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More Than A Feeling Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-14-05 01:57 PM
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What song makes you cry?
Bang the Drum Slowly by Emmylou Harris

I meant to ask you how to fix that car
I always meant to ask you about the war
And what you saw across a bridge too far
Did it leave a scar

Or how you navigated wings of fire and steel
Up where heaven had no more secrets to conceal
And still you found the ground beneath your wheels
How did it feel

Bang the drum slowly play the pipe lowly
To dust be returning from dust we begin
Bang the drum slowly I'll speak of things holy
Above and below me world without end

I meant to ask you how when everything seemed lost
And your fate was in a game of dice they tossed
There was still that line that you would never cross
At any cost

I meant to ask you how you lived what you believed
With nothing but your heart up your sleeve
And if you ever really were deceived
By the likes of me

Bang the drum slowly play the pipe lowly
To dust be returning from dust we begin
Bang the drum slowly I'll speak of things holy
Above and below me world without end

Gone now is the day and gone the sun
There is peace tonight all over Arlington
But the songs of my life will still be sung
By the light of the moon you hung

I meant to ask you how to plow that field
I meant to bring you water from the well
And be the one beside you when you fell
Could you tell

Bang the drum slowly play the pipe lowly
To dust be returning from dust we begin
Bang the drum slowly I'll speak of things holy
Above and below me world without end
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bertha katzenengel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-14-05 02:01 PM
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1. how much time do you have?
I love the entire album that "Bang the Drum Slowly" came from. GREAT album. From it, the one that makes me cry the most is "Michaelangelo."
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JimmyJazz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-14-05 02:02 PM
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2. O Mio Babbino Caro -
There's nothing like a little Puccini if you need a good cry :)
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tjwmason Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-14-05 04:22 PM
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21. Yeah - if you want to run out of the room crying
in an attempt to drown out the noise from the stereo :P

Only joking JJ it is quite a wonderful piece.
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JimmyJazz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-14-05 05:22 PM
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27. I know you are an expert in classical music and that you have great
taste and all, but picking on my selection is like me picking on you for saying your favorite Clash song is Rock the Casbah. :(
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tjwmason Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-15-05 03:30 AM
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53. It was only some mild joshing.
I agree that it's an ideal choice - certainly what is being discussed is somewhat tear-jerking.

On the other hand, I disagree that I have great taste.

:loveya:
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southlandshari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-14-05 02:03 PM
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3. "Walk Away" (Ben Harper)
Oh no- here comes that sun again.
And (that) means another day without you my friend.
And it hurts me to look into the mirror at myself.
And it hurts even more to have to be with somebody else.

And it's so hard to do and so easy to say.
But sometimes - sometimes,
you just have to walk away - walk away.

With so many people to love in my life, why do I worry about one?
But you put the happy in my ness, you put the good times into my fun.

And it's so hard to do and so easy to say.
But sometimes - sometimes,
you just have to walk away - walk away and head for the door.

We've tried the goodbye so many days.
We walk in the same direction so that we could never stray.
They say if you love somebody than you have got to set them free,
but I would rather be locked to you than live in this pain and misery.
They say time will make all this go away,
but it's time that has taken my tomorrows and turned them into yesterdays.
And once again that rising sun is droppin' on down
And once again, you my friend, are nowhere to be found.

And it's so hard to do and so easy to say.
But sometimes, sometimes you just have to walk away, walk away and head for the door.
You just walk away - walk away - walk away.
You just walk away, walk on, turn and head for the door.


:cry:
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WeRQ4U Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-14-05 03:14 PM
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12. I flippin' LOVE that song.
Great tune. DOesn't make me cry though.
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southlandshari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-14-05 03:16 PM
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13. It is a beautiful song
Touches the soul.

But makes me cry, too. But that may just be because I'm a big sap...

:hide:
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XNASA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-14-05 02:03 PM
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4. Puff the Magic Dragon
:cry:
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Theres-a Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-15-05 09:50 AM
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65. Every.Time.
:cry:
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DeposeTheBoyKing Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-14-05 02:03 PM
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5. Peabo Bryson's "Can You Stop The Rain"
Here's another morning without you
Here's another day; will I get through it
Without breaking down?
Haven't seen the sun since you've been gone
Like my heart, I lost it when you left me
And it can't be found

How can I go on?
Baby, I'd be living on memories
Of you and me
All the love we made
All those tender nights
And those endless days
They're all here inside

Baby, can you stop the rain from falling?
Won't you chase my clouds away?
I'd give anything to see the sun again
Only you can stop these tears from falling
I can't face another day
Baby, can you stop
Can you stop the rain?

Ev'rywhere I go, I feel you there
Following my footsteps like a shadow
Of my broken heart
Sometimes, it's a pair of passing eyes
Or it's just the way someone is talking
And there you are

Am I all alone?
Don't you ever wake up
And reach for me
Where I used to be?
Is there any chance?
I just can't believe
You're not lonely, too
Just for me and you

If you were here for only one night
Baby, I know you'd remember
'Cause loving you once wasn't time enough
I know we can make it together
Together

Baby, stop the rain
Won't you chase my clouds away?
I'd give anything to see the sun again
Only you can stop these tears of mine from falling
I can't face another day
Baby, can you stop
Can you, can you stop the rain?

How can I live without you, baby?
How could I let you go?
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HEyHEY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-14-05 02:19 PM
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6. Puff the Magic Dragon - I always cry when I hear it.
And also "Till I am myself again" by Blue Rodeo.
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anarch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-14-05 02:23 PM
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7. "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald"
by Gordon Lightfoot

At least it does if I've had a few, and start really thinking about the subject matter....

_____________


The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down
Of the big lake they call Gitche Gumee
The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead
When the skies of November turn gloomy.

With a load of iron ore - 26,000 tons more
Than the Edmund Fitzgerald weighed empty
That good ship and true was a bone to be chewed
When the gales of November came early

The ship was the pride of the American side
Coming back from some mill in Wisconson
As the big freighters go it was bigger than most
With a crew and the Captain well seasoned.

Concluding some terms with a couple of steel firms
When they left fully loaded for Cleveland
And later that night when the ships bell rang
Could it be the North Wind they'd been feeling.

The wind in the wires made a tattletale sound
And a wave broke over the railing
And every man knew, as the Captain did, too,
T'was the witch of November come stealing.

The dawn came late and the breakfast had to wait
When the gales of November came slashing
When afternoon came it was freezing rain
In the face of a hurricane West Wind

When supper time came the old cook came on deck
Saying fellows it's too rough to feed ya
At 7PM a main hatchway caved in
He said fellas it's been good to know ya.

The Captain wired in he had water coming in
And the good ship and crew was in peril
And later that night when his lights went out of sight
Came the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.

Does anyone know where the love of God goes
When the words turn the minutes to hours
The searchers all say they'd have made Whitefish Bay
If they'd fifteen more miles behind her.

They might have split up or they might have capsized
They may have broke deep and took water
And all that remains is the faces and the names
Of the wives and the sons and the daughters.

Lake Huron rolls, Superior sings
In the ruins of her ice water mansion
Old Michigan steams like a young man's dreams,
The islands and bays are for sportsmen.

And farther below Lake Ontario
Takes in what Lake Erie can send her
And the iron boats go as the mariners all know
With the gales of November remembered.

In a musty old hall in Detroit they prayed
In the Maritime Sailors' Cathedral
The church bell chimed, 'til it rang 29 times
For each man on the Edmund Fitzgerald.

The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down
Of the big lake they call Gitche Gumee
Superior, they say, never gives up her dead
When the gales of November come early.
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no name no slogan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-14-05 02:28 PM
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8. 30th anniversary of the Fitz sinking is coming up
in November. If it's anything like the 25th or 20th, they'll have a very cool commemoration of her and her crew in Duluth (her last port of call before she sunk).

I've done a fair amount of research on the Fitz and other ore boats of her era, and the story is extremely tragic. Those boats were severely under-equipped for the journeys they made-- for example, they didn't even have electronic depthfinders on them in the 70s. To measure depth, a crewmember had to literally toss a line with lead sinker on it overboard and record the number of knots on the rope that were showing!!! Plus the fact that there was a serious lack of US Coast Guard vessels available in the area to carry out search and rescue, and it gets to the level of infuriating. It's a tragedy that didn't need to happen.

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whatsername Donating Member (45 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-14-05 09:03 PM
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49. Thanks Anarch!
I am teased mercilessly at work for once saying how this song reminded me how sad I used to get when my dad would go to sea for months at a time (USCG). I always worried about him even though I was pretty young at the time.
The teasers are kitchen guys whom I've known for years and it's all good natured, but its getting old!
So now everytime it comes on they're like "Where's LJ, she's not crying is she?"
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xmas74 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-15-05 10:24 AM
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72. Doesn't make me cry.
Just gives me the chills.
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anarch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-15-05 10:31 AM
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75. yeah, the chills start for me right around the "wind in the wires..." part
but I'll tear up by the end of the song, especially if I've been drinking.
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xmas74 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-15-05 10:36 AM
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76. When I'm drinking I can cry to just about anything.
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Rising Phoenix Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-14-05 02:31 PM
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9. This Women's Work by Kate Bush
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livetohike Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-14-05 02:37 PM
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10. Cry Baby (Janis Joplin)
The lyrics don't convey the emotion in Janis' voice, but it always gives me the chills and it always makes me cry.

Cry baby, cry baby, cry baby,
Honey, welcome back home.

I know she told you,
Honey I know she told you that she loved you
Much more than I did,
But all I know is that she left you,
And you swear that you just don’t know why,
But you know, honey I’ll always,
I’ll always be around if you ever want me
Come on and cry, cry baby, cry baby, cry baby,
Oh honey, welcome back home.

Don’t you know, honey,
Ain’t nobody ever gonna love you
The way I try to do ?
Who’ll take all your pain,
Honey, your heartache, too ?
And if you need me, you know
That I’ll always be around if you ever want me
Come on and cry, cry baby, cry baby, cry baby,
Oh daddy, like you always saying to do.

And when you walk around the world, babe,
You said you’d try to look for the end of the road,
You might find out later that the road’ll end in detroit,
Honey, the road’ll even end in kathmandu.
You can go all around the world
Trying to find something to do with your life, baby,
When you only gotta do one thing well,
You only gotta do one thing well to make it in this world, babe.
You got a woman waiting for you there,
All you ever gotta do is be a good man one time to one woman
And that’ll be the end of the road, babe,
I know you got more tears to share, babe,
So come on, come on, come on, come on, come on,
And cry, cry baby, cry baby, cry baby.

And if you ever feel a little lonely, dear,
I want you to come on, come on to your mama now,
And if you ever want a little love of a woman
Come on and baby baby baby babe babe baby now
Cry baby yeah.
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ernstbass Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-14-05 03:12 PM
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11. Hello In There - John Prine
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WeRQ4U Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-14-05 03:16 PM
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14. Jewel makes my ears hurt so bad I cry. Does that count?
Otherwise, nothing really.
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Meatwad Donating Member (330 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-14-05 03:17 PM
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15. On Top of Spaghetti
:cry:
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CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-14-05 03:19 PM
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16. My Heart Will Go On...
From the movie Titanic.....
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VelmaD Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-14-05 03:20 PM
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17. Please please PLEASE...
tell me you're kidding.
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ThreeCatNight Donating Member (930 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-14-05 03:20 PM
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18. Eva Cassidy's version of Over The Rainbow nt
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Calliope Donating Member (177 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-14-05 08:23 PM
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45. And her version of Fields of Gold
I also have the CD where she sings What a Wonderful World recorded shortly before she died. Talk about tears.
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ThreeCatNight Donating Member (930 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-15-05 07:07 AM
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55. Seems the brightest stars burn the shortest time....nt
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Theres-a Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-15-05 09:52 AM
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66. God yes
:cry:
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Clintmax Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-14-05 04:03 PM
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19. "Wind Beneath My Wings" by Bette Midler
Once that song starts, just grab the tissues cause you're gonna cry.

That one and: "Butterfly Kisses" by Bob Carlisle
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mainegreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-14-05 04:12 PM
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20. Dissapoint by Assemblage 23
Its about the his father, who committed suicide:

Disappoint

Just one more time
For the sake of sanity
Tell me why
Explain the gravity
That drove you to this
That brought you to this place
That pushed you down
Into the soil's embrace

Give me the chance
I was denied
To sit and talk with you
For one last time

CH
Did I disappoint you?
Did I let you down?
Did I stand on the shore
And watch you as you drowned?
Can you forgive me?
I never knew
The pain you carried
Deep inside of you.

I can't forget
Having to see
The words that knocked the wind
Right out of me
It's not enough
I've come undone
Trying to find sense
Where there is none

Just give me peace
You owe me that
To help ward off the fears
I must combat

(CH)

And so I ask
For one more chance
To understand
This senseless circumstance
Help me to see
This through your eyes
The reasons I've been trying
To surmise

Though you are gone
I am still your son
And while your pain is over
Mine has just begun
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WCGreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-14-05 04:23 PM
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22. The Circle Game....
And the Bravest.......
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TexasBushwhacker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-14-05 04:28 PM
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23. My Immortal by Evanescence n/t
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raptor_rider Donating Member (517 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-14-05 08:28 PM
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46. It is the same
Edited on Wed Sep-14-05 08:30 PM by raptor_rider
with me. Though my father is still alive, however there was a time when he was going through a lot of heart ache with my mother and was always turning to me. It was very hard for me. The problems just never left.

My Immortal

I'm so tired of being here
Suppressed by all my childish fears
And if you have to leave
I wish that you would just leave
'Cause your presence still lingers here
And it won't leave me alone

These wounds won't seem to heal
This pain is just too real
There's just too much that time cannot erase


When you cried I'd wipe away all of your tears
When you'd scream I'd fight away all of your fears
And I held your hand through all of these years
But you still have
All of me

You used to captivate me
By your resonating light
Now I'm bound by the life you left behind
Your face it haunts
My once pleasant dreams
Your voice it chased away
All the sanity in me

These wounds won't seem to heal
This pain is just too real
There's just too much that time cannot erase

When you cried I'd wipe away all of your tears
When you'd scream I'd fight away all of your fears
And I held your hand through all of these years
But you still have
All of me

I've tried so hard to tell myself that you're gone
But though you're still with me
I've been alone all along

When you cried I'd wipe away all of your tears
When you'd scream I'd fight away all of your fears
And I held your hand through all of these years
But you still have
All of me
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TexasBushwhacker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-15-05 09:13 AM
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57. It makes me think about my mom
She passed away in January of 2004 after a long battle with breast cancer. I got to take care of her the last months of her life. I knew I would grieve the loss, but I never realized how much I'd miss her.
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non sociopath skin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-14-05 04:35 PM
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24. Eric Bogle's "The Band Played Waltzing Matilda"
Edited on Wed Sep-14-05 04:36 PM by non sociopath skin
IMHO the best anti-war song ever.

The Skin


When I was a young man I carried my pack
And lived the free life of the rover
From the Murray's Green Basin to the dusty outback
I waltzed my Matilda all over
Then in 1915 my country said "Son,
It's time to stop rambling, there's work to be done."
So they gave me a tin hat and they gave me a gun
And they sent me away to the war

And the band played Waltzing Matilda
As the ship pulled away from the quay
Amidst all the cheers, flag waving and tears
We sailed off for Gallipoli

It's well I remember that terrible day
Our blood stained the sands and the waters
And how in that hell that they called Souvla Bay
We were butchered like lambs at the slaughter
Johnny Turkey' was ready, he'd primed himself well
He rained us with bullets and he showered us with shell
And in five minutes flat he'd blown us all to hell
Nearly blew us right back to Australia

And the band played Waltzing Matilda
As we stopped to bury our slain
We buried ours and the Turks buried theirs
Then it started all over again

Those who were living did their best to survive
In that mad world of death, blood and fire
For ten weary weeks I kept myself alive
While around me the corpses piled higher
Then a big Turkish shell knocked me arse-over-head
And when I awoke in my hospital bed
And saw what it had done, Christ, I wished I was dead
Never knew there were worse things than dying

For no more I'll go waltzing Matilda
All around the green bush far and near
For to hang tents and pegs a man needs two legs
No more waltzing Matilda for me

They collected the wounded, the crippled and maimed
And shipped us back home to Australia
The armless, the legless, the blind and insane
The proud, wounded heroes of Souvla
And as our ship pulled into Circular Quay
I looked at the place where my legs used to be
And thanked Christ there was no one there waiting for me
To mourn and to grieve and to pity

And the band played Waltzing Matilda
As they carried us down the gangway
But nobody cheered, they just stood there and stared
Then they turned all their faces away

So now every April I sit on my porch
And watch the parade pass before me
I see my old comrades, how proudly they march
Reliving their days of past glory
I see the old men all twisted and torn
The tired old heroes of a forgotten war
And the young people ask me "What are they marching for?"
And I ask myself the same question

And the band plays Waltzing Matilda
And the old men still answer the call
Year after year, their numbers get fewer
Some day no one will march there at all

Waltzing Matilda, Waltzing Matilda
Who'll go a'waltzing Matilda with me?

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henslee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-14-05 04:37 PM
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25. Imagine by J.L. always sends a chill.
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ceile Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-14-05 04:38 PM
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26. "I Wanna be Adored" Stone Roses
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Arugula Latte Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-14-05 06:58 PM
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37. Oh yeah. That's a good song. I haven't thought about it in a long time.
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Shakespeare Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-14-05 05:32 PM
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28. One got me the other night that I wasn't expecting - "When She Loved Me"
Edited on Wed Sep-14-05 05:43 PM by Shakespeare
During the Katrina telethon Friday night, they were playing the instrumental stretch (simple piano) from Sarah McLachlin's song in Toy Story 2, "When she loved me." Absolutely destroyed me, and I sat there sobbing on the couch.

It's a heartbreaking song to begin with, but I guess with the added context of Katrina, it was just overwhelming. And doesn't it just figure that Randy Newman wrote the damn thing? I was already in tears from his performance of "Louisiana 1927."
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blondeatlast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-14-05 05:43 PM
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30. I was going to say "When She Loved Me." TS2 was the first movie
my son, then 4, ever saw; he sat absolutely transfixed at the screen.

He was so enchanted he didn't make a sound. When that song came on, all I could think of was that this magic would NEVER happen again and of course the song is a tear-jerker and a half anyway.

I became a blubbering fool. Luckily, the theater was filled with other moms of fairly young kids and I could hear several sobs all around me!
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Shakespeare Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-14-05 05:47 PM
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31. aaawwww, how sweet
Pixar and Randy Newman make a formidable combination, don't they?

I was in a theater full of sniffling grownups when I saw Monsters, Inc. (which remains my very, very, VERY favorite Pixar flick). I think it's perfectly acceptable to cry at Pixar-produced tug-at-heartstrings moments. ;-)
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raptor_rider Donating Member (517 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-14-05 08:32 PM
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48. The first time I watched that movie
My daughter was 3 and man, it just killed me. I sat there crying like a baby, just thinking about when my daughter grows up and when she becomes a teenager, knowing myself when I was a teen. :-(
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Jamastiene Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-14-05 05:38 PM
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29. "Brighter Day" by Joan Jett
(Joan Jett/Desmond Child)

I watch my generation die
I watch the heads of nations lie
I watch the homeless on the streets
I stand here helpless just
Lookin' at my feet
I watch the children run away
The bullets fly where they should play
I watch a junkie fade away
I ain't got an answer
But I sure got things to say
Hey, I gotta find a way
Cause the road is dark
Gotta light my way
Gotta fight the fear
In my heart
Oh, I pray
I live to see
A brighter day, hey hey

I watch the old folks sit alone
They talk to ghosts they used to know
Where are the wise men of the tribe
Where are the midwives and the newborn's cry, yeah

Now if I could I'd turn back time
Way back before there was corporate crime
We'd fight the wind to plant our seed
When the earth was stronger than human greed
Hey, hey, I gotta find a way
Cause night is dark
Gotta light my way
Gotta fight the fear
In my heart
Oh I pray
I live to see
A brighter day...hey, hey

I'm not tryin' to tell ya
What's right or wrong
I'm not trying to be clever
You gotta hope things get better
Even when they never...hey, hey, hey

Hey hey, I gotta find a way
Cause road is dark
Gotta light my way
Gotta fight the fear
In my heart
Oh, I pray
I live to see
A brighter day...hey, hey

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blonndee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-14-05 05:49 PM
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32. The Unplugged version of "All Apologies,"
along with Sinead O'Connor's version of it.
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Tikki Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-14-05 05:53 PM
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33. "Stepping Out"......by Joe Jackson....
....kind of a personal life event type thing....When I hear these lyrics..

...you can dress in pink and blue just like a child...
...and in a yellow taxi turn to me and smile...
...we'll be there in just a while...
...if you follow me...


..I cry.

PS...a happy cry.

Tikki
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xmas74 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-15-05 10:27 AM
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73. I love that song!
Might have to download it right now.
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jackelope72 Donating Member (726 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-14-05 05:58 PM
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34. Several sung by Bette Midler do it to me...
Her versions of
Shiver Me Timbers
Since You Stayed Here
Hello In There
In My Life
Dreamland

Both Linda Eder's and Paul Simon's versions of "Bridge Over Troubled Water"

"A Little Fall of Rain" from "Les Miserables"

"Regimental Drummer" and "I Never Knew His Name" from Frank Wildhorne's "The Civil War: An American Musical"
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RandomKoolzip Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-14-05 05:58 PM
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35. Many, many songs have made me cry.
Here's but a few:

"Lullaby" Ben Folds Five
"Fight Test" Flaming Lips
"Ooh La La" The Faces
"Change Gonna Come" Otis Redding (probably THE #1 song on my list)
"I Wish I was Your Mother" Mott the Hoople
"I Just Can't Keep From Crying" Blind Willie Johnson
"Eight Miles High" Husker Du
"Blue Red and Grey" The Who


Nowadays, almost every John Lennon song I hear on the radio makes me cry. I don't know why that is.
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Shoeempress Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-14-05 05:58 PM
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36. Part time I stream a Boston Station which carries AAR. During
commercial breaks they play song clips. They were playing Alanis Morrisette's "Head over Feet" (I think that's the name). WTF! That song could bring me to tears in4 lines. I only cry for national disasters or animal abuse and I hate what I call whiny girl music. (No offense meant, I just like loud angry music generally).
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Left Is Write Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-14-05 07:06 PM
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38. "Hallelujah"
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salin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-14-05 07:10 PM
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39. when I was a kid: Shannon
does anyone remember that song?
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kmla Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-15-05 09:46 AM
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63. Yep. About a dog that drowned.
Poor Shannon.

I think some falsetto dude by the name of Henry Gross warbled that one, IIRC.
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jus_the_facts Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-14-05 07:10 PM
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40. Wish You Were Here ~ Pink Floyd........


So, so you think you can tell Heaven from Hell,
blue skies from pain.
Can you tell a green field from a cold steel rail? A smile from a veil?
Do you think you can tell?

And did they get you trade your heroes for ghosts?
Hot ashes for trees? Hot air for a cool breeze?
Cold comfort for change? And did you exchange
a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage?

How I wish, how I wish you were here.
We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl,
year after year,
running over the same old ground. What have we found?
The same old fears,
wish you were here.
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GOPisEvil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-15-05 09:15 AM
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58. Watching Live8 and hearing this, so soon after Andy...
:cry:
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jus_the_facts Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-15-05 10:22 AM
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71. Yeah I imangine so....sigh........
:cry:

:hug:
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Cocoa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-14-05 07:33 PM
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41. "Old Blue"
the Byrds version.

bye bye Blue, you good dog you. :cry:
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Telly Savalas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-14-05 07:59 PM
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42. Uptown Girl by Billy Joel
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enigmatic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-14-05 08:04 PM
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43. "Closing Time"- Tom Waits
Never fails. Plus a number of songs off this amzing record:

http://www.keyofz.com/keyofz/langley/
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Theres-a Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-15-05 09:56 AM
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67. So many Tom Waits songs make me cry.
I actually stopped in this thread because I was listening to "Small Change" this morning,to hear "I wish I was in New Orleans",as it has been running through my mind alot lately.It's raining buckets here today.I need a good cry.
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Marie26 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-14-05 08:07 PM
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44. "Hallelujah" - Jeff Buckley. It's just beautiful.
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xmas74 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-15-05 10:28 AM
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74. Another Buckley fan on here.
Welcome to DU!
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AlCzervik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-14-05 08:28 PM
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47. Bridge over troubled water as sung by Johnny Cash.
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sakabatou Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-14-05 09:05 PM
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50. Is it Real by Yoko Kanno
Figurines that fall like leaves,
Then disappear,
Keep calling.
Is it real? Is it real?

Dark machines that wheeze and breathe,
And mark the air,
Appalling.
"What is real? What is real?"

This world can really be too much,
I can't take another day.
I guess that I've just had enough
My mind's slipping far away.
I'm falling in and out of touch,
Can someone please explain?

Set my mind for open sky
But couldn't fly,
And so sadly,
What am I? what am I?

Sullen eyes shed tear-drop lies,
then criticise,
Now loving.
"What is real? What is real?"

It's really all become too much,
I'm not sure what I should feel.
I guess I've finally had enough,
I don't know if this is real.
I'm crashing in and out of touch,
Can anyone explain?
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Splatter Phoenix Donating Member (626 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-14-05 09:09 PM
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51. mm...
Goo Goo Dolls' Iris...it makes me bawl like an infant...I always connect it to a dear, dear friend of mine...who i'm having trouble with right now.
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Raster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-14-05 09:15 PM
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52. Dolly Parton's: I Will Always Love You
By Dolly, early Dolly.

And that kiddies was my 3000th post!!!!
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In_The_Wind Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-15-05 04:24 AM
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54.  Tears In Heaven Eric Clapton
Would you know my name
If I saw you in heaven
Will it be the same
If I saw you in heaven
I must be strong, and carry on
Cause I know I don't belong
Here in heaven

Would you hold my hand
If I saw you in heaven
Would you help me stand
If I saw you in heaven
I'll find my way, through night and day
Cause I know I just can't stay
Here in heaven

Time can bring you down
Time can bend your knee
Time can break your heart
Have you begging please
Begging please

Beyond the door
There's peace I'm sure.
And I know there'll be no more...
Tears in heaven

Would you know my name
If I saw you in heaven
Will it be the same
If I saw you in heaven
I must be strong, and carry on
Cause I know I don't belong
Here in heaven

Cause I know I don't belong
Here in heaven
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seemunkee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-15-05 07:19 AM
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56. What a Wonderful World
So gentle and peaceful
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Lochloosa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-15-05 09:18 AM
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59. Johnny Cash's version of "Hurt"....and the video
w/ June looking down on him from the stairs....oh man...

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huskerlaw Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-15-05 09:21 AM
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60. Hallelujah ~Jeff Buckley
Well I heard there was a secret chord
that David played and it pleased the Lord
But you don't really care for music, do ya?
Well it goes like this:
The fourth, the fifth, the minor fall and the major lift
The baffled king composing Hallelujah

Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah

Well your faith was strong but you needed proof
You saw her bathing on the roof
Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew ya
And she tied you to her kitchen chair
And she broke your throne and she cut your hair
And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah

Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah

Well baby, I've been there before
I've seen this room, and I've walked this floor,
You know, I used to live alone before I knew you
And I've seen your flag on the marble arch
And Love is not a victory march
It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah

Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah

Well there was a time when you let me know
What's really going on below
But now you never show that to me, do ya
But remember when I moved in you
And the holy dove was moving too
And every breath we drew was Hallelujah

Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah

Maybe there is a God above
But all I ever learned from love
Was how to shoot at somebody who outdrew ya
And it's not a cray that you hear at night
It's not somebody who's seen the light
It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah

Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah

*First time I heard it was during the episode Posse Comitatus, West Wing. Makes me tear up every time.
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MN ChimpH8R Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-15-05 09:25 AM
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61. "High Hopes" by Pink Floyd
because it makes me yearn for times long past so deeply. Dave Gilmour's concluding rage-against-the-dying-of-the-light guitar solo gives me the chills every time.

High Hopes

Beyond the horizon of the place we lived when we were young
In a world of magnets and miracles
Our thoughts strayed constantly and without boundary
The ringing of the division bell had begun

Along the Long Road and on down the Causeway
Do they still meet there by the Cut

There was a ragged band that followed our footsteps
Running before time took our dreams away
Leaving the myriad small creatures trying to tie us to the ground
To a life consumed by slow decay

The grass was greener
The light was brighter
With friends surrounded
The nights of wonder

Looking beyond the embers of bridges glowing behind us
To a glimpse of how green it was on the other side
Steps taken forwards but sleepwalking back again
Dragged by force of some inner tide

At a higher altitude with flag unfurled
We reached the dizzy heights of that dreamed of world

Encumbered forever by desire and ambition
There's a hunger still unsatisfied
Our weary eyes still stray to the horizon
Though down this road we've been so many times

The grass was greener
The light was brighter
The taste was sweeter
The nights of wonder
With friends surrounded
The dawn mist growing
The water flowing
The endless river

Forever and ever.......
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Coventina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-15-05 09:35 AM
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62. "Wave of Mutilation" by the Pixies
Well, it doesn't normally make me cry, but when iPod played it while I was driving the other day, I burst into tears.

I think it has to do with my Katrina angst.
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kmla Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-15-05 09:48 AM
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64. Ummm. Puff the Magic Dragon.
You gotta have young boys to appreciate the teariness of that one, though....
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Ron Mexico Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-15-05 10:00 AM
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68. For the last five years, "Hail to the Chief" has done it. (n/t)
:(
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Theres-a Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-15-05 10:02 AM
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69. This Old Porch
Lyle Lovett.And "Wounded Heart" by Bonnie Raitt.Top two,I am a crier,I have always felt safe crying to music,so I have a long list!It's a good thing.Tears water the soul for growth.;)
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derby378 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-15-05 10:06 AM
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70. TIME - The Alan Parsons Project (n/t)
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