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What song lyrics 'get you' every time?

  • 19-04-2017 4:43pm
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    Registered Users Posts: 12,941 ✭✭✭✭


    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?

    To thine own self be true



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  • Registered Users Posts: 13,477 ✭✭✭✭sryanbruen


    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"


  • Registered Users Posts: 12,941 ✭✭✭✭Purple Mountain


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

    To thine own self be true



  • Registered Users Posts: 56 ✭✭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.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,505 ✭✭✭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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,844 ✭✭✭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.


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  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 2,147 Mod ✭✭✭✭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)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,285 ✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users Posts: 12,941 ✭✭✭✭Purple Mountain


    "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?

    To thine own self be true



  • Registered Users Posts: 13,477 ✭✭✭✭sryanbruen


    What's the name?

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


  • Registered Users Posts: 12,941 ✭✭✭✭Purple Mountain


    sryanbruen 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 :)

    To thine own self be true



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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,285 ✭✭✭Summer wind


    What's the name?

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


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,843 ✭✭✭kevthegaff


    2 outta 3 ain't bad meatloaf


  • Registered Users Posts: 12,941 ✭✭✭✭Purple Mountain


    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!

    To thine own self be true



  • Registered Users Posts: 56 ✭✭omah


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


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 80 ✭✭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


  • Registered Users Posts: 5 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.



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