# Songs that make you cry **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 15, 2014, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-cry/695582 "2014-08-15T03:33:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2014, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-cry/695582/101 "2014-09-22T00:11:05Z")
“Winter” by Tori Amos (especially since my dad died last year) “30KFT” by Assemblage 23 “Roses for Mama” by C. W. McCall (cheesy as hell, but I can’t listen to it without tearing up) “Hurt” by Christina Aguilera (see “Winter,” above, for reason, mostly because of the video. This isn’t the Trent Reznor/Johnny Cash song, btw) ---
**Author:** ![Cognoscant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Cognoscant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cognoscant)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2014, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-cry/695582/102 "2014-09-22T01:03:17Z")
My wife is a fan of Keane, and since we have been forced to live apart I can’t listen to their songs without thinking of her. So having “Somewhere Only We Know” attached to every viral video from the UK (I only exaggerate a bit) is unnecessarily tear-inducing for me. ---
**Author:** ![MrKnowItAll](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrknowitall/32/87_2.png) [@MrKnowItAll](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrKnowItAll)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2014, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-cry/695582/103 "2014-09-22T02:01:59Z")
Igor Stravinsky’s _The Firebird Suite_. Also, Roger Water’s “The Tide is Turning”, but only after having listened to the rest of _Radio KAOS_ beforehand. The build-up into it makes it so much more penetrating. Then there’s a whole host of songs that don’t make me cry, but they do make me sullen for various reasons. I like listening to those, too. ---
**Author:** ![P-man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/p-man/32/3606_2.png) [@P-man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/P-man)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2014, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-cry/695582/104 "2014-09-22T02:44:55Z")
“Wedding Song” by Arlo Guthrie, ever since I got married. “Windsurfer” by Roy Orbison “Misguided Angel” by Cowboy Junkies “Out of the Blue” by The Band Then there are songs that make me cry because I can’t believe I’m having to hear them for the jillionth time when I didn’t even like them the first. ---
**Author:** ![WPA-Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a6a055/32.png) [@WPA-Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WPA-Guy)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2014, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-cry/695582/105 "2014-09-22T04:09:29Z")
Two killer songs: Carrickfergus: A good Irish song. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wdGz3Aq5Ew](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wdGz3Aq5Ew) Especially “I’m drunk today and I’m seldom sober, a handsome rover from town to town. Oh, but I’m sick now. And, my days are numbered, so come ye young men and lay me down” Figlio Perduto by Sarah Brightman: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wuo6PUeyHmA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wuo6PUeyHmA) A song about a father on a horse trying to get his son home before something bad happens to him. It is sung in Italian, but check out the translation Father oh father The king of the elfs Is touching me He hurts me And the boy Eyes closed He doesn’t move He’s already lost [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-cry/695582.md?page=5)