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Inlander:
"Our Love is Here to Stay" by George & Ira Gershwin always brings a bit of a lump to my throat. If you're not familiar with the song, read the lyrics below and then I'll tell you the story behind it:

It's very clear
Our love is here to stay
Not for a year
But ever and a day
The radio and the telephone
And the movies that we know
May just be passing fancies
And in time may go
But oh, my dear
Our love is here to stay
Together we're
Going a long long way
In time the Rockies may tumble
Gibraltar may crumble
They're only made of clay
But our love is here to stay.

Seems like a pretty normal love song, right? Well here's the story: George & Ira Gershwin were one of the great song-writing teams from the Tin Pan Alley era of American songs. George wrote the music, and Ira wrote the lyrics. In 1937 they were flying high, having moved from a successful career on Broadway to write songs for musicals in Hollywood. Then George started getting terrible headaches. Nobody really knew what was going on, and he continued working. On the 11th of July 1937 he collapsed and died: he'd had a brain tumour. He was 38. At the time of his death he'd been working on the music for a new song, and after his death his older brother Ira wrote lyrics to go with the melody left behind by George. The completed song was Our Love is Here to Stay.

Now with all that in mind, go back and read the lyrics again and see how they make you feel.

Patrick:
"He Walked On Water" - Randy Travis

A song about his great-grandfather. I can't listen to this song anymore ever since my grandpa died. The music isn't particularly beautiful, the words not particularly poetic, but man, the song brings back memories, and I've just looked at the lyrics and man, I'm tearing up something vicious as I write this.

Man I really shouldn't have gone and looked at that, totally fucked with my day.

MrBlu:
"Thin Line"- Jurassic 5 Feat. Nelly Furtado.

I guess I can relate all of my emotions to J5, Decemberists and Weakerthans songs. In particular, this reminds me of a person that used to be really close to me, but a lot of things happened between us, and now we've kinda come apart... And just 6 minutes ago, I stopped talking to the person because of what they just told me.

Waferman:
Frog Eye's "Caravan Breakers", for some reason. It doesn't make me cry but I've been overcome with emotion to it.
Also Sunset Rubdown's "Shut Up I am Dreaming of Places Where Lovers ave Wings", although I suspect that's been said already (I am too lazy for "CTR+F).

youthcant:
when i thought i was a hippy in high school, i saw phish post-hiatus and i cried like a little girl when they played "wading in the velvet sea."

but, manchester orchestra's "sleeper 1972" is pretty sad

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