eight songs
ahh moby
there are eight songs in this world that bring me to tears nearly every time i hear them. some of them are probably not songs you'd expect to have this reaction to (or that i expected to have this reaction to) or even songs you've heard of. they are: "
holland, 1945" by neutral milk hotel, "
piano man" by billy joel, "
when it's cold, i'd like to die" by
moby, "
a day in the life" by the beatles, "
last resort" by papa roach
, "man over" by robinella & the cc string band, and "down by the riverside" - an old spiritual. when incubus had just come out with make yourself, my brother made me a copy of the album and i listened to it quite a bit. i was in austin at the time, but in my hometown of midland where ross was still in school (this was '99 or '00 i think), there was a guy who laid down on the train tracks that we had to cross every day to get into town. ross told me that he was on his way into town, listening to that album and "the warmth" was playing. he came up to the tracks just after it had happened. the conductor of the train said that the guy had looked up before the train hit him and then laid his head back down. now i can't hear that song without thinking of that guy, resolved enough in his desire to kill himself that he put his head back down on the tracks.
ahh moby 
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