{"id":261,"date":"2010-04-12T20:22:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-12T20:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/reelfaith\/2010\/04\/sad-songs-say-so-much.html"},"modified":"2010-04-12T20:22:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-12T20:22:00","slug":"sad-songs-say-so-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/reelfaith\/2010\/04\/sad-songs-say-so-much.html","title":{"rendered":"Sad Songs Say So Much"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/720\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_uhlOPE2cFEY\/S8Pi8A2cCSI\/AAAAAAAAAPs\/zA-bbAJe2SA\/s1600\/davidhasselhoffcrying.jpg\" style=\"clear: right;float: right;margin-bottom: 1em;margin-left: 1em\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/720\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_uhlOPE2cFEY\/S8Pi8A2cCSI\/AAAAAAAAAPs\/zA-bbAJe2SA\/s320\/davidhasselhoffcrying.jpg\" width=\"320\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>A movie a preview I saw once unveiled an epic story about  friends going through college, life and love, and in a pivotal  moment utilized the Beatles\u2019 \u201cHey Jude\u201d to perfection. After that, for days, I was hardly able to the song out of my head or forget the mixed  emotion conveyed in the simple opening lines of \u201cdon\u2019t make it bad, take  a sad song and make it better\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Later, as I watched a rerun of a show, the character walks alone to  the tune of R.E.M.\u2019s \u201cEverybody Hurts\u201d and I thought I\u2019d make a list of  some other songs that tug on the heartstrings, some that might even make David Hasselhoff cry.<br><a name=\"more\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cWonderful Now\u201d by Everclear \u2013 a sobering picture of divorce through  the perspective of a child. <\/li>\n<li>\u201cHurt\u201d by Johnny Cash \u2013 the video is heartbreaking but powerful. <\/li>\n<li>\u201cI Will Always Love You\u201d by Dolly Parton. Whitney\u2019s version sounds  optimistic, like an athem of love but Dolly\u2019s rings true to the bitter  nature of saying goodbye. <\/li>\n<li>\u201cI Can\u2019t Make You Love Me\u201d by Bonnie Raitt. <\/li>\n<li>\u201cPatches\u201d by Dickie Lee. This is an old old song about star-crossed  lovers where the poor girl kills herself. How worse could it get? <\/li>\n<li>\u201cHe Stopped Loving Her Today\u201d by George Jones. I\u2019m ashamed to say I  only recently really listened to the words of this song and understood  what it was talking about. <\/li>\n<li>\u201cTears in Heaven\u201d by Eric Clapton. \u2018Nuff said. <\/li>\n<li>\u201cGoodbye to Love\u201d by the Carpenters. A lonely anthem delivered the  wonderfully haunting voice of Karen Carpenter. <\/li>\n<li>\u201cCat\u2019s in the Cradle\u201d by Harry Chapin. The Simpsons have redeemed  this song for me in the episode where Homer calls the National  Fatherhood Institute and this song is playing over the line while Homer  cries. <\/li>\n<li>\u201cCandle in the Wind\u201d by Elton John. Not the Princess Diana version,  although that\u2019s sad, but the original Norma Jean version really got my  attention. <\/li>\n<li>\u201cCry A River\u201d by Amy Grant. From her <i>Behind the Eyes<\/i> album  where she effectively used her music as an emotional outlet. <\/li>\n<li>\u201cWind Beneath My Wings\u201d by Bette Midler. After combining this song  with that black hearse driving by in <i>Beaches<\/i>, us guys excused  ourselves one at a time to the bathroom at Vanessa\u2019s house to have  ourselves a good squawl. <\/li>\n<li>\u201cThis Used to Be My Playground\u201d by Madonna. As <i>A League of Their  Own<\/i> ended with the sweet old ladies waxing nostalgic over their  baseball days, my mind raced to future days when I\u2019d long for days gone  by.<\/li>\n<li>-\u201cTeddy Bear\u201d by Red Sovine. Most have never heard this trucker story song\u2026but check it out: <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JY4BV14OZzQ\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JY4BV14OZzQ<\/a> <\/ul>\n<p>Are you crying yet? What are some that I\u2019ve missed?<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A movie a preview I saw once unveiled an epic story about friends going through college, life and love, and in a pivotal moment utilized the Beatles\u2019 \u201cHey Jude\u201d to perfection. 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