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Used to go here every summer growing up

This song was one of my childhood favorites 😊

I am learning right now how to play mandolin this my first song I going to play when I get really good

Heyy

Hi..

Man..im so glad my parents played this stuff while i was growing up. Im 26 now an love not only this song but gf loves it when i sing it to her

Such an incredible song. It's one of those that I hesitate to listen to because it triggers memories and brings me to places I'd rather not be. But sometimes I have to listen, relive those losses and move on.

When I was really young, probably 4 or 5, im not sure because I don't remember much from my childhood..we had a case of CDs in our truck that we'd listen to all the time. There was a CD with mixed songs on it and i remembered the intro to this song. For years and years and it would always pop up in my head at random times but I could never remember for the life of me what it was called but I never really thought to try and look it up. But here I am, 10pm on a Tuesday night.. probably 11 years later & I'm 16 now overwhelmed by the heaviest waves of nostalgia I've ever felt. I almost feel like crying. Sorry for rambling I just thought I would share :)

This song lame, I gotta do it for an English project. Never going to listen to it again

my favorite part of the song was "sample text" at 2:17

Really beautiful song and every time I hear it it's heart breaking. So many well written lines, it's one of those rare perfect songs.

Truth and Beauty

I guess the Dislikes are from those crying so hard they missed the Like button. No one could genuinely dislike this masterpiece 💕💕💕

This little gem is a Shakespearean poem turned into a song and Its melody makes my soul dance.

Since it's suicide prevention month, I encourage those who listen to this song and relate to the keeper not to do the same thing.

I’m here per Timmy B’s recommendation! ☺️

First band I saw live was then at Telluride's blue grass festival. First song to ever bring a year to my eye. I was 10 at the time and after 20 years it still fills me with emotion

Just heard this for the first time today on a local radio station. Had to pull over, find it and make sure I had it in my playlist lol. It just has that sort of sound that gets ya.

One of my favorites ever

Never paid attention to the lyrics till now and it's a very endearing story.

This will be played when I get my ashes spread in the western straights of Juan de fuca in-between the green bouy off slip point and the caves my dad was spread in the bogachiele river and I'll be spread in the ocean where I can watch my family fish

Mission control sent me this link. What a beautiful song.

My favorite part of the song is the sample text at 2:18

I was driving to work this morning and I listened to this song. I am 39 years old, 220 lbs, I lift weights, I work in construction and I can be pretty aggressive. But I can't remember the last time I cried as hard as I did this morning while I was listening to this song. And I mean not in about 30 years. I was audibly wailing in my truck. See, I almost lost my wife over the past two months after she gave birth to our little one. I slept many nights with her in the ICU, wondering if she was going to pull through. Remembering our own sunsets together - the most beautiful moments of my life. I love her so much. Twelve hours after she had an emergency C-section, she was wheeled to the ICU, from the part of the hospital where people enter the world, to the part where many leave it. I started crying then, but she told me to stop, and I knew that I had to be strong like a rock for her. So I got on my knees every night, praying to the Lord to not take her, or at least to give me peace. I didn't really cry through January or February. I had to bring her to the the ER seven times. She went to the ICU twice. She was admitted to the regular hospital four times. This song reminded me of my own helplessness in watching someone that I love get confronted by death. Someone full of beauty and life. So this song made two months' worth of stored up tears come out. And now I can empathize with our little baby daughter's crying like never before. I really needed this.

So sad.T^T

Thirsty Thursday at McCormick Field in Asheville, NC

Gaelic

Still makes me cry all these years later-'

I only listen to this when I miss my mom

Pov: you're in college it's 2012 freshman year. Your English professor puts on this song. His first wife had passed away a while ago. But from time to time it eats at him and one time in class before he had a breakdown. But he's calm now, listening to this song. And as you hear the chorus you can see the look in his eyes as he stares in the distance and he goes back in time to a place where she wasn't gone and they were together.

I forgot just how sad this song is, I actually felt bad for the lighthouse, even though buildings can't feel, they can have intense emotions imprinted upon them. If you don't believe me, mythbusters proved our emotions affect our environment.

Man....I don't know if I have ever heard a more brilliantly told story in my life. How is this song not at hundreds of millions of views yet?

I'm tripping

Such pain delivered in a song, i have yet to hear in anyother recording. Beautifully sad. Goosebumps.

And then he climbed my tower and off the edge of me he ran

"I'll tell a story, paint you a picture from my past. I was so happy, but joy in this life seldom lasts"

I'm a 174 year-old man and I still cry when I listen to it. I first heard this song when it was released in 2000, back when I was 154 years old..I cried then and then I cry now.

Absolutely lovely

Thanks for this!

I can’t listen to this without crying! It reminds me of my sister’s dog.

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I live in the very last Northern coastal town in California that people never heard of. There’s a lighthouse here called Point St. George Reef Lighthouse...it’s about 6-8 miles offshore, right smack dab on a reef in the middle of the ocean. This song reminds me of this lighthouse. There’s many tragedies that fit perfectly into the lyrics of this song...it gives me the chills. There was a shipwreck long ago of the Brother Jonathon, in which many lives were lost. The lighthouse has been decommissioned for some time now but the Frenzel Lens light has been replaced and still shines to show ships their way. Although it is decommissioned it has since become a historical landmark that you can take a helicopter ride over to actually tour it.

Someone is probably going to yell at me for this. I get the song has a sad meaning, but I honestly don't like the song. Maybe it's to slow for me, be I just don't like it. And before anyone says 'why are you listening to it then?', I'm listening to it for a school project

I'm watching 2019 lol

What's a lighthouse ?

I learned what suicide is from this song

The mandolin in this song is absolutely on fire 💚

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He watches her ship fight, but in vain against the wild and terrible wave. Then he climbed my tower and off the edge of me he ran. This song is portraying the feeling of helplessness over and over again. Showing us that when you love someone sometimes your helpless. Sometimes you have to watch them struggle

Brilliant !