Songs that emotionally cut you

Puff The Magic Dragon 🥺

It upset me when I was little and it upset my kids.

In 2007 a book adaptation of the song's lyrics by Peter Yarrow (of Peter, Paul and Mary) tried to give the story a happier ending with a young girl (presumed to be Jackie Papers daughter) been taken to see Puff to become her new companion.
 
redblood said:
Mate,
That's very sad news and you've got me welling up now.
I guess you could call us evens.:)

I still hope that whatever it was that there will be reasons for his actions and hopefully some closure for you.

Best wishes to you from Oz

Three points will cheer us both I'm sure.
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redblood said:
I apologise if you feel that I'm imposing Ex Footy Legs and also to Jostler if it seems that I'm sidetracking the thread for a moment.

It's just that your words in response to mine have been on my mind all morning and feel the urge to say a little more.

The last time I saw my father alive, we were alone together and out of the blue, he asked me if there was anything that I might want to ask him.
Being a kid that had always been brought up to respect peoples thoughts and not to stick my nose into other peoples business as well as people
will tell you only what they want you to know.

I responded with No Dad, why do you ask that? He simply said Oh I don't know son, I just thought that there might be a few things you might
want to ask me.
Again I said No Dad, it's alright.

It was only four months later when I got the dreaded phone call from England to say that my Dad had died.
I'm an idiot. My father in law had years beforehand uttered his words to me that I posted above and I thought that I was a wiser man for having
heard them.
Such a shame and a tragedy for me that I didn't heed them.
Since his death, there have been numerous things that I would have asked him and still to this day, but, like my father in law, I find that
I'm now paying for something that I didn't do.

I wouldn't want anyone else to suffer the same fate as me and regret not asking him to open up and tell me all.

Your father is still alive and you still have the opportunity to reach out to him and ask him some questions that you might want resolved.
Don't be like me and leave it too late.

Best of wishes to you.
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Did you marry your girlfriend?
 
Iris Dent, numerous but your town mostly
Joe Brown - see you in my dream

And this one a more recent offering from the awesome John Prime (F**k covid)

 
The Connells video for '74,'75 is absolutely fascinating.
It was released in 1993 and the changes to the people in the video over time is remarkable. At their young age it seems to capture their hopes and optimism and you wonder what might have happened in the interevening period.

However, the original video was then revisited in 2015 and to see the people much later on in their lives just really emphasises how much we all change over time. I find that version of the video to be really very poignant indeed. Such a great track too.

Old music: The Connells – '74-'75
 
I Have a couple of songs that remind me of the time i lost my dad.

Everybodys changing by Keane - I remember listening to the song in the car with my dad and him just wanting to sit a minute to finish the song. The lyrics really fitted in with how i was at the time, i was on my own, about to lose my terminally ill family member to a horrible disease, terrified of being alone... not knowing what i was going to do when it inevitably happened.

Also, "Fall to pieces" by velvet revolver. Same reason.

that was 16 years ago. I'm still welling up thinking about it now.
 
grumpyoldgit said:
I don't usually reveal much about myself on here, but this one always leaves me lachrymose. Mrs GOG was diagnosed with cancer in 1997 and we went through a tough time - happily she recovered.
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Brilliant Kiwi band.
Saw the band several times here in Oz as well as when they were known as Split Enz.
As usual, the Aussies tried to claim them as one of their own. 🤣

Surprised the Kiwi boys haven't responded to this as yet.
 
johnsmithsno2 said:
Spent the day listening to these, one of the joys of working alone. I also remembered this one. The band broke up and one of them now runs a posh London restaurant. If you don't cry, you weren't there...

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Yeah, thanks for that. I've got a doctors appointment in twenty minutes time.
Going to have to go to the chemist to get some Visine for my eyes first. :oops:
 
Martin Rossiter - 3 points in a compass, I don’t relate to it but wow..

James - Moving On. It’s upbeat but it was out the time I lost a grandparent due to the cruel disease that is dementia. The video is a graphic representation of the loss of someone slowly. Gets me every time.

 
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