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  • jwagner
    jwagner Posts: 435
    Black
    Man of the Hour
    Come Back
    The End

    sometimes for specific reasons, sometimes for no real reason at all other than they're profoundly moving and beautiful songs.
    "I know I was born and I know that I'll die...the in between is mine"
  • Black13
    Black13 Posts: 49
    I just lost my mom recently to cancer. My sis wanted to play Just Breathe at the memorial and I was touched because she knows how big of a PJ fan I am. I talked her out of it and said The End was more fitting song. We went with something else entirely but if I would of heard The End during the service I would have lost it times 10.
  • shadowcast
    shadowcast Posts: 2,346
    Light Years. Reminds me of my Dad.
  • release30
    release30 Posts: 2,051
    fatal......

    off he goes......
    Conversations getting dull
    There's a constant ringing in my ears
    Sense of humor's void and numb
    And I'm bored to tears.......
  • Jeremys Spoken
    Jeremys Spoken Posts: 7,578
    mfc2006 wrote:
    Release
    Man Of The Hour
    Light Years

    miss ya, Dad.
    +1.

    All 3.
    2008 - MSG 6/24-6/25
    2010 - Newark 5/18 MSG 5/21
    2011 - PJ20 9/3-9/4
    2012 - MIA Festival 9/2
    2013 - Wrigley Field 7/19 Brooklyn 10/18-10/19 Philly 10/22
    2015 - Colbert show - 9/23 Global Citizens Festival 9/26
    2016 - Philly 4/28-4/29 MSG 5/1-5/2



  • Trixie
    Trixie Posts: 179
    FrankY59 wrote:
    This thread chokes me up.

    You beat me to it! :cry:
  • 2-feign-reluctance
    2-feign-reluctance TigerTown, USA Posts: 23,462
    iamica wrote:
    I had to take The End off of my iPod because I can't listen to it anymore, it's just too sad.


    Agreed.... :(
    www.cluthelee.com
  • oceantidal
    oceantidal Posts: 5
    Every other song that doesn't make me feel like going to battle.
  • klusterfuk
    klusterfuk Posts: 1,411
    derbydave wrote:
    [!
    Sometimes tears are a good thing :ugeek:
    what he said
    The future's paved with better days

    Alpine Valley Resort is etched in my brain!!!


  • he.who.forgets
    he.who.forgets Posts: 4,593
    There are several, some just beacuse of the emotion that Ed sings with. But I always relate Light Years to my dad (hence my signature quote). Teared up when they did Come Back in Columbus 10 too...
    We were but stones your light made us stars
  • legates54
    legates54 Posts: 72
    Given to Fly


    By faceless men, well, fuckers
    He still stands

    And he still gives his love, he just gives it away
    The love he receives is the love that is saved
    And sometimes is seen a strange spot in the sky
    A human being that was given to fly
    Dream the dreams of other men...You will be no ones rival

    28 times and rocked them all
  • inMytree_19
    inMytree_19 Toronto, Canada Posts: 177
    Come Back always hits me hard - it makes me think of my best friend who was tragically taken from us at the age of 19.

    "The real possibility I may meet you in my dreams... "
    2008 - Mansfield
    2008 - Montreal (EV Solo)
    2011 - East Troy PJ20
    2011 - Ottawa
    2014 - Denver
    2015 - Rio de Janeiro
    2016 - Toronto x2
    2018 - Boston x2
    2022 - Quebec, Hamilton, Toronto
  • elevation622
    elevation622 Posts: 926
    Long Road. Lost a close friend and family member quite unexpectedly 3 years before Long Road came out. Then I was randomly driving somewhere, coincidently not far from her gravesite, in the middle of this cloudy day. Long Road came on the radio (the radio! awesome alternative local station at the time...) and I just lost it. I mean I was a mess. I don't remember where I was going or what, but it was weird, like a sign. Anyway since then, whenever I hear that song, I get more waterworks than watching Bambi and The Champ combined! Still love to hear it though: "The sun will rise another day..." Great song. But my friends definitely look at me strange when I'm crying like a baby at the start of my favorite band's concerts! That's why I like Release and other songs to open!
  • skyeriverwinter
    skyeriverwinter Posts: 1,905
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  • vinyl boy
    vinyl boy Posts: 205
    a close friend of mine that had some personal battles all through his life ended up dying in a car crash. another friend of ours played "Off He Goes" at the funeral. if lyrics could ever match up to someones life it would be my friend that i miss dearly. have a hard time listening to that song without tearing up :cry:
  • JB176657
    JB176657 Posts: 51
    Release
    Black
    Indifference
    Nothingman
    Long Road
    In My Tree (live--2000 tour)
    Off He Goes
    Low Light
    Light Years
    Puzzles and Games
    Parting Ways
    Man of the Hour
    All or None
    Comeback
    The End
    Close your eyes
    Ship Song
    Betterman (lullaby version)
    Throw your arms around me
    Untitled (2000 tour)
    Forever Young

    Im sure I have missed more than a few but all of these at one time or another have made me get choked up
    Columbus 00, Cleveland 03, Columbus 03, Hershey 03, Toledo 04, Grand Rapids 04, Asheville 04, Kitchener 05, Cleveland 06, Cincinnati 06, VIC 07, Philly night 4 09, Columbus 10, Cleveland 10, Pitt 13, Charlottesville 13, Cincinnati 14, St. Louis 14
  • Tboz51
    Tboz51 Posts: 2,808
    Release, reminds me of my shitty dad. Being abandoned at 12. Being emotionally and physically abused for those 12 years.

    "oh dear dad, can you see me now?"

    Makes me think he missed out on so much of who I am.

    I taught my teenage son how to shave 2 days ago. It made me try to remember who taught me?? I can't remember who did it, so it was most likely no one.

    It made me sad.... Oh dear dad, can you see me now?

    He passed last year and never knew the song or how much it made me long for a guide (I never got).

    :-/
    "Honesty will always be construed as negative to a dumbass"
    :-)
  • we-were-but-stones
    we-were-but-stones Posts: 728
    i was going to create a post to ask the same thing !

    come back & the end

    the line ''what were all those plans me made now left beside the road''

    gets me every time
    Manchester 09
    Belfast 2010
    Hyde Park 2010
    Manchester 2012 N1&2
    Amsterdam 2012 N1&2
    EV Manchester 2012
    EV London 2012 N2
    Brooklyn 2013  N1&2
    Milan,Leeds,Milton Keynes,Denver 2014
    EV London 2017 N1&2
    Krakow 2018
    EV Dublin 2019
    Hyde Park 2022 N2
    Manchester 2024



  • RiotZact
    RiotZact Posts: 6,298
    to many to count
  • DS112041
    DS112041 Posts: 79
    Come Back, makes me think of my best friend who committed suicide 8 years ago. It makes me think of all of my loved ones who have passed on, but especially him.

    And Just Breathe, my Mom was diagnosed with breast, uterine and bladder cancers right around the time Backspacer was released. My Dad and I would sit and listen to it over and over and have our little break downs when things got really shitty.

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