The song hits harder following Wetton's death on 31st January 2017 from cancer.No red, white and blue, no scepter and no cloak. "Save me and give me the peace to surrender at last.įor this is my final day, you know I would not joke, It hits hard when taking bassist/vocalist John Wetton's alcoholism and heart problems into account. Asia's 2012 album XXX gives us "Bury Me In Willow," a mature, humble approach to looking at death.Army of the Pharaoh's " Into the Arms of Angels " is a hip-hop example that's a chronicle of life in about as crapsack as a Crapsack World can get.Arcade Fire's "Abraham's Daughter"-even without the The Hunger Games tie-in.The sheer rage and pain in Taylor's voice is heart-rending, and if the comments on the YouTube video are to be believed, the lyrics ring a little too true for some people. It's about a man who was molested by his priest as a child, and now, as an adult, is confronting said priest.
In the end, he chooses to join his son on the pyre. The song is about a Viking warrior carrying the lifeless body of his six-year-old son (the last of his line) to a funeral pyre, stricken with grief, demanding the Norns why they took his son from him and questioning the point of life if it can be taken so easily. Aphex Twin has a sweet little piano song off of drukQs called Avril 14th.In Israel, Dan Almagor's " A Ballad for the Medic ", despite winning numerous prizes, was not played on radio except during Yom Hazikaron for decades, because numerous families of fallen soldiers requested it."Falling" by Alice in Videoland is very sad.The visuals are tearjerking in their own right, particularly when the dead pilot's mum nearly collapses when a soldier delivers her son's personal effects back to the family. Even though it isn't necessarily sad, it can make one cry tears of sentimentality. The Rahman song, " Khwaja Mere Khwaja ", by Jodha Akbar (the first minute might be a little grating to western ears).We ideally want songs that are tearjerkers in themselves.Įxamples (Artist Specific, Alphabetical Order) Note: any song can be a Tear Jerker if it gets associated with the wrong thing. Sometimes involves Soundtrack Dissonance. " My Youngest Son Came Home Today ", Eric Bogle
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