where the green grass grows: my response to an NPR piece

Tuesday, July 19, 2011

my response to an NPR piece

NPR’s All Songs Considered recently did a piece entitled “Cry Baby Cry:Songs That Make You Weep.” While I admit that some of the songs on their list were touching, there weren’t any that would bring me to my knees like some of the songs that I listen to with any regularity, so I decided that I would compile my own list. I have been toying with this idea for a while anyway, so what better time than now.

I am a terribly emotional girl. I cry at the drop of a hat. I cry when I am happy. I cry when I am sad. I cry when I see a cute puppy or when a little kid does something sweet. I cry like a baby at movies, even when I couldn’t care any less about the outcome. I cry a lot. I am a big baby. I do not deny this. it’s a frustrating trait, mostly, because there are times when the waterworks begin that id rather not deal with them, or more importantly, when id rather not let someone else see that they got to me, but I feel like my natural reaction when faced with anything out of my routine life is to cry.

One might think that because I cry so easily that I could throw ten random songs up here and call it a day, because what the heck, I cry at anything right? But that is not the case, really. There are only a handful of songs that really have what it takes to make me well up, but when they do, dammit, they get me good.

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