What Buffett songs make you melancholy?

Kerpat · Post by **Kerpat** » October 8, 2005 1:35 am

"He went to Paris"

this resonated with me so much more this year, as I had my son who was born with cystic fibrosis. JB played this as the last encore at Great Woods on 6/22 (also my b-day), and aside from being sad the show was over, the lines

"some of it's magic, some of it's tragic, but I had a good life all the way"

REALLY got to me. I cried like a baby, and i wasn't even super wasted. It just hit me HARD!

Wino you know · Post by **Wino you know** » October 8, 2005 6:03 am

GOOD TOPIC!

Steamer (Caribbean Soul, Sonofabeach, & Larry-you all know why this is at the top-maybe I'm a goober, but I loved her).

There's Something So Feminine About A Mandolin
In the Shelter
Livingston's Gone to Texas
He Went to Paris (ESPECIALLY the "Meet Me In Margaritaville" version)
A Pirate Looks At 40
Come Monday
Wonder Why We Ever Go Home
Defying Gravity
Sending the Old Man Home
Survive
The Last Line
Somewhere Over China
Island
Little Miss Magic
She's Going Out of My Mind
Nobody Speaks To the Captain No More
No Plane On Sunday
When the Coast Is Clear
Bring Back the Magic
That's What Living Is To Me
Take Another Road
Changing Channels
Souviners
Delaney Talks To Statues
Remittance Man
False Echoes
Island Fever
Pacing the Cage
Oysters & Pearls
Someday I Will
All the Ways I Want You
Madamoiselle Volez Vous Dansante
Savannah Fare You Well
Coast of Carolina
Trip Around the Sun
Anything, Anytime, Anywhere
Merry Christmas, Alabama

ches4me · Post by **ches4me** » October 8, 2005 8:16 am

Quiet and Shy wrote:Well, reading this thread kinda makes one melancholy....

Now, Biloxi fits that mold.

Coast is Clear, definately...or maybe more "reflective"....

Now that they used Biloxi in the Hurricane relief concert, in my mind it will be tied to it. so it definitely would work as a sad memory

Touch O Parrotdise · Post by **Touch O Parrotdise** » October 8, 2005 8:39 am

he went to paris, defying gravity and captain and the kid ...
there is one song i still can't listen to without tearing up..
U2's Kite..maybe because it has alot of things my dad said before he died

davesnik · Post by **davesnik** » October 8, 2005 9:10 am

I have a few that get me teary eyed....

Yes, most definitely the last song of every concert......

Miss You So Badly
Distantly in L*#(
Why do We Every Go Home
* Because my sweetie is not close geographically and being so far away from each is very difficult at times

Banana Republic
He Went to Paris

Those are the ones that touch me in that introspective kind of way.

jollymonsings · Post by **jollymonsings** » October 8, 2005 12:33 pm

he went to paris

Capttony · Post by **Capttony** » October 8, 2005 12:46 pm

This year at mohegan sun i went with a friend of mine. Its been a really tough year for her so when trip around the sun came up.....we both looked at each other and smiled when he says......"if theres one thing that i've learned from all this living is that it wouldn't change a thing if i let go"

and how can you not include he went to paris.

Mr Play · Post by **Mr Play** » October 8, 2005 12:51 pm

Sending the Old Man Home
Captain and the Kid
Ballad of Spider John
Coast of Marseilles

Jason Mason · Post by **Jason Mason** » October 8, 2005 1:18 pm

Cowboy In The Jungle
Coast Of Carolina
Death Of An Unpopular Poet
The Captain And The Kid (I like the new one better than the original)
Pacing The Cage
Tonight I Just Need My Guitar
That's What Living Is To Me
Tin Cup Chalice
Come Monday
Take Another Road

...and of course
False Echoes

LesPaul30 · Post by **LesPaul30** » October 8, 2005 6:58 pm

I'll add: The Night I Painted the Sky. (remindes me of an ex-gf)

livingstonbob · Post by **livingstonbob** » October 8, 2005 8:42 pm

Oysters and Pearls

The cd came out the same year as my 20th high school class reunion. It reminded me (and still does) of the hopes and dreams we all had when we were 18 and then 20 years later seeing what happened to all of us after we left the big city of Livingston Montana.

Bob
Originally from Livingston Sat. Night Montana
23 days until MOTM!!!!

Jodibug · Post by **Jodibug** » October 8, 2005 8:54 pm

He Went to Paris - same line for me Kerpat: "some of it's magic, some of it's tragic, but I had a good life all the way" - this was Steve's favorite song and he referred to it while healthy and while dying.

aeroparrot · Post by **aeroparrot** » October 8, 2005 9:06 pm

I just remembered another one.... Bring Back the Magic.

conched · Post by **conched** » October 10, 2005 6:48 pm

Back to the Island

Lovely Cruise

Island

False Echoes

BadHabitsAcctnt · Post by **BadHabitsAcctnt** » October 10, 2005 8:00 pm

Little Miss Magic, I used to rock my daughter to sleep every night to that one. She is 14 now, where has the time gone...........

Paradise · Post by **Paradise** » October 10, 2005 11:47 pm

Tin Cup Challice. I grew up in Miami and now I live in Idaho. I really miss the ocean and the line- "I want to be there, I want to go back down and die beside the sea there" gets me every time.

God's Own Drunk · Post by **God's Own Drunk** » October 12, 2005 7:33 pm

He Went To Paris: my personal sad choice.

Also, not really "sad", but touching: The Night I Painted the Sky from Barometer Soup. I only saw him play this once, as the final song of the night, accompanied by a fireworks display. That unique experience makes this a special song for me.

Fragile Magic · Post by **Fragile Magic** » October 12, 2005 8:48 pm

If the Phone doesn't Ring, It's Me is another one for this list!

Lundah · Post by **Lundah** » October 12, 2005 9:13 pm

Wino you know wrote:GOOD TOPIC!

He Went to Paris (ESPECIALLY the "Meet Me In Margaritaville" version)
Little Miss Magic

Ditto... Tho with Little Miss Magic, it's a bit different. A good friend got married last year, and one of the bridesmaids made up one of those "through the years" slideshows for the reception, using that song for our friend (on my suggestion). The bride and here parents LOVED it, I still tear up every time I hear it.

brahmafear · Post by **brahmafear** » October 12, 2005 9:29 pm

I would have to say False Echoes and Sending the Old Man Home make me stop and think. That's what so great about a good song master.........they tug you North with one song and South with the next.