Following on from the 'power ballad' question I suppose:

I once wept openly to 'Total Eclipse of The Heart'... (I've sobered up since then).

Just wondered if there was a song that makes you cry and why? (other than drunkeness of course).

Loadsa songs can depending on my mood but a usual guarenteed one is good riddance (time of your life) - greenday

I have a few songs that can make me cry.Ither it was played at a moment that was sad or happy or just a memorie,But yes i belive songs can make you cry when you hear it and remember things.

Every rose has it thorn - Poison

brothers in arms - Dire straits

crazy for you - Maddonna

Few of the Corrs songs and few others that remind me of events in my life.

The Johnny Cash version of NiN's 'Hurt'.

I was in Borders book shop in Leeds about a year ago and they played it. I had to retreat to a quiet corner (Oracle RDBMS books, basement) and have my cry there.

So yes, it can, and does! :)

It's not the song rather the associations I attach to the song which have an affect on me and the way I see it, the choice is mine whether I want to allow the song to have that affect.

"I can't live, if living is without you" by Neilson, always does it for me. Kinda reminds me of a friend who died in a car crash years ago, which is probably why.

Theres a song that makes me cry each time - it reminds me of my last girlfriend. It's from a classic film too. . . . 'Ding, Dong the witch is dead, the witch is dead, the wicked witch is dead'.

Lots and lots of songs make me cry. I have a break up song for the end of every relationship and even listening to that song 5 years after can make me bawl.

Then again...I've been known to cry at neighbours so it's nothing special to cry during songs :rolleyes:

Sic cos I'm a blokey bloke - you know - we do not cry and all that rot.

There are quite a few songs that make me cry these days. Hero has to be one of those that touch my heart, but - stupid as it may sound - quite a few linkin park songs cos they are so close to the bone.

Now I sound like a girl. LOL

Dragon

yes it can esp when its mcfly or busted, they drive me to tears all the time???:heyhey: :heyhey:

yes, again if you are in a tender mood then a lot of songs make you cry.

Hallelujah by Jeff Buckley always makes me cry

everytime you go away - paul young

:) but i dont feel like bawling today thankyou!

Originally posted by robbie
yes, again if you are in a tender mood then a lot of songs make you cry.

Hallelujah by Jeff Buckley always makes me cry

That is such a lovely song - I think it's got to be the most beautiful song ever for me.

Several songs by Marion make me feel so emotional I often end up crying - also songs by the Only Ones, esp "Prisoners", "Someone who Cares", "Out There in the Night", and loads more. For me, it's a combination of lyrics and music just hitting some emotional resonance in me.

If I'm feeling particularly sensitive, lots of songs can set me off eg Frankie goes to Hollywood's "The Power of Love", Eric Clapton's "Tears in Heaven", the Clash's "Stay Free".

I sound like a really soppy get now - I'm not that bad, honestly!

StarSparkle

I know it's over -The Smiths
True Love Waits -Radiohead
You - The Divine Comedy
Nightswimming- REM
She's the One - World Party
Sam Barbers Adagio for strings
Somewhere - West Side Story (no I'm not gay)
Bring him Home - Les Misérables

I don't really cry appart from the last three where you have to help me out of the theatre!

:cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:

Tears in Heaven does me as well.

And 2 Brd songs make me cry. Screen and Good News

Depending on how emotional I am feeling and a combination of memories and lyrics here are a few ones which touch me:-

In My Place and The Scientist by Coldplay

Everybody Hurts by REM specially when accompanied by the video which is still the best ever ..

Lots of Love Mo xx;)

anything 'light' by ERIC CLAPTON makes me wanna cringe its dreadfull stuff!

id only cry if you kept the stuff on repeat!

The song 'Somewhere' from West Side Story always brings at least one tear to my eyes as it reminds me of a relationship I was in which ended due to personal circumstances rather than because it wasn't working out between us. That song still has the same effect on me even tho it was almost 10yrs ago when we were together! Neither of us wanted it to end, and it was only the idea that we could sort things out one day which helped me get over her.

Others can make me cry too. Theres one by Spike Milligan that makes me laugh so much that I cry..... :D

now i feel like crying...so...


nothing compares to you - sinead o conner
if i never see you again - wet wet wet
living for you - boston
i dont have anything - v.a.s.t.

Yeah, not one of my favourite songs if it's not emotional enough :|

Originally posted by JoeP
The Johnny Cash version of NiN's 'Hurt'.

I was in Borders book shop in Leeds about a year ago and they played it. I had to retreat to a quiet corner (Oracle RDBMS books, basement) and have my cry there.

So yes, it can, and does! :)

This had my mother in tears!!! Never knew it was a NiN cover. Thought it was strange having Johnny Cash on Scuzz and i guess its because he did a cover.

It is a good song though.

i cant stand `hurt'

and i LOVE nine inch nails..... ah well.

I don't know about songs, but Barber's Adagio For Strings always make me feel depressed and tearfull.

Stevie Wonder's Lately is very sad too.

Lyrics : http://www.lyricsfreak.com/s/stevie-wonder/131881.html

Adagio for Strings doesn't make me depressed, but it makes me cry.... I know that sounds odd, but *I* know what I mean!

For me it would'nt be about what what mood i was in but the song whether it reminded me of something close to me. eg If the song on was the favourite of a departed relative which was played at their funeral something like that or if it was a song which summed up lots of things about your relationship with someone.

Originally posted by wendygs
It's not the song rather the associations I attach to the song which have an affect on me and the way I see it, the choice is mine whether I want to allow the song to have that affect.

yes a song was played at an event and now every time i hear it blub and it can be any where in public or not i will blub like a baby

Don Williams- Your my friend
Jim Reeves- I love you because

stand by me - ben e king
fields of gold

Green Onions.
When smoke gets in your eyes.
Great balls of fire.

"Sacrifice" sung by Sinead O'Conner (found on the Two Rooms album). Haunting. {Get me a clean hankie someone.....please!}

Originally posted by redrobbo
{Get me a clean hankie someone.....please!}

Ooooh. You naughty boy!


OK, I had an overwhelming need to hear Street Spirit by Radiohead this morning because I was feeling very, very sad.

Originally posted by Deavon

OK, I had an overwhelming need to hear Street Spirit by Radiohead this morning because I was feeling very, very sad.

I hope you're feeling a little more cheery now Deavon.

Redrobbo, sometimes I think I need a good old wail and weep!

Nothing like driving along the road with the stereo full blast, singing at top volume (out of tune I might add), with tear in eye to some god awful tune, that for some reason has 'sentimental value' in your life...

Clears the air sometimes.

Just make sure you're on your own when you're doing it (i.e you're not a Taxi driver or the like)

Ayup Deavon, I know exactly what you mean. That old ballad, 'Danny Boy', does it for me. It doesn't have to be on the radio or car stereo - I've just got to sing it to myself sometimes! (Oh, and always when I'm on my own of course!). It was the favourite song of a long-departed favourite Aunt & Uncle of mine.

And then 'Abide With Me' sung at funerals will always set me off a-weeping.

But just listen to Sinead O'Connor's rendition of the Elton John song "Sacrifice". At the end of the song, she repeatedly sings the extra words "I gave my heart". That's it - she's touched my heart-strings, and I'm emotionally drained by then!

{Talks to oneself: 'Oh stop it now lad, you're gettin' all maudlin' like'}.

I don't think a song itself has ever made me cry (although I've seen my sister reduced to tears by the Crazy Frog) but songs linked with an emotional time do.

Everything But The Girl: Missing (like the deserts miss the rain) does it to me every time - it feels physically painful :|

Jerusalem always makes my eyes overflow, especially when it's sung at funerals.

I want Bat out of Hell playing at mine, but hopefully not for many a year yet. :D

'Leave Right Now' by Will Young - that always gets me.

And 'Everything' by Alanis Morissette - reminds me how lucky I am to be loved like that.

Lots of songs make me cry either because they're beautiful sad songs, they remind me of something or someone. Anything I ever heard at a funeral basically makes me cry if I ever hear it again.

:wave:

i have a whole album called "Sad songs". its full of tearjerkers!!

lets say i'll never play it after a break up EVER again!! good therapy if you wana sit and cry all day but cant say i wana do it again to soon!

Songs are so powerful, and can say things that you sometimes just cant. :cry:

Going to be really predicatble and say that whenevr im alone i always play 'all by myself' a la bridget jones, always brings the tears! or areosmith's i dont wanna miss a thing, theres a film theme going on here! what film songs make others cry?

amazing grace
jeff buckley- hallelujah
morphine- cause you pain
radiohead- fake plastic trees
beck- bluebird on the wire (and most of the sea changes album)
the zutons- confusion
the streets- dry your eyes (peak of its airplay during a break up!)
damien rice- the blower's daughter
the proclaimers- sunshine on leith
and many more....can cry quite easily (the cancer research adverts usually do me in...very embarressing...)

Originally posted by emmwalker
the proclaimers- sunshine on leith

Ah, that's the one for me too. That's been on my "funeral list" for years, and it's probably the only one that never changes.

No Doubt - Don't Speak has made me cry quite a few times over the yrs, particularly the line

'you and me, we used to be together'

And talking about songs played at funerals, I can't hear Greensleeves anymore without wanting to cry as it was played at my Dads funeral.

Def Leppard - Two Steps Behind

I had a friend who shared my enthusiasm for this strain of rock, but he died before this was released. Dunno why, but I always hear it in his voice. I can hardly bear to listen to it.

Not so much cry, but I can really lose myself by listening to 'Now We Are Free' from the Gladiator soundtrack and also Creed 'Higher' moves me a lot.

everybody hurts, rem, coldplay, the scientist or maroon 5, she will be loved..

NIN - hurt, Bouncing Souls - the something special, Jet - move on... there's loads. I'll pretty much cry for anything!!

Anything by Geri Halliwell makes me weep. I cry because I cannot believe any benign God would allow such a talentless, deluded, smug little twonk to thrive.

Don McLean's "American Pie" makes me cry, cos they played it at my next door neighbour's funeral and I felt really, really sad - he was like a spare dad to me - I can still remember him fixing my bike. And his wife (like a spare mum to me) and family were so upset at the funeral (as was I)... brings it all back. He wasn't that old but just couldn't give up the ciggies I think... lung cancer took him IIRC, I was still pretty young.
I see me getting upset by that tune as me showing my respect to 'uncle' Ernie. :?

Also, and this will sound most odd if you haven't heard it, but this 'candlelight' version of DJ Sammy's "Heaven" (it's nothing like the original - I don't like that) is <ahem> almost making me :cry: right now! ....hence I searched for 'music make you cry' and found this thread!

But I'm a blokey bloke really, and never cry, never ever - got it? ;)

Originally posted by timo
Anything by Geri Halliwell makes me weep. I cry because I cannot believe any benign God would allow such a talentless, deluded, smug little twonk to thrive.

Oooooh I could fill a whole thread about that smug little bit of nonsense! :hihi:

Abide with me.

Two funerals for close people, and now it breaks me down totally every time.

How can you mend a broken heart by Al Green. Can't even listen to it anymore. We're talking wailing!

Unforgettable - Nat King Cole.

You're Beautiful - James Blunt.

It just does, ok? :suspect:

The Power of Two, by the Indigo Girls

just an excerpt

Now we're talking bout a difficult thing
And your eyes are getting wet
Well I took us for better and I took us for worse
And don't you ever forget it
The steel bars between me and a promise
Suddenly bend with ease
The closer I'm bound in love to you
The closer I am to free

Cos we're okay, we're fine
Baby I'm here to stop your crying
Chase all the ghosts from your head
I'm stronger than the monsters beneath your bed
Smarter than the tricks played on your heart
Look at them together then we'll take them apart
Adding up the total of a love that's true
Multiply life by the power of two.

Slushy and romantic I know, but the words kind of describe how being married should (and for a time, did) feel.

Originally posted by CherryNicole
Loadsa songs can depending on my mood but a usual guarenteed one is good riddance (time of your life) - greenday

I love that song and the video if fab also.

Maybe a good funeral song.

The attendees would need nearly carrying out though :(

I don't normally cry that much but some songs can get me close to crying, such ones as:

Untitled - Stellastar*

Everybody Hurts - R.E.M.

This Modern Love - Bloc Party

Wilf

Originally posted by BrainThrust


Everybody Hurts - R.E.M.



Another quality song to video !

Originally posted by venger
Another quality song to video !

Not when you had to write a 2500 word essay deconstructing it!

I'm sick of it, thats why I cry when I hear the song. I remember watching the video umpteen million times!

Still think it's a great video, just too much exposure to me personally.

Wilf

Cry - Waterfront... that always makes me cry for some reason... dont really know why lol maybe something to do with the title :wink:

Another that definitely makes me cry everytime is...

Wind Beneath my wings - Bette Midler... this was played at my Dads Funeral... it can get really embarrassing when played whilst i'm out and i burst into tears then once the song is finished i'm fine again... can look a bit odd... altho Close friends and family have got used to it now :)

Such a beautiful song... and in the top ten i believe of funeral songs...

Thought of another Not Alone - Michael Jackson... my song to my Dad... 'you are not alone i am here with you' it was released in the same year of my Dad passing away...

Its nice to have happy and sad memories that can be related to a song... songs have so many emotions within them... lyrics can mean and express so much to yourself or another!...

Do you realise? - The flaming lips.

If it catches me at the right time, I start to well up.

I have noticed as I get older, this reaction seems to be more easily triggered, by all sorts of things....

has to be 'fix you' the new Coldplay single...not a huge fan of hem but that song when it gets going makes me teary!

I recently listened to some music from around the time of the Crusades. It didn't reduce me to tears, but I found some of the songs deeply moving. One, allegedly by Richard the Lionheart, tells of the King's temporary imprisonment in the Holy Land, and expresses how he misses his friends who are endeavouring to ransom him. The words and music, more or less a thousand years old, are very moving. The last line, 'but I am still a prisoner' [sung in Norman French] seemed to echo deep sadness and regret down the ages. How trivial my few worries seemed in comparison.

Amazing Grace always makes me bawl! Cos they always sing it at weddings and funerals...

"Tell me there's a heaven" always sets R-lass off. :hihi:

Songs that make me cry.


Fields of gold - Eva Cassidy
Change the world - Eric Clapton
Out of reach - Gabrielle
Always - Bonjovi
Goodbye - Spicegirls..... don't say a word !


There are quite a few... but I cannot remember em all!

As a singer myself, I kinda got used to singing love songs. But after my recent-ish break-up with my partner of 5 years, every song I sang on stage had more meaning. It was bloody hard sometimes.!
When you put yourself in the place of a writer, some of those artistes must have been going through hell, and to then express it so beautifully that it means something to an audience, and to have the bol****s to get up there and sing it .....well I just find it incredibly humbling.
Last time a song made me cry I was driving down the M1 with the new Sheryl Crow album playing in the car. It's called Wildflower. Anyway....track ten(always on your side) had me bawling like a baby as it just seemed so relevant to how I feel right now.
I put it on repeat, pulled off the motorway and had a good cry.
I'm better now! lol x

ooh and as for classics that always start the tears rolling

Garth brooks....if tomorrow never comes
Patti Smith and Don Henley... Sometimes love just ain't enough



and that's all I'm admitting to
x

david gray-white ladder album makes me cry every time,especially sail away

Originally posted by Rich
Amazing Grace always makes me bawl! Cos they always sing it at weddings and funerals...

This song has a slight effect on me too as it was played whilst walking into my Dad's funeral...

Although its usually played with Bagpipes... which my Dad hated... my Mum managed to find on her Robson and Jerome CD that they sang it without the backing of bagpipes... which meant my Dad wouldnt be turning over in his grave... :) RIP!

Originally posted by medusa666
The Power of Two, by the Indigo Girls

just an excerpt

Now we're talking bout a difficult thing
And your eyes are getting wet
Well I took us for better and I took us for worse
And don't you ever forget it
The steel bars between me and a promise
Suddenly bend with ease
The closer I'm bound in love to you
The closer I am to free

Cos we're okay, we're fine
Baby I'm here to stop your crying
Chase all the ghosts from your head
I'm stronger than the monsters beneath your bed
Smarter than the tricks played on your heart
Look at them together then we'll take them apart
Adding up the total of a love that's true
Multiply life by the power of two.

Slushy and romantic I know, but the words kind of describe how being married should (and for a time, did) feel. I can't believe someone else likes the Indigo Girls :thumbsup: DANIEL BEDINGFIELD If You're Not The One" always gets me :cry:

"Hey! Fatty Bum Bum" used to make me cry when the teachers used to sing it to me at Junior school.

Originally posted by Don_Kiddick
"Hey! Fatty Bum Bum" used to make me cry when the teachers used to sing it to me at Junior school.

Chuff me. Tha must have a good memory. :hihi:

(PS It does say MEMORY not ladies bits :hihi:

November Rain by G'N'R always makes me sad.

A good mate died in a motorbike crash 5 years ago and had it played at his funeral. Always reminds me being stood there in church. Ho hum.

Kate Bush ~ This Women's Work.

:( Love it.

Originally posted by BoroughGal
Adagio for Strings doesn't make me depressed, but it makes me cry.... I know that sounds odd, but *I* know what I mean!
I know what you mean too BG - Debussy's Clair de Lune (another instrumental piece) has exactly the same effect on me.

And songs that make my cry - Sinead singing Nothing Compares 2U, Johnny Cash singing pretty much anything from his American IV album, plenty more too I'm sure.

Have to agree with the field of gold by eva cassidy.
Also Delta Goodrems - not me not I reduces me to tears everytime....:confused:

a song can make you cry

if you stick a cd in your eye


a true poet me is



the one and only teflon

Originally posted by DanSumption
I know what you mean too BG - Debussy's Clair de Lune (another instrumental piece) has exactly the same effect on me.

And songs that make my cry - Sinead singing Nothing Compares 2U, Johnny Cash singing pretty much anything from his American IV album, plenty more too I'm sure.

his version of the nin song hurt always brings a tear to my eye it was a haunting song to start with but this version is much much better

a song can make you cry

Quite funny for you teflon

Originally posted by Jess22
Quite funny for you teflon

why thank you dear

Songs can make you laugh, cry, happy, sad angry, any emotion.

Just like silly poems like teflons can make you laugh, Love you tef X

unfortunately Tina Turner-Simply the Best. My uncle had it at his funeral.

moon river does it for me everytime

what a sad lovely song

mariah carey - hero

did make me cry once :cry:

Coldplay - Amsterdam

No explanation will be given, so there :P

Seven wonders - fleetwood mac. don't know why just reminds me of being young and very happy.

Got a lump in my throat just thinking about it

There are too many to mention but the most recent one is Coldplay - Fix You :(

There is a track that depresses me so much I have to switch it off - Hope There's Someone (Antony & The Johnsons) - makes you think about pegging it, I suppose!

He sounds as if his balls have been chopped off.

#Hope there's someone who'll take care of me; when I die will I go?, hope there's someone who'll set my heart free/nice to hold, when I', tired/There's a ghost on the horizon/go to bed#

:)

The 4th song on the James Blunt " Back to Bedlam" has had me bawling before now. It's every break up I've ever endured in one song. Don't advised listening when driving-can't see"!

I agree about Antony & the Johnsons, gets me welled up too.

There is something about people crying, or being close to tears, that brings me out in sympathy too. I think that's part of what gets me about the Sinead O'Connor song - thinking about her in that video. Also another song which always makes me cry is "Shorley Wall" by Ooberman. There's a bit at the end which is spoken by the singer Sophia Churney, where she says
She sings when she hurts. It's good to sink deep inside, to my only touchstone. She's a friend in the dark, my strength, my memories. She delights in torture, but she holds my hand and never shields me. Because the best shield is to accept the pain, then what can really destroy me? Let me close my eyes and lie invisible, and perhaps the clouds will pass through me...and you can actually hear the tears welling up as she says it, and the fact that she is struggling to carry on talking without letting them break through. It brings out exactly the same reaction in me every time.

Originally posted by dj_roberto_j
Kate Bush ~ This Women's Work.

:( Love it.

Agreed!

And Maxwell's MTV Unplugged version of this track is brilliant. The video is so sad too. :cry:

Bridge over Troubled Waters- Simon and Garfunkle and Una Bel Di from Puccinis Madam Butterfly. Both these songs gave me a little comfort during difficult times.

Listened to another instrumental this morning which often gets me emotional - Lonely Woman by Ornette Coleman.

battle of the beanfield by the levellers starts making my eyes well up and makes the hairs on the back of my neck etc stand on end when i think about the police trashing peoples homes and beating innocent men, women and children

also hurt by johnny cash does too, specially the video

Not read through the thread so forgive me of someone else has mentioned Chicago and 'If You Leave Me Now'.

From the opening horns, finger-bells, strings and brushed snare drum, this is one hell of an emotional ride.

This is a song which puts me in a very reflective mood and yet I don't really know why. It's not as if it has a personal connection, doesn't bring back memories of anyone running away, dying or anything like that. It's just SAD!

One thing I've noticed is that the song doesn't 'settle down', it's got an uncomfortable feel to it as though it's restless (like one would be when fearing that the love of your life is about to leave you). Peter Cetera really means it when he goes 'ooh, ooh, ooh now baby please don't go'. And then the horns come in at various points almost as a reminder, a not-so-distant cry as to what is going on. (One thinks of a schoolground na, na, na-na, na taunt.)

But just as the song sounds it's going to calm down and find a 'grip', it rises up again 'We've come too far to leave it all behind' - the strings descend with a sigh - before rising up again (this time via a VIth for added impact) 'A love like ours, this love is hard to find' before finally, it begins to land 'How can we end it all this way, when tomorrow comes and we both regret the things we said today'.

Twelve string guitar solo is then joined by emotional strings almost as if it's too much. And the coda sees the string section sparring with Cetera's cries 'oooh now baby please don't go'.

This song fascinates me. I love it and yes, it makes me down right miserable!!!!

Green Day - Good Riddance
REM - Everybody Hurts
Meatloaf - I'd Lie For You (And That's The Truth)

Im sure theres some more... il add more when i remember them...

I can't believe nobody's mentioned Robbie Williams' - Angels

I had my first kiss to that song and it was always really special to me as I genuinely loved the guy (aged 12!!). I know it sounds stupid but we never got together and I never told him how I felt and now it's too late.

The song was played at his funeral 18 months ago and it gets me in tears every time. I used to have to leave my (very busy) bar at work to go and cry for a bit if the DJ played it!

Morning has Broken and REM - Everybody Hurts are also songs that have funeral-related memories for me.

Also "Wind beneath my wings" makes me bawl my eyes out. I don't know why but this song just touches me and I want it as the first dance at my wedding.

Eva Cassidy - Fields of Gold
Greenday - Good Riddance
Christina Aguilera - Beautiful
And loads more...

I guess I'm quite an emotional person!! Like emmwalker the Cancer Research ad's really get me, (especially the ones "My [X] should be here" as it's so true about so many people I have loved, and the old ones where the little boy was looking in the mirror and the image of his mother appeared behind him (or her, I can't exactly remember) mad eme bawl my eyes out every single time I saw it. :()

I watched 'The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas' the other night and found myself bawling my eyes out at the end when Dolly Parton is telling Burt Reynolds to go without her, with her song "I will always Love you".

(Before Whitney got her hands on it a ruined it).

Black Eyed Dog by Nick Drake.

Even though it's a fairly simple song, there's real sadness and desperation in Drake's vocal that tugs at my heartstrings and makes me well up every time I hear it. :(

Radiohead - Fake Plastic Trees

The only time I have had a tear in my eye at a gig was whilst seeing Radiohead performing Fake Plastic Trees. Which was strange because I'd always thought of it as one of their weaker songs. I must be getting soft in my old age.

Thought of another one!

Gerry & The Pacemakers - You'l never walk alone

This was played at Emlyn Hughes' funeral and me and my mum were stood outside the cathedral... oh my god, when they started playing this i wanted to cry so bad but I held it together for my mum (she loved Emlyn Hughes)

Tears of lard etc.

'This Woman's Work' by Kate Bush.

weep, weep...

'The Drugs Don't Work' by The Verve.

Well, have you heard the lyrics?

living years - mike and the mechanics.................. guaranteed lump in my throat everytime i hear it:sad:

Theme to Match of the Day.

Theme to Match of the Day.

ROFLMAO. :hihi:

ROFLMAO. :hihi:

Lol. It's true! :D

It does depend on what mood you're in at the time......OK I'll give you examples....
Radiohead - Creep (lets face it Radiohead = pass the blades)
Dionne Warwick - Do you know the way to san hose - I know - don't even ask !!

It's not so much as a song than the music. It was some music that was played at my Grandads funeral and everytime I hear it, I cry.

i'm not sure of the title of the song, but sufjan stevens recorded a track about the US serial killer John Wayne Gacy (perhaps that's the song title?). anyway, i thought it was sooooooooooooooooo eerie! it definitley moved me, but in a spooky kinda way...

yes i have a song, but for reasons i'd rather not go into

Candle in the Wind - Elton John. Great song

The theme tune to "Planet Earth" (Beeb1) brought a tear to my eye tonigt. How mad is that???
Anyone know who it is by? Can't be just incidental music...

there have been many songs over the years which have reduced me to weeping, the last one to do it was the JCB song, by nizlopi, the words just took me back to being a kid, being bullied at school and just wishing I could change into a monster and crush them all. filling up now just thinking about it
:(

i think it's called 'and i fell back alone' by world party, it is just one of the most perfect descriptions of the ending of a relationship i've ever heard...

I have a couple of songs on my iPod playlists that can alter my mood and make me appreciate life more and the power of music on the soul- they can bring me often close to tears.

O Fortuna - Carl Orff (From Carmina Burana)
Evey Reborn - Dario Marianelli (V For Vendetta Soundtrack)
The Launch Theme - Apollo 13 Soundtrack
Now We Are Free - Gladiator Soundtrack
Main Theme - Dragonheart Soundtrack
Somewhere Over The Rainbow - Eva Cassidy
Higher - Creed

My Ipod went all weird and random this morning and played "Save Tonight" by Eagle Eyed Cherry, the lyrics are so sad, it's quite tear-jerking.

Mariah Carey - Circles
Sets me off everytime... Got me this morning... I don't know what the devil it was doing in my CD player but hey, it certainly knows how to turn on my waterworks! :cry:

'She's leaving home' by the Beatles and 'At 17 you learn the truth' by janice Ian. When I was 16 it was like they were written for me personally.

well- billy ocean-sad songs to make u cry (obviously)
starship- nothings gona stop us now (me and my exe's tune- sad gits)
celine deon- my heart will go on
desree- u gotta be

Abide With Me, (without fail) mostly synonymous with funerals but of so many Cup Final memories from the 50's.

:cry: this one always gets me everytime.
sarah mchachlan- Angel

chicago-ur the inspiration/hard to say im sorry
angry anderson-suddenly(scott and charlene from neighbours wedding song)
brian adams-heaven
there r far too many for me to mention all of them

I actually made a compilation tape that I play - entitled "songs to cut your throat by"!

So my top list is:

Eternal Father Strong to Save - this hymn always used to bring a lump but more so since I had it played at my first husband's funeral

The Last Post

Adagio for Strings

Gene Pitney - Gonna be strong

The theme tune from the Gladiator

If i'm feeling abit down theres a few songs that can very easily make me cry:
Mogwai - Take me somewhere nice
Snow Patrol - Run
James Blunt - Goodbye My Lover - the words in that song :(
Black - Wonderful Life - always makes me cry as it was my uncles funeral song

I don't think it's the actual song that makes me cry, it's the memories that these songs evoke. When I hear particular songs, they remind me of a certain period in my life but also as I grow older, the meaning of these songs shift. These would be, Damien Rice, Sir Jeff Buckley, Sigor Ros - always bring a tear to me eye!

yes there is a few songs that make me cry one of them is celine dion singing think twice, this was playing when me and my ex wife split up now it is oh happy days are here again. I had a cry the other night I dropped the cd player on my foot and the cd playing was iron man by black sabbath i was jumping round the room for a good 30 minutes.

Anything by James Blunt makes me weep ?:hihi: :hihi:

Anything by James Blunt makes me weep ?:hihi: :hihi: Beat me to it Brooksy... good man. He also makes me inexplicably violent too :D

I think I might have posted on here already about how 'The Drugs Don't Work' by The Verve gets me every time. Another one is 'Tank Park Salute' by Billy Bragg. It only takes the opening bars of either of them to set me sniffling.

"Londonderry Air"Abide With Me

sister christian-nightranger, dont know why, dont even know what its about!

got another piece of music that just brings tears to my eyes everytime i hear it

heard it on lost
michael giacchino - At the beach (mourning):)

Emotive tunes....

Solu/Kimblee - Fade.
Teedra Moses - I Think of You.
Raphael Saadiq - Sky, Can You Feel Me (Tribute to Aaliyah).
Craig Armstrong - Weather Storm (Technically, a piano led piece, but still very emotive).
Dwele - Without You.
Alexander Hope - Wonderland.
Floetry - Say Yes.

Just heard 'Book of Love' - Peter Gabriel for the first time. Really weird - NEVER heard it before but as soon as I'd heard the first few lines, just could not stop wailing! Don't think a song has ever provoked such a reaction before in me.

i was asked by the landlady of one of the pubs to sing Dance with my Father by Luther Vandross i thought this wasnt an unusual request, so i started but it immediately brought back memories of my own dad and by the time i got to chorus i was crying like a baby and still trying to sing

Oh my. Just googled the lyrics to that and now am in tears again. Luther was so amazing - pardon me borrowing his words - well, I just had a mental picture of luther as a boy with his dad, maybe he's with him now.

I'd love you to want me - lobo
sleepwalk - johnny & santos
fields of gold - sting
american pie - don mclean
silverblue - roxette

i was asked by the landlady of one of the pubs to sing Dance with my Father by Luther Vandross i thought this wasnt an unusual request, so i started but it immediately brought back memories of my own dad and by the time i got to chorus i was crying like a baby and still trying to sing

Yup! Sob sob! Eyes watering at this minute! :cry:

Yup! Sob sob! Eyes watering at this minute! :cry:


but when your in front of a pub full of people and your trying to be professional. blubing while singing is a little off-putting (i would have said embarrassing but i'm not embarrassed that i loved my dad)

but when your in front of a pub full of people and your trying to be professional. blubing while singing is a little off-putting (i would have said embarrassing but i'm not embarrassed that i loved my dad)

I'm in the university library, trying to hide my watery eyes from the hottie 2 pc's away... I'm sure he's noticed me sniffling a bit! I'll blame it on my cold, not the fact that I can cry at a song merely being mentioned!

I lost my brother in law last year aged 38. He was a bit of a hippy and altho he suffered with mental probs was a great guy.He liked "wish you were here "by pf.When i hear it i can get a bit emotional but then think about what a good lad he was and the laughs we had then it goes away.

Thought of another one!

Gerry & The Pacemakers - You'l never walk alone

This was played at Emlyn Hughes' funeral and me and my mum were stood outside the cathedral... oh my god, when they started playing this i wanted to cry so bad but I held it together for my mum (she loved Emlyn Hughes)

I would imagine that would have affected quite a few people that day. :(

Just for a Moment- Aqualung

Just for a moment
Everything I treasured was gone
Just for a moment
The world was full of pain

Oh how I love you

Just for a moment
I faced my life alone
Just for a moment
My luck had finally run out

Oh how I love you

The same thing that blew us together
Might blow us apart
Keep a piece of me precious
And close to your heart

Just for a moment
All of my nightmares came true
Just for a moment
My heart was broken in two

Oh how I need you
Oh how I'd miss you
Oh how I love you

This is such a beautiful song, but it took me by surprise shortly after a very dear loved one died recently. I spent an hour pulled in to the kerb on Abbeydale Road pulling myself together.

I'm sobbing just typing this.

As has already been said before, it's often the memories linked to certain songs that can make me cry.

There's been quite a few songs (sad or otherwise) just lately that have made me cry but one song that is guaranteed to bring me to tears no matter how sad or happy I am feeling is the LeAnne Rimes song, How Do I Live Without You?

I've not been able to listen to this song yet since my ex ended our relationship almost two months ago.


LeAnn Rimes - How Do I Live Without You

How do I,
Get through one night without you?
If I had to live without you,
What kind of life would that be?
And I,
I need you in my arms
Need you to hold
You're my world, my heart, my soul

Bridge:
If you ever leave,
Baby you would take away everything
Good in my life
And tell me now

Chorus:
How do I live without you
I want to know
How do I breathe without you
If you ever go
How do I ever, ever survive
How do I
Oh how do I live

Without you,
There'd be no sun in my sky
There would be no love in my life
There'd be no world left for me
And I
Baby, I don't know what I would do
I'd be lost if I lost you

Bridge:
If you ever leave
Baby you would take away everything
Real in my life
And tell me now

Chorus:
How do I live without you
I want to know
How do i breathe without
If you ever go
How do ever, ever survive
How do I
Oh how do I live

Please tell me baby
How do I go on

Bridge:
If you ever leave
Baby you would take away everything
I need you with me
Baby don't you know that you're everything
Good in my life
And tell me now

(Chorus)

Another one is 'Tank Park Salute' by Billy Bragg. It only takes the opening bars of either of them to set me sniffling.
A lovely tune indeed. :)

When i went through my meloncholic phase The Cure could bring me to tears in seconds. 'Pictures Of You' still cuts deep.

Definitely West Side Story and "Somewhere".....

Gerry and the Pacemakers, "You'll Never Walk Alone"

and since I saw "Buddy - the Musical" Buddy Holly and "True Love Ways", probably because I just knew he was going to die...... :cry: :cry:

Songs that have personal "meaning" can bring a tear...
"Into the West" by Annie Lennox
"Prettiest Eyes" by Beautiful South
"Hallelujah" by John Cale
"Time after Time" by Cyndi Lauper
"Alexandra Leaving", "Death of a Ladies' Man", "Chelsea Hotel", "In My Secret Life" by Leonard Cohen

Many others :)

'The Band Played Waltzing Matilda' by The Pogues. And not because of some bird or owt - because it takes you through the pointless slaughter of thousands of young men in WWI.

Deavon

The theme tune to "Planet Earth" (Beeb1) brought a tear to my eye tonigt. How mad is that???
Anyone know who it is by? Can't be just incidental music...

I think it's a song from sigor ros's latest album I think, I believe it's called Hippiopella, is this it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWzfoYe6_rg

As for songs that make me cry, it had to be Jealous Guy by John Lennon

I was dreaming of the past, And my heart was beating fast
I began to lose control, I began to lose control
I didnt mean to hurt you, I'm sorry that I made you cry
Oh no, I didnt want to hurt you, Im just a jealous guy

I was feeling insecure, You might not love me anymore
I was shivering inside, I was shivering inside

Makes me tear up just thinking about it...

Also, Strange and Beautiful by Aqualung makes me sad, it's all about wanting someone who doesn't even seem to notice you

I've been watching your world from afar,
I've been trying to be where you are,
And I've been secretly falling apart,
I'll see.
To me, you're strange and you're beautiful,
You'd be so perfect with me but you just can't see,
You turn every head but you don't see me.

I'll put a spell on you,
You'll fall asleep and I'll put a spell on you.
And when I wake you,
I'll be the first thing you see,
And you'll realise that you love me.

:(

Living years ... mike and the mechanics.......
just listen to the words....
every generation blames the one before ................................................
so true xxxxxxx

I lost my brother in law last year aged 38. He was a bit of a hippy and altho he suffered with mental probs was a great guy.He liked "wish you were here "by pf.When i hear it i can get a bit emotional but then think about what a good lad he was and the laughs we had then it goes away.

I love this song - it sometimes makes me well up, and I have no idea why.

The Mike and the Mechanics song mentioned above, 'The Living Years', is another one for me.

Jerusalem, Abide with me and 'You'll never walk alone' also do the honours.

like Phan said above, the older I get, the more this happens. :)

fiction factory - feels like heaven

for some reason romeo & juliet by dire straits always makes me cry and it has no personal association for it just makes me blub - think its quite poignent:cry:

oh and little donkey cos it reminds me of my mum

Mariah Carey - Circles...

Ever since you left me
I've been trying to hide the pain
Painting on a smile with lipstick
Putting on a big charade
So difficult to keep pretending
It's getting harder everyday
It's plain to see I'm cold and heartsick
Since you turned and walked away
I just keep going round and round
And round in circles
Keep on tumbling down


Oh boy my world has changed
And I don't think I can make it without you
Nothing's the same
You got me running around in circles over you
(running around in circles over you)

Saturday I saw you
Holding hands with someone new
Somehow I kept my composure
Just like everything was cool
But inside I kept repeating
Don't you let them see you cry
So I casually turned my head
As the tears rolled down my eyes
I just keep going round and round
And round in circles
Keep on tumbling down

[chorus]
Oh boy my world has changed
And I don't think I can make it without you
Nothing's the same
You got me running around in circles over you

Everything is you
How can I pull through
My heart is consumed I'm so confused
Still caught up in you, love can be so cruel
Baby don't know how to turn you loose.

[chorus]
Oh boy my world has changed
And I don't think I can make it without you youuuuu ahhh!
No, nothing's the same nothins the same!
You got me running around
And running around
And running around
Nothing's the same
Baby baby cause you
Got me running around
In circles over you
(running around in circles over you)

'Londonderry Aire' :cry:

'Running Scared' by The Big 'O' ....I'm welling up:blush:

My Chemical Romance - 'Cancer'. Makes me cry but its so uplifting at the same time. Love their lyrics too...
Also 'High' by the Lighthouse Family (it was our family song and was played at my hubbies funeral).
'The Voice Within'- Christina Aguliera (makes me think of my daughter)
'Somebody' - Depeche Mode
Can think of loads but Ill be here all night!!!! :)

i loved her first - by some obscure country singer.
any father will sob buckets.

flowers by billy yates.
if that doesn't stop drunk driving i dont know what will.

heartland - not so obscure country band really
(i loved her first)

i loved her first - by some obscure country singer.
any father will sob buckets.

same as this one by Bob Carlisle, Butterfly Kisses

There's two things I know for sure:
She was sent here from heaven and she's
daddy's little girl.
As I drop to my knees by her bed at night
She talks to Jesus and I close my eyes and
I thank god for all the joy in my life
Oh, but most of all
For butterfly kisses after bedtime prayer;
sticking little white flowers all up in her
hair; "Walk beside the pony, Daddy, it's my first ride."
"I know the cake looks funny, Daddy, but I sure tried."
In all that I've done wrong I know I must
have done something right to deserve a hug
every morning and butterfly kisses at night.

Sweet 16 today
She's looking like her mama a little more everyday
One part woman, the other part girl.
To perfume and make-up from ribbons and curls
Trying her wings out in a great big world.

But I remember
Butterfly kisses after bedtime prayer; sticking
little white flowers all up in her hair.
"You know how much I love you, Daddy, But if you
don't mind I'm only gonna kiss you on the cheek this time."
With all that I've done wrong I must have done
something right to deserve her love every morning
and butterfly kisses at night.

All the precious time
Like the wind, the years go by.
Precious butterfly.
Spread your wings and fly.

She'll change her name today.
She'll make a promise and I'll give her away.
Standing in the bride-room just staring at her.
She asked me what I'm thinking and I said "I'm not
sure-I just feel like I'm losing my baby girl."
She leaned over...gave me butterfly kisses with her mama there,
Sticking little white flowers all up in her hair
"Walk my down the aisle, Daddy-it's just about time."
"Does my wedding gown look pretty, Daddy? Daddy, don't cry!"

Oh, with all that I've done wrong I must have
done something right.
To deserve your love every morning and butterfly
kisses-I couldn't ask God for more, man this is what love is.

I know I gotta let her go, but I'll always remember
every hug in the morning and butterfly kisses.

ray allaire
a song for my daughter.

i'm gonna get the one above dj cheers.



"I Loved Her First"

Look at the two of you dancing that way
Lost in the moment and each others face
So much in love your alone in this place
Like there's nobody else in the world
I was enough for her not long ago
I was her number one
She told me so
And she still means the world to me
Just so you know
So be careful when you hold my girl
Time changes everything
Life must go on
And I'm not gonna stand in your way

But I loved her first and I held her first
And a place in my heart will always be hers
From the first breath she breathed
When she first smiled at me
I knew the love of a father runs deep
And I prayed that she'd find you someday
But it still hard to give her away
I loved her first

How could that beautiful women with you
Be the same freckle face kid that I knew
The one that I read all those fairy tales to
And tucked into bed all those nights
And I knew the first time I saw you with her
It was only a matter of time

But I loved her first and I held her first
And a place in my heart will always be hers
From the first breath she breathed
When she first smiled at me
I knew the love of a father runs deep
And I prayed that she'd find you someday
But its still hard to give her away
I loved her first

From the first breath she breathed
When she first smiled at me
I knew the love of a father runs deep
Someday you might know what I'm going through
When a miracle smiles up at you
I loved her first



that's it i'm now blubbering like a baby.

The one song that makes me cry is Leningrad by Billy Joel, even admitting to it is enough to make me cry...Oh the shame.

A happy cry -seven wonders by fleetwood mac reminds me of my childhood, don't know what it is about it, filling up now, I had such a happy childhood and it makes me wish I could move time back to then.

im not even a daddy ( im a mammy) but those 2 songs have just made me cry.

another that has my chin wobbling and tears pouring no matter where i am is, if tommorow never comes - ronan ( i nearly died a few years ago and it makes me know how much i love my hubby )

and another.. because you loved me - celine dion

theres loads more but im mardy and cry at owt so ide be here all day LOL

:) i will always love you by whitney houston makes me cry

If I should stay,
I would only be in your way.
So I'll go, but I know
I'll think of you ev'ry step of the way.

And I will always love you.
I will always love you.
You, my darling you. Hmm.

Bittersweet memories
that is all I'm taking with me.
So, goodbye. Please, don't cry.
We both know I'm not what you, you need.

And I will always love you.
I will always love you.

(Instrumental solo)

I hope life treats you kind
And I hope you have all you've dreamed of.
And I wish to you, joy and happiness.
But above all this, I wish you love.

And I will always love you.
I will always love you.
I will always love you.
I will always love you.
I will always love you.
I, I will always love you.

You, darling, I love you.
Ooh, I'll always, I'll always love you.

The most amazing woman I've ever met died last year.

She wasn't only my surrogate Mum, she was my best friend and I miss her more than I've ever missed anything or anyone in my life.

Fortunately her spirit is very much alive.

The lyrics to this particular track are so relevant in terms of our relationship.

Whenever I hear it play, I always become a tad emotional.

Watch and listen here (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiS8YokFzeY)

It must have been cold there in my shadow,
to never have sunlight on your face.
You were content to let me shine, that's your way,
you always walked a step behind.

So I was the one with all the glory,
while you were the one with all the strength.
A beautiful face without a name -- for so long,
a beautiful smile to hide the pain.

Chorus
Did you ever know that you're my hero,
and ev'rything I would like to be?
I can fly higher than an eagle,
'cause you are the wind beneath my wings.

It might have appeared to go unnoticed,
but I've got it all here in my heart.
I want you to know I know the truth, of course I know it,
I would be nothing with out you.

Chorus
Did you ever know that you're my hero,
and ev'rything I would like to be?
I can fly higher than an eagle,
'cause you are the wind beneath my wings.

Fly, fly, fly away,
you let me fly so high.
Oh, fly, fly,
so high against the sky, so high I almost touch the sky.
Thank you, thank you, thank God for you,
the wind beneath my wings.

the last time that some one singing a song fetch a tear to my eye was when that young lad on x factor sang you'll never walk alone.

Two little boys.

:cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:

Dance With My Father - Luther Vandross

Both Sides Now - Joni Mitchell

The End of Innocence - Don Henley

Lately - Stevie Wonder

No Ordinary Morning - Chicane / Tracy Ackerman

Hard Habit To Break - Chicago

Any record by the Arctic Monkeys makes me cry......but for all the wrong reasons.

Two little boys.

:cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:

Me too - thought I was being silly...

Also Joni Mitchell - Both Sides Now, and that hymn How Great Thou Art..
Billie Holiday - Travellin' Light..

:cry: Snow Patrol - Chasing Cars :cry: .... and many others, but that one is current. It stops in my tracks and sends a shiver down my spine.

I once heard a folk singer doing The Seeker's "Morningtown Ride" and started blubbering, but it was back when I was doing a voluntary thing at the Winged Fellowship in Essex and I'd been on a really long shift and was nearly on my knees in tiredness but they wouldn't let me go to bed till after my client had been put to bed (which took upwards of an hour as he was severely disabled and had to be hoisted electronically everywhere)

Oh yeah! I sing this every night to my gorgeous children and have to choke back the tears every time :roll:

Willman, I've just used up a whole box of tissues; that one's a killer!

"The Winner Takes It All" by Abba, but I dont know why.:( ( Its makes me cry)

2 Little Boys by Rolf Harris makes me sniffle

:cry: Snow Patrol - Chasing Cars :cry: .... and many others, but that one is current. It stops in my tracks and sends a shiver down my spine.

Yep that sets me off too. Sometimes, the sobbing goes on for an hour!

Also
Pearl Jam - Black
Massive Attack - Unfinished Sympathy (tears of happiness, more than sadness I think :confused: )

and the one most amazing one

Albinoni's Adagio in G minor :cry:

Forgive me if it has been done before but the uplifting songs thread reminded me of songs that make me blub.

Songs that make me cry include

The Blowers Daughter - Damien Rice
I Know It's Over - The Smiths

The Drugs Don't Work - The Verve. I'm incapable of listening to this without tears starting to well.

Stay Another Day - East 17. Odd choice, and I was fine with it til I found out it was written for the terminally ill dad of the writer :( .

I will Remember You..by Sarah Mclaclan

I love Sarah Mclachlan i love all her songs i have her album she is the best singer ever and i think the best thing Canada did was produce her..Hip hip hooray for the Canadians.

Sarah Mclachlan did a song for a TV series called Due South called possession and every time i listen to it i think of this TV Series which i am a big fan of and i cry like a baby..i really do, i'm so emotional and the words are amazing.
Listen as the wind blows from across the great divide
voices trapped in yearning, memories trapped in time
the night is my companion, and solitude my guide
would I spend forever here and not be satisfied?

and I would be the one
to hold you down
kiss you so hard
I'll take your breath away
and after, I'd wipe away the tears
just close your eyes dear

Through this world I've stumbled
so many times betrayed
trying to find an honest word to find
the truth enslaved
oh you speak to me in riddles
and you speak to me in rhymes
my body aches to breathe your breath
your words keep me alive

And I would be the one
to hold you down
kiss you so hard
I'll take your breath away
and after, I'd wipe away the tears
just close your eyes dear

Into this night I wander
it's morning that I dread
another day of knowing of
the path I fear to tread
oh into the sea of waking dreams
I follow without pride
nothing stands between us here
and I won't be denied

and I would be the one
to hold you down
kiss you so hard
I'll take your breath away
and after, I'd wipe away the tears
just close your eyes

her words are so deep and meaningful and she has wrote them all her self she hasnt copied anyone.
and you have got to have heard the angel song, another group of kids called Angelis did a cover of it..

In the arms of an angel
fly away from here
from this dark cold hotel room
and the endlessness that you fear
you are pulled from the wreckage
of your silent reverie
you're in the arms of the angel
may you find some comfort there

i just love listening to her and she has the most amazing voice i ever heard.

Other than Sarah i like Faith Hills song There you'll be that makes me cry and also Wind beneath my Wings as it was played at the funeral of someone i cared for. I also find James Blunts songs make me a little weepy like goodbye my lover.

from Fallen

Mod note: Threads merged.

Forgive me if it has been done before but the uplifting songs thread reminded me of songs that make me blub.

Songs that make me cry include

The Blowers Daughter - Damien Rice
I Know It's Over - The Smiths

Never Had No-One Ever from The Queen Is Dead.

Apart from being one of Mozza's finest vocals to date, you can hear he means every word and it's sung from the gut of his belly.

The long, drawn out lines really go through me and the sobbing at the end make this one hell of an emotional tune.

"Three Lions " Footballs coming home always does me.

'Trapeze' by Boy on a Dolphin

Annies song & simply the best

Snow Patrol, Chasing Cars..On the way to my nans funeral we had to have the radio on in the funeral car, my sister has this phobia of traveling (forgot what its called) she was feeling really sick and trapped in the car so the driver asked her if she would like the radio on to take her mind off things. Has we got into the gates at City Road Cemetry, Chasing Cars came on :cry: I really liked the song before but I can't listen to it much now.

Hollies, He ain't heavy he's my brother makes me cry too, it was my grandads favourite song. He was a really good man, never known anyone like him!! :cry:

Snow Patrol, Chasing Cars..On the way to my nans funeral we had to have the radio on in the funeral car, my sister has this phobia of traveling (forgot what its called) she was feeling really sick and trapped in the car so the driver asked her if she would like the radio on to take her mind off things. Has we got into the gates at City Road Cemetry, Chasing Cars came on :cry: I really liked the song before but I can't listen to it much now.



After losing my boyfriend last year, a friend of his made a DVD of him with the filmed images that he had of him out on his bike and the film of the bike cortege that accompanied the hearse on his last trip to the crematorium, and he backed it with 'Chasing cars'. I'd rather never hear that song again- it has very sad memories attached to it.

Abide with me.


Good call, I get weepy everytime I hear that one.

Come all ye Faithful - No idea why, not religous in the slightest but that pulls on my heartstrings as well.

Sugarmice - Marillion

Semisonic - Sing It To Me In My Sleep - For far too many reasons to go into without serious need for vodka and antidepressants!

I dont know if its the music, I dont know if its the faces, and I dont know if its the pitch of the voice but this one seems to get me every time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1Z8pSXCNFI

Also, the Bangles Eternal flame just kills me.

They were playing that on the radio at the hospital as the doc told me that my son had Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy and would die before he became an adult.

Every time I hear it, I see the docs sombre face and I remember my son, who was Five happily playing with the toys in the office.

World Party: I fell back alone. Kind of a breaking up with someone song, very true and very poignant...and Love will tear us apart by joy division (think i might have mentioned both of these either on the previous version of this thread or a similar one, so sorry for the repeat!)

If we walk through each other
As we leave the room
You don't have to tell me that it's over
Whoever you were then
I never really knew
And you got no need to know me now

CHORUS
You can't see the bottom from the top
You don't see the edge before you drop
And I fell back alone
And I fell back alone
And I fell

Is love trying all the right moves
To stop the walls from coming up
But I can't look over this at all
I'm in some different place
Strangest pictures on my wall
I drew them yesterday
I never thought I'd find the time at all

CHORUS

Forever doesn't mean forever
It just means maybe some other time or place
But how can two souls still eat together
When life has lost its taste

How can we live together
In bed and face to face
And not see anyone at all
It's time to make a wish
And let it float on down the stream
And we can cry a little
For a time that could have been

Live it all my love
Live it well my love
Live it long my love
Live it all my love

CHORUS

It's not the song rather the associations I attach to the song which have an affect on me and the way I see it, the choice is mine whether I want to allow the song to have that affect.


I totally agree . I've never actually cried but have come very close on occasions . Lump in throat , red eyes etc etc

Jill Scott's "Slowly Surely..." :love: :(

Slowly surely,
I walk away from
that old desperate and dazed love
caught up in the maze of love
the crazy craze of love
thought it was good
thought it was real
thought it was
but it wasn't love

I just don't know
Where i should go
So
Slowly surely
I walk away from
self-serving
undeserving
constantly hurting me love
deserting me love
you said, I said, we said
but

Slowly surely
I walk away from
confusing love
misusing love
abusing love
this can't be

Slowly surely
I walk away from
self serving
undeserving
constantly hurting me love

I just don't know
where I should go
No
I just don't know
know, know, know
Where I should go
so

Slowly surely
I walk away from
that old desperate and dazed love
caught up in the maze of love
the crazy craze of love

thought it was good
thought it was real
thought it was
but it wasn't love

I just don't know where to go
So

Slowly surely
I walk away from
I walk away from
Slowly surely
I walk away from love
Oh
slowlyy, surely one step at a time
but surely
I will pass the old love aside
and love me
slowly,
surely I walk away from
slowly surely I walk away from desperating love
caught up in the maze love
crazy crazy craze of love
slowly surely, I walk away from [repeat 5 times]
Slooooooowly Suuuuuuurely, slowly surely

You're the one for me - fatty never helps when dieting.

You're Beautiful - James Blunt.

It just does, ok? :suspect:

me too but because it got released when there was a death in the family, and some of the lyrics fitted.
somethimes it snows in april by prince, gets me every time i hear it

"Father and Daughter" by Paul Simon
Last year my dad gave me and my sister this cd, I had never even heard of Paul Simon. When I got home I put it on and cried as I was listening to it, its the most beautiful song I have ever heard. I phoned my sister who was also crying after listening to it.
If you havn`t heard it check it out here http://www.paulsimon.com/player.php
especially if you are a father or daughter, but have the tissues ready!

This is How It Feels by Inspiral Carpets.

Doesn;t make me cry every time I hear it but sometimes it does. It is a sad haunting tune and it has sad and haunting lyrics which are kind of a bit ambiguous but it paints a picture what life can feel like at its lowest points.

But of course the thing about emotional crying is it makes you feel better because of the endorphins it releases.

Buffy Sainte-Marie's 'The Big Ones Get Away' - http://www.creative-native.com/lyrics/bigones.htm - is another one for me.

What's really interesting is to listen to it whilst reading the or watching the various retrospectives of the 'Blair Decade' that have bene in the media this last week...

may be i am kinda heartless but i have never been moved by a song. Although one song did interfere with my emotions. That crazy frog tune really made me cry at one point, listening to it endlessly on the halam union bars

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SZOjKuRMaE


Gets me. God knows why but it does.

yes ...there is
But I don't know the title....
Think it's embrace

Through corridors and ...Automatic doors - got to get to you ...got to see you ....:confused:

Anyone help
Reminds me of one of my little ones being in hospital having an operation at 5 weeks old weighing 61/2lbs

Booooo HOOOOOOO:(

Yes, 24 songs made me cry last night, some with laughter and some because they were truly awful. Eurovision....ain't it full of ****

Brucie's "Wreck on the Highway" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evsektY_zRA)

Just watched it now and it got me straightaway :cry:

Last night I was out driving
Coming home at the end of the working day
I was riding alone through the drizzling rain
On a deserted stretch of a county two-lane
When I came upon a wreck on the highway

There was blood and glass all over
And there was nobody there but me
As the rain tumbled down hard and cold
I seen a young man lying by the side of the road
He cried Mister, won't you help me please

An ambulance finally came and took him to Riverside
I watched as they drove him away
And I thought of a girlfriend or a young wife
And a state trooper knocking in the middle of the night
To say your baby died in a wreck on the highway

Sometimes I sit up in the darkness
And I watch my baby as she sleeps
Then I climb in bed and I hold her tight
I just lay there awake in the middle of the night
Thinking 'bout the wreck on the highway

Annies song & simply the best

My mum's favourite song. She died at 47. :(

Brucie's "Wreck on the Highway" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evsektY_zRA)

Just watched it now and it got me straightaway :cry:

That's from 'Nebraska', isn't it?

I still think that that album is probably one of the best he ever did - 'Atlantic City' and 'Johnny 99' are excellent tracks from that album. Good choice!

Wreck on the Highway is from The River. I think its too cheerful for Nebraska :)

Wreck on the Highway is from The River. I think its too cheerful for Nebraska :)

Yes, it's from The River. Actually several songs on there affect me. Maybe cos of the time of life I was going thorugh when it came out..leaving home and trying to find my own way for the first time etc....oh god I'm filling up again...

Ahhh....I know what you mean.

'The River' is a very powerful song - like you say - those songs are all about growing up and leaving home and the issues around that time life.

Journey - Who's crying now (guitar solo)
Eva Cassidy - Time after Time
Oasis - Live Forever
Ed Alleyne Johnson - Oxford Suite

Bright eyes - art garfunkle, thats the ultimate for me fill up every time!

So lost without you - Air supply, not so much cry but I get a bit sentimental.

The sunscreen song makes me cry every time!

Bring Him Home from Le Mis

Tower of Learning - Rufus Wainwright

Dance with my Father - Luther Vandross

Cryin over You - Roy Orbison (because it was played at my mothers funeral)

Dream a Little Dream - Mamas Pappas (my dads funeral)

Your All I Want- Lifehouse
reminds me of my boyfriend who i don't get to see a lot and miss terribly!! makes me all teary!

I must say, I do cry to songs, but it's not always the most obvious ones. The first time I ever cried at a gig was when I saw Queen + Paul Rodgers. They opened with Tie Your Mother Down and that was it, I'd gone. Then Radio Ga Ga set me off again, and with These Are The Days... and Bo Rhap using old footage of Freddie and the band I was almost an emotional wreckby the end. The first time I almost cried at a gig was when I saw AC/DC in 2000. They started with You Shook Me... and the ring of the opening chord made my knees go weak and sent a shiver upmy spine.

Then there's the heavy stuff that gets me going. Dream Theater, Testament, Ozzy, Slayer, Tool. All of them, and others, get me very emotional, and they don't play music that you think would be classed as emotional. I remember watching the video for In This River by Black Label Society. The video was made not long after Dimebag Darrell of Pantera had been shot dead onstage. In the video, a couple of kids played Zakk and Dimebag as kids and me and my bro were in freakin' tears. (I'm almost there now thinking about it) We even shared a brotherly/manly hug.

So, in answer to your question; YES, a song can make you cry. No matter which genre, or who it's by, if you connect with the music, the lyrics or just the feel of it, then that's all you need.

By the way, the Sunscreen song always moves me everytime I hear it.

my heart will go on makes me cry wen its on the film titanic :cry:

If I hear Amazing Grace or Sinead O'Conners' Nothing Compares To You then I really need to get the tissues out, saying that will also cry at anything anthemic or rousing. I'm just a soppy old git.

fairytale of new york.
come back to me-Big Country
Nothing compares 2U
chamber of 32 doors-genesis
I believe( when I fall in love with you)- stevie wonder

I'd cry too if I watched Titanic. The thought that I'd wasted three hours of my life...

;)

Soz, couldn't resist, no offence meant.

I'd cry too if I watched Titanic. The thought that I'd wasted three hours of my life...

;)

Soz, couldn't resist, no offence meant.

:hihi: same here

joking apart.James-All Out To Get You.off wah wah:cry: :sad: :cry:

Mariah Carey- Hero

If I hear Amazing Grace or Sinead O'Conners' Nothing Compares To You then I really need to get the tissues out, saying that will also cry at anything anthemic or rousing. I'm just a soppy old git.

Definitely Amazing Grace, a couple of years ago they showed it on Top of the Pops 2, Judy Collins singing, and I could just feel my eyes welling up :cry:

It is totally depend upon mood and situation as good and sound music is directly related to our emotional system it can make you cry.

Following on from the 'power ballad' question I suppose:

I once wept openly to 'Total Eclipse of The Heart'... (I've sobered up since then).

Just wondered if there was a song that makes you cry and why? (other than drunkeness of course).


i sadly cried to dry your eyes out, by the streets, i hate the song now,
i spilt with my ex after 5 years, and he give my the single to play...:)

most elton john songs make me cry...still love him tho..:)

Wire's - By Athlete :(

I don't like having songs that make me cry. You should like a song for its own sake so I don't really like it when they become associated with a memory for me.

However, I am but human so the suspects are:

Bright Eyes... Art Garfunkel I just think of the film and I'm off!

My last tango... Nerina Pallot... I'd just got into her and was going through a pappy break up early last Summer where neither of us wanted to split up but circumstance made us (all for the right reasons.) Every time this came on I'd burst into tears! Shame as it's a beautiful song.

You do something to me... Paul Weller... My best mate had it as her second song at her wedding, partly because she loves it, she loves me (and I love Paul Weller.) I was meant to dance to it with my long term ex (this had been planned with military precision by my mate for ages:rolleyes: ) but as he could be nowhere to be found, I ended up dancing with her brother in law instead. Therefore to me it signifies the first time I thought something was wrong and although I'd always loved the song, it still makes me feel uncomfortable and is probably one i bypass when i listen to Stanley Road.


I can understand why people cry to Aqualung songs. They are just gorgeous!

Two little boys.

:cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:

Yes, that does it for me too!

The Living Dead by Suede

Asleep by The Smiths

For No One by The Beatles

This is Yesterday by the Manics

Pretty much any 'ballad' by Tom Waits

Rocking in The Free World by Neil Young

Thats quite a few isn't it? And those are only the tip of the iceberg.

The song that makes me sob (and i mean body wracking sobbing) is
My Immortal by Evanescence

There is a long story behind it and the story actually has a happy ending, but this song reminds me of what i almost lost and i feel grateful that i have taken a leap of faith!

For me, almost anything by Queen. Freddie's voice was just immense in every single song they did and that's usually what gets me. Although, a few perfect notes from Brian's guitar wrenches a little too.

Ride On by AC/DC too.

Wow this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1JO4p1FElw) does it every time and its been eight years since..........(long story)

When my marriage broke up 8 years ago, this brought me to tears, not ashamed to say so.

The Cure - Trust Lyrics

there's no-one left in the world
that i can hold onto
there is really no-one left at all
there is only you
and if you leave me now
you leave all that we were
undone
there is really no-one left
you are the only one

and still the hardest part for you
to put your trust in me
i love you more than i can say
why won't you just believe?

:cry: :cry: i dreamed a dream.....from les mis

monolith....t.rex 1971

It's probably embarrassing to say so, but My Chemical Romance's "Famous Last Words" almost brings me to tears. It's just such a powerful song.

Plus "Shine Acoustic" by Muse. That's so nice!

Everybody Hurts by R.E.M

The one at the end of Man on Fire, can't remember the title

One by Katherine Jenkins too, think its called Goodbye