Further pop culture weepage: Best cry-like-a-baby songs EVER

[Bossy Monkey]

Gotta go with "1952 Vincent Black Lightning" by Richard Thompson. I understand Del McCoury 'n' 'em did pretty well with a cover of it last year as well, although I still haven't heard the latter yet. Hey, you liked the emotional movies thread; let's let DU2 hear about our favorite tear-engendering tunes.

[texastoast]

1. Another "Vincent"

"Vincent" off Don McLean's first album.

[Throckmorton]

52. Agreed,

Reminds me of my father, another tortured soul.

[davsand]

2. Ballad of Penny Evans

Steve Goodman

My name is Penny Evans and my age is twenty-one
I'm a widow of the war that was fought in Vietnam
I have two baby daughters and I do the best I can
They say the war is over but I think it's just begun

I remember I was seventeen when first I met my Bill
At his father's grand piano we played old 'Heart and Soul'
I only knew the left hand part, he knew the right so well
He's the only boy I slept with, and the only one I will

First we had a baby girl, we had two good years
And next the warning notice came, we parted without tears
Then it's nine months from our last goodbye our second child appears
And it's ten months and a telegram confirming all our fears

So once a month I get a check from some army bureaucrat
And once a month I tear it up and mail the damn thing back
Do they think that makes it all right? Do they think I'll fall for that?
They can keep their bloody money, it won't bring my Billy back

I never cared for politics, speeches I don't understand
Likewise I'll take no charity from any living man
But tonight there's fifty thousand gone in that unhappy land
And fifty thousand 'Heart and Souls' being played with just one hand

My name is Penny Evans and my age is twenty-one
I'm a widow of the war that was fought in Vietnam
I have two baby daughters - thank God I have no son
They say the war is over but I think it's just begun

[mitchum]

3. "Angel From Montgomery" and "Hello In There" John Prine

"Accidently Like A Martyr" and "Hasten Down The Wind" Warren Zevon

[maxanne]

4. Marie by Townes Van Zandt

will do it to me, every time.

Marie
by Townes Van Zandt

I stood in line and left my name
took about six hours or so
Well, the man just grinned like it was all a game
said they'd let me know
I put in my time till the Pocono line
shut down two years ago
I was staying at the mission till I met Marie
now I can't stay there no more


Fella 'cross town said he's lookin' for a man
to move some old cars around
maybe me and Marie could find a burned-out
van and do a little settlin' down
Aw, but I'm just dreamin', I ain't got no ride
and the junkyard's a pretty good ways
that job's about a half week old besides
it'd be gone now anyway


Unemployment said I got no more checks
and they showed me to the hall
my brother died in Georgia some time ago
I got no one left to call
Summer wasn't bad below the bridge
a little short on food that's all
Now I gotta get Marie some kind of coat
we're headed down into fall


I used to play the mouth harp pretty good
hustled up a little dough
but I got drunk and I woke up rolled
a couple of months ago
they got my harp and they got my dollar
them low life so and so's
harps cost money and I ain't got it
it's my own fault I suppose


The Pocono's down but the Chesapeak's runnin'
two freights everyday
if it was just me I'd be headed south
but Marie can't catch no train
She's got some pain and she thinks it's a baby,
says we gotta wait and see
in my heart I know it's a little boy
hope he don't end up like me


Well, the man's still grinnin' says he lost my file
I gotta stand in line again
I want to kill him but I just say no
I had enough of that line my friend
I head back to the bridge, its getting kinda cold
I'm feelin' too low down to lie
I guess I'll just tell Marie the truth
hope she don't break down and cry


Marie she didn't wake up this morning
she didn't even try
she just rolled over and went to heaven
my little boy safe inside
I laid them in the sun where somebody'd find them
caught a Chesapeak on the fly
Marie will know I'm headed south
so's to meet me by and by


Marie will know I'm headed south
so to meet me by and by


Also, "Mariano" by Robert Earl Keen and "Gone for Good" - a Morphine song that sounds nothing like their usual stuff.

[MiddleRiverRefugee]

50. Gordon Lighfoot's 'The Pony Man'

It's a kid's song. But it makes me cry, for reasons I'm not entirely sure of myself.



When it's midnight on the meadow
And the cats are in the shed
And the river tells a story
At the window by my bed
If you listen very closely
Be as quiet as you can
In the yard you'll hear him
It is the pony man

We're always there to greet him
When he tumbles into town
He leads a string of ponies
Some are white and some are brown
And they never seem to kick or bite
They only want to play
And they live on candy apples
Instead of oats and hay

And when we're all assembled
He gives a soft command
And we climb aboard our ponies
As in a row the stand
Then down the road we gallop
And across the fields we fly
And soon we all go sailing off
Into the midnight sky

And as we gaily rock along
Beside a ripplin' sea
There's Tom 'n Dick 'n Sally
And Mary Joe and me
And the pony man is leading
Cause he's travelled here before
And he gives a whoop and a holler
At Mr. Moon's front door

And as we stop to rest a while
Where the soda river glides
Up to the slip comes a pirate ship
To take us for a ride
And the pony man's the captain
And the children are the crew
And we go in search of treasure
And laugh the whole night through

And when the hold is filled with gold
And the sails begin to strain
And the deck's piled high with apple pie
We head for port again
And down the whirling starcase
So swift our ponies fly
And we're safely in our beds again
When the sunbeams kiss the sky

When it's midnight on the meadow
And the cats are in the shed
And the river tells a story
At the window by my bed
If you listen very closely
Be as quiet as you can
In the yard you'll hear him

[GumboYaYa]

51. Townes has a lot of sad songs.

He wrote about the real world and the problems of real people. I still am saddened by his premature death.

Tom Waits' "Kentucky Avenue" tears me up too.

[cosmicdot]

5. maybe it's just the way Louis Armstrong sang it - it's a wonderful world

WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD
Louis Armstrong

I see trees of green, red roses too
I see them bloom for me and you
And I think to myself what a wonderful world.

I see skies of blue and clouds of white
The bright blessed day, the dark sacred night
And I think to myself what a wonderful world.

The colors of the rainbow so pretty in the sky
Are also on the faces of people going by
I see friends shaking hands saying how do you do
They're really saying I love you.

I hear babies crying, I watch them grow
They'll learn much more than I'll never know
And I think to myself what a wonderful world
Yes I think to myself what a wonderful world.

[KCDem]

20. right after 9-11,

I was driving up to visit family 3 hours away. Stupidly, one of the CDs I brought was Louis Armstrong. Had to pull over for awhile and cry my eyes out on this one. It was the first time I cried after the tragedy. Talk about catharsis.

[dback]

6. k.d. lang doing "Crying"

Patsy Cline doing "Sweet Dreams." Barbra Streisand doing "My Coloring Book." Judy Garland doing "Stormy Weather." Jeff Buckley doing "Halleluja." Gary Puckett doing "No Getting Over You." Everly Brothers doing "Crying in the Rain." Mary Chapin Carpenter doing "Leaving Time."

And two of the all-time listen-to-the-pain classics: Bonnie Raitt doing "Too Soon to Tell," and Gladys Knight doing "Neither One of Us Wants to Be the First To Say Goodbye." Both women have such palpable rough anguish in their voices, it's like they physically pierce you. (Raitt on "You wanna hear/I won't drown in my tears," Knight on the last line of the song.)

[Cheswick2.0]

7. If We Only have Love, ..... Brel

- IF WE ONLY HAVE LOVE


If we only have love
Then tomorrow will dawn
And the days of our years
Will rise on that morn
If we only have love
To embrace without fears
We will kiss with our eyes
We will sleep without tears
If we only have love
With our arms open wide
Then the young and the old
Will stand at our side
If we only have love
Love that's falling like rain
Then the parched desert earth
Will grow green again
If we only have love
For the hymn that we shout
For the song that we sing
Then we'll have a way out
If we only have love
We can reach those in pain
We can heal all our wounds
We can use our own names
If we only have love
We can melt all the guns
And then give the new world
To our daughters and sons
If we only have love
Then Jerusalem stands
And then death has no shadow
There are no foreign lands
If we only have love
We will never bow down
We'll be tall as the pines
Neither heroes nor clowns
If we only have love
Then we'll only be men
And we'll drink from the Grail
To be born once again
Then with nothing at all
But the little we are
We'll have conquered all time
All space, the sun, and the stars.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

9. Brel has written some great stuff! I LOVE "Sons of"

Sons of the thief, sons of the saint
Who is the child with no complaint
Sons of the great or sons unknown
All were children like your own
The same sweet smiles, the same sad tears
The cries at night, the nightmare fears
Sons of the great or sons unknown
All were children like your own...
So long ago: long, long, ago...
But sons of tycoons or sons of the farms
All of the children ran from your arms
Through fields of gold, through fields of ruin
All of the children vanished too soon
In tow'ring waves, in walls of flesh
Among dying birds trembling with death
Sons of tycoons or sons of the farms
All of the children ran from your arms...
So long ago: long, long, ago...
But sons of your sons or sons passing by
Children we lost in lullabies
Sons of true love or sons of regret
All of the sons you cannot forget
Some built the roads, some wrote the poems
Some went to war, some never came home
Sons of your sons or sons passing by
Children we lost in lullabies...
So long ago: long, long, ago
But, sons of the thief, sons of the saint
Who is the child with no complaint
Sons of the great or sons unknown
All were children like your own
The same sweet smiles, the same sad tears
The cries at night, the nightmare fears
Sons of the great or sons unknown
All were children like your own...
Like your own, like your own

[WhataBildeberger]

8. Del does it incredibly well

I like his version better, but I think mainly for the tempo and instrumentation.

And I nominate "Paradise (Muhlenberg County)," with John Prine having performed the best version I've heard.

[Bossy Monkey]

11. Great! I about fainted when I saw it listed as IMBA Song of the Year

for '02, and had to go all internetty to find out who performed it since they didn't have the artist posted at Bill's Pickin' Parlor.

Me, I'm about to get in trouble for saying I liked the hard-rockin' torch-singin' (hard to do, as you can imagine) version of "Angel from Montgomery" by the Leslie Spit Treeo, a Toronto band 10-odd years ago when my best buddy was living up there. I am assured it is totally unlike Prine's original.

[Dirk39]

10. K.D. Lang and Orbison, Townes is o.k., too, but the most moving...

song of all times by any means is "Love will tear us apart" by Joy Division.
Hello from Germany,
Dirk
P.S. To the ones, who love Townes van Zandt. Among his last songs, "A song for..." might be the best tune, he has ever written...

[Archae]

12. This song will give a good cry. It gives me one.

Harry Chapin

"Mr. Tanner."

Try to find and listen to it.

[Bossy Monkey]

14. Can't. I wore a groove in the record 20 years ago

...and the under-30s go, "Huh?" But yes, agreed.

[lazarus]

29. Also

Chapin's "A Better Place to Be". And his "Story Of a Life" is just wrenching.

For me, "Cat's In the Cradle" has been a no-listen since my son died.

[Bossy Monkey]

35. "Mail Order Annie" and "What Made America Famous?" get me

most consistently. Don't MAKE me print the lyrics! The stuff on "Greatest Stories Live" I played so many times in high school (as noted above regarding "Mister Tanner") that I'm somewhat immune.

No, you better not listen to "Cat's In The Cradle." My sympathies, however belated.

[lazarus]

36. thank you

Basically, as much as I love him, I think Chapin's just going to be on the backburner for a while. Damn that guy could write some depressing stuff.

[Avalon Sparks]

13. "Imagine" - Lennon

Tears me up everytime....

Also, Dion's "Abraham, Martin and John" -

Oh, and "The Cure's" song "A Letter to Elise"... here's the lyrics:

oh elise it doesn't matter what you say
i just can't stay here every yesterday
like keep on acting out the same
the way we act out
every way to smile
forget
and make-believe we never needed
any more than this
any more than this
oh elise it doesn't matter what you do
i know i'll never really get inside of you
to make your eyes catch fire
the way they should
the way the blue could pull me in
if they only would
if they only would
at least i'd lose this sense of sensing something else
that hides away
from me and you
there're worlds to part
with aching looks and breaking hearts
and all the prayers your hands can make
oh i just take as much as you can throw
and then throw it all away
oh i throw it all away
like throwing faces at the sky
like throwing arms round
yesterday
i stood and stared
wide-eyed in front of you
and the face i saw looked back
the way i wanted to
but i just can't hold my tears away
the way you do

elise believe i never wanted this
i thought this time i'd keep all of my promises
i thought you were the girl always dreamed about
but i let the dream go
and the promises broke
and the make-believe ran out...

oh elise
it doesn't matter what you say
i just can't stay here every yesterday
like keep on acting out the same
the way we act out
every way to smile
forget
and make-believe we never needed
any more than this
any more than this

and every time i try to pick it up
like falling sand
as fast as i pick it up
it runs away through my clutching hands
but there's nothing else i can really do
there's nothing else
i can really do
at all...

[Bossy Monkey]

15. Playing "52 Vincent" again; gotta give this another try

now that the software's working

[RememberJohn]

16. "Indiana Wants Me"

...anyone remember that one?

[roughsatori]

17. "Lord I can't go back there"

Yes

[mac56]

22. "This is the Indiana State Police - - "

"You are surrounded - Give yourself up - "

[RememberJohn]

43. Did you know there were two versions of that song?

When drivers complained about mistaking the sirens in it for the real thing, the record company sent out a new version with the sirens removed.

[SOteric]

18. Dire Straights: "Brothers in Arms"

In part for the lyrics, in part for Mark Knofler's incredible talent for making a guitar weep bitter tears.


Brothers in Arms


These mist covered mountains
Are a home now for me
But my home is the lowlands
And always will be
Some day you'll return to
Your valleys and your farms
And you'll no longer burn
To be brothers in arm

Through these fields of destruction
Baptism of fire
I've watched all your suffering
As the battles raged higher
And though they did hurt me so bad
In the fear and alarm
You did not desert me
My brothers in arms

There's so many different worlds
So many different suns
And we have just one world
But we live in different ones

Now the sun's gone to hell
And the moon's riding high
Let me bid you farewell
Every man has to die
But it's written in the starlight
And every line on your palm
We're fools to make war
On our brothers in arms

[KDLarsen]

19. A strange choice, perhaps...

.. but for me, it'll forever be D-A-D (a Danish rock band - always having a fight with Disney over their name, Disneyland After Dark) with "Something Good":

Do you really think that you're lost?
And that you'll never find the way
Learn the secrets of the woods
See the picture if you could
You grow a little every day
And now I'm grown and I look like you
Who'd ever know - how I turned out
But, I'm grown, and I look like you
I look like someone I never knew..

Speak while your lips are trembling
Talk to me when I'm listening
Finally someone said something good

We grow a little every day
And now I'm grown and I look like you
Like a voice that fills out the room
How do you know when you've grown up?
When you tie yourself down and give yourself up.

Speak while your lips are trembling
Talk to me when I'm listening
Finally someone said something good
Because we're leaving nothing
But moments of belonging
Finally someone said something good
Finally someone said something good
In the end someone says something good..

Now, it may not be so sad, but a part of the story is, that at Roskilde Festival 2000, 9 young men were crushed to death during a crowd surge in front of the main stage, while Pearl Jam were playing. Following the tragedy, a lot of bands chose to cancel their gigs, and D-A-D, who had been set to close the festival, had an internal argument whether or not to play, but in the end they chose to play. Then, at the beginning of their concert, the lead singer, Jesper Binzer, appeared on stage with 8 torches, one for each of the victims (the 9th was still in coma - his parents switched off the respirator a few days later). He handed them down and while the torches were making their way towards the spontanious memorial, that had been erected in the rear of the site, the band started playing above mentioned song. Most, of not all, were in tears over that.

[Bossy Monkey]

25. Thanks for the lovely story, & welcome to DU

[KDLarsen]

28. Thanks..

.. I forgot to add a few things to it. First of all, I was at the Pearl Jam concert, but left a couple of minutes before things turned ugly, since I had a shift starting at midnight. However, I could really feel that people were just packed together. And apparently it had been worse during the previous nights Iron Maiden gig, where there were reports of up to 1000 people being brought over the front barrier - most of them unconscious.

The shift can be divided into 3 periods: The first, where all sorts of people came by, asking for directions to the ER at the local hospital, because they were missing someone. Later on, we were told to tell people to go to the local police station, since they had the latest updates.
Then came the interlude, where the walkie talkie went silent and everyone got a chance to think about what had just happened.
Finally, as the sun got up, and the clock passed 6 AM., things started waking up, as people started to pack their bags to go home, 2 days early. At that point, relatives who was not at the festival (parents etc.) were also starting to arrive, so we had to talk to our bosses about where to send them and so on. In the meantime, I sent them on a wild goose chase around the festival area. I was in desperate need for sleep, so I didn't get any details about what had happened until the 5 pm news later that day.

And to close - Roskilde Festival since added massive security, and have for the past 3 years been one of the safest music festivals in the world.

[mac56]

21. "Bob Dylan's Dream"

(Gets me every time.)

While riding on a train goin' west,
I fell asleep for to take my rest.
I dreamed a dream that made me sad,
Concerning myself and the first few friends I had.

With half-damp eyes I stared to the room
Where my friends and I spent many an afternoon,
Where we together weathered many a storm,
Laughin' and singin' till the early hours of the morn.

By the old wooden stove where our hats was hung,
Our words were told, our songs were sung,
Where we longed for nothin' and were quite satisfied
Talkin' and a-jokin' about the world outside.

With haunted hearts through the heat and cold,
We never thought we could ever get old.
We thought we could sit forever in fun
But our chances really was a million to one.

As easy it was to tell black from white,
It was all that easy to tell wrong from right.
And our choices were few and the thought never hit
That the one road we traveled would ever shatter and split.

How many a year has passed and gone,
And many a gamble has been lost and won,
And many a road taken by many a friend,
And each one I've never seen again.

I wish, I wish, I wish in vain,
That we could sit simply in that room again.
Ten thousand dollars at the drop of a hat,
I'd give it all gladly if our lives could be like that.

[ScreamingMeemie]

23. Waylon Jennings singing "Six White Horses"

************** SIX WHITE HORSES ***************

performed by Waylon Jennings.



Come here and look through the window Marie

Open up the shutters,tell me what you see

Was that his knock that i heard at the door

Or is it six white horses coming down the road



Come here and touch me and say that it's alright

You know that to my eyes the days are as the nights

Read again the letter that tells me where he's gone

To hell with the fighting i want my son home


I taught him to fish and i taught him to be strong

I taught him that killing any man was wrong

But tommorrow in battle i'd run to where he stood

If the help of a blind man would do any good






Last night i went to his room for awhile

I've touched all the things that he used as a child

I rocked the cradle where he used to lay

I found his tin soldiers and threw them away



Come here and look through the window Marie

Open up the shutters,tell me what you see

Was that his knock that i heard at the door

Or is it six white horses coming up the road

This song gets me every time...I've posted the words here before... but I don't think anyone noticed...I think it's poignant now and when it was recorded in the Vietnam era...

[dmr]

46. Six White Horses gets me every time

got teary-eyed reading it :(

[Madolan]

24. Kate Bush's brilliant song...

..."This Woman's Work." This is not to imply that it's her only brilliant song; most of hers have that honor. I also enjoyed Maxwell's cover.

[Syrinx]

26. How about "Cry Like A Baby" by Kasey Chambers

She's a great country singer from Australia.

[lpbk2713]

27. Come on, nobody ever heard "Teen Angel"??

That fateful night the car was stalled upon the railroad track
I pulled you out and we were safe but you went running ba-a-ack.

[ginantonic40]

30. 'Leaving on a Jet Plane' Peter Paul and Mary

Showing my age a little

[KDLarsen]

32. Not really..

.. I'm only 21, but at the moment I'm rather fond of said trio's version of "Puff the Magic Dragon" :)

[mac56]

42. I used to play that on my radio show.

"Kids," I would say, "your high school ring just isn't worth it. Take it from me, five years after graduation you won't even know where it is!"

[last_texas_dem]

31. A few

"Black" by Pearl Jam
"Don't Want to Say Goodbye" by The Raspberries
"I Never Cry" by Alice Cooper
"Gone Away" by the Offspring
"Goodbye to You" by Michelle Branch
"Not Even the Trees" by Hootie and the Blowfish
"Hard Habit to Break" by Chicago
"I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry" by Hank Williams (or BJ Thomas)
"Endless Farewell" by Soul Asylum
"Without You" by Nilsson or Badfinger
"The Emptyness(sic)" by Hall and Oates

Off the top of my head, just a few that get to me. I'm feeling down already...

Maybe I just cry too much. :-)

[noiretextatique]

33. i, who have nothing

Lyrics by: Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller

I, I who have nothing
I, I who have no one
Adore you, and want you so
I'm just a no one,
With nothing to give you but Oh
I Love You

He, He buys you diamonds
Bright, sparkling diamonds
But believe me, dear when I say,
That he can give you the world,
But he'll never love you the way
I Love You

He can take you anyplace he wants
To fancy clubs and restaurants
But I can only watch you with
My nose pressed up against the window pane
I, I who have nothing
I, I who have no one
Must watch you, go dancing by
Wrapped in the arms of somebody else
When darling it's I
Who Loves you

I Love You
I Love You
I Love You

here's a sample of the luther vandross/martha wash version...awesome!
http://entertainment.msn.com/album/?album=440373

also..."Ne Me Quitte Pas"...i'm partial to nina simone's interpretation.

[PurityOfEssence]

34. Karen Carpenter singing "Superstar" (Leon Russell & Bonnie Bramlett)

Long ago, and oh so far away
I fell in love with you before the second show
your guitar, it sounds so sweet and clear, but you're not really here
It's just the radio...

Don't you remember you told me you loved me baby...?

(fill in the rest at your own risk...)

[CBHagman]

37. "It Makes No Difference" by the Band

Rick Danko, as emotionally vulnerable a singer as you would ever find, contributes a vocal that will break your heart.

Richard Manuel's vocal on "The Great Pretender" also gets me every time.

And I spent part of the Sunday after 9/11 listening to John McDermott's version of "Green Fields of France," a song my Irish neighbor used to sing. The lyrics seemed eerily appropriate, given that the admninistration had skipped mourning and moved straight to sabre-rattling.

[mac56]

38. Forgot about "It Makes No Difference"!

Great heartbreak song. The version from "The Last Waltz" with Garth's sax solo gets me every time.

[Bossy Monkey]

55. Also from Last Waltz, Manuel singing "The Shape I'm In"

It doesn't so much make me cry as make me infinitely sad, 'cause oh we didn't know the shape he was in.

[mac56]

62. I also really love "The Weight"

done by The Band and The Staple Singers.

[CBHagman]

39. And I forgot about "Keep Your Distance"

...which is another Richard Thompson gem and also comes from the album "Rumour and Sigh." I dearly want to hear a number of people cover that song, as much as I love Thompson's rendition of it.

"It's a desperate game we play, throw our souls, our lives away..."

[mac56]

41. How about "How I Wanted To"?

From "Hand of Kindness".

When we parted just like friends
We never tied loose ends
I could never say the words that would make amends

Oh how I wanted to
Oh how I wanted to
To say I loved you
To say I loved you
Oh how I wanted to

From my blue room did you creep
A love too rare to keep
Well I heard your step and I turned my head to weep

Oh how I wanted to...

Now hearts do what hearts will
And my nights are sleepless still
Well I never was the one to speak my fill

Oh how I wanted to...

[jonnyblitz]

40. "Mandy" by Barry Manilow makes me sob uncontrollably.

I am sure you understand.

[SyracuseDemocrat]

54. me too

:(

[MissMillie]

44. Allison Krauss and Union Station....

"New Favorite"

[RandomKoolzip]

45. "God Bless the USA (Proud to be an American)" by Lee Greenwood

ouch!! Stop hitting me!!

[NYYFan]

47. Abraham, Martin and John

Also Nightshift by the Commodores.

[catpower2000]

48. Billy Bragg makes me cry like a baby...

His first two albums are chock-full of terrible/wonderful breakup music. Terrible because it makes you cry until your eyes close up from being swollen, wonderful because it lets you cry like that and you feel better afterward.

Here's one called "St Swithen's Day":

Thinking back now,
I suppose you were just stating your views
What was it all for
For the weather or the battle of agincourt
And the times that we all hoped would last
Like a train they have gone by so fast
And though we stood together
At the edge of the platform
We were not moved by them


With my own hands
When I make love to your memory
It’s not the same
I miss the thunder
I miss the rain
And the fact that you don’t understand
Casts a shadow over this land
But the sun still shines from behind it.


Thanks all the same
But I just can’t bring myself to answer your letters
It’s not your fault
But your honesty touches me like a fire
The polaroids that hold us together
Will surely fade away
Like the love that we spoke of forever
On st swithin’s day

AARGH. My old roommate used to call it "slit your wrists music". There's another song by him, and I can't remember what it's called or which album it's on. All I remember is part of the lyric:

And now the bells across the river call out your name
I had a dream that we were lovers still

It can still bring me to tears.

Also, the Sinead O'Conner version of "Nothing Compares To You" will reduce me to a blubbering mess pretty quickly.

Cat

[Lurking Dem]

49. I always cry

when I hear Fisher sing I Will Love You.

>sniff<

http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/14/fisher1.html

[onager]

53. Another John Prine, Becoming More Relevant Every Day...

Sam Stone came home to his wife and family
After serving in the conflict overseas
And the time that he served, had shattered all his nerves
And left a little shrapnel in his knees
But the morphine eased the pain
And the grass grew around his brain
And gave him all the confidence he lacked
With a Purple Heart and a monkey on his back

(Chorus)
There's a hole in Daddy's arm where all the money goes
And Jesus Christ died for nothing, I suppose
Little pitchers have big ears, don't stop to count the tears
Sweet songs never last too long on broken radios

Sam Stone's welcome home, it didn't last too long
He went to work when he'd spent his last dime
Then Sammy took to dealing, when he got that empty feeling
For a hundred-dollar habit without overtime
But the smack rolled thru his veins
Like a thousand railroad trains
And eased his mind in the hours that he chose
While his kids ran around wearing other people's clothes

Sam Stone was alone, when he popped his last balloon
Climbing walls while sitting in a chair
And as they played his last request, the room smelled just like death
With an overdose a-hovering in the air
Ah, but life had lost its fun, and there was nothing to be done
But trade the house that he bought on the G.I. Bill
For a flag-draped coffin on a local Hero's Hill

[kayell]

60. That breaks my heart everytime I hear it

I remember seeing so many of those vets come home so messed up by what they'd seen and been through.

[sugarcookie]

56. Worse That Could Happen

by The Brooklyn Bridge

Girl, I heard you're getting married
Heard you're getting married, this time you're really sure
And this is the end, they say you really mean it
This guy's the one that makes you feel so safe, so sane and so secure
And, baby, if he loves you more than me
Maybe it's the best thing
Maybe it's the best thing for you
But it's the worst that could happen to me

I'll never get married
Never get married, you know that's not my scene
But a girl like you needs to be married
I've known all along you couldn't live forever in between
And, baby, if he loves you more than me
Maybe it's the best thing
Maybe it's the best thing for you
But it's the worst that could happen to me

And, girl, I don't really blame you for having a dream of your own
Hey, girl, I don't really blame you
A woman like you needs a house and a home, baby
If he really loves you more than me
Maybe it's the best thing
Maybe it's the best thing for you
But it's the worst that could happen

Oh, girl, don't wanna get married
Girl, I'm never, never gonna marry, no no
No, it's the worst that could happen
The worst that could happen
Oh, girl, the worst that could happen

Two nights before my wedding an old boyfriend called me. Everytime I hear this song I think of him.

Edit: spelling and text

[oneighty]

57. Daniel, My Brother

But then what do I know?

180

[Cocoa]

58. "Little Green" by Joni Mitchell

"Old Blue" by the Byrds.

Kids and dead dogs, they get me every time.

[bocadem]

59. Silent Lucidity (Queensryche)

.. that one always got to me.

[Paragon]

61. "Wise Up" - Aimee Mann

So just give up.

[GAspnes]

63. "Crying," by Roy Orbison

of course.