That song makes me laugh, because everytime I hear it I think of the Beavis and Butthead episode where they watched it.
- M4H
That song makes me laugh, because everytime I hear it I think of the Beavis and Butthead episode where they watched it.
- M4H
"Mad World" in Donnie Darko. It only really gets me emotional during the movie, not just played on the radio.
Cold Missouri Waters
* (Words & music James Keelaghan)
My name is Dodge, but then you know that
It's written on the chart there at the foot end of the bed
They think I'm blind, I can't read it
I've read it every word, and every word it says is death
So, Confession - is that the reason that you came
Get it off my chest before I check out of the game
Since you mention it, well there's thirteen things I'll name
Thirteen crosses high above the cold Missouri waters
August 'Forty-Nine, north Montana
The hottest day on record, the forest tinder dry
Lightning strikes in the mountains
I was crew chief at the jump base, I prepared the boys to fly
Pick the drop zone, C-47 comes in low
Feel the tap upon your leg that tells you go
See the circle of the fire down below
Fifteen of us dropped above the cold Missouri waters
Gauged the fire, I'd seen bigger
So I ordered them to sidehill and we'd fight it from below
We'd have our backs to the river
We'd have it licked by morning even if we took it slow
But the fire crowned, jumped the valley just ahead
There was no way down, headed for the ridge instead
Too big to fight it, we'd have to fight that slope instead
Flames one step behind above the cold Missouri waters
Sky had turned red, smoke was boiling
Two hundred yards to safety, death was fifty yards behind
I don't know why I just thought it
I struck a match to waist high grass running out of time
Tried to tell them, Step into this fire I set
We can't make it, this is the only chance you'll get
But they cursed me, ran for the rocks above instead
I lay face down and prayed above the cold Missouri waters
And when I rose, like the phoenix
In that world reduced to ashes there were none but two survived
I stayed that night and one day after
Carried bodies to the river, wonder how I stayed alive
Thirteen stations of the cross to mark to their fall
I've had my say, I'll confess to nothing more
I'll join them now, because they left me long before
Thirteen crosses high above the cold Missouri waters
Thirteen crosses high above the cold Missouri shore
* (Words & music James Keelaghan)
My name is Dodge, but then you know that
It's written on the chart there at the foot end of the bed
They think I'm blind, I can't read it
I've read it every word, and every word it says is death
So, Confession - is that the reason that you came
Get it off my chest before I check out of the game
Since you mention it, well there's thirteen things I'll name
Thirteen crosses high above the cold Missouri waters
August 'Forty-Nine, north Montana
The hottest day on record, the forest tinder dry
Lightning strikes in the mountains
I was crew chief at the jump base, I prepared the boys to fly
Pick the drop zone, C-47 comes in low
Feel the tap upon your leg that tells you go
See the circle of the fire down below
Fifteen of us dropped above the cold Missouri waters
Gauged the fire, I'd seen bigger
So I ordered them to sidehill and we'd fight it from below
We'd have our backs to the river
We'd have it licked by morning even if we took it slow
But the fire crowned, jumped the valley just ahead
There was no way down, headed for the ridge instead
Too big to fight it, we'd have to fight that slope instead
Flames one step behind above the cold Missouri waters
Sky had turned red, smoke was boiling
Two hundred yards to safety, death was fifty yards behind
I don't know why I just thought it
I struck a match to waist high grass running out of time
Tried to tell them, Step into this fire I set
We can't make it, this is the only chance you'll get
But they cursed me, ran for the rocks above instead
I lay face down and prayed above the cold Missouri waters
And when I rose, like the phoenix
In that world reduced to ashes there were none but two survived
I stayed that night and one day after
Carried bodies to the river, wonder how I stayed alive
Thirteen stations of the cross to mark to their fall
I've had my say, I'll confess to nothing more
I'll join them now, because they left me long before
Thirteen crosses high above the cold Missouri waters
Thirteen crosses high above the cold Missouri shore
asm0deus
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- Aug 18, 2003
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in my life -beatles
jai guru deva -lennon
american pie -don mclean
perfect day -lou reed
creep -stp
alll is full of love -bjork
what a wonderful world -louis armstrong
we will meet again -vast
the nurse who loved me -perfect circle
the noose -perfect circle
i've been pondering the psychology behind these kinds of songs (i write the occasional music) and some of them simply recall memories of a sentimental nature. others recall a more primal and subconscious fantasy that i refer to as the death sequence. like singing hello and goodbye (to the living and the dead) and melodically encoding the truth of certain phrases and moments of life. im going to die singing a death mantra, but its an ancient one that most people havent heard before. this is the stuff tears are truly made of in my opinion, the gates of life and death muhahahah
jai guru deva -lennon
american pie -don mclean
perfect day -lou reed
creep -stp
alll is full of love -bjork
what a wonderful world -louis armstrong
we will meet again -vast
the nurse who loved me -perfect circle
the noose -perfect circle
i've been pondering the psychology behind these kinds of songs (i write the occasional music) and some of them simply recall memories of a sentimental nature. others recall a more primal and subconscious fantasy that i refer to as the death sequence. like singing hello and goodbye (to the living and the dead) and melodically encoding the truth of certain phrases and moments of life. im going to die singing a death mantra, but its an ancient one that most people havent heard before. this is the stuff tears are truly made of in my opinion, the gates of life and death muhahahah
MikeyIs4Dcats
Lifer
- Nov 5, 2001
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Let it Be - Beatles (this is what happened to be playing on the radio when I got the phonecall that my mothers cancer was inoperable and she would be dead soon)
Simple Man - Shinedown (while I've always loved the Skynyrd version, it's rockier and doesn't move me)
Moonlight Sonata - Beethoven (it's always been my favorite love song (or any type of song) and the story of it makes it even more powerful)
To Make you Feel my Love - Garth Brooks (it's in the movie Hope Floats which I was watching with my best friend when I realized I was in love with her)
Dream On - Aerosmith (just about the most beautiful philosphy/anthem of all time)
Dust in the Wind - Kansas (hello, could you be any more depressing)
Simple Man - Shinedown (while I've always loved the Skynyrd version, it's rockier and doesn't move me)
Moonlight Sonata - Beethoven (it's always been my favorite love song (or any type of song) and the story of it makes it even more powerful)
To Make you Feel my Love - Garth Brooks (it's in the movie Hope Floats which I was watching with my best friend when I realized I was in love with her)
Dream On - Aerosmith (just about the most beautiful philosphy/anthem of all time)
Dust in the Wind - Kansas (hello, could you be any more depressing)
Originally posted by: cloude27
i dont know if he ment crying laughing, but that is a funny song
Speaking of Stephen Lynch, Lullabye almost brings me to tears before he starts in on the funny lines...then I laugh hysterically. Honestly though, if he ever released a serious version of that song it would proably damn near kill me. Downside of being a single parent I guess.
Songs with personal events attached to them... off the top of my head:
Clapton - River of Tears
Clapton - Blue Eyes Blue
Moody Blues - Go Now
Moody Blues - Nights In White Satin
... more I just can't think of 'em atm.
Clapton - River of Tears
Clapton - Blue Eyes Blue
Moody Blues - Go Now
Moody Blues - Nights In White Satin
... more I just can't think of 'em atm.
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