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hlthe2b Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-21-04 04:53 PM
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Songs that always make you emotional--bring a tear to your eye....
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I'm NOT listening to Christmas music, obviously. But, I just came back from a Tower Records playing Neil Young's Greatest Hits in their mix and it made me realize these two from Young always make me weepy:

After the Goldrush....
(lyrics mean differnt things to different people, but I always associated the song with Vietnam, so hearing it brings flashes of tv news segments showing the violence, the body bags, the lies from Nixon, McNamara, et al, the antiwar protests and the inter-generational anger over the war).

Ohio...
(Kent State, obviously, but made even more poignant today since it feels that we have lost the passion and the fight that made these courageous youth risk everything for the cause of peace and justice)

Wow, when they played these two, the teens stocking the shelves must have thought I was nuts, because I automatically got that serious look on my face one gets when they are stifling tears!

So what songs automatically elicit those emotions in you?
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