OP: 'touches your heart'.
Many people see The Carpenters as pretty much pulp, but Karen's plaintive but confident aspiration in 'We've Only Just Begun' is cast into harsh focus with her death just a few years later from anorexia.
That is an extreme example because of the reference in the lyric to the terrible ending but listening to the end-scene work of musicians who died young brings out the emotion. There are so far far too many of them but for me it's Sandy Denny, John Lennon, Frank Zappa, George Harrison.
And Roy Orbison whose soaring high tenor, intact to the end, on his final album and the Wilburys somehow evokes the pain of facing early death.
Many people see The Carpenters as pretty much pulp, but Karen's plaintive but confident aspiration in 'We've Only Just Begun' is cast into harsh focus with her death just a few years later from anorexia.
That is an extreme example because of the reference in the lyric to the terrible ending but listening to the end-scene work of musicians who died young brings out the emotion. There are so far far too many of them but for me it's Sandy Denny, John Lennon, Frank Zappa, George Harrison.
And Roy Orbison whose soaring high tenor, intact to the end, on his final album and the Wilburys somehow evokes the pain of facing early death.