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Songs that Always Break My Heart
Wednesday, September 4, 2013 | 3:55 PM

Haha I don't listen to such songs precisely because they break my heart, so it's a little tough to think of a list. I can think of a few though:

1. A Thousand Years


I just can't stand how sad and beautiful it is at the same time. It makes me feel really really sorry for the person who had to go through that experience of being apart from the person he/she loves.

The chorus especially:
I have died everyday
waiting for you
Darlin' don't be afraid
I have loved you for a
Thousand years
I'll love you for a
Thousand more
I have died everyday waiting for you That line is so achingly sad. 
I have loved you for a thousand years. As if that wasn't enough, the next line promises I'll love you for a thousand more. It's hard not to be amazed at the amount of self-sacrificial love that's conveyed in those lines.

It breaks my heart/I half-hate and half-love this song because I hate oversentimentality, something I realised as I was writing this post. I can't help it haha.

When a sad song is positive 
I heard the song again recently in this video: http://vimeo.com/33507366. In light of the happiness of the couple, and the love they share, it's quite touching and brings out the pure beauty of the song :)

2. 21 guns

One of the few songs I heard when I was in secondary school (and remember) because our class did it for our Sec 4 camp performance. I went back to look up the lyrics, and to me, 21 guns is about chasing things, of trying over and over, and a very broken and cut-up soul at the heart of the song.

I can't think of anymore, so I'm going to end the list here.

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