What song caused you to pull over from driving, and stop and listen to it?

For me this happened with Nat King Cole's 1957 recording of "Stardust," possibly the greatest recording of any pop song.

by Live.

I bawl my eyes out whenever I hear that song.

and Rob Thomas.

Cold empty bed...springs hurt my head
Feels like ole ned...wished I was dead
What did I do...to be so black and blue

Even the mouse...ran from my house
They laugh at you...and all that you do
What did I do...to be so black and blue

I’m white...inside...but, that don’t help my case
That’s life...can’t hide...what is in my face

How would it end...ain’t got a friend
My only sin...is in my skin
What did I do...to be so black and blue

(instrumental break)

How would it end...i ain’t got a friend
My only sin...is in my skin
What did I do...to be so black and blue

What's interesting about this song is that it was totally revolutionary at the time, in that he was telling the white world that adored him that he knew of their racism and he felt it everytime he played before them. He knew that "they laugh at you...and all you do"--in other words, he was their Jump-Around-Jim-Crow-Token-Negro--He knew that his white adorers would as soon spit on him, were he not a master musician, simply because of his color. He knew that the only reason his black self was in a club playing before whites was because he was a musician experiencing a world that his black peers could never experience--and he was disgusted by it.

It was a way for Louis to rebel against the whites who worshipped his music but hated his color. And the song as well as the hidden message in the song still brings tears to my eyes.