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The Church: After Everything Now This

I can't listen to this song without thinking of early 2002. This song almost describes exactly what I was going through that March, when my grandfather died. My grandparents were literally second parents to me, and I took their deaths very hard (my grandmother had died a year prior, in April 2001). "I really thought it would go on forever, never believed they would sever the ties, all of the questions remain unanswered..." just about says it all. Then "Here is a child playing in a garden
Here is an old man with a broken heart
Here comes a train to take you away
It all goes round and round and comes back to the start
I was never really sure what I was waiting for
When the moment came I was looking away
Obsessed with a past, scared of the future
Never took the time to be here today"
The child playing in the garden might as well represent me, the old man with the broken heart, my grandfather - his heart had been broken ever since grandma died. And the train, death, took him away to finally be with her. But at that time, I was distracted with other things, and definitely didn't take the time to "be here today".
"When the moment came, I just couldn't choose" - I had the opportunity to take my grandparents' house, but I was so distracted with other things, I didn't want to be bothered with a decision of that magnitude, and passed it off. A decision I've regretted ever since. I would have loved to own that house, it was a home away from home for me, and perfect for me.

U2: I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For (live "Rattle and Hum" version)

One cold day in 1988, I was on the bus ready to go home from school, and the tape "Rattle and Hum" in my walkman. This was also the day of a funeral for a girl who died in a plane crash, who had gone to school with my brother. There were cars and cars coming of people to attend the funeral, so much so that the bus really couldn't get very far very soon. This song was playing, and it's a very gospelly version of the song. It just seemed so perfect, a very poignant moment in life. I could feel a lump in my throat and chills, this song playing as people drove from all over to attend this funeral. Now whenever I hear this song, my eyes water. I know there are a lot of you who don't like U2, but this song caught that poignant moment just perfectly.