What love song really gets to your gut... I mean...

[battleknight24]

... What song is just so beautiful that it physically affects the way you feel?

Here's my vote

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Delsa-nkLh4



Peace,

[Inchworm]

1. Here's mine.. gah...

Jem- Flying High.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ur-wMZjGbjE

:cry:

[lizziegrace]

2. Etta James - "At Last"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kwgi2c2zFco

[stuntcat]

3. A Case of You

Love songs aren't usually my favorites, I mean they don't usually get to me, but this one does, "You're in my blood like holy wine, you taste so bitter and so sweet" Love is complicated, to me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6voJjexENok

[MissMillie]

12. that is a great song

:thumbsup:

[MnFats]

20. 'I would still be on my feet."....sweet but oh so sad.

a perfect song but i advise not listening to it right after being dumped...

[SPKrazy]

4. This one

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9r_TWJlFRxQ
Faith Hill- Lost

[Bennyboy]

5. Don't Think Twice, It's Alright.......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QODOBb3ljUg&feature=PlayList&p=CE0A7B89189E8B6C&index=0&playnext=1

This one has got me all year long. Seems every band I see plays it. One of the greatest Dylan melodies.

[Perry Logan]

6. Smokey Robinson: "Ooh, Baby Baby"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uThnUmWRCCs

[lips]

7. Before music was important...

I loved Selena's voice.

Especially, Amor Prohibido. Sheesh, my mind feels mushy now.

[RetroLounge]

8. This one tears my guts out

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxQrPXPSVhQ

RL

[lost-in-nj]

21. yeah

me to.....


lost

[Xipe Totec]

9. I will never come back

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUiuU-_odic

When you find yourself far away,
When you want me to be next to you
You won't find a single memory of me
or have the love I gave by your side.

I swear that I'm not coming back
Though life tears me to pieces
If once I loved you with madness
You are now gone from my soul.

I will not come back
I swear this by God Almighty
I say this crying with rage
I won't come back.

I will not stop
Till I see that my tears have made
A river deep,
In which I will drown your memory.

We were clouds that the wind pulled apart
We were rocks bouncing off of each other
Water drops dried by the sun
drunken brawls that never completed.

I'm taking the train to oblivion
my ticket has no return.
what you have of mine you can keep
but I won't return your kisses.

[jeff30997]

10. Not a love song but it physically affects the way I feel,a lot:

The Severed Garden from The Doors and the original classic which it came from:

Albinoni's Adagio In G Minor.Saddest music I've ever heard.

[Joey Liberal]

11. Woman - By John Lennon

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3deToKl_Dg&mode=related&search=

[Mz Pip]

13. I've got couple

These two are oldies:

The Fleetwoods - Tragedy
The Flamingos - I Only Have Eyes for You

then there's Tears in Heaven which Eric Clapton wrote after his 4 year old son died in a fall. It is a very moving love song. "Would you know my name, if you saw me in Heaven?"

Mz Pip:dem:

[Lyric]

14. Hallelujah

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMrZ7lChK-g

Absolutely shreds me every time, mostly because many of the lyrics ring so damned true for me. Some of the events in my life mirrored this song in a spooky fashion, long before I ever knew the song existed.

like this bit:

"Your faith was strong but you needed proof
You saw her bathing on the roof
Her beauty in the moonlight overthrew you
She tied you to a kitchen chair
She broke your throne, she cut your hair
And from your lips she drew the hallelujah"

and this part

"There was a time you let me know
What's real and going on below
But now you never show it to me, do you?
And remember when I moved in you
The holy dark was moving too
And every breath we drew was hallelujah"

Seriously. Just fucking agony for me.

:cry:

[stuntcat]

17. this song omg

This is one of my favorites of all songs, it's so beautiful. I have cried it a lot of times, not for sadness or because of love but just because the words are beautiful. I saw k.d. lang sing it in concert once and I lost it :cry: it was a happy kind of cry just because I love the song so much, but still embarrassing.

[laylah]

15. Bonnie Raitt's

"I Can't Make You Love Me"...describes my (then) 23 yr. marriage. Breaks my heart still.

[Joey Liberal]

16. Love that song n/t

[Oeditpus Rex]

18. Two come immediately to mind

One is "You Can't Always Get What You Want," which I consider the greatest rock song ever. I think it has the best arrangement of any song, period, but the real reason is choirs at crescendo damned near make me come. (I've sung with many choirs, and lemme tell ya — when the conductor holds both hands above his head and you're just nailing it, it's like great sex.)

The other is "Comfortably Numb." I know it's cliché, but I could swear Roger Waters was inside my head when he wrote it. But the thing is, I didn't know that stuff was in there until I heard the song. Sometimes I think I'm the only person on the planet who truly knows what it's about, and more often than not I can't get through it without crying.

Don't ask me to explain. I can't, really.

[Ptah]

19. Sunrise, Sunset

My kids:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=v4CWgQQGyr4

[bigwillq]

22. "The Promise"

by Tracy Chapman

[lost-in-nj]

23. ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8BQPMNK99c

First Time Ever I Saw Your Face

The first time ever I saw your face
I thought the sun rose in your eyes
And the moon and stars were the gifts you gave
To the dark and the empty skies, my love,
To the dark and the empty skies.

The first time ever I kissed your mouth
And felt your heart beat close to mine
Like the trembling heart of a captive bird
That was there at my command, my love
That was there at my command.

And the first time ever I lay with you
I felt your heart so close to mine
And I knew our joy would fill the earth
And last till the end of time my love
It would last till the end of time my love

The first time ever I saw your face, your face,
your face, your face

:hug:

lost
blu

[stuntcat]

25. oh

yes oh yes, and her voice makes it too, it's almost haunting. This song might win I think.
:hug:

[SPKrazy]

27. First concert I ever went to...

Roberta Flack

very moving song...

:hug:



oh I like other roberta songs but that is the best one...

for many reasons


blu

[MissMillie]

31. excellent choice!

:thumbsup:

[Paladin]

24. I Been Loving You Too Long," Otis Redding (n/t)

[cathandler]

26. Too Late to Turn Back Now . . .

by the Cornelius Brothers and Sister Rose.

A very pretty song.

Perhaps Mr. Scorpio has a cut of it.

[abq e streeter]

28. Surfer Girl

[Tikki]

29. This one:....

explains the way I feel about love....more than any other song or lyrics I've ever heard.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pVUt_pOmFs

"Baby we can see this through,
Just give me all the strength
you've got"....

I have the strength to endure
And all the love so pure.......

Tikki

[WinkyDink]

30. "The Last Thing On My Mind", as sung by Mike Kobluk (Chad Mitchell Trio).

THE LAST THING ON MY MIND
Tom Paxton- Deep Fork Music
/EMI Partnership Catalog ASCAP

It's a lesson too late for the learnin'
Made of sand, made of sand
In the wink of an eye my soul is turnin'
In your hand, in your hand.

Are you goin' away with no word of farewell
Will there be not a trace left behind?
Well I should have loved you better,
Didn't mean to be unkind
You know that was the last thing on my mind.

You've got reasons a-plenty for goin'
This I know, this I know
For the weeds have been steadily growin'
Please don't go, please don't go.

Are you goin' away with no word of farewell
Will there be not a trace left behind?
I could have loved you better,
Didn't mean to be unkind
You know that was the last thing on my mind.

As I lie in my bed in the mornin'
Without you, without you
Each song in my breast dies of bornin'
Without you, without you

Are you goin' away with no word of farewell
Will there be not a trace left behind?
Well I should have loved you better,
Didn't mean to be unkind
You know that was the last thing on my mind

[rug]

32. Boots of Spanish Leather

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQmUug6BWgA

[MissMillie]

33. Sarah McLachlan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujUJuwUm8Kk

"I Love You"

[NC_Nurse]

47. Beautiful song.

Moves me too.

[hellbound-liberal]

34. Fields of Gold by Eva Cassidy

gets me every time. Such a poignant version!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3YVil3Ajjs

[lizziegrace]

40. I like her version of "Songbird"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqogwneJRSA

[SPKrazy]

43. over the rainbow

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccCnL8hArW8

[lost-in-nj]

49. wow

thanks


lost

wow

[Ahpook]

35. ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5r3gVs6UG5Q

:evilgrin:

Pay me no mind, folks. Been a tough day.

On edit: Does poetry count?

A love that has strayed...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6l_smqPvg0

[MichiganVote]

36. America / Simon and Garfunkel

[SallyMander]

37. Mazzy Star - Fade Into You

Sad that it always makes me think of an ex... so i never really listen to it. Gorgeous song...

[sarge43]

38. This one brings tears

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFyKAUBkdOs

[Sugar Smack]

39. I can't get Youtube, but this one always gives me chills. It's by Dido.

"I didn't hear you leave
I wonder how am I still here
And I don't want to move a thing
It might change my memory


Oh I am what I am
I do what I want
But I can't hide


And I won't go
I won't sleep
I can't breathe
Until you're resting here with me


And I won't leave
I can't hide
I cannot be
Until you're resting here with me


I don't want to call my friends
For they might wake me from this dream
And I can't leave this bed
Risk forgetting all that's been


Oh I am what I am
I do what I want
But I can't hide


And I won't go
I won't sleep
I can't breathe
Until you're resting here with me


I won't leave
I can't hide
I cannot be
Until you're resting here


I won't go
And I won't sleep
And I can't breathe
Until you're resting here with me


And I won't leave
I can't hide
I cannot be
Until you're resting here with me


Oh I am what I am
I do what I want
But I can't hide


And I won't go
I won't sleep
And I can't breathe
Until you're resting here with me


I won't leave
I can't hide
I cannot be
Until you're resting here


And I won't go
And I won't sleep
And I can't breathe
Until you're resting here with me


I won't leave
I can't hide
I cannot be
Until you're resting here with me"

It sounds like a woman singing about her loved one in Iraq.

[RetroLounge]

41. I really like some of her songs

THough they hurt too much to listen to these days...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFx-PyjgwJA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhGHLC0tbcw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D80B0HCyQpQ

RL

[Sugar Smack]

44. I REALLY wish I could see youtube.

computer's too slow, though.:hug:

[zingaro]

52. ohhhh yes. I love this one

You should hear my kids sing it in the car with me. :)

[liberaltrucker]

42. Traces-Dennis Yost and the Classics IV

Reduces me to tears every time(high school sweetheart doncha know).

Faded photographs, covered now with lines and creases
Tickets torn in half, memories in bits and pieces
Traces of love, long ago, that didn't work out right
Traces of love

Ribbons from her hair, souvenirs of days together
The ring she used to wear, pages from an old love letter
Traces of love, long ago, that didn't work out right
Traces of love – with me, tonight

I close my eyes and say a prayer
That in her heart she'll find
A trace of love still there somewhere

Traces of hope in the night
That she'll come back and dry
These, traces of tears
From my eyes

:cry: :cry:

[last_texas_dem]

46. That's a great song

I also like "Over You" by Gary Puckett and the Union Gap, another late sixties "soft-rock" sad song with a similar theme, a lot.

[last_texas_dem]

45. There are quite a few

One that comes to mind is "It Don't Matter to Me" by Bread because I was listening to it recently. I don't care if people like to make fun of Bread; a lot of their stuff is just beautiful, and awesome, in my view.

Oh yeah, there is also "You Took My Moonlight Away" by The Poppy Family, a Canadian pop-psych-easy listening-folkish-type group from the early seventies. In fact, there are several songs by that group that get to me.

And "Layla" still effects me emotionally, even hearing it for the five hundredth time...

[NC_Nurse]

48. The Chicks

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQc4KxP1sBw

[Va Lefty]

50. "Should've Known Better"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DckYV3FQfSE
"I thought time might help me win this game.
Being away from you is slowly driving me insane."

[keroro gunsou]

51. the promise, by when in rome

http://www.youtube.com/v/DnzkplibQ8M&color1=0x006699&color2=0x54abd6&border=0

(ok it's an anime music video from 2000... but it's still good, even if you don't know anything about the aa megami-sama universe)

I'm sorry, but I'm just thinking of the right words to say. (I promise)
I know they don't sound the way I planned them to be. (I promise)
But if you'll wait around a while, I'll make you fall for me,
I promise, I promise you...

I'm sorry, but I'm just thinking of the right words to say. (I promise)
I know they don't sound the way I planned them to be. (I promise)
And if I had to walk the world, I'd make you fall for me,
I promise, I promise you I will ...

that says it all...

[krispos42]

53. "If You Really Love a Woman" by Bryon Adams

It used to be "our" song. :-(

It used to give me chills when I heard it and she was nearby. :cry:


<sigh>

Dammit, EarlG, post the Top10 so I can be distracted.