Saddest songs you have ever heard?
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Topic: Saddest songs you have ever heard?
Posted By: A Crimson Mellotron
Subject: Saddest songs you have ever heard?
Date Posted: March 01 2022 at 14:02
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As the subject says: Would the fellow forum users be so kind as to recommend the saddest songs they have ever heard? Prog or not, it does not really matter. I dare you to share a song that made you cry.
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Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: March 01 2022 at 14:13
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJNcyRBX6yo" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJNcyRBX6yo
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Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: March 01 2022 at 14:22
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Posted By: Grumpyprogfan
Date Posted: March 01 2022 at 14:26
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A Crimson Mellotron wrote:Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: March 01 2022 at 14:31
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Made me cry?! Neither of the two I posted made me cry, but they are very sad though. |
Posted By: A Crimson Mellotron
Date Posted: March 01 2022 at 14:33
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Posted By: Mirakaze
Date Posted: March 01 2022 at 14:53
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This is what my mind first drifted towards upon reading the thread title; definitely one of the bleakest melodies I've ever heard, but it has never made me cry personally. I am a very emotional person and can think of plenty of songs that have brought tears to my eyes; I think I've shared Brian Eno's "Fullness Of Wind" plenty of times as an example, but the song below is a fairly reliable sob-inducer for me as well, both because of the music and the lyrics (in Dutch), which describe a slightly surreal story about a narrator who has "lost himself" in the sense of having somehow been physically separated from the part of himself that he felt defined him and could lead him to happiness, and finally taking solace in imagining that maybe the other part of him has managed to find happiness, love and fulfilment. (song starts at 0:50) ------------- https://mirasnelder.wordpress.com/" rel="nofollow - Freelance composer, accepting commissions | https://mirasnelder.bandcamp.com/album/altered-acuity" rel="nofollow - Bandcamp page |
Posted By: mellotronwave
Date Posted: March 01 2022 at 15:12
| Suzane Vega Luka |
Posted By: Grumpyprogfan
Date Posted: March 01 2022 at 15:19
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Not cry worthy. But sad. |
Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: March 01 2022 at 15:45
Isn't that called menstruation?  -------------  https://rateyourmusic.com/~siLLy_puPPy |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: March 01 2022 at 15:50
not funny Silly Puppy, no funny at all.
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Posted By: Grumpyprogfan
Date Posted: March 01 2022 at 16:32
^Much appreciated, Cristi. 
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Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: March 01 2022 at 16:53
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Can't say any song has made me cry. Not trying to sound macho or anything, but I guess I'm just not affected by music in that way. ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: March 01 2022 at 17:27
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Won't make me literally cry, but Nick Drake - Fruit Tree And Radiohead - Daydreaming ------------- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4IKuxIZkenfvukL_Y8VBqzK" rel="nofollow - Duos for fave acts |
Posted By: Hugh Manatee
Date Posted: March 01 2022 at 17:42
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There is "Song to the Siren" by Tim Buckley which always brings a lump to my throat, but one of the saddest songs I know is "Sky Blue and Black" by Jackson Browne written after the suicide of his wife. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaT04YFgAIY" rel="nofollow - Sky Blue And Black ~ Jackson Browne - YouTube
------------- I should have been a pair of ragged claws Scuttling across the floors of uncertain seas |
Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: March 01 2022 at 18:42
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Just happen to be listening to this album: ------------- 
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Posted By: kenethlevine
Date Posted: March 01 2022 at 19:34
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This one makes the tears well up. |
Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: March 01 2022 at 21:25
and that song is not sad Cristi, no sad at all ------------- https://rateyourmusic.com/~siLLy_puPPy |
Posted By: Grumpyprogfan
Date Posted: March 02 2022 at 00:11
| ^Do you really not understand what this song is about? If you believe domestic abuse is not sad, you're a sick puppy. |
Posted By: Hrychu
Date Posted: March 02 2022 at 01:45
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This song is very sad (or at least the lyrics are). ------------- “On the day of my creation, I fell in love with education. And overcoming all frustration, a teacher I became.” — Ernest Vong |
Posted By: Ronstein
Date Posted: March 02 2022 at 03:56
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Steven Wilson - Routine |
Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: March 02 2022 at 04:45
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Two for me - 1) Billy Bragg - Tank Park Salute. A song about his father, always brings a lump to my throat particularly as it was also played at his Mum's funeral. 2) Kate Rusby - My Young Man. Written for her Nan when her coal miner husband was dying. Once the brass band kicks in, I'm done for.  "A young girl no more am I But I shall not weep and I will not cry,For my young man needs me still. If someone's watching up above You'll see how much my dear I love, So leave him here, I need him now and always will. Oh if someone's watching up above You'll see how much my dear I love, And If he must go, let your best angels keep him well" |
Posted By: Ronstein
Date Posted: March 02 2022 at 05:41
| Great shout with Kate Rusby. 'Underneath the Stars' is another one that gets me every time!! |
Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: March 02 2022 at 05:54
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can't decide between these 2: this one is another possible candidate: -------------  A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: March 02 2022 at 06:01
Oh yes, good call.
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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: March 02 2022 at 06:58
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The Antlers - Kettering Hospice is a sad album overall and I don't know which track is saddest, but mentioning Kettering because of how it connected with me. ------------- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4IKuxIZkenfvukL_Y8VBqzK" rel="nofollow - Duos for fave acts |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: March 02 2022 at 07:03
True, but that's a great album. They also have a song called Putting the Dog to Sleep on their next album. I'm afraid to read all the lyrics though.
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Posted By: Argo2112
Date Posted: March 02 2022 at 07:41
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Two that come to mind: * Turn of the Century - Yes *Ocean Gypsy - Renaissance |
Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: March 02 2022 at 08:06
Sorry, the only thing i find sad about Alice Cooper is his appearance.
Of course domestic violence is horrible but that subject evokes anger
not sadness. The song is cheesy actually. Just my opinion. Sadness in a
song is subjective of course and OK i made a stupid comment but that's
what the title made me think of! ------------- https://rateyourmusic.com/~siLLy_puPPy |
Posted By: ExittheLemming
Date Posted: March 02 2022 at 08:07
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Tom Verlaine - Breakin' in My Heart - the line 'tonight air has teeth I wish I had another way to breathe' always makes me well up Johnny Cash - Hurt - NIN cover Stan Ridgway - a Mission in Life Edwyn Collins - Coffee Table Song Prefab Sprout - Bonny Bob Dylan - Standing in the Doorway Just noticed summat: none of these are Prog  Maybe technique and complexity don't make for good 'sad?'------------- 
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Posted By: Grumpyprogfan
Date Posted: March 02 2022 at 08:24
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Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: March 02 2022 at 09:17
I'm into music, not appearances. Buckethead looks like a dork too ------------- https://rateyourmusic.com/~siLLy_puPPy |
Posted By: Steve Wyzard
Date Posted: March 02 2022 at 12:52
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1. Genesis "Open Door" 2. Phil Collins "Why Can't It Wait Till Morning?" 3. Tony Banks - A Curious Feeling - the entire album!
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Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: March 02 2022 at 13:50
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The Animals - "House of the Rising Sun" There is a house way down in New Orleans They call the Rising SunAnd it's been the ruin of many a poor boy And God I know I'm one ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: March 02 2022 at 14:18
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Pretty Things - "Loneliest Person" All the sky it seems dark As I'm walking through a parkBut the face it is too bright to see Or the sun might rise high On an orange kind of sky But the day it seems too dark for me Yes you might be the loneliest person in the world You'll never be as lonely as me Yes you might be the loneliest person in the world Your name it would have to be me (It's not all the lyrics of this song as it's not allowed, and it's from the album S.F. Sorrow (1968).)
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Posted By: The Anders
Date Posted: March 02 2022 at 14:33
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Mozart - Die Zauberflöte: "Ach, ich fühl's, es ist verschwunden" (Pamina's aria) |
Posted By: mellotronwave
Date Posted: March 02 2022 at 16:11
| Lou REED Sad Song ( Live version , awesome) |
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: March 03 2022 at 01:59
Not that I agree with this statement, but I find it creative and funny, Grumpy ...and no reason to be unfriendly now, siLLypuPPy while The Lemming still owes me an apology.
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Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: March 03 2022 at 03:09
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Tracy Chapman - "Why?" Why do the babies starve When there's enough food to feed the worldWhy when there're so many of us Are there people still alone Why are the missiles called Peace-keepers When they're aimed to kill Why is a woman still not safe When she's in her home (from the selftitled debut album (1988))
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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: March 03 2022 at 03:11
I don't believe that apologies are of much use unless they are sincere, and that it generally is quite immature to demand one. It's the kind of thing many parents ask of their kids, but not something I have aver asked of mine. I want an apology to mean something; to come from the heart. To owe something commonly implies that one is in someone else's debt, and that there is some kind of an agreement in place. David, obviously you have a grievance due to a past comment, and you, have referred to it again and again. It didn't even happen in this thread yet you bring it up again here. Speaking as someone with OCD, please try to let it go. Generally it's better to make your point, and then move on if you can. Otherwise consider notifying an admin if you think it's abusive (see link later) -- if it's thought to be abusive, then it is considered better for the person not to engage that individual (and if trolling, well, there's the old adage of not feeding the troll). You comment on people's characters often it seems, commonly even when you were not part of the discussion, but instead insert yourself to comment about manners. Please try to focus more on exploring people's ideas than making comments about their characters and manners. Please try not to take such offence, and if you cant not take offence, please try not to show it. From my perspective, harping on about other's character does not reflect well on one's character. Lots of us have annoyed people, me much more than I would like, and sometimes I have been hurt by other people's comments (as they have by mine), but when people have been critical of me, I generally have reflected on it and seen that they have a kind of point that I could learn from. They might have misconstrued my intent, but it's important how one is perceived by others. Sometimes I have responded back in a quite petty or whiney manner, and regretted it. Whining about such things tens not to be a winning move -- it comes across as pathetic. All should be familiar with the forum rules: http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=13083" rel="nofollow - http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=13083 Now, to get even more depressing, back on topic. SO many, I was going to do a Current 93 but will do this now: ------------- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4IKuxIZkenfvukL_Y8VBqzK" rel="nofollow - Duos for fave acts |
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: March 03 2022 at 04:04
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Let me just tell you, Logan, that I think and feel very differently than you describe it in your post - and I'm very reflective about it. ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
Posted By: Grumpyprogfan
Date Posted: March 03 2022 at 05:19
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: March 03 2022 at 06:19
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Tracy Chapman - "Behind the Wall" Last night I heard the screaming Loud voices behind the wall Another sleepless night for me It won't do no good to call The police always come late If they come at all And when they arrive They say they can't interfere With domestic affairs Between a man and his wife And as they walk out the door The tears well up in her eyes (from the selftitled debut album as well (1988)) ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: March 03 2022 at 06:26
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Grumpy wrote: Todd Rundgren - "Bag Lady" (1978) One day it gets a bit too cold Maybe a little too wet, maybe a little too lonely Lifelessly she lies amidst her bag world But maybe she's only sleeping ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
Posted By: A Crimson Mellotron
Date Posted: March 03 2022 at 08:31
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Great suggestions from everyone! Thanks to all for the lovely songs, keep 'em coming. |
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: March 03 2022 at 08:44
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Do you guys think that Tracy Chapman is referring to Pink Floyd's The Wall with her song title?  ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: March 03 2022 at 08:51
No. Her song treats a different topic in which the "wall" totally makes sense on its own, without any reference.
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Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: March 03 2022 at 09:25
| On the previous page someone mentioned some Genesis and PC songs. For me I would say "afterglow" and maybe "another day in paradise." "Afterglow" in particular often gets to me. |
Posted By: Grumpyprogfan
Date Posted: March 03 2022 at 09:47
 Tracy's lyrics are excellent. Even the police don't want to get involved and that's what makes domestic abuse sad. And what is the neighbor who hears the abuse to do? Sure it would be justified if the abuser got a taste of their own medicine but then what? |
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: March 03 2022 at 12:51
It was also about my referring to something else.
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Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: March 03 2022 at 13:04
I do certainly find "House with no Door" to be a sad song but this one much sadder: Van der Graaf Generator - "Killer" So you live in the bottom of the sea And you kill all that come near you But you are very lonely Because all the other fish fear you And you crave companionship And someone to call your own Because, for the whole of your life You've been living alone On a black day in a black month At the black bottom of the sea Your mother gave birth to you And died immediately 'Cause you can't have two killers Living in the same pad And when your mother knew that her time had come She was really rather glad (it's not all the lyrics of this song, and it's from the album H to He....(1970))
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Posted By: Steve Wyzard
Date Posted: March 03 2022 at 13:06
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Just thought of: The Beatles: "Good Night"!
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Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: March 03 2022 at 13:55
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after second thought
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Posted By: Hugh Manatee
Date Posted: March 03 2022 at 15:53
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Z8-9WwjeqM" rel="nofollow - Bruce Springsteen - You're Missing (lyrics) - YouTube Written after 9/11. ------------- I should have been a pair of ragged claws Scuttling across the floors of uncertain seas |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: March 03 2022 at 16:14
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one from Wyatt's Rock Bottom (take your pick, really) ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: March 04 2022 at 03:01
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Marillion - "Chelsea Monday" Catalogue princess, apprentice seductress Hiding in her cellophane world in glitter town Awaiting the prince in his white Capri Dynamic young Tarzan courts the bedsit queen She's playing the actress in this bedroom scene She's learning her lines from glossy magazines Stringing all her pearls from her childhood dreams Auditioning for the leading role on the silver screen Patience my tinsel angel Patience my perfumed child One day they really love you You'll charm them with that smile But for now it's just another Chelsea Monday ................ ................ Hello John, did you see The Standard about four hours ago? Fished a young chick out of The Old Father Blond hair, blue eyes. She said she wanted to be an actress or something Nobody knows where she came from, where she was going Funny thing was she had a smile on her face She was smiling, what a waste (from the album Script for a Jester's Tear (1983)) ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
Posted By: suitkees
Date Posted: March 04 2022 at 05:31
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Henryk Górecki: Symphony of Sorrowful Songs - 2nd mouvement (Soprano: Zofia Kilanowicz) ------------- The razamataz is a pain in the bum |
Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: March 04 2022 at 06:12
Hmm, I wouldn't have said that was sad lyrically speaking, it's basically a lullaby.
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Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: March 04 2022 at 15:25
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Why don't you like me, suitkees? ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
Posted By: suitkees
Date Posted: March 05 2022 at 04:53
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^ Why would you say that? If you think that my Górecki suggestion was a reaction to your - very good - Marillion suggestion, then you're mistaken - it was a suggestion like any other (like yours), not a reaction to anyone or any post but the OP. If it is a general question, then I don't think it has its place here in this thread, but to get to it: I don't know you, so I cannot like or not like you. The only thing I don't like is how you interact - sometimes ! - with other forum members (and some may think the same of me/my interactions!). The best solution in such cases on internet forums, IMO, is to keep interaction to a minimum. But I won't ask you to stop posting or reacting to me or whatever - I think we all have our place here, since we share a passion. It's just that when something disturbs me, I express my opinion about it, sometimes.
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Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: March 05 2022 at 05:15
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thank you very much for your answer, suitkees ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: March 06 2022 at 04:22
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Jethro Tull - "Aqualung" Sitting on a park bench Eying little girls with bad intentSnots running down his nose Greasy fingers smearing shabby clothes Drying in the cold sun Watching as the frilly panties run Feeling like a dead duck Spitting out pieces of his broken luck (from the album Aqualung (1971))
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Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: March 10 2022 at 16:01
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Jimi Hendrix - "Hej Joe" Hey Joe, where you goin' with that gun of your hand? Hey Joe, I said, where you goin' with that gun in your hand? I'm goin' down to shoot my old lady You know I caught her messin' 'round with another man I'm goin' down to shoot my old lady You know I caught her messin' 'round with another man and that ain't too cool Hey Joe, I heard you shot your mama down You shot her down now Hey Joe, I heard you shot your lady down Shot her down in the ground (from the album Are You Experienced? (1967, the American version)) ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
Posted By: jamesbaldwin
Date Posted: March 10 2022 at 18:27
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------------- Amos Goldberg (professor of Genocide Studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem): Yes, it's genocide. It's so difficult and painful to admit it, but we can no longer avoid this conclusion. |
Posted By: BarryGlibb
Date Posted: March 10 2022 at 18:47
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"Your Spirit to Me" by Big Country off their 1999 album "Driving To Damascus" Extremely poignant considering Stuart Adamson took his life not long after this. Beautiful song...I well up every time There's only seconds of your life That really count for anything All the rest is killing time Waiting for a train Come the revelation brother I was sitting by myself The last thing I was looking for Came and left The sea still rolled, no mountain fell The sun still rose, the moon as well I was undone, some kind of free The day you sent your spirit to me I ran and looked in the mirror Like I'm expecting a change But there deep in my eyes The fear remained The sea still rolled, no mountain fell The sun still rose, the moon as well I was undone, some kind of free The day you sent your spirit to me Is this just something else to lose That you never replace Another name that you try to give a face |
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: March 11 2022 at 13:35
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Black Sabbath - "Hand of Doom" What you gonna do, Time's caught up with you Now, you wait your turn You know there's no return Take your written rules You join the other fools Turn to something new Now, it's killing you First, it was the bomb Vietnam napalm, disillusioning You push the needle in From life, you escape Reality's black drape Colours in your mind Satisfy your time ........... ........... Push the needle in Face Death's sickly grin Holes are in your skin Caused by deadly pin Head starts spinning 'round You fall down to the ground Feel your body heave Death's hand starts to weave ............. (from the album Paranoid (1970)) ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |