Name One, ONE Song That Just Chokes You Up From Within The Last 20 Years: No "Cat's Cradle" Covers!

I will go with this unbelievable version at the Grand Old Opry with Marcus King’s “Goodbye Carolina”. If ya’ll like blues, and you’ve never heard this, you’re doing yourself a disservice. This cat is legit.

This song makes me weep for no good reason. It’s such an utterance of loss and goodbyes. I love it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSt3EqSg4ZM

Gonna have to bust out some Tay-Tay here;

Volverás, by Ricky Martin

A sad song about a sick little boy and his dog

Oops, that’s 25 years old.
Okay, then: “It’s Quiet Uptown,” from the musical Hamilton.

Blues?

Sounds rather Ryan Adams-derived, if you ask me.

This one.

Jason Isbell - “Songs That She Sang In The Shower”

The OP specified no “Cat’s Cradle” COVERS:

ETA: oops, I missed the “last 20 years” part. But hey, it’s a nice live version, cut it some slack. Don’t think I’ve ever seen a capo so high up on a guitar neck before.

Johnny Cash - Hurt (Official Music Video) - YouTube

Trent Reznor, who composed the song originally for his band ‘Nine Inch Nails’ said about Cash’s cover version “I pop the video in, and wow… Tears welling, silence, goose-bumps… Wow. [I felt like] I just lost my girlfriend, because that song isn’t mine anymore… It really made me think about how powerful music is as a medium and art form. I wrote some words and music in my bedroom as a way of staying sane, about a bleak and desperate place I was in, totally isolated and alone. [Somehow] that winds up reinterpreted by a music legend from a radically different era/genre and still retains sincerity and meaning – different, but every bit as pure.”

Whistle in the sweet pine trees
The imaginary airport breeze
It flickers and flows
Fans fires in the road and
All we want to do is go home

Someone’s gonna break your heart
One cold gray morning

White Winos from Loudon Wainwright.

Let it go! from Frozen.

So many songs can choke me up; I’m really a wuss that way. That Louden Wainwright one almost had me blubbing.

Since I can only pick one, I’ll just randomly offer Falling Slowly by Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova.

(Btw, can someone offer a guide to imbedding the vid directly into a post? I are not so smart)

I thought of a FOW song too…

Kesha, “Spaceship”

The Fray, “How to Save a Life”. Not so much because of the song itself, but because I always associate that song with one of the most emotional scenes from Scrubs.

This is my entry, as well. The video, on top of the song, is just wrenching.

Sometimes
I feel the ocean in my blood
See rain from the sky above
Her salt brined tears
And now
Those tears leave a taste on my tongue
Like the warm rush you get from
Black opium
Black opium

NM. Not in the last 20.