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The Song That Makes You Cry
Posted: Tuesday, July 26, 2011 - 20:04
As an homage to All Songs Considered's recent show about the songs that make us cry, I'd like to know which Avett song brings tears to your eyes.
Whether it be from the power of the lyrics or an association you hold with the song, let me know the story.
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Murder In The City. I cried the first time I heard them play it & many times thereafter but not so much these days. It always makes me think of my Dad.
There are more but if I keep writing about them I'll cry. TAB sings about so much about family, love, community etc. that it is impossible not to be brought to tears by some of it.
16 in July a cappella in Salem? I cried at the sheer beauty of that moment.
PG at the Airport...
It's the beauty of the melody, lyrics, and everything about the sentiment of knowing that you have to say goodbye and feeling the ache in your heart... I can't stand stand goodbyes....
There are many, but Murder in the City is #1 for me on the crying. I can usually make it most of the way, but once I hear, "Always remember there is nothing worth sharing like the love that let us share our name." So simple, but so very powerful.
Bonnie's part in Swept Away (Sentimental Version) and I Would Be Sad
PG Airport, New Love Song, If it's the Beaches, the Lowering, All My Mistakes. those songs make me cry without fail every time, whether live, or in my car, or on the bus. (which can get awkward.)
But, there are many others that will make me cry depending on the circumstances--if I particularly relate to the lyrics at that moment, a moving version, etc. Living of Love, Black, Blue, My Losing Bet, Sanguine, Offering, Pretty Girl from Locust, November Blue, the Weight of Lies, Souls like Wheels, and if you count it, 3 entire Darling albums.
Good Lord, I'm actually not much of a crier, normally, but I've cried at more Avett shows and songs than I can count.
As Oly mentioned, the a capella version of Sixteen in July last week was so unexpected and beautiful, and I was never a huge fan of that song, but I def. got teary.
Definitely Murder... First time I ever saw/heard them on ACL, I was in tears. Though thinking about death is somewhat morbid, I believe it is healthy and necessary to think about as well. I have since had wonderful conversations with many of my close family members about my love for them and about how I want to be remembered (and where to find the "letter in my desk"-my journal) when I pass from this world. Bury me in the ground in a simple pine casket so my kids have a place to go and remember me and my friends can bring me a Speyside Scotch from time to time, and then have a celebration of my life (play my favorite music-TAB and others), tell funny, embarassing, sad and other stories/memories about me, raise a glass in my name, and remember me well. Then move on and honor me with your lives...
Pretty Girl at the Airport for me. You can totally feel what is going on in the song.
Ten Thousand Words made me cry unexpectedly when I heard it live. My Last Song To Jenny always gets me and crushed me live at Cheswick. Swept Away snuck up on me at Portland. Offering, Hand Me Down Tune, Airport, Lowering, All My Mistakes, Living of Love, Almost everything Gleam or Darling. Just about any of their songs can get you at unexpected times, especially live.
Bella Donna : ) I absolutely loooove this song... I think just the signature Avett Brothers simplicity of the lyrics and beautiful melody come together and form perfection.
Murder in the City especially since my grandmother passed.
Die then Grow is beyond powerful for me.
Tear Down the House because of the line "I remember crying over you and I don't mean like a couple of tears and then I'm blue. I'm talking about collapsing and screaming at the moon but I'm a better man for having gone through it" because I've had one such relationship with a girl back home.
Laundry Room Live at Bonnaroo. The heart put into this song just fills me up
If It's The Beaches....
If it's the Beaches and the Offering always get me... also murder in the city and as i write this more and more come to mind - the words and the music is so powerful and soul searingly beautiful
The Lowering (A Sad Day In Greenvilletown)
Everything is beautifully sad about it . The humming at the beginning, the heartbreaking lyrics, somber music. That song was meant for tears.
“And if I had known the lowering tide, was lowering with the way you felt inside”
That part always makes me cry. I am already a bit teary eyed, but when I hear those lyrics, with Scott's voice, it just pushes it over.
without a doubt, if it's the beaches & pretty girl at the airport get me every time.
others do too, depending on what mood i'm in when i'm listening.
wow, you folks have a pretty impressive list going. Murder, the Lowering, Airport, all my mistakes, november bllue- have to agree with all of those (and more).
This week "once and future carpenter" got me right there at reading and again in NJ last night. We heard it on NYE in asheville, and thought "what a pretty song". My Dad died in July, and now the song has a whole new meaning for us. Sometimes a good cry is a good thing. and no, it doesn't hurt to have family and friends right there with you who understand. You folks on this board are just wonderful people. So glad to have met some of you, and look forward to meeting more "avett family" members down the road.
hey jesssdad, I'm really sorry to hear about your Dad.
Also sorry I didn't get to see you, sweptaway or jess this past fall. I wish the shows had been easier for the whole NE crew to get together, instead of us all hitting shows in different smaller groups. Hopeful we'll get something that works for everyone this spring. (though please please, not as cold or snowy as Ithaca, Wilkes-Barre, or Geneva in the middle of February!)
and yes, it's nice to be around others who get it, and even though (as I mentioned), I'm not much of a crier, crying at a show doesn't feel (quite as) weird. I also love when all of a sudden a song clicks in a way it didn't before, as it did with you and Once and Future Carpenter. It's really something special.
November Blue and some of the lyrics in Perfect Space.
I+Love+You dosn't really make me cry, but it's certainly a very sad song of course, because it's about what happens when you stop loving the people around you. Murder In The City. Also HFOD/RFOP.
The Lowering, If It's the Beaches, Murder in the City, All My Mistakes and "That Notion".
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For me it's the Ballad of Love and Hate.
I'm a new fan. My daughter turned me on to the Avetts over the last 6 months or so. The first time I heard Love and Hate I just noted that it was a beautiful musical piece. The next time I was in the car I put it on and really listened. It brought a tear to my eye when I really listened to the lyrics. I may have been partly because my daughter had just broken up (this time permanently) with her long-time boyfriend, whom she discovered had cheated on her multiple times, and he had been a total dick about it. It had been one of those relationships we had hoped would end, because it seemed that he would do bad things, she would break up with him, then he would come crying and she would take him back. It was because she really loved him a lot. I think I associate her with the character of Love and him with Hate. The funny thing is that she didn't really even understand the songs meaning until my wife and I explained it to her.
Just got our tickets for the show in Birmingham next month. Can't wait!
Welcome aboard Tweetdriver. Enjoy the show.
PGF Feltre .. almost drove off 485 listening to it one day. I just get lost in it its slow sadness. Love it though.
The Perfect Space was one of the first to make me cry. That line..."I wanna fit in to the perfect space, feel natural and safe in a volatile place. And I wanna grow old without the pain,give my body back to the earth and not complain." just hit me really hard one day while I was driving in my car. I have struggled with bipolar disorder in the past, and it explains exactly how I feel about it. I just wanted to be happy, feel safe in a volatile place - which was basically my body that I felt was holding me hostage with this disorder that came out of nowhere in my early 20's when I was perfectly happy to begin with, and I just wanted to not be in pain anymore. Writing this out chokes me up a little, I'm so thankful for where I am today.
If It's the Beaches makes me cry, because it's just so sad. No specific personal connection there.
Murder In The City is a song I never really gave a chance in the beginning of my Avett Brothers experience. I would listen to the first verse and thought it was just some quirky song about this guy that was worried he'd get murdered? I don't know. I don't quite remember what I thought in the beginning but BOY was I missing out not listening to it all the way through. One of my favorites now, especially of course the last line. I think I remember seeing a video where one of the brothers says "The best part is it's true." after the last line. True indeed.
If It's The Beaches. I don't have any association with it, but I've heard so many sad stories of other people's associations with the song.
Just yesterday I was driving around listening to the Second Gleam, and when Souls Like The Wheels came on at the album's end, I began bawling my eyes out. I've always held the song to be one of the most gorgeous and melodic creations ever constructed by man, but I've recently been going through some doubting times, and the lyrics really punched me in the gut. A gentle soothing punch, that is.
"Let me go." It's songs like this one that make the Avetts almost transcend music, becoming more like a healing faith.
Sigh. I took the long way home today, took me about an hour and it was all through the country. I don't know if it was the beautiful songs, or the peacefulness of the country or the fact that I haven't seen my husband in 4 months but I bawled my eyes out for an embarrassing amount of time before I decided I should put on some different music. Offering got me bad today.
"Let me go" "It's songs like this one that make the Avetts almost transcend music, becoming more like a healing faith."
That almost made me cry. Well put.
Both of The Gleams are very close to my heart. I don't put it past myself to tear up during either of those albums. But the times they hit me the most are when I have headphones on or when I'm in my car all alone. I almost can't take it sometimes. Just this overwhelming emotional feeling during some of those songs. Like you can feel it each time you breathe, and it almost makes you breathe heavier, just to carry the weight of the words. The Lowering does this to me also...
By the way, you guys are incredible. I love reading your posts on this. Absolutely beautiful. So glad to share music with people like all of you. We don't even know each other, most of us, but these kinds of things bring people together in an amazing way.
Just the first few notes of If It's the Beaches can bring tears to my eyes... also, Murder in the City, The Lowering, and Offering. I'm probably forgetting some. I cry an embarrassing amount at music.
Ballad of Love and Hate for my husband. We were at the Greenville NYE show and even in the midst of those thousands of people, he sat down and had a tear in his eye. He'd 'never paid attention' to the song before, but with Seth just there, alone, he paid attention.
For me, it's I Would be Sad, mainly for the 'if she doesn't call' verse. I remember my mother sitting me down any number of times and telling me the same thing. I never belived her then, but I get it now (as a mature, married woman) and there's a part of me that hopes that a young person hears this and gets it then and there. So many people trust the brothers' lyrics, so there's hope...
And It Spread! Great Powerful lyrics, i cried my eyes out!
def if it's the beaches and pretty girl at the airpot
this board might be dead, but... I can't believe no one mentioned the i love you still-my losing bet-my last song to jenny trilogy! whenever i listen to "I love you still" I feel like crying just because I know how the story ends. SO FREAKIN SAD