Songs that emotionally cut you

redrobrob said:
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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There is a version of this done in a living room that is fantastic!
 
Cheers for putting this together @asredastheycome

Already discovered a few great new songs. "Photographs" by REM/Natalie Merchant and "Our Town" by Iris DeMent are brilliant.
 

I wish that I had known in that first minute we met
The unpayable debt that I owed you
'Cause you'd been abused by the bone that refused you
And you hired me to make up for that

Walking in that room when you had tubes in your arms
Those singing morphine alarms out of tune
Kept you sleeping and even, and I didn't believe them
When they called you a hurricane thunderclap

When I was checking vitals I suggested a smile
You didn't talk for a while
You were freezing
You said you hated my tone
It made you feel so alone

And so you told me I ought to be leaving
But something kept me standing by that hospital bed
I should have quit but instead I took care of you
You made me sleep and uneven
And I didn't believe them
When they told me that there was no saving you
 

I wanna believe
Yes, I wanna believe
I wanna believe
Yes, I wanna believe
Just keep counting the stars
Like someday you'll find out
Just how many there are
And we all can go home
'Cuz there's nothing as sad
As a man on his back
Counting stars
But, I wanna believe
Yes, I wanna believe
'Cuz there's nothing as sad
As a man on his back
Counting stars
 

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...
 
asredastheycome said:
John Prine - Hello In There

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Scrolling through and saw you posted REM & Natalie Merchant Photograph. As I like both REM and Natalie Merchant I was surprised I’d never heard it. Thanks for posting.

Then I saw your John Prine song and I’ve only ever heard it sung by Michael Stipe, Natalie Merchant and Billy Bragg!
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Natalie Merchant - Hello In There (Live)

1990. Billy Bragg, Michael Stipe and Natalie perform "Hello in There" by John Prine in Glasgow, a first concert stop before heading to the former Soviet Bloc...
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asredastheycome said:
Right boys and girls here is the link to the Spotify playlist for this thread. Its a "Collaborative" playlist meaning you can go on and add the songs yourself after posting on here of course. Hopefully people will do that as I don't want to have to update it myself. I will if necessary but please help out if you have Spotify. It was traumatic enough going back through some of the posts and playing the song choices. Even my own songs.

There was some songs I couldn't find on Spotify. One of my own in fact. Not too many though about half a dozen out of 120 songs. There was a couple listed but greyed out meaning they have probably been taken down. I left them in the list in case anyone is looking for their song and also in the hope the come back on.

I was going to change the title but couldn't think of anything better and It wasn't mine to change anyway. Although I did quite like this quote for a title.

“The past can't hurt you anymore, not unless you let it.”
― Alan Moore, V for Vendetta

The songs are pretty much in the order they were posted.

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FMTTM - Songs That Emotionally Cut You

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Great work Arthur. Nice one.
 
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.
 
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