What is your favorite Embrace song and why?

Someday is mine... Although I liked Embrace before OON was released, it was this album that really hit home. At the time I was in a long term relationship with the father of my children. It wasn't a healthy relationship and this album along with the old board and some of the people I met there helped see me through some very dark times. Someday and it's lyrics will always hold a special place in my heart, it reminds me of the way I was feeling at the time and the friends who supported and advised me during those times. Seven years on and my life has changed completely. My Someday finally came I 'broke out of the box' five
years ago. I finally saw the way they saw things and although it's been a long road to where I am now, I made it! My love for this band is endless for this very reason.

For me that the beauty of music, doesn't matter if the songwriter meant a song to mean what it means to the individual it is what it is. That's exactly how I feel about Someday it had it's own meaning for me which is bound to be entirely different to the meaning it had to Danny when he wrote it!!

The Good Will Out. This song means so much to me & Steve. Most people here will know the story but for those that don't, Steve & I were lucky enough to have boy/girl twins back in January 1993. Our daughter Catherine is now almost 21 and is a fantastic daughter & we love her & are so proud of her. Our son Matthew was autistic & had learning difficulties and he also really loved Embrace. I think we brainwashed him :-) His favourite song was TGWO and he always liked to dance to it with a massive smile on his face. Matthew died in February 2005 and we didn't think that we'd ever be able to listen to the song again. But as we have such amazingly good memories of life with Matthew, we decided to take the lyrics "the good will come out and start the healing" to heart & have tried to live life for each moment. We were at the Barrowlands gig not that long after Matthew died and heard Embrace dedicate TGWO to Matthew. It was very moving & we were grateful for this emotional tribute. Sorry if this seems maudlin, it's not meant to be, more of a celebration of Matthew & the joy he brought us.

Gill that gig has stayed with me through all these years and I still have a tear when I hear TGWO. I remember standing with our arms all round each other singing our hearts out. It's not maudlin at all. It was a song that brought joy to your little boy and that's a lovely thing x.

This is a really hard question to answer. It's completely dependent on the mood I'm currently in and the time of day, day of week etc as to what my favourite song is. I suppose a favourite song should be one I'm happy to listen to at any time, regardless but it's not really that easy.

In terms of reminiscing, The Way I Do holds a real nostalgia for me and I think it might be because it reminds me of our trip to Cornwall for the Eden Project gig all those years ago. Had a great weekend with some amazing people and that song was sort of the theme tune to the weekend for various reasons (!!!).

In terms of just loving a song for the way it sounds - for a slow one, it's gotta be I Had A Time for me. From the moment it starts to the very last note, it's haunting and relevant and, well, just great. Sorry, was never much of a reviewer! For a more upbeat track, I could listen to Someday all day long. And Blind, but I think that's probably a given.

Thanks Debbie, Hayley & Shazpot. He was a wee smasher :-)

THANK you.

I had a time

But that will change weekly! Just too many. One of my favourite songs growing up was come back to what you know, so thats stuck. Ashes is just immense though, drawn from memory, and The good will out!

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