Music To My Ears
Posted on Saturday, October 8, 2005 at 3:34 pmCategory: Uncategorized
Ok for the last few days I’ve been doing the lazy thing…sitting back and listening to music (the 800 channels on Directv). Well yesterday I heard one of my favorite songs that has a little bit of an emotional tone to it and I found myself singing along, as I always do.
The odd thing about this is while singing my eyes started to tear up. Yes its a emotional song but wait a min. I’m in a good mood and shouldn’t be tearing up. I’ve been having fun and in a great mood so why this sudden water works? I have no clue.
I know I can be an emotional person, I am a woman after all, but to go from doing a funky dance in my Winnie The Pooh pj’s that no one should see to tears is a bit much for me. (btw I’m not awaiting a “friend”, I don’t have those anymore). The funny part of this all is the fact that an upbeat song came on right after this tear-jerker and there I was doing my funky dance again…Tears be gone hahaha.
BTW this is in no relation to the FUSE show today on tearjerkers (yes I watch FUSE, I’m not that old yet).
Anyhow here’s a question for those that stop by, is there a song that everytime it comes on it brings the sudden water-works to your eyes. While your thinking on that, you might as well mention why it has this effect on you.
Quote: “A zebra is a light-colored animal with dark stripes, not a dark one with light stripes.”
American Museum of Natural History
Reading: Lisa Kleypas ~ It Happened On Autumn
October 10th, 2005 09:41
Oh, yeah. There are absolutely songs that make me cry, or at the very least, extremely contempletive, each and every time I hear them. It doesn’t matter what mood I’m in.
October 11th, 2005 03:31
Its odd really because this song hasn’t made me cry before.
I also have a small list of songs that should come with a warning “will cause tears”. I rarely listen to them but I do love them. Of course I’m huge on music anyhow, its a big part of my life.
October 15th, 2005 15:29
Good topic Haven. Yesterday the DH called me from work and when I said “hello” instead of hearing him say “hello” the song “Pretty Woman” was playing instead. I knew it was him (thank heavens for called ID) but his gesture brought tears to my eyes. I thought it was very sweet of him to make me feel “pretty” with a song. Then he finally came on and said “I just wanted to tell you I missed you and I love you”! Ahhh!
Isabel
October 15th, 2005 16:29
Awwww how sweet, its shocking how sometimes guys can do the most romantic things. I bet that brightened the rest of your day.
October 25th, 2005 02:05
Oh, absolutely – I’m a fairly emotional person anyway, so there are tons of songs that get to me, some more than others. Like REM’s “Everybody Hurts.” That one gets me every time. And then there’s “My Heart Will Go On” by Celine Dion, and yes, there’s a story to that one.
November 1998, the weekend after Thanksgiving, my best friend ended up in a coma. She suffered terrible migraines, and this one was so bad it triggered an aneurysm, which led to stroke and then the coma. It was a difficult week, and her condition was so bad that her family decided to remove the ventilator on December 4th.
I was at work, and around 11am the Celine Dion song came on the radio. It was the first time I had heard it, and I knew in that instant that she was gone. It was a long time before I could even listen to that song without totally breaking down, and occasionally still cathes me offguard.
Can’t listen to “Daddy’s Little Girl” without breaking down, either.
Good topic, Haven!
October 28th, 2005 18:55
This might be odd but I’m much the same way. When my grandpa passed away in June I was stunned. We all knew his health wasnt great but it was still shocking. He had been in the hospital and they gave him the choice to have a surgery that he most likely wouldn’t live through but he opted out of it. So he had gone to the hotel with my mom and my aunt and were suppose to come home the next day. So last I hear is grandpa is coming home..all is well. The next morning I wake-up seeing that my brand-new phone has messages. I had to set up my answer message before I could hear my messages and then I hear my mom saying that grandpa had passed-away. I couldn’t even listen to the 3 other messages but instead handed the phone to my sleeping husband.
All that day I was in limbo it seems but I do remember seeing/hearing the song “Helena”(I think thats the name of it) by My Chemical Romance and I burst into tears. Still now months later everytime I hear that song I think of my grandpa, smiling and enjoying a BBQ that we had had a few months before his death.
This just goes to prove that you should cherish your family every moment you have them because you never know when it might be the end. In the words of my mother full of tears “he was suppose to come home”.
Small note this story has brought back many pains…with tears.
Thank you for your post.