A song makes me burst into tears.

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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”:

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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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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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.