Line #8 TearJerker/GarthBrooks


1	[[Music/GarthBrooks This voice of nineties country music]] isn't burnin' the house down, [[TearJerker he's making you blubber]].
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4	* "Burning Bridges", in which a man contemplates his string of broken relationships, and knows that despite wanting desperately to change, he probably won't manage to do so until it's far too late.
5	* "Standing Outside the Fire" can make one cry tears of amazement that someone could write such a wonderful song. The video is just as much of one, chronicling a boy with Down Syndrome refusing to compete in the Special tournament and going for the regular one instead.
6	* "Good Ride Cowboy", despite (or maybe even because of) its upbeat tune, is still a tribute to his late friend Chris [=LeDoux=].
7	* "The Change" was written just after the Oklahoma City bombings.
8	* "We Shall Be Free" was written just after the L.A. riots.
9	* The video for "The Dance" contained clips of UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy, Martin Luther King, the crew of the Space Shuttle ''Challenger'', John Wayne, country singer Keith Whitley, and bullrider Lane Frost (who died during an event).
10	** Garth performed the song live for both the memorial of Dale Earnhart, Sr. and the GrandFinale of ''The Tonight Show with Jay Leno''. It’s also been used as the [[NetworkFinale last song]] for several country radio stations before a format change.
11	* Others include "When You Come Back To Me Again" and "More Than A Memory".
12	* "Mom" can really get to anyone who has a close relationship to their mother.
13	* "Wolves", for anyone feeling ground down by life.
14	* "Stronger Than Me", which he wrote for his wife Music/TrishaYearwood and which talks about how, in all the ways that matter, she's stronger than him. The last lines are a killer:
15	-->''And I'd give her anything in life that's mine to give her''
16	-->'' 'Til the last breath that I breathe''
17	-->''And if I have a choice, I pray God takes me first''
18	-->'' 'Cause she's stronger''
19	-->''Than me....''
20	* "The Beaches of Cheyenne" is about a woman who "''just went crazy, screaming out his name''" upon hearing that her husband was killed by a rodeo bull in Cheyenne, Wyoming [[PartingWordsRegret after they got into an argument about his rodeo career and she told him she didn't care if he ever came back from Cheyenne.]] The couple's dreams "''died right there beside him''" and the grieving woman's breakdown causes her to seemingly commit SuicideBySea (although she keeps reappearing to people in a MaybeMagicMaybeMundane way).
21	* "Where the Cross Don't Burn" off of ''Fun'' is a story of a relationship between a young white boy and an old black man. The song ends with the singer's eulogy to the old black man. What really twists the knife is that this is a duet with Music/CharleyPride, who died a month after the album's release.
22	* Whether interpreted as a father's song to his daughter or as a husband's song to his wife, "If Tomorrow Never Comes" is still interpreted the same: That he still loves her, and he wants her to have his feelings known even if he were to die the next day.

Context TearJerker / GarthBrooks