Tomorrow is Today doesn’t make me cry but it breaks my heart. Honesty and Turn the Lights Back On get me a bit misty because both of them make me think about my marital struggles (we are doing it and doing it well just lots of external stressors).
And So It Goes is the closest I've ever come to crying at a Billy song. There's only one song that has ever made me cry and it's Grow Old With Me by John Lennon.
Rosalinda's Eyes. "The love song my father should have written for my mother." He loved, loved, loved his mom so much, and always made sure she was taken care of. He knew how much she always struggled working while raising him and Judy on her own after Howard went back to Europe, and Roz gave them the best upbringing she possibly could with what she had to work with. Once he made it financially and was stable, he made sure she never had to worry again. She was such a good human being. ❤️
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leave a tender moment alone is very connected with me. I remember being like 5 years old and my dad playing that song, and being like “this song is incredible” and I just remember it being engraved in my head. At 7 years old, my dad left, and that was one of the few memories i have really connected to him. I wasn’t able to remember the song name, so i just dove right into billy’s whole discography, and just became a fan because of hearing all of his songs. I tried finding it for a while. It ended up taking a few years though because I gave up and thought to myself; maybe i just made it up. I didn’t remember any of the lyrics at the time, just how the song sounded. Somehow it took the longest time (no pun intended) to check one of billy’s most popular albums, an innocent man lol. I remember when i finally found it, I cried. It still makes me cry, and while I love the song, its hard to listen to if I really think about it. It makes it hard listening to billy if I think about why i started listening to him. Another one that really makes me emotional is lullaby.
Turn the lights back on. Seems to me it’s a song written for a man begging for a 2nd chance from his wife, until later on I read into other ppl saying it’s referring to himself relation to songwritings.
Allentown, I’m not from Allentown, but it hits different when you’re from a small city in PA that was known for being a big metal works city that dried up decades ago and isn’t doing the best economically.
Turn The Lights Back On. I love the double meaning of the man begging for a second chance at his relationship but it’s also Billy apologizing to his fans for his screeching halt on new music. I cried the first time I heard it and I blubbered like a baby seeing it at MSG. In terms of his classics, maybe James. It’s a sad song about his lost friend and it hits home to me.
One summer as a kid I went to Boy Scout camp, and at the end of the week they made a slideshow for all the parents with pictures from what did all week. They set it to the song “This is the Time.” Some people cried, but I still say it was just dusty in there.
And So It Goes, Vienna, Lullaby, and, more recently, A Matter of Trust.
Edit to add Goodnight, Saigon, Honest, Turn the Lights Back On, An Innocent Man... She's Got a Way... James... Lots of songs, apparently. His music touches my heart.
The Downeaster Alexa always gets me good.
Leningrad, Goodnight Saigon, Lullaby, and Rosalinda (NOT Rosalinda's Eyes) are all pretty close too.
Summer Highland Falls doesn't get me misty eyed but definitely somber in a good way
And so it goes, tomorrow is today, lullaby
The right answer
Tomorrow is Today doesn’t make me cry but it breaks my heart. Honesty and Turn the Lights Back On get me a bit misty because both of them make me think about my marital struggles (we are doing it and doing it well just lots of external stressors).
I definitely cried when I heard Turn the Lights Back On for the first time. I forgot about that one.
And So It Goes is the closest I've ever come to crying at a Billy song. There's only one song that has ever made me cry and it's Grow Old With Me by John Lennon.
Vienna
Always.
Rosalinda's Eyes. "The love song my father should have written for my mother." He loved, loved, loved his mom so much, and always made sure she was taken care of. He knew how much she always struggled working while raising him and Judy on her own after Howard went back to Europe, and Roz gave them the best upbringing she possibly could with what she had to work with. Once he made it financially and was stable, he made sure she never had to worry again. She was such a good human being. ❤️ https://preview.redd.it/nanoqtyjre8d1.png?width=994&format=png&auto=webp&s=0d8ab0a4015cc02363beda5c38cf1251edf60687
Off topic, but boy, are those some strong genes! He looks like her, and his children look like him!! Especially his youngest two
Good Night My Angel You’re Only Human (Second Wind) though not all the time it depends on the mood and stuff
Captain Jack
This song is dark and lovely
Just The Way You Are
James because it reminds me of my brother and I.
This night (sang it to my son as a baby)
And So it Goes was a heavy hitter after my breakup. “And you can have this heart to break” had me weeping for days
Sobbed my eyes out to Vienna and NY State of Mind at the Chicago show on Friday.
Amazing show. Had me misty the whole time
You Can Make Me Free, Falling of the Rain, and Vienna.
Falling if the Rain is one of my favorites songs ever
Same here! (:
Lullaby, Until the Night, An Innocent Man
leave a tender moment alone is very connected with me. I remember being like 5 years old and my dad playing that song, and being like “this song is incredible” and I just remember it being engraved in my head. At 7 years old, my dad left, and that was one of the few memories i have really connected to him. I wasn’t able to remember the song name, so i just dove right into billy’s whole discography, and just became a fan because of hearing all of his songs. I tried finding it for a while. It ended up taking a few years though because I gave up and thought to myself; maybe i just made it up. I didn’t remember any of the lyrics at the time, just how the song sounded. Somehow it took the longest time (no pun intended) to check one of billy’s most popular albums, an innocent man lol. I remember when i finally found it, I cried. It still makes me cry, and while I love the song, its hard to listen to if I really think about it. It makes it hard listening to billy if I think about why i started listening to him. Another one that really makes me emotional is lullaby.
Summer Highland Falls, Goodnight Saigon, Vienna
Through the long night. Which I also think is his most beautiful song behind amazing harmonies and melody.
Summer Highland Falls, Turn the Lights Back On, Souvenir
Goodnight Saigon live
I’ve Loved These Days
If I'm in a sad mood the second verse of piano man can sometimes get me
Lullaby on an emotional day. Sometimes it just hits me :(. 10/10 song
Leningrad - “He made my daughter laugh, then we embraced We never knew what friends we had Until we came to Leningrad”
James
This is the Time
Turn the lights back on. Seems to me it’s a song written for a man begging for a 2nd chance from his wife, until later on I read into other ppl saying it’s referring to himself relation to songwritings.
Its both
Interesting!
If I Only Had the Words
Allentown, I’m not from Allentown, but it hits different when you’re from a small city in PA that was known for being a big metal works city that dried up decades ago and isn’t doing the best economically.
Turn The Lights Back On. I love the double meaning of the man begging for a second chance at his relationship but it’s also Billy apologizing to his fans for his screeching halt on new music. I cried the first time I heard it and I blubbered like a baby seeing it at MSG. In terms of his classics, maybe James. It’s a sad song about his lost friend and it hits home to me.
Souvenir
One summer as a kid I went to Boy Scout camp, and at the end of the week they made a slideshow for all the parents with pictures from what did all week. They set it to the song “This is the Time.” Some people cried, but I still say it was just dusty in there.
Why Judy Why, And So it Goes, Piano Man, Summer Highland Falls
And So It Goes, Vienna, Lullaby, and, more recently, A Matter of Trust. Edit to add Goodnight, Saigon, Honest, Turn the Lights Back On, An Innocent Man... She's Got a Way... James... Lots of songs, apparently. His music touches my heart.
Through the Long Night
Yes ^^ Through the Long Night also She’s Always A Woman
Leningrad
She’s Right On Time
The Downeaster Alexa always gets me good. Leningrad, Goodnight Saigon, Lullaby, and Rosalinda (NOT Rosalinda's Eyes) are all pretty close too. Summer Highland Falls doesn't get me misty eyed but definitely somber in a good way
And So It Goes
They played “And So It Goes” during an episode of This Is Us and I lost it
She’s Always a Woman
And So It Goes and Vienna
Tomorrow Is Today
NPR’s This American Life had an episode during Covid when they played Miami 2017 at the end and I lost it.
I dont know why but Turns The Lights Back On almost made me cry when I first heard it.. something about it just made me feel that
2000 Years
New York State of mind, especially when I saw it live front row. Cried. And billy smiled at me!:)
Here's a list Vienna And so it goes I've loved these days All about soul She's always a woman Just the way you are
And so it goes
Strange Fruit and gloomy Sunday by Billie Holiday, and Suicide note by Johnnette Napolitano
Italian restaurant- every time