Fumbler's Café

at first listen. Which was it?

The more 'recent' one for me had to be John Mayer's "Heartbreak Warfare" from Battle Studies, released last November. The opening just made me really happy and teary that he was back and it's still my very favorite track from that album. The song is very groovy and amazing live

http://s0.ilike.com/play#John+Mayer:Hea ... ba87b9514a

there are not many songs that make me teary (being a man ), but watching the video If Everyone Cared from Nickelback really moved me.

Sarah's songs have done a great job of making me cry my eyes out in the past, but then again I was just a teenage kid and really stupid stuff are more than enough to make you lose it. But it's different when you're older. At the moment, only 3 songs can make me a bit teary but I have to be in the right frame of mind to accomplish that.

The first one is Kate Bush's Moments of Pleasure. It's a song about getting older and coming to terms with the inevitable fact that the people you care about are dying while you are left to carry on...
Just being alive it can really hurt
And these moments given are a gift from time
Just let us try to give these moments back
To those we love, to those who will survive

The other 2 ones are Sandy Denny's The Music Weaver and Jeff Buckley's Forget Her. Pure sadness, those two. I can't emotionally relate to the Buckley tune but his voice somehow gives you the ability to empathize.

"This Woman's Work" - Kate Bush
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1d9BF6PysbE
Can anyone not cry when they hear that? A dying wife's last reflections, and wishes for her husband to continue his life without her, rendered in such a classically realistic and non-soppy way - like only an artist of Kate's calibre can deliver.

"Sanvean: I Am Your Shadow" - Lisa Gerrard
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xpkRj99FH0
A mournful, atmospheric vocal of Lisa's faux-ethnic lyrics, set to the most stunning string arrangement...it could be the soundtrack to the end of all things - life, the universe. I can't hear it without being brought to tears. Possibly the single track that affects me more than any other I have ever heard.
My dad was my best friend, but when he died of cancer a few years ago, I had it played that day. I thought I might have been overwhelmed at that moment in my life, but in fact it was the only time I've ever heard this song and not cried. I think I had just run out of tears by then. Sometimes you find the very bottom of your sadness, and there's nowhere else to go but back up - to continue life.


"The Arrival" - Michael Nyman (from the "Gattaca" soundtrack)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M33oxfw7aS0
An instrumental of such simple, mournful beauty, capturing the exhausted, lifelong struggle of Ethan Hawke's discriminated character from the 1997 sci-fi drama so perfectly, but symbolic of any struggle.

If you haven't heard these, I'll never recommend any music on this board more highly, than these songs.

Rob.

Magellan wrote:Can anyone not cry when they hear that? A dying wife's last reflections, and wishes for her husband to continue his life without her...

Actually, the song is about a man about to become a father pondering whether he wants it to happen or not, doubting his own worth as a father ("oh, it's hard on the man now his part is over, now starts the craft of the father.") and a husband ("of all the things I should've said but I never said... all the things I should've given but I didn't.").
But I have to say your interpretation is very good and well-thought of! I have a very vague recollection of reading this before... maybe in one of your posts at Sarahboards(?).

And Sanvean... one of my fave DCD/Lisa Gerrard songs. To those unfamiliar with her, she's another one worth listening to. You'll love her once you get past the idioglossia.

Adam performed this song with just Monte on guitar:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhQLVNs08t4