What songs do you get all emotional over when you hear them?

For me every time I hear Kermit sing Rainbow Connection I get all choked up. It's been that way ever since Jim Hensen passed away.

Anyone else have a song that just hits them every time?

It's like we're twins or something....

Garth Brooks' song When You Come Back To Me Again from the movie Frequency. Honestly, pretty much his whole Scarecrow album is pretty intense and personal for me.

Death Letter Blues by Son House
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I got a letter this mornin, how do you reckon it read?
It said, "Hurry, hurry, yeah, your love is dead"
I got a letter this mornin, I say how do you reckon it read?
You know, it said, "Hurry, hurry, how come the gal you love is dead?"

So, I grabbed up my suitcase, and took off down the road
When I got there she was layin on a coolin' board
I grabbed up my suitcase, and I said and I took off down the road
I said, but when I got there she was already layin on a coolin' board

Well, I walked up right close, looked down in her face
Said, the good ol' gal got to lay here 'til the Judgment Day
I walked up right close, and I said I looked down in her face
I said the good ol' gal, she got to lay here 'til the Judgment Day

Looked like there was 10,000 people standin' round the buryin' ground
I didn't know I loved her 'til they laid her down
Looked like 10,000 were standin' round the buryin' ground
You know I didn't know I loved her 'til they damn laid her down

Lord, have mercy on my wicked soul
I wouldn't mistreat you baby, for my weight in gold
I said, Lord, have mercy on my wicked soul
You know I wouldn't mistreat nobody, baby, not for my weight in gold

Well, I folded up my arms and I slowly walked away
I said, "Farewell honey, I'll see you on Judgment Day"
Ah, yeah, oh, yes, I slowly walked away
I said, "Farewell, farewell, I'll see you on the Judgment Day"

You know I went in my room, I bowed down to pray
The blues came along and drove my spirit away
I went in my room, I said I bowed down to pray
I said the blues came along and drove my spirit away

You know I didn't feel so bad, 'til the good ol' sun went down
I didn't have a soul to throw my arms around
I didn't feel so bad, 'til the good ol' sun went down
You know, I didn't have nobody to throw my arms around

I loved you baby, like I love myself
You don't have me, you won't have nobody else
I loved you baby, better than I did myself
I said now if you don't have me, I didn't want you to have nobody else

You know, it's hard to love someone that don't love you
Ain't no satisfaction, don't care what in the world you do
Yeah, it's hard to love someone that don't love you
You know it don't look like satisfaction, don't care what in the world you do

Got up this mornin', just about the break of day
A-huggin' the pillow where she used to lay
Got up this mornin', just about the break of day
A-huggin' the pillow where my good gal used to lay

Got up this mornin', feelin' round for my shoes (note 1)
You know, I must-a had them old walkin' blues
Got up this mornin', feelin' round for my shoes
Yeah, you know bout that, I must-a had them old walkin' blues

You know, I cried last night and all the night before
Gotta change my way a livin', so I don't have to cry no more
You know, I cried last night and all the night before
Gotta change my way a livin', you see, so I don't have to cry no more

Ah, hush, thought I heard her call my name
If it wasn't so loud and so nice and plain

Well, listen, whatever you do
This is one thing, honey, I tried to get along with you
Yes, no tellin' what you do
I done everything I could, just to try and get along with you

Well, the minutes seemed like hours, hours they seemed like days
It seemed like my good, old gal outta done stopped her low-down ways
Minutes seemed like hours, hours they seemed like days
Seems like my good, old gal outta done stopped her low-down ways

You know, love's a hard ol' fall, make you do things you don't wanna do
Love sometimes leaves you feeling sad and blue
You know, love's a hard ol' fall, make you do things you don't wanna do
Love sometimes make you feel sad and blue

The Jeff Healy Band, "Angel Eyes". Reminds me how much I love my wife and how lucky I am to have her every time I hear it.

REO Speedwagon, "I Can't Fight This Feeling". High school. Was madly in love with my best friend, but was afraid to tell her my true feelings for fear of wrecking our friendship. I never told her how I felt.

Everything I Own — Bread

Temporary drift:
That's the song which has been driving me crazy!! We've been having some funky rain showers, and I've seen 2 rainbows this week, and the lyrics of that song popped into my head...sort of passively...but I couldn't remember where the hell the words came from!!

...back to your regularly scheduled sensitivity thread...

That "Cats in the cradle" song...chokes me up every time.

Edward

Roberta Flack's version of Killing Me Softly, as well as the Fugee's version touch a chord in me as well.

Kinda lived that one.

off the top of my head:

"Candy Says" by The Velvet Underground
"Hurt" by Nine Inch Nails (anything of theirs, really)
"I Wanna Be Your Dog" by Iggy and the Stooges
"Theresa's Sound World" by Sonic Youth

The Rainsong by Led Zeppelin is the song for me. It says everything and touches me in ways that are hard to express. It lifts my soul, fills me with sadness, and then wipes it all away in the end...leaving me with a smile. I have always equated that song with my own death for some reason, maybe more of a metaphorical death...a spiritual change, if you will. It will be played at my memorial service.

Bui doi from Miss Saigon. Waterworks.

I completely forgot about (blocked out) a song that literally brings me to tears nearly every time I listen to it:
Travelin' Soldier by The Dixie Chicks

Dolly Parton had one "Coat of Many Colors".

Edward

I wrote a song today that made me very sad.

I sang with Harry Chapin.

I worked backstage at a Harry Chapin performance at Armstrong State College in Savannah, GA. Before he went onstage, Harry came around and introduced himself to all of us working the show. When he got to me, I asked him if I could sing with him. He looked at me like I'd grown a second head. I said, "I just want to be able to say to people that 'I sang with Harry Chapin.'" He laughed and said sure and right there, backstage we sang the first verse and the chorus of "Cat's In the Cradle" together. I thanked him, he thanked me(!) and then he went out and gave his performance. He died about six months later. Since then, I cry every time I hear the song.

I envy you.

Edward

"Wildfire" by Michael Murphy. First the horse freezes, then the girl freezes, and then both horse and girl come back as ghosts to collect the singer. Pathos!

Seriously though, probably "Moments Of Pleasure" by Kate Bush is a big one for me.

Michael

The Wreck of The Edmund Fitzgerald.


Edward

'Ain't No Sunshine' by Bill Withers
First heard it about 30 years ago, still does it to me.