What love song makes you cry?

This one isn't really a love song either. The story behind it, which I learned after forming my own meanings, is that the writer started drafting it while his wife was pregnant with his first child- it was intended to close the shows, but their baby was born early and couldn't leave the hospital for a year. The release date happened to be on the exact dame day he brought his baby home, and he realized that it was a perfect story of his baby's first year.

Anyway, I had heard "Closing Time" a million times and loved it before it became a sad song for me. But, there was one day within a few days of my grandfather's death when it sunk in. All the details of it were just coming out. He went in his sleep, but the kicker was that he left his harmonica out. My grandpa was always tidy- he never left anything out, and the only times I remember him playing his harmonica was when my siblings and I were little. He'd pull it out to play and my grandma would come from where ever she was and stand in the doorway and watch. She passed away several years before him and I never once saw him with the harmonica after that. So, to learn that he played his harmonica on the night he passed, it felt like he was calling her to him. He was calling her to take him home. There were other things- he knew he was going to pass. He tipped us off in conversations. The night he died, he pulled out all the letters and photos I had sent him, as well as letters and photos from others. I don't know how to explain it, other than he was ready to go and he played her one last song.

The day I was mulling all this over, the Semisonic song came on the radio and it was so impactful that I just collapsed speechless. It fit the situation perfectly. Now, every time I hear it, I think of their enduring love.