Songs which bring a tear (or two) to your eye

[Zomby Woof]

I'll name two: "Simple Man" by Lynyrd Skynyrd and "Searching For A Heart" by Warren Zevon.



:cry:



:hi: :donut: Good Morning!

[KitchenWitch]

1. Janis Joplin's "Me and Bobby McGee"

Reminds me of a friend who committed suicide.

:cry:

[Zomby Woof]

6. Written by Rhodes Scholar...

Kris Kristofferson. Although he is such a horrible singer I am glad that song was covered, lol. :-)

[KitchenWitch]

37. Agreed

Love the song. Even if it does make me cry!

:donut:

[MiniMandaRuth]

2. "Hurt" by Johnny Cash comes to mind.

[Zomby Woof]

8. The video just compounds it

The way June is looking at him breaks your heart. I knew once she was gone, he wasn't far behind. At the time, his health was already fragile. :-(

[SPKrazy]

16. Yup

you can see it in the video, his pain, his health, the June video superimposed on it is pain.

He was all about June.

:-(

[atomic-fly]

137. agree

[EnviroBat]

68. We cover that song! The crowd loves it!

I almost tear up when I'm singing it cause I'm a big sap...

[Phillycat]

3. "Must I Paint You A Picture" by Billy Bragg.

Good god. Breakup music in the slit-your-wrists category.

[Zomby Woof]

Bragg is a personal favorite

I saw him in Seattle maybe 9 (?) years ago, sitting in the front row. I exchanged some hilarious banter with him at a few points, when he spun yarns about Woody Guthrie. It was a fantastic show, and when he does pull the heartstrings, he is a master.

[atomic-fly]

138. one of my favorites also.

it seems he'd be more vocal these days?

[SPKrazy]

4. Landslide

Fleetwood Mac
Smashing Pumpkins
Dixie Chicks

Mac did the best, brings back the tears the most, but the remakes are powerful too.
---------
I took my love, I took it down
Climbed a mountain and I turned around
I saw my reflection in the snow covered hills
till the landslide brought me down

Oh, mirror in the sky
What is love
Can the child within my heart rise above
Can I sail thru the changing ocean tides
Can I handle the seasons of my life

Well, Ive been afraid of changing
cause Ive built my life around you
But time makes you bolder
Children get older
Im getting older too

Oh, take my love, take it down
Climb a mountain and turn around
If you see my reflection in the snow covered hills
Well the landslide will bring it down

If you see my reflection in the snow covered hills
Well maybe the landslide will bring it down

[Zomby Woof]

10. Good choice

I like the Dixie Chicks version a lot. Lots of rock songs are secretly country. :-)

[BarenakedLady]

11. Oh yes that one makes me cry too!

:cry:

[SPKrazy]

21. Yeah, It brings me back a few years

to a time that if I dwell on it will bring me down like a landslide!

[EnviroBat]

69. Aw geeze, here come the water works...

:cry:

[Dinger]

5. Wind Beneath My Wings

Damn, just typing that made me misty

[SPKrazy]

7. Stop It!

that is a misty one

but it pisses me off no end when it gets me!

:hi:

[Zomby Woof]

14. Go get some tissue!

[BarenakedLady]

9. Mine...

"Mad World" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DD0n8xnUWf8

"War On Drugs" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLZFBfjo3TM

"Chasing Cars" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4p_QvmEiJuE

"Let There Be Morning" - The Perishers (http://www.myspace.com/theperishers): lyrics

Now the end is drawing near
I can’t believe it’s finally here
Take some time to pray for me
For what will be

Let the sun rise
Let the birds sing
Let there be light
Let there be morning
I don’t know how
I made it till now
Let there be light
Let there be morning

Hello future goodbye past
Now each breath can be my last
Will I see another dawn?
Will I be reborn?

[Zomby Woof]

15. I'll take your word for it

I don't do youtube at home because we don't have DSL available! :-)

[BarenakedLady]

26. Awww that's too bad.

They are all tear jerkers. :cry:

[Mad_Dem_X]

12. Let's see...

"Vincent" - Don McLean

"Empty Garden (Hey Hey Johnny)" - Elton John

"Same Auld Lang Syne" - Dan Fogelberg

Those are the only ones I can think of now; there are plenty of 'em.

[Zomby Woof]

17. Haven't heard those in years

[KitchenWitch]

41. "Vincent" actually induces far more than just a tear in my eyes

Deep gutteral sobbing is more like it.

[Mad_Dem_X]

109. Me, too, actually

Esp. when he sings about Vincent taking his own life. It makes me think of my cousin. "This world was never meant for one as beautiful as you." :cry: O8)

[slj0101]

13. "Angel" by Sarah Maclachlan.

That song makes me blubber like a little child.

[SPKrazy]

18. Yes, That Is Another One

along the lines of hurt for me

:(

[Zomby Woof]

19. Put plastic lining over your keyboard!

[huskerlaw]

20. Hallelujah

Leonard Cohen, Jeff Buckley, k.d. lang...

i heard there was a secret chord
that david played and it pleased the lord
but you don't really care for music, do you
well it goes like this the fourth, the fifth
the minor fall and the major lift
the baffled king composing hallelujah

hallelujah...

well your faith was strong but you needed proof
you saw her bathing on the roof
her beauty and the moonlight overthrew you
she tied you to her kitchen chair
she broke your throne and she cut your hair
and from your lips she drew the hallelujah

hallelujah...

baby i've been here before
i've seen this room and i've walked this floor
i used to live alone before i knew you
i've seen your flag on the marble arch
but love is not a victory march
it's a cold and it's a broken hallelujah

hallelujah...

well there was a time when you let me know
what's really going on below
but now you never show that to me do you
but remember when i moved in you
and the holy dove was moving too
and every breath we drew was hallelujah

well, maybe there's a god above
but all i've ever learned from love
was how to shoot somebody who outdrew you
it's not a cry that you hear at night
it's not somebody who's seen the light
it's a cold and it's a broken hallelujah

hallelujah...

[Zomby Woof]

22. Beats Handel any day

;-)

Hey! Teena and I were talking sushi last night. Soon we shall gather! :hi:

[huskerlaw]

27. Oooooh!

You know I'm game!

:hi:

(and yeah...beats the hell out of Handel)

[Strawman]

34. I love John Cale's cover of that song

I think it's actually in movie Shrek. Maybe that's corny, but I think he sings it beautifully.

[GenDem]

36. Such a powerful song

on so many levels. I like the Buckley version, and it makes it even sadder because he's gone.

[B3Nut]

115. Buckley's version is the best

Ethereal, amazing vocals and absolutely stunning guitar work. Another musical genius gone too soon. :cry:

Todd in Beerbratistan

[Strawman]

23. The Book of Love - Magnetic Fields

It's a beautiful song.

[Zomby Woof]

28. I admit I don't know that one

Always seeking new info though.

[Zookeeper]

60. I have the Magnetic Fields CD....

"I." I like the song, "I Don't Believe You."

I'll check out "The Book of Love."

[Strawman]

73. This song is on 69 Love Songs

I think I Don't Believe You is on "i" (the album where all the songs begin with the letter i).

[Zookeeper]

75. No, Book of Love isn't on the "i" CD I have...

somewhere in my messy house ( :eyes: ), but I found it on-line at the Public Radio Music Source and will listen to a sample. :hi:

[MorningGlow]

24. Two odd ones

"Christmas Wrapping" by the Waitresses--for some reason I always get choked up at the end--must be the happy ending and all.

And "Christians and the Pagans" by Dar Williams--it's a funny song overall, about family members, some Christian, some Pagan, trying to connect over Christmas dinner. But one section especially gets me:

The food was great, the tree plugged in
The meal had gone without a hitch
When Timmy turned to Amber and said
'Is it true that you're a witch?'

His mom jumped up and said 'The pies are burning.'
And she hit the kitchen
And it was Jane who spoke, she said
'It's true your cousin's not a Christian.

But we love trees, we love the snow
The friends we have, the world we share
And you find magic from your God
And we find magick everywhere.'

So the Christians and the Pagans
Sat together at the table
Finding strength and common ground
The best that they were able.

Where does magic come from?
I think magic's in the learning
'Cause now when Christians sit with Pagans
Only pumpkin pies are burning.


Zoinks--here come the waterworks--just from typing that! Sheesh.

[Zomby Woof]

29. Cool!

I never heard that one, but I like the lyrics.

[MorningGlow]

40. It is very cool

Long, like a true storytelling-type ballad, so I didn't want to dump the whole thing here. But worth a listen. Dar Williams is a genius, her songs true poetry--when she yanks your heartstrings, they stay yanked (check out "February"--it's not just the words, but the word/melody combo that kills)--she should be MUCH more famous.

February

I threw your keys in the water, I looked back,
Theyd frozen halfway down in the ice.
They froze up so quickly, the keys and their owners,
Even after the anger, it all turned silent, and
The everyday turned solitary,
So we came to February.

First we forgot where we'd planted those bulbs last year,
Then we forgot that we'd planted at all,
Then we forgot what plants are altogether,
and I blamed you for my freezing and forgetting and
The nights were long and cold and scary,
Can we live through February?

You know I think Christmas was a long red glare,
Shot up like a warning, we gave presents without cards,
And then the snow,
And then the snow came, we were always out shoveling,
And we'd drop to sleep exhausted,
Then we'd wake up, and it's snowing.

And February was so long that it lasted into March
And found us walking a path alone together.
You stopped and pointed and you said, "Thats a crocus,"
And I said, "Whats a crocus?" and you said, "Its a flower,"
I tried to remember, but I said, "Whats a flower?"
You said, "I still love you."

The leaves were turning as we drove to the hardware store,
My new lover made me keys to the house,
And when we got home, well we just started chopping wood,
Because you never know how next year will be,
And well gather all our arms can carry,
I have lost to February.

[Burma Jones]

25. Iris DeMent, Walkin Home

I'm walkin' home tonight
The streets are glowing 'neath the pale moonlight
I look around, there's not a soul in sight
and I'm walkin' home
Once again I hear my mother's voice
and all us kids making a bunch of noise
If I'm not careful I might start to cry
Just walkin' home tonight

I turn my head and hear the screen door slam
and there he is, that tall and dark-haired man
He looks my way but all alone he stands
and I am walkin' home
He's my Dad, you know I was his girl
He taught me all he knew about this world
and then he traveled right on out of sight
and I'm just walkin' home tonight

I'm walkin' home tonight
The streets are glowing 'neath the pale moonlight
I look around, there's not a soul in sight
and I am walkin' home

Old worn-out couches and a bunch of kids
Four to a bedroom and all Mom's plates were chipped
but I never knew about the things I missed
and I'm walkin' home
You see, it's just the place where I come from
and, good or bad, it's where the deal was done
Mom and Dad, their daughters and their sons
and I'm just walkin' home tonight

I'm walkin' home tonight
The streets are glowing 'neath the pale moonlight
I look around, there's not a soul in sight
and I'm walkin' home
Once again I hear my mother's voice
and all us kids making a bunch of noise
If I'm not careful I might start to cry
Just walkin' home tonight

[Zomby Woof]

30. Thanks for posting

I was too lazy to retrieve the lyrics for mine, lol.

[nini]

31. Ava Maria --- if it's sung right

My Catholic roots are showing. :D

[Zomby Woof]

33. At the CYO??

:P

I need to get my ass on my errands!! I need to wash the tire treads off my back too. :loveya:

[nini]

42. No CYO here

O8)


I left you a voice mail on your phone. I had the times wrong for going to Mary Anne's.... ugh It's 6:30 or so, not 4:30.

[Zomby Woof]

44. D'oh!

Do you still want me to fix something? I have something simple and light planned. :loveya:

[nini]

50. Sure, if you want.

I wanted to just veg tonight but I guess not :-(



:loveya:

[nini]

32. DANNY BOY at a funeral

:cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:

[Zomby Woof]

35. And you're not even Irish!

Begorrah, lass! :cry:

[nini]

39. It was at Mrs Kaveney's funeral

An old friend of the family my Dad adored. WWWAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH

[Phillycat]

47. Oh god, yeah.

I'm italian but I've gone to several Irish funerals in my life, and this is a killer. Even the grown men start sobbing, which is enough to set me off. :cry:

[Joey Liberal]

144. Oh, that brings back some memories

My father was an Irishman ans I heard many a rendition of Danny Boy in my youth. When my father passed away, he was buried in a green coffin and had a bagpipe playing at his funeral. He was a prick though.................

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

38. The Needle and the Damage done

Neil Young

[Zomby Woof]

45. Yep

That song, and "Tonight's The Night" do it for me.

[kmla]

43. "Puff, the Magic Dragon".

That whole song takes on a new meaning if you have two young sons who are getting bigger by the day...

[Zomby Woof]

46. I can see that!

The way "Cat's In The Cradle" gets to some people, for a different reason.

[Book Lover]

64. My sister used to sing it to me when I was a young child

I didn't cry then, but I wondered why she sang a song that made her sad... now that I have a child, of course I understand why...

[Arkansas Granny]

48. Back Home Again by John Denver. I get a lump in my throat

everytime I hear it and can't sing along without absolutely boohooing.

[Zomby Woof]

49. It'll be okay!

:hug:

[jobycom]

85. John Denver did that regularly to me

Back Home Again, Country Roads, even Calypso... His tragic death makes it even sadder.

[Momgonepostal]

51. Cat's in the Cradle/Harry Chapin

[lizziegrace]

52. Lelapin will kill me for this, but

"Leader of the Band" by Dan Fogelberg makes her cry. Her dad's a musician and conductor.

When she was little (no more than 3), Richard Marx' "Right Here Waiting" made her sob.

[Mad_Dem_X]

119. "Leader of the Band" - yes

Dan Fogelberg seems to have lots of songs that get to me:

"Leader of the Band"
"Same Auld Lang Syne"
"Run For The Roses"

[stuntcat]

53. The Tigers Have Spoken by Neko Case

I get weepy just typing it :(

[Left Is Write]

54. A list...

I Will Remember You - Sarah McLachlan
How Can I Help You To Say Goodbye - Patty Loveless
Allison Road - Gin Blossoms
100 Years - Five For Fighting
The Boxer - Simon & Garfunkel
Scarlet Ribbons - Harry Belafonte
He Stopped Loving Her Today - George Jones
When You Say Nothing At All - both the original by Keith Whitley and the Allison Krauss remake
Private Conversation - Lyle Lovett
There She Goes - the Las
We Just Disagree - Dave Mason (in part because of the sad story of the man who wrote the song, who was my old boss's college roommate)
Talk About The Passion - REM

[Jo March]

55. "'Cause Cheap Is How I Feel"

by the Cowboy Junkies. Reminds me of someone I used to know (or thought I knew). Sigh.

It's the kind of night that's so cold, when you spit
it freezes before it hits the ground
And when a bum asks you for a quarter, you give a dollar
if he's out tonight he must be truly down
And I'm searching all the windows for a last minute present
to prove to you that what I said was real,
for something small and frail and plastic, baby,
'cause cheap is how I feel

Half moon in the sky tonight, bright enough
to come up with an answer
to the question why is it that every time I see you
my love grows a little stronger
But your memory leaves my stomach churning,
feeling like a lie about to be revealed,
but I'll horde all this to myself
'cause cheap is how I feel

It's not the smell in here that gets to me it's the lights
I hate the shadows that they cast,
and the sound of clinking bottles is the one sure thing
I'll always drag with me from my past
I think I'll find a pair of eyes tonight, to fall into
and maybe strike a deal
Your body for my soul, fair swap
`cause cheap is how I feel

[Jo March]

56. "Etcetera Whatever" by Over the Rhine

Etcetera Whatever
words and music: Detweiler
recording: Good Dog Bad Dog

Don't speak.
Words come out your eyes.
You're wet with this nightmare.
Like thorns you hold these secrets to your breast,
your slender fingers closing into fists.

Trace your bruise
like a guilty streak.
Hold the pain.
You're a connoisseur.
You think you have no other gift to give,
but we have so much left to live.

We don't need a lot of money.
We'll be sleeping on the beach,
keeping oceans within reach.
(Whatever private oceans we can conjure up for free.)
I will stumble there with you
and you'll be laughing close with me,
trying not to make a scene
etcetera. Whatever. I guess all I really mean

is we're gonna be alright.
Yeah, we're gonna be alright.
You can close your eyes tonight,
'cause we're gonna be alright.

So come on now,
I can almost see
that place
on a distant shore.
And courage is a weapon we must use
to find some life you can't refuse.

We don't need a lot of money.
We'll be sleeping on the beach,
keeping oceans within reach.
(Whatever private oceans we can conjure up for free.)
I will stumble there with you
and you'll be laughing close with me,
trying not to make a scene
etcetera. Whatever. I guess all I really mean

is we're gonna be alright.
Yeah, we're gonna be alright.
You can close your eyes tonight,
'cause we're gonna be alright.
All that I can see is your eyes.
Close your eyes.
Close your eyes.

[Jo March]

57. oops - dupe

I was a bit too impatient.

[Zookeeper]

58. This is really corny, but...

"I'm So Lonesome," by Hank Williams (the first). His voice just gets me and I don't even like country music.

[blondeatlast]

130. Oh yes! That song IS what lonesome is. nt

[Bossy Monkey]

59. Steve Earle, "Valentine's Day"; Norman & Nancy Blake, "Billy Gray"; Zevon: "Keep Me in Your Heart"

to name three. Tears of rage sometimes come associated with "Maria Novarro" by Was (Not Was), Open Letter (to a Landlord) by Living Colour, and "Country at War" by X, to name three more. Friends have learned the hard way just not to talk to me when the latter is playing.

[Zookeeper]

63. The X song...

"Hit and Run Pauline" always upsets me. Especially after finding out that X stopped performing it because it had become an anthem of sorts for boneheaded creeps at their shows. :puke:

X had a very moving sound, anyway (IMHO).

[blondeatlast]

133. I just found out recently that Exene is now a school librarian and very

happy with it!

I think that's just quite cool.

FWIW, Riding With Mary and Come Back to Me as they were written about Exene's sister, who died in a car accident just one week after her marriage. Both of them just turn me into blubber.

[Zomby Woof]

82. The Zevon is a good choice

From his farewell album.... :cry:

And I would like to add the entire "Magic and Loss" album by Lou Reed. Pure catharsis.

[Va Lefty]

101. I agree with Zevon's "Keep Me In Your Heart"...

We lost him far too soon. Also "The Long and Winding Road" by The Beatles-to me it represents the end of the sixties as well as the end of The Beatles

[u4ic]

61. Universal Soldier - Buffy Ste Marie

Livin' in Shame - the Supremes
Carol of the Bells - Percy Faith
Cat's in the Cradle - Harry Chapin

[Phillycat]

62. Another one: Blue Valentines by Tom Waits.

Look at these lyrics. GENIUS:

She sends me blue valentines
All the way from Philadelphia
To mark the anniversary
Of someone that I used to be
And it feels just like theres
A warrant out for my arrest
Got me checkin in my rearview mirror
And I'm always on the run
Thats why I changed my name
And I didn't think you'd ever find me here

To send me blue valentines
Like half forgotten dreams
Like a pebble in my shoe
As I walk these streets
And the ghost of your memory
Is the thistle in the kiss
And the burgler that can break a roses neck
It's the tatooed broken promise
That I hide beneath my sleeve
And I see you every time I turn my back

She sends me blue valentines
Though I try to remain at large
They're insisting that our love
Must have a eulogy
Why do I save all of this madness
In the nightstand drawer
There to haunt upon my shoulders
Baby I know
I'd be luckier to walk around everywhere I go
With a blind and broken heart
That sleeps beneath my lapel

She sends me my blue valentines
To remind me of my cardinal sin
I can never wash the guilt
Or get these bloodstains off my hands
And it takes a lot of whiskey
To take this nightmares go away
And I cut my bleedin heart out every nite
And I die a little more on each St. Valentines day
Remember that I promised I would
Write you...
These blue valentines
blue valentines
blue valentines

[DixieBlue]

65. A few ...

Oh, My Sweet Carolina -- Ryan Adams
Butterfly -- Weezer
Sullivan Street -- Counting Crows
Engine -- Neutral Milk Hotel

[XemaSab]

66. "The Mountain" as sung by Steve Earle

:cry:

[PRETZEL]

67. I have too many but this one always gives me pause

and that's "The Last Resort" by the Eagles.

[rhiannon55]

102. That's my favorite Eagles song

I love the Last Resort.

[TX-RAT]

70. TAPS

Does it every time.

[EnviroBat]

71. Mmmm Mmmmm Mmmmm Mmmmm, by the Crash Test Dummies.

I always felt sorry for the kid who had it worse than that... It could also be because an ex-fiance turned me on to that album.

[atomic-fly]

139. good song.

[Rabrrrrrr]

72. All songs about a mime being soaked in gasoline and set afire while still live

Little tears of joy I shed. I do!

[BarenakedLady]

74. I forgot one...

"Stairway to Heaven" because it will always remind me of it being played at my friend's funeral after she committed suicide in '88. For a long time, I couldn't listen to it at all.

[Dastard Stepchild]

76. Grandaddy - Jed's Other Poem...

I was reading some particularly sad letters one of the times I was listening to this song, and now, like Pavlov's dog, I get a lump in my throat when hearing it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gxe40xXQKko

Also... my mother used to sing me "you are my sunshine," and sometimes, every now and then, I'll think of the song and get a little misty.

[Broken_Hero]

77. Open Arms, Journey

and most Chicago songs....Mad World, and a few others...some REM songs come to mind....

[Lyric]

78. A few of mine:

Hallelujah, cover by Rufus Wainwright
My Immortal, by Evanescence
Annie's Song, by John Denver (not because it's sad--just because it's simple and pure and beautiful)
There You'll Be, by Faith Hill (song from the Pearl Harbor movie)
Travelin' Soldier, by the Dixie Chicks
Little Rock, by Collin Raye
That's Why I'm Here, by Kenny Chesney
Go Rest High On That Mountain, by Vince Gill (Played it at my Dad's funeral, and it's carved in his tombstone. I can't hear it without breaking down.)
Daddy's Hands, by Holly Dunn (another one played at my Dad's funeral)

If it's a song about a child dying, I break down. There's one called "Streets of Heaven" by some female country singer that kills me. Lyrics and video link below.

Streets of Heaven, by Sherrie Austin

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31xfIuz-54k

Hello God, it's me again. 2:00 a.m., Room 304.
Visiting hours are over, time for our bedside tug of war.
This sleeping child between us may not make it through the night.
I'm fighting back the tears as she fights for her life.

Well it must be kind of crowded
On the streets of Heaven
So tell me, What do you need her for?
Don't you know one day she'll be your little girl forever?
But right now I need her so much more
She's much too young to be on her own
Barely just turned seven.
So who will hold her hand when she crosses the streets of Heaven?

Tell me God, do you remember the wishes that she made,
As she blew out the candles on her last birthday cake?
She wants to ride a pony when she's big enough.
She wants to marry her Daddy when she's all grown up.

Well it must be kind of crowded
On the streets of Heaven
So tell me, What do you need her for?
Don't you know one day she'll be your little girl forever?
But right now I need her so much more
She's much too young to be on her own
Barely just turned seven.
So who will hold her hand when she crosses the streets of Heaven?

Don't you know she's my angel?
You've got plenty of your own
And I know you hold a place for her
But she's already got a home
Well I don't know if you're listening
But praying's all that's left to do
So I ask you Lord have mercy
You lost a son once too...

And it must be kind of crowded
On the streets of Heaven
So tell me, What do you need her for?
Don't you know one day she'll be your little girl forever?
But right now I need her so much more
Lord, I know once you've made up your mind
There's no use in begging

So if you take her with you today
Will you make sure she looks both ways?
And would you hold her hand when she crosses the streets of Heaven?...

[mentalsolstice]

79. Call to Heaven by Patty Smyth

Cannons roared, in the valley they thundered
While the guns lit up the night
Then it rained and both sides wondered
Who is wrong and who is right

On the wire like a ragged old scarecrow
Bloody hands and broken back
When they fire see him pirouette solo
Jump in time to the rat-a-tat

What a night though it's one of seven
What a night for the dancing dead
What a night to be called to heaven
What a picture to fill your head

By the wall in silhouette standing
Through a flash of sudden light
Cigarette from his mouth just hanging
Paper square to his heart pinned tight

Gather 'round reluctant marksmen
One of them to take his life
With a smile he gives them pardon
Leaves the dark and takes the light

They dispatch their precious cargo
Knock him back right off his feet
And they pray may no one follow
Better still to face the beast

When the field has become a garden
And the wall has stood the test
Children play and the dogs run barking
Who would think or who would guess

[newsdude]

80. "Vapour Trail" by Ride and "Queen of Cans and Jars" Guided By Voices

NM

[idgiehkt]

81. Because of You - Kelly Clarkson

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bqj-n0IG1Ik

[crim son]

88. That's one of mine, too.

My daughter thinks I'm crazy and I tell her that she may understand it some day; but I hope that's not true.

[Shell Beau]

83. Bye Bye Miss American Pie by Don McLean

Such a sad song

[Tikki]

84. This one.....not because it's sad...

there is just a very personal reason this song gets to me, everytime.
"Steppin' Out"....Joe Jackson



Tikki

[Ptah]

86. Sunrise, Sunset

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4CWgQQGyr4

[Sequoia]

122. Beautiful song that's for sure.

Great video, I'd never heard his verson. The International Dateline pic was cool! And yes, I got a lump in my throat and lost my eyeliner. Thanks.

[Ptah]

127. Those are my children.

:hi:

:hug:

[blondeatlast]

135. Now that I have a son, boy, do I understand...

I can't listen anymore, I just can't. :cry:

[crim son]

87. "We Might As Well Be Strangers" by Keane,

"Without You" by Rosario Dawson, from "Rent". I can't even listen to them.
"Always On Your Side" Cheryl Crow and Sting

I just put on "Without You" to test it. Yup, I'm crying.

[Ikonoklast]

89. 'The Minstrel Boy' by Thomas Moore

Old Irish Nationalist tune my Dad always sang.











By the way, F.T.B.

[emmadoggy]

90. Lennon's "Imagine", Sarah McLachlan's "I Will Remember You"...

Mary Chapin Carpenter's "John Doe #24" and "The End of My Pirate Days"
"Somewhere Over the Rainbow" - I especially like the version by Israel Kamakawiwo'ole.
A couple of the Folgelberg songs listed above are good ones, and I would add "Longer" (sung at my wedding)
"The Prayer" by Andrea Bocelli and Celine Dion
Funeral hymns - "Amazing Grace" and "The Old Rugged Cross"
Someone above mentioned "When You Say Nothing At All" but I prefer the Ronan Keating version

I'm sure there are others, but that's what I came up with for now.



:cry:

[Ariana Celeste]

91. Mad Season's "Long Gone Day"

Alice in Chains "Don't Follow"

Alice in Chains "Am I Inside"

[evirus]

92. Our Lady Peace's "In Repair"

only with the music video though
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQbCOh43CX8

[Generic Brad]

93. "Tears in Heaven" by Eric Clapton

I'm listening to it right now and I detect a tear, dammit.
:cry:

[MsKandice01]

94. "Strange Fruit" has been known to make me weep... n/t

[Rob H.]

95. This is gonna sound corny, but...

"Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want" by The Smiths, especially because I've been feeling like such a hapless bumbler where romance is concerned lately. :(

[CBHagman]

96. Not just a tear but the whole cascade.

I don't even need to name more than the title: Les Miserables, most of the score, but especially "I Dreamed a Dream," "Empty Chairs at Empty Tables" -- oh, I'm going to have to stop now. :cry:

"Empty Chairs at Empty Tables"

There's a grief that can't be spoken
There's a pain goes on and on
Empty chairs at empty tables
Now my friends are dead and gone

Here they talked of revolution
Here it was they lit the flame
Here they sang about tomorrow
And tomorrow never came.

From the table in the corner
They could see a world reborn
And they rose with voices ringing
I can hear them now!
The very words that they had sung
Became their last communion
On the lowly barricade..
At dawn.

Oh my friends, my friends forgive me.

That I live and you are gone
There's a grief that can't be spoken
There's a pain goes on and on

Phantom faces at the window
Phantom shadows on the floor
Empty chairs at empty tables
Where my friends will meet no more.

Oh my friends, my friends, don't ask me
What your sacrifice was for
Empty chairs at empty tables
Where my friends will sing no more...

[Zomby Woof]

97. Blind Willie McTell

A masterwork by Bob Dylan penned and recorded back in 1983... it gets me every time:

Seen the arrow on the doorpost
Saying, "This land is condemned
All the way from New Orleans
To Jerusalem."
I traveled through East Texas
Where many martyrs fell
And I know no one can sing the blues
Like Blind Willie McTell

Well, I heard the hoot owl singing
As they were taking down the tents
The stars above the barren trees
Were his only audience
Them charcoal gypsy maidens
Can strut their feathers well
But nobody can sing the blues
Like Blind Willie McTell

See them big plantations burning
Hear the cracking of the whips
Smell that sweet magnolia blooming
(And) see the ghosts of slavery ships
I can hear them tribes a-moaning
(I can) hear the undertaker's bell
(Yeah), nobody can sing the blues
Like Blind Willie McTell

There's a woman by the river
With some fine young handsome man
He's dressed up like a squire
Bootlegged whiskey in his hand
There's a chain gang on the highway
I can hear them rebels yell
And I know no one can sing the blues
Like Blind Willie McTell

Well, God is in heaven
And we all want what's his
But power and greed and corruptible seed
Seem to be all that there is
I'm gazing out the window
Of the St. James Hotel
And I know no one can sing the blues
Like Blind Willie McTell

[VelmaD]

98. "In Love With Your Ghost"...

by the Indigo Girls. Hits me like a ton of bricks every time.

[idgiehkt]

99. oh wow.

man. I can identify. Thanks Velma I haven't thought about that one in years, but that is so true.

[VelmaD]

100. Just thinking about it right now...

makes me want to cry. It makes me think of someone from my past. Someone I cared about but was never really allowed to have and I'm still not really alllowed to even want. :( I met the man who is the walking, living, breathing embodiment of what I find attractive when I was 19. And we had chemistry. And became close friends. And he was already taken and still is. *sigh*

I just keep telling myself...I got away. :)

[Jo March]

108. Oh, that is an awesome song

I had forgotten that one. It makes me cry, too. :cry:

[Mad_Dem_X]

111. Can you post the lyrics?

I just tried to look them up, but I couldn't find them.

[VelmaD]

113. I got the title wrong...it's just "Ghost"...and here ya go

There's a letter on the desktop
That I dug out of a drawer
The last truce we ever came to
In our adolescent war
And I start to feel the fever
From the warm air through the screen
You come regular like seasons
Shadowing my dreams

And the Mississippi's mighty
But it starts in Minnesota
At a place that you could walk across
With five steps down
And I guess that's how you started
Like a pinprick to my heart
But at this point you rush right through me
And I start to drown

And there's not enough room
In this world for my pain
Signals cross and love gets lost
And time passed makes it plain
Of all my demon spirits
I need you the most
I'm in love with your ghost
I'm in love with your ghost

Dark and dangerous like a secret
That gets whispered in a hush
(don't tell a soul)
When I wake the things I dreamt about you
Last night make me blush
(don't tell a soul)
And you kiss me like a lover
Then you sting me like a viper
I go follow to the river
Play your memory like a piper

And I feel it like a sickness
How this love is killing me
But I'd walk into the fingers
Of your fire willingly
And dance the edge of sanity
I've never been this close
I'm in love with your ghost

Unknowing captor
You never know how much you
Pierce my spirit
But I can't touch you
Can you hear it
A cry to be free
Oh I'm forever under lock and key
As you pass through me

Now I see your face before me
I would launch a thousand ships
To bring your heart back to my island
As the sand beneath me slips
As I burn up in your presence
And I know now how it feels
To be weakened like Achilles
With you always at my heels

This bitter pill I swallow
Is the silence that I keep
It poisons me I cant swim free
The river is too deep
Though I'm baptized by your touch
I am no worse than most
In love with your ghost

[Mad_Dem_X]

116. Oh my God...

What a beautiful song. I teared up just reading the words.

[rhiannon55]

103. Prayer 2000 by Eliza Gilkyson

Thank you for the sun
Thank you for the full moon
Thank you for my true love's face
And our lives in love consumed

Thank you for the stars
A home along the river
Thank you for the ancient groves
And the fishes brown and silver

Ponies running wild
Grass enough for grazing
Water flowing clean and pure
All the beauty that saves me

Thank you for the dawn
Ocean's rise and falling
Children born to carry on
And the end that's always calling

Thank you for the songs
Thanks for all my good luck
All the things that don't go wrong
And the hopes that don't give up

Thank you for my tears
Loved ones who forgave me
Thank you for my darkest years
All the sorrow that made me

Thank you for my tears
Loved ones who forgave me
Thank you for my darkest years
All the sorrow that made me
And the beauty that saved me

[Joey Liberal]

147. That is a great song/poem n/t

[Manifestor_of_Light]

104. Linda Ronstadt & Elgar

I've done everything I know to try and make you mine/And I think I'm gonna love you for a long, long time. (about a boyfriend who dumped me that I took some years to get over)

I had the CD of this played at my dad's funeral in a Methodist Church:
The Nimrod section of the Enigma Variations by Sir Edward Elgar, arranged for a capella choir as a "Lux Aeterna" (Eternal Light).

When they get to the climax of the piece they sing "Requiem Aeternam" (Eternal Rest) and it gets me when I remember hearing that at my dad's funeral. Probably the only time they played music sung in Latin in a little Methodist church!

The album is Called Agnus Dei I, Choir of New College Oxford, on the Erato label. Famous orchestral pieces arranged for choir and sung in Latin. The Samuel Barber "Adagio for Strings" is rendered as an "Agnus Dei".

Also has the "Cantique de Jean Racine" by Faure, "Ave Verum Corpus" by Mozart, and the Allegri Miserere.

Stunning. As good as The Tallis Scholars.
There is also a second volume.

[SKKY]

105. "With Arms wide open" by Creed

...Yep, I cry like a little baby at that one.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

106. Remember by Harry Nilsson

Life was clear......

Life is never as it seems

Remember

Life is only in a dream

Long ago
and far away
life was clear
close your eyes........dream

[raccoon]

107. Cat's in the Cradle. nt

[Mad_Dem_X]

117. Another good one. n/t

[Joey Liberal]

143. I enjoyed that song when I was drunk n/t

[SteppingRazor]

110. I'll say the same thing I say every time a "sad songs" thread comes up...

"The Band Played Waltzing Matilda"

If that song doesn't bring a tear to your eye, I don't know what will:

When I was a young man I carried my pack
And I lived the free life of a rover
From the Murrays green basin to the dusty outback
I waltzed my Matilda all over
Then in nineteen fifteen my country said Son
It's time to stop rambling 'cause there's work to be done
So they gave me a tin hat and they gave me a gun
And they sent me away to the war
And the band played Waltzing Matilda
As we sailed away from the quay
And amidst all the tears and the shouts and the cheers
We sailed off to Gallipoli

How well I remember that terrible day
How the blood stained the sand and the water
And how in that hell that they called Suvla Bay
We were butchered like lambs at the slaughter
Johnny Turk he was ready, he primed himself well
He chased us with bullets, he rained us with shells
And in five minutes flat he'd blown us all to hell
Nearly blew us right back to Australia
But the band played Waltzing Matilda
As we stopped to bury our slain
We buried ours and the Turks buried theirs
Then we started all over again

Now those that were left, well we tried to survive
In a mad world of blood, death and fire
And for ten weary weeks I kept myself alive
But around me the corpses piled higher
Then a big Turkish shell knocked me arse over tit
And when I woke up in my hospital bed
And saw what it had done, I wished I was dead
Never knew there were worse things than dying
For no more I'll go waltzing Matilda
All around the green bush far and near
For to hump tent and pegs, a man needs two legs
No more waltzing Matilda for me

So they collected the cripples, the wounded, the maimed
And they shipped us back home to Australia
The armless, the legless, the blind, the insane
Those proud wounded heroes of Suvla
And as our ship pulled into Circular Quay
I looked at the place where my legs used to be
And thank Christ there was nobody waiting for me
To grieve and to mourn and to pity
And the band played Waltzing Matilda
As they carried us down the gangway
But nobody cheered, they just stood and stared
Then turned all their faces away

And now every April I sit on my porch
And I watch the parade pass before me
And I watch my old comrades, how proudly they march
Reliving old dreams of past glory
And the old men march slowly, all bent, stiff and sore
The forgotten heroes from a forgotten war
And the young people ask, "What are they marching for?"
And I ask myself the same question
And the band plays Waltzing Matilda
And the old men answer to the call
But year after year their numbers get fewer
Some day no one will march there at all

Waltzing Matilda, Waltzing Matilda
Who'll come a waltzing Matilda with me
And their ghosts may be heard as you pass the Billabong
Who'll come-a-waltzing Matilda with me?

[kwassa]

112. MacArthur Park

Someone left my cake out in the rain.

[noonwitch]

114. The Flesh Failures/Let The Sunshine In from the Hair soundtrack

It always makes me cry, almost as much as the movie "Ordinary People" does.

[fudge stripe cookays]

118. "Sick of Food" American Music Club

"Reconsider Me" Warren Zevon
"Why" Annie Lennox

[Sequoia]

120. "Season in the Sun", a 1960s or 70s song.

About a young man who is going to die and is reflecting on life and all that he would miss.

[jus_the_facts]

121. I squall every time I listen to Soul Shine...sigh...

....just can't seem to help it. :cry:

[benEzra]

123. Judy Collins, "Cat's in the Cradle" (n/t)

[grace0418]

124. "Baby Mine" from Dumbo and "The Luckiest" from Ben Folds...

My husband will torture me by playing one or both of those songs just to see the waterworks. I can't help it. I cry EVERY time I hear them.

[Coventina]

153. "Baby Mine" always gets my vote. I'm crying just thinking about it.

Last night on "Nature" on PBS they showed two female elephants that had been in a circus together 25 years earlier. They were reunited at a sanctuary to live out the rest of their years.

They recognized each other immediately, and "embraced". It was one of the most moving things I have ever seen in my life. It was such a beautiful moment.

I'm bawling my eyes out right now.....

[cedahlia]

125. "Yellow Ledbetter" by Pearl Jam and "Bridge Over Troubled Water"

by Simon and Garfunkel, of course.

I am also not ashamed (maybe I should be, but I'm not! :P) to say that "My Heart Will Go On" by Celine Dion gets me, too.

Also, "Abraham, Martin and John", and several Tori Amos songs...probably a bunch of others I'm forgetting, too...I'm very sensitive and am easily moved by all forms of art.

[Mad_Dem_X]

126. I understand all the others, but...

"Yellow Ledbetter"? :shrug:

[sakabatou]

128. "Farewell" by Yoko Kanno

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxaEmuKBNE8

[musette_sf]

129. anything from "The Rising"

gets me every time. particularly "Empty Sky", "Nothing Man", and "You're Missing".

[NC_Nurse]

131. a few of mine:

"Run" by Snow Patrol
"Little Earthquakes" by Tori Amos
Beethoven's 9th Symphony (with the choir, of course)

[GoneOffShore]

132. Three songs that get me every time.

Eric Bogle's song "And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda"
The most moving anti war song ever written.

here's a link - http://www.fortunecity.com/tinpan/parton/2/matilda.html

"Le France" by Michel Sardou - his requiem for the SS France.

http://www.paroles.net/chansons/15234.htm

Steve Goodman's "City of New Orleans" - even more so now then when I first learned it.

edited to add links

[blondeatlast]

134. "I'll Say Goodbye to Love" by The Carpenters--Karen poured all her

emotion into that song--you can feel the real hurt in her beautiful voice.

[blondeatlast]

136. "Without You" by Harry Nilsson. nt

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

140. Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen, and Deportee by (can't remember)

[misanthrope]

141. ...Woody Guthrie?**nm

**

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

145. Yep, thanks. ... Senior moment.....nt

[stuntcat]

146. Hallelujah

This is The Song.. Listening to this song is as close to God as I can ever get I think. (well maybe a couple of classical tunes too.. but yeah..)

[Joey Liberal]

142. Daniel by Elton John n/t

[WritingIsMyReligion]

148. Definitely two Mac songs: "Landslide" and "Sara."

:cry::cry:

[rug]

149. Tangled up in blue

[abbeyco]

150. Hall & Oates - So Close

Not a super popular song for them but meaningful, nontheless:


They met on the dance floor in the old high school gym
He fell like a rock
She kinda liked him
And his heart beat like thunder as they moved cross the floor
But when the music was over she slipped out the door
Yeah a man loves a woman but he cant understand
Why shes sad when she stares at the ring on her hand
Then she sits in some club where the long shadows fall
Drops a coin in the jukebox not the phone on the wall

So close
Yet so far away
We believe in tomorrow and a better day
We lie down to sleep so close
Yet so far away

Theres a restless look in you eye tonight
Theres a secret hurt in my heart
And the dream that pulls us together girl
Is a dream that keeps us
So close
Yet so far away

Some people think if you really believe
Thats all you need to solve all the mysteries
Well I know someone who just heads for the sun
She says I dont wanna be wise, I just wanna stay young

<chorus>

Theres a restless look in your eye tonight
Theres a secret hurt in my heart
And the dream that pulls us together girl is a dream
Thats gonna tear us apart

[SoCalDemGrrl]

151. Eva Cassidy's version of "Fields of Gold" written by Sting especially poignant

since she passed away tragically of melanoma after recording it.

She also recorded one of the most haunting versions of "Somewhere

Over the Rainbow", guaranteed to give you chills if not tears.

[leftofthedial]

152. Tecumseh Valley (Townes)

is a real wrist-slitter

[Little Wing]

154. Wesley Willis

The New England Patriots whupped Charger ass

really

[reyd reid reed]

155. Several of them...

"In the Ghetto" never fails. I always....*always*....cry when I hear it.

:hug:

[bleedingheart]

156. anything by Yoko Ono....just makes me cry and cry

:evilgrin:

[carly denise pt deux]

157. hmmm

1. Forever by the Beach Boys
2. Honey-bobby goldsboro
3. That's my job-George Jones
4. Tears in Heaven-Eric Clapton
5. Time after time-cindy lauper

[sarge43]

158. These bring my tears

Dire Straits "Brothers in Arms"
Puccini's "Nessun dorma" (Placido Domingo rocks the house)
Allegri's "Miserere" (The Tallis Scholars)
Last movement of Beethoven's 6th (Bruno Walter)
Barber's "Adagio for Strings"
Bach's "Sheep May Safely Graze"
Ellington's, "In My Reverie"
"Stardust" (Nat King Cole)
Benny Goodman and Teddy Wilson's version of "Body and Soul"
Ray Charles' "America the Beautiful"

(Typo)

[enigmatic]

159. "Western Sky"- American Music Club

Never fails.