Songs that break your heart in bits..

And one for when I'm already there...

 

Heading for the great escape
Heading for the rave
Heading for the permanent holiday
Heading for the winter trip
Heading for the slide
Heading for the dignified walk away
Heading for the open road
Goodbye to all that
Heading for the automatic overload
Standing in the open boat
Standing in the swing
Waiting for the ringing and the bright light
Waiting to be recognised
Quiet applause will do
They shower you with flowers when they bury you
You're holding on, you're holding on ...

I. The Last of You

Just when I thought I'd seen the last of you
You come here scratchin' at my door
Your pain and anger's in the howling dark
Of every corridor I walk
So tell me more about the love that you rejected
Tell me more about the trust you disrespected
I still don't know, why did you hurt the very one
Why did you hurt the very one
That you should have protected?

II. Falling from the Moon

Don't ask me why I'm doing this
You wouldn't understand
You're asking the wrong questions
You couldn't understand
A bridge is not a high place
The fifty-second floor
Icarus would know
A mountain isn't far to fall
When you've fallen
When you've fallen from the moon
There's murder on the street
I'm ashes on the water now, somewhere far away
I have fallen, fallen from the moon

 

Love this. First thought was Luka by Suzanne Vega but Redhelen beat me to it!

Also love how Johnny Cash took Hurt and totally changed its tone and meaning. Made it his own.

 

I have so many, gotta be hundreds.

I was listening to this song yesterday and what happened to Christian Eriksen was kinda traumatizing, I was definitely in shock for a couple of hours. Now whenever I listen the scenes from what happened are ingrained in my head. I don't think anyone who watched live will ever forget it.

 

Miss Me But Let Me Go is a poem that I read out at my dad’s funeral. He suffered terribly with Alzheimer’s at the end, he would have hated the way he was. I read that it was found in the pocket of an unknown dead soldier on a battlefield at WW1. This seems to make it even more poignant. Got to go and rinse the grit out of my eye(sorry no idea how to copy a link)

 

It’s Christina Rossetti. It was read at my Mam’s too..