[Closed] What songs make you cry ? Be honest !

flippin' loads.. I'm a bit over emotional if I hear a moving piece of music..

It's very rare that a sad song gets me though..

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for Binners

video camera, front room, glass of wine and guitar and she sings like that, superbly wonderful.

This springs to mind

For me its:

"This Mortal Coil" and their cover of "Song to the Siren".

and

"Bonny" by "Prefab Sprout".

[i]"This Mortal Coil" and their cover of "Song to the Siren"[/i]

That's a good one! That moment when it starts in the film "The Lovely Bones".. blub!

"The wind blows chilly and little Willie needs new shoes", gets me every time.

Strangely "Love Like Blood" by Killing Joke makes me go all "hayfevery". Just a couple of lines tweak something in me.

There once was a man who just couldn't cry
He hadn't cried for years & for years
Napalmed babies & the movie 'Love Story',
For instance could not produce tears
As a child he had cried as all children will
But at some point the tear ducts ran dry
He grew to be a man & the feces hit the fan
Things got bad but he couldn't cry

His dog got run over, his wife up & left him
After that he got sacked from his job
Lost an arm in the war, was laughed at by a whore
But still not a sniffle & sob
Well his novel was refused & his movie was banned
And his biog Broadway show was a flop
He was sent off to jail, you guessed it, no bail
But still not a dribble or drop

In jail he was beaten, bullied & buggered
And made to make licence plates
Water & bread was all he was fed
But not once did a tear stain his face
Doctors were called in, scientists too,
Theologians were last & practically least
They all agreed sure enough
He was no cream puff
But in fact an insensitive beast

He was removed from jail & placed in a place
For the insensitive & the insane
He played lots of chess & he made lots of friends
And he wept every time it would train
Once it rained 40 days & it rained 40 nights
And he cried and he cried and he cried and he cried
On the 41st day he just passed away
He just dehydrated & died

He went up to heaven located his dog
Not only that but he rejoined his arm
Down below all the critics, they took it all back
Cancer robbed the whore of her charm
His ex-wife died of stretch marks, his ex-employer went broke
The theologians were finally found out
Right down to the ground, the prison burned down
The earth suffered perpetual drought

Mary Coughlan singing "Sunday Mornings" on her album "Love Me or Leave Me" had us both blubbing like babies at the breakfast table one Sunday morning.
Also, June Tabor's rendition of "The Band Played Waltzing Matilda" had snot coming from my nose. Very raw.

This Woman's Work used to make me cry in my twenties, but not anymore.

Nothing does, to be totally honest. I've become hardened with age...

*grits teeth*

Also, June Tabor's rendition of "The Band Played Waltzing Matilda" had snot coming from my nose. Very raw.

Probably just an allergy. And try not to dab your nostrils too hard with tissues, that'd account for the rawness.

Oh, and Carlo Vives - La Tierra del Ovido - happy memories... 🙁

Drops of Jupiter - Train

An amazing feeling of having my life ripped up, making a big move across the country on impulse and strangely knowing that everything would work out...... and it did! 🙂

..... unlike my ability to link the video! 😳

and Danny Boy

This song always brings a little tear to my eye:

It's all because of the 4th verse and the line '....I've been wanting to be just like my Dad ever since I was a little boy' (approx 1:30). It was in the car as I drove up to my Sister's the day the old git popped his clogs.

i also have an acoustic version of 'Circlesquare' by The Wonderstuff that gets me most times too.

oh and The JCB song gets me too.

puff the magic dragon. not heard it since I was a kid just in case I start to blub

There goes the fear by Doves has a special meaning for me and generally brings a tear or two each time I hear it.

As others have said sometimes the most random songs creep up on me and can leave me in floods. Music has made me cry much more than films or books have.

Mine is another funeral associated one. It was played at the funeral of a close friend and colleague taken before his time a few years ago and oddly I was fine up until this came on and the memory has stuck with me ever since.

Miss you Steve.

Just remembered another one. Song that was playing when I heard John Peel died:

'With a little help from my friends' the Beatles version , played at one of my mates funerals when I was 17 .Still gets me going 25 years on ,it hit me hard as it was the first time I lost someone I really liked that wasn't an old relative.

Don't look back in anger, it was my brothers favourite song.

Bright eyes from watership down. I'm sure that film traumatised me as a child. Great but sad film.

Another funeral related one:
Days - Kirsty MacColl

This has caught me out once before.

There are a few triggers in a few songs which get me. Not tears as such, but definitely a lump in the throat to:

Snow Patrol - Chasing Cars:
[i]"All that I am
All that I ever was
Is here in your perfect eyes
They're all I can see"[/i]

Editors - The Weight Of The World:
[i]"You touch my face
God whispers in my ear
there are tears in my eyes
Love replaces fear"[/i]

Van Morrison - Got To Go Back:
[i]"Keep me away from porter or whiskey,
don't play anything sentimental
it'll make me cry"[/i]

Good shout on Guy Clark - The Cape. On his live album [i]Songs And Stories[/i] there's a track called [i]Magnolia Wind [/i]which has the line:
[i]"It's once in a lifetime
And it won't come again
It's here and it's gone
On a magnolia wind".[/i]

Always seem to get something in my eye at that point. Bit dusty in here.

Oh, and pretty-much all of [i]Ballerina[/i]

is a proper, full-on goose-bumper.

I see no mention of Martha by Tom Waits.

Pure - lightning seeds

Martha by Tom Waits great shout.
If this doesnt mmake you cry you either have no soul or no kids

Drawn from Memory, by Embrace. It was a song I listened to when I was away abroad and I got the news that my Sister had died, in 2000. I am in pieces everytime I hear it even 13 years later.

For some reason Kate Rusbys cover of Village green preservation society. No idea why. Great cover though.

Mine are quite simple.

Levi's singing Old Shep when I was eight

Kirsty and the dubliners Christmas Carolina New York the first Christmas after dad died.

Old Shep doesn't touch me now. Kirsty McColl reduces me to tears

Having said that I can't watch holly city and dying in Africa for charity adverts either. I guess I need to mtfu

Kids from my school just deciding to join in and sing 'Together' with the local choir in southern Lesotho.

Gosh- it's dusty in here...

[b]Maybe I'll Go (Lene Marlin)[/b]

[i]You think you've made it everything's going so fine
But then appears someone who wanna
Tear you down
Wanna rip you off those few nice things you've found
When and if you hit the ground.
Then it's falling kinda hard
Cause all you do is being yourself
Trying everything to succeed somehow.
But that's not the way things are right now.
Feeling kinda lost.[/i]

[b]Goodbye (Hootie and the Blowfish)[/b]

[i]Tomorrow used to be a day away
Now love is gone and you're into someone far away.
I never thought the day would come
When I would see his hand, not mine,
holding onto yours because I could not find the time.
Now I can't deny
nothing lasts forever
I don't want to leave
and I see the tear drops in your eyes
I don't want to live to see the day we say goodbye[/i]

Top thread - lot of stuff I hadn't heard before or forgotten. I'm putting together a spotify list for my SIL's wedding and a couple have slipped into the slow section for the drunks at the end...

I'm a cold hearted cynic but Johnny Cash Hurt gets me every time, I think it's the context, June Carter had just died and he wasn't far away, especially watching the clip. (what do young persons call films that accompany songs these days ? They are hardly videos any more !)

Also, The Band Played Waltzing Matilda, which I think was written by a Scotsman and covered by The Pogues, about Aussie soldiers coming back from WWI maimed. There is a line about nobody waiting on the dock to meet him, so sad.

None make me actually cry but loads of songs make me a tad emotional:
Comfortably numb, Everlong by the Foos, a few by Mazzy Star (Into Dust especially), Hurt, Eva Cassidy's version of Fields of Gold... and 2 little boys by Rolf Harris... reminds me of childhood.

Angels by Robbie Williams used to conjure up some fairly dark emotions - played at a funeral of a baby just a few weeks old. Tiny coffin. Horrible.

And nature documentaries often give me watery eyes... especially seeing people who devote their lives to saving animals.

Bugger it's getting dusty... time for something upbeat.

[i]Angels by Robbie Williams[/i]

His last single makes me cry. Because it is SO UTTERLY TERRIBLE!

His face makes me cry. Because it is SO UTTERLY HORRIBLE!

FIFY

he has to be that ugly so that deaf people can hate him too

This is pretty sad. Also beautiful. Starts at 0:46

Used in the excellent This is England film/series

Snow Patrol -Chasing Cars
Anything Eva Cassidy.

mr potatohead - Member
he has to be that ugly so that deaf people can hate him too

Crystal by Mando Daio
Draw from memory by Embrace

Anything by ABBA, Bee Gees and Carpenter ... so sad ... no fairy tale ending for most of them. Failed marriage with members (female members particularly) ended up alone in their latter years dead young brothers, and dead sister with angelic voice.

Anything by Christy Moore brings up series of warm emotions but Natives is a crusher for me.
Plenty of other stuff, mainly folk based but other things as well. Adler when she performed at the Brits broke me big time.

I love these threads... 😀

[i]Guardian[/i] journalist Laura Barton once [url= http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/apr/08/nick-clegg-songs-make-writers-cry ]wrote a piece[/url] that articulates [i]exactly[/i] how I feel about Cat Power's cover of version of [i]I found a reason[/i]:

It's only two minutes long, a song boiled down to spare piano and a dusty voice, but there's something about it that makes my insides buckle. It is somehow forlorn and vulnerable and desperate and defiant all at once. In my favourite line she sounds half-bold and half-broken: "What comes is better than what came before," she sings; it always brings me to tears.

And sometimes it's just the sounds... I don't know my pubstep from my dubstep (though I did my time as a junglist youth), but there's a point in this [url= http://archive.org/details/Asc-MnmlSsgMix ]ASC mix[/url] (from about 55 mins in) where it's pretty much just a kind of mournful bass, with a few scattered vocals and synths over the top... and it does me in.

TBH, nothing really makes me cry - lump in the throat is the best I can do but here are a few

Hope I don't fall in love with you - Tom Waits
Alison - Elvis Costello
Stay Free - The Clash
Atmosphere - Joy Division
Landslide - Fleetwood Mac
Broken Man - Paul Young
The Band Played Waltzing Matilda - The Pogues
Ruby, don't take your love to town - Kenny Rogers
The End - The Doors
Don't give up - Peter Gabriel

And just another mention for Hurt - Johnny Cash
And the Drugs don't Work - The Verve. TBH, i didn't esp like it until I heard Richard Ashcroft talk about how it was for his mother - who died of cancer ...
Songbird - Eva Cassidy , pah - The Fleetwood Mac version is far better ...

traumatic memories of being very young at the cinema and ghost bunnies....can still make a big scary mofo turn 5 years old again 😯

Song written by Townes about his experience of being institutionalised when he was 19.

Deacon Blue - Chocolate Girl

Not for the song or the lyrics but because 25 years ago I was doing a night shift and had to break some extremely bad news to one of my colleagues. Kept it together while I sorted him out and got the work done but then switched the radio on as I drove out of the car park and this was playing. Was going to an interview and cried all the way there. Liked the song and the album till then, but still all these years later find it too painful to listen to. Not unsurprisingly did not get the job. 5 years before I told the Professor who was interviewing me why I came across as not giving a toss.

Orphees return originally by Philip Glass gets me

Sad songs are the best ones....

Blood Embrace - Bonnie Prince Billy
Do I Wait - Ryan Adams
Just about anything by Cat Power (good call no teeth above) but esp for Blue & Metal Heart
Annabelle - Gillian Welch
Always coming back to you -Scott Walker
We Dance - Pavement
On The Beach - Neil Young
My Drug Buddy - Lemonheads
Casimir Pulaski Day - Sufjan Stevens (John Wayne Gacy Jr to now I think on it...)
Sweet Surrender & Hong Kong Bar - Tim Buckley
One of these good old days - Al Green
So this is goodbye - Stina Nirdenstam
To Love Somebody - Flying Burrito Brothers
And for some reason We Are Family - Sister Sledge
I could go on. And on.

If I walk to work (6 miles) with the Walkman on shuffle, there's usually something comes up and hits me...

chewkw - Member
Anything by ABBA, Bee Gees and Carpenter ... so sad ... no fairy tale ending for most of them. Failed marriage with members (female members particularly) ended up alone in their latter years dead young brothers, and dead sister with angelic voice.

Butterfly Kisses by Bob Carlisle

Even before I had 2 girls it would get me every time it came on the radio.

Hollies, 'He ain't heavy, he's my brother'
Great song, personal context too.

Earl Klugh,'Acoustic lady'

CountZero - Member

Very true, ...

As much as I love their songs I cannot bring myself to listen to them any more. For whatever reasons they just make me sad.

Another one perhaps is Deborah Harry from Blondie. Very sad.

Excellent thread!

Thought about it, decided on The Call by Regina Spektor, played it, discovered I was right. So now I'm listening to Us to cheer me up again. Cheers Reg!

I'll confess to not reading this whole thread yet - saving it for when the kids are in bed.

This is mine..

[i]...so Mary climb in. It's a town full of losers and I'm pulling out of here to win.[/i]

Which Side Are You On ? - Billy Bragg
Musette and Drums - Cocteau Twins
Beautiful Lies - B Complex

sc-xc

That is my favourite song, and that live clip is my favourite version of it. Just beautiful.

I always get goosebumps for the
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This caught me by surprise the first time I heard it:
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Turner - Long live the queen[/url]

Also I'm still trying to track down a song my dad had on vinyl. A folk singer/guitarist, song is about a returning soldier throwing himself on a bomb at a train station. Think it may be the first time I was drawn fully into the lyrics of a song. No Idea who it was by.

[b]Electric Worry[/b]

is this the song your after ?

Unfitgeezer you nailed in seconds. I guess you may have known what you were looking for from my vague description. Internet points to you sir!
I shall probably give it a few listens.

Nimrod, Barbers Adagio, This bitter Earth (from Shuter Island - Donah Washington) Oh dear....

Oh, I just took a call.....my cousin was was just found dead at home.I didn't have a great deal to do with him but still...it puts things in perspective.

Any of the above will do the trick right now.

loads of tunes with emotional attachment but for what it's worth the following just for the song

Kirsten hursh - your ghost

pixies - gigantic

the smiths - suffer little children

radiohead - no surprises

loads of those already mentioned...

Joan Biaz version of 'and the band played waltzing matilda'
good riddance - green day
mozart's clarinet concerto, not stictly a 'song'
cavalleria rusticana - mascgni if I'm a bit tired.... many many other pieces
goodbye my lover james blunt - yes i know......

every time, lump in the throat and dust in the room (I think the first time I heard it I could have swore he sang "I couldn't feel her".....bad time to hear that and it just stuck)

And this, takes me right back to 92

Mention of Abba reminded me of this, those with daughters might want to stiffen upper lips!

I liked the Guy Clark track so much I bought the song, Mrs S says she thinks it's about me!! Thanks anagallis_arvensis.

Any gareth gates song or justin beiber song makes me cry.Not because im emotionally moved. 😉

Terry Jacks, Seasons in the sun

Some cracking tunes on this thread, I've spent more time on you tube than I ever have this last couple of days. Thanks to all for some truely dusty moments.

At the time Wires by Athlete had me reaching for hankies as we went through same with my girl when she was born.
Lots of the above, particulary nimrod I was at the November ceremonies at the Cenotaph in '96 and although we had spent about 4 weeks marching about and practicing for it all and listening to the music, it didnt really hit me until I was stood there in the rain that Sunday morning in Whitehall.

And the best Slade song ever how does it feel, always for some reason gets me at the back of the throat.

EDIT: I heard this song on 6music months The Unthanks, the testimony of patience kershaw. Based on a true tale of life in the mines for women.

Electric Worry - Member

This caught me by surprise the first time I heard it:
Frank Turner - Long live the queen

It's a bit odd that one, in most ways it's one of his worst- terrible rhymes, mawkish lyrics, even the delivery's pretty poor. But I guess that all just makes it feel a bit less made and a bit more real.