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There is a small handful of songs that I absolutely cannot listen to, for various reasons. "You Are My Sunshine" tops the list. It so incredibly sad... even t

There is a small handful of songs that I absolutely cannot listen to, for various reasons. "You Are My Sunshine" tops the list. It so incredibly sad... even thinking about it to type this comment is really difficult. Like, hide-the-razor-because-the-cutting-will-start-again difficult. I have no idea why.

anonymouse008 5y ago
Imagine it being a US State song... Louisiana at that. Tragic
- cheaprentalyeti 5y ago
  >Imagine it being a US State song... Louisiana at that. Tragic. It's a sad song that everyone seems to think is a happy song. It matches Louisiana well.
indigochill 5y ago
I was engaged at one point to a lady who sang that to me more than once and I was seriously freaked out because I was fairly certain she actually meant the lyrics (and looking at the full lyrics now, she didn't even go through all the verses). That and generally stuff in that vein gave me enough pause in planning the wedding that she finally had enough and broke things off, which I was relieved by because in hindsight I knew on some level something was seriously off but didn't have the maturity/confidence to break it off myself.
- aidenn0 5y ago
  There needs to be a word for when you are forced to quit something that you are too invested/embarrassed/whatever to quit yourself. e.g. I think pg mentioned being jealous of rtm when he got arrested because rtm had figured a way out of the PhD program without having to quit!
fknorangesite 5y ago
I don't know how Canada-specific this is, but we can put 'Love You Forever' by Robert Munsch on this list - also a children's book/song. It's not even sad, really? But it just hits so hard.
- gedy 5y ago
  Man that book still destroys me TAT, used to read it to my kids.
1_player 5y ago
For me it's "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star". I heard it for the first time as a kid while reading a book that was talking about AIDS and the people that died from it, no joke. It's taken me 30 years to forget the association between the two things.
commandlinefan 5y ago
> I have no idea why. Me, too, but in my case I do know why - when my son was born (2 months premature), we had a lot of health scares with him and my wife insisted on singing that song to him over and over again.

anonymouse008 5y ago

Imagine it being a US State song... Louisiana at that. Tragic

cheaprentalyeti 5y ago
>Imagine it being a US State song... Louisiana at that. Tragic. It's a sad song that everyone seems to think is a happy song. It matches Louisiana well.

indigochill 5y ago

I was engaged at one point to a lady who sang that to me more than once and I was seriously freaked out because I was fairly certain she actually meant the lyrics (and looking at the full lyrics now, she didn't even go through all the verses). That and generally stuff in that vein gave me enough pause in planning the wedding that she finally had enough and broke things off, which I was relieved by because in hindsight I knew on some level something was seriously off but didn't have the maturity/confidence to break it off myself.

aidenn0 5y ago
There needs to be a word for when you are forced to quit something that you are too invested/embarrassed/whatever to quit yourself. e.g. I think pg mentioned being jealous of rtm when he got arrested because rtm had figured a way out of the PhD program without having to quit!

fknorangesite 5y ago

I don't know how Canada-specific this is, but we can put 'Love You Forever' by Robert Munsch on this list - also a children's book/song. It's not even sad, really? But it just hits so hard.

gedy 5y ago
Man that book still destroys me TAT, used to read it to my kids.

1_player 5y ago

For me it's "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star". I heard it for the first time as a kid while reading a book that was talking about AIDS and the people that died from it, no joke. It's taken me 30 years to forget the association between the two things.

commandlinefan 5y ago

> I have no idea why. Me, too, but in my case I do know why - when my son was born (2 months premature), we had a lot of health scares with him and my wife insisted on singing that song to him over and over again.