Didn't See it Coming...

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endorphin_junkie

Cathlete
Okay, I'm driving unsuspectingly to the gym early on Saturday morning feeling chipper, enjoying the light traffic and listening to the radio. A song comes on I've never heard before, Tim McGraw 'Live Like You Were Dying' I don't usually listen to country but I don't mind him and so I listen and less than a minute later I'm getting all choked up and thinking about pulling over and having a good cry. Gosh, that song just cut me to the quick, getting my heart and head in a sentimental swirl.

There have been a lot of other songs that touch me like this, Don McLean's 'Vincent', Sarah McLachlan's 'Hold On', Janet Jackson's 'Together Again', 'Sand and Stone' (don't know the singer), Garth Brook's 'The Dance' to name a few.

I was just wondering what songs pull at your heartstings and put a lump in your throat.

Take Care
Laurie
 
Amazing Grace gives me chills everytime. And "I stop Loving Her Today" by George Jones. That song was about a women he loved his entire life up until the day he died, that one brought tears to my eyes.
 
Concrete Angel by "sorry her name has escaped me" but she is a country singer. Maybe someone can help me out here.
 
I have to say I can't stand sappy sentimental country songs. I do like country music though - but not radio contemporary country music.

The type of country music I enjoy is the likes of Steve Earle (even though he's not really country) and John Prine and Iris DeMent, etc. You know, the stuff they're too scared to play on the radio - definitely not Chicken Soup for the Country Soul - LOL!!!

Susan L.G.
 
I know exactly how you feel. I love Roberta Flack. So many of her songs brings back memory of my college boyfriend. The songs are so touching and makes my heart remember all of the tender times that we spent together. Her songs make me feel so sad because it reminds me of our lost love.
 
Pacing the Cage, by Bruce Cockburn. Reminds me of my brother, who committed suicide 5 years ago.

The Whole Night Sky, also by Bruce Cockburn. No reason, other than it's a song that is very emotional.

Let Your Soul Be Your Pilot, by Sting. Reminds me of my husband's mother and now, my own Mom, during their separate battles with cancer (which they both lost)
 
Laurie...so many songs can do so many things to my emotions! The one that can bring me to tears is "Forever" by Kenny Loggins and "I'll Always Love You" by Taylor Dayne....its funny how certain artists take me back to certain times...Chicago always reminds me of High School.

Okay....now that I am in tears....:+ ....LOL!....Carole
 
First of all.....

Donna, reading "your" thread may me feel very emotional, so I just wanted to give you a big "cyber" hug, just for "BEING YOU"........................

Okay!.......some of the "Carpenters" songs do it for me - maybe because I remember the shock when Karen died, and Barry White can sometimes sends a tingle up my spine

Im a sucker for "love" songs. They make me tearey eyed, but GOSH I feel so much better after a good old cry!!!

Marion
:)
 
Martina McBride's new song "In My Daughter's Eyes" makes me cry every time I hear it. I think it must be because I just had my own baby daughter 2 months ago.

Jacque
 
Martina McBride also came out with "Concrete Angel" which does make me cry. Tim McGraw's "Live Like You Were Dying" is another one.


Kim
 
Marion - thanks for the cyber hug. Gotta love those!

Jacque - I know how you feel with "In My Daughter's Eyes." I've actually never heard it, but Will Smith's version of "Just the Two of Us" always did it to me after MY daughter was born. Now she and I dance and sing along to it together and have a great time, so it's more of a fun song.

Of course, the Austin Powers version with Dr. Evil singing it to Mini Me has taken a little of the emotional strength away from it too...
 
Marion - thanks for the cyber hug. Gotta love those!

Jacque - I know how you feel with "In My Daughter's Eyes." I've actually never heard it, but Will Smith's version of "Just the Two of Us" always did it to me after MY daughter was born. Now she and I dance and sing along to it together and have a great time, so it's more of a fun song.

Of course, the Austin Powers version with Dr. Evil singing it to Mini Me has taken a little of the emotional strength away from it too...

OOOPS! Sorry - didn't mean to double click the Update message button. I hate when I double-post.x(
 
aaahhhh....I knew I wasn't the only sentimental softy here. I'm such a sucker for this stuff, I'll have to look up some of the songs mentioned here.

Another one that gets me is Five For Fighting '100 Years' and Leanne Rimes 'How Do I Live' which Cathe uses as a stretch song in MIC (I think).

Isn't it amazing how a song can take us away and hurl us right back to those pivotal moments in our lives. It certainly is cleansing to have a good cry when these emotions well up, I just wish it would stop happpening when I'm in the grocery store or at a red light!;( :p

(((((Donna))))), big hug, Bruce Cockburn is a brilliant (and Canadian!) artist.

Carole, I love Taylor Dayne's voice, what ever happened to her!?!

Thanks for sharing everyone!

Take Care
Laurie:)
 
What's the name of that song Eric Clapton wrote about his little daughter who accidentally fell out of the window? If I Saw You In Heaven? What a total tearjerker!
 
Tears in Heaven was the song. It was about his son. So very sad. That makes me cry.

Lene Marlin - Maybe i'll go...oh so sad. And Flown away (same artist). She is beautiful. I urge you to listen to her music.
 
Laurie - I KNEW our Canadian friends would recognize Bruce's name. He's absolutely amazing and if you haven't ever seen him live - DO! It blows my mind the way he plays his guitar. And his lyrics - oh man! The whole Charity of Night cd is an emotional treasure chest.

I have to comment on the observation about songs taking us back to times in our life. This is kind of something that struck me the other day. Whenever I heard the song "Someone Saved My Life Tonight", I've always been transported back to when I was 8 years old and my family was a little nomadic. We lived a brief period of time in a trailer park in Ormond Beach, Fla. (operative word - BRIEF) This song always made me think of hanging out in the rec. room with my sister, playing air hockey. We'd always play the song on the jukebox.

So...fast forward 29 years...and I hear the song on the radio the other day. This song was an important part of one of the last books in the Gunslinger series, written by Stephen King. So now...do I think of my 27 year old memory? NO! I think of Stephen King's character, Father Callahan - who hears the song wherever he goes while he's hunting and hiding from vampires!
 
Alan Jackson's "Remember When" does it for me. This song touches on all of life's phases from youth right on up to older age when the kids have moved away and the house is quiet........

The music fits so well with the lyrics. I always hear this one when I am driving -it's really hard to drive when you are getting all "introspective" and tears are flowing!!!!


Deb
 
Daniel Beddingfield-IF your are not the one

Yeah ladies this one got to me.
Great song and a real tear jerker.
 
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