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Here's 3 that always get me...

 

Sacrificed Sons- Dream Theater

10,000 Days- Tool

Sweet Dreams (are made of this)- Marilyn Manson's version

 

 

oh, and how about that SHOE SONG that comes on Christmas time???? the one about the kid who wants to buy the pair of shoes for his mom when she's in the hospital??? I cry without fail every time that song comes on!

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The Smith's How Soon Is Now?

 

"There's a club, if you'd like to go

You could meet someone who really loves you

So you go, and you stand on your own

And you leave on your own

And you go home

And you cry

And you want to die"

 

I felt like that many a time after I went clubbing back when I was younger. But not to the point of wanting to die, just in a figurative sense.

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The Assembly - "Never Never"

 

I know just what to say

It's just a game I play

And now I'm here on my own

 

I'd like to be with you

I guess you always knew

Still I'm... all alone

 

I know the story got it all worked out

 

It never happens to me

It never happens to me

Maybe that's the way my life was meant to be

It never happens to me

It never happens to me

Love's just a door that's locked and there's no key

 

It never happens to me

 

I know my every line

It's just a waste of time

Guess it's all such a shame

 

I've seen it all before

And every time I'm sure

That it ends up the same

 

I know the story got it all worked out

 

It never happens to me

It never happens to me

Maybe that's the way my life was meant to be

It never happens to me

It never happens to me

Love's just a door that's locked and there's no key

 

It never happens to me

 

I know just what to say

It's just a game I play

And now I'm here on my own

 

I'd like to be with you

I guess you always knew

Still I'm left all alone

 

I know the story got it all worked out

 

It never happens to me

It never happens to me

Maybe that's the way my life was meant to be

It never happens to me

It never happens to me

Love's just a door that's locked and there's no key

 

It never happens to me

 

It never happens to me

It never happens to me

Maybe that's the way my life was meant to be

It never happens to me

It never happens to me

Love's just a door that's locked and there's no key

 

It never happens to me

It never happens to me

Maybe that's the way my life was meant to be

It never happens to me

It never happens to me

Love's just a door that's locked and there's no key

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QUOTE (ReRushed @ Jan 28 2011, 05:13 AM)
The Assembly - "Never Never"

Where the hell did you hear that?

That was a big favourite of mine when it came out, as I was a big Yazoo fan and a massive Underones fan? Was it popular "across the pond"?

Here's one I'd forgotten, the whole album is a downer, but this one takes the "she's gone, where's the whiskey" biscuit.

Afghan Whigs - When We Two Parted

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5K5b-vCvYIM

The Assembly - "Never Never"

 

Where the hell did you hear that?

 

That was a big favourite of mine when it came out, as I was a big Yazoo fan and a massive Undertones fan. Was it popular "across the pond"?

 

Here's one I'd forgotten, the whole album is a downer, but this one takes the "she's gone, where's the whiskey" biscuit.

 

Afghan Whigs - When We Two Parted

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5K5b-vCvYIM

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QUOTE (Hatchetaxe&saw @ Jan 28 2011, 05:08 AM)
QUOTE (ReRushed @ Jan 28 2011, 05:13 AM)
The Assembly - "Never Never"

Where the hell did you hear that?

That was a big favourite of mine when it came out, as I was a big Yazoo fan and a massive Underones fan? Was it popular "across the pond"?

Here's one I'd forgotten, the whole album is a downer, but this one takes the "she's gone, where's the whiskey" biscuit.

Afghan Whigs - When We Two Parted

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5K5b-vCvYIM

The Assembly - "Never Never"

 

Where the hell did you hear that?

 

That was a big favourite of mine when it came out, as I was a big Yazoo fan and a massive Undertones fan. Was it popular "across the pond"?

 

Here's one I'd forgotten, the whole album is a downer, but this one takes the "she's gone, where's the whiskey" biscuit.

 

Afghan Whigs - When We Two Parted

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5K5b-vCvYIM

My favourite depressing song is the Hatchetaxe&saw drunken Irishman's lament aka the Where's My Hair All Gone Did the Cat Lick it Off in the Night Funeral March...

 

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QUOTE (treeduck @ Jan 28 2011, 10:15 AM)
QUOTE (Hatchetaxe&saw @ Jan 28 2011, 05:08 AM)
QUOTE (ReRushed @ Jan 28 2011, 05:13 AM)
The Assembly - "Never Never"

Where the hell did you hear that?

That was a big favourite of mine when it came out, as I was a big Yazoo fan and a massive Underones fan? Was it popular "across the pond"?

Here's one I'd forgotten, the whole album is a downer, but this one takes the "she's gone, where's the whiskey" biscuit.

Afghan Whigs - When We Two Parted

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5K5b-vCvYIM

The Assembly - "Never Never"

 

Where the hell did you hear that?

 

That was a big favourite of mine when it came out, as I was a big Yazoo fan and a massive Undertones fan. Was it popular "across the pond"?

 

Here's one I'd forgotten, the whole album is a downer, but this one takes the "she's gone, where's the whiskey" biscuit.

 

Afghan Whigs - When We Two Parted

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5K5b-vCvYIM

My favourite depressing song is the Hatchetaxe&saw drunken Irishman's lament aka the Where's My Hair All Gone Did the Cat Lick it Off in the Night Funeral March...

 

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It's up there, it makes Nick Drake sound like Wham!! cat.gif

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I find this song so very sad and get teary-eyed every time I hear it...

Harry Chapin's '

 

'Cat's In The Cradle'

 

My child arrived just the other day

He came to the world in the usual way

But there were planes to catch and bills to pay

He learned to walk while I was away

And he was talkin' 'fore I knew it, and as he grew

He'd say "I'm gonna be like you dad

You know I'm gonna be like you"

 

(chorus)And the cat's in the cradle and the silver spoon

Little boy blue and the man on the moon

When you comin' home dad?

I don't know when, but we'll get together then son

You know we'll have a good time then

 

My son turned ten just the other day

He said, "Thanks for the ball, Dad, come on let's play

Can you teach me to throw", I said "Not today

I got a lot to do", he said, "That's ok"

And he walked away but his smile never dimmed

And said, "I'm gonna be like him, yeah

You know I'm gonna be like him"

 

(chorus)

 

Well, he came home from college just the other day

So much like a man I just had to say

"Son, I'm proud of you, can you sit for a while?"

He shook his head and said with a smile

"What I'd really like, Dad, is to borrow the car keys

See you later, can I have them please?"

 

(chorus)

 

I've long since retired, my son's moved away

I called him up just the other day

I said, "I'd like to see you if you don't mind"

He said, "I'd love to, Dad, if I can find the time

You see my new job's a hassle and kids have the flu

But it's sure nice talking to you, Dad

It's been sure nice talking to you"

 

And as I hung up the phone it occurred to me

He'd grown up just like me

My boy was just like me

 

And the cat's in the cradle and the silver spoon

Little boy blue and the man on the moon

When you comin' home son?

I don't know when, but we'll get together then son

You know we'll have a good time then

 

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QUOTE (Hatchetaxe&saw @ Jan 28 2011, 05:08 AM)
The Assembly - "Never Never"

Where the hell did you hear that?

That was a big favourite of mine when it came out, as I was a big Yazoo fan and a massive Underones fan? Was it popular "across the pond"?

Pure internet research. It's a song that missed my music radar back in the good ol' days. I like The Undertones, so there's Feargal Sharkey and I know about Vince Clarke from his impressive resume. I eventually stumbled upon The Assembly.

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I've never been divorced, but Sinead O'Connor's divorce song "The Last Day of Our Acquaintance" is so coldly real, it's depressing.

 

This is the last day of our acquaintance

I will meet you later in somebody's office

I'll talk but you won't listen to me

I know what your answer will be

I know you don't love me anymore

You used to hold my hand when the plane took off

Two years ago there just seemed so much more

And I don't know what happened to our love

Today's the day

Our friendship has been stale

And we will meet later to finalize the details

Two years ago the seed was planted

And since then you have taken me for granted

But this is the last day of our acquaintance

I will meet you later in somebody's office

I'll talk but you won't listen to me

I know your answer already

But this is the last day of our acquaintance

I will meet you later in somebody's office

I'll talk but you won't listen to me

I know your answer already

I know your answer already

I know your answer already

 

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Subculture - New Order

Some dude gets driven crazy by some girl.

 

Unwell - Matchbox 20

Some dude that's paranoid.

 

Luka - Suzanne Vega

Some kid abused by his parents.

 

Sunny Came Home - Shawn Colvin

Some girl burns down her spouses' house after years of abuse.

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QUOTE (Hatchetaxe&saw @ Jan 28 2011, 08:57 AM)
QUOTE (treeduck @ Jan 28 2011, 10:15 AM)
QUOTE (Hatchetaxe&saw @ Jan 28 2011, 05:08 AM)
QUOTE (ReRushed @ Jan 28 2011, 05:13 AM)
The Assembly - "Never Never"

Where the hell did you hear that?

That was a big favourite of mine when it came out, as I was a big Yazoo fan and a massive Underones fan? Was it popular "across the pond"?

Here's one I'd forgotten, the whole album is a downer, but this one takes the "she's gone, where's the whiskey" biscuit.

Afghan Whigs - When We Two Parted

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5K5b-vCvYIM

The Assembly - "Never Never"

 

Where the hell did you hear that?

 

That was a big favourite of mine when it came out, as I was a big Yazoo fan and a massive Undertones fan. Was it popular "across the pond"?

 

Here's one I'd forgotten, the whole album is a downer, but this one takes the "she's gone, where's the whiskey" biscuit.

 

Afghan Whigs - When We Two Parted

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5K5b-vCvYIM

My favourite depressing song is the Hatchetaxe&saw drunken Irishman's lament aka the Where's My Hair All Gone Did the Cat Lick it Off in the Night Funeral March...

 

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It's up there, it makes Nick Drake sound like Wham!! cat.gif

Aye!

 

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I know the topic is depressing songs, but here's another really sad song... especially because it really happened...

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Gordon Lightfoot's

'The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald'

 

The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down

of the big lake they called "Gitche Gumee."

The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead

when the skies of November turn gloomy.

With a load of iron ore twenty-six thousand tons more

than the Edmund Fitzgerald weighed empty,

that good ship and true was a bone to be chewed

when the "Gales of November" came early.

 

The ship was the pride of the American side

coming back from some mill in Wisconsin.

As the big freighters go, it was bigger than most

with a crew and good captain well seasoned,

concluding some terms with a couple of steel firms

when they left fully loaded for Cleveland.

And later that night when the ship's bell rang,

could it be the north wind they'd been feelin'?

 

The wind in the wires made a tattle-tale sound

and a wave broke over the railing.

And ev'ry man knew, as the captain did too

'twas the witch of November come stealin'.

The dawn came late and the breakfast had to wait

when the Gales of November came slashin'.

When afternoon came it was freezin' rain

in the face of a hurricane west wind.

 

When suppertime came the old cook came on deck sayin'.

 

"Fellas, it's too rough t'feed ya."

At seven P.M. a main hatchway caved in; he said,

"Fellas, it's bin good t'know ya!"

The captain wired in he had water comin' in

and the good ship and crew was in peril.

And later that night when 'is lights went outta sight

came the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.

 

Does any one know where the love of God goes

when the waves turn the minutes to hours?

The searchers all say they'd have made Whitefish Bay

if they'd put fifteen more miles behind 'er.

They might have split up or they might have capsized;

they may have broke deep and took water.

And all that remains is the faces and the names

of the wives and the sons and the daughters.

 

Lake Huron rolls, Superior sings

in the rooms of her ice-water mansion.

Old Michigan steams like a young man's dreams;

the islands and bays are for sportsmen.

And farther below Lake Ontario

takes in what Lake Erie can send her,

And the iron boats go as the mariners all know

with the Gales of November remembered.

 

In a musty old hall in Detroit they prayed,

in the "Maritime Sailors' Cathedral."

The church bell chimed 'til it rang twenty-nine times

for each man on the Edmund Fitzgerald.

The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down

of the big lake they call "Gitche Gumee."

"Superior," they said, "never gives up her dead

when the gales of November come early!"

 

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Quite a few non-Rush songs move me. It's not difficult at all for a song to tug at my hearstrings. tongue.gif

 

Evanescence: My Immortal

Evanescence: Hello

Evanescence: Solitude

Within Temptation: Our Farewell

Pink Floyd: On the Turning Away

Martina McBride: Concrete Angel

Rascal Flatts: What Hurts the Most

Desree: Kissing You

George Michael: I Can't Make You Love Me

Sugarland: Stay

Roxette: Listen to Your Heart

White Lion: When the Children Cry

Kix: Don't Close Your Eyes

RyanDan: Tears of an Angel

 

God, I'm sensitive. unsure.gif laugh.gif

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