Any songs that made you tear up?

[4thHorseman]

I was sitting here listening to Eric Clapton's "Tears in Heaven" and I was reminded the first time listening to the song when it first came out. They told the story of why he wrote it, than played it. Had me in tears. Even now, it makes me tear up thinking about it. Just a beautiful song all around.

Wondered if there were any other songs that did similar things to anyone else?

[Reptisaurus!]

Geez. There's a bunch.

Lucinda Williams "Crescent City"
Claudia Schimdt doing "Hard Love"

[hellokittykat]

"When She Loved Me" {damn that little dollie and her mournful lament!}
"Dance with my Father"
"Last Kiss"
"A Sort of Fairy Tale"
"Conte Partiro" {I probably spelled that wrong}
"Crimson & Clover"
"Here Comes the Sun"
"The Nurse Who Loved Me"
"Wings for Marie Parts I & II"

And that's just the few that I can think of off the cuff...


God, I am such a breast. :redface:

[Ontir]

Leaving on a Jet Plane last night, after learning Mary Travers had died.

[Boy Constrictor]

this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TH5ibABP4U&feature=fvw) made me cry and question the fate of humanity

[The Beast Of Yucca Flats]

"Death Of A Martian," by The Red Hot Chili Peppers and-- super-obvious one coming-- REM's "Everybody Hurts."

'Course, at both times I was already feeling lower'n wormshit...

[Reptisaurus!]

Leaving on a Jet Plane last night, after learning Mary Travers had died.

Aw. no way. That's really sad.

[The Black Guardian]

Lucinda Williams "Crescent City"
Hmm? Why? It's such a hopeful song. It helped so much after Katrina.

I find most "sad songs" are too personal to the writer to really have any real affect on me. The only time a song has made me cry is when it directly reminds me of a something personal, and I tend to get over that. The songs are usually happy or remind me of happier times lost.

All of the songs from King Crimson's In the Court of the Crimson King remind me of my stepfather that my mom divorced when I was very young. For a long time they would make me cry.

[C. Earl]

"Not Quite Paradise" by Bliss (from the Titan A.E. soundtrack)--I was going through a particularly dark period in my life when there seemed to be no light at the end of the tunnel, and this uplifting song about making the most out of a bad situation broke me down big time when I first heard it and inspired me to keep going.

"I'm On My Way" by Take 6--When I first heard this gospel song, I liked it well enough. But when I played it again many years later not too long after the passing of my grandma, I wept like a baby.

[twilight]

"Subterraneans" by David Bowie (and it's a mostly instrumental track with just six nonense words by Bowie in the middle!)

"Re:Stacks" by Bon Iver (another funny example since the lyrics are terrible and he sells it on vocal delivery alone)

"I Know It's Over" by The Smiths.

-Twi

[Filthy Mutie]

The Everyday Visuals have a couple songs that hit that spot, but "Morning Star (Intro)" is pretty effective. I recently rediscovered "Hallelujah" by Rufus Wainright.

[stealthwise]

Johnny Cash's rendition of "Hurt."

Also, when my wife and I were in the hospital for several weeks, miles away from home, I had my headphones and itunes constantly playing RHCP's Stadium Arcadium. Once our daughter was born, healthy and safe, I felt a flow of relief, but to this day can't get through "Wet Sand" without tearing up a bit.

[i_mmmchocolate]

I'm probably forgetting a few, but here are the ones that do come to mind.

Quite a few songs in Spanish:
'Cuando Me Querias Tu' (classic)
'Besame Mucho' (classic)
'De mi Enamórate' (Juan Gabriel classic)
'Me Falta Valor' (Pepe Aguilar classic)
'El Perdedor' - Aventura (contemporary)

Songs in English:
'The Folks Who Live on the Hill', especially when sung by Mel Torme.
'Smoke Gets In Your Eyes', sung by The Platters.

Instrumental stuff:
Oblivion -Astor Piazzolla.

[Indigo Al]

Birdland by Patti Smith.

[mailedbypostman1]

Sad songs by Porcupine Tree and Blue October usually do a number on me.

[Mikey]

I get choked up some times by Damien Rice's "Blower's Daughter" and Queen's "No One But You" not much else comes to mind at the moment.

[Midnightblue]

Evanescence - Understanding
Pretenders - I stand by you
and For the love of a princess from the movie Braveheart

[Ziggy Stardust]

Hemorrhage by Fuel for some odd reason.

[jesse_custer]

Don't know if I've teared up during this song per se, but "The Show Must Go On" by Queen gets to me.

[beetlebum]

Just Another by Pete Yorn. It makes me think of Veronica Mars, and how (anthropomorphizing here) if Veronica were real, she'd play that song and think back to the good times, and how much she misses her bestie Lilly.

I've mentioned Sere Nere by the Italian artist Tiziano Ferro (it's probably the best song about loss ever written). The song comes from the album 111; the whole album seems to have loss and losing someone you love as its thematic recapitulation. There are a few songs on it that just get to me.

One by U2. It makes me think of the relationship between my mother and I.

The Drugs Don't Work by The Verve

Slide Away by Noel Gallagher. The acoustic version is better than the original version on their album. It makes me think of times past, friends lost, and -- if the aforementioned Veronica Mars were alive -- I'd imagine that this would be her and Lilly's "song".

[clayholio]

"Black" by Pearl Jam. There are other songs that can get me, but that one nearly always does the trick.

[Ben Morgan]

"Cat's in the Cradle" by Harry Chapin

[Ziggy Stardust]

"Black" by Pearl Jam. There are other songs that can get me, but that one nearly always does the trick.

Good one.

Another for me is Kite by U2.

[pariah-1972]

Ballad of Barry Allen by Jim's Big Ego.

I just died in your arms tonight - Cutting Crew.

[Pauly T]

Jealous Guy -- John Lennon

Fire and Rain -- James Taylor

[SlightlyMad]

"These Are The Days of Our Lives" ~ Queen, especially the whispered "I Still Love You" at he end (the last piece of film ever recorded with Freddie), gets me every time.

[napafish77]

The Promise-When In Rome. Kind of a one hit wonder.


Crawling Back To You-Tom Petty. It is off the "Wildflowers" album.

[thomaskanes]

"Every night in my dreams" from titanic. I love that song.

[Jonathan Bogart]

'Smoke Gets In Your Eyes', sung by The Platters.
The Platters are too stentorian for me. Dinah Shore's version, on the other hand, has choked me up more than once.

[glue]

Sage Francis - Bridle

[Slackjaws_ate_my_brain]

There are 2, and only 2 that get to me:

Billy Bragg : "Little Timebomb" : When i was going througha rough breakup a few years back, I spent my free time drunk, and much of that drunk time was spent fighting. I was just pissy. My friend's made claims that I was simple being an asshole for the sake of being an asshole, but, honestly, at the time, any physical stimulus was ok for me, making no distinction between pleasure and pain. In any case, the songs about being left by a woman, and there are 2 sections of lyrics that really hit home with my situation back then :

" Revenge will bring cold comfort in this darkest hour
As the juke box says 'It's All Over Now'
And he stands and he screams
What have I done wrong
I've fallen in love with a little time bomb"

and

"In public he's such a man
He's punching at the walls with his bare and bloody hands
He's screaming and shouting and acting crazy
But at home he sits alone and he cries like a baby"

Like I said, it was a rough patch for me......sorry to sounding like a whiney emo kid, but I guess that kinda the point of this thread....

In any case, the 2nd song...

The Gaslight Anthem - "The '59 Sound" : I lost my grandmother in March of 08, and, being extremely close to her, I took it really hard. I literally spent weeks directly after it happened simply running on an hour of sleep a day, and spending long lonely nights searching for anything to help me get through it. One of those nights, I was digging through a stack of CDs that a friend had given me, listening to them to simply kill time until morning. I came across The Gaslight Anthem's "The 59 Sound" and popped it in. When the title track started, it was over. The chorus came in and it hit me like a brick :

"Did you hear the '59 Sound coming through on Grandmama's radio?
Did you hear the rattling chains in the hospital walls?
Did you hear the old gospel choir when they came to carry you over?
Did you hear your favorite song one last time?"

That album ended up being my favorite record of 08 and the band quickly became one of my favorite bands, but that song still, over a year later, gets to me

[jackgunale]

Yah sometimes a song which brings some tear in my eyes one of the song is lonely by Akon

[mgs]

Goo Goo Dolls - 'Iris'

Sinead O'Connor - 'Nothing Compares'

The Cranberries - 'Zombie' (combo with the video makes more of an impact about this anti-war song)

[Elmira Nancy]

Sometimes When We Touch, by Dan Hill
Funeral Song, by The Rasmus
Keep Your Heart Broken, by The Rasmus
Come What May, from Moulin Rouge sound track
Please Forgive Me, by Brian Adams
Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman?, by Brian Adams
Where Angels Fear to Tread, by Brian Adams
Do I Have to Say The Words? by Brian Adams
Right Here Waiting, by Richard Marx
Angel, by Aerosmith
Eternal Flame, by the Bangles
Must've Been Love, by Roxette

[4thHorseman]

Space Dyed Vest - Dream Theater

Wonderful song.

[RBishop]

"Taking You Home" by Don Henley - first song I danced with my wife at our wedding reception. They're tears of happiness, but tears nonetheless.

"Cinderella" by Steven Curtis Chapman - as the father of two very young daughters, a song about always making time to dance with them, no matter how old they are, makes me cry every time. Sometimes I wonder why I even have it on my mp3 player, since I usually skip over it if I am in public.

"By Your Side" by 10th Avenue North - yes, they're a Christian artist, so I'll probably catch some crap for putting it on here, but the idea of God's unending love for me, no matter what, brings me comfort; again, tears of happiness more than sadness.

Others, with no real explanation:
"The Luckiest" by Ben Folds
"Home" by Foo Fighters
"Ultra Violet (Light My Way)" - by U2

[Ziggy Stardust]

"Taking You Home" by Don Henley

I like this one, too.

[greggasket]

Earth by Michael jackson.

[Slackjaws_ate_my_brain]

"The Luckiest" by Ben Folds

That's actually one of the songs my wife and I danced to at our wedding. The last verse is a definitely a tear-jerker :

"Next door there's an old man who lived to his nineties
And one day passed away in his sleep
And his wife; she stayed for a couple of days
And passed away

I'm sorry, I know that's a strange way to tell you that I know we belong
That I know
That I am
I am
I am
The luckiest "

[ardshipman]

Miles Away by Winger

[angelortiz76]

heal the world

[DKR]

Green Day- Whatsername
Semisonic- Closing Time

[Matthew E]

There are a few. The ones that I can think of are

We're Going to Mars - Backyardigans
Vacation - Go-Gos
When You Walk in the Room - Jackie DeShannon
I'll Stand By You - Pretenders
Cannibals - Mark Knopfler

The choices may seem idiosyncratic and I admit I'd find it hard to explain any of them.

[Ziggy Stardust]

There are a few. The ones that I can think of are

We're Going to Mars - Backyardigans


My wife an I often dance and sing with my young son to Backyardigans songs.

Cannibals - Mark Knopfler



Great nostalgic tune. You ever see the live DVD of Knopfler doing this song with Sonny Landreth?

Best version of the tune, IMO.

[angelortiz76]

earth by michael jackson

[Karl O'Neill]

Unchained melody.

The violin version!

[napafish77]

"Ultra Violet (Light My Way)" - by U2


F' n awesome song. Best song on the album maybe

[mgs]

We're Going to Mars - Backyardigans

You're serious. This, THIS is a song that made you cry? :confused:

(scroll down a bit to the photobucket video)

Unless it's not the complete song and it ends in them all dying in a fiery ball of death, I just don't see it.....

http://video.google.com/videosearch?hl=en&source=hp&q=we're%20going%20to%20mars%20backyardigans&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wv#

[C. Earl]

Since I lost my mom this year, I find myself totally unable to listen to U2's "Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own" because it hits far too close to home for me. Knowing that the song was about Bono losing his own father didn't help...