Songs that make you bawl your eyes out

[BillyxRansom]

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.

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]

This song that always makes me cry. It makes me think of my ex-girlfriend, sad story.

Its Sleeping Beauty by A Perfect Circle

[ame="http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=RZIXGLGFWNQ"]YouTube - 7. Sleeping Beauty - A Perfect Circle[/ame]

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]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7XK_zNq930#

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

[LadyHitchhiker]

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.

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]

Here is another song by APC that makes me emotional:

Orestes

[ame="http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=6XtG5SGL0Xw"]YouTube - 5. Orestes - A Perfect Circle[/ame]

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]

Oops, did something weird there!

[alinda]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LITccbkJkk"]YouTube - "Seduces Me" - Celine Dion[/ame]

[Rjeso]

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]

Fire and Rain - James Taylor
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-T35WXFOmwI"]YouTube - James Taylor - Fire and Rain (Beacon Theatre)[/ame]

When I Fall - Barenaked Ladies
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9k-kcuY7IUQ"]YouTube - Barenaked Ladies -When I Fall[/ame]

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.

[Rjeso]

Oooh, The Flag is a beautiful song. I love that whole album.

[flaggwalkstheline]

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

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3eNFrVHSoU"]YouTube - 14. Tom Waits - Lucky Day (Live, Atlanta 2008)[/ame]

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]

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
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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]

its on youtube, august 08 from the glitter and doom tour

[jayson]

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]

he really oughtta release an album that is a collection of live tracks like dylans bootleg albums

[jayson]

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]

This one combines two of my favorites - House and the Grant Lee Buffalo song Happiness, which makes me cry consistently.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-d8Hx9Zj2x0"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-d8Hx9Zj2x0[/ame]

[Daghain]

Edit: double post. GRRR.

[Ruthful]

I used to get very when I heard "Honey" by Bobby Goldsboro.

[flaggwalkstheline]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZP95btX8NJE"]YouTube - Counting Crows - Round Here[/ame]
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]

That is a very sad song, indeed.

[Ruthful]

That's one of my favorite songs by Counting Crows.

[college_ewok]

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.

[KaLikeAWheel]

I just thought of this one. It's a song from the 90's called "The Walk" by Sawyer Brown. It's very sad

Donna

[LadyHitchhiker]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KjpyHX7X-o"]YouTube - Whitney Houston - Greatest love of all[/ame]

This song always makes me tear up