Just Emo Things: being so moved by song lyrics that you automatically start tearing up 🥀

(what lyrics? literally any lyrics. pick some from an instrumental track, for fuck's sake; I might sob even harder about it tbh)

@gemsmoke Here you go, my sweet. Feed your heart with this. xo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-wRuwQrxIQ

#StanRogers #FlowersOfBermuda

The Flowers of Bermuda

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@ShaulaEvans "But cries the Captain 'Now do not delay, nor do ye spare a thought for me.
My duty is to save ye all now, if I can.
See ye return as quick as can be.'"

that's the part that got me 😭 (and the chorus at the end... lol)

@gemsmoke It absolutely guts me, too.

@gemsmoke Here's a chaser for you. (It might go over well with the young'uns around you, too.) xo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oq1thP-FuAY

Concerning Charlie Horse

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@gemsmoke I will readily weep at instrumentals or incomprehensible harsh vocals.

Then again, one has no choice but to stan the longstanding tradition of instrumental music to cry your heart out to

Jordi Savall's performance of Dowland's Lachrimae Antiquae (1604]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIPNtU1HZEw

Lachrimae Antiquae

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@HauntedOwlbear I like how it captures the feeling of being depressed... the lulls and silences, then the evolving swells...