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[ennui1]

Garth Brooks, The Dance

Garth Brooks, Much Too Young (To Feel This D*mn Old)

Chris LeDoux, Western Skies

[DoneTryin]

Yes, many songs evoke specific memories of where I was in my life at the time. Some evoke tears, others laughter, all of them dearly loved.

[mistriTsquirrel]

On 3/5/2014 kittymomNC said:

Sorry to add a sad note, but in the car driving my Mom to the last of her radiation treatments for a brain tumor, the country song "Diamond in the Dust" by Mark Gray. It was actually a romantic song, but the lyrics "She was a diamond in the dust, shine beneath the rust, someone that I could trust....." made me think what a diamond she was in spite of the drastic changes in her due to her illness. I lost her a couple of months later, but recorded that song and cannot hear it now without tears - she was a real "diamond"......This is on my mind now because her birthday would be March 7.

On a happier note, the songs on Meat Loaf's Bat Out of H-ll album - I was a single mom and took my son to the beach when he was about 13-14 and we sang at the top of our lungs all the way there and back in a Camaro with the T-tops off! What wonderful memories!

kittymom, my dad's birthday is March 7th also. I cry thinking about it, because I know it may be his last.

We will find out in a couple weeks if the cancer has spread further. I'm kind of expecting them to tell us it has.

I hear "For What It's Worth" by the Cardigans playing at work sometimes, and this part makes me think of him:

"For what it's worth, I love you
And what is worse, I really do..."

I'm having a really hard time watching my family struggle. And I'm afraid my dad will die, and I'll still be wondering whether or not he ever really loved me.

[kittymomNC]

On 3/5/2014 mistriTsquirrel said:

On 3/5/2014 kittymomNC said:

Sorry to add a sad note, but in the car driving my Mom to the last of her radiation treatments for a brain tumor, the country song "Diamond in the Dust" by Mark Gray. It was actually a romantic song, but the lyrics "She was a diamond in the dust, shine beneath the rust, someone that I could trust....." made me think what a diamond she was in spite of the drastic changes in her due to her illness. I lost her a couple of months later, but recorded that song and cannot hear it now without tears - she was a real "diamond"......This is on my mind now because her birthday would be March 7.

On a happier note, the songs on Meat Loaf's Bat Out of H-ll album - I was a single mom and took my son to the beach when he was about 13-14 and we sang at the top of our lungs all the way there and back in a Camaro with the T-tops off! What wonderful memories!

kittymom, my dad's birthday is March 7th also. I cry thinking about it, because I know it may be his last.

We will find out in a couple weeks if the cancer has spread further. I'm kind of expecting them to tell us it has.

I hear "For What It's Worth" by the Cardigans playing at work sometimes, and this part makes me think of him:

"For what it's worth, I love you
And what is worse, I really do..."

I'm having a really hard time watching my family struggle. And I'm afraid my dad will die, and I'll still be wondering whether or not he ever really loved me.

Maybe if you spend some quiet time thinking over your life and try to find the good things about your Dad, it will answer your question. There were times when I wondered exactly how my Dad felt because he was not at all demonstrative and there were some problems, but I think of small individual things he did that may not have meant that much at the time, but in hindsight I can see that, added together, it does tell me how much he loved me. Best wishes to you....

[hckynut]

""Do you ""feel"" music in such a way that it makes an indelible mark on your heart?""

Yes I have always felt music beyond my sense of hearing. Don't relate to my heart but certainly relate to times past with my brain. Heart? Nah!

[Azcowgirl]

My Dad was not an outwardly demonstrative or affectionate person either. My Mom was the one I was close to in life, yet my Dad is the one who's presence I feel so strongly now. One day while going through old pictures albums, I found one of my Dad and I when I must have been two years old. His arms around me and the most adoring look n his eyes. I made that picture the wall paper on my phone, and now every day I can see that adoring loving picture and It makes me feel like my Daddy is watching over me. eta....A couple years before I lost him, I burned a cd for him of all of his favorite songs. I found that cd when going through things in his house and so many times have found comfort in listening to those songs again and feeling his presence near me.( I truly believe that our lives don't end when our earthly bodies depart , but that we go on to another dimension somewhere.)

[mistriTsquirrel]

On 3/5/2014 ive been framed said:

Hi mistri! This will sound nuts, but the theme song to the Bob Newhart show makes me happy and calms me for some reason! I'll play it in my head when I'm stressed out!

When my DH and I was on our way to the hospital to have our first baby, he played REM's "It's the End of the World as We Know It". I sang along with it between contractions and laughing! I never heard that song in the same way after that.

Hope you are doing well and hanging in there, Hon.

Thanks, ive been framed.

I've been feeling pretty stressed lately...it's been wearing me down, I think.

Anyway, reading your post, I was just thinking of a time when my mom and I were taking a trip somewhere, and she pulled out this brand-new Weird Al Yancovic CD she'd bought. It was stupid, but kind of funny...so it made the trip a little shorter.

[mistriTsquirrel]

On 3/5/2014 biancardi said:

When I left CA to start a new beginning, there was a song that I played over and over again...and I am not a fan of country music, but I loved these lyrics

Windfall by Sun Volt

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYoidn4QRMI

Every new beginning needs a song to go with it, doesn't it?

I remember my first semester of college, living in the dorm...and "Mother Mother" by Tracy Bonham is what I associate with that time. I had seen her in concert towards the end of my senior year in high school, and this song was my song when I left home.

[nagrom]

Leaving on a jet plane by Peter, Paul and Mary. My fiancee was departing for Nam. Still makes me cry. On another level I choke up to Rock.a bye baby sever since I was a baby. Don't know why but it makes me sad. Aquarius by Fourth Dimension makes me happy as well as summer in the city by the Lovin Spoonfuls

Many songs are like that for me.

[mistriTsquirrel]

On 3/5/2014 happy housewife said: There certainly some songs that tug at my heart. My first husband loved the song Cherish by the Asociation and it was "our song" . Joy to the World (the song not the hymn) by Three Dog Night was the song we danced to at our wedding. garth Brooks The Dance makes me think of my wonderful parents and grandparents - "I could have missed the pain but then I would have had to miss the dance". I know I was blessed to be raised by a wonderful family and even though missing them hurts every day - no one has ever had better parents, so the pain is bittersweet. I also think the Garth Brooks song friends in low places grounds us every time we hear it - makes us come out of the clouds and remember who we really are and where we really came from - a good thing for us all.

A former co-worker of mine posted that on her FB wall after her fiance died. He was only 32. Whenever I hear or see those words, I think of the two of them...and I wonder how she managed to get through that.

In the blink of an eye, you can lose someone, you know?