Can a song make you cry?

[ReginaldD 10]

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.

[Lucy81 10]

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

[chocotiger 10]

Don Williams- Your my friend

Jim Reeves- I love you because

[Lucy81 10]

stand by me - ben e king

fields of gold

[the_rudeboy 12]

Green Onions.

When smoke gets in your eyes.

Great balls of fire.

[redrobbo 10]

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

[Deavon 10]

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.

[redrobbo 10]

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.

[Deavon 10]

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)

[redrobbo 10]

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'}.

[Siân 10]

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

[owdlad 10]

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.