Most "emotional" song?

[DS]

Which are the top songs that give you the shivers? Not your favourite songs, but the ones that give you the strongest emotions for whatever reason.

It's difficult to make a top three, but I'll start:

Romeo and Juliet
Because hell, that's Romeo and Juliet.

Wild West End
I love it. That guitar at the beginning. And I can't stop imagining myself walking through the streets of London as the song progresses. It's a beautiful, peaceful feeling.

Laughs and Jokes
There's something about the story that fascinates me, and also the way he sings it. I especially love the ending lyrics, I don't know why they trigger me so much:

Then the old brass shrugged and said
We don’t know where she’s gone
Later on I picked up the ball
And I took off down the line
I suppose by then I’d realised
You’d run into hard times

[The Privateer]

1. Where Do You Think You're Going?
2. Private Investigations
3. Basil

Note: but they may change tomorrow.

Oh, last but not least...

4. River Of Grog

[rmarques821]

Great question!

Love Over Gold and Golden Heart for personal reasons. I actually stopped listening to them completely.

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[Terry01]

I choose three, in order:
Romeo & Juliet
Love Over Gold
Wild West End

[jbaent]

A place where we used to live
So far from the Clyde
Silver Eagle

[xardas]

1. So far away
2.I’m the fool
3. Get lucky

[herlock]

No R&J for me. Not a bad song, but overplayed at any rate. Sick and tired of it.
1) TOL - The martyr song that did not deserve this fate.
2) TR - Best piece of music ever written, and very emotional.
3) BIA - So touching. Especially Wembley 85.
4) Hill farmer's blues. Great solo classic, very emotional.
5) Piper to the end - the new BIA. Awesome.
6) Where do you think you're a going - bitterness classic !
7) Iron Hand - wish it was still played.
Long cool girl. Don't know why but this one is very special. Makes me at peace.
9) A place we used to live. Same.
10) Sultans. No really emotional per session, but hearing Alchemy or Wembley end solo gives me shiver every time !

[DS]

1) TOL - The martyr song that did not deserve this fate.

 

4) Hill farmer's blues. Great solo classic, very emotional.

so true!!

[Robson]

I have many such emotional songs.

[straitsway75]

1) YOU AND YOUR FRIEND is magic song that never stop to hear in years
2) RUDIGER when I listen this song the first time I understand that Mark, even in solo career, would continue to make me dream
3) FOLLOW THE RIBBON this song is very special for me, very special

good thread 

[Fletch]

My vote goes to - My Claim To Fame & River Of Grog
Very touching songs, my eyes have been known to get watery!

[border_reiver]

Piper and My Claim To Fame.

[quizzaciously]

This is a tough one... But my take is Heart Full Of Holes. The line "I remember the officer's watch In my hand: 'Repair it or die' I was told. It's a wonder to me — I still don't understand why I ever survived to be old with a heart full of holes" ALWAYS gets me even when I just read it. Yes, the "From Cullercoats and Whitley Bay out to rockaway" line from Tunnel Of Love gets me, too. But not always!

[superval99]

Piper to the End
Brothers in Arms
Where Do You Think You're Going?
So Far From the Clyde
If This is Goodbye
News

[Robson]

Dire Straits' first album this year is 40 years old so I will only choose tracks from this album. The whole album is amazing but the most emotional for me is:

Water Of Love

"...Once I had a woman I could call my own
Once I had a woman now my woman is gone
Once there was a river now there’s a stone
You know it’s evil when you’re living alone..."

Southbound Again

"Southbound again, last night I felt like crying
Southbound again, last night I felt like crying
Right now I’m sick of living
But I’m going to keep on trying"

In The Gallery

Wild West End