Most touching poem, song, or except that evoked your feelings?

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The discussion centers on the emotional impact of poetry, songs, and excerpts that evoke positive feelings. Participants share personal experiences, highlighting how certain songs inspire them to engage in acts of kindness and reflect on their lives. Notable mentions include "Cats in the Cradle," which resonates with themes of parental relationships, and "God Bless the USA," appreciated for its supportive message towards troops. Other significant works discussed include poems by Rudyard Kipling and Carl Sagan, as well as songs by artists like Celine Dion, Metallica, and John Lennon, which explore love, loss, and the human experience. The conversation also touches on the haunting imagery of war in music videos and the desire for peace amidst global conflict. Participants express a collective yearning for understanding and connection through these artistic expressions, emphasizing their role in personal growth and emotional healing. Additionally, there are inquiries about downloading instrumental versions of songs, indicating a desire to engage more deeply with the music.
  • #31
The lyrics for "nude" from the new Radiohead album are really good:

"Don't get any big ideas
they're not going to happen
You paint yourself white
and feel up with noise
but there'll be something missing

Now that you've found it, it's gone
Now that you feel it, you don't
You've gone off the rails

So don't get any big ideas
they're not going to happen
You'll go to hell for what your dirty mind is thinking"

typical Thom Yorke.
the new album is incredible too.
 
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  • #32
moe darklight said:
The lyrics for "nude" from the new Radiohead album are really good:

"Don't get any big ideas
they're not going to happen
You paint yourself white
and feel up with noise
but there'll be something missing

Now that you've found it, it's gone
Now that you feel it, you don't
You've gone off the rails

So don't get any big ideas
they're not going to happen
You'll go to hell for what your dirty mind is thinking"

typical Thom Yorke.
the new album is incredible too.
Very touching, indeed.

Actually, all I can think of is some emotionally abusive trailer trash parent trying to stifle their kid's dreams.
 
  • #33
That's easy: chocolate rain

Chocolate Rain
Some stay dry and others feel the pain
Chocolate Rain
A baby born will die before the sin

Chocolate Rain
The school books say it can't be here again
Chocolate Rain
The prisons make you wonder where it went

Chocolate Rain
Build a tent and say the world is dry
Chocolate Rain
Zoom the camera out and see the lie

Chocolate Rain
Forecast to be falling yesterday
Chocolate Rain
Only in the past is what they say

Chocolate Rain
Raised your neighborhood insurance rates
Chocolate Rain
Makes us happy 'livin in a gate
 
  • #34
edward said:
A lot of the songs by The Carpenters were touching because of her hauntingly beautiful voice.



Tsu gives me no end of grief for it, but I still love music by the Carpenters. I had just about all of their albums.

I was at Downey hospital working right next to the ER when they brought her in. :frown:
 
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  • #35
I can't really say why, but this song has always got me. Perhaps it fits the mold for a culture that I watched grow old and mostly fade away. I guess it instills a sense in me that all things will pass; perhaps even taunting my own sense of mortality.

Too Old to Rock 'n' Roll: Too Young to Die

The old Rocker wore his hair too long,
wore his trouser cuffs too tight.
Unfashionable to the end --- drank his ale too light.
Death's head belt buckle --- yesterday's dreams ---
the transport caf' prophet of doom.
Ringing no change in his double-sewn seams
in his post-war-babe gloom.

Now he's too old to Rock'n'Roll but he's too young to die.

He once owned a Harley Davidson and a Triumph Bonneville.
Counted his friends in burned-out spark plugs
and prays that he always will.
But he's the last of the blue blood greaser boys
all of his mates are doing time:
married with three kids up by the ring road
sold their souls straight down the line.
And some of them own little sports cars
and meet at the tennis club do's.
For drinks on a Sunday --- work on Monday.
They've thrown away their blue suede shoes.

Now they're too old to Rock'n'Roll and they're too young to die.

So the old Rocker gets out his bike
to make a ton before he takes his leave.
Up on the A1 by Scotch Corner
just like it used to be.
And as he flies --- tears in his eyes ---
his wind-whipped words echo the final take
and he hits the trunk road doing around 120
with no room left to brake.

And he was too old to Rock'n'Roll but he was too young to die.
No, you're never too old to Rock'n'Roll if you're too young to die.
 
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  • #36
zoobyshoe said:
Very touching, indeed.

Actually, all I can think of is some emotionally abusive trailer trash parent trying to stifle their kid's dreams.

yea, they've been playing it live for like 11 years now and I've always loved those lyrics (it's pretty different now than the original. it's cool with radiohead to see how songs evolve, because they always play them live for years before they show up on an album)

here's if you want to hear it, and a bunch of other songs from the new album:
http://www.myspace.com/inrainbows1
futurebird said:
That's easy: chocolate rain

Chocolate Rain
Some stay dry and others feel the pain
Chocolate Rain
A baby born will die before the sin

Chocolate Rain
The school books say it can't be here again
Chocolate Rain
The prisons make you wonder where it went

Chocolate Rain
Build a tent and say the world is dry
Chocolate Rain
Zoom the camera out and see the lie

Chocolate Rain
Forecast to be falling yesterday
Chocolate Rain
Only in the past is what they say

Chocolate Rain
Raised your neighborhood insurance rates
Chocolate Rain
Makes us happy 'livin in a gate

wow that dude has a really cool voice!
 
  • #37
moe darklight said:
yea, they've been playing it live for like 11 years now and I've always loved those lyrics (it's pretty different now than the original. it's cool with radiohead to see how songs evolve, because they always play them live for years before they show up on an album)

here's if you want to hear it, and a bunch of other songs from the new album:
http://www.myspace.com/inrainbows1
No, thanks. I believe I hate radiohead. The kids behind the counter at the cafe where I draw play the same radiohead albums over and over. They've completely ruined a few groups for me doing that.
 
  • #38
that's a shame. yea they're one of those bands with the obsessed fans. my friend bought two copies of the box set edition of the new album— that's $160!
 
  • #39
rjd2 - work it out -
``take it easy
dont worry bout it
i got this, i got this
you let me work it out, let me work it out
take it easy
take it easy
take it easy
dont let it bother you
nope nope nope
nope no nope no nope
dont let it bother you
no no nope no nope
easy
easy
dont worry bout it
i got this i got this
you let me work it out
let me work it out
take it easy
dont let it bother you
i got this i got this
let me work it out, let me work it out
take it easy``
 
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  • #40
  • #41
"For a Dancer" by Jackson Browne. For decades, one of my oldest friends and fellow musician was a confirmed bachelor. Then a lovely, funny, sweet lady glommed onto him, and suddenly he was happier and more open in public. She was a real clown - always making people laugh, and she was a former member of a Chicago improv comedy group, so she was always "on". She was always the first person to hit the dance floor when the music started, too. A year or so into their relationship, she started acting a little odd and quirky, and her sister persuaded her to get a check-up. The brain cancer was very aggressive and she was given about 6 months to live. She fought, and lived for almost a year after her diagnosis. I think of her every time I hear this song.



Keep a fire burning in your eye
Pay attention to the open sky
You never know what will be coming down
I don't remember losing track of you
You were always dancing in and out of view
I must have thought youd always be around
Always keeping things real by playing the clown
Now youre nowhere to be found

I don't know what happens when people die
Cant seem to grasp it as hard as I try
Its like a song I can hear playing right in my ear
That I can't sing
I can't help listening
And I can't help feeling stupid standing round
Crying as they ease you down
cause I know that youd rather we were dancing
Dancing our sorrow away
(right on dancing)
No matter what fate chooses to play
(theres nothing you can do about it anyway)

Just do the steps that youve been shown
By everyone youve ever known
Until the dance becomes your very own
No matter how close to yours
Anothers steps have grown
In the end there is one dance youll do alone

Keep a fire for the human race
Let your prayers go drifting into space
You never know what will be coming down
Perhaps a better world is drawing near
And just as easily it could all disappear
Along with whatever meaning you might have found
Dont let the uncertainty turn you around
(the world keeps turning around and around)
Go on and make a joyful sound

Into a dancer you have grown
From a seed somebody else has thrown
Go on ahead and throw some seeds of your own
And somewhere between the time you arrive
And the time you go
May lie a reason you were alive
But youll never know
 
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  • #42
For a certain someone very special

Jim Croce / Time in a bottle



If I could save time in a bottle
The first thing that I'd like to do
Is to save every day
Till eternity passes away
Just to spend them with you

If I could make days last forever
If words could make wishes come true
I'd save every day like a treasure and then,
Again, I would spend them with you

But there never seems to be enough time
To do the things you want to do
Once you find them
I've looked around enough to know
That you're the one I want to go
Through time with

If I had a box just for wishes
And dreams that had never come true
The box would be empty
Except for the memory
Of how they were answered by you

But there never seems to be enough time
To do the things you want to do
Once you find them
I've looked around enough to know
That you're the one I want to go
Through time with
 
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  • #43
Gale said:
On a different note, I get very different feelings evoked by this song:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=8YIIM1EVDqg

Its the most sensual song I know, I love it. I love dancing to it.

reminds me of a haiku-type little poem I wrote when I was about your age:
(it did get published in some regional poetry book, too)



Sweet woman don't pass me by-

For I have sipped of your ocean

And now want to drink it dry.
 
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  • #44
rewebster said:
reminds me of a haiku-type little poem I wrote when I was about your age:
(it did get published in some regional poetry book, too)



Sweet woman don't pass me by-

For I have sipped of your ocean

And now want to drink it dry.

I like that a lot. I wish I were a better poet. That would be a great song lyric.
 
  • #45
It's a tie between
Brian Tyler - Inama Nushif in Children of Dune
Steve Jablonsky - My Name is Lincoln in The Island.
 
  • #46
Gale said:
I like that a lot. I wish I were a better poet. That would be a great song lyric.

well, thank you----it sounds like your ex- didn't use up all of your sweetness (or you replenished it already)
 
  • #47
30 Seconds to Mars - Was it a Dream

Your defenses were on high
Your walls built deep inside
Yeah, I’m a selfish bastard
But at least I’m not alone

My intentions never change
What I wanted stays the same
And I know what I should do
It's time to set myself on fire

Was it a dream?
Was it a dream?
Is this the only evidence that proves it
A photograph of you and I

Your reflection I’ve erased
Like a thousand burned out yesterdays
Believe me when I say goodbye forever
Is for good

Was it a dream?
Was it a dream?
Is this the only evidence that proves it
A photograph of you and I
(A photograph of you and I)
_______________________________________________
Morcheeba - Gained The World


I heard I lost it
On the grapevine
I must admit
I had a great time
There are words for people like me
But I don't think there's very many

I've gained the world then lost my soul
Maybe it's cause I'm getting old
All the people that I know
Have gained the world then lost their souls

There's no persuasion that I'm into
I've made some sense of what we've been through
We should form a new foundation
If we could find the right location

Is it prey
On display
I'm feeling well

I've gained the world then lost my soul
Maybe it's cause I'm getting old
All the people that I know
Have gained the world then lost their souls
I've gained the world then lost my soul
Maybe it's cause I'm getting old
All the people that I know
Have gained the world then lost their souls
 
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  • #48
There a few songs that always get me going and they are from my new home country and my motherland
1st is Dave Dobbyn's - Welcome Home (amaing New Zealand Song), I first heard it at very good friend's funeral when he passed away after being diagnosed with prostate cancer



The 2nd song, Nkosi Sikeleli 'Afrika, makes me cry whenever I hear it, and I know that where ever I go South Africa holds a special place in my heart, I'm proud to be a South African - It's the start of the South African Nation Anthem and I think it is the most beautiful sounding song in the world.

 
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  • #49
October's Promise by Lolita

I remember the day october
looked into your eyes and promised
november would be prettier this year
but on Halloween it snowed
and you forgot to let your dog in that night.

So with his frozen corpse, the outline of a snowbeast,
you curse the day you prayed to Autumn
and worship the spring, her enemy,
never forgetting that cold november morning
when october reached beneath your ribcage
and took your trust away.

Shes an awesome poet: http://www.darkpoetry.com/dp/15708
 
  • #50
well this one by Sarah Mclachlan has been getting to me lately- But I have many- anyhow here's the link:

 
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  • #51
Ivan Seeking said:
No, you're never too old to Rock'n'Roll if you're too young to
die.

(And exactly this is my favourite part of the song)

Yes, this is an anthological song.

For me, it's many many songs. But here is one which I adore, it's Going to California by Led Zeppelin:

Spent my days with a woman unkind, Smoked my stuff and drank all my wine.
Made up my mind to make a new start, Going To California with an aching in my heart.
Someone told me there's a girl out there with love in her eyes and flowers in her hair.
Took my chances on a big jet plane, never let them tell you that they're all the same.
The sea was red and the sky was grey, wondered how tomorrow could ever follow today.
The mountains and the canyons started to tremble and shake
as the children of the sun began to awake.

Seems that the wrath of the Gods
Got a punch on the nose and it started to flow;
I think I might be sinking.
Throw me a line if I reach it in time
I'll meet you up there where the path
Runs straight and high.

To find a queen without a king,
They say she plays guitar and cries and sings... la la la
Ride a white mare in the footsteps of dawn
Tryin' to find a woman who's never, never, never been born.
Standing on a hill in my mountain of dreams,
Telling myself it's not as hard, hard, hard as it seems.

(related to my new avatar, as well :-p)
 
  • #52
I have always loved this - it really puts things into a different perspective. I also really like movies, so the visuals accompanying this make this reading of Pale Blue Dot so much more potent.

 
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  • #53
"I am a rock" - by Simon and Garfunkel :

---
A winters day
In a deep and dark december;
I am alone,
Gazing from my window to the streets below
On a freshly fallen silent shroud of snow.
I am a rock,
I am an island.
Ive built walls,
A fortress deep and mighty,
That none may penetrate.
I have no need of friendship; friendship causes pain.
Its laughter and its loving I disdain.
I am a rock,
I am an island.

Dont talk of love,
But I've heard the words before;
Its sleeping in my memory.
I won't disturb the slumber of feelings that have died.
If I never loved I never would have cried.
I am a rock,
I am an island.

I have my books
And my poetry to protect me;
I am shielded in my armor,
Hiding in my room, safe within my womb.
I touch no one and no one touches me.
I am a rock,
I am an island.

And a rock feels no pain;
And an island never cries.
---


"Vincent" - by Don Mclean :

***
Starry
starry night
paint your palette blue and grey

look out on a summer's day
with eyes that know the
darkness in my soul.
Shadows on the hills
sketch the trees and the daffodils

catch the breeze and the winter chills

in colors on the snowy linen land.
And now I understand what you tried to say to me

how you suffered for your sanity
how you tried to set them free.
They would not listen
they did not know how

perhaps they'll listen now.

Starry
starry night
flaming flo'rs that brightly blaze

swirling clouds in violet haze reflect in
Vincent's eyes of China blue.
Colors changing hue
morning fields of amber grain

weathered faces lined in pain
are soothed beneath the artist's
loving hand.
And now I understand what you tried to say to me

how you suffered for your sanity
how you tried to set them free.
perhaps they'll listen now.

For they could not love you
but still your love was true

and when no hope was left in sight on that starry
starry night.
You took your life
as lovers often do;
But I could have told you
Vincent
this world was never
meant for one
as beautiful as you.

Starry
starry night
portraits hung in empty halls

frameless heads on nameless walls
with eyes
that watch the world and can't forget.
Like the stranger that you've met

the ragged men in ragged clothes

the silver thorn of bloddy rose
lie crushed and broken
on the virgin snow.
And now I think I know what you tried to say to me

how you suffered for your sanity

how you tried to set them free.
They would not listen
they're not
list'ning still
perhaps they never will.

***

"Annachie Gordon" by Loreena Mckennitt :

+++

Harking is bonny and there lives my love
My heart lies on him and cannot remove
It cannot remove for all that I have done
And I never will forget my love Annachie
For Annachie Gordon he's bonny and he's bright
He'd entice any woman that e'er he saw
He'd entice any woman and so he has done me
And I never will forget my love Annachie.


Down came her father and he's standing at the door
Saying Jeannie you are trying the tricks of a whore
You care nothing for a man who cares so much for thee
You must marry Lord Sultan and leave Annachie
For Annachie Gordon is barely but a man
Although he may be pretty but where are his lands
The Sultan's lands are broad and his towers they run high
You must marry Lord Sultan and leave Annachie.


With Annachie Gordon I beg for my bread
And before I marry Sultan his gold to my head
With gold to my head and straight down to my knees
And I'll die if I don't get my love Annachie
And you who are my parents to church you may me bring
But unto Lord Sultan I'll never bear a son
To a son or a daughter I'll never bow my knee
And I'll die if I don't get my love Annachie.


Jeannie was married and from church was brought home
When she and her maidens so merry should have been
When she and her maidens so merry should have been
She goes into her chamber and cries all alone.


Come to my bed my Jeannie my honey and my sweet
To stile you my mistress it would be so sweet
Be it mistress or Jeanne it's all the same to me
But in your bed Lord Sultan I never will lie
And down came her father and he's spoken with reknownSaying you who are her maidens
Go loosen up her gowns
And she fell down to the floor
And straight down to his knee saying
Father look I'm dying for my love Annachie.


The day that Jeanne married was the day that Jeannie died
And the day that young Annachie came home on the tide
And down came her maidens all wringing of their hands
Saying oh it's been so long, you've been so long on the sands
So long on the sands, so long on the flood
They have married your Jeannie and now she lies dead.


You who are her maidens come take me by the hand
And lead me to the chamber where my love she lies in
And he kissed her cold lips till his heart it turned to stone
And he died in the chamber where his love she lies in.

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Poetry - second the posting on Ulysses (Tennyson).

Prose - I remember being very touched by one of those chain email things about motherhood (I think), can't find the exact text.
 
  • #55
Über alle Gipfeln sind Ruh'...
 
  • #56
I don't have one particular song that moves me. It depends on the circumstances at that particular moment. If I'm melancholy or lonely I like listening to Sade 'By Your Side' or Norah Jones 'Don't Know Why'. I like soothing, breathy female vocals for some reason.

I posted Metallica 'Unforgiven' and Pantera 'Cemetery Gates' in the best songs thread. I like to listen to them when I'm angry. I'm an anarchist at heart, but I try to be nice about it. When I hear them I often think about when I was 10.

For humor I like Adam Sandler 'Ode to my Car', Lou Reed 'Sex With Your Parents' and anything by Zappa. I'll leave yous to look up the links on your own if you care to read or listen to them. They might not be appropriate for posting.

That sums the bulk of my emotional states, unfortunately.
 
  • #57
zoobyshoe said:
You are all terminally emo.

EMO hehe!
 
  • #58
Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody struck a chord (or used to); I found the sentiments it expressed comparable to those in Camus's novel The Stranger.
 
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  • #59
siddharth said:
I found this essay by Carl Sagan powerful and inspiring.

Reflections on a Mote of Dust

Did they quote this in An inconvenient truth?
 
  • #60
Zenparticle said:
well this one by Sarah Mclachlan has been getting to me lately- But I have many- anyhow here's the link:



We did a ballet dance to the song Angel. That was really good
 
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