Blood on the Tracks
Walking On Sunshine
That poor girl is deluding herself into insanity.
Treble Charger - Red
(Canadian Rock, Emo, Grundge and Punk are pretty much my era and upbringing…rap/reggae aside that’s what I listen to)
“Superstar” covered by many, but best remembered version is the Carpenters: youtube.com/watch?v=SWkOryYF6CI
Janis Ian’s “Seventeen” : youtube.com/watch?v=C4qyIx0z_6o
Of course there is always ole Hank Williams: youtube.com/watch?v=TKI-J5qSI_8
There’s a tear in my beer,
‘cause I’m cryin’ for you dear
You are on my lonely mind …
Long Gone Lonesome Blues - Hank Williams
I’m going to find me a river
one that’s cold as ice
and when I find me that river
Lord I’m going to pay the price
I’m going down in it three times
but Lord I’m only coming up twice.
This one always makes me sad. The guy singing it died in a plane crash at just 30 years old, leaving a family behind.
Photographs and Memories
Jim Croce
Photographs and memories
Christmas cards you sent to me
All that I have are these
To remember you
Memories that come at night
Take me to another time
Back to a happier day
When I called you mine
But we sure had a good time
When we started way back when
Morning walks and bedroom talks
Oh how I loved you then
Summer skies and lullabies
Nights we couldn’t say good-bye
And of all of the things that we knew
Not a dream survived
Photographs and memories
All the love you gave to me
Somehow it just can’t be true
That’s all I’ve left of you
But we sure had a good time
When we started way back when
Morning walks and bedroom talks
Oh how I loved you then
I’m with you there, the piano and cello are haunting.
R.E.M “Everybody hurts” you just cant listen to that without a long pull on the whiskey bottle and a smoke (wish I still smoked)
The Smiths “Asleep”
“Sing me to sleep
Sing me to sleep
And then leave me alone
Don’t try to wake me in the morning
'Cause I will be gone
Don’t feel bad for me
I want you to know
Deep in the cell of my heart
I will feel so glad to go”
Holly Cole’s remake of the Hank Williams classic “I’m so lonesome I could cry”
"I’ve never seen a night so long
When time goes crawling by
The moon just went behind a cloud
To hide its face and cry
The silence of a falling star
Lights up a purple sky
And as I wonder where you are
I’m so lonesome I could cry"
Classic stuff
‘The Bends’ by Radiohead makes me weep in pain, but not the way you think…
[quote=“Opihiman”]Of course there is always ole Hank Williams: youtube.com/watch?v=TKI-J5qSI_8
There’s a tear in my beer,
‘cause I’m cryin’ for you dear
You are on my lonely mind …[/quote]
That song makes me laugh, because when we were kids me and my brother changed the lyrics to
There’s an ear in my beer
'cause I just ate you dear
You were on my hungry mind
The Eels’ Dead of Winter…hits a little too close to home with my cancer treatment.
[quote]Standing in the dark outside the house
Breathing in the cold and sterile air
Well I was thinking how it must feel
To see that little light
And watch it as it disappears
And fades into
And fades into the night
So i know you’re going pretty soon
Radiation sore throat got your tongue
Magic markers tattoo you
And show it where to aim
And strangers break their promises
You won’t feel any
You won’t feel any pain
And the streets are jammed with cars
Rockin’ their horns
To race to the wire
Of the unfinished line[/quote]
The Scientist-Coldplay
I second the one who said “Everybody Hurts.” Stops me in my tracks.
[quote=“MissAnomaly”]The Scientist-Coldplay
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Also
Radiohead-Fake Plastic Trees
[quote]Her Green plastic watering can
For her fake Chinese rubber plant
In the fake plastic earth.
That she bought from a rubber man
In a town full of rubber plans.
to get rid of itself.
And It Wears Her Out, it wears her out
It wears her out, it wears her out.
She lives with a broken man
A cracked polystyrene man
Who just crumbles and burns.
He used to do surgery
For girls in the eighties
But gravity always wins.
And It Wears Him Out, it wears him out
It wears him out, it wears him out.
She looks like the real thing
She tastes like the real thing
My Fake Plastic Love.
But I can’t help the feeling
I could blow through the ceiling
If I just turn and run
And It Wears Me Out, it wears me out
It wears me out, it wears me out.
And if I could BE who you wanted
If I could BE who you wanted,
All the time, all the time, ohhh… ohh…[/quote]
Listening to Nick Drake, right now. His songs don’t make me feel sad, just dreamy and blank. Maybe that’s the same thing, after a certain point?
‘But say what you’ll say
About the farmers and the fun
And the things behind the sun
And the people round your head
Who say everything’s been said
And the movement in your brain
Sends you out into the rain.’
Haven’t cried except in temper since I was about 9.
Is that true?
I can cry over almost anything. I don’t because it is not manly. That’s pretty much the only reason I don’t though. I think it’s a reasonable one.
Is that true?
I can cry over almost anything. I don’t because it is not manly. That’s pretty much the only reason I don’t though. I think it’s a reasonable one.[/quote]
Pretty much. I remember almost every time, and they were almost all from almost white-out frustration at being unable to express myself, rather than sorrow. I burst into tears in Chinese class once when the teacher asked me what my parents last gave me for my birthday, five hours after my father died. Was that shock, or sorrow, or just brainshock at the symmetry of the question?
Elvis’s Old Shep, of course. 
Probably alot of people have posted this one but I haven’t got time
to check at the moment.
Its by the same guy who wrote “Convoy”. I remember hearing it at a road
house once blaring out of a big rig. Then a big tough truckie got out wiping his brow . Well at least I thought he was till he repeated the action with both forearms.
Roses for Mama by CW McCall
Spoken]
Well, I had two weeks vacation comin’, so I thought I’d drive down to Florida: spend some time with an old friend, date a few girls, make a few parties, and just kinda live it up again.
So I packed up my car, and then I called my Mom in Tennesee, and told her what I planned to do. She said, “Son, are you comin’ by?” And I said, “Mom, I’m really pushed for time, but I’ll see you in a week or two.”
And I was drivin’ through this little town in Georgia when I remembered: today’s Mama’s birthday. Well, I thought I’ll just stop and wire some flowers. Shouldn’t take too long; then I’ll be on my way.
So I walked in a flower shop and the first thing I saw was this little boy, with his eyes full a’ tears. I said, “What’s wrong, son?” He said, “Mama loves roses. And today’s her birthday, and I haven’t seen her in almost a year.”
[Chorus]
Roses for Mama
Today’s her birthday
Roses for Mama
Today’s her birthday
He said, “I live with Grandma now. But I promised Mama some roses, 'cause I talk to her all the time. I wanted to give her five, 'cause that’s how old I am. But the lady said I couldn’t buy 'em with just a dime.”
Well, the little fella’s story kind a’ touched my heart, so I told the lady to give him what he wanted and charge it to me. Then I told her I needed to wire a dozen roses to my Mama, up in Chapel Hill, Tennessee.
I looked around, and the little boy was gone. But all of a sudden the door flew open and he come runnin’ back in and he said, “Mister, I forgot to thank you for the roses.” He smiled, he shook my hand, and ran back out again.
Well, I started on out of town. And I was feelin’ real proud of myself for thinkin’ of my Mama and really carin’, when I looked out the window and I saw that same little boy, kneelin’, by a grave in an old cemetery.
I stopped my car and walked over to where the little boy was kneelin’ down. And he smiled up at me and said, “This is where my Mama stays. She says she sure does thank you for these pretty roses.” Well that’s when I had to walk away.
And I drove straight back to that flower shop and I said, “Lady, have you sent those flowers to Tennessee?” She said, “No, not yet.” I said, “Well, nevermind. I’ll just take them back with me.”
[Chorus]
Roses for Mama
Today’s her birthday
Roses for Mama
Today’s her birthday
"Roses For
Is that true?
I can cry over almost anything. I don’t because it is not manly. That’s pretty much the only reason I don’t though. I think it’s a reasonable one.[/quote]
Me too. It’s embarassing sometimes. Sad stuff, happy stuff, the tears just come unless they’re forced back.
My sister gave my daughter this book:
I got around to reading it to my daughter yesterday. The mother sings this little tune to her son throughout his life
I’ll love you forever
I’ll like you for always
As long as I’m living
My baby you’ll be
Then the mother is old and about to die and the son, now a man sings it to her, changing baby to mommy, then he goes back and sings it to his own daughter. I didn’t think I’d get to the end of it.
No distance left to run - Blur