Gig Report: Hey why don't you post the single line or lyric from song always makes the tears well up in your eye

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Meatus McPrepuce
For me it's in that stupid Jim Croce song "I Got A Name" when he sings "And I carry it with me like my daddy did" - the combination of the melody, the chord changes underneath, and the words themselves just always hit me a little bit and make the ol' tears come brimming up in my eyes. Too bad after that line the rest of the song crashes and burns worse than the Beechcraft that took him to his untimely death.

What about you?
 
From day to day just letting it ride
You get so far away from how it feels inside
You can't let go 'cause you're afraid to fall
But the day may come when you can't feel at all
Comes a time when the blind man takes your hand
Says, "Don't you see?
Gotta make it somehow on the dreams you still believe
Don't give it up, you got an empty cup
That only love can fill, only love can fill, only love can fill"
 
But that was a long time
And no matter how I tried
The years just flowed by
Like a broken down dam
 
There is a song by Sarah Harmer's old band 'Weeping Tile' called Dogs and Thunder... it's a misty one.

A rifle sits behind her sleeping ear
An echo on the cold wall closest neighbor couldn't hear
We dug a hole in the fall
So now its a frozen burial
And she's gone
Just before the new year

Well I'm gonna build a cross for the spot between the trees
And stick it in firm so it won't sway in their breeze
Well you and I have trouble making up our half-assed minds
But she'd seen 16 years of our kind
And what's it like when your memories start to freeze

Oh and I wonder what it is about dogs and thunder
What they hear coming over the fields
Back hall shelter warm nights in the summer
Shaking the ground that you lie under
Well I know you're not here but at least you don't feel it anymore

And I came to see you on the day that it happened
You said "hey sorry, Sar but I gotta go"
And I was trying to read some sorta reaction
It's something you just can't show
So I guess it's time I go
Across the snowy barnyard just past the drive-in shed
Shadow and me in the moon while I was in a movie in my head
This pile of dirt on the ground
Will sink when nobody is around
The winter covers everything but everything's not dead

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I don't recall what part made me really sad but perhaps it's the way that the chords and the words blend. It's heavy on the heart.
Great song.
 
Now I'm out of prison
I got me a friend at last
He don't drink or steal or cheat or lie
His name's Codine
He's the nicest thing I've seen
Together we're gonna wait around and die
 
In every town and village there are places just like this,
With rows and rows of children, babies in their cribs.
They've long since stopped their crying, as no one ever hears,
And no one's there to notice them or take away their fears.
:cry:


I played this once at an open mic, and I broke down in the middle like some kind of weepy fool and had to leave the stage.
 
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