# Songs That Made / Make You Cry (audio) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 31, 2009, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-made-make-you-cry-audio/491490 "2009-03-31T20:25:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![pythonzzz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9e8a1a/32.png) [@pythonzzz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pythonzzz)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2009, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-made-make-you-cry-audio/491490/41 "2009-04-02T04:38:32Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > “Photograph”, by Ringo Starr. He did it at the “Concert for George”, and the words took on a new meaning. I can’t hear it now without thinking of that. In a similar situation, the Irish song “The Parting Glass” that was done accapella by Neil Finn (and with harmony from Nick Seymour) at the Royal Albert Hall, closing out a bittersweet concert that was a farewell to the late drummer Paul Hester. ---
**Author:** ![pythonzzz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9e8a1a/32.png) [@pythonzzz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pythonzzz)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2009, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-made-make-you-cry-audio/491490/42 "2009-04-02T04:53:16Z")
Forgot to add… Also, another tribute to Hessie done by Neil was a solo performance of “Better Be Home Soon” done on the ARIA Awards. [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FD8pMIH1puw) ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2009, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-made-make-you-cry-audio/491490/43 "2009-04-02T05:44:14Z")
> [@Cajun Man](#): > > This is my favorite rendition of “The Old Man.” > > [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Cw1yorwijY](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Cw1yorwijY) > > Here’s another gut-wrenching song . . . “Christmas 1915” > > [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-QiULHn9tc](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-QiULHn9tc) **Caje?** I love you, man! Those are 2 of the most beautiful songs I have ever heard in my LIFE. Thank you for showing me something new. At this stage of my life, it is most important that I find something new pretty much all the time… Quasi ---
**Author:** ![runcible\_spoon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9fc29f/32.png) [@runcible\_spoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/runcible_spoon)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2009, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-made-make-you-cry-audio/491490/44 "2009-04-02T05:44:16Z")
[A Boy and His Frog](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufMdo9AyMng&feature=related) God damn you, Tom Smith. ---
**Author:** ![Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de053/32.png) [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackknifed_Juggernaut)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2009, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-made-make-you-cry-audio/491490/45 "2009-04-02T15:38:21Z")
I don’t generally cry, but these songs have made my eyes a bit watery due to various reasons: The Sundays - “Wild Horses” - Her voice and the lyrics [http://new.music.yahoo.com/The-Sundays/videos/view/Wild-Horses--2147918](http://new.music.yahoo.com/The-Sundays/videos/view/Wild-Horses--2147918) The The - “Love Is Stronger Than Death” - The lyrics [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/A2RtUv_PgGA/hqdefault.jpg "the The - Love Is Stronger Than Death") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2RtUv_PgGA) Cowboy Junkies - "Blue Moon Revisited (Song for Elvis) - Her voice [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9wEIbSqgSY) Incubus - “Oil and Water” - Lyrics and music hit home during the end of my marriage [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/s2kOB6Gf10w/hqdefault.jpg "INCUBUS - oil and water - (light grenades 2006)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2kOB6Gf10w) Rihanna - “Umbrella” - Same reason as above; represents the right attitude during a relationship (unless Chris Brown is beating the crap out of you, of course) [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T79dkJBCHyM) Luther Vandross - “Dance With My Father” - just an emotional and powerful song [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-X0JcXnWEw) ---
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2009, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-made-make-you-cry-audio/491490/46 "2009-04-02T16:10:09Z")
Try to keep your eyes dry while listening to Townes van Zandt perform [“Marie”](http://www.last.fm/music/Townes+Van+Zandt/_/Marie/+lyrics)! ---
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2009, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-made-make-you-cry-audio/491490/47 "2009-04-02T16:47:27Z")
Another heartbreaker from TVZ: [“Waiting Around to Die”](http://www.last.fm/music/Townes+Van+Zandt/_/Waiting+Around+to+Die/+lyrics) ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2009, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-made-make-you-cry-audio/491490/48 "2009-04-02T17:50:34Z")
> [@Cisco](#): > > I don’t even like country but that Randy Travis song where he’s talking about his grandpa . . . _[He Walked On Water](http://www.contactmusic.com/videos.nsf/stream/randy-travis-he-walked-on-water)_ Yeah, that one’s a tearjerker. It’s technically his great-grandfather (my mama’s Daddy was his oldest son.) What a great song. _He tied a cord to the end of a mop Said, '‘son here’s your pony, keep ‘er at a trot.’’ And I’d ride in circles while he laughed a lot 'Til I plopped down beside him. He was 90 years old in '63 and I loved him and he loved me and Lord I cried the day he died 'Cuz I thought that he walked on water_ A lot of country music songs make my liberal atheist ass cry like a baby. Most of them are by Garth Brooks. In fact, I can think of at least ten Garth Brooks songs that never fail to make me cry. Most of them are about the hard lives of farmers and truckers: **Wolves** , **The Cowboy’s Song** , **Cold Shoulder**. Then there’s [Learning to Live Again](http://video.aol.com/video-detail/garth-brooks-learning-to-live-again-with-lyrics/1525525896), a song about trauma recovery (probably the death of a spouse.) How about **[Ireland](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVsBDcDnXzs)**? That one’s about the hard lives of soldiers. ([lyrics](http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/Ireland-lyrics-Garth-Brooks/B2231B7F8A6AEFF6482568790010F89D)) Then there’s that song that was a hit not too long ago, ‘‘[Don’t Blink](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4ySSg4QG8g).’’ (Kenny Chesney.) \* Just like that you’re six years old and you take a nap Then you wake up and you’re twenty-five…\* I was 25 when I heard it, and yeah, I bawled. I also love [The Walk](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7i3pqJ2jqLo) by Sawyer Brown. ---
**Author:** ![Beadalin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Beadalin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beadalin)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2009, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-made-make-you-cry-audio/491490/49 "2009-04-02T17:54:06Z")
There are four that consistently get to me: [American Tune](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AE3kKUEY5WU), by Paul Simon (I prefer the version with Garfunkel, but this is the version I could find on YouTube) [Your Long Journey](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9TmJBBKYmU), sung by Robert Plant and Alison Krauss [Keep Me In Your Heart for a While](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7NQjLZvw44), by Warren Zevon [Past Due](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQBkyW1Ud3A), by the Weakerthans (song starts about 20 seconds in) ---
**Author:** ![Jettboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/85e7bf/32.png) [@Jettboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jettboy)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2009, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-made-make-you-cry-audio/491490/50 "2009-04-02T18:34:17Z")
> [@Beadalin](#): > > [Keep Me In Your Heart for a While](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7NQjLZvw44), by Warren Zevon Oh man, there’s nothing like a guy writing his own elegy to get the tear factory working. When he sings the line, “…if I leave you, it doesn’t mean I love you any less” is when the process starts. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Griffin-Kentzel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_griffin-kentzel/32/14787_2.png) [@Larry\_Griffin-Kentzel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Griffin-Kentzel)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2009, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-made-make-you-cry-audio/491490/51 "2009-04-03T18:25:54Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > Alone Again, Naturally [**Alone Again (Naturally) ~ Gilbert O’Sullivan (1972)**](http://homepage.mac.com/gaycouple/alone_again.html) ---
**Author:** ![Runestar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/74df32/32.png) [@Runestar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Runestar)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2009, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-made-make-you-cry-audio/491490/52 "2009-04-03T18:59:38Z")
I can never listen to the last track from the soundtrack of Ken Burns’ The Civil War without tearing up. Maybe not strictly a song _per se_ (as it’s the reading of a letter with the song “Ashokan Farewell” playing in the background) but still deeply moving. [A Civil War Letter](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3F5RT0_K5M) ---
**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2009, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-made-make-you-cry-audio/491490/53 "2009-04-04T06:25:23Z")
> [@Runestar](#): > > I can never listen to the last track from the soundtrack of Ken Burns’ The Civil War without tearing up. Maybe not strictly a song _per se_ (as it’s the reading of a letter with the song “Ashokan Farewell” playing in the background) but still deeply moving. > > [A Civil War Letter](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3F5RT0_K5M) ☹ Outstanding. ---
**Author:** ![DSYoungEsq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2009, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-made-make-you-cry-audio/491490/54 "2009-04-04T14:16:00Z")
> [@Cajun Man](#): > > [**Alone Again (Naturally) ~ Gilbert O’Sullivan (1972)**](http://homepage.mac.com/gaycouple/alone_again.html) I never cry at that song. Can’t stand whiners. [Vincent](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OtK_sP6_fM), however, makes me cry regularly. But then my eyes water at the touch of the breeze. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Ponderoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponderoid/32/19221_2.png) [@Ponderoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponderoid)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2009, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-made-make-you-cry-audio/491490/55 "2009-04-04T14:23:45Z")
[Nickel Creek - Lighthouse’s Tale](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTAyMt3ldSU) [Alan Parsons Project - Time](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fENfirYxX4A) [Supertramp - Hide in Your Shell](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBge0nFRT-8&fmt=18) \*\*\* Ponder ---
**Author:** ![Euryphaessa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Euryphaessa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euryphaessa)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2009, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-made-make-you-cry-audio/491490/56 "2009-04-04T20:49:16Z")
[Death Cab for Cutie - I Will Follow You Into the Dark](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbIvC66lPBI) ---
**Author:** ![Harriet\_the\_Spry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e56c9b/32.png) [@Harriet\_the\_Spry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harriet_the_Spry)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2009, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-made-make-you-cry-audio/491490/57 "2009-04-04T21:10:32Z")
I actually have a Janis Ian CD I’ve never listened to, because I was so taken aback by how sad _At Seventeen_ was. _Wildfire_ also makes me cry. There is also one in Spanish, \*Naturaleza Muerta \*by Mecano [http://www.lyrics007.com/Mecano%20Lyrics/Naturaleza%20Muerta%20Lyrics.html](http://www.lyrics007.com/Mecano%20Lyrics/Naturaleza%20Muerta%20Lyrics.html) ---
**Author:** ![TheChileanBlob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thechileanblob/32/435_2.png) [@TheChileanBlob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheChileanBlob)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2009, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-made-make-you-cry-audio/491490/58 "2009-04-05T06:45:50Z")
It’s always country songs! Where’ve You Been by Kathy Mattea just kills me- who would do this to old people?? What’s Your Mama’s Name by Tanya Tucker Whiskey Lullaby by Brad Paisley ---
**Author:** ![GameHat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ed655f/32.png) [@GameHat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GameHat)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2009, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-made-make-you-cry-audio/491490/59 "2009-04-05T06:57:22Z")
“Airbag” - Radiohead Also “No Surprises” Airbag always resonates with me because I feel like I’ve gone close to the edge but come back. No Surprises hits me really hard when I feel completely broken. To this day I can’t listen to the Flaming Lips - either Yoshimi or The Soft Bulletin. I associate both too much with a broken relationship. Great albums, both of them. But if I try to play either I’m sobbing with heartbreak after like thirty seconds. ---
**Author:** ![GameHat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ed655f/32.png) [@GameHat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GameHat)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2009, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-made-make-you-cry-audio/491490/60 "2009-04-05T07:00:56Z")
Also, add pretty much the entire album of Beck’s “Sea Change” A beautiful, beautiful album. IMHO the best breakup album ever. Still makes me cry, but it’s a _good_ cry. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-made-make-you-cry-audio/491490.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-made-make-you-cry-audio/491490.md?page=4)