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* From "From Here You Can Almost See The Sea"
-->I saw a film once\\
Where all the air holes froze up\\
A killer whale swam\\
Under the blue ice\\
Until her heart\\
Stopped
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* "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5X6IGZvQRh4 The One I Love]]", about a soldier saying goodbye to the woman he loves as he dies on the battlefield.
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* "This Year's Love" is heartbreakingly poignant from start to finish.
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* "[[http://youtu.be/l57THriXzFI The Old Chair]]" which David admits ties into thoughts he's had about his older relatives and what's going to happen to them, and he actually seems to get choked up when he talks about it in the video.
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* "Babylon" ends on an upbeat note, but everything prior to that is just so downtrodden. It doesn't help that the music sounds almost exactly like a rainy day.
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** Then you learn that the song is about David mourning for the death of his father, whom he was very close to, and each and every song off of ''A New Day at Midnight'' takes on a new level of poignancy and potency.

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** Then you learn that the song is about David mourning for the death of his father, whom he was very close to, to -- and each and every song off of ''A New Day at Midnight'' takes on a new level of poignancy and potency.
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* The song "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6Cg8CjRR6s The Other Side]]" is so devastatingly depressing and beautiful that people during his live concerts have been known to start crying when he plays it -- in which he takes the sadness of the original, adds a healthy dose of catharsis, and comes out as CrowningMusicOfAwesome. The fact that Gray himself seems close to breaking down at points while singing it just increases the effect. In fact, ''most'' of Gray's songs are known to do this.

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* The song "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6Cg8CjRR6s The Other Side]]" is so devastatingly depressing and beautiful that people during his live concerts have been known to start crying when he plays it -- in which he takes the sadness of the original, adds a healthy dose of catharsis, and comes out as CrowningMusicOfAwesome.SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic. The fact that Gray himself seems close to breaking down at points while singing it just increases the effect. In fact, ''most'' of Gray's songs are known to do this.

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* "The Other Side" in particular, and then there's the live version, which takes the sadness of the original, adds a healthy dose of catharsis and comes out as CrowningMusicOfAwesome.
** It's worse once you find out that the ''entire album'' was written after his father died, so every track has even more potency.
* "As I'm Leaving"

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* "The The song "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6Cg8CjRR6s The Other Side" in particular, Side]]" is so devastatingly depressing and then there's the beautiful that people during his live version, concerts have been known to start crying when he plays it -- in which he takes the sadness of the original, adds a healthy dose of catharsis catharsis, and comes out as CrowningMusicOfAwesome.
CrowningMusicOfAwesome. The fact that Gray himself seems close to breaking down at points while singing it just increases the effect. In fact, ''most'' of Gray's songs are known to do this.
** It's worse once Then you find out learn that the ''entire album'' song is about David mourning for the death of his father, whom he was written after his father died, so very close to, and each and every track has even more potency.
* "As I'm Leaving"
song off of ''A New Day at Midnight'' takes on a new level of poignancy and potency.


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* Then there's "As I'm Leaving".
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Quite a few of his songs are this.

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Quite a few of [[Music/DavidGray his songs songs]] [[TearJerker are this.this]].
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Quite a few of [[Music/DavidGrey his songs are this]].

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Quite a few of [[Music/DavidGrey his songs are this]].this.

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As stated, quite a few of his songs are this.

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As stated, quite Quite a few of [[Music/DavidGrey his songs are this.
this]].
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-->Cars that sound like waves that are breaking
-->On some desolate shore
-->Stared so long into the great achin' sky
-->Seems like I wasn't there no more

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-->Cars that sound like waves that are breaking
-->On
breaking\\
On
some desolate shore
-->Stared
shore\\
Stared
so long into the great achin' sky
-->Seems
sky\\
Seems
like I wasn't there no more



-->Some days I'm bursting at the seams
-->With all my half remembered dreams
-->And then it shoots me down again
-->I feel the dampness as it creeps
-->I hear you coughing in your sleep
-->Beneath a broken window pane

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-->Some days I'm bursting at the seams
-->With
seams\\
With
all my half remembered dreams
-->And
dreams\\
And
then it shoots me down again
-->I
again\\
I
feel the dampness as it creeps
-->I
creeps\\
I
hear you coughing in your sleep
-->Beneath
sleep\\
Beneath
a broken window pane



-->The sun above the cotton grass
-->Is sinking down like lead
-->The seagulls know the truth of it
-->And scream it overhead

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-->The sun above the cotton grass
-->Is
grass\\
Is
sinking down like lead
-->The
lead\\
The
seagulls know the truth of it
-->And
it\\
And
scream it overheadoverhead
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