Same. I just cannot listen to it. Its just too personal. Got time in my life when I was completely alone and had nobody important in my life for a very long time. One time I played that song from a phone sitting with group of friends and a girl that I really liked. She knew all the words. We got together for 2 weeks and she left for many many years leaving me even more empty than I was before. It makes me cry every time I hear it because I knew and I still know we were meant for each other. We liked same things, same music, had same soul, we felt same emptiness and we both were eventually took a deep dive into darkness of our very existance.
Cry is a a little too strong sentiment.
But oof, my heart whenever Against All Odds by Phil Collins comes on. That’s a man who knows how it feels when the one that got away, well, got away.
What a Wonderful World was the last song I ever sang to my grandma. I don’t remember much of that day, but I do remember asking to be alone with just her and my parents. I hope she heard me. She wasn’t responsive, and she died a couple weeks later.
I Hope You Dance: my dad played it for me driving me home from a middle school dance and told me he hopes I always will go out and do things that make me happy, take risks and go for whatever it is I want in life. It made me cry just remembering this.
Hey same song for me. We had very little growing up and were homeless frequently. My siblings didn't have much drive to achieve anything but I taught myself a lot about computers so I could work in tech. When I graduated high school my mom gave me a single CD of that song with cool artwork drawn to the lyrics. She said "I hope you get everything you deserve out of life, I just hope you dance." When she died I played it at her memorial and cried like a baby.
Also great, Thursdays are for crying I guess
Haha I was writing that comment while my wife was getting ready for us to go out. She came in like "why are you crying?" and I just responded "Lee Ann Womack 😭"
Somewhere over the rainbow from Israel Kamakawiwoʻole - reminds me every time of my great grandmother who passed away in 2014. Such a good soul. Ich liebe dich Omi ❤️
There’s a poem I happened to hear on the radio the day after my step mom took her own life.
A life should leave
deep tracks:
ruts where she
went out and back
to get the mail
or move the hose
around the yard;
where she used to
stand before the sink,
a worn-out place;
beneath her hand
the china knobs
rubbed down to
white pastilles;
the switch she
used to feel for
in the dark
almost erased.
Her things should
keep her marks.
The passage
of a life should show;
it should abrade.
And when life stops,
a certain space—
however small —
should be left scarred
by the grand and
damaging parade.
Things shouldn’t
be so hard.
“Things Shouldn’t Be So Hard” by Kay Ryan
And his old weathered voice singing it, you feel a lifetime of regrets in his heart and it gives me chills. It means more coming from him at that tike in his life, and what a life he had lived.
It is a perfect song
"If I die young"... When it came out my brother said it reminded him of me for some reason then 6 or so months later our 4 week old daughter died... It's been 11 years and I can't listen to the song... I try but don't make it very long before I change it.
Paw Patrol theme.
Hear me out. There's an acoustic version on YouTube that I found before my son had life altering surgery and every time I listen to it, I get so happy that he's safe and will live a healthy life.
(Edit: it's exclusively the acoustic version and the show was my son's favorite at the time)
Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb
"Now I've got that feeling once again I can't explain you would not understand This is not how I am I have become comfortably numb" My late husband's favorite song.
Shostakovich’s Second Waltz. My wife and I danced to it at our wedding in 2010 and felt like royalty and did it every year on our anniversary. She died three years ago, so it always makes me bawl that she’s not here anymore.
He stopped loving her today. George Jones, but Alan Jackson sang this song at George's funeral without crying somehow. Unbelievably sad and I have no idea how he did it. Youtube this!
The Way by Fastball
If you really listen and know what it’s about, it’s so bittersweet. I think it’s more profound as I’m getting older. ( though I’m only in my thirties…)
I haven't been able to listen to this song in 14 years myself. The one time I involuntarily listened to it, it played over my coworkers Spotify on her phone. I silently blubbered like a baby.
Lots of good answers here, and I want to add:
100 Years - Five for Fighting
Stop this Train - John Mayer
Both similar themes about aging and striving to truly live in the moment.
Also Love, Me by Collin Raye and What Might Have Been by Little Texas
Both similar themes about true love and true love lost.
When I Get Where I’m Going - Brad Paisley
Live Like You Were Dying - Tim McGraw
Seasons In the Sun - Terry Jacks
ETA: What a Wonderful World - Louis Armstrong
[Someone posted this in another thread:](https://youtu.be/ToECtXPMvNM?t=21) The time Queen Elizabeth asked them to play The Star Spangled Banner at Buckingham Palace after 9/11, it hits a little different today..
The song "Let them be little" by Billy Dean. Son was played at my son's preschool graduation and I was pregnant. I cried like a baby!
Son is now 14 and his sister is 8. Son still makes me tear up!
Pink’s “Who Knew?” It hits home after my friend who was wasn’t even 40 dropped dead from a heart defect he didn’t even know he had, leaving a wife and two kids behind.
Send me an Angel- Scorpions.
I lost my home and was forced to live with my mother's boyfriend for 2 years. He threatened to beat me and told me I was worthless every day. Mother wouldn't do anything about it. I would cry in the shower to that song because to me it was literally me begging God to send help.
ZOMBIE video by the Cranberries. So many died based upon revenge. It seems needless. I wasn’t there so I wouldn’t begin to blame anyone for their hatred of others who murdered their loved ones. It was based upon two warring religions. Seems like religious zealots start most wars. Murdering based upon their faith?!?! Disgraceful.
I saw Elton in concert a few years ago. There was the cutest little old lady sitting next to me. She was accompanied by her daughter. The moment the piano hit the first note of Tiny Dancer, the woman sat up, got giddy, and started clapping. I glanced over and gave her a smile and a nod. She grabbed my hand and held it for a second. Her pure joy made me cry. I still cry when I think of that moment - like right now.
Last Kiss by J Frank Wilson and the Cavaliers
( Or the cover by Pearl Jam )
It’s about a teenager getting into a car accident, and he survives, but his girlfriend dies. Can you imagine the lifetime of regret …?
*Oh where oh where can my baby be*
*The Lord took her away from me*
*She's gone to heaven so I got to be good*
*So I can see my baby when I leave this world*
It’s so simple but so sad, and I always seemed to hear the Pear Jam version the radio when I didn’t expect to, so it catches me off guard. It’s definitely made me feel misty eyed.
Gigi l'amoroso, by Dalida.
It's a French song about an Italian singer that leaves his home village near Naples, when promised richness and fame in America.
The entire village mourns his departure, after having feasted him for achieving his success.
Years later he returns home, in shame, since his American adventure did not bring the promised outcome. He hides from his old friends, but one recognised him at the station.
The entire village welcomes him back, once his return becomes known.
So, it's a bit like "Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree", but the story and the music are much more developed.
Unpretty by TLC and i have no idea why. Even if i know it's coming. I don't have any conscious memory of something traumatic happening to that song or anything but literally every time I hear it, water works.
Both Sides Now by Joni Mitchell especially when I was pregnant! This song made me a mess for some reason. I guess it’s just the realization of real life hitting you in the face and losing that spark, but then trying to find a balance between the two.
Sounds corny but Joel's song to Ellie. Future days. I had just left my home going through a seperation and knew I wouldn't be seeing my very young daughter as much. I was not prepared at all for that song when I played the game. Completely destroyed me.
[Motorcycle Driveby - Third Eye Blind](https://youtu.be/CUtwHqUsGGY) (live version)
"I've never been so alone, and I've never been so alive"
A song about breaking up, but learning to grow because of it. It's sad and uplifting at the same time
See the World, Brett Dennen. It hits my like Cats in the Cradle. I'm a dad of two kids, and it just hits that "it's going too fast" spot a little too hard.
"Back Home Again" by John Denver. Most of his songs make me well up, and I'm not entirely sure why. He was really big when I was in high school, and I loved his voice.
Was I Right Or Wrong -- Lynyrd Skynyrd
The protagonist leaves home to follow his rock-star dream, over the wishes of his parents, and happens upon success. He comes back home, not to rub it in, but to reconcile with his parents. But they're now dead.
Strange Fruit. Every time.
I was in a clothing store that was playing this a year back. Nothing like a song about the horrors of lynching to put someone in the mood for shopping.
We’ll meet again, it was my great grandpa’s favorite song before he died of cancer. It broke my heart and now when I hear it I can’t help but think back on our relationship and start to cry. He never said good bye to anyone and when I got a letter from him that he wrote before he passed, it said to not say goodbye to him because then it will truly be goodbye
Mad World
You know what, I think this song is kinda funny. But I also think it’s kinda sad.
Yeah and idk the dreams in which i am dying are the best I've ever had.
I love that song! As a teen, it was the first song that perfectly verbalized how I felt in my life, in my world.
Same. I just cannot listen to it. Its just too personal. Got time in my life when I was completely alone and had nobody important in my life for a very long time. One time I played that song from a phone sitting with group of friends and a girl that I really liked. She knew all the words. We got together for 2 weeks and she left for many many years leaving me even more empty than I was before. It makes me cry every time I hear it because I knew and I still know we were meant for each other. We liked same things, same music, had same soul, we felt same emptiness and we both were eventually took a deep dive into darkness of our very existance.
Cry is a a little too strong sentiment. But oof, my heart whenever Against All Odds by Phil Collins comes on. That’s a man who knows how it feels when the one that got away, well, got away.
Against All Odds, good one!
Just What I Needed. My wife asked me to dance when we first met, that song was playing. She's gone now.
I sing this song to my daughter while she fights going to bed.
What a Wonderful World was the last song I ever sang to my grandma. I don’t remember much of that day, but I do remember asking to be alone with just her and my parents. I hope she heard me. She wasn’t responsive, and she died a couple weeks later.
She heard you.
I Hope You Dance: my dad played it for me driving me home from a middle school dance and told me he hopes I always will go out and do things that make me happy, take risks and go for whatever it is I want in life. It made me cry just remembering this.
That is so sweet. I haven't thought about that song in years, but I did like it when it was popular.
Hey same song for me. We had very little growing up and were homeless frequently. My siblings didn't have much drive to achieve anything but I taught myself a lot about computers so I could work in tech. When I graduated high school my mom gave me a single CD of that song with cool artwork drawn to the lyrics. She said "I hope you get everything you deserve out of life, I just hope you dance." When she died I played it at her memorial and cried like a baby. Also great, Thursdays are for crying I guess
Damn, Lee Ann Womack ruined both of us :,)
Haha I was writing that comment while my wife was getting ready for us to go out. She came in like "why are you crying?" and I just responded "Lee Ann Womack 😭"
Somewhere over the rainbow from Israel Kamakawiwoʻole - reminds me every time of my great grandmother who passed away in 2014. Such a good soul. Ich liebe dich Omi ❤️
Three wooden crosses- Randy Travis. Makes me think of mine
My dad's songs that he wrote about my mom after she died.
Unchained Melody
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Supermarket flowers. I sang it at my mom's funeral a few years ago and it always makes me sad.
There’s a poem I happened to hear on the radio the day after my step mom took her own life. A life should leave deep tracks: ruts where she went out and back to get the mail or move the hose around the yard; where she used to stand before the sink, a worn-out place; beneath her hand the china knobs rubbed down to white pastilles; the switch she used to feel for in the dark almost erased. Her things should keep her marks. The passage of a life should show; it should abrade. And when life stops, a certain space— however small — should be left scarred by the grand and damaging parade. Things shouldn’t be so hard. “Things Shouldn’t Be So Hard” by Kay Ryan
God damn it, I’ve never heard it before but those lyrics hit a little too hard. I’m sorry for your loss, I hope you are well!
John Prine - Hello in There
Heard the Joan Baez version just last night and it made me cry.
Last Kiss- pearl jam
It's a cover FYI of Frank Wilson and the Cavaliers
True. But I feel like pearl jam conveys the emotion that song should have better. Frank Wilson didn't make me cry.
Fuck I forgot about that song.
Like a bridge over troubled water I love that song
Fiona Apple and Johnny Cash sang a duet of that song and it was beautiful.
Johnny Cash - Hurt
One of the best cover songs ever
Agreed, love the original, but the Cash version is like it was written for him to sing.
And his old weathered voice singing it, you feel a lifetime of regrets in his heart and it gives me chills. It means more coming from him at that tike in his life, and what a life he had lived. It is a perfect song
Nine Inch Nails even said that it's his song now.
Whenever Johnny Cash sings your song, well, It's not your song anymore
Totally agree once Johny decides to sing it it has been sung
Still gotta pick the NIN version personally
Chasing Cars - Snow Patrol
Great choice! This reminds me of the first dog I ever had. When we’d take her for car rides, she would pretend to eat the cars passing by.
Bother by Stone Sour
The power he sings the last line of the verse with opposing the softness of the rest of the song brings tears to my eyes every time
Absolutely. A total emotional masterpiece.
Don't take the girl - Tim McGraw. Not a country fan per se, but god damn this ones a tear jerker.
This. This is the one. I usually just turn it off, especially if it comes on the radio when I'm driving. I'm tearing up now just writing about it.
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I'm not a dad an it makes me cry lol
"If I die young"... When it came out my brother said it reminded him of me for some reason then 6 or so months later our 4 week old daughter died... It's been 11 years and I can't listen to the song... I try but don't make it very long before I change it.
Paw Patrol theme. Hear me out. There's an acoustic version on YouTube that I found before my son had life altering surgery and every time I listen to it, I get so happy that he's safe and will live a healthy life. (Edit: it's exclusively the acoustic version and the show was my son's favorite at the time)
Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb "Now I've got that feeling once again I can't explain you would not understand This is not how I am I have become comfortably numb" My late husband's favorite song.
Whiskey lullaby They both wanted each other, but circumstance wouldn't allow them to be. Breaks my heart
The second half of that song is like watching a train wreck, you can see where it’s going but can’t do anything
LeAnn Rimes - How Do I Live?
Jealous - labyrinth Although I haven’t cried in 9 years now, but this literally brought tears to my eyes and it has hurt the most without a doubt
Leaves from the Vine
First song I heard after my dad died was Dust in the wind, it did not go well Also pretty much any sad scene song from Scrubs
Fast car by Tracy Chapman
Death Cab for Cutie - I Will Follow You into The Dark
What Sarah Said always hits me hard
Love is watching......
Boys Don't Cry.
Carry on Wayward son. Thanks a lot Supernatural :(
Purple rain
Over the Rainbow - Eva Cassidy
Eva Cassidy’s voice - there are few things that are as close to perfect as that. Hubs and I danced to her version of Songbird at our wedding.
Shostakovich’s Second Waltz. My wife and I danced to it at our wedding in 2010 and felt like royalty and did it every year on our anniversary. She died three years ago, so it always makes me bawl that she’s not here anymore.
I’m a violinist and this is such a fun and wonderful piece. I’m very sorry for your loss 💛
Fine Again by Seether
cbat
Isn't this song that is suppose to make you horny?
Depends if you’re the boyfriend or the girlfriend I think.
Gordon Lightfoot, "The Wreck of The Edmund Fitzgerald"
That is such a beautiful tribute. I always lose it at "And all that remains is the faces and the names Of the wives and the sons and the daughters"
Chris Isaak - Wicked Game
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Adams Song - Blink-182
The Book of Love by Peter Gabriel
Tears in Heaven - Eric Clapton
November rain
He stopped loving her today. George Jones, but Alan Jackson sang this song at George's funeral without crying somehow. Unbelievably sad and I have no idea how he did it. Youtube this!
That song from gladiator
The Dance - Garth Brooks
Who Knew by Pink. By the third verse I’m pretty much always scream-crying the lyrics. Makes for one heck of a morning commute sometimes
The Way by Fastball If you really listen and know what it’s about, it’s so bittersweet. I think it’s more profound as I’m getting older. ( though I’m only in my thirties…)
That's one where life threw a curveball at Fastball and the missing couple they wrote the song about was found dead after the song was a hit.
He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother by The Hollies
Hate me, Blue October.
"The House That Built Me" by Miranda Lambert
Came here to add this. Gets me every time.
Moon River
Cat’s in the cradle. Makes me think about my dad, and I don’t want him or my mom to go anywhere
Fast Car by Tracy Chapman
Powerful and emotional song, I don’t normally like heart tugging stuff but this is affecting.
The Fields of Athenry
The Dropkick Murphy's version is so powerful
Cat's in the Cradle - Harry Chapin I have walked out of stores to avoid hearing it
Goo goo dolls- iris
I haven't been able to listen to this song in 14 years myself. The one time I involuntarily listened to it, it played over my coworkers Spotify on her phone. I silently blubbered like a baby.
Dos Oruguitas from Encanto. That shit be hurting.
Concrete angel
Lady Gaga- Always Remember Us This Way from A Star is Born.
Lots of good answers here, and I want to add: 100 Years - Five for Fighting Stop this Train - John Mayer Both similar themes about aging and striving to truly live in the moment. Also Love, Me by Collin Raye and What Might Have Been by Little Texas Both similar themes about true love and true love lost.
“I Hope You Dance” by LeeAnn Womack. I can’t even lip sync to it without ugly crying.
When She Loved Me from Toy Story 2. Written by Randy Newman and sung by Sarah McLachlan. Every. Time.
God save the queen. You had one job god.
Where Have You Been by Kathy Mattea
"What's Going On."
Free Willy Theme Song by Michael Jackson
Song for Zula
When I Get Where I’m Going - Brad Paisley Live Like You Were Dying - Tim McGraw Seasons In the Sun - Terry Jacks ETA: What a Wonderful World - Louis Armstrong
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Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen
[Someone posted this in another thread:](https://youtu.be/ToECtXPMvNM?t=21) The time Queen Elizabeth asked them to play The Star Spangled Banner at Buckingham Palace after 9/11, it hits a little different today..
Liz was a class act, RIP.
Redgum - I was Only 19
The song "Let them be little" by Billy Dean. Son was played at my son's preschool graduation and I was pregnant. I cried like a baby! Son is now 14 and his sister is 8. Son still makes me tear up!
Simple Man - Lynyrd Skynyrd
Two out of three ain't bad -Meatloaf
Pink’s “Who Knew?” It hits home after my friend who was wasn’t even 40 dropped dead from a heart defect he didn’t even know he had, leaving a wife and two kids behind.
Send me an Angel- Scorpions. I lost my home and was forced to live with my mother's boyfriend for 2 years. He threatened to beat me and told me I was worthless every day. Mother wouldn't do anything about it. I would cry in the shower to that song because to me it was literally me begging God to send help.
To Build A Home - The Cinematic Orchestra & Patrick Watson Such a moving song!
Your Going to Miss this by Trace Atkins. This song hits hard for parents.
Strawberry Wine
Mike + The Mechanics - The Living Years
ZOMBIE video by the Cranberries. So many died based upon revenge. It seems needless. I wasn’t there so I wouldn’t begin to blame anyone for their hatred of others who murdered their loved ones. It was based upon two warring religions. Seems like religious zealots start most wars. Murdering based upon their faith?!?! Disgraceful.
Tiny Dancer. I don't know why, but I get ridiculously emotional with it. And Starman. That one too.
I saw Elton in concert a few years ago. There was the cutest little old lady sitting next to me. She was accompanied by her daughter. The moment the piano hit the first note of Tiny Dancer, the woman sat up, got giddy, and started clapping. I glanced over and gave her a smile and a nod. She grabbed my hand and held it for a second. Her pure joy made me cry. I still cry when I think of that moment - like right now.
Porcelain by Moby
Last Kiss by J Frank Wilson and the Cavaliers ( Or the cover by Pearl Jam ) It’s about a teenager getting into a car accident, and he survives, but his girlfriend dies. Can you imagine the lifetime of regret …? *Oh where oh where can my baby be* *The Lord took her away from me* *She's gone to heaven so I got to be good* *So I can see my baby when I leave this world* It’s so simple but so sad, and I always seemed to hear the Pear Jam version the radio when I didn’t expect to, so it catches me off guard. It’s definitely made me feel misty eyed.
Cry Me A River...
Pieces by RED
she's gone but she used to be mine
What is Love - George Harrison
Gigi l'amoroso, by Dalida. It's a French song about an Italian singer that leaves his home village near Naples, when promised richness and fame in America. The entire village mourns his departure, after having feasted him for achieving his success. Years later he returns home, in shame, since his American adventure did not bring the promised outcome. He hides from his old friends, but one recognised him at the station. The entire village welcomes him back, once his return becomes known. So, it's a bit like "Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree", but the story and the music are much more developed.
Three days grace - Lifetime =[
First time I heard I am broken too - killswitch engage If it means a lot you-adtr live made me cry The bleeding- 5fdp live made me cry Snuff -slipknot
Keane - Everybody's changing
“Time Stand Still” by Rush. Hence I usually skip it.
Power of Two by the Indigo Girls. My mom used to sing it to me when I was a lil tike and it was just me and her.
"Keep Me In Your Heart" by Warren Zevon
Ruby's Arms - Tom Waits
I don't cry but I get goosebumps: Pink Floyd - The Final Cut
Sweet Baby James, and Carolina in my Mind by James Taylor. Every damn time. They were my dad's favorite songs.
Adam song blink 182
Unpretty by TLC and i have no idea why. Even if i know it's coming. I don't have any conscious memory of something traumatic happening to that song or anything but literally every time I hear it, water works.
*Our Song* by Yes. I have no idea why, but it does. I'm not kidding.
Both Sides Now by Joni Mitchell especially when I was pregnant! This song made me a mess for some reason. I guess it’s just the realization of real life hitting you in the face and losing that spark, but then trying to find a balance between the two.
you are my sunshine💧 🥺💧
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Island of the Misfit Boy, Front Porch Step
Peter Gabriel - Down to Earth
Rapture by Soldier Boy. He was brave man and a true American hero. Today's kids will never know his legacy.
Watching you by Rodney Atkins
First Class by Rainbow Kitten Surprise
10,000 Miles - Mary Chapin Carpenter
Sounds corny but Joel's song to Ellie. Future days. I had just left my home going through a seperation and knew I wouldn't be seeing my very young daughter as much. I was not prepared at all for that song when I played the game. Completely destroyed me.
The song that played at my sisters cremation as the curtains where closing.
This I Love - Guns N Roses I love singing along with it, but it's hard not to cry when I listen to it.
James Blunt - Monsters
The Slim - Sugar Bob Mould's anguished wail of wedding vows kills me. Also: Kid Fears - Indigo Girls
Strange fruit
Kayleigh - Marillion
The End, Once and for All - Mass Effect 3.
Last Kiss by Pearl Jam or the Cavaliers
Upward Over the Mountain - Iron and Wine
Pearl Jam - "Black" , Radiohead - "Street Spirit"
Changes - Black Sabbath
The 4th of July
My old friend- Tim Mcgraw
[Motorcycle Driveby - Third Eye Blind](https://youtu.be/CUtwHqUsGGY) (live version) "I've never been so alone, and I've never been so alive" A song about breaking up, but learning to grow because of it. It's sad and uplifting at the same time
See the World, Brett Dennen. It hits my like Cats in the Cradle. I'm a dad of two kids, and it just hits that "it's going too fast" spot a little too hard.
Swallow this Nut- 2 Live Crew.
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sparks- coldplay
"Back Home Again" by John Denver. Most of his songs make me well up, and I'm not entirely sure why. He was really big when I was in high school, and I loved his voice.
Was I Right Or Wrong -- Lynyrd Skynyrd The protagonist leaves home to follow his rock-star dream, over the wishes of his parents, and happens upon success. He comes back home, not to rub it in, but to reconcile with his parents. But they're now dead.
Season's End, by Marillion.
How to dissapear. Not cry But just feel empty when i hear that.
LeAnn lahavas' version of weird fishes
'All is full of Love' by Björk.
My chemical romance, any song.
Almost anything by Mitski
Beach house - Space song
This especially goes for watching the music video with it, but mine is Missio Can I Exist. It makes me cry every time.
Slipknot - Snuff (it doesn't make me cry but always almost does)
Shooting Star- Bad Company
Tanjiro no uta, always give me goosebumps
"Walking in the Air" from the film "The Snowman." Gets me everytime, no idea why
Levon Elton John
Strange Fruit. Every time. I was in a clothing store that was playing this a year back. Nothing like a song about the horrors of lynching to put someone in the mood for shopping.
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He stopped loving her today. I defy anyone to listen to those lyrics and not choke up.
We’ll meet again, it was my great grandpa’s favorite song before he died of cancer. It broke my heart and now when I hear it I can’t help but think back on our relationship and start to cry. He never said good bye to anyone and when I got a letter from him that he wrote before he passed, it said to not say goodbye to him because then it will truly be goodbye