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I hereby give you, the reader, permission to use the following information against me should you ever be called on to testify that I, Adam, do in fact suck.
Top Five Songs What Make the Adam Cry Like a Little Girl
5) "When Ye Go Away," The Waterboys — The quintessential goodbye-person-I-can-never-have song. Only ranked #5 because it doesn't hit me quite the way it used to; on the other hand, it's the only song on earth that has connotations with every single long-term relationship I've ever had, for varying reasons.
4) "Wise Up," Aimee Mann — Not sure why; I don't think it's directly related to that scene in Magnolia. Whatever the reason, for quite some time the line, "Prepare a list of what you need / Before you sign away the deed / 'Cause it's not going to stop..." was my cue to leave the room, so no one would see me. I guess the message hit a little too close to home.
3) "Brittle and Break," The Dorkestra — "Do you walk 'til you're weary? / Do you sleep 'til you're strong? / Do you hold onto dreams in your life like a child / When you know that they're wrong?" Second cousin to "When Ye Go Away," content-wise—in this case, it's the same couple crossing paths five years later. I'd forgotten about this one until recently, when I popped in my copy of 11593 for the first time in ages, and promptly had to pull over so I didn't drive off the damn road.
2) "When I Was a Boy," Dar Williams — Damn you,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
jenphalian, for putting this on that mix. Damn you to hell. *sobs, yet again*
1) "No Telling," Linda Thompson — It's a trick of my operating system that I usually can't cry when I need to. This has been a problem from time to time, most notably during my divorce from Kristi, when I would accumulate crateloads of hurt and remorse, and the only way I could get it out of my system was to lock myself in the car in the parking lot and play this song (the album Fashionably Late had just come out at the time). More than four years on, long over that life situation, I keep thinking that the song's not going to affect me any more, simply because I've heard it a thousand times. And I'll be listening along, doing fine, right up until those last few lines:
I think she got married to a stranger they say
Just a crazy old man who came passing one day
And the whole town still dances and the music still plays
No telling what a love song will do
And I lose it. Badly. Seriously, don't look at me right now.
What are yours?
Top Five Songs What Make the Adam Cry Like a Little Girl
5) "When Ye Go Away," The Waterboys — The quintessential goodbye-person-I-can-never-have song. Only ranked #5 because it doesn't hit me quite the way it used to; on the other hand, it's the only song on earth that has connotations with every single long-term relationship I've ever had, for varying reasons.
4) "Wise Up," Aimee Mann — Not sure why; I don't think it's directly related to that scene in Magnolia. Whatever the reason, for quite some time the line, "Prepare a list of what you need / Before you sign away the deed / 'Cause it's not going to stop..." was my cue to leave the room, so no one would see me. I guess the message hit a little too close to home.
3) "Brittle and Break," The Dorkestra — "Do you walk 'til you're weary? / Do you sleep 'til you're strong? / Do you hold onto dreams in your life like a child / When you know that they're wrong?" Second cousin to "When Ye Go Away," content-wise—in this case, it's the same couple crossing paths five years later. I'd forgotten about this one until recently, when I popped in my copy of 11593 for the first time in ages, and promptly had to pull over so I didn't drive off the damn road.
2) "When I Was a Boy," Dar Williams — Damn you,
jenphalian, for putting this on that mix. Damn you to hell. *sobs, yet again*1) "No Telling," Linda Thompson — It's a trick of my operating system that I usually can't cry when I need to. This has been a problem from time to time, most notably during my divorce from Kristi, when I would accumulate crateloads of hurt and remorse, and the only way I could get it out of my system was to lock myself in the car in the parking lot and play this song (the album Fashionably Late had just come out at the time). More than four years on, long over that life situation, I keep thinking that the song's not going to affect me any more, simply because I've heard it a thousand times. And I'll be listening along, doing fine, right up until those last few lines:
I think she got married to a stranger they say
Just a crazy old man who came passing one day
And the whole town still dances and the music still plays
No telling what a love song will do
And I lose it. Badly. Seriously, don't look at me right now.
What are yours?
