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The Unicorn - Irish Rovers

 

- Gilbert O'Sullivan (seriously, I can barely read the screen now. Yes, I am the World's Biggest Pussy.)

 

anything with a cello and/or french horn.

 

this is equivalent of an ear worm; something that you get in your head and now can't get out. Thanks Tug, Thanks a lot.

 

'Now looking back over the years,

And what ever else that appears

I remember I cried when my father died

Never wishing to have cried the tears

And at sixty-five years old,

My mother, God rest her soul,

Couldn't understand, why the only man

She had ever loved had been taken

Leaving her to start with a heart

So badly broken

Despite encouragement from me

No words were ever spoken

And when she passed away

I cried and cried all day

Alone again, naturally

Alone again, naturally'

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All by myself.........

 

Ok, but seriously I'd have to say Creep and Fake Plastic Trees - Radiohead, Scattered Black and Whites and Powder Blue - Elbow, Happy - Jenny Lewis and When it Flows - Great Lake Swimmers. Can't get through those without a few tears.

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"Song for Adam" - Jackson Browne. This one is really hard for me to listen to. A couple of friends I've lost over the years sort of fit the profile of the subject of the song.

 

"Who Knows Where the Time Goes?" - Fairport Convention. Also has the distinction of being one of the most beautiful songs ever recorded. Sandy Denny's vocal is amazing.

 

"8:05" - Moby Grape. Heartbreak in five-part harmony.

 

"Wish You Were Here" - Pink Floyd. Somebody had to mention it.

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Twilight - Elliott Smith

The Golden Age - Beck

Fly - Nick Drake

Which Will - Nick Drake

Casmir Pulaski Day - Sufjan Stevens

If You See Her Say Hello - Jeff Buckley (Sin-E) version

Another Man's Done Gone - Wilco

Philadelphia - Neil Young

The Long Road - Eddie Vedder & Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

Winter - Tori Amos

 

I'm sure more will come to me later

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Nina Nastasia's All Your Life. They just reissued dogs, the record this is on, I like her first two records the best but the new one is really good too.

 

Richard Buckner's Song of 27. I wasn't a big fan of Devotion + Doubt when I first got it so I chucked it in the stack and picked it up one day and when I pulled it out a few months later I couldn't believe I didn't think it was great to start with.

 

Bah, I'd do more but my connection to the internets is completely f'd up.

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"Two Little Boys"- Soulcracker

 

Wake up and tell me you love me, I feel alone

Don't die on me now that I've finally come home

Stay up all night and kiss me and show me you miss me

As much as you said on the phone

I feel alone

Roll over so I can see you

You fill up my eyes

Home pulses through me, it's flowing like tides

And my future's no brighter than one single sight of you

Why don't you go on and shine?

Go on and shine

I can't believe the things that you need

You won't believe that I can succeed

This is a deconstruction

This is a thorn in my side

This is a season of politics turning

This is a reason why

You never know

Prove it to me, that's all that you know

You never see all the things that I show

This is our deconstruction

This is a thorn in your side

This is the power of politics turning

This is a reason why

You never know

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"Two Little Boys"- Soulcracker

 

When I read that title I really hoped it was a cover of the Rolf Harris song you were talking about. Sadly it wasn't.

 

Two little boys had two little toys

Each had a wooden horse

Gaily they played each summer's day

Warriors both of course

One little chap then had a mishap

Broke off his horse's head

Wept for his toy then cried with joy

As his young playmate said

 

 

Did you think I would leave you crying

When there's room on my horse for two

Climb up here Jack and don't be crying

I can go just as fast with two

When we grow up we'll both be soldiers

And our horses will not be toys

And I wonder if we'll remember

When we were two little boys

 

 

Long years had passed, war came so fast

Bravely they marched away

Cannon roared loud, and in the mad crowd

Wounded and dying lay

Up goes a shout, a horse dashes out

Out from the ranks so blue

Gallops away to where Joe lay

Then came a voice he knew

 

 

Did you think I would leave you dying

When there's room on my horse for two

Climb up here Joe, we'll soon be flying

I can go just as fast with two

Did you say Joe I'm all a-tremble

Perhaps it's the battle's noise

But I think it's that I remember

When we were two little boys

 

 

(In many many ways, it's a crap song, but anyone who doesn't feel a little bit choked up by the last verse is emotionally dead)

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"To Love Is To Bury" by the Cowboy Junkies

 

I buried him down by the river

'cause that's where he liked to be

and every night when the moon is high

I go there and weep openly

 

He and I were married

By this river 'neath this willow tree

and with God and friends witnessing it

He pledged his life to me

 

To me he was Earth

and I rooted in his soil

I to he was sky vast and free

of the burdens from which he toiled

 

Then one night a terrible fight

Words spoken better left unsaid

With his wedding vows ringing in my ears

He gave his life to me

 

They say to love is to bury

Those demons from which we all hide

But tonight by this river 'neath this willow tree

Becoming one of Earth and Sky

 

 

now I'm depressed. thanks alot.

 

:ohwell

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I Miss You by Randy Newman.

 

An absolute gem on an underrated album. I assume most here dont know it. Its about a love from long ago. I read somewhere that his wife wasnt happy about it when it came out. Gets me every time. Every single time.

 

Also, want to reiterate:

Remember the Mountain Bed

If You See Her Say Hello

It Makes No Difference

Casimir Pulaski

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