Songs that make you bawl your eyes out

[Daghain]

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 [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lcq2te3XWWc"]Way to Blue[/ame] by Nick Drake.

Others?

[Tiffany]

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]

Edit: What's with all the double posts?

[educatedlady]

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.
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evZKQKhxWlw"]YouTube - 30 Seconds to Mars - A Modern Myth (Acoustic)[/ame]

[The Lady of Shadows]

i'll admit it.
because of you by kelly clarkson or whatever her name is.

[razz]

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.
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYub1neLZmA"]YouTube - Whisky Lullaby[/ame]

[ManOfWesternesse]

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]

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]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rRea9qnjK4&feature=related"]YouTube - On Eagle's Wings MV[/ame]
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]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AH3CRVVBL9o"]YouTube - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea[/ame]
How strange it is to be anything at all

[LadyHitchhiker]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRjb8sMjYu8"]YouTube - somewhere out there - an american tail[/ame]
I can't explain why this makes me cry but it does

[LadyHitchhiker]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVyggTKDcOE"]YouTube - James Blunt - Goodbye My Lover[/ame]
I played this song at my father's wake for my mother; it always gets me.

[LadyHitchhiker]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHPTHP4dihA"]YouTube - The Blower's Daughter[/ame]
And this one always gets me too.. It's just so romantic it makes me explode tears everywhere, so epic in its emotion.

[LadyHitchhiker]

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:
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgIkyb7rhdc"]YouTube - Madonna : Don't Cry for Me Argentina (High Quality)[/ame]

[LadyHitchhiker]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwZuv7YU8SU&feature=related"]YouTube - All I Ask of You (Reprise)[/ame]
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]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_P26rP52hA"]YouTube - James Blunt - Tears And Rain[/ame]
Another song from my father's wake

[LadyHitchhiker]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNJwBaYAtcM"]YouTube - Damien Rice feat Ray LaMontagne - To Love Somebody[/ame]
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]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNJwBaYAtcM"]YouTube - Damien Rice feat Ray LaMontagne - To Love Somebody[/ame]
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]

West, I definitely agree with you!!!!

Here's another sad one for me:

[ame]www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4j9x2ea2BY[/ame]

[Brice]

You're doing ALOT of crying this morning ain't you, Liz?

[Girlystevedave]

Everybody Was Kung Fu Fighting

[jayson]

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]

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]

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]

it's complicated, but the gist of it is yeah.