Songs that emotionally cut you

Not a song but and album; Rufus Wainwright, All Days are Nights.

Plenty more besides, good music should make you feel something, if it doesn't then you need to listen to something else.
 
This is a strange one, it’s a low key sombre piece of music, but I’ve included a specific music video which I presume was created by some students as part of a project as this was the version my housemate at uni used to put on. The video itself is extremely moving and I do miss my old Housemate too as he lives in Oz.

 
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If you like me won't you stay a little while?
We could count the falling stars above our heads.
Will you walk with me another lonesome mile?
And if you should hear a distant voice
Calling from the bottom of the well...
Well, it's just me---I fell in years ago,
When I stumbled onto
The road that leads to heaven.
See the pretty cloud? It's shaped just like a dove.
There is a gust of wind, now it's a famous movie star...
It's reminding me of someone I once loved...
Another gust of wind,
And now it's just a cloud again...
With so much wrote between the lines
You can go crazy trying to read the signs
On the road that leads to heaven.
And on the road map of my heart you are a city
Throwing bright and shining lights into the sky
But this highway I am riding, it just goes on
Passing by, sorry I
Would love to
Hold you in my arms
But today and always
I'm afraid...
Yes I'm afraid I'm on the road that leads to
Heaven...
Your video wasn't working hopefully this one will. Apologies if its the wrong one.

Jim White - The road that leads to heaven

 
A second one from me. This is a song by The Men They Couldn't Hang called The Family Way. The song is written by Paul Simmonds (who is my absolute song writing hero - very much my Dylan), and sung by Stefan Cush, who tragically passed away a couple of weeks ago. Stefan was one of the band's co-singers alongside Swill Odgers. I have played this so much recently, and it brings back very significant memories in my life: The Mean Fiddler with a great pal that I haven't seen I years, and countless TMTCH shows up and down this green and pleasant land; my best mate's brother who passed away far too soon and with a young family; great shows and beers with the band; taking the tapes of the band's albums with me around France during the nineties - whether in my back pack or in the car, they were with me everywhere I went.
Great band, great music, great people, and hugely important in my life. I think of so many other people when I hear their songs. Happy memories but a wee bit sad at the same time.

Sadly not on Spotify.
 
Foy Vance - Two Shades of Hope (live)

If theres one thing that I know
It is the 2 shades of hope
One the enlightening soul
And the other is more like a hangman's rope
Well it's true you may reap what you sow
But not that despair is the all time low
Baby, hope deals the hardest blows
There was once someone I loved
Whose heart overflowed his cup
And his shoes got covered in blood
Oh but he never knew cos he only looked up
Well he was in trouble and so
Had known pain more than most I know
Yet it was hope that dealt the hardest blows
And the girl that holds the hand
Of her somewhat distant man
Though she did everything she can
Still his heart set sail for distant lands
And she wonders sometimes if he knows
How she feels like a trampled rose
Baby, hope deals the hardest blows
Well some people think their sin
Caused the cancer thats eating into them
And the only way that they can win
Is by the healing of somebody's hands on their skin and praying
But when the cancer does not go
Baby, hope dealt the hardest blows
And now all these truths are so
With foundations below them
They were dug out in a winter's cold
When the world stole our young and preyed on the old, well
Hope deals in the hardest blows
Yet I cannot help myself but hope
I guess that's why love hurts
And heartache stings
And despair is never worse
Than the despair that death brings
But hope deals the hardest blows, dear
The hardest
Hope deals the hardest blows
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And also this piece of music that I would have at my funeral.
Alan Silvestri - Castaway - Main Theme
 
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This is such a sad song that many will relate to. The album is from Love and its Opposite is brilliant. Never been in this situation I suppose since I was a young lad. Although I am a widower now don't think I will go down that road.

Tracey Thorn - Singles Bar...........................this is from a home session in 2012. Full version on Spotify playlist.

 
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