Name a song you think tells a beautiful story

[Anonymous]

Rich men north of Richmond.

[Anonymous]

Childish Things-James McMurtry
Traveling Alone - Jason Isbell
Side of the Road - Lucinda Williams
Come Back to Me - X
Let’s All Help the Cowboys Sing the Blues - Waylon Jennings
Good Morning - Kanye West
Jackie - Sinead O’Connor
Motorcycle - Wussy

And happy to join the Sometime Around Midnight loving crowd!

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Anonymous wrote:Not sure what it’s called but it goes through the years of the singers life (16 for a moment) and the refrain is something like…when you’ve only got 100 years to live…it’s like you feel time moving in the song. Tear-jerker!

It’s called 100 years.
By five for fighting

[Anonymous]

Jimmy Buffet, He Went to Paris

Some of it's magic, some of it's tragic, but I've had a good life all the way

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not sure what it’s called but it goes through the years of the singers life (16 for a moment) and the refrain is something like…when you’ve only got 100 years to live…it’s like you feel time moving in the song. Tear-jerker!

It’s called 100 years.
By five for fighting

It also reminds me of the later song “once I was 7 years old, my father told me, go get a job or you’ll be lonely. Once I was 7 years old.” (I butchered a few lyrics in there)

[Anonymous]

Escape (The piña colada song) by Rupert Holmes

Margaritaville by Jimmy Buffett

The Devil Went Down to Georgia by Charlie Daniels

She’s Leaving Home by the Beatles

Tribute by Tenacious D

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not a beautiful story but it both tears at my heart and makes me laugh every time I hear it: No Children by the Mountain Goats

Beat me to it!

"I hope I cut myself shaving tomorrow
I hope it bleeds all day long..."

Also LOVE “This Year” by the Mountain Goats. Really encapsulates the feeling of being a teenager.

[Anonymous]

The Gambler

[Anonymous]

Waiting on a Sunny day - Springsteen

I believe - Brooks & Dunn

[Anonymous]

Mendocino county Line - Leann Womack & Willie Nelson

Yard Sale - Sammy Kershaw (it destroys me emotionally, but it’s great)

[Anonymous]

Never Too Much - Luther Vandross

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Anonymous wrote:Castle on the Hill by Ed Sheeran.

Ooh this true. Also, my dad passed away in the pandemic and “Dancing with my eyes closed” hits pretty hard too.

[Anonymous]

America - Simon and Garfunkel

River - Joni Mitchell

I've Loved These Days - Billy Joel

All in a Mouse's Night - Genesis (lyrics below)

[LOVING COUPLE:]

I can't see you but I know you're there.
Got to get beside you 'cause it's really cold out here.
Come up close to me you'll soon be warm.
Hold me tightly like we're sheltering from a storm.

[MOUSE:]

Think I might go out for a stroll
Into the night, and out of this hole.
Maybe find me a meal.
Walking along this new shag pile
Presents a problem all the while.
Nearly the door.

Suddenly he bumps into wood, the door is closed.
A voice from the bed, he'll be exposed.
Which way to run, must make for the hole,
But the light's been turned on, now he's blind as a mole in coal.

Now I can see they're coming at me,
They've blocked off my door, I haven't a chance in hell.

[COUPLE:]

Come on baby let the poor thing go.
I'm not sleeping with that thing around here, no.
Alright then, I'll fetch a box from below,
Guard him carefully, they're very quick you know.

[MOUSE:]

The door's been opened, my chance to escape.
Must run out quick, better sorry than late.
I'm out on the stairs.
They won't catch me now, I've the run of the house now.
I'll make it downstairs and into the breadbin.
That would be nice.

Suddenly he bumps into fur, that's very unwise,
A cat is much quicker than men and their eyes.
The chase that ensues can have only one end,
Unless outside help steps in for our friend in need.

But now the cat comes in for the kill,
His paw is raised, soon blood will spill, yes it will.

[CAT:]

Hard luck mouse, this is the end of your road.
The signpost says inside me, let me bear your heavy load.
But it's not to be, that final pounce
Knocks a jar upon his head, and lays him out.

But it's all in a mouse's night
To take on all those who would fight.

[CAT'S STORY:]

There I was with my back to the wall,
Then comes this monster mouse, he's ten feet tall,
With teeth and claws to match.
It only took one blow.

[Anonymous]

James Blunt - Monsters

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Anonymous wrote:THIS is a beautiful story. He's never gonna give you up. He's never gonna let you down. Well, I'll let you discover the rest.

Ha. At a Trivia Night, where they were doing different decades, the musical question was what were the eight things Rick Astley promised?