Are there Songs that Make you Cry when you hear them?

[Mike 03]

Because of associations, or perhaps they are just so beautiful, or maybe they trigger something inside you?

Or maybe you don't even know why they energize the reactions that they do.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Cat's in the Cradle.

I always get weepy when I hear it.

[Wapsie B]

8. Me too.

[emilyg]

16. Oh yes.

[boilerbabe]

63. That's a great song.......n/t

[blm]

66. Same here...but, Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald is the biggest dam buster for me.

Does anyone know where the love of God goes when the minutes turn into hours?

Now all that remains are the faces and names of the wives and the sons and the daughters.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

68. Most depressing pop song ever.

I remember when it was hot on the radio in the mid 1970s.

Couldn't listen to it. Even though I have no connection to Lake Superior or that part of the U.S.

What made it worse was the fact that it really happened.

[blm]

74. THAT'S why I still cry every time I hear it. It happened when I was a schoolgirl in Cleveland.

.

[Jamastiene]

2. Last Great American Whale by Lou Reed

Does it to me every single time. Also, Alleyways & Avenues by Rancid. Both songs hit me right where it counts.

[boilerbabe]

64. Do you have a link to the Lou Reed song?? n/t

[abq e streeter]

3. Thunder Road did for awhile--sang it at the funeral of one of my best friends

I had to rehearse singing it about 40 times the night before until I could finally get past "heaven's waitin' down along the track" without totally losing it. Got through it the next day though. It was a sad song for me for awhile after that, but time heals wounds, and its the same joyous anthem it always was now, which is why Tom's wife asked me to sing it for him in the first place. I don't think there's any song that makes me cry, but sometimes I can get kinda choked up listening to Jefferson Airplane's Today , and Coming Back to Me, and to Jonathan Richman's That Summer Feeling ( "is gonna haunt you the rest of your life")

[abq e streeter]

51. Someday We'll Know, by New Radicals comes close too

and for awhile, due to particular circumstances, I'm a Fool to Do Your Dirty Work, by Steely Dan ("I foresee terrible trouble and I stay here just the same") and The Moody Blues' Your Wildest Dreams ( "love was all we knew, and all I knew was you. I wonder if you know, I wonder if you think about it, once upon a time in your wildest dreams") To Elizabeth P. after all these years; misting up right now.........Several Tom Waits songs come to think of it; (jeez this has opened up some sort of sad memories...) Tom Traubert's Blues( "a battered old suitcase to a hotel someplace and a wound that will never heal") Burma Shave, Blue Valentine, Kentucky Avenue ( right title?--the one about the kid in a wheelchair)...

[derby378]

4. TIME by the Alan Parsons Project

It always gets me. Tells me that time isn't on my side, so I'd better make the most of what little time I have. Regret's a hell of a thing to live with - so I'd rather not.

[MrSlayer]

5. Anything by Creed.

Because they are so horrible.

[Arugula Latte]

12. *snicker*

:D

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

6. Funny you should ask

just today I was listening to Ripple and everytime I hear it the line "let it be known there is a fountain that was not made by the hands of men"
I can't explain it but this song resonates spirituality with me :shrug:

[libnnc]

7. "Company" by Rickie Lee Jones

[RandomThoughts]

9. Yes, but tears of joy,

But they seem to have a window, where they are special based on the immediate background they are in context to. They can be songs I heard many times with just appreciation, but at the right time they are really powerful, then later they return to being songs.

Really interesting, but I get moved by songs all the time, I find great joy in music.

Some are always special though, here are 3 I really like.

A Place Called Home
http://www.clipser.com/watch_video/659919

Nothing Compares to You
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuentpbZIMY

SongBird
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ea356JiyqM

[blue_roses_lib]

59. I'll start with these

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=py9T09cuoeQ I'll Be There - Escape Club. I start crying everytime I hear this.:cry: I just have to run this one in my head and I'm in tears.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wAsG9Uos0A Hold On My Heart - Genesis. Same thing - just sob.

Any somber Bagpipes... Amazing Grace, etc...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XP9SDlcliTQ Carefree Highway - Gordon Lightfoot - this one gets me sad and nostalgic.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYKJuDxYr3I Bridge Over Troubled Water - Simon and Garfunkel - sob on this one

And a couple that get me choked, but not because I'm sad:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9muzyOd4Lh8 Nights In White Satin - Moody Blues Goose Bumps... :evilgrin:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtEslgOKdjg I Want To Spend My Lifetime Loving You - Marc Anthony and Tina Arena. Never actually watched the video, but I love this song. It's one of the few love themes from movies I actually like. More goose bumps.


I'm sure there's more, but these are the first ones that pop in.

Edited to fix typo, and to say I thought I replied to the OP. Oops.

[NanceGreggs]

10. "Leader of the Band" by Dan Fogelberg ...

Always reminds me of the relationship I wanted with my dad, but never really had.

[boilerbabe]

62. Great pick...Dan Fogelberg just passed away not too long ago, too n/t

[intheflow]

11. "I Can't Make You Love Me" by Bonnie Raitt

Just rips my heart right outta my chest. I was actually in a happy relationship when it came out, but it still made me cry.

Another one is "Holy Now" by Peter Mayer. Story of a Christian boy turned pagan, finding the holy in nature and not supernatural miracles. Great story, beautiful, evoccative lyrics! :thumbsup:

The last one I can think of right off the top of my head is "All Through the Night." It's a song in the Unitarian Universalist hymnal, basically it's just a lullaby, but for reasons absolutely unknown to me tears well up in my eyes every time I hear it. And forget singing it--it just comes out as a watery warble!

[backtoblue]

29. me, too...

"I Can't Make You Love Me" rips at my core for some reason. It's absolutely tragic!!!

[Bertha Venation]

50. me, too

:cry:

[Arugula Latte]

13. Sometimes Elliott Smith songs like "Between the Bars" or "Coming Up Roses"

He was such a gentle soul and had such a sweet voice ... What an amazing songwriting talent, too. I think about how he left so young ... :(

[travelingtypist]

14. Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=530Hqoamf3Q

The part after the bridge especially. (So raise the candles high...)

[Tuesday Afternoon]

15. Traveling Soldier by Dixie Chicks and You Think You Know Someone

by Todd Snider. Also...The Living Years by Mike and The Mechanics.

There are others for personal and sentimental reasons.

[Jimbo S]

17. Carpenters

"Only Just Begun"

Don't know why. Karen just had that special voice.

[grace0418]

18. "The Luckiest" by Ben Folds, "Baby Mine" from Dumbo. Plus the soundtracks to

Cinema Paradiso and Amelie. Maybe just because I love those two movies so much.

Anyway, "The Luckiest" is my favorite dorky/sweet love song in the world, and I can't seem to listen to it even once without welling up.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cwlL9tZo30

"Baby Mine" is just so sad. It breaks my heart.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzoZnivlLhw&feature=PlayList&p=E551BEB7232929AE&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=3 (pay no attention to the video, it's terrible, just the song).

[Manifestor_of_Light]

67. Ben Folds is an excellent pianist.

(12 years of piano lessons here, 8 years of violin lessons, 2 years of voice lessons, directed choirs, sang in choirs, went to lots of music camps.....)

:D

[progressoid]

19. Brian Eno's Music for Airports

Did it for me once. I was physically and emotionally exhausted at the time. But I can recall that day still twenty some years later.

God I'm getting old.

[datasuspect]

32. the spider and i by eno

always gets me teary eyed.

reminds me of someone very special, a tortured soul who was never comfortable in her own skin, but who i felt really loved me and accepted me for who i was.

Spider and I sit watching the sky
On a world without sound
We knit a web to catch one tiny fly
For our world without sound
We sleep in the mornings
We dream of a ship that sails away
A thousand miles away.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPluE34pkGg

[progressoid]

39. Another good one!

I still have that album. I think I'll have to dust it off and listen to it.

[progressoid]

37. forgot to post a link...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQLh3WanSfg&feature=related

[JeffR]

20. A Case of You

love it, but it kills me after all these years. just like the first time I heard it.

[Lindsey]

22. There are so many but the first one thate comes to mind is

Superstar by the Carpenters.

[FKA MNChimpH8R]

78. OMG, I'd forgotten about that one.

Karen C had one of those voices that stop you in your tracks. There is no way to learn how to sing like that. You can or you can't like Bennett or Sinatra. Utterly gorgeous.

[EastTennesseeDem]

21. "Bankrupt on Selling" by Modest Mouse

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00hQLZRz38Q

All the apostles, they're sitting in swings
Saying "I'd sell off my savior for a set of new rings
And some sandals with the style of straps that cling best to the era"
And all of the businessers are in unlimited hell
Where they buy and they sell and they sell all their trash to each other
Cuz they're sick of it all and they're bankrupt on selling

And all of the angels they'd sell off your soul
For a set of new wings and anything gold
They remember the people they loved, they're old friends
And I've seen through them all, seen through them all
Seen through most everything
All the people you knew were the actors
All the people you knew were the actors

I'll go to college and I'll learn some big words
And I'll talk real loud, goddamn right I'll be heard
You'll remember the guy who said all those big words he must have learned in college

And it took a long till I came clean with myself
I'd fallen clean out of love with my lover
I still love her
Loved her more when she used to be sober and I was kinder







And "Fake Plastic Trees" by Radiohead has come damn close.

[fizzgig]

25. modest mouse has this great knack of making me bawl sometimes

i don't remember ever hearing this one before, but i'm tearing up a bit

[Lucian]

23. A lot of them have been making me cry lately.

Just because of some...strong emotions in my life right now. :(

[Number23]

24. Never mind

Apparently a song that makes me sad is a sex song! :crazy:

[fizzgig]

26. plenty

and for a variety of reasons.

i can be ecstatically, crazy happy and this song always, always makes me cry.

the dark is rising - mercury rev
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A102xE-Wnfk

[bif]

27. "Someone New" by Scala

Sung by Scala: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOlKjPsvQw4

[tinkerbell41]

28. Wonderful. Blink 182

I think it's by them. Going thru my divorce when it came out. OHHHHHH the guilt.
Made sure not to do anything mentioned in that song. Thinking that was how my daughter was feeling
it rips my heart out, even now.

[gbate]

38. Adam's Song by Blink 182.

[Lyric]

46. I think that's Everclear, not Blink 182.

Is it this song?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQiBop5ns8k

[applegrove]

30. I used to cry alot while listening to music. Any oldie could get me weepy.

[Strong Atheist]

31. "Wind Beneath My Wings", the Gary Morris version. nt.

[Sequoia]

33. Summer Breeze by Seals and Croft.

Just makes me feel happy and a little sad at the same time. Good tune that is as good today as when it first came out.

Another: All I Need is The Air That I Breath, by the Hollies.

[mitchum]

34. Happy Birthday

[PassingFair]

35. Eva Cassidy --- Any song.

But especially "Fields of Gold"

Also, and in no particular order:

"Who Wants to Live Forever" ...sung by children...

"In the Ghetto"...by Elvis Presley

"Empty Garden" ...by John Lennon.

[Sugarcoated]

36. I've got many . . .

True Companion by Marc Cohn

You Are Not Alone by Patty Griffin

Car Wheels On a Gravel Road by Lucinda Williams

Nobody's Girl by Bonnie Raitt

That Song About The Midway by Joni Mitchell, but I love Bonnie Raitt's version almost more.

Leavin' On a Jet Plane by Peter, Paul & Mary (their version)

Wise Up by Aimee Mann

[gbate]

40. It Was a Very Good Year.

[Systematic Chaos]

41. Shitloads.

Just a few that come to mind:

"I Love You" - Climax Blues Band

"Time" - Alan Parsons Project

"Ocean Gypsy" - Renaissance

"Somebody Else's Dream" - Tony Banks

"If Only You Knew" - Yes

and tons of others....

[malta blue]

42. The entire MEDDLE album by Pink Floyd.

Each one of these songs has brought me to tears at one point or another.

[Frosty1]

43. Yes This one

To Be With You
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTbB55xipHM
:eyes:

[Lyric]

44. "The Last Song" by Elton John

Anyone who's ever lost someone to AIDS and/or dealt with parental rejection of a gay child would weep at that one.

Edit--link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWTkt_ZRMxg

:cry:

THE LAST SONG

Yesterday you came to lift me up
As light as straw, and brittle as a bird
Today I weigh less than a shadow on the wall
Just one more whisper of a voice unheard

Tomorrow, leave the windows open
As fear grows, please hold me in your arms
Won't you help me if you can, to shake this anger?
I need your gentle hands to keep me calm

`Cause I never thought I'd lose
I only thought I'd win
I never dreamed I'd feel
This fire beneath my skin
I can't believe you love me
I never thought you'd come
I guess I misjudged love
Between a father and his son

Things we never said come together
The hidden truth no longer haunting me
Tonight we touched on things that are never spoken
That kind of understanding sets me free

`Cause I never thought I'd lose
I only thought I'd win
I never dreamed I'd feel
This fire beneath my skin
I can't believe you love me
I never thought you'd come
I guess I misjudged love
Between a father and his son

[HERVEPA]

45. "Jock O' Hazeldean" Makes me cry in a happy way. Beautiful ending.

Here is a Border ballad by Sir Walter Scott about a young lady who knows her own mind!

http://www.dickgaughan.co.uk/songs/staves/stave-jockohaz.html

Jock o' Hazeldean

'Why weep ye by the tide, ladie,
Why weep ye by the tide?
I'll wed ye to my youngest son,
And ye shall be his bride:
And ye shall be his bride, ladie
Sae comely to be seen' -
But aye she loot the tears down la'
For Jock o' Hazeldean.

'A chain of gold ye shall not lack,
Nor braid to bind you hair,
Nor mettled hound, nor managed hawk,
Nor palfrey fresh and fair.
And you, the fairest of them a'
Shall ride our forest queen.'
But aye she loot the tears down la'
For Jock o' Hazeldean.

'Now let this wilfu' grief be done,
And dry that cheek so pale;
Young Frank is chief of Errington,
And lord of Langley-dale;
His step is first in peaceful ha',
His sword is battle keen' -
But aye she loot the tears down fa'
Foe Jock of Hazeldean.

The kirk was deck'd at morning tide,
The tapers glimmer'd fair.
The priest and bridegroom wait the bride,
And dame and knight are there.
They sought her baith by bower and ha'
The ladie was not seen.
She's o'er the border and awa',
Wi' Jock o' Hazeldean!

Meaning of unusual words:
aye=always
loot=let
kirk=church
baith=both

[azmouse]

47. Bridge Over Troubled Water

[pokerfan]

48. Without You by Harry Nilsson

(Not the soulless cover by Mariah Carey.)

[Pierre.Suave]

49. I dont cry.

I have no emotions and no heart. I have a cold back swirling vortex of hate and despair full of malice, pain, vengeance, and violence...





























not really, but I still dont cry because of a song...

[Iggo]

52. Lots of them.

Wat too many to list.

The End Of The World by Skeeter Davis gets me every time. So does Vincent by Don Mclean. And probably hundreds of others. Don't tell my friends, though. They'll pull my Metal Card.

[newcriminal]

53. Most people won't know this one, but

Lord I Hope This Day is Good by Don Williams always makes me cry. I just can't help it. I don't even like county music.

[Mojo_electro]

54. Some do..

Not because they are sad songs in am of themselves, it's the sentimental feelings they bring up in me about times in my life when I heard these songs. The First Hardkiss CD "Delusions of Grandeur" is one of them because it reminds me of suck a great time in my life. "Wonderwall" by Oasis and "A Walk" by Bad Religion because a girl I was with at the time. Those are less sad lately since I'm back in contact with her. But I digress.

Smells do it to me too...the smell of clove ciggarettes and Vick's brings back some really *special* memories of good times long passed.

Mojo

[bigwillq]

55. "The Promise"

By Tracy Chapman

[GoddessOfGuinness]

72. That's a beautiful song...

Very dear to my heart.

[hellbound-liberal]

56. "Has anybody here seen my old friend Abraham?"

Abraham, Martin and John does it everytime. Ah, what might have been!

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

[AzDar]

57. "Daddy Don't You Walk So Fast". It was popular in the early '70s, just as my

parents were getting divorced.

Broke my little heart then, and still does...:cry:

[hellbound-liberal]

58. This one doesn't make me cry but I do get a lump in my throat thinking about my Dad

The Living Years by Mike and the Mechanics

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8mPS0-2Xq8

[Manifestor_of_Light]

60. Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings.

Was originally a movement in a string quartet (1936).

Now usually heard in a string orchestra arrangement (1938).

His masterpiece.

It can also be heard as an Agnus Dei choral work.

It's been voted "The saddest classical work", ahead of Dido's Lament by Henry Purcell (When I am laid in Earth).

Orchestral versioN:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDaNntPogeM&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvT03pxhe58&feature=related


====================================
The Nimrod Variation from The Enigma Variations, by Sir Edward Elgar:
This is played at Remembrance Day in Britain(like Veterans Day here).

I had a recording of a choral version played at my father's funeral. The words were "Requiem aeternam, lux aeterna" (Eternal rest, eternal light). :cry:
It was probably the first time anything in Latin had been played in a little Methodist church!

Orchestral version:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6i1VfU-br0&feature=related

[boilerbabe]

61. Meat is Murder by the Smiths...........n/t

[Vidar]

65. Many, though most of my favorites are show tunes.

[AllenVanAllen]

69. It's not really a song but

narration set to video and music, here:

Carl Sagan - Pale Blue Dot

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wupToqz1e2g




This touches my heart every time I hear it.



The full speech:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnFMrNdj1yY

[yy4me]

70. This song makes me cry, tears of grief and a cry for strength.

You may not be a Michael Bolton fan but this song helps me get through those days when I can't cope with the loss of my lifetime friend and companion, my husband.

Back on my feet again

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeNFmwpywaA&mode=related&search=

[lightningandsnow]

71. "Scared at Night" by Kathleen Edwards

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GUvKhGgLOQ

I have no idea why this one makes me cry. But it does.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

73. Brahms Requiem...the 1st movement

About 10 years ago right before I was to begin rehearsing the Requiem, I found out a dear friend had succumbed to breast cancer the night before. This was someone I'd played chamber music with on many occasions...we worked very intimately together. I was glad that the opening movement is not scored for violins, so I could cry it out, and let the music start to heal me.

I've sometimes revisited the pieces we worked on together, and I swear I can hear a second "ghost" viola.

[Bennyboy]

75. These do me in everytime!

Black Peter, Brokedown Palace, Ripple Grateful Dead
Spearhead: Sometimes (I believe I can do anything),Oh My God (and a couple of others)Tears of joy though...
Dylan: right now it is Don't think Twice It's all right or Simple Twist fo Fate.
Hot Butter, Hugs Not handshakes.

[csziggy]

76. KD Lang - Hallelujah

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLeVnynRLI4

And as corny as it might be, Enya - Only Time:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJ4yrMm6cSU

This is not the original 9/11 photo Enya mix that circulated soon after the event but it is the only one that still has the audio. The original slideshow is at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DS0xvjhUO08

[FKA MNChimpH8R]

77. The Moody Blues' "Watching and Waiting."

The Aspies' anthem.
Soul Asylum's "Runaway Train."
Joan Baez singing "Oh Holy Night" despite the fact that I am an atheist.

Plenty more, but that's all I can remember right now.

[My Good Babushka]

79. Lately, The Flaming Lips

"It's Summertime" or even "Do You Realize?"