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Daghain
07-23-2008, 10:35 PM
My apologies if a similar thread is around - I'll admit to being too lazy to look. :)

What songs make you cry your eyes out?

One, for me, is Way to Blue by Nick Drake.

Others?

Tiffany
07-24-2008, 06:26 AM
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.

Tiffany
07-24-2008, 06:26 AM
Edit: What's with all the double posts?

educatedlady
07-24-2008, 09:21 AM
There are several songs that make me cry, I am very emotional when it comes to music. I can listen to Miles Davis and cry or even As I Lay Dying (I only did when they played live) but the one song that makes me BAWL is A Modern Myth by 30 Seconds to Mars. Especially when he starts singing the "goodbye" part.
YouTube - 30 Seconds to Mars - A Modern Myth (Acoustic)

The Lady of Shadows
07-24-2008, 09:51 PM
i'll admit it.
because of you by kelly clarkson or whatever her name is.

razz
07-24-2008, 10:06 PM
very few songs affect me emotionally. this is probably the only exception (at least for this category), though it's more like a deep sadness, like a Susan Burns sadness.
YouTube - Whisky Lullaby

ManOfWesternesse
07-25-2008, 12:48 AM
None that make me cry no, but one that hits me very deep is Johnny Cash's version of 'Hurt' - beautiful stuff.

Another would be Sinead O'Connor 'Nothing compares 2 U' (see below) (Tiffany: her 'Ave Maria' is also very, very haunting & beautiful - she's probably got the best, purest voice to come out of Ireland in a hell of a long time.)

Sinead O'Connor - Nothing compares 2 U

It's been seven hours and fifteen days
Since you took your love away
I go out every night and sleep all day
Since you took your love away
Since you been gone I can do whatever I want
I can see whomever I choose
I can eat my dinner in a fancy restaurant
But nothing
I said nothing can take away these blues
`Cause nothing compares
Nothing compares to you

It's been so lonely without you here
Like a bird without a song
Nothing can stop these lonely tears from falling
Tell me baby where did I go wrong
I could put my arms around every boy I see
But they'd only remind me of you
I went to the doctor n'guess what he told me
Guess what he told me
He said girl u better try to have fun
No matter what you'll do
But he's a fool
`Cause nothing compares
Nothing compares to you

all the flowers that you planted, mama
In the back yard
All died when you went away
I know that living with you baby was sometimes hard
But I'm willing to give it another try
Nothing compares
Nothing compares to you
Nothing compares
Nothing compares to you
Nothing compares
Nothing compares to you

Jon
07-25-2008, 01:30 AM
Most anything by Air Supply.




Every Woman in the World



Over night scenes, dinner and wine
Saturday girls
I was never in love, never had the time
In my hustle and hurry world
Laughing myself to sleep, waking up lonely
I needed someone to hold me, oh
It's such a crazy old town, it can bring you down
Till you run out of dreams
So you party all night to the music and lights
But you don't know what happiness means
I was dancin' in the dark with strangers
No love around me, when suddenly you found me, oh


(Chorus) Girl you're ev'ry woman in the world to me
You're my fantasy, you're my reality
Girl you're ev'ry woman in the world to me
You're ev'rything I need
You're ev'rything to me, oh girl


Ev'rything good, ev'rything fine
That's what you are
So put your hand in mine and together
We'll climb as high as the highest star
I'm living a lifetime in ev'ry minute that we're together
And I'm stayin' right here forever oh

(Repeat Chorus)

LadyHitchhiker
07-25-2008, 04:28 AM
YouTube - On Eagle's Wings MV
This was one of my dad's favorite songs and was played at his funeral and his memorial serivce.
"Make you to shine like the sun" is where it always gets me, for my father shone like the sun to me.

LadyHitchhiker
07-25-2008, 04:41 AM
YouTube - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
How strange it is to be anything at all

LadyHitchhiker
07-25-2008, 04:42 AM
YouTube - somewhere out there - an american tail
I can't explain why this makes me cry but it does

LadyHitchhiker
07-25-2008, 04:43 AM
YouTube - James Blunt - Goodbye My Lover
I played this song at my father's wake for my mother; it always gets me.

LadyHitchhiker
07-25-2008, 04:44 AM
YouTube - The Blower's Daughter
And this one always gets me too.. It's just so romantic it makes me explode tears everywhere, so epic in its emotion.

LadyHitchhiker
07-25-2008, 04:47 AM
And anything by the Big Bopper makes me cry because my dad loved the Big Bopper. I think my dad even sang better than the Big Bopper...

here's another tear-jerker for me:
YouTube - Madonna : Don't Cry for Me Argentina (High Quality)

LadyHitchhiker
07-25-2008, 04:48 AM
YouTube - All I Ask of You (Reprise)
No matter how many times I see this movie, I hope the ending will change and it will have a happy ending... The Phantom with Christine. IN the movie, where the phantom and Christine are standing on the bridge and Gerard Butler screams/sings, "anywhere you go let me go too" I always dissolve into tears because it is SO passionate and powerful.

LadyHitchhiker
07-25-2008, 04:55 AM
YouTube - James Blunt - Tears And Rain
Another song from my father's wake

LadyHitchhiker
07-25-2008, 05:34 AM
YouTube - Damien Rice feat Ray LaMontagne - To Love Somebody
And this song was in a dream of mine. In my dream I performed it at his memorial service.
Funny thing is my father HATES the Beegees...

LadyHitchhiker
07-25-2008, 05:34 AM
YouTube - Damien Rice feat Ray LaMontagne - To Love Somebody
And this song was in a dream of mine. In my dream I performed it at his memorial service.
Funny thing is my father HATES the Beegees...

LadyHitchhiker
07-25-2008, 05:37 AM
West, I definitely agree with you!!!!

Here's another sad one for me:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4j9x2ea2BY

Brice
07-25-2008, 05:41 AM
You're doing ALOT of crying this morning ain't you, Liz? :lol:

Girlystevedave
07-25-2008, 09:23 AM
Everybody Was Kung Fu Fighting

jayson
07-25-2008, 10:13 AM
Another would be Sinead O'Connor 'Nothing compares 2 U'
Sinead O'Connor - Nothing compares 2 U

Interesting choice Brian. Is it her voice/phrasing that gets to you or the lyrics or both. I assume you know the lyrics are by Prince. Personally I never cared much for the song, but the lyrics are ok. It just got played into the ground on the radio here.

For me personally, I cry sometimes listening to Blind Willie Johnson's "Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground". I know some people prefer their Delta Blues in the form of Robert Johnson, but for me Blind Willie hits deeper. It's the single purest expression of the blues in four minutes that I've ever heard. Also, my guitar hero Marc Ribot did a very lovely cover of it for Scorcese's PBS blues special.

Heather19
07-26-2008, 06:27 PM
None that make me cry no, but one that hits me very deep is Johnny Cash's version of 'Hurt' - beautiful stuff.

I agree. I love his cover of Hurt.

But the one that gets me the most is his song For You that he did with Dave Matthews. That's the one that always makes me want to cry.

razz
08-02-2008, 06:25 AM
i'm always a fan of johnny cash songs. even some with nonsense seem to have some meaning in it. for example, get rhythm and...wait.
...
...
did you say Kung Fu Fighting?

razz
08-02-2008, 09:47 AM
it's complicated, but the gist of it is yeah.

LadyHitchhiker
08-02-2008, 03:28 PM
YouTube - The HOLLIES - The Air That I Breathe
This one makes me misty...

LadyHitchhiker
08-02-2008, 03:37 PM
I dunno does it make me strange that so many songs make me cry?

LadyHitchhiker
11-25-2008, 02:14 PM
Bump

flaggwalkstheline
11-25-2008, 02:27 PM
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
11-25-2008, 02:30 PM
"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....

:cry:

LadyHitchhiker
11-25-2008, 02:40 PM
How about most of "The Wall" by Pink Floyd...

Heather19
11-25-2008, 03:06 PM
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
11-25-2008, 07:31 PM
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
11-25-2008, 07:37 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qV-asb_ivVc

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

mystima
11-25-2008, 07:40 PM
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
11-25-2008, 07:45 PM
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
11-25-2008, 09:24 PM
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
11-26-2008, 12:54 AM
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
11-26-2008, 04:04 AM
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
11-26-2008, 04:17 AM
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
11-26-2008, 06:17 PM
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
11-27-2008, 08:49 PM
Everybody's really adding some great songs to this!

razz
11-27-2008, 09:07 PM
YouTube - Holes in the Floor of Heaven- Steve Wariner

LadyHitchhiker
11-27-2008, 09:31 PM
Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.... :cry:

BROWNINGS CHILDE
11-27-2008, 11:25 PM
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
11-28-2008, 05:06 AM
Christmas shoes?
I don't really like that song, it's fucking creepy.

LadyHitchhiker
11-28-2008, 07:29 AM
Tears in heaven is incredibly tough...

LadyHitchhiker
11-28-2008, 07:31 AM
YouTube - Heard It Through The Grapevine- Creedence Clearwater Revival
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
11-28-2008, 07:48 AM
YouTube - Velvet Revolver - Fall To Pieces
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
11-30-2008, 10:00 PM
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 (http://www.imeem.com/briannerose/music/rSS-Rc2y/niamh_parsons_and_the_loose_connections_clohinne_w inds/)

ETA: This one is pretty good, too:

YouTube - Storm

BillyxRansom
12-02-2008, 05:34 PM
YouTube - Velvet Revolver - Fall To Pieces (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwQg2smopwg)
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.

You've had a lot of this in your life, huh?

You've experienced two deaths, and that's all I know about so far. The last sentence is really profound, too.

pickle
12-02-2008, 05:46 PM
This song that always makes me cry. It makes me think of my ex-girlfriend, sad story.

Its Sleeping Beauty by A Perfect Circle

YouTube - 7. Sleeping Beauty - A Perfect Circle

Here are the lyrics:

Delusional, I believed I could cure it all
For you dear
Coax or trick or drive or
Drag the demons from you
Make it right for you, Sleeping Beauty
Truly thought I could magically heal you

Far beyond a visible
Sign of your awakening
Failing miserably to rescue
Sleeping Beauty

Drunk on ego
Truly thought I could make it right
If I, kissed you one more time to
Help you face the nightmare,
But you're far too poisoned for me
Such a fool to think that I could
Wake you from your slumber
That I could actually heal you

Sleeping Beauty
Poisoned and hopeless

Far beyond a visible
Sign of your awakening
Failing miserably to
Find a way to comfort you
Far beyond a visible
Sign of your awakening,
Hiding from some poisoned memory

Poisoned and hopeless
Sleeping Beauty

RUBE
12-02-2008, 06:09 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7XK_zNq930#

This song makes my wife cry. (This is not the actual video for the song.)

LadyHitchhiker
12-03-2008, 11:05 AM
YouTube - Velvet Revolver - Fall To Pieces (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwQg2smopwg)
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.

You've had a lot of this in your life, huh?

You've experienced two deaths, and that's all I know about so far. The last sentence is really profound, too.

To answer shortly, yes, I have experienced a lot of grief. I have lost my father-in-law, my father, my step-daughter, two uncles, a grandfather, a grandmother, a step-granddad, and countless animals in the last few years... Hopefully I've had my share and I will be able to recover for a few years...

pickle
12-03-2008, 02:41 PM
Here is another song by APC that makes me emotional:

Orestes

YouTube - 5. Orestes - A Perfect Circle

Lyrics:

Metaphor for a missing moment
Pull me into your perfect circle

One womb
One shape
One resolve

Liberate this will
To release us all

Gotta cut away, clear away
Snip away and sever this
Umbilical residue that's
Keeping me from killing you

And from pulling you down with me in here
I can almost hear you scream

Give me
One more medicated peaceful moment
One more medicated peaceful moment

And I don't wanna feel this overwhelming
Hostility
Because I don't wanna feel this overwhelming
Hostility

Gotta cut away Clear away
Snip away and sever this
Umbilical residue
Gotta cut away Clear away
Snip away and sever this
Umbilical residue that's
Keeping me from killing you
Keeping me from killing you

I recomend listening to this one for all who havnt heard it.

Darkthoughts
12-04-2008, 04:48 AM
Oops, did something weird there!

alinda
12-04-2008, 05:38 AM
YouTube - "Seduces Me" - Celine Dion

Rjeso
12-04-2008, 12:32 PM
Pickle, I loooove APC. Nice choices there. 3 Libras is the one that makes me sad off that album... he's so invisible. Poor dude.

Anyway, songs that make me tear up:

Tears in Heaven, for the reasons mentioned previously in this thread.
Goodnight Saigon by Billy Joel, it's just plain sad.
Old Time Rock & Roll by Bob Seger, it was my dad's favorite song.

Kevin
12-04-2008, 04:06 PM
Fire and Rain - James Taylor
YouTube - James Taylor - Fire and Rain (Beacon Theatre)

When I Fall - Barenaked Ladies
YouTube - Barenaked Ladies -When I Fall

The Flag - Barenaked Ladies
Which I could not find a video for but is still an amazing song off of the Gordon album.

All songs which make me tear up a little. :cry:

Rjeso
12-04-2008, 04:42 PM
Oooh, The Flag is a beautiful song. I love that whole album.

flaggwalkstheline
12-04-2008, 08:31 PM
Tom Waits is my favorite musician and this song reminds me of the last few years of my life, heres a live (no video though) version with a cool monologue after it and the lyrics

YouTube - 14. Tom Waits - Lucky Day (Live, Atlanta 2008)

The prettiest girl
In all the world
Is in a little Spanish town
But I left her for a Bonnie lass
And I told her
I'd see her around
But that Bonnie lass
And her heart of glass
Would not hold a candle


To bumming around
So don't cry for me
For I'm going away
And I'll be back some lucky day


Tell the boys back home
I'm doing just fine
I left my troubles and woe
So sing about me
For I can't come home
I've many more miles to go


Why, there's Miss Kelsey
You taught dance at our school
And old Johnny O'Toole
I'll still beat you at pool
So don't cry for me
For I'm going away
And I'll be back some lucky day


Now when I was a boy
My daddy sat me on his knee
And he told me
He told me many things
And he said sone
There's a lot of things in this world
You're gonna have no use for
ANd when you get blue
And you've lost all your dreams
There's nothin' like a campfire
And a can of beans


Why, there's Miss Kelsey
She taught dance at our school
And old Johnny O'Toole
I'll still beat you at pool
So don't cry for me
For I'm going away
And I'll be back some lucky day

jayson
12-05-2008, 05:07 AM
Very good selection Flagg. As I believe you know, Tom is my favorite artist as well. I'm trying to figure out which show that version of Lucky Day is from. I have several shows from the G&D tour and that version sounds very familiar.

I wouldn't go so far as to say these songs make me "bawl my eyes out" but here are a couple of examples of some poignant TW songs...

Martha - by Tom Waits

Operator, number, please: it's been so many years
Will she remember my old voice while I fight the tears?
Hello, hello there, is this Martha? this is old Tom Frost,
And I am calling long distance, don't worry 'bout the cost.
'Cause it's been forty years or more, now Martha please recall,
Meet me out for coffee, where we'll talk about it all.

And those were the days of roses, poetry and prose
And Martha all I had was you and all you had was me.
There was no tomorrows, we'd packed away our sorrows
And we saved them for a rainy day.

And I feel so much older now, and you're much older too,
How's your husband? and how's the kids? you know that I got married too?
Luck that you found someone to make you feel secure,
'Cause we were all so young and foolish, now we are mature.

And those were the days of roses, poetry and prose
And Martha all I had was you and all you had was me.
There was no tomorrows, we'd packed away our sorrows
And we saved them for a rainy day.

And I was always so impulsive, I guess that I still am,
And all that really mattered then was that I was a man.
I guess that our being together was never meant to be.
And Martha, Martha, I love you can't you see?

And those were the days of roses, poetry and prose
And Martha all I had was you and all you had was me.
There was no tomorrows, we'd packed away our sorrows
And we saved them for a rainy day.

And I remember quiet evenings trembling close to you
-------

The Part You Throw Away - by Tom Waits

You dance real slow
You wreck it down
You walk away, then you
Turn around

What did that old blonde gal say?
That is the part...
You throw away

I want that beggars eyes
A winning horse
A tidy Mexican divorce

St. Mary's prayers
Houdini's Hands
And a Barman who always
Understands

Will you lose the flowers
Hold on to the vase
Will you wipe all those teardrops
Away from your face
I can't help thinking
As I close the door
I have done all of this
Many times before

The bone must go
The wish can stay
The kiss don't know
What the lips will say

Forget I've hurt you
Put stones in your bed
And remember to never
Mind instead

Well all of your letters
Burned up in the fire
Time is just memory
Mixed in with Desire
That's not the road it is
Only the map...I say
Gone just like matches
From a closed down cabaret
In a Portuguese Saloon
A fly is a circling around
The room
You'll soon forget the
Tune that you play
For that is the part
You throw away
Ah, that is the part
You throw away

flaggwalkstheline
12-05-2008, 06:48 AM
its on youtube, august 08 from the glitter and doom tour

jayson
12-05-2008, 07:41 AM
Well I knew it was the G&D tour from the pic of the poster. I see on youtube that it's the Atlanta show, which was an excellent show. I listen to it quite a bit.

flaggwalkstheline
12-05-2008, 09:28 AM
he really oughtta release an album that is a collection of live tracks like dylans bootleg albums

jayson
12-05-2008, 09:33 AM
If given the choice, I'd much rather see an official release of a complete live show than a compilation of live songs. Some of the Dylan releases have been whole shows and those are the better ones. What I'd like to see, actually, is him release a DVD of a complete live show, preferably from a tour with Marc Ribot as the guitar player. I'd settle for him finally allowing Big Time to be released on DVD.

Daghain
12-22-2008, 09:57 PM
This one combines two of my favorites - House and the Grant Lee Buffalo song Happiness, which makes me cry consistently.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-d8Hx9Zj2x0

Daghain
12-22-2008, 09:57 PM
Edit: double post. GRRR.

Ruthful
12-23-2008, 09:42 AM
I used to get very :cry: when I heard "Honey" by Bobby Goldsboro.

flaggwalkstheline
12-23-2008, 01:00 PM
YouTube - Counting Crows - Round Here
I love sad songs but the counting crows make the saddest music ever, this song, wow this song, can't even describe the way it makes me feel

LadyHitchhiker
12-26-2008, 09:54 AM
That is a very sad song, indeed.

Ruthful
12-26-2008, 05:34 PM
That's one of my favorite songs by Counting Crows.

college_ewok
12-26-2008, 06:50 PM
your gonna miss this, brings me to tears every time I hear it. Wish I could go back to the days when nothing mattered, and there was no worries.:cry:

KaLikeAWheel
12-30-2008, 04:50 PM
I just thought of this one. It's a song from the 90's called "The Walk" by Sawyer Brown. It's very sad :cry:

Donna

LadyHitchhiker
12-31-2008, 02:24 PM
YouTube - Whitney Houston - Greatest love of all

This song always makes me tear up