Leaving' On A Jet Plane

Ex-girlfriend loved it. She had a voice like a Tomcat in an alley fight and used to belt it out in the truck.

Besides that the only ABB song she liked was Ramblin' Man.

I could go on & on but need to go take a pull off my bottle of Jack.

Eric Carmen - All By Myself. Even if it has no sentimental meaning to you personally it is a very touching, heartfelt song.

Zeppelin - The Rain Song. Had serious crushlove on a girl in high school that wouldn't give me the time of day. I'd stay up late and listen to Houses of the Holy on my Discman and play that song over and over again.

When I hear it now I don't really think of her, but I do think of how idiotically wrapped up in it I was in my head and that makes me sad in a different way.

I stopped listening to The Band about three years ago. They were my brother Tyler's favorite and I listened on them constantly for a couple of years after he died. I only knew a few of their songs and I wanted to know what he saw in them and what was on his mind. It was my way of staying close to him. I'm glad I did, but it also meant that was the music I listene to the most during some of the saddest years of my life, so I haven't wanted to listen to it very much since then. Maybe that will change one day and maybe it won't, but it's part of the journey either way. I seen through the same thing on a much smaller scale with Tori Amos after September 11th, and haven't listened to her stuff very much since.

I played And It Stoned Me in a juke box one time and a girl came up to the bar and told them to skip it (they had a button behind the bar). I didn't get a full story, but something about a close friend had drowned. I felt a little funny playing songs after that.

My Dad loved Jim Croce. I listen to him and it makes me think of my Dad alot, not hard, more smiles than tears usually.

Had to reply here.

Lost my dog in March, wife and I don't have kids, losing him was crushing (many helpful posts here from people which really did make me feel better - very appreciated and needed, thank you)

Anyway, the year before I lost him I had been on a big Lucinda Williams kick, and I got the album 'Blessed' and was liking it quite a bit, however, track #3 is called 'Copenhagen' and is a very sad song about her out on tour when she finds out about the death of a friend or producer (?) and it hit her like a ton of bricks. Lines like 'you have disappeared, you are mist (like evaporated), you are circling 'round the sun, circling the moon, traveling through time, etc.

Sad music, sad lyrics - and I'll never forget lying on the floor listening to the album (by now, late 2016, I knew my pup was dying, it was just a matter of when), track 3 comes on and the "fuse" was made - the lyrics made me think of him and I knew from that moment with my relationship with music (it's not about notes and playing and all for me, it's about memories, time, what I was thinking/feeling, etc.) that I would never be able to separate that song from him or vice versa.

Otherwise like the album - but can't bring myself to listen to track 3, it just completely wrecks me. I get choked up just recalling this.

Know exactly how you feel Rust1. Never had kids but have had 9 labs & 2 Goldens. Most were hunting dogs. One lab retrieved over 5,000 mallards over his career. I took him swimming a couple months ago. He had a blast. Brought him home and he died in his crate within an hour. Just went to sleep so at least it wasn't painful & he was happiest swimming & hunting so he had a great last morning.

Older I get the harder it is to lose them.

Hope you are able to get a new dog if you haven't already.

I'll have a good thought for your pooch ....

Tom Petty. Cant turn the dial fast enough. Reminds me of a guitar songwriter I did a bunch of free session and gig work for, ended up ripping me off. He looks like Tom Petty, and was a huge fan of Tom Petty, so now I really loathe Tom Petty.

In The Garden is a tough one. We sang it last weekend in church, it gets to me. It reminds me of my grandmother who was a very influential, important positive person in my life up until about 6 yrs ago when she passed at 90 . A very god fearing woman who lived her life as Christ like as she could . I remember going to church as a child with her and singing these songs, and she always belted this one out with the choir. There is nothing like the classic hymnals.

I come to the garden alone
While the dew is still on the roses
And the voice I hear, falling on my ear
The Son of God discloses
And He walks with me
And He talks with me
And He tells me I am His own
And the joy we share as we tarry there
None other has ever known
He speaks and the sound of His voice
Is so sweet the birds hush their singing
And the melody that He gave to me
Within my heart is ringing
And He walks with me
And He talks with me
And He tells me I am His own
And the joy we share as we tarry there
None other has ever known
I'd stay in the garden with Him
'Tho the night around me be falling
But He bids me go; through the voice of woe
His voice to me is calling
And He walks with me
And He talks with me
And He tells me I am His own
And the joy we share as we tarry there
None other has ever known

Everytime I hear Elvis's version of You Were Always On My Mind, the tears of sadness flow...

Know exactly how you feel Rust1. Never had kids but have had 9 labs & 2 Goldens. Most were hunting dogs. One lab retrieved over 5,000 mallards over his career. I took him swimming a couple months ago. He had a blast. Brought him home and he died in his crate within an hour. Just went to sleep so at least it wasn't painful & he was happiest swimming & hunting so he had a great last morning.

Older I get the harder it is to lose them.

Hope you are able to get a new dog if you haven't already.

I'll have a good thought for your pooch ....

Thank you
Glad your pup had a fun final morning doing what he loved to do.

Mine had a great day the day before he died - he was in his wheelchair cart (degenerative myelopathy, what a horrific disease), and he still had use of his front legs, so I took him out in the yard. There was still snow cover, so I'd throw his stick and he go after it. My wife and I got the video of it.

The vet told me that oftentimes animals are fine right up until the very end, that is, they don't seem like they are near death. With my dog, literally right after that walk, that night was not good, the next morning he did not eat and that night was when he left us.

Can't listen to ANYTHING by Styx.

Reminds me of . . . Styx.

I have songs that remind me of not just people but times in my life. My favorite two songs are Do it Again and Reelin in the Years and they remind me of early high school as do ABB. Focus, Rory G, Rare Earth, Mahavishnu, Return to Forever also. But there are certain songs that remind me of a gal, some good thoughts and some sad. But mainly they just remind me of them. The songs tend to be from the same time I was seeing them. So it runs the gamut of years and style.

Piano Man reminds me of a really bad night that I made a fool of myself..

My breakup albums when I went through my tough one 11 years ago were The Stones Goats Head Soup and Ryan Adams Jacksonville City Lights. Listening to those two take me back to when I was in a bit of a constant daze. That said, I can listen to the both still but don't do it that often. It just definitely brings up some weird emotions.

not about an ex- but

One of the best concerts i was ever at was 3/08/13 at the Beacon. 2nd set was off the hook.
Blue Sky, Dreams, 1984/Merman> Mtn Jam, WP encore
My wife and I were dancing and smiling ear to ear
It was also shortly before my wife was diagnosed with cancer - Every time I listen, I cry.

also Miss You from the most recent Phish album. Trey wrote it about his sister but the words strike home, very hard

and, at her request, I hired a couple people to play Ripple and Brokedown Palace for her at the cemetary
I'm in pain right now as I type this...

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I'm very sorry, stormyrider.

I'm very sorry, stormyrider.

Yes man, same here.

May the good memories some day overpower the pain.

thanks

yea, when I'm hurting I think of happy times.
In a weird way, the pain is a little comforting too, which I guess is why I felt the need to post on this thread.
It's getting better, I'm living my life. She taught me to keep pushing forward, and that's what I'm doing.
Music and friends are my biggest support.

In a weird way, the pain is a little comforting too, which I guess is why I felt the need to post on this thread.

It's a reminder that it happened and that she mattered to you, and that you feel bad for a reason. 😉 That doesn't go away but over time you do get better at handling it.

I didn't know that Stormy. Sorry to hear that. Glad music is therapeutic to you.

Most of the songs on Jackson Brownwes first album Saturate Before Using really pull the heartstrings and David Crosbys first album If Only I Could Remember My Name.Great albums to fall in and out of love to.

Zeppelin - The Rain Song. Had serious crushlove on a girl in high school that wouldn't give me the time of day. I'd stay up late and listen to Houses of the Holy on my Discman and play that song over and over again.

When I hear it now I don't really think of her, but I do think of how idiotically wrapped up in it I was in my head and that makes me sad in a different way.

Never come to my house, one of my weekly go to songs! I literally get lost in that song, every time, even sober as a judge.

Didn't know what to say stormy, just super tough. The music is where you find her, that's painful but poignant - and good.

After my dad died, I couldn't listen to Photograph by Ringo Starr without balling my eyes out. Now I can deal with it, but it brings a twinge of sadness when I sing along to it.

Amazing how our favorite artists can write songs that speak to all of us.

not about an ex- but

One of the best concerts i was ever at was 3/08/13 at the Beacon. 2nd set was off the hook.
Blue Sky, Dreams, 1984/Merman> Mtn Jam, WP encore
My wife and I were dancing and smiling ear to ear
It was also shortly before my wife was diagnosed with cancer - Every time I listen, I cry.

also Miss You from the most recent Phish album. Trey wrote it about his sister but the words strike home, very hard

and, at her request, I hired a couple people to play Ripple and Brokedown Palace for her at the cemetary
I'm in pain right now as I type this...

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Very sorry

Tears in Heaven
We lost a daughter at birth around the time this song came out

Dusty Springfield Dusty in Memphis I love that album but it just reminds me of my ex just heartbreaking

sorry to hear DanB