Songs that make you bawl your eyes out

[LadyHitchhiker]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZMA5oRzMj0"]YouTube - The HOLLIES - The Air That I Breathe[/ame]
This one makes me misty...

[LadyHitchhiker]

I dunno does it make me strange that so many songs make me cry?

[LadyHitchhiker]

Bump

[flaggwalkstheline]

leonard cohen is the godfather of gloom and famous blue raincoat is the saddest song ever

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aRKZFR5imM

[John_and_Yoko]

"Mother Earth and Father Time" from Charlotte's Web.

I'm not much of a crier, but when I feel like I need a good cry, I just play that song in my head (have it memorized).

I don't know if it's the lyrics, the tune, or a combination of the two, but....

[LadyHitchhiker]

How about most of "The Wall" by Pink Floyd...

[Heather19]

The Dreaming Tree 6-21-08 by Dave Matthews Band
This version makes me want to burst into tears every time I listen to it.

[Telynn]

Ok, yeah this ages me and yeah this was cheezy as hell, but Seasons in the Sun. Can't even remember who sang it. God it killed me.

Oh, and one year at my kids school, for the Yuletide concert. There was this boy who sang the saddest song ever. It was about someone who watched a little boy trying to buy a pair of womens shoes he said was for his mother to go see Jesus in because she was dying. Geeze, I'm tearing up now just thinking about it.

[mystima]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qV-asb_ivVc"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qV-asb_ivVc[/ame]

this is a fan video not the video for the song but you get the message

[mystima]

Ok, yeah this ages me and yeah this was cheezy as hell, but Seasons in the Sun. Can't even remember who sang it. God it killed me.

Oh, and one year at my kids school, for the Yuletide concert. There was this boy who sang the saddest song ever. It was about someone who watched a little boy trying to buy a pair of womens shoes he said was for his mother to go see Jesus in because she was dying. Geeze, I'm tearing up now just thinking about it.

Seasons in the Sun was sang by Terry Jacks

[mystima]

Ok, yeah this ages me and yeah this was cheezy as hell, but Seasons in the Sun. Can't even remember who sang it. God it killed me.

Oh, and one year at my kids school, for the Yuletide concert. There was this boy who sang the saddest song ever. It was about someone who watched a little boy trying to buy a pair of womens shoes he said was for his mother to go see Jesus in because she was dying. Geeze, I'm tearing up now just thinking about it.

The other is called The Christmas Shoes...i almost forgot about that one...it came out the same year my mom was really sick and it just hit to close to home for me that year.

[Sam]

It doesn't make me bawl my eyes out but Ave Maria (NOT Celine Dion's version) always makes me tear up a little. Just the beauty of it does that.

If you have not heard Charlotte Church sing this, get her first album Voice of an Angel. It is stunning.

[KaLikeAWheel]

Oooh, great topic!

I can't do YouTube at work....nazi bastards!! I don't think any on my list is obscure enough to need it. Lady, don't feel weird. I tear up at music all the time.
I agree with Johnny Cash's version of Hurt 100%! Incredibly sad.
I also agree with Whiskey Lullaby. Allison Krause has an amazing voice.
Also, Angel by Sarah McLaughlin.
Everybody Hurts by REM just makes me wanna kill myself very single time I hear it!
He Stopped Loving Her Today by George Jones.
Tears in Heaven by Eric Clapton.
Cat's in the Cradle by Harry Chapin.
My Immortal by Evanescence.
Wonderful Tonight by Eric Clapton.
Daniel by Elton John.

Was that list eclectic enough? I'm sure I'm forgetting tons of songs!
Donna

[ladysai]

There are lots of songs that make me tear up with emotion,
and I'll have to think on it to post a list....
but, the one song that gets me every single time is Amazing Grace.
Most times, I can listen to it and keep it together; but, I can very seldom sing it all the way through without sobbing. (usually just after 'saved a wretch like me')
That song has touched me deeply for all my life. I guess that's why I thought of it first and foremost...it's just always been with me in my memory and heart.

[Darkthoughts]

Everybody Hurts was played at my friend's funeral - which obviously I bawled at at the time. Now I just don't listen to it, or turn off the radio if it comes on because I don't want it to get overplayed in my head and lose anything.

[Telynn]

Tears in Heaven by Eric Clapton - At first I just thought this was a pretty song, until I found out what it was about. Can't listen to it now. No way.

[LadyHitchhiker]

Everybody's really adding some great songs to this!

[razz]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Darn9sRp8JQ"]YouTube - Holes in the Floor of Heaven- Steve Wariner[/ame]

[LadyHitchhiker]

Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww....

[BROWNINGS CHILDE]

I think the song that gets me the most is "Christmas Shoes"

Tears in Heaven gets me too, but thats probably because I played and sang it at both my grandmother's and aunt's funeral.

[razz]

Christmas shoes?
I don't really like that song, it's fucking creepy.

[LadyHitchhiker]

Tears in heaven is incredibly tough...

[LadyHitchhiker]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZe9OtFNt_8"]YouTube - Heard It Through The Grapevine- Creedence Clearwater Revival[/ame]
This song sounds almost exactly how my dad sounded when he sang so it makes me very emotional every time I hear it... And he would sing this song more than any other CCR song, for whatever reason that was. I never asked him. There are a lot of things I wish I had asked him, that I will never get to ask him now.

[LadyHitchhiker]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwQg2smopwg"]YouTube - Velvet Revolver - Fall To Pieces[/ame]
This song always makes me cry. This is the song that was playing in the car while I was driven to the hospital the night our little girl died. And it explains my grief in varying degrees. I have found that grief is as individual as the individual one is grieving. It is as if that grief has its own life.

[Daghain]

This one always haunted me, but after playing it at my husband's funeral (it was fitting) it haunts me even more:
Clohinne Winds - Naimh Parsons and the Loose Connections

ETA: This one is pretty good, too:

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eorc-M7AoyA"]YouTube - Storm[/ame]