S/O secular songs that l make you cry or you just like

honeymoon

Mon, Sep 09 2019, 2:42 pm

thunderstorm wrote:

Because you loved me by Celine Dion
I used to sing this song and have in mind that I’m singing it to Hashem and it was only because of his love that I got through when I was physically sick for over a year in high school and I was going through really difficult emotional stuff at home. That song always gave me strength and I usually tear up when I sing it.

The words of this song are absolutely beautiful!

SixOfWands

Mon, Sep 09 2019, 2:43 pm

jade wrote:

lots of Leonard Cohen songs but especially Anthem

If you're doing Leonard Cohen this time of year, you gotta go for You Want it Darker

Quote:

If you are the dealer, let me out of the game
If you are the healer, I'm broken and lame
If thine is the glory, mine must be the shame
You want it darker
Hineni, hineni
Hineni, hineni
I'm ready, my lord
Hineni
Hineni, hineni

#BestBubby

Mon, Sep 09 2019, 2:53 pm

Anybody ever here the song "Cats in the Cradle"? It's about a father who had no time for his son, and then when father retired, the son had no time for the father.
Hear the song on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OqwKfgLaeA

You don't have to be a star baby to be in my show https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nb9jJg_wIU

You are the Wind beneath my wings

SixOfWands

Mon, Sep 09 2019, 3:02 pm

#BestBubby wrote:

Anybody ever here the song "Cats in the Cradle"? It's about a father who had no time for his son, and then when father retired, the son had no time for the father.

Harry Chapin. The saddest part of that song is that he died before his children grew up.

But my favorite Chapin song is A Better Place to Be.

Or 50,000 Pounds of Bananas. Very Happy

Zehava

Mon, Sep 09 2019, 3:30 pm

I mostly only listen to female singers. It’s a Hangup of mine. But I made an exception for “broken girl”
Otherwise I have so many favorites I can’t list them all
Most are by
Celine dion
Carrie Underwood
Demi lovato
Kellie klarkson

perquacky

Mon, Sep 09 2019, 4:00 pm

My mother used to sing an old song that was recorded by Harry Belafonte, among others, called Scarlet Ribbons. That, and Send in the Clowns get me every time. Ugly crying.

BatyaEsther

Mon, Sep 09 2019, 4:08 pm

Hannah Montana-Make Some Noise.
But it is possibly more circumstantial than the actual song.

PinkFridge

Mon, Sep 09 2019, 4:09 pm

top mom wrote:

There's something to " My heart will go on", by Celine Dion that stirs something deep inside me, I listen to it a few times in a row, and I feel so warm and safe, don't even know why, it's just a song I love.
"Tell me why", is another fave.

Edited to add; Honeymoon, I see we have similar taste in songs.

Do you mean John Lennon's Tell Me Why?

PinkFridge

Mon, Sep 09 2019, 4:10 pm

SixOfWands wrote:

So strange that I missed Leonard Cohen growing up.

If I wanted to play, there are a lot of songs.. I'll start with Day is Done, Peter, Paul, and Mary.

SixOfWands

Mon, Sep 09 2019, 4:15 pm

PinkFridge wrote:

So strange that I missed Leonard Cohen growing up.

If I wanted to play, there are a lot of songs.. I'll start with Day is Done, Peter, Paul, and Mary.

Not a fan of theirs.

https://www.nytimes.com/1970/0......html

daagahminayin

Mon, Sep 09 2019, 4:23 pm

Ravenclaw wrote:

I know these are more popular, but I am not great at discovering new music on my own.

That’s why I started this thread, so we can share music we may not have heard before.

Who’s interested in a thread where the first poster shares a link to one song, and then the next poster has to listen to it, share a brief response and then a link to a different song?

Librarian

Mon, Sep 09 2019, 4:28 pm

Walk away renee - Left Bank
I'd love you to want me - Lobo
Ordinary World - Duran Duran
Tambourine Man - the Byrds
Tiny Dancer - Elton John
Empty garden - Elton John
Let your love flow - Bellamy brothers

Miri1

Mon, Sep 09 2019, 4:38 pm

"Did you ever know that you're my hero"

ata - I saw above - right "The wind beneath my wings"

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PinkFridge

Mon, Sep 09 2019, 4:45 pm

SixOfWands wrote:

Not a fan of theirs.

https://www.nytimes.com/1970/0......html

I couldn't open the link but googled. I think I have to do some brainwashing now. As in, scour my brain to remove all traces of the info you're referring to.

daagahminayin

Mon, Sep 09 2019, 4:46 pm

PinkFridge wrote:

I couldn't open the link but googled. I think I have to do some brainwashing now. As in, scour my brain to remove all traces of the info you're referring to.

They did that nice Chanukah song though... Don’t let the light go out....

mommy3b2c

Mon, Sep 09 2019, 4:48 pm

Twinster wrote:

Martina McBride:
Concrete Angel

Brad Paisley:
He Didn’t Have to Be
Whiskey Lullaby

Carrie Underwood:
Temporary Home
Just a Dream
Blown Away

Rascal Flatts:
What Hurts the Most
Here Comes Good Bye
I Won’t Let Go

Lonestar:
I’m Already There

Billy Gilman:
One Voice

Dierks Bentley:
Riser

Omg. I’m crying just reading some of the titles.
“I’m already there” makes me cry before the song even comes on. So does “here comes goodbye.”

“Riser” makes me cry but in a good way. It inspires me to keep trying.

Looks like we have the same taste in music.

I’m going to put on riser right now. I’ve been having a difficult few days.

sweet

Mon, Sep 09 2019, 5:11 pm

I (my daughter) was recently watching the ramona dvd and heard this song singing "Everybody everybody wants to be loved"
I thought it was nice.

cbsp

Mon, Sep 09 2019, 5:25 pm

Tears in Heaven, Eric Clapton

The Gambler, Kenny Rogers (and Country Yossi's version)

The tune from Terms of Endearment with the Yerushalayim lyrics by Dena Storch (is it the tune that makes it secular? Or the lyrics?)

Unforgiven, Metallica

Scarborough Fair + canticle, Simon & Garfunkel

Hotel California, Eagles

The Star Spangled Banner and G_D Bless America

jade

Mon, Sep 09 2019, 5:31 pm

SixOfWands wrote:

love every song on that album, but need to be in a specific mood to listen to it. There's always the classic Who by Fire. Leonard Cohen is one of the few musicians both my husband and I enjoy so there's a lot of that on car trips.