So, I was sobbing in my car yesterday.

Yesterday I was looking at my mood: "lachrymose"...

& planned a crying thread...


But I didn't have a beautiful song to go with it.



Thanks Lady, wonderful thread.

Peace On Earth, everyone!


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This was a sad song for me...

a reply to: ladyinwaiting
Old Soldiers Never Die, Young Ones Do.
=Paul Harvey reporting on a bumper sticker he saw

a reply to: ladyinwaiting

When I stopped for a traffic light, I covered my face so no one would see.

Oh, Don't feel bad darlin, I cover my face at the
light whether I'm cry'n or not. Sometimes I forget
and everyone else starts cry'n.

Hope you feel better!

this one used to have the same effect on me

a reply to: Mousygretchen

Thank you for posting those, I am going to listen to them tomorrow, and look forward to it. Now, I need to try to cheer myself up! I know you love music, if you are still on here, put up something that will cheer me up!

Please.

a reply to: ladyinwaiting





its a stretch...really hope you can appreciate it lol

a reply to: Mousygretchen

haha! I smiled though the whole thing, and as a bonus, it has a flying panda!

Very sweet.

a reply to: ladyinwaiting
I haven't read a lot fromyou... but if you ask me to try and cheer you up, I will always go out of my way to oblige!!

a reply to: Mousygretchen

wow, ouch, these two songs are hard to hear and I know have tears all over the place

a reply to: ladyinwaiting

Strangely enough wrote a thread almost exactly 2 years ago about this song and the Billy Jack movie.

That movie stirred some very strong emotions in me at the time and the song itself pops into my head at the weirdest times. I am always moved to tears when I watch that movie or hear the song to this day.

It was and is such a strong emotional pull.

One Tin Soldier

Back in the 70’s, during the Vietnam war, there were many who had the audacity to suggest we not be involved and along with that was a desire on the part of many to integrate society into the ways of peace and love without regard for race, color, creed…they still found a way to ignore people back then and continued to be involved in Vietnam, today it is considered by most involved to have been a war we had no business being involved in, but would things be different in that part of the world if we had not?

One Tin Soldier

Listen, children, to a story…That was written long ago…'Bout a kingdom on a mountain…
And the valley folk below…On the mountain was a treasure…Buried deep beneath a stone…
And the valley people swore…They'd have it for their very own…

Go ahead and hate your neighbor
Go ahead and cheat a friend
Do it in the name of Heaven
You can justify it in the end
There won't be any trumpets blowing
Come the judgment day
On the bloody morning after who...
One tin soldier rides away

So, the people of the valley…Sent a message up the hill…Asking for the buried treasure…
Tons of gold for which they'd kill…Came an answer from the kingdom…
"With our brothers, we will share…All the secrets of our mountain…All the riches buried there"

Now, the valley cried with anger…"Mount your horses, draw your sword!"…
And they killed the mountain people…So, they won their just reward…Now, they stood beside the treasure
On the mountain dark and red…Turn the stone and looks beneath it..."Peace on Earth" was all it said…

Go ahead and hate your neighbor
Go ahead and cheat a friend
Do it in the name of Heaven
You can justify it in the end
There won't be any trumpets blowing
Come the judgment day
On the bloody morning after who...
One tin soldier rides away

Go ahead and hate your neighbor
Go ahead and cheat a friend
Do it in the name of Heaven
You can justify it in the end
There won't be any trumpets blowing
Come the judgment day
On the bloody morning after who...
One tin soldier rides away

a reply to: Mousygretchen

Great songs, two of my favs when it comes to feeling the soul of the artist. Here's one that always gets me. I think it's poignant for so many people who simply settle with their lives, instead of finding that happiness we so desperately need in our lives. Instead a lot of us are left with emptiness.

Try this one.



It was inspired by a real event involving two orphaned brothers.



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This song is so beautiful it puts me in a dreamy state. Iz was awesome.

Oh and thanks to everybody who posted! Seriously, thank you.

a reply to: ladyinwaiting

I'm with you on that.

One Tin Soldier is a song that chokes me up every time I hear it, going all the way back to my childhood when I first heard it on the radio.

The storyline strikes a nerve with most people who listen to it... I think the reason is because it draws out feelings of both anger and sadness at the reality of the disgusting war-mongering world we live in.

And deep down inside, we all know that ugliness will never end... no doubt, the insanity will continue until we finally wipe ourselves off the map.


Here's a couple of other songs that reflect the ugliness of world (grab the kleenex box first):

originally posted by: boymonkey74
a reply to: ladyinwaiting

It's good for the soul and mind to let it all out and cry thats why we do it

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This song gets me everytime. (yes I know Rolf Harris but the song).

Oh and not heard that song and it is moving.

This song (2 little boys) came out when I was a kid, and according to my mum I used to just burst into tears everytime it came on the radio - I'd have been 3 or 4 at the time.

Must have touched a nerve somehow.