S/O - Name a beautiful song about something other than love/lust/heartbreak

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Anonymous wrote:So Much Wine
The Handsome Family (and a great cover by Andrew Bird)

Great cover by Wilco too. But definitely about love and heartbreak!

[Anonymous]

When I Get Where I'm Going by Brad Paisley, featuring Dolly Parton

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Anonymous wrote:
Closer to Fine Indigo girls

Stockton Gala Days by 10000 maniacs (friendship not romantic love I thought)

10,000 Maniacs were brilliant. Love that song, and so many others!

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Joni Mitchell’s “Both Sides Now” and “The Circle Game” spring immediately to mind.

[Anonymous]

Last Man on Earth - Anna Bates

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Kid Fears by Indigo Girls with Michael Stipe. It is beautiful but painful.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:These Are Days - 10,000 Maniacs.

That's a great song

Time Of Your Life by Green Day, if we're slipping some gen x tunes in here

Bad Reputation by Freedy Johnston, too - I remember hearing that song for the first time in the movie Kicking and Screaming, and I've loved it ever since - almost 30 years now!

Another Freedy Johnston fan! Amazing!

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Anonymous wrote:Solsbury Hill, Peter Gabriel

You beat me - love this song!

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Anonymous wrote:There are a lot of Gen Exers on this thread.

Had you considered that there was more diversity in GenX music?

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Anonymous wrote:And the Paul Simon mention above reminded me about One Man's Ceiling is Another Man's Floor.

Graceland is another great one

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Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Solsbury Hill, Peter Gabriel

You beat me - love this song!

Same. It's kind of an eff you money type song.
You can KEEP MY THINGS they've come to take me home.

Just a freaking eff you song.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Solsbury Hill, Peter Gabriel

You beat me - love this song!

Same. It's kind of an eff you money type song.
You can KEEP MY THINGS they've come to take me home.

Just a freaking eff you song.

I thought it was about aliens coming to take him away.

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Anonymous wrote:The living Years - Mike and the Mechanics.

Beautiful song written by a son who lost his father but had a complicated relationship with him.

“Every generation
Blames the one before
And all of their frustrations
Come beating on your door

I know that I'm a prisoner
To all my Father held so dear
I know that I'm a hostage
To all his hopes and fears
I just wish I could have told him in the living years”

Heartbreak

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Solsbury Hill, Peter Gabriel

You beat me - love this song!

Same. It's kind of an eff you money type song.
You can KEEP MY THINGS they've come to take me home.

Just a freaking eff you song.

+1

Hallelujah.