Not just the first time you heard them but one that constantly move you.
to me it is basically two.
To Much Love Will Kill You-Queen. Just knowing the story behind it and I was moved but the first time I heard Freddie sing it I broke down.

If I have to go-Tom Waits. Love Waits and when my brother passed was the first ime I heard this one. I broke down hard as it is somethings my bro would say if he had the chance.

I got others but what are yours?

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When I am stuck and need to figure something out I always remember the Immortal words of Socrates when he said:"I just drank what?"

Cats in the Cradle. My dad passed a couple years back and now my son heads off to college in August. When I was the young kid in the first part of that song it was all good but now im getting to be the old guy at the end.

That song is about as real as it gets

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Tom Waits corners the market on heart-tugging songs. "take it with me", "martha", and the one chas mentioned. there are plenty of others too.

"up from under" - the wallflowers
"keep me in your heart" - warren zevon
"it's so hard to say goodbye to yesterday" - boyz ii men
"gloomy sunday" - billie holiday

another one for me is the song "Orange Sky" by Alexi Murdoch. Its a nice song on its own merit but what makes it a very sad song for me is that a number of years ago a high school acquaintance passed away unexpectedly leaving his wife and 3 young kids, and a friend of his made a slide show chronicling his life to this song and posted it on Facebook, and i have to tell you it was about the saddest damn thing I ever watched and I didn't even really know the guy.

Just about everything on Closing Time.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Kash, and Don

Pink Floyd - "Lost for Words" off 'The Division Bell'

It describes my relationship to a "T" with my father, he got divorced from my mother when I was at a very young age, went and got married to another woman, had two more kids (whom I've never met BTW) and wanted nothing to do with me... When I extended the olive branch when I got married umpteen years back trying to invite him (at my Wife's request), he basically told me to fuck off.

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The correct answer is any ballad if you are sad enough. Especially piano songs.

Wish You Were Here has always been my go to.

Another Floyd song...

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It's odd though that I listen to Division Bell more than any other album.

The Dance

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You know me like that.

I won't step on the land mine of pre-Waters departure and post-Waters departure, Dave Gilmour Floyd, but yea, 'The Division Bell' is an excellent album overall. The final song (after "Lost for Words"), "High Hopes" is another favorite of mine.

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100 years by Five for Fighting didn’t mean that much to me when it came out but really strikes a chord as I’ve gotten older.

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“Mr. Trump is unfit for our nation’s highest office.”- JD Vance
“My god, what an !diot.”- JD Vance tweet on Trump
“I’m a ‘Never Trump’ guy”- JD Vance

"Live Like You Were Dying" - Tim McGraw

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Sherman remarked, "Well, Grant, we've had the devil's own day, haven't we?" Grant looked up. "Yes," he replied, followed by a puff. "Yes. Lick 'em tomorrow, though."

Yea, that's a good one too.

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That's the winner.

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You know me like that.

What about Jason Isbell "Elephant"?

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Kash, and Don

Usually about once or twice a year I’ll be driving home from work, maybe it was a good day, maybe it was a difficult day. Then “That’s My Job” by Conway Twitty will come on the radio and I’ll cry uncontrollably and realize what it’s all about.

Brick by Ben Folds
Skin by Rascal Flatts

On a much different note...

Pretty much any father-daughter song. I’ll be Your Man by Zac Brown Band, You’re Gonna Miss This by Trace Adkins, There Goes my Life by Kenny Chesney to name a few.

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Not a song, but the dolphins.

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-- source

Agree with this.

The Drugs Don't Work by The Verve

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Well played.

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The Wrong Child - R.E.M.
The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald - Gordon Lightfoot

Say Hello To Heaven

https://youtu.be/SXOzGY46In0

Came out not long after my dad died. It's always brought the tears.

Just like the scene from Princess Bride, "you killed my father...prepare to die."

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Thats a good one and I will raise you .Things Change by him. Now that one is all kinds of tugging at the heart strings

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When I am stuck and need to figure something out I always remember the Immortal words of Socrates when he said:"I just drank what?"

The Living Years by Mike and the Mechanics came out a little before my dad died and I still well up a bit when I hear it. I was a teen so we didnt really see eye to eye at the time.

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Mulli is Howard Stern in his prime compared to Haugh.

I was 22 and had recently realized he wasn't the tyrant I had once believed.

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