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Okay, first off, we all do it, we're humans. AND THIS WAS NOT MY IDEA.
My brother's a huge Prince fan, and he said that people have discussed (forum?) what is their favourite Prince Song to cry to.
Mine being "Sometime It Snows In April", because of the death of his son. If you don't cry when understanding that song and hearing it knowing it's meaning, you're not human. My brother usually crys during any live performance of "Purple Rain". Last month, Super Bowl, I had on my purple smoking jacket, and had my buddies around, couldn't hold it in, so beautiful. It's beuaitful, man. (No brother jokes, either, I've watched him lift four hundred pounds off the floor and military press it, so....he's a strong man physically, but Prince makes him weep.)
Time to swallow your pride (because their were worse choices I could have chosen for favourite song), and tell the world.
I'll start. I'm not a cryer, I was taught to hold in all emotion especially in public, but then I get home in the quiet, dark, it's another story, especially after a hard hit on the tumbler.
I've found "Angel Needs A Ride" quite restorative, but after nigthmares (which freqeuntly recur) "Angel Standing By" is especially nice to get me to nod back off to sleep. "Angel Needs A Ride" is especially nice, because it has "I'm tired and I'm lonely, and I just need somebody by my side", in it, which is another mirroring of me.
"Daddy", because I see similarities in the mirroring of our feelings. I had father like that. The first time I heard that song, I froze in my chair and actually froze with the similar feelings.
Off Jewel, I told you my Prince choices, and I actually remember "Hello" by Lionel Richie.
For those of you who don't get it yet, this is for total embarrassment of one's self, and to prove that I'm human, because all humans cry, and I just realized that it was normal, for me this is a breakthrough, which is why I want to know if anyone else here has a 'cryer' song.
Please advise.
Up Spirits! (But don't cry in your beer)
Jones
Eibhlin
02-20-2007, 01:51 AM
Ummm, I don't really cry to any of her songs, but I have been thinking "I've been down so long, that the end must be drawing near"
That's strictly financially speaking, not like suicidally depressed stuff
M€RIO
02-20-2007, 01:52 AM
Ok Ive always cry "inwardly" =), moslty to Fat Boy, Enter From The East, amen and to 10000s more and of course to nikos and vioet eyes!
FINALLY, we got one! One person who admitted! Thanks for that, because I know a guy who told me that it was okay to cry, but I've been trying it reccently, as he told me it's a biological cleansing, and I'm working on it.
Eibhlin
02-20-2007, 01:56 AM
Hey, it's not that I am not admitting to crying, because as I lock myself in the bathroom and bawl over circumstances I think, well it can't be much longer...
All I'm saying is that just sitting there listening to the song doesn't turn on the water works.
never.alone
02-20-2007, 02:04 AM
Fat Boy sometimes makes me cry....
i know theres prolly another...
hmmm...
oh yea, Here When Gone too
wackyoverkhaki
02-20-2007, 02:09 AM
Songs that make me cry:
"Nikos"-There's a live recording of this I have that's a real tear jerker. Her voice sounds really beautiful and melancholy and the lyrics tell such a sad story. Jewel's a real trooper for dealing with it and forgiving her dad, if my dad did such a thing I don't know how I ever would have forgiven him.
"Amen"
"Everything Breaks"
"Last Dance Rodeo"
"1000 Miles Away" (Shiva Diva Doo-Wop version)
"She Cries"
These once are sad but I don't remember if they ever made me cry:
"Adrian"
"Foolish Games"
"Painters"
"Daddy"
"Emily"/"Jessica" (ok has anyone noticed that "Emily" and "Jessica" are pretty much the same song? "Emily" sounds like a cut-and-paste of both new parts and parts taken straight from "Jessica")
"Emily" does it for me, too, for it reminds me of someone I lost.
'Everything Breaks" another good one to cry to.
I don't lock myself in the bathroom, though, as there's no one here to criticize me for crying, unless the four walls surrounding me can talk. If they do, then I'm in real trouble.
Nothing wrong with crying, though. I've found that before listening to Jewel's music, I didn't cry, I was trained to have a non emotional view on thihngs, never to let them see me bleed, almost sociopathic. But since I've listened to her stuff, it just flows out, like Niagra Falls, can't help it.
And no one else is here to say otherwise, but the funny thing is that sometimes I'll be crying, and the phone wiwll ring, and I'll deepen my voice extremely and sound really ticked off when I answer the phone, "HELLO!!!!"
it's fine to do it, just not in view of othehr's and definitely not in prison, but other than that, it's okay.
Jones
last_dance_rodeo
02-20-2007, 02:17 AM
I'm fading does it for me. I haven't bawled to it like before though.
never.alone
02-20-2007, 02:25 AM
well arent we all just a bunch of big babies..
im just kidding
i dont think there is anything wrong with crying, its about as natural as it gets
Hey I'm just an average man with an average life, I work from nine to five, hell I pay theh price, all I want is to be left alone, feed my appetite, but why do I always feel, like I'm in the twililght zone.
I ALWAYS FEEL LIKE, SOMEBODY'S WATCHING ME! And i have no privacy.
never.alone
02-20-2007, 02:31 AM
uhh...what?
awiste
02-20-2007, 02:48 AM
I cried when I first heard Violet Eyes--it was at my first Jewel concert and I was there with my best friend. I knew the story behind the song even though I had never actually heard the song. So I just bawled thinking about my friendships and how awful it is to lose somebody--plus it is such a beautiful song. I tear up occasionally to Life Uncommon because I find it so inspirational.
I've never heard "nikos" before... does anyone have it on YouTube or anything??
DreamsLast
02-20-2007, 08:14 AM
I gotta say 'Everything Breaks'....man it's such a depressing song. But I LOVE it!! And "I'm Fading" too!!:sad:
last_dance_rodeo
02-20-2007, 03:54 PM
omg I cried at my first jewel concert when she sang 1,000 miles away
ItBeThatWay27
02-20-2007, 06:54 PM
Life Uncommon makes me shed tears of hopefulness. I can't really think of any others. Of coarse I cry, but not really to Jewel's songs... uhh one time Hands almost made me cry but just because I was about to cuss out a manager and then it started playing and I took it as a sign.
M€RIO
02-20-2007, 10:34 PM
Yeah everything breaks is also a very melancholy song! I like im fading too, but i think its more funny then depressing?
I ALWAYS FEEL LIKE, SOMEBODY'S WATCHING ME! And i have no privacy.
Oh my god! I know these feeling too lol
kjm030584
02-20-2007, 10:39 PM
I don't think any of jewel's music makes me cry either. Usually I listen to it when I feel life couldn't be any more sh1tty, and it cheers me up to know that my life isn't soo bad.
Eibhlin
02-20-2007, 10:59 PM
ya, exactly Kyle, you've hit the nail right on the head my friend!
bluediamond
02-21-2007, 04:43 PM
oh im over crying.......BUT, if i ever did cry listening to Jewel it would have been to WWSYS, more recently Fragile Heart.
lalalala
dave
Little Bird
02-21-2007, 07:28 PM
It generally depends on my mood though I do get quite emotion listening to 1000 miles away. I love the power and emotion she emanates in the song and it always affects me. You can feel so much pain in it. You'd have to be an iron man not to feel it.
kjm030584
02-21-2007, 07:48 PM
ya, exactly Kyle, you've hit the nail right on the head my friend!
Well, I wouldn't listen to music if it made me cry. Crying isn't fun. :acoustic::lmao2:
Eibhlin
02-21-2007, 08:03 PM
lol, let me repeat:
ya, exactly Kyle, you've hit the nail right on the head my friend!
after all, who wants to deliberately make themselves cry? well, then again, I do watch movies that make me tear up-darn it, now I've just blown my own theory!
Little Bird
02-21-2007, 08:23 PM
LOL - Andrea..you're priceless. :lmao2:
Eibhlin
02-21-2007, 10:11 PM
lol, well the truth is the truth-lol
Yeah, true, well I find music as a release of all emotions. I don't cry in publilc or rpivaate hardl either. I've been conditioned to hold it in, to work out, to throw things around, to become volatile. I find Jewel's and Prince's music smaple to help me release fears and pains in a non angry way. That's all I meant, nothing personally attacking anyone, this thread was meant to see if anyone else felt pretty red faced enough to admit it, too.
Eibhlin
02-21-2007, 11:47 PM
No, I think it's really great that people can coonect to music and things on such an emotional level. It's healthy, so I hope I didn't come off rudely at all. In some ways I almost envy those who aren't afraid to just be emotional (to a degree) when they feel the emotion, it must be very liberating. And I can certainly understand the emotion connected to and generated from Jewel's music. I mean, her songs have very powerful and moving themes, so of course it will touch people.
That's what i meant. Like hearing songs like "Morning Song", that song preps me for anything to hahppen that day, because every morning I wake up to that song, and it makes me smile when I drink my black bitter coffee.
Hearing songs like "Daddy" and "Emily", I can connect with personally, and thhey hurt sometimes. They really do, and it's hard not to cry in private. I don'tshow emotion in public, but in private I think it's okay to cry. No one's there to see or stop me, right?
BTW, you're not rude, I know your sense of humour, you're fine, however I am questioning why you have that you are a Head of Training for the Office of Strategic Services, did you see time at Hereford?
Eibhlin
02-22-2007, 12:21 AM
Oh, actually it stands for Head of Oompa Secret Services Training, which stems from me and Marc joking about secret Oompa Loompa ninjas...which all began in the earlier version of the JKF
it's a long running gag
last_dance_rodeo
02-22-2007, 03:37 AM
Last night at work the two guys downstairs have a list of things they must complete throughout the day mostly hygiene and cleanliness things with their apartment and I needed both of them to brush their teeth and they were arguing and arguing and my blood pressure was rising and I could just feel myself getting worked up so i left them alone i told them the consequences and I went upstairs and had a mini breakdown because I've been thinking so much about the future and stuff lately. Then all of a sudden I'm flipping through the music channels and see Jewel on CMT with her Stephenville,Tx video and I just totally calmed down and knew everything was going to be alright. Yep that's my story.
Eibhlin
02-22-2007, 01:25 PM
Cool, usually when I am about to blow my top I have to listen to Godsmack or something...probably counterproductive though!
Little Bird
02-22-2007, 04:58 PM
I didn't mean cry in an upsetting way, just in an general emotional way.
I cry almost everytime I hear 'Return to Innocence' by Enigma, but it's a feeling I love getting because it reminds me how powerful music is and how much it means to me. It can be quite exhilerating.
BUt yeah, there are songs out there (not by Jewel) that upset me in a sad way. I steer clear of those when possible. They're feelings I don't want to induce.
kjm030584
02-22-2007, 05:06 PM
Cool, usually when I am about to blow my top I have to listen to Godsmack or something...probably counterproductive though!
no, that's awesome, Godsmack - Bad Religion, keeps me from going insane, I think it's the rhythm.
Eibhlin
02-22-2007, 05:44 PM
ya, exactly, when you're in that foul mood there's nothing better than getting in the car, cranking it up full blast and screaming along with Sully...
I've usually found the Phil Collins album "In The Air Tonight", does that for me, too. I can't help but revert back to kidhood, trying to look sly like "Sonny Crockett", I've always idolized him. I like to get in my convertible and turn it up as far as it will go, and drive as hard and as fast as I can! I don't have to worry about tickets, but sometimes blasting Nonpoint's version will help induce a wave of relief.
There's nothing quite as gripping as doing eighty-five down a black road that is empty at one in the morning, to the wind blowing in your hair messing it up to Nonpoint. Something about that really has some release.
I've found that driving to the Batman Begins album is especially nice, as well. It gives me a feeling of vigilance. Think about it, driving is something no one wants to do, but they must, so why not make it interesting.
Eibhlin
02-22-2007, 07:12 PM
on the contrary, there are times when all I want to do is get in the car and just drive
esp. around the fall, I get the road trip bug
motoslam
02-24-2007, 06:49 AM
ive never actually cried to a song. I'll admit to cryin to movies but songs just dont do it for me.
BTW comin from a "straight" dood, Jones this was a really feminine question.
last_dance_rodeo
02-24-2007, 02:17 PM
ive never actually cried to a song. I'll admit to cryin to movies but songs just dont do it for me.
BTW comin from a "straight" dood, Jones this was a really feminine question.
Alright people let's not start that up again
Eibhlin
02-24-2007, 02:56 PM
Alright people let's not start that up again
Exactly, considering all the responses it has gotten I would say it is a very good question
Hey, you've got to understand, I cannot cry anywhere! So, I find listneing to songs like Emily or Daddy, they tear me up inside, especially if you had a relationship with a girl that you lost, or had a father like that.
Just wait, Motoslam. It's nothing personal, but one day you'll have a parent die, or you'll even go through something like the woman of your dreams leaves or (or passes away, God forbid!). And you'll find crying not quite so bad. It's normal, and psychologically, it okay to do, as well. I just have been taught to never do it, my father wouldn't permit it, and I held it all in, and it's better to cry it out when something like a song strikes you. That's better than an explosive action, like thos mail workers that come into work and kill everyone iwth an Uzi. I've found my method quite restorative. I'm about to tell you right now, you can have killer abs, a great set of bedroom eyes, and the deepest, sexiest, Barry Whitest voice on Earth, and you'll cry. You can be as masculine as the world can make you, and crying is still natural. It's not hurtin anyone.
And on the topic of this thread, I chose this question of the thread based upon three questions from a Prince forum, one entitled "Favourite Prince song to cry to?, "Favourite Prince song to have an (tryin to find the right word) adult encounter to?" and "Favourite Prince song to have a 'dream' while playing to?"
I tried to choose the lesser sexually invilded one of the three. Forgive me, it seems I can't win a good thread around here!
And BTW, I didn't know I got in so many people's hair with my Ridicule thread. You needn't worry, I shan't do it again.
Jones
motoslam
02-24-2007, 04:44 PM
aight yo sorry man.
i guess i wasnt really thinkin when i wrote that. im not sayin that ive never cried before. ive probably cried about everything but a song. wait maybe not that much lol. if u wanna post a serious thread like this dont stop cuz one inconsiderate person like me said it was feminine.
I'm not harping on you, jsuttelling you it's natural.
kjm030584
02-24-2007, 07:21 PM
on the contrary, there are times when all I want to do is get in the car and just drive
esp. around the fall, I get the road trip bug
Me and my family got that once... we ended up at Niagara Falls.
Eibhlin
02-25-2007, 01:39 AM
usually I just pine to be in NH and go swimming in the mountains in Sept. when it's 50 degrees out and all the tourists have their winter coats on already-lol
OH well....'Alright people let's not start that up again.'
I believe Roger Moore put it best when he referred to something very similar in feelings to this montrosity turned sour, "Good night, Goodnight."
awiste
02-28-2007, 03:00 AM
I'll chalk it up to the fact that you guys don't have anything negative left to knock me about in this thread, now that my 'little underbelly' is exposed. OH well....'Alright people let's not start that up again.'
What?!?! Where did that come from?
Not you, you're fine. I just feel this thread was taken for a reather weird turn, that's all. Maybe it's me. I was trying to edit that out for something witty instead, but you caught me before I posted the edit.
You should read the 2007 Forum Member's thread and you'll understand, in conjunction with this, why? I am a little upset at some recent activities, nothing personal and nothing to impune your posts, awiste.
awiste
02-28-2007, 03:07 AM
Oh. Ok. It just seemed like a really random thing to say. So, I was confused about what was happening. But don't mind me. I get confused easily. Maybe I could win the JKF award for most spacey or something... ha!
Spacey! Just read the thread. You'll understand why later after you read it and use a little imagination on their behalf.
never.alone
02-28-2007, 03:10 AM
i hate forums.
i dont even know why i join them in the first place.
Funny, I was thinking the same thing.
motoslam
03-01-2007, 10:31 PM
My school had a talent show today and one girl sang foolish games from Jewel and also played the piano to it. i wasnt cryin to it but she played it quite beautifully.
Eibhlin
03-01-2007, 11:05 PM
oh ya, that is one of my favorite ones to sing along to
probably best for everyone else I usually only sing it in the car!
kjm030584
03-01-2007, 11:11 PM
LOL, whenever it's playing, no matter where I am, I always sing the "Somebody who gave a damn" part at the top of my lungs. I accidentally did this at a restaurant. Heh woops!
motoslam
03-02-2007, 12:02 AM
lol as soon as i heard her start playin i was like YO i kno that song! i think i was the only one in the auditorium that knew it though cuz not alot of people i kno listen to Jewel.
Eibhlin
03-12-2007, 01:41 AM
ok ok ok darn it, there is a stinking song that makes me sniffle
Deep Water, yup, I was listening to it while on the way to see the horses the other day, and darn it, I felt all emotional, and this strange salty substance briefly appeared in the corner of my eye
and I even admitted to it!
Okay, I wanted to bring this thread out of hibernation. I'll admit, I cried my eyes out to the music video "You Were Meant For Me" five minutes ago. OH! So bad cause, Dreams last forr SO long, even after your gone.
Let's put it like this, I deal with a stressful enough job of my life. It's nice to have somethihng to cry to now and then.
puck023
05-17-2007, 09:02 PM
Grey Matter is the song that makes me feel the *****lies on the back of my neck , and the tear well up in my eyes. My relationship has had it's up's and downs, and that song speaks volumes to me.
Also songs that make me cry - :acoustic:
Alanis Morissette - That Particular Time
Venus Hum - Turn Me Around
Bjork - Unravel
David Usher - Numb
Im a big old softie...
Little Bird
05-18-2007, 09:17 AM
It really is a very emotional song and she sings it so hauntingly. It's definitely one of my favourite of Jewel so I agree...Grey Matter, very easy to get welled up over.
last_dance_rodeo
05-18-2007, 12:33 PM
Grey Matter used to make me cry to because I was in college and wanted this guy so bad and it turns out around me he was all nice and stuff then behind my back he's like I hate Chris and blah blah blah. Homo drama.
Also when I lived in Sioux Falls I would drive to my crappy job and bawl on the way there to Good Day. Seriously bawl that's how depressed I was.
ItBeThatWay27
05-18-2007, 02:50 PM
i don't know anymore... I guess grey matter..
I heard a song htat tore me up yesterday, reminded me of someone. It's called 'Violet Eyes'. Really kinda grabbed me.
M€RIO
11-19-2010, 11:47 PM
violet eyes really got me today because my grandfather is also suffering from cancer (endstadion)
Webbed
11-23-2010, 02:39 PM
I have not shed a tear in years... however, there are two songs that move me. One is Braham's Lullabye. I think she does it beautifully, and I think it's especially touching because I have a daughter.
The other is Hands. This song really got to the core when 9/11 happened, and she played the song in person on MTV.
On a lighter note, Intuition got me hot and bothered....
bluediamond
02-06-2011, 09:46 PM
fragile heart, always, everytime
mrphantuan
03-30-2011, 09:15 AM
omg I cried at my first jewel concert when she sang 1,000 miles away
sadmemories20
04-16-2011, 02:37 AM
Okay, first off, we all do it, we're humans. AND THIS WAS NOT MY IDEA.
My brother's a huge Prince fan, and he said that people have discussed (forum?) what is their favourite Prince Song to cry to.
Mine being "Sometime It Snows In April", because of the death of his son. If you don't cry when understanding that song and hearing it knowing it's meaning, you're not human. My brother usually crys during any live performance of "Purple Rain". Last month, Super Bowl, I had on my purple smoking jacket, and had my buddies around, couldn't hold it in, so beautiful. It's beuaitful, man. (No brother jokes, either, I've watched him lift four hundred pounds off the floor and military press it, so....he's a strong man physically, but Prince makes him weep.)
Time to swallow your pride (because their were worse choices I could have chosen for favourite song), and tell the world.
I'll start. I'm not a cryer, I was taught to hold in all emotion especially in public, but then I get home in the quiet, dark, it's another story, especially after a hard hit on the tumbler.
I've found "Angel Needs A Ride" quite restorative, but after nigthmares (which freqeuntly recur) "Angel Standing By" is especially nice to get me to nod back off to sleep. "Angel Needs A Ride" is especially nice, because it has "I'm tired and I'm lonely, and I just need somebody by my side", in it, which is another mirroring of me.
"Daddy", because I see similarities in the mirroring of our feelings. I had father like that. The first time I heard that song, I froze in my chair and actually froze with the similar feelings.
Off Jewel, I told you my Prince choices, and I actually remember "Hello" by Lionel Richie.
For those of you who don't get it yet, this is for total embarrassment of one's self, and to prove that I'm human, because all humans cry, and I just realized that it was normal, for me this is a breakthrough, which is why I want to know if anyone else here has a 'cryer' song.
Please advise.
Up Spirits! (But don't cry in your beer)
Jones
Great post! It's very nice. Thank you so much for your post.
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