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Pachelbel's Canon in D is the most powerfully affecting songs I have ever heard. It just takes me to another plane. It manages to be mournful and joyful at the same time. I can't even describe the way in which it makes me feel as if I've been lifted out of my body. I haven't met anyone yet who hasn't had the same experience of this song.

"Cold Missouri Waters" tells the story of the smokejumpers who died on the Mann Gulch fire in Montana in 1948. I'm a firefighter and this song always makes me cry and gives me chills.

Music communicates to the soul in a way that simple words can't. Often, it doesn't matter if you can understand the words or even if the music has words to hear the message of a good song.

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