What Songs Make You Cry?

[Neeranam]

The following always make me cry like a baby. 

Played at my best friend's funeral  and reminds me of when  lived in Leith. 

 

[DaLa]

Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd, mainly the lead guitar solo rather than the words.  And twice the impact with the light show.

Edited September 2, 2021 by DaLa
Missing words.

[Neeranam]

1 minute ago, DaLa said:

Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd, mainly the lead guitar solo rather than the words.

I agree, but the words also for me. 

[Will B Good]

Joe Cocker, "You are so beautiful", especially when watching videos of the kids when they were young.

[Tropicalevo]

Eric Clapton - Wonderful Tonight.

Wifey passed away 5 years ago, but this was our song.

Edited September 2, 2021 by Tropicalevo

[Neeranam]

Makes me homesick. 

[thaibeachlovers]

Just about every song I like. Given most were made long ago ( Rhiannon has to be my most favourite ) either the singer has died ( Orbison et al ) or the group ceased to be.

Tried to think of a song that makes me happy and the only one that springs to mind is "Stay the night" by James Blunt. That's thousands of sad songs to one happy one.

Partly, it's because my Celtish heritage makes me prone to melancholy, but every song I like is associated with some part of my life or some particular thing, and given my life is pretty much to the point the fat lady will be singing, every memory of my life that wasn't horrible makes me sad. Eg after I left my partner I heard "Drive" by the Cars, and every time I hear that it takes me right back then.

Of course, if we like country or Celtic music, even Gypsy music ( remember the Gypsy Kings? ) we are going to be wallowing in misery anyway.

[Neeranam]

My dad's favourite - 

 

 

[nikmar]

 

Dont know why this piece exactly - but i get all introspective and tearfull whenever I hear this.

 

A worthy mention goes to  -

 

 

Ahhh  - lost love.

[thaibeachlovers]

3 minutes ago, Neeranam said:

My dad's favourite - 

 

 

Don't know what exactly makes that song so emotional for me, but it really does, and always did, even when I was young and had my life ahead of me. I wish I could have been in the football stadium when thousands were singing it- that would be sure to bring a tear.

Edited September 2, 2021 by thaibeachlovers

[fredscats]

Tiny Tim   Tiptoe thru the tulips

[Neeranam]

5 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Don't know what exactly makes that song so emotional for me, but it really does, and always did, even when I was young and had my life ahead of me. I wish I could have been in the football stadium when thousands were singing it- that would be sure to bring a tear.

I lived in Glasgow and Barcelona, so this had a special place for me - 

 

[CharlieH]

"Gone too soon"  !

 

 

I think it depends on whats going on at the time and a song will play and it just hits a nerve and then sticks with you. Everytime you hear it , it takes back to that moment........and emotion.

 

Songs: musical postcards in time.

[jvs]

Anything by Justin Bieber but i think the op means another kind of tears.

There are a few songs i find very emotional ,maybe not just because of the song but because of the memories attached.

 

[Neeranam]

One I used to sing when I was drunk in karaoke bars in Bangkok many years ago

 

 

[fredscats]

 The sheer beauty of this song defies all       

   Thank You Tiny Tim   by far the Worlds best song 

 

   Thank you   Thank you   Thank you

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[mahtin]

NEEDLE OF DEATH - BERT JANSCH

 

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[thailien8]

Many years ago I was driving alone when a song I’d never heard before started playing on the car radio.  Before the song finished, I had to pull over and stop as I was in tears.  

“Mothers, Daughters, Wives” by Aussie folksinger Judy Small, is IMHO the greatest antiwar song.

[ezzra]

Real men don't cry.. not often anyway...

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[nikmar]

58 minutes ago, DaLa said:

Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd, mainly the lead guitar solo rather than the words.  And twice the impact with the light show.

an immense song but Nobody Home on the same side 3 of the same album tends to hit me harder.

[thaibeachlovers]

 

Talking of Pink Floyd- this one helped me get through my first unrequited love for the most amazing woman I ever met. I was crazy for her, but she rejected me cruelly.

Anyway, the song really spoke to me as though it had been written just for me.

 

 

Shine On You Crazy Diamond

Pink Floyd

Remember when you were young, you shone like the sun
Shine on you crazy diamond
Now there's a look in your eyes, like black holes in the sky
Shine on you crazy diamond
You were caught on the crossfire of childhood and stardom
Blown on the steel breeze

Come on you target for faraway laughter
Come on you stranger, you legend, you martyr, and shine

You reached for the secret too soon, you cried for the moon
Shine on you crazy diamond
Threatened by shadows at night, and exposed in the light
Shine on you crazy diamond
Well you wore out your welcome with random precision
Rode on the steel breeze

Come on you raver, you seer of visions
Come on you painter, you piper, you prisoner, and shine

[strikingsunset]

17 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

 

Talking of Pink Floyd- this one helped me get through my first unrequited love for the most amazing woman I ever met. I was crazy for her, but she rejected me cruelly.

Anyway, the song really spoke to me as though it had been written just for me.

 

 

Shine On You Crazy Diamond

Pink Floyd

Remember when you were young, you shone like the sun
Shine on you crazy diamond
Now there's a look in your eyes, like black holes in the sky
Shine on you crazy diamond
You were caught on the crossfire of childhood and stardom
Blown on the steel breeze

Come on you target for faraway laughter
Come on you stranger, you legend, you martyr, and shine

You reached for the secret too soon, you cried for the moon
Shine on you crazy diamond
Threatened by shadows at night, and exposed in the light
Shine on you crazy diamond
Well you wore out your welcome with random precision
Rode on the steel breeze

Come on you raver, you seer of visions
Come on you painter, you piper, you prisoner, and shine

 

Edited September 2, 2021 by strikingsunset
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[Moonlover]

Bit of an odd one this. The BBC ran a brilliant series a couple of years back, 'The Assassination of Gianni Versace'. They played Adagio in G minor during the very moving epilogue and it stills tears me up when I hear it.

 

 

[SiamAndy]

 

 

[ColeBOzbourne]

No song has ever made me cry, but now I have this overwhelming urge to stand in a circle holding hands with you guys and sing Kumbaya.

[mikebike]

Saddest song ever... 

 

https://youtu.be/FWZf_RBcB_Y

[RichardColeman]

Johnny Cash Hurt - very sad if you're in a pig of a mood !

 

[G Rex]

Too many songs to list! - I am a real crier when it comes to music..

 

a few 

 

 

 

 

[Saltire]

This song makes both me and the wife cry every time.

 

I like Phil Colllins and the first time I played it with her she started to cry more at the video than the words, which she now knows. She told me then that she had been homeless on the Streets of Bangkok as a young teenager, only for 3 months but that is long enough for anyone.

 

Eating from garbage and discarded food, trying to wash wihout getting chased by gas station managers, and simply helpless. I knew she had a very hard young life but this really made me cry, we cried together and sometimes still do when it's played. Three months of begging for money for a bus ticket home, but as in the song, homeless people are often treated like lepers of old. She finally made it home thanks to a kindly old Thai lady who fed her and put her on the bus home.

 

I have many more from the past but hearing this one now reminds me never to let her down, ever.

 

 

 

 

 

[nikmar]

18 minutes ago, mikebike said:

Saddest song ever... 

 

https://youtu.be/FWZf_RBcB_Y

i tend to listen to this when Im a drunk mess!!