The lyrics......

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edited June 2012 in The Clubhouse
Any lyrics really move ya?
To tears, to goose bumps?
To make you think of other people?
Other times?
The words alone, and not the music?

For me there are a couple, but the main one, everytime, only because it was popular at the time, and I had to listen to it: Evanescence - Hello (I think of my mother every single time I hear that song)!
I actually had Surgeons come to me, in the hospital, and tell me she would not make it.
And she didn't.
And I heard that song on the way home, in the car.
Everytime..........that song just guts me.

I hate it on one hand, but think it is beautiful on the other.


Any songs really have meaning for you?
Lyrics that make you think, about other people, other times, other places?
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  • teekay0007
    teekay0007 Posts: 2,289
    edited May 2012
    The Star-Spangled Banner - sung by just about anybody, except Roseanne Barr - stirs up all kinds of things in me: Pride, Gratitude toward our military and veterans, etc., etc. :exclaim:
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  • Systems
    Systems Posts: 14,873
    edited May 2012
    teekay0007 wrote: »
    The Star-Spangled Banner - sung by just about anybody, except Roseanne Barr - stirs up all kinds of things in me: Pride, Gratitude toward our military and veterans, etc., etc. :exclaim:

    Whitney Houston did one hell of a job.
    And I would have to agree, a moving song.


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  • Timothy Smith
    Timothy Smith Posts: 764
    edited May 2012
    Kate Bush "This Woman's Work"

    David Bowie "The Bewley Brothers"

    Lulu "To Sir With Love"

    Richard Thompson "The End of the Rainbow"

    Iz "Somewhere Over the Rainbow"

    Roxy Music "Pyjamarama"

    Roxy Music "2HB"

    The lyrics in these songs just floor me with their beauty, sweetness, and a bit of sadness.
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  • dkr919
    dkr919 Posts: 379
    edited May 2012
    A very moving tribute to a friend of his who died in a fire.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IU1rZa8Ur_Q
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  • EndersShadow
    EndersShadow Posts: 17,590
    edited May 2012
    Brad Paisley "Whiskey lullabye" - a very haunting song and parts of it remind me of how I felt a time or two after a relationship ended....
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  • Drenis
    Drenis Posts: 2,871
    edited May 2012
    My mom is quite ill and has been less fortunate then the majority of us for being on the lucky side of the radar. With saying that, I've strived for the last 10 years to be positive and encourage her as she believes in no hope. I wish she wasn't such a stubborn woman but when are they not? :razz:


    Miley Cyrus - The Climb

    A song dedicated to my mother to keep her head high. I can't listen to it... Emotions come out in that song because of the **** history between us and how it's gotten to it's current state. It's one of mom's favorite songs and she uses it now to keep herself going.


    While there are many great songs with lyrical meanings that are touching, the one above tops them all for me.
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  • codyc1ark
    codyc1ark Posts: 2,532
    edited May 2012
    Mmmm.... Whisky...

    How about "Where Did You Sleep Last Night", Nirvana, Unplugged. That song gives me chills every time, one of my favorites to blast after a few of the aforementioned whisky drinks...
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  • Oldfatdogs
    Oldfatdogs Posts: 1,874
    edited May 2012
    Taps does it every time for me.
    Brooks and Dunn- Husbands and wives.
    Brooks and Dunn-Its getting- better all the time.
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  • decal
    decal Posts: 3,205
    edited May 2012
    Lee Roy Parnell Daddies and Daughters
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  • Joe08867
    Joe08867 Posts: 3,919
    edited May 2012
    One that has always hit me is Colin Raye's "If you get there before I do". He is a Great Writer and Singer.

    Another would be Garth Brooks "Belleau Wood" About the Christmas Truce during WWI. He is a great story teller in song.


    The only song I can't listen to anymore i s"Through the Years" By Kenny Rogers. It was the song i danced with my mom too at my wedding. She passed away two weeks later from cancer in June of 2000. I am teary just thinking about it.
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  • Timothy Smith
    Timothy Smith Posts: 764
    edited May 2012
    Oh, I forgot one:

    Spinal Tap's "Lick My Love Pump"
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  • cfrizz
    cfrizz Posts: 13,415
    edited May 2012
    Reba McEntire The Greatest Man I Never Knew.

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  • mrbiron
    mrbiron Posts: 5,711
    edited May 2012
    This song gets me through deaths, although nothing has been in my immediate family, it still makes me think.

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  • headrott
    headrott Posts: 5,496
    edited May 2012
    Timothy Smith wrote: »
    Oh, I forgot one:

    Spinal Tap's "Lick My Love Pump"

    Hey, Nigel got it right when he says songs in the key of D minor is "the sadest of all keys" and will "make people weap instantly.":razz:
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  • scottyboy76
    scottyboy76 Posts: 2,905
    edited May 2012
    So many great songs, and storys, drenis, my relationship with my mom was much the same.

    She had a very hard impoverished and abused life, just as she and my dads situation was beginning to look better, his heart attack in mid 40s, disability and young death, although i understood why she was the way she was, it never got easier knowing no matter what anyone did, there was desperation.

    David Brombergs "Childs Song" i just cannot sit through, I keep seeing our old house on blount st. in east point ga., leaving for the army in 1976 two months out of high school,having had the typical battles with my dad that young men have,but thinking all would be well for a long time, dad well employed at Owens Illinois glass plant returned in 79 to a home shattered by events no one could see coming or avoid.
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  • Face
    Face Posts: 14,340
    edited May 2012
    http://youtu.be/GyynGzMlHSY
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  • gudnoyez
    gudnoyez Posts: 8,114
    edited May 2012
    What You Give by Tesla damn good song, I always thought it was a about the love you receive from your significant other. I heard a interview and Jeff Keith said he wrote that tune after the death of his dog, none the less I still like it and think about a couple of our dogs that have passed on when I hear it.
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  • Upstatemax
    Upstatemax Posts: 2,664
    edited May 2012
    Sarah McLachlan - Angel

    Brings me right back to my cousins' funeral. There are very few things that bring me to tears, going back to putting an 18 month old in the ground does it everytime.
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  • hochpt21
    hochpt21 Posts: 5,423
    edited May 2012
    codyc1ark wrote: »
    How about "Where Did You Sleep Last Night", Nirvana, Unplugged. That song gives me chills every time, one of my favorites to blast after a few of the aforementioned whisky drinks...

    This is a good one.

    Also, "Miracle" from the Foo Fighters...

    ...or just about anything off the acoustic disk of "In Your Honor"
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  • starkiller
    starkiller Posts: 2,723
    edited May 2012
    Super Trooper by ABBA...one of my mom's favorite songs
    Theme from Patton and Unicorn by the Irish Rovers...two of my dad's favorite songs

    with them both gone less then a year apart and about two years ago just thinking of those songs is enough...
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  • pitdogg2
    pitdogg2 Posts: 25,418
    edited June 2012
    Silent Lucidity by Queensryche:

    Back story My cousin who I was very close to HATED that song....4yrs later when he died in a car crash I sat and read the lyrics and it all made sense...It was like he knew one day he'd be watching us from above much sooner than the rest of us....R.I.P. Tony and Thank you for making me listen to Queensryche

    Give's me the chills and tears everytime I hear it...
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  • SWFalken
    SWFalken Posts: 136
    edited June 2012
    Dolly Parton, Coat of Many Colors
    Iris DeMent, Our Town
    The Alarm, Walk Forever by my Side
    U2, MLK, I sang that one to my mother as she lay dying a couple of months ago.
    I could probably break the message board posting all of the beautiful, meaningful lyrics that we have been graced with over the years but these are the ones that just jumped out at me.
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  • headrott
    headrott Posts: 5,496
    edited June 2012
    How about "Song to the Siren" originally done by Tim Buckly, but also Robert Plant and This Mortal Coil as well as many others. You decide which you prefer. I like them all..........The melody and lyrics are phenominal...........

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