Along a similar line of threads like “movies that make you cry” and “favorite songs”, are there any SONGS that make you cry?? I have three in particular…
Country Songs
“Don’t Take The Girl” (don’t know who sings it)
“I Think His Name Was John” Reba McIntire (this one made me about hysterical crying…very moving)
“Heaven” (about a guy dying on a trip and his wife gets a postcard that just says “Heaven” and wish you were here, etc…)
Anyone else?? You must have at least one…
An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity; A pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.
Old Testament Seminary class in high school had an album of songs, and one of them never fails to move me. It’s called “Zion Theme.”
Collin Rey’s recent hit (is it “Love, Me”?) is a tearjerker, as long as I don’t hear it twice or more in one day. Anne Murray’s “You Needed Me” used to get me teary, but for some reason (overplay?) it doesn’t any more.
I have a few, most because they’re associated with something…
“Tears In Heaven” - Eric Clapton
“So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday” - Boys II Men (Both were played at a teacher’s funeral. A teacher that I adored. Can’t listen to either one anymore without sobbing)
And the religious one… “Be Not Afraid.” Had to sing this one (solo) at the memorial service for a freshman hallmate. God only knows how I finished it without crying.
As much as I hate to admit it, Last Kiss by Pearl Jam gets to me. I don’t cry every time I hear it now, but I did when it first came out. Foolish Games by Jewel breaks my heart as well. One Headlight by the Wallflowers makes me cry too, although I haven’t heard it for a while
Blue.
“I wore an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time…”
Daddy’s Hands by Holly Dunn and The Greatest Man I Never Knew by Reba McIntyre. Also Wish You Were Here (Zette’s Heaven song) by Mark Wills. And, of course, He Stopped Loving Her Today, George Jones.
Don’t Take the Girl is Tim McGraw.
Snark: Love, Me is Collin Raye. Are you thinking of the song with the letter from the grandmother to the grandfather?
John Michael Montgomery’s “Holes in the Floor of Heaven” – though it is a bit theologically peculiar. Chad Brock’s “Ordinary Life,” for some reason. Tim McGraw’s “Remember Me,” and the Hank Williams heart-ripper classic, “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry.”
Outside country – the Beatles’ “For No One” (“you think she needs you …”)
“I wasn’t there that morning, when my father passed away…”
–Kalél Common ¢ for all ages…
The spin cycle on the washing machine does not make earth worms dizzy. It will however, make cats dizzy. Cats throw up twice their body weight when dizzy.
Milles Regrets by Josquin Deprez, Adagio for Strings by Samuel Barber, If My Complaints Could Passions Move by John Dowland all make me cry. Pop songs are too superficial to illicit any real emotions.
Yesterday I was driving to work and “Mother” by Pink Floyd came on. My mom died when I was 10 (I’m 23 now). When the following part came on, I started bawling
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Mother do you think she’s good enough
Mother do you think she’s dangerous
Mother will she tear your little boy apart?
Mother will she break my heart?
Hush now baby, baby dont you cry.
Mama’s gonna check out all your girlfriends for you.
Mama wont let anyone dirty get through.
Mama’s gonna wait up until you get in.
Mama will always find out where you’ve been.
Mama’s gonna keep baby healthy and clean.
Ooooh baby oooh baby oooh baby,
You’ll always be baby to me.**
My sister is getting married soon, and I guess I just realised that my mom never met any of my girlfriends, and that I have never been able to look for her advice on the women in my life, and that I never will be able to in the future.
Yep, he did. Which is why it’s a very sad song to begin with, and then (for me), I had it also associated with another death. Which is sort of a shame, because I really love the song.
dhanson -
John Prine is awesome! Got into him after hearing Dave Matthews redo “Angel From Montgomery.”
And I thought of one more - “Kid Fears,” by the Indigo Girls. Reminds me of a good friend who I don’t see anymore - we used to sing it together all the time. sigh
dhanson is right: John Prine is a superb poet. I guess I didn’t mention his songs because he is quick to make you laugh right after he makes you cry. The fellow is a genius.
I gotta shake myself and wonder
Why she even bothers me
For if heartaches were commercials
We’d all be on T.V.
from Come Back To Us Barbara Lewis Hare Krishna Beauregard by John Prine
“Winter” by Tori Amos. About a girl and her father.
“You say, 'when you gonna make up your mind?
When you gonna love you as much as I do?
When you gonna make up your mind?
‘Cause things are gonna change, so fast…’”
“You say you wanted me to be proud of you;
I always wanted that myself…”
My da died 5 years back. That song can really make me bawl.
This sone usually doesn’t do a thing for me, but I was just listening to the radio when this little girl requested the song in memory of her hamster that had just died. I know, I’m a total sap!
“after the song is over, the dance goes on, so dance away. remember what’s been given, not taken away. remember every night that we shared every day, there’s never endings, and I’ll never be the same…”
Which is sort of a shame, because I really love the song.