What song makes you cry every time, or made you cry the first time you heard it?

[ClassyGirl]

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[Apryl]

Cats in the Cradle ....Harry Chapin

 

[ima6uldv8]

I'll Stand By You by The Pretenders. I've loved it since I first heard it.
http://m.youtube.com/index?desktop_uri=/&gl=US#/watch?xl=xl_blazer&v=P0GC2yPBvlI

 

[Tastytooter]

"Today Is the Day" by Yo La Tengo...the album version from Summer Sun, not the sped-up B-side. Saddest song ever - I usually break down sometime around the lines "remember how you used to say / can't stay up late? / a minute later and I'm older now / I can't stay awake." Its Georgia Hubley's voice above all else that makes it the musical equivalent of chopping an onion - soft but not vulnerable, its the sound of someone in the midst of a depressive episode, which seems pretty difficult to capture without moving into histrionics (see Bedhead's "Rest Of the Day" for the best expression of clinical depression in pop music.)

Yo La Tengo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Az3SHeMHC6c

Bedhead: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kDBvl8QMmI

=tt

 

[Kat73]

I Remember You - Skid Row

It goes back to moving when I was in HS...

 

[sexysecrets]

Home - Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros Acoustic Cover (Jorge & Alexa Narvaez)


I have listened to it about 30 times since last night.

 

[Sensualdreamer]

Just a dream - Carrie Underwood

 

[Felix_Jones]

Anything by Celine Dion or Barbara Streisand. I fucking hate them.

 

[Felix_Jones]

Cats in the Cradle ....Harry Chapin

Did you know that that song is meant to be taken ironically? It's rammed with sarcasm.

 

[pwr2theblondes]

I cried the first time I heard The Luckiest by Ben Folds. Also, the jazz standard Round Midnight.

Your turn.

So funny that you say that because when I read the thread title "The Luckiest" was the first song that came to mind. Other songs include: Look After you-The Fray, What Hurts the Most-Rascal Flatts, Tears in Heaven-Eric Clapton, Broken-Seether, The Chain-Ingrid Michaelson, and many more that I can't think of off the top of my head.

 

[ClassyGirl]

So funny that you say that because when I read the thread title "The Luckiest" was the first song that came to mind. Other songs include: Look After you-The Fray, What Hurts the Most-Rascal Flatts, Tears in Heaven-Eric Clapton, Broken-Seether, The Chain-Ingrid Michaelson, and many more that I can't think of off the top of my head.

It's a great song, so simple but so heartfelt. I love ben folds.

 

[thegirth]

Vienna by Ultravox. It was that bad.

Though I cried with laughter when Joe Dolce's 'Shaddup You Face' stopped it from reaching UK number one.

Tears all round.

 

[William2244]

here is Mine...

Forever by Queen... the version without the words..

I heard it and it was just so beautiful I cried... also was going thru a family member's passing t the time and ever since, whenever I hear it I cry

 

[deskuser]

'Somewhere Over The Rainbow' by Eva Cassidy. I can't describe how it makes me feel.

 

[Jaseconner]

"When somebody loved me" randy newman I think

 

[littlebabyclit]

Forever by Queen... the version without the words..

Are you talking about "Who Wants To Live Forever by Queen?" That IS one of the most haunting songs ever...and it does make me cry every time when I watch the scene in which it occurs in the movie Highlander (for which the song was written.)

Aha, Googling "Forever" shows me an instrumental version was also done. Haven't heard that, will have to give it a listen.

Another song that can make me cry (that's why I don't listen to it much) is "Dance Away" by Roxy Music. Its lyrics so painfully and perfectly express the feelings resulting from unrequited love and post-break up.

 

[liv21]

I've only cried because of music once or twice, but there are songs that will get me down every time.

One such is Radiohead's Exit Music (for a film)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMqXj-eVCjI

And Sand and Mercury by The Gathering
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggju71o0lmE
(Long, progressive, but well worth listening through)

Limousine by Brand New
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKg2b8glcpA
There's actually a very tragic story behind this song. After going to a family wedding, the Flynn family left the party in a limousine which was provided to discourage drunk driving. While on the freeway, a drunk driver hit the limo head-on, going 70 miles an hour after traveling for six miles on the wrong side of the highway. The limousine driver was killed instantly. Most of the family suffered severe injuries, but were worried that they could not find their oldest daughter, seven-year-old Katie. At that point, Mrs. Flynn climbed out of the wreckage, holding her daughter's decapitated head. Her seat belt had cut through her neck during the crash.

The drunk driver was convicted of two counts of second-degree murder (serving 18 years in prison), but is appealing his case.

 

[ClassyGirl]

I've only cried because of music once or twice, but there are songs that will get me down every time.

One such is Radiohead's Exit Music (for a film)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMqXj-eVCjI

And Sand and Mercury by The Gathering
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggju71o0lmE
(Long, progressive, but well worth listening through)

Limousine by Brand New
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKg2b8glcpA
There's actually a very tragic story behind this song. After going to a family wedding, the Flynn family left the party in a limousine which was provided to discourage drunk driving. While on the freeway, a drunk driver hit the limo head-on, going 70 miles an hour after traveling for six miles on the wrong side of the highway. The limousine driver was killed instantly. Most of the family suffered severe injuries, but were worried that they could not find their oldest daughter, seven-year-old Katie. At that point, Mrs. Flynn climbed out of the wreckage, holding her daughter's decapitated head. Her seat belt had cut through her neck during the crash.

The drunk driver was convicted of two counts of second-degree murder (serving 18 years in prison), but is appealing his case.

Oh my god that is awful.

 

[ClassyGirl]

It's strange how so many different types of songs can still make people have such emotional reactions. There are a few classical songs that could make me cry just because of their sheer beauty and raw emotion, one of them being Massenet's Meditation for the opera Thais. It was originally written for violin but it hits home for me played on flute...

But, more often than not, a song will make me cry because I have emotional ties with it and it reminds me of somebody or some time.

 

[klimt13]

School Night by Ani DiFranco and Carlos & Ruby by James McMurtry

 

[Jenny_Kawaii]

Jeff Buckley-Lover you should have come over

 

[Frizzle_Fry]

Hurt, NIN or the Cash cover...both get at me.

 

[William2244]

Are you talking about "Who Wants To Live Forever by Queen?" That IS one of the most haunting songs ever...and it does make me cry every time when I watch the scene in which it occurs in the movie Highlander (for which the song was written.)

Aha, Googling "Forever" shows me an instrumental version was also done. Haven't heard that, will have to give it a listen.

Another song that can make me cry (that's why I don't listen to it much) is "Dance Away" by Roxy Music. Its lyrics so painfully and perfectly express the feelings resulting from unrequited love and post-break up.

yea.. they made two different vesions.. one with Freddie singing the song and a more haunting instrumental version..

here..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnmnH3EgWhY

 

[strapon_tales]

Moby's "My Weakness."

 

[quicksandman]

In my kind of work, Angel by: Sarah McLachlan