What melts your heart?

[Guest]

I've read your stuff, you are really on the same side.

Everyone sees through her, but we do like to humour her. It keeps her nice and crabby and she's funny when she's crabby.

 

[elfin_odalisque]

Still, a year or so in, the titans make me fel a bit insecure. What's wrong with sex, drugs and rock'n'roll followed by "Honey, where've you put your tutu?"

 

[sophia jane]

Two things melted my heart today (and I needed it):
My oldest picked me a dandeloin on his way to meet me after school.
My youngest learned to say hello today. New words are so much fun! (until they're older and the new words are highly inappropriate for children!)

SJ

 

[English Lady]

SJ..my daughter's first word was "Hiya." she was about 6/7 months old and would pipe up with "Hiya." from her trolley when we were on the street so that people would turn round to talk to her

 

[herecomestherain]

The kindness of strangers often melts my heart.

 

[English Lady]

herecomestherain -yeah I know what you mean I had one guy chase me down the street once to tell me my lace was undone..he didn't want me to trip over. How sweet is that?

 

[dr_mabeuse]

The Cyndi Lauper song "Time After Time". There's something about the harmony between her voice and the male's that is so poignant and forlorn that it really gets me. It's like they're singing together but not connecting, moving in parallel. You only hear it on easy-listening stations now, so they play it a lot in stores. Wherever I am when it comes on, I have to stop and just listen to it and brace for the goose bumps.

I just heard it today in a drug store, and I was a different person afterwards.

 

[English Lady]

Ahh "True Colours" by Cyndi Lauper has a similar effect on me. The lyrics are beautiful and i first came across the song on retreat and the song now always reminds me of the warmth of that place and how much I loved it.

 

[herecomestherain]

herecomestherain -yeah I know what you mean I had one guy chase me down the street once to tell me my lace was undone..he didn't want me to trip over. How sweet is that?

That is very sweet El.

I wrote a blog entry a while back about The Girl From Ipanema, dancing with my mother around the livingroom as a child and alluded to the fact that I'm losing her to old age and all the injustices that come with that. A friend from across the sea read between the lines and wrote me a very sweet and moving account of his grandmother's transition into senility and her passing -- it was brief, deeply respectful of her, and a charming note. It triggered a deluge of tears in me. Tears that I'd held off for months and months. I gave myself over to the luxury of them. That little note was an sincere act of kindness that melted my heart completely.

Don't get me started on songs -- there are many I can't hear without crying, both the Cyndi Lauper ones mentioned do it to me. There's a Peter Allen song called Tenterfield Saddler that does it everytime.

 

[dr_mabeuse]

That is very sweet El.

Don't get me started on songs -- there are many I can't hear without crying, both the Cyndi Lauper ones mentioned do it to me. There's a Peter Allen song called Tenterfield Saddler that does it everytime.

Well, I don't want to be cold-hearted, but a lot of these posts involve children, which, let's face it, is pretty easy to do. I mean, kids are hard-wired to our hearts, and it's hard to think of a parent who won't start blubbering at any number of things their offspring has done.

I remember some terribly sophisticated and intellectual woman writer who always decried sentimentality and kitcsh in her writing. Then she had a daughter late in life and shocked everyone by turning into a real maudlin tear-factory once her daughter was born. Anyhow, she said that having kids was like having an operation where they remove your heart and sew it back on the outside of your chest. You suddenly feel everything.

So I'm more interested in the non-children related stuff that gets to us.

It's funny, but aside from a few songs, most of the music that gets to me seems to be Bach, which seems like it should be very unsentmental and unemotional music. Of course it's not, but the way the emotion is constrained by the form of the music really gets to me. It's like the feelings are too intense to be expressed directly, so they have to be filtered through this strict musical formaliam. The tension between the emotion and the control is what does it.

"Partita for Unaccompanied Violin in E" is a real weeper for me, the violin struggling so manfully against the silence. And there was another Bach piece used in the movie "Master and Commander" that I think was originally for fiddle but transcribed for cello and played by Yoyo Ma. It was played when they landed on the Galapagos Islands. It too was very mathematical and formal, but so much emotion in there! It's like crying at the beauty of a mathematical equation.

--Zoot

 

[shereads]

Time After Time, True Colors, etc. etc. Music. Oh christ. I cry like a spigot over music with sad chords.

Thank God for Monty Python. Their new stage musical, "Spamalot," has an achingly plaintive theme song called, "Where Is The Song Like This One?" that proves we cry in response to music the way we cry when onions are peeled.

I heard a clip of the song on NPR yesterday and was nearly in tears, despite the fact that the lyrics are all but meaningless and in no way intended to satirize the work of Andrew Lloyd Webber. Somehow the song tugs on all the usual heart strings. Is it the chords? The instrumentation? What makes me weepy when I hear "Where Is The Song Like This One" when I know it's a joke song? Why do I find myself feeling bereft, like the singer, as if the absence of a song "like that one" is something to mourn for? I defy anyone who hears it not to cry just a little bit.

Please explain why.

Well, I don't want to be cold-hearted, but a lot of these posts involve children, which, let's face it, is pretty easy to do. I mean, kids are hard-wired to our hearts, and it's hard to think of a parent who won't start blubbering at any number of things their offspring has done.

I remember some terribly sophisticated and intellectual woman writer who always decried sentimentality and kitcsh in her writing. Then she had a daughter late in life and shocked everyone by turning into a real maudlin tear-factory once her daughter was born. Anyhow, she said that having kids was like having an operation where they remove your heart and sew it back on the outside of your chest. You suddenly feel everything.

So I'm more interested in the non-children related stuff that gets to us.

It's funny, but aside from a few songs, most of the music that gets to me seems to be Bach, which seems like it should be very unsentmental and unemotional music. Of course it's not, but the way the emotion is constrained by the form of the music really gets to me. It's like the feelings are too intense to be expressed directly, so they have to be filtered through this strict musical formaliam. The tension between the emotion and the control is what does it.

"Partita for Unaccompanied Violin in E" is a real weeper for me, the violin struggling so manfully against the silence. And there was another Bach piece used in the movie "Master and Commander" that I think was originally for fiddle but transcribed for cello and played by Yoyo Ma. It was played when they landed on the Galapagos Islands. It too was very mathematical and formal, but so much emotion in there! It's like crying at the beauty of a mathematical equation.

--Zoot

 

[English Lady]

Dr M...yup there's been alot of kid related posts but theres been ones about music and films and tv programmes, and strangers kindness, natural beauty and much more (I should have looked back over the thread to check) and I'm sure lots more.


I was walking to the shop yesterday, my mind full of turmoil when I looked up because I'd heard a familiar little chirping sound and on an overhead wire sat a little blue tit (no tittering please!) a bird I am familiar with form my bird watching years as a child.

The little fella was singing his heart out and it lifted my spirit, bringing a little tear to my eye.


Shereads, sad music gets me too.

You know the theme tune to the disney movie tarzan? Well everytime I hear it I cry. When i first saw it Waaaaaay before having a child it made me cry. I just cannot control my reaction to it.


Come stop your crying, it will be all right
Just take my hand, hold it tight
I will protect you from all around you
I will be here don't you cry

For one so small,you seem so strong
My arms will hold you keep you safe and warm
This bond between us can't be broken
I will be here don't you cry

cause you'll be in my heart
Yes, you'll be in my heart
From this day on
Now and forever more
You'll be in my heart
No matter what they say
You'll be here in my heart
Always

Why can't they understand the way we feel
They just don't trust what they can't explain
I know we're different but deep inside us
We're not that different at all

cause you'll be in my heart
Yes, you'll be in my heart
From this day on
Now and forever more

Don't listen to them, cause what do they know
We need each other, to have and to hold
They'll see in time, I know

When destiny calls you, you must be strong
I may not be with you, but you gotta hold on
They'll see in time, I know

We'll show them together cuz...

You'll be in my heart
I believe, you'll be in my heart
I'll be there from this day on
Now and forever more

You'll be in my heart
no matter what they say
you'll be here in my heart always

Always...
I'll be with you
I'll be there for you always
Always and always
Just look over your shoulder
Just look over your shoulder
Just look over your shoulder
I'll be there always