So, I just actually listened to this song, actually listened to the lyrics;

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BraveLittleFrog@reddit

Puff the Magic Dragon. I don’t give a flea’s flying fart if it was supposed to be about smoking pot (was it?!). That song makes me remember my favorite dog, favorite cat, and favorite horse who died all at once and I’m a pitiful puddle of putty.

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Stevensays2@reddit

Thanks for the reminder. Brings back a lot of memories for me too. When I was young I loved singing it with my Dad, who passed away a little while ago. I miss him greatly. Been a long time since I’ve heard it. I’m about to listen to it again.

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Due_Cucumber_6956@reddit

YOU TOO??? Puff hits me so hard that as a child I would have the tv turned off while watching the few specials that aired in the 70's. To this day, I ugly cry when I hear that song.

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Equal_Trash6023@reddit

I've always loved this song. Any time a poignant moment happens. I want it played at my funeral followed closely by Bat Out of Hell by Meatloaf and the House that built me by Miranda Lambert, especially of my mom is still alive.

When I had my two miscarriages, I listened to it, my father's and grandparents passing. During the births of my two daughters and during my divorce...

I like both the original and the Chick's versions.

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kaydeeceemee@reddit

When you are happy, you enjoy the music...when you are sad, you understand the lyrics

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MrsNuggs@reddit

-Frank Ocean

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Subjunct@reddit

— George Jones.

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MrsNuggs@reddit

I lost a lifelong friend in 2016. She had always loved Fleetwood Mac, and her family asked me to help decide what song to play at her funeral service. I was driving while listening to their music, and Gypsy came on. I had to pull over so I could have a good cry.

She is dancing away from you now. She was just a wish. She was just a wish. And her memory is all that is left for you now.

Her family agreed with me, and I will never not think about her when I hear that song. In 2019 my sister and I saw Fleetwood Mac in concert, and I wept like a baby.

Last year I watched a documentary on the band, and Stevie explained that she wrote the song just after a dear friend of hers had passed. I cried all over again.

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HearingDue2119@reddit

Middle age white woman karaoke classic

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Cranks_No_Start@reddit

My wife and I were at the vet and we had to put our dog down. The song “I Hope You Dance by Lee Ann Womack”. Was playing.

I don’t listen to country music but over the years it would pop up and it was rough.

About 8 months ago I had to take another now older dog (14) who was failing health wise to the vet again and sure enough the same song was playing in the background.

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AndiPandi_@reddit

I felt that gut punch from here. I’m so sorry about the loss of your four legged family member. 💗

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kimmykam-28@reddit

My heart 💔

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trixielee17@reddit

Yeah it's sad. I'm sorry for your loss. Bush does a cover that I love - rooftop live on youtube 💗

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stuck_behind_a_truck@reddit

I’m a word nerd and lyrics are all important to me. That said. I always felt like I was missing the meaning of this one to a certain degree.

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Intelligent-Gate36@reddit

This song always makes me think of a friends mom. Her husband divorced her after 30 years. She was a stay at home mom. Gave up her career to raise their kids. He decided he wanted to be with a younger woman he found. She had built her life around him literally. And then it all came crashing down. The kids were grown. This was back in the 90s. Married in the 60s. Now she had to build a life for herself out of nowhere without a job as a woman in her 50s. It was a completely unexpected twist to how she thought her life would go.

Also it could be the death of a loved one you thought you’d share your life with.

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HallackB@reddit

Both sides now by Joni Mitchell hits me that way too. I think I listened to it for the first time in years recently while I was gardening and just started crying

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tcon1834@reddit

I enjoy the original, but I’m partial to the Smashing Pumpkins cover. It’s an incredibly powerful song.

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Sensitive-Question42@reddit

I first knew the song Landslide from the Smashing Pumpkins cover. A beautiful song.

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YouMustBeJoking888@reddit

Landslide is absolutely the song to make you cry. It's beautiful and I try not to listen to it unless I'm alone, because I know I will get weepy.

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dapala1@reddit

Fleetwood Mac and particularly the song Landside is a quintessential "boomer to next gen" song. Landside and a lot of songs from the generation really have no time era.

They are literally "timeless." I think everyone commenting gets it.

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Exciting_Pass_6344@reddit

I lost my daughter to suicide in November of 25. Music in general has taken a whole new level of meaning for me. I tend now towards hard rock when I’m in the car by myself for self preservation, as it doesn’t bring the feels like most other genres. I totally get how you feel about this song.

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LadyNorbert@reddit

Oh no, I'm so sorry. Gentle hugs from an internet stranger if you want them.

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Sjoensmoem@reddit

Sending you lots of love too

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cragmyer@reddit

sending you lots of love.

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LadyNorbert@reddit

I'm sorry about your friend. And yes, that song hits hard when I'm sad.

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playfulendeavour@reddit

Now listen to the Dixie Chicks version and experience the same feeling, but different https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4_wXPZ1Bnk

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R67H@reddit

The live version, just Stevie and Lindsey, makes me tear up every single time. In the beginning, she says "This is for you, daddy". I didn't have kids when it came out. But 30 years later it's gutting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WM7-PYtXtJM&list=RDWM7-PYtXtJM&start_radio=1 You're welcome for the ugly cry.

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flyboy_za@reddit

This is a beautiful version of a beautiful song.

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thekabuki@reddit

This is the version I have on my playlist

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Wabi-Sabi_Umami@reddit

Same!

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Bookgal1@reddit

Me too!

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SubBass49Tees@reddit

Landslide kicks your ass no matter what sort of loss you've felt.

Break-up? You're gonna cry.

Lost a loved one? You're gonna cry.

Kids grew up and moved out? You're gonna cry.

The older you get, the more that song rips your heart out and stomps on it.

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average_texas_guy@reddit

When I was a kid my mom would sing Red River Valley to me and I would cry and cry. Now that she's gone, I'd give anything to hear her sing it again.

From this valley they say you are goin'

I will miss your bright eyes and sweet smile

For they say you are takin' the sunshine

That has brightened our pathway the while

Do you think of the valley you're leavin'

Oh, how lonely and dreary it will be

Do you think of the fond heart you're breakin'

And the sadness you've cast over me

For a long time my dear, I've been waiting

For the words that you never would say

And alas my poor heart you are breakin'

For they tell me you're goin' away

As you go to your home by the ocean

May you never forget those sweet hours

That we spent in the Red River Valley

And the love we exchanged mid the flowers

Come and sit by my side if you love me

Do not hasten to bid me adieu

But remember the Red River Valley

And the one that has loved you so true

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GardenBunnyBaseball@reddit

The Landslide cover by the Dixie Chicks guts me. This part in particular:

Well, I've been 'fraid of changin'
'Cause I've built my life around you
But time makes you bolder
Even children get older
And I'm gettin' older, too

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pantstoaknifefight2@reddit

Let's just paste the whole song, shall we?

I took my love, I took it down Climbed a mountain and I turned around And I saw my reflection in the snow covered hills 'Til the landslide brought me down Oh, mirror in the sky, what is love? Can the child within my heart rise above? Can I sail through the changin' ocean tides? Can I handle the seasons of my life? Mm Well, I've been 'fraid of changin' 'Cause I've built my life around you But time makes you bolder Even children get older And I'm gettin' older, too Well, I've been 'fraid of changin' 'Cause I've built my life around you But time makes you bolder Even children get older And I'm gettin' older, too Oh, I'm gettin' older, too Ah, take my love, take it down Oh, climb a mountain and turn around And if you see my reflection in the snow covered hills Well, the landslide will bring it down And if you see my reflection in the snow covered hills Well, the landslide will bring it down Oh, the landslide will bring it down

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average_texas_guy@reddit

I took my love, I took it down

Climbed a mountain and I turned around

And I saw my reflection in the snow covered hills

'Til the landslide brought me down

Oh, mirror in the sky, what is love?

Can the child within my heart rise above?

Can I sail through the changin' ocean tides?

Can I handle the seasons of my life?

Mm Well, I've been 'fraid of changin'

'Cause I've built my life around you

But time makes you bolder

Even children get older And I'm gettin' older, too

Well, I've been 'fraid of changin'

'Cause I've built my life around you

But time makes you bolder

Even children get older

And I'm gettin' older, too

Oh, I'm gettin' older, too

Ah, take my love, take it down

Oh, climb a mountain and turn around

And if you see my reflection in the snow covered hills

Well, the landslide will bring it down

And if you see my reflection in the snow covered hills

Well, the landslide will bring it down

Oh, the landslide will bring it down

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Maryk67@reddit

Just reading the lyrics brings me to tears.

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mscrybaby-mo@reddit

I've never been a fan of Stevie Nick's but I love the version by the Dixie chicks. It made me think the first time I heard it and it still does now many years later.

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I_Am_Mandark_Hahaha@reddit

And I'm 'fraid of landslides 'cause the ground falls down around me.

There's rocks and there's boulders. Children take cover! I'm taking cover too...

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MinusGovernment@reddit

My wife doesn't sing karaoke very often but it's the song she sings when she does.

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thepaintedballerina@reddit

I mentioned it in another comment but hadn’t seen it on top level yet.

Johnny Cash’s cover of Hurt.

It stopped me in my tracks when I first heard it. Like full sit quietly for a minute or seven.

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Most-Confusion-417@reddit

I cannot watch Johnny Cash 's Hurt ever without bawling.

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Effective-Usual4152@reddit

If you can listen to it without at least tearing up, are you even human? Especially if you’re watching the video!

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CampVictorian@reddit

“Bright Eyes”, by Art Garfunkel, from “Watership Down”. It’s such a poignant song, capturing the experience of processing death and loss. Beautiful lyrics, and such a diaphanous tune.

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BraveLittleFrog@reddit

Don’t even go there. Been making bawl my eyes out since I was about 7 years old. The poor bunnnnnnnnnnnyyyy!!!!!

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Adventurous-Fee-8158@reddit

Makes No Difference by The Band

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jumpinoutofmyflesh@reddit

Love this as well. As a fellow Arkansan I’m kinda partial to Levon but love the “band.”

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Numerous_Sky9235@reddit

“Landslide”, “Time in a Bottle”, “In My Life”, “Wish You Were Here”

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TimelyExternal5769@reddit

All great. Another great sad song is "The Leader of the Band", Dan Fogelburg. It's a tribute to his elderly father, who was also a musician.

https://youtu.be/FW_98_DquUg

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Two_DogNight@reddit

Oh, Wish You Were Here. I can hardly listen to it these days.

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bukayodegaard@reddit

Id recommend Both Sides Now by Joni Mitchell.

Check out the original, then try the live version from a couple of years ago, after recovering from serious illness. Chills.

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TwistinInTheWind@reddit

The version from the movie Coda is excellent too.

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emcha77@reddit

That live one was the first time I heard it and it hit hard!

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Lily_V_@reddit

A masterpiece. Looking at clouds as a youngster, seeing them when older. It just goes on and on. It’s a great song. “I look at clouds from both sides now…”

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bukayodegaard@reddit

Turns out, she was also about 25 when she wrote this. Amazing.

She'd already lived a lot of life by then. e.g. polio, Little Green, poverty, marriage, divorce.

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BE33_Jim@reddit

My mom's pastor called these Radio Angels.

On her passing, "How Far is Heaven" came on as he drove home after she passed.

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Beautiful-Event-1213@reddit

Driving home from the hospital after my dad lost his battle with lymphoma, and I Can See Clearly Now came on the radio. Hearing it always takes me back to that morning.

Radio Angels is a lovely way to think about this.

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ChalkHorse@reddit

I'm not GenX, older, but I'm sorry you lost your friend. Yes, I've always felt the pain of the song, since it came out in 1975. The meaning changes over the years for me, but it is always an emotional experience listening to it.

This is a song that has always helped me a little bit when I've lost someone I've loved. Neil Finn wrote it for a friend who had lost his mother, and to me, it is a song of love and hope at the thought that people "go on": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kar6Q_Yr65c

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raggedyannie28@reddit

I saw Stevie in concert last year and sobbed like a child hearing this song live. It's one of my favourite songs and it's often made me teary, but I lost it all togethet hearing it live.

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InevitableCodeRedo@reddit

I just broke up a few months ago with someone I thought I was going to be spending the rest of my life with. And this song came on right around that time and it hit like a hammer.

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bkward@reddit

Didn't she write this after she lost her dad?

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ChrisRiley_42@reddit

During a breakup with Lindsey Buckingham. The whole album (Rumors) was basically about the giant crap pile the relationships all the band members were going through at the time.

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ChalkHorse@reddit

"Landslide" isn't on "Rumours" - it's on the prior album simply entitled "Fleetwood Mac". I was 20 when it came out, and it wasn't played on the radio like all the other hits from that album. It only got popular after the video "The Dance" in the late 90s. It was my favorite song from the album, and for years and years, nobody I knew had heard it. It was my special, personal song and always made me very emotional, and still does.

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kittybigs@reddit

It’s such a musically beautiful pile of crap.

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-Odi-Et-Amo-@reddit

It’s about her rocky relationship with Lindsey Buckingham.

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bkward@reddit

Ah, yes. That's it. He wanted her to go back to school and she pursued her music career with Lindsey instead. Thanks

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Mustbe7@reddit

She talks about writing it in this short article, no mention of her dad..

https://performingsongwriter.com/stevie-nicks-landslide/

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Malady1607@reddit

In one of her live recordings, you can hear her say - this is for you daddy

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Mustbe7@reddit

🫶 would love to hear that

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EmbarrassedPrompt697@reddit

Anyone ever heard of Reminds Me of You, by Van Morrison. Kind of a deep cut, but after I lost my dad, that song absolutely wrecked me.

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StevieNickedMyself@reddit

It's actually crazy how young Stevie was when she wrote these lyrics.

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DooDooCat@reddit

Dude. I literally had the same thing happen to me today but with a Rush song. A Rush song!? I've listened to it countless times before but today I actually listened to it and understood what it was saying. The song is Time Stand Still. It'll never be the same from here on listening to it again.

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bngthm@reddit

oooh aimee mann backup

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Telmak2112@reddit

The older I get the harder this song hits me.

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Gingerbirdie@reddit

Ha, I had "I'm not looking back but I want to look around me now" as high school senior yearbook quote.

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CaroCogitatus@reddit

Entre Nous gets me sometimes.

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Gingerbirdie@reddit

I was just singing this yesterday! It's melancholy.

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Brkthom@reddit

Peart

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drazaelb@reddit

That entire album gets me, every time

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MiaAlta@reddit

Cat's in the Cradle

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Local-Try1472@reddit

Why say that ?! That song 🎧 that was written by harry chapman was one of my favorite songs ever it hit me very deeply and I loved 🥰 it so much !RLB ps yes it does have a storyline to it but the lyrics are just so beautiful

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Jacobysmadre@reddit

It made me cry as a child. I really felt the time passing and the loss of opportunities to build memories both directions.

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small_spider_liker@reddit

Hate that song

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ArnoldLayne1974@reddit

Pink Floyd - Time

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DragonToothGarden@reddit

The line of "missed" the starting gun" didn't hit me until I was about 37. Then it hit like a tidal wave of awful realization and this was despite doing most of what I had set out to do.

For decades prior I listened to and loved that song and album but was too young to appreciate the lyrics.

And I loved that song and most of Pink Floyd since my first introduction in the late 80s.

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cdanew@reddit

The acoustic version of Take On Me by A-ha is a completely different song. "I'll be gone, in a day or two"

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Two_DogNight@reddit

I heard the original version on the radio yesterday and there's just no comparison. It should always be the acoustic version now.

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changelingcd@reddit

I watched that damn lyric video again just today: "You're all the things I've got to remember."

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Leather_Network4743@reddit

Eddie Vedder does a cover of Warren Zevon’s “Keep Me In Your Heart For A While” that hits like a ton of bricks. I challenge anyone to keep their eyes dry.

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syntonc@reddit

That smh breaks me every time.

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Apprehensive_Onion53@reddit

“Sound of Silence” also hits differently these days.

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thepaintedballerina@reddit

I just saw Paul Simon in Prague on day two of Quiet Celebration. He closed out the show with Sounds of Silence… just him, an amped acoustic style guitar, and a spotlight.

Hearing him sing that in his 80s nearly broke me. It was beautiful and soul rendering. The weight of life experiences signing this with the backdrop of everything that is happening in the world right now. /gut-punch-tears/

Honestly it was like the first time I heard Johnny Cash’s version of Hurt. Hearing the gravelly voice of someone at the end of their life after his love died and facing mortality just hits different. And I’ve seen Trent do it roughly 27 times live, Johnny Cash made it his own.

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sshevie@reddit

This right here

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Local-Try1472@reddit

I am so sincerely sorry for how you are feeling I felt the same way about 2 years ago when my sisters and I went to see Rick Springfield in concert and when he sang “my fathers chair” 🪑 I too was in such pain and how deep the lyrics were that it made me cry 😢 RLB

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ViewfromMyOfcWindow@reddit

Landslide takes me tf out EVERY. TIME. 😭 Such a gut-wrenching, perfect song 💔

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DiscoFriskyBiscuit@reddit

Sitting in a gas station, tears falling as I waited for him to finish paying. Wiping them away before he got back.

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Kindly-Might-1879@reddit

And Stevie Nicks was only 26 when she wrote this song…

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TheProtoChris@reddit

Stevie Nicks is eternal.

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LaceyBloomers@reddit

Do any of you know Jann Arden’s song, ‘Good Mother’? I’ve always liked it but it hits deeper since my Mom passed away in 2017.

And ‘Landslide’ makes me think of my Dad, even when he was still with us. He passed a little over a year ago. I remember him telling me that I’ll always be his baby no matter how old I get.

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A_Tom_McWedgie@reddit

Canadian here: Jann Arden is a national treasure.

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LaceyBloomers@reddit

Absolutely! I got to see her live and she was so good. And funny!

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YogurtclosetLoud278@reddit

This song has always gotten to me. I must say that the remake that the Dixie Chics (their name at the time) made is even better. Love this song and can relate completely to how you are feeling ❤️

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Intrepid_Practice956@reddit

I prefer that one too. The words seem so much clearer. Yes, it is gutting.

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Reasonable-Ad-399@reddit

So I just read the lyrics- lovely but no emotion from me more than a smile. I’m really curious what makes them do powerful?
I’d guess a special life experience?

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Bratpwr@reddit

Yes! I always get a lump in my throat listening to this song.

This and the Beatles' "In My Life" hit me hard for some reason.

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devo0630@reddit

Landslide” and “In My Life” are 2 of the 3 songs that have me ‘cutting onions’, with the third one being “If I Ever Leave This World Alive” by Flogging Molly

https://youtu.be/POHYhiYZIbk?si=Sk73gKQnL9pCl3UR

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Bratpwr@reddit

I had never heard that song before. Thanks for sharing. Yes, those lyrics definitely make the eyes tear up.

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Statement-Fluffy@reddit

My LO played “In My Life” for me at our wedding. Tried so hard not to ugly-cry up on stage, but yeah. “Brothers in Arms” by Dire Straits is another beautifully sad song.

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carlivar@reddit

"In My Life" was our father/daughter mother/son dance at our wedding. ❤️

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GTRWLD@reddit

So many songs hit different these days. I used to almost never listen to country and in the last 5 years have found myself on the local classic country radio station more and more. The song that really did me in recently was The Dance by Garth Brooks. I’ve heard it many, many times and have even heard it played at funerals, but just the other day it came on and just nailed me.

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k2j2@reddit

I took my adult daughter to see Stevie Nicks two years ago. When she sang landslide, I just started crying. Lyrics just hit me like a ton of bricks.

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Echinodermis@reddit

For some reason, a few days ago I was listening to The White Cliffs of Dover by Vera Lynn. I had heard it as a child, and it’s still in there. Anyway, the light bulb came on my brain and I realized that I needed to take a hard listen to Vera by Pink Floyd. When I put it all together and listened to “Vera” a few times, I really felt it.

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Ok-News7798@reddit

The first time I heard this song was when the album was released. I was 7 & my parents had just gotten divorced. I was a "unique" child & music was my first love. I have always cried while listening to this song, but yes...it does hit different as we age

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truh22@reddit

I hadn’t really listened to the lyrics to that song until it was played in a South Park episode (s15, e7). It was very fitting.

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Wabi-Sabi_Umami@reddit

This song hits so much harder when your kids have grown up and are out of the house and after you’ve lost close family members. 😢

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mediawoman@reddit

Landslide Baker Street Good-bye by Night Ranger Alone Again, Naturally

We were steeped in sadness back in the day!

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Affectionate_Sky9090@reddit (OP)

Cats in the cradle gets me all the time as well.

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NDT03076@reddit

Listen to Why Do Little Girls or Tangled Up Puppet by Harry Chapin and try not to cry

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Reasonable_Bar_6131@reddit

I love Harry so much! He belongs in the song writers HOF. Better Place to Be. Saturday Morning. Let Time Go Lightly. They are Perfection.

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R67H@reddit

I actively avoid that song. I never wanted to be like my father, and I don't want my son to be like me. I want him to be better.

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Reboot-Glitchspark@reddit

I would've died happy if I never saw mention of that song again. It hits the ouchy spot.

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Retirednypd@reddit

Times of your life ....Paul anka

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Powerful_Coyote6068@reddit

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YouDaManInDaHole@reddit

I'm alooone again

Without youuuu...

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Tomasimo@reddit

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Freakishly_Tall@reddit

I have a thing for soul crushing songs, and those are all excellent examples.

But the kids these days have it figured out, too: It ain't just back in the day... of my entire "Depressing" playlist, the Birds of Bellwoods song Sky stops me in my tracks every time. The first time I heard it, I had to sit down and collect myself.

If we're doing "so, ya wanna be gloomy on a Saturday" is all, I guess.

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KMFNR@reddit

Faster Pussycat - House of Pain springs to mind.

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yardkat1971@reddit

It made my spouse burst into tears. It surprised the crap out of the them when it happened.

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mommymomnyleebotts@reddit

I knew I was getting older the first time it made me cry & now I have an adult grandchild.

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reb6@reddit

Glory Days hits a lot different in your 40s

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serizzzzle@reddit

Listen to the Smashing Pumpkins version. It’s incredible.

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wstone5594@reddit

Ugly Kid Joe

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labretirementhome@reddit

Two girls sang this in duet with a boy on guitar at my son's high school graduation.

Goddamn it was unfair.

Well, I've been 'fraid of changin' 'Cause I've built my life around you But time makes you bolder Even children get older And I'm gettin' older, too

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LagrangianMechanic@reddit

One that always gets me is the Alan Parson Project’s “Time”:

Goodbye, my friends.
Maybe for forever.
…
Who knows where we shall meet again?
If ever.”

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LadySassington@reddit

I'm surprised no one has said "Dust in the Wind".. lost my mom a few years back and she chose to be cremated. The song hit me so so hard...

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Affectionate_Sky9090@reddit (OP)

Omg, I forgot about that song 😢

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juliettelovesdante@reddit

Oh, I love that song. Sing along load. It feels so good to crawl into it that way.

If you need another one try Make You Feel my Love. Either Bob Dylan's or Adele's version. So profoundly moving.

I'm so sorry about your friend. Sending love your way.

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NeiClaw@reddit

It’s funny because I always thought it was about Stevie doing coke to get over Lindsey. The snow covered hills. The “mirror. Seeing her “reflection.” The landslide bringing her down. It works a lot of different ways.

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-Odi-Et-Amo-@reddit

It’s about actual snow. She wrote it while in Aspen and Lindsey Buckingham left her there while he went on tour lol.

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thekabuki@reddit

"Because I built my world around you" hits hard once you have kids

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Affectionate_Sky9090@reddit (OP)

Yes, and theyre grown too 🥺

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fridayimatwork@reddit

Yeah I never was into it but my friend is in a cover band and it hits now

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Dramatic-Yam1984@reddit

I find many of their songs to be emotional and relatable. Will always be one of my fave bands

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Natural_King2704@reddit

I lost a friend to a drunk driver in 1997. Heard the acoustic version of a song "when I close my eyes" by Kenny Chesney. It's a country song, but it hard to tell. Still makes me cry.

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Ok_Blueberry304@reddit

Steve Wariner, Holes in the floor of heaven 1998. Make sure you have tissues. Makes me think of my grandma. Its cathartic though.

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Affectionate_Sky9090@reddit (OP)

So sorry 💔

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Maureengill6@reddit

The Smashing Pumpkins version was a pretty good cover. It made me look for the original....and well, Fleetwood Mac <3

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Seven_bushes@reddit

I have a memory of a good friend doing her version of an interpretive dance to this song while on a girls weekend. She was end stage breast cancer and that was the last time I saw her before she passed. I can’t listen to that song without a combination of a smile at her silliness, and overwhelming sadness and tears that she’s gone. She was an amazing person.

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paperhanddreamer@reddit

I love that you have that precious memory of her. <3 she sounds like she made the most of the time she had. RIP to your sweet friend.

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newwriter365@reddit

That one has been hitting me in the feels since I realized I could no longer stay in a loveless marriage.

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xtrasweetc@reddit

Good... This is just what I thought of when I read the post. His new got the same reason. 😥

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Cold-Guidance6433@reddit

This song has always hurt because I lost my dad young but it hurts more now that I’m getting older. Time Stand Still by Rush chokes me up a bit as well.

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AdhesiveSeaMonkey@reddit

I love this song.

Now.... don't hate me for this..... there is a cover by Gwyneth Paltrow that's really good. It's from some tv show but I found it on Spotify a while back.

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Resident-Condition-2@reddit

The Chicks cover is amazing.

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Six_Pack_Attack@reddit

Billy Corgan (or maybe the Pumpkins) also have a respectable cover.

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wyohman@reddit

This is a song that requires no cover. There's nothing anyone can do to make it better or worse yet, make it average.

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tomh987@reddit

The “children get older” was not something that I ever thought about or appreciated. Now that I have adult children it’s a gut punch every time.

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PatientAccurate8468@reddit

Yes…I hear you.

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mldyfox@reddit

This is a song i didn't discover until I was in my late 30s, but one I really love. I tear up every time I hear it now.

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R67H@reddit

Let me guess... Pumpkins or Chicks?

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LoreKeeper2001@reddit

Very poignant song.

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unikittyUnite@reddit

Yes, this song really resonates with me. The lines “But time makes you bolder, Even children get older, And I'm gettin' older, too” really gets to me now that I have an adult child.

A more obscure song that gets me is Springsteen’s “Blood Brothers”. It’s about connecting with long lost, old friends and mourning the friends that have passed away.

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Ill-Experience-7910@reddit

yep on Blood Brothers. have had 3 friends die in the last year and a half. al VERY unexpected. that one super hits.

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notusuallyhostile@reddit

This song and Time Stand Still by Rush are hard for me to hear without getting emotional.

Summer’s going fast Night’s growing colder Children growing up Old friends growing older

I just went to a class reunion - we graduated 123 kids. In 40 years we lost 12 of them. Cancer and Covid killed 8 of them. Accident killed 1. And 3 of them were lost to suicide - including my best friend in high school. Because it was a boarding school, we were unusually close - at least compared to my kids and their public-school friends. But because we were a boarding school, very few of us lived close to one another after graduation. Facebook/Instagram were often the only places we could gather between reunions. And now, social media has become this kind of replacement community billboard for tragedies and obituaries. Even more-so as the years fly by. I sit on my porch now on Saturday evening, with my granddaughters asleep upstairs on the weekends we get to have them over, and I think about the next 20 years - if I’ve got that many left - and just how quickly the last 20 years went. Freeze this moment a little bit longer means something completely different to 50-something me than it ever did to 20-something me.

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F-Cloud@reddit

Honestly, I can't even think of the lyrics to Landslide without being driven to tears. I'm sorry for your loss. Our generation is entering the phase in which we'll gradually lose more people. I've lost a few close friends already.

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MrsRalphieWiggum@reddit

The room just got really dusty

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rtduvall@reddit

Yeah, as I age I want to enjoy things deeper now. It’s all about quality of life at this point.

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myleftone@reddit

I think Nicks wrote it at seventeen and it was about growing up, thinking about her relationship, and facing life choices. Pretty impressive insights at that age.

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smokythejoker@reddit

There’s a Billy Corgan cover and he sounds like adult Cartman from South Park. Totally changed the song for me forever.

Sorry for your loss.

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Conduit-Katie82@reddit

I am so sorry for your loss.

It was my father-daughter dance song at my wedding. Last year, it was one of my daughter’s dance teammates final performance song for her senior year.

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Dobgirl@reddit

I’m sorry. It is a touching song, so lovely.

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StJmagistra@reddit

I definitely understand it better now than I did as a teenager.

I’m so sorry for your loss.