I'll start! for me, it's "Does anyone know/where the love of God goes/When the waves turn the minutes to hours" from The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, by Gordon Lightfoot.
Alright, I can't stop thinking about this post, and I have another. I feel like it's almost cheating to pick something from a video game, especially picking it from Guilty Gear Strive, but this song fucks me up so hard. That song is The Circle, or Bedman?'s theme.
Like I know the lyrics more or less are about the character itself, but it has this overarching theme about consciousness, afterlife, and oblivion. The line that gets me is first heard in the bridge at the beginning of the song:
"God...
Do you see the radiant light?
Do you hear the beautiful chant?
Do you feel the tender warmth?
Nothing here..."
That alone right there kinda gets me. Like, consciousness persisting after death and there's NOTHING. It scares me. But it gets worse, I think, when the bridge repeats later in the song, followed by:
"NO...
You can't see the radiant light
You can't hear the beautiful chant
You can't feel the tender warmth
If you can give someone something..."
Which leads into this very very sad guitar solo with this steady but intense drum beat. Every time I get to this part in this song, it fills me with absolute despair and I can't help by tear up a little bit.
The chorus too
"Consuming 10 Billion years in an instant
And I'll come to you without a second thought"
Holy fuck Daisuke
