What’s a song that changed your life?

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I like music as much as the next guy, but “changed your life” is a pretty high bar — unless one was rocking out so hard that one ran into a telephone pole, and I can’t say anything like that has ever happened to me.

I have been working up the nerve to listen to that Hungarian song, Gloomy Sunday (Szomorú Vasárnap,) that supposedly causes a disproportionate number of listeners to commit suicide, but I guess I don’t really want a song to change my life that much — though my curiosity has been known to get the better of me.