Trains to Brazil is a very good song→[More:]
I got this song from a friend the other day. It's not new, but I hadn't heard it before so I popped it into my "Happy Music" playlist, and listened to it on the drive to work this morning. It's a really 'powerful' song, I think, for lack of a better description.

I listened to it on the way back from work and was singing along to it, and found that it was actually causing my eyes to well up. That ever happen to you? Well after a few minutes it subsided (mostly because I was busy transposing it in my head so I could sing it properly because my range absolutely sucks). Then I did a google search to look up the lyrics. I ended up clicking on a link to a wikipedia article on the song, which contained the following:

...the song title "Trains to Brazil" is a reference to the fatal incident involving the Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes, who was shot by the police in a subway...

Oh jeez. Melancholy city.

Fyfe describes the title track as follows:
“It was weird, I wrote in 2002 and was sort of thinking about the whole Twin Towers thing, but then a couple of months before the London bombings we decided to drag this song out and do it as a single, and then all that stuff happened. On my birthday, as fate would have it - 7 July. Very odd. But yes, it's also just a song about appreciating life, I guess."

The last sentence--combined with lyrics like

"But I won't get me down! I'm just thankful to be facing the day"

and

"And to those of you who mourn your lives through one day to the next
Well let them take you next!
Can't you live and be thankful you're here?
See - it could be you, tomorrow, next year"

--got to me. Before I knew it tears were rolling over my eyes, welling up yet again. It took a tremendous amount of willpower to keep from just crying outright. I think I must've gone completely daft or something. Is this normal?

So much for my "Happy Music" playlist.

Anyway, I hope you guys enjoy it half as much as I do, and here's hoping I get a grip.