Sad songs- We love them- We need them

@tooblue My sincere condolences.

I lost my son in 1994.  Our song was Mona, by Quicksilver Messenger Service.  I'd drive him to school every day, and start this song when we pulled out of the driveway.  Mona has a very long instrumental lead in and we made a game of noting where we were when the vocal started.  We could also tell if we were making good time, or bad time on the commute.

Every year on his birthday, I reenact the drive -- noting, of course, where the vocal started.

Losing a child certainly re-calibrates your definition of what a problem is.  From that day forward, everything else seems pretty trivial by comparison.

"Daniel"  Elton John/Bernie Taupin

@waytoomuchstuff ​​​​​, thank you from the bottom of my heart for sharing that with me. @ronboco, thank you.

Warren Zevon's "Keep Me In Your Heart".  The final song on Zevon's 2003 album, "The Wind".  Zevon began recording the album shortly after he was diagnosed with inoperable pleural mesothelioma (a cancer of the lining of the lung), and it was released just two weeks before his death on September 7, 2003.  I've heard it played an several Memorial Services and it brings the waterworks everytime.

@waytoomuchstuff  and @tooblue,

My heart is heavy for both of you after reading this thread.  I have two boys (actually adults of 31 and 28 years old, both teachers in High School and Middle School, but they will always be "my boys"), and I can't bear to envision a World without them.  My sympathies to you both and I hope time, memories, and music have helped soothe the scar.

Allen