing Grace except the Dropkick Murphy’s. I like their version, but having it sped up and rocked out kind of takes away some of the emotional impact.

[The_King_of_Soup]

Richard Thompson, “Bee’s-Wing.”

[Nzinga_Seated]

@ThirdCultureKid

I was about 13 and feeling particularily low, so my dad sat me down on the couch, put on Bridge over Troubled Water by Simon and Garfunkel, and hugged me all the way through.

And yes, I’m crying now, just thinking about it.

You inspired me to you tube the song…haven’t listened to it in years. It really is nice, isn’t it?

Thanks to** King of Soup** for introducing me to Richard Thompson. You Tube gave me lots on him.

[GingerOfTheNorth]

Regarding the song “Hurt”.

@PoorYorick

Johnny Cash’s interpretation of this song as seen by an old man looking back at his regrets . . . it gets me every time, and the video is just powerful.

Oh my god, yes.

There’s a song by Alison Kraus that I don’t know I’d call painfully beautiful, but I do refer to it as achingly lovely: “I Will”.

[GingerOfTheNorth]

@ThirdCultureKid

I was about 13 and feeling particularily low, so my dad sat me down on the couch, put on Bridge over Troubled Water by Simon and Garfunkel, and hugged me all the way through.

And yes, I’m crying now, just thinking about it.

And now I’m tearing up at reading this.

[Rasa]

Do You Realize? by the Flaming Lips

This God Damned House by The Low Anthem

Perfect Circle by R.E.M.

How could I forget Angel Flying Too Close to the Ground by Willie Nelson? (I’m so not a Willie Nelson fan otherwise.)

And I Have Always Been Here Before by Roky Erickson

Old standards: Bridge Over Troubled Waters by Simon and Garfunkel, Amazing Grace on bagpipes, Mr. Tanner by Harry Chapin

I could go on forever.

[RiverRunner]

@Quint

I’m not a religious person, but every time I hear Alison Krauss sing “Down to the River to Pray” I wish I was.

I am in a Gospel mixed quartet, and we started working this one up but we could never get it to quite gel, so we have left it alone for a while. I still hope we can pull it off.

And, to whoever it was who mentioned Richard Thompson, right back atcha with Dimmin’ of the Day.
RR

[maladroit]

If It Be Your Will written by Leonard Cohen, performed by Antony
I did cry the first and several subsequent times I heard this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MDlMdu2gjw link to Antony performance
http://www.seeklyrics.com/lyrics/Leonard-Cohen/If-It-Be-Your-Will.html

[LVgeogeek]

Return to Innocence by Enigma

Nightswimming by R.E.M.

Who Wants to Live Forever by Queen

[Scubaqueen]

paula cole’s, ‘where have all the cowboys gone?’
i don’t know why, since i’ve been lucky in relationships, but that one gets the tear ducts busy.

another nod for mclachlan’s ‘angel.’
what a song. it results in my utter destruction each and every time i hear it.

sting’s ‘fields of gold.’

played badly or played well: ‘taps.’

‘amazing grace.’ nuff said.

[The_Them]

I’m too gutless to read the whole thread right now, so I know this may already have been mentioned:
“Forever Autumn”, by the Moody Blues.

[Sam_Stone]

Sweet Jane, as sung by Cowboy Junkies. The entire Trinity Sessions CD would qualify, however.

Lost Cause by Beck

[Hey_It_s_That_Guy]

@Kizarvexius

The Drinking Song by Moxy Früvous

I used to be a much bigger Moxy Fruvous fan than I am now, but I still love that one. It might be the best use of their four-part vocal harmonizing skills, and it’s just so sad and wistful, and a little bit happy all at the same time. I especially like the little quote from “Goodnight, Irene” they weave into it. They get a little bit too “NPR-gimmick-goofball-folksy” for me, but “The Drinking Song” is really really nice.

[Made_in_Macau]

@GingerOfTheNorth

There’s a song by Alison Kraus that I don’t know I’d call painfully beautiful, but I do refer to it as achingly lovely: “I Will”.

Have you heard the original Beatles version? On the White Album. Nice - a little faster than Krauss.
MiM

[Sam_Stone]

@Grammanaut

Dire Straits - *Brothers in Arms *. I’m really supposed to be too cool to like those guys, but I cry like a baby every time I hear that song. It can be embarrassing in public.

Did I miss a memo? When did it become uncool to like Dire Straits? When I was younger Dire Straits were the height of cool. Maybe one step below Pink Floyd in the cool hierarchy.