Songs That Bring You To Tears

Fleet Admiral JD · Post by **Fleet Admiral JD** » 2007-09-16 03:58pm

I was just listening to "Stay" by Jackson Browne, and for some reason one of the places in that songs made me well up a little. Probably the sentiment "the lights come up and we remember why we came." I know the feeling--playing in front of a crowd is incredible.

Anyway, I was wondering if there were any songs that y'all folks listen to that bring you to tears often, whether it be an entire song or just one place in a song.

Singular Intellect · Post by **Singular Intellect** » 2007-09-16 04:50pm

There are some songs that can make me get watery eyed, but I actually have to prepare myself beforehand to let myself do that (really handy when I'm feeling emotional distress and knowing I have to let it out at some point).

If there's a particularily good musical piece to say, a good movie, it can get to me unexpectedly.

lance · Post by **lance** » 2007-09-16 06:00pm

"Something to Believe in" By Poison.

JME2 · Post by **JME2** » 2007-09-16 09:40pm

"Dreaming Of You" by Selena always makes me feel sad for some strange reason.

Post by **Simplicius** » 2007-09-16 11:56pm

I almost lost it when our All State band was playing Frank Tichelli's An American Elegy. Also, for some reason, I almost can't listen to the ending song from Howl's Moving Castle. I like it, but it's painful - and usually simple songs like that don't get to me.

There are probably more. Music's more likely to get me to tear up than anything else.

Drewcifer · Post by **Drewcifer** » 2007-09-17 12:09am

When I was little kid, "You are my sunshine" would make me bawl. Every time. To this day, it still makes me sad and I have no idea why.

Crossroads Inc. · Post by **Crossroads Inc.** » 2007-09-17 12:14am

The song "Call me" On the third to the last Epasode of "Cowboy Bebop" I sweare I begin to tear up when I hear the opening guitar cordes.

Atlan · Post by **Atlan** » 2007-09-17 06:57pm

A Dutch song.
"Het Dorp" (The Village) by Wim Sonneveld.
He sings about how the village of his youth is gone. Fleetingness illustrated in a song, and it makes me weep every time I hear it. One of those few perfect songs.

tim31 · Post by **tim31** » 2007-09-17 08:17pm

Final movement of the 1812 Overture has reduced me to tears every time I've heard it since I watched my father perform it with an orchestra full of doctors seven years ago.

Fleet Admiral JD · Post by **Fleet Admiral JD** » 2007-09-17 08:27pm

Drewcifer wrote:When I was little kid, "You are my sunshine" would make me bawl. Every time. To this day, it still makes me sad and I have no idea why.

I was the same way throughout my youth--I had a little toy something-or-other that played the song and it would always make me cry.

Pick · Post by **Pick** » 2007-09-17 08:33pm

"Remember Me This Way" as sung by Jordan Hill (Casper soundtrack, anyone?) used to make me terribly sad, enough to cry sometimes. As a kid, I always cried at "Baby Mine" in Dumbo, though.

Nieztchean Uber-Amoeba · Post by **Nieztchean Uber-Amoeba** » 2007-09-17 08:45pm

'Puff the Magic Dragon'. The ultimate bittersweet song about lost childhood.

YT300000 · Post by **YT300000** » 2007-09-17 10:27pm

Only two songs have ever really done that to me: Layla by Eric Clapton, and American Pie by Don McLean.

Joviwan · Post by **Joviwan** » 2007-09-18 01:34am

1812 overture gets me, too, but it depends on what kind of circumstances I'm hearing it in.

One that gets me all the time is Ocean Gypsy, by Blackmore's Night. Almost every time, that one. I can't count the number of funny looks I got while peddling to work on my bicycle, crying my eyes out with my headphones plugged into my ears.

Big Orange · Post by **Big Orange** » 2007-09-18 06:52am

The musical scores from Edward Scissor Hands and Children of Men were very haunting and tear inducing...

Rye · Post by **Rye** » 2007-09-18 10:09am

The song that to me means "most bereft of joy or happiness" is For My Fallen Angel by My Dying Bride.

Alferd Packer · Post by **Alferd Packer** » 2007-09-18 11:02am

A song has never made me cry, except by association. For example, if you played the song from the end of the Futurama episode "Jurassic Bark," forget, I'd be crying like a little bitch. But I'd be thinking about Fry's dog, not the song itself.

Post by **Surlethe** » 2007-09-18 12:18pm

The only song that consistently provokes a large emotional reaction in me is the second movement of the Eroica symphony. More specifically, it's the theme rehash and climax about halfway through.

Setesh · Post by **Setesh** » 2007-09-18 01:40pm

Googoo Dolls- Iris

Johnny Cash- Hurt (not to mention he does it so much better than Reznor did)

Duran Duran- Ordinary World I blame my wife for this one. This was her 'I want to cry' song.

Staind - Outside only the acoustic version makes me teary for some reason. I don't even like anything else staind has ever done so this one mystifies me.

Metallica- One every time I hear it I think of the video made with 'Johnny got his gun' scenes and I go right off. I am one of the few who has actually seen the whole movie (even after metallica made the video the movie was a bitch to find) it just wasn't popular in its day cause noone wanted its horrifying image of the realities of war. Rather absurdly a remake is set to be released next year.