# A song makes me burst into tears.

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [December 2, 2004, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-song-makes-me-burst-into-tears/277699 "2004-12-02T15:34:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![LtningBug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/73ab20/32.png) [@LtningBug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LtningBug)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2004, 8:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-song-makes-me-burst-into-tears/277699/101 "2004-12-10T08:42:33Z")

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Count me as a complete weirdo, 'cause Death Cab for Cutie’s album _Transatlanticism_ just about puts me over the edge. The darned album is just so completely depressing that I can’t hardly do anything but cry. Especially “Tiny Little Vessels”:

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> so one last touch and then you’ll go  
> and we’ll pretend that it meant something so much more  
> but it was vile, and it was cheap  
> and you are beautiful but you don’t mean a thing to me  
> yeah you are beautiful but you don’t mean a thing to me

Not only are the lyrics sad, the melody and chord progression just ooze with sadness.

It mostly hits me because I listened to it a few too many times during a breakup with a girl who was beautiful and meant a heck of a lot to me.

Try listening to that and then watching _Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind_. That’s something I won’t ever do again. Depressing.

Unfortunately, I really like _Transatlanticism_, and I thought _Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind_ was great, but they’re both off limits for me now, 'cause I hate feeling that depressed. Just thinking about this is getting my eyes watery and putting a lump in my throat.

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**Author:** ![colour\_wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/edb3f5/32.png) [@colour\_wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/colour_wolf)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2004, 9:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-song-makes-me-burst-into-tears/277699/102 "2004-12-10T09:08:56Z")

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Billy Bragg has several weepy songs, the most obvious being _Tank Park Salute_, about his recently deceased father.

_Some photographs of a summer’s day  
A little boy’s lifetime away  
Is all I’ve left of everything we’ve done  
Like a pale moon in a sunny sky  
Death gazes down as I pass by  
To remind me that I’m but my father’s son_

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**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2004, 9:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-song-makes-me-burst-into-tears/277699/103 "2004-12-10T09:26:19Z")

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I’ll have to second “He Stopped Loving Her Today”. It is about as predictable a song as there is, but I have to pull over if it comes on the radio. I’ll add another second for Mr. Cash’s “We’ll Meet Again”, but the one from Dr. Strangelove just makes me smile.

“You are My Sunshine” makes me cry too, if the right person does it.

I will have to add Robert Johnson’s “Love In Vain” as well. Willfully helping someone leave you will make me cry every time.

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