One of my patients played this song today as I was completing a nursing task at work
Like all songs that evoke memories,
I was suddenly transported to 2007, and I was driving my very first Welsh terrier to the animal hospital near Chester
I knew Finlay was dying
And those words
“ If I lay here
If I just lay hereWould you lie with me and just forget the world?”
Finlay Christmas 2005
Have never left me. They summed up our relationship perfectly
Man and dog
And 18 years later, I still am moved to tears by the words.
What song breaks your heart?
Answers here please xxxx
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ReplyDeleteIt’s a lovely song one of my favourites Lee xx
DeleteMy mother’s favourite song is one you love
ReplyDeleteMoon River
We played it at her funeral and there was no a dry eye in the church
Keith
Xx
You know what I think about moon river lol
DeleteI always associate that snow patrol song with the loss of my first beautiful golden retriever Dylan - and like you I find it hard to listen to now - no matter how many further amazing animals who share my life and home since then . I love your blog John.
ReplyDeleteMary Jenkins
Mary k thank you for this comment
DeleteMy mother loved Fiddler too
ReplyDeleteBut her song was Do I Love You ?
It kills me to this day squire xx
Lee
Oh Lee , I get u totally
DeleteFor me it's Take Me Home Country Roads. Went to high school and finished college in WV (a long convoluted story); met my husband there and made some of my best friends ever. And that was THE state song. Remember particularly one night driving with my college pals, it came on the radio, we turned it on full blast and were going down the country road singing that at the top of our lungs. It always takes me back and makes me a weepy mess.
ReplyDeleteFor me, it's Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah".
ReplyDeleteHugs!
Company by Rickie Lee Jones - heartbreaking longing
ReplyDeleteI too love this song and I think the first time I heard it was on the radio driving home from work. Other favorites are - If by Bread (the song from our wedding), Somewhere over the Rainbow - the Eva Cassidy version, Dream Weaver by Gary Wright and Hallelujah- the K D Lang version. Now I need to go listen to all 5 and it will be an earworm evening.
ReplyDeleteMoon River. Days of Wine and Roses. Time in a Bottle [Jim Croce]. Somewhere over the Rainbow. But I don't know f it's the songs or the memories.
ReplyDeleteStairway to Heaven. Born to Run/ Born in the USA.
I do like this song from Snow Patrol but from the same time period Linkin Park Shadow of the Day. The travails of my mother's months long illness and passing and this song was on the radio. . . "the sun will set for you". . .
ReplyDelete"Dimming of the Day" by Richard/LindaThompson. Also covered beautifully by Bonnie Raitt. Rips my heart out every time...in a good way. X
ReplyDeleteFinlay looks a teddy bear, a lovely teddy bear.
ReplyDeleteMy song is "Christmas In The Trenches", always makes me cry. Reminds me what a waste of lives wars are.
Finlay was such a dear and gorgeous boy.
ReplyDeleteElbow's "One Day Like This". Because of grief, and for hope.
No song, but I do remember sitting by my lovely cat Freddie as he went to sleep, never to wake. I'm so pleased that I stayed with him as he left us. It still makes me emotional.
ReplyDelete"At last" by Etta James, haunting and beautiful. Hugs from Ro (n.w. Italy).
ReplyDeleteQuite a few by Willie Nelson...he describes life just so.
ReplyDelete"Do they know it's Christmas?" Live Aid 1985. Cuddling my small son, watching mothers trying to breastfeed their starving children, with no milk in their breasts because they, too, were starving, and thinking to myself, if I'd been born a few thousand miles away, that could be me on that screen. Still gets me every year. xx
ReplyDelete"Keep Me in Your Heart"....Warren Zevon
ReplyDeleteInstrumental - Green Onions by Booker T and MG's played at my dads funeral.
ReplyDeleteOff the top of my head, I would guess 'You Should Be Here'. My grandson had died. I was going somewhere with my son and the look on his face as that song came on. He said nothing but he snapped the radio off. I remember that look every tiime I hear that song.
ReplyDeleteBeauty and the Beast, Halleluiah, The Circle of Life (it's the chord change that gets me every time).
ReplyDeleteWonder of you by Elvis.
ReplyDeleteMy husband and I have been married 58 years and it has been our song since it first came out.
Irene
The ethereal folk song, "She Moved Through The Fair."
ReplyDelete"Is My Team Ploughing?" The Butterworth song of grief and war, preferably sung by James Newby.
Sondheim's "Being Alive." So many incredible versions, but probably best by Ramin Karimloo or Neil Patrick Harris.
"Runnin'" - the acoustic version by Diamond and Naughty Boy
"When I Am Laid In Earth" by Dame Janet Baker.
"Dancing In The Dark" by Springsteen, or a haunting low key version by Tom Odell.
Jacques Brel's "Happy Anniversary" by Philip Quast
"Dido Bendigo" by The Watersons.
Better stop now....
Bring Him Home from Les Miserables is one of several for me. The last time I saw my best friend before he died of AIDS complications, it played in the car and I broke down in sobs.
ReplyDeleteHoney Bobby Goldsboro.
ReplyDeleteFor me it is Boulder to Birmingham by Emmy Lou Harris which she wrote for Gram Parsons after he died. It breaks my heart because my beloved grandma died around that time too so it reminds me of her. I still miss her and still love Gram Parsons also. Carole R
ReplyDeleteSO many songs, because being a singer they get into my DNA. Sarah MaLachlan's In the Arms of an Angel, and Nick Cave's Into My Arms make me tear up. Many other songs bring on tears of good memories too though - Sunshine on Leith by the Proclaimers was our first dance in 2003 and gets me going. <3
ReplyDeleteblimey i can't count the number of songs that pring me to tears...... one story i can recall was at a Stereophonics gig (Dawn's fave, not mine) and i nipped off to the bar to get some lager..... come back to find her in the middle of the big crowd, sobbing, uncontrollably.... i thought someone had robbed her purse or summat and i was about to kick off....... turns out it was just the song..... Maybe Tomorrow ..... it makes her cry!
ReplyDeletejust thought of one that does move me.... just for balance.... how about Johnny Cash - Hurt!
DeleteEric Clapton's Tears in Heaven. Dear Theodosia from Hamilton
ReplyDelete"So Far Away" by Carole King.
ReplyDeleteBonnie in Minneapolis