What song lyrics 'get you' every time?

Purple Mountain

I'm here with someone who is doing household jobs and has a Tommy Fleming CD playing.
Christmas 1915 has just finished and I have tears streaming down my cheeks.
Such an evocative story about the reality and brutality of trench war.
Every time I hear that song I cry a silent tear for the boy who sang in no man's land.
What about you-what gets you?

sryanbruen

Purple Mountain wrote: »

I'm here with someone who is doing household jobs and has a Tommy Fleming CD playing.
Christmas 1915 has just finished and I have tears streaming down my cheeks.
Such an evocative story about the reality and brutality of trench war.
Every time I hear that song I cry a silent tear for the boy who sang in no man's land.
What about you-what gets you?

Boyzone's Gave It All Away get me going into tears and thinking my life through. Such a beautiful song. These lines get me every time in particular along with the music:

"Some people wait, for a lifetime chance like this
I've waited enough,
Baby you know, I won't let you go
I'm sick of tears and bitter fears"

Purple Mountain

^ I'd forgotten that song.
Strong lyrics alright.

omah

Kilkelly is an emigration song based on letters between family members in Ireland and USA - very sad, always shed a tear when I hear it.

infogiver

Sara , your the poet in my heart, never change...
Sara by Fleetwood Mac
Sara is stevie nicks alter ego and she wrote this after having an abortion during her fling with Don Henley of the Eagles.
The anguish in her voice is searing.

Banjoxed

omah wrote: »

Kilkelly is an emigration song based on letters between family members in Ireland and USA - very sad, always shed a tear when I hear it.

Isn't it grand by the Clancy Brothers tackles death and mourning in a suitably sensitive and emotional way.

Oink

Banjoxed wrote: »

Isn't it grand by the Clancy Brothers tackles death and mourning in a suitably sensitive and emotional way.

You can't beat Willie Mc Bride/Green fields of France for that. When I actually paid attention to the words and realised it was a dad talking about his son... Right in the feels. Those bloody drum and fife.

Some of the old classics are classics for a reason. From Clare to Here has me bawling every time, nevermind Scorn Not His Simplicity.

A newer song that gets me is Jar of Hearts. "You're going to catch a cold from the ice inside your soul". "Don't come back for me/Don't come at all"

(EDIT: and speaking of Stevie Nicks: "Landslide". Chills down my spine)

Summer wind

"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 your tears
When you screamed I'd fight away all your fears
And I held your hand through all of these years
But you still have all of me"

I've always loved this song.

Purple Mountain

Summer wind wrote: »

"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 your tears
When you screamed I'd fight away all your fears
And I held your hand through all of these years
But you still have all of me"

I've always loved this song.

What's the name?

sryanbruen

Purple Mountain wrote: »

What's the name?

My Immortal. You do know that you can easily copy and paste the lyrics anyway to find out.

Purple Mountain

sryanbruen wrote: »

Purple Mountain wrote: »

What's the name?

My Immortal. You do know that you can easily copy and paste the lyrics anyway to find out.

Yes. But that defeats the point of a chat thread

Summer wind

Purple Mountain wrote: »

What's the name?

Hi PM the song is called My Immortal and its from Evanescence. I'm a big fan:)

kevthegaff

2 outta 3 ain't bad meatloaf

Purple Mountain

Summer wind wrote: »

Purple Mountain wrote: »

What's the name?

Hi PM the song is called My Immortal and its from Evanescence. I'm a big fan:)

That's a new one for me!

omah

That Meatloaf song is a good one alright, it's a classic

KevW24601

Continuing on Meat Loaf, all of the Meat Loaf stuff is very powerful for me but the most powerful sentiment in any song is the second line in Anything For Love,

"I'd run right into Hell and back".

It's clever in the sense that relates to associations of Bat Out Of Hell and all that, but it goes far beyond than a "suffering for love" sentiment for me as it makes me think a lot of the myth of Orpheus and how he basically did that. It encapsulates the emotions of love and brings them out with images of a big, life-or-death fantasy world. :P

And has me writing treatises on message forums explaining about this fantasy world of the lyrics. :P

Joshua B

In my eyes

Indisposed

In disguises no one knows

Hides the face

Lies the snake

And the sun in my disgrace

Boiling heat

Summer stench

Neath the black, the sky looks dead

Call my name

Through the cream

And I'll hear you scream again

Black hole sun

Won't you come

And wash away the rain?

Black hole sun

Won't you come

Prety different as compared to the others on here but "Black Hole Sun" by soundgarden gets me every time.