# Songs that make you cry **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 31, 1999, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-cry/7870 "1999-08-31T02:44:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2000, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-cry/7870/81 "2000-08-14T21:22:39Z")
“So Much in Love” makes me cry too–only it’s happy tears. ---
**Author:** ![Kaz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kaz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaz)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2000, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-cry/7870/82 "2000-08-14T21:49:25Z")
Shirly - I believe the song you are talking about, No Man’s Land, is by Peter, Paul, and Mary, that’s a wonderful song. Others for me, most mentioned, i believe: Adagio for Strings - Samuel Barber Tears In Heaven Winter What a Wonderful World I think that many of these songs are most meaningful to us when a significant memory is attached to them, for example i remember some of my best friends with these song. Funerals are also mentioned a lot ---
**Author:** ![SoMoMom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/41988e/32.png) [@SoMoMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SoMoMom)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2000, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-cry/7870/83 "2000-08-15T00:43:55Z")
Say Goodbye by Cheap Trick The words are sad in this one, but it’s the way Robin Zander sings it I think that really makes you feel bad for the guy. _sniff, sniff_ ---
**Author:** ![racinchikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2000, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-cry/7870/84 "2000-08-15T00:54:25Z")
Sarah MacLachlan’s “I Will Remember You” and the song about “in the arms of the angel fly away from here”. Also a song by Gary Allan titled “Greenfields” _Sometimes Lord I wish you were still mine And I go back in time and you’re laying by my side And love was real and I could taste it on these lips of mine In green fields backed by blue skies Just as blue as your two true blue eyes And I wonder, do you feel the way I feel When you see green fields I see cotton-candy clouds up in heaven I close my eyes and gently drift away And I’m loving you and holding on forever There in your arms where I used to lay…_ All of them remind me of (be prepared to think I’m a loser) a race car driver I never met but had a crush on for two years, Greg Moore, who died last year when he was 24. He was Canadian, which doesn’t really have a bearing on this except maybe subliminally with the whole green fields thing (since that’s pretty much my mental image of most of british columbia). On his memorial page somebody had posted some of the lyrics to the Angel song and also the line “weep not for the memories” so now whenever I hear Sarah McLachlan’s songs I cry. I’m less certain about the link to the Gary Allan song, but all I have to do is hear the piano intro and I’ll start bawling. I used to cry when I heard Mark Wills singing “Wish You Were Here” but I don’t anymore because it’s been overplayed. Same with Garth Brooks’ “Beaches of Cheyenne” ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2000, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-cry/7870/85 "2000-08-15T01:06:29Z")
“California Dreamin” usually gets me. “Going to the Chapel” as well. Most of the others I can’t remember, though there’s one instrumental piece from “Dragon” that’s also played (at least in the ads) in “The Patriot” that gets me b/c of the whole Bruce Lee dying thing. “California Dreamin” . . . when I got that song on my PC back in March or April, I had downloaded a version of the song and started to listen to it while it was downloading. I can remember crying so hard while I listened to it and each time it got a bit farther but never seemed to finish that I couldn’t see the computer screen clearly enough to know that the song had failed to transfer completely. It also makes me sad b/c I heard it at least three times going back from visiting UVA and I was in a very unhappy place during that whole trip. ---
**Author:** ![Sakura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/898d66/32.png) [@Sakura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sakura)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2000, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-cry/7870/86 "2000-08-15T02:02:06Z")
I always cry when the duet “A Little Fall of Rain” comes on my _Les Miserables_ tape. Hidden unrequited love finally let out only when the woman who loves is dying in the her love’s arms accompanied by a gentle flute. I’m getting teary just thinking about it. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2000, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-cry/7870/87 "2000-08-15T02:22:39Z")
Falcon got there first with the Clapton song “Tears in Heaven” Wasn’t that the one he composed after his son died? I cry for that one because it was sung at the memorial service for the Murragh Federal Building victims, particularly the children. I remember the one young mother who lost two children, bent over with her face practically in her lap. Now I have tears just thinking about it. ---
**Author:** ![brachyrhynchos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brachyrhynchos/32/376_2.png) [@brachyrhynchos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brachyrhynchos)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2000, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-cry/7870/88 "2000-08-15T03:19:05Z")
A number of the songs mentioned give me a lump in my throat. _Just As I Am, Without One Plea_ (aka I Come, I Come). Played at my father’s funeral, I cry like a baby whenever I hear it. I can never remember the title, and so when I searched for it, I came across _The Navy Hymn_. The last stanza had me crying and thinking about those Russian submariners - I fervently hope they are rescued: Lord God, our power evermore, Whose arm doth reach the ocean floor, Dive with our men beneath the sea, Traverse the depths protectively. O hear us when we pray, and keep Them safe from peril in the deep. ---
**Author:** ![Sister\_Vigilante](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@Sister\_Vigilante](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sister_Vigilante)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2000, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-cry/7870/89 "2000-08-15T03:33:33Z")
Puff the Magic Dragon. Every time. > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by EnigmaOne \* > **Mike and The Mechanics > In The Living Years > "I wasn’t there that morning, when my father passed away…"** That song makes my mother cry; her father passed away when whe was a teen. So by empathic default, I get depressed when I hear it. Also, if we’re going the musical route, I always cry at “A Little Fall of Rain” in _Les Mis_. And, there is a song in the movie _Thelma and Louise_, “The Ballad of Lucy Jordan” that gets me every time. ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2000, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-cry/7870/90 "2000-08-19T20:01:04Z")
I forgot earlier to include “Green Green Grass of Home.” As I heard the lyric at the end, “…bury me 'neath the Green Green Grass of Home” I broke down. ☹ I was sitting in a car waiting for a carpenter (German-born and looking down his nose at Americans) and he ridiculed me for reacting that way to anything modern or popular (he had a taste for the classics). ---
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2000, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-cry/7870/91 "2000-08-19T20:35:59Z")
Definitely Puff the Magic Dragon. Also, although I love to sing and have been told I have a pretty good voice, I simply cannot sing at funerals. I just invest too much emotion in music. Don’t know how others in the congregation manage it. ---
**Author:** ![Falcon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/49beb7/32.png) [@Falcon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Falcon)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2000, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-cry/7870/92 "2000-08-19T20:57:05Z")
ajschn - Having sung at 3, all for people I knew well - you shut off a part of your mind. At least I do. I can usually get through the song itself okay, and then I start sobbing. Of course, that doesn’t always work. I can remember vividly singing in Wren Chapel at William & Mary for my friend who committed suicide with tears streaming down my face. In those cases…you just muddle through. _sigh_ ---
**Author:** ![Lizard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@Lizard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lizard)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2000, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-cry/7870/93 "2000-08-19T20:57:54Z")
I very rarely actually shed tears during a song, but all these have made me either get emotional or tear up. “Don’t Take the Girl”- Tim McGraw “Crash”- Dave Mathews Band “Not Enough Love In the World”- Don Henley “Fathers Eyes”- Amy Grant. A very old song of hers. I think it came out in 1981, when she still sang Christian music. “Father of Mine”- Everclear “The Living Years”- Mike & the Mechanics Those last two could be about my own life, to a point. ---
**Author:** ![Proudest\_Monkey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/proudest_monkey/32/13257_2.png) [@Proudest\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Proudest_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2000, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-cry/7870/94 "2000-08-19T22:52:24Z")
A lot of mine have been mentioned, but I’ll add “Empty Garden” by Elton John. His feeling of loss at John Lennon’s death is powerful. ---
**Author:** ![Trout\_Mask\_Replica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a88e57/32.png) [@Trout\_Mask\_Replica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trout_Mask_Replica)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2000, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-cry/7870/95 "2000-08-19T23:33:09Z")
‘Story of My Life’, Social Distortion. ---
**Author:** ![MysteryFellow63427](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e4f/32.png) [@MysteryFellow63427](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MysteryFellow63427)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2000, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-cry/7870/96 "2000-08-19T23:39:14Z")
John Lennon ---
**Author:** ![Minty\_Rae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/49beb7/32.png) [@Minty\_Rae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Minty_Rae)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2000, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-cry/7870/97 "2000-08-19T23:45:22Z")
The Song Remembers When - Trisha Yearwood The Sad Cafe - The Eagles You Don’t Even Know Who I Am - Patty Loveless Sometimes Love Just Ain’t Enough - Patty Smyth, with Don Henley “I don’t wanna lose you But I don’t wanna use you Just to have somebody by my side I don’t wanna hate you I don’t wanna take you But I don’t wanna be the one to cry” \ Dammit, I’m crying now. ---
**Author:** ![TN\_hippie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/858c86/32.png) [@TN\_hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TN_hippie)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2000, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-cry/7870/98 "2000-08-19T23:50:44Z")
Gosh, it’s been awhile since I saw this thread. **I’m Leavin’ on a Jet Plane 500 miles** both by _Peter, Paul, and Mary_ **Blowin’ in the Wind** actually by _Bob Dylan,_ but _P,P,&M_’s version is more tear-jerking. Did I mention **Tears of a Clown** by _Smokey Robinson and the Miracles_? ---
**Author:** ![orestes543](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/b5e925/32.png) [@orestes543](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/orestes543)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2000, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-cry/7870/99 "2000-08-20T05:35:41Z")
Well, I might sound weird because it seems like a few of these songs shouldn’t do anything, but for me they do. Note: Strangely, most of these songs are by my favorite band, Pink Floyd. Must be something about the way they sound. **Mother** by: Pink Floyd **High Hopes** by: Pink Floyd **Marooned** by: Pink Floyd (This is probably _the_ best instrumental that PF has ever done, though.) **Last Kiss** by: Pearl Jam **Close My Eyes Forever** by: Ozzy Osbourne & Lita Ford **The World Is Not Enough** by: Garbage **Bent** by: Matchbox 20 Can’t think of anymore for right now. Bye! ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2000, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-cry/7870/100 "2000-08-20T05:49:49Z")
Although it embarasses me to mention something as popular and commercial as an Eagles song, the tagline of “Take It to the Limit” was what got me out of bed BP (Before Prozac). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-cry/7870.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-cry/7870.md?page=6)