# Songs that make you embarrassingly weepy **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 12, 2008, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-embarrassingly-weepy/463187 "2008-09-12T00:11:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![1stFusilier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/58956e/32.png) [@1stFusilier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/1stFusilier)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2008, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-embarrassingly-weepy/463187/81 "2008-09-14T16:56:45Z")
Kissing You by Desiree. Circle Game by Joni Mitchell. and many others…😃 ---
**Author:** ![malkavia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malkavia/32/5621_2.png) [@malkavia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/malkavia)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2008, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-embarrassingly-weepy/463187/82 "2008-09-14T17:50:11Z")
I thought of a few more… **Ashes of San Miguel** by Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers > [@](#): > > So life is cheap here and death is rich > They finally got you, lucky son of a bitch > If I could do it again > I’d cry loud at your hospital bed Full lyrics [here](http://www.leoslyrics.com/listlyrics.php;jsessionid=1498E5C12500D920AEB3A084F9D0F55A?hid=zxYqoOUUAtM%3D), because really.. the whole song is amazing. It’s about a guy taking a trip to Hermosillo with his best friends ashes riding shotgun in the car. He talks about what it was like when they used to make the trip together and it just really captures the bleak Mexican landscape and the hollowness of losing a friend. Even reading the lyrics makes me choke up. **Far Behind** by Candlebox > [@](#): > > And that cold day when you lost control > Shame you left my life > So soon you should have told me > But you left me far behind **Dante’s Prayer** by Loreena McKennitt > [@](#): > > Cast your eyes on the ocean > Cast your soul to the sea > When the dark night seems endless > Please remember me Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to fill my iPod with emotional masochism thanks to this thread. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![malkavia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malkavia/32/5621_2.png) [@malkavia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/malkavia)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2008, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-embarrassingly-weepy/463187/83 "2008-09-14T17:55:33Z")
> [@1stFusilier](#): > > Circle Game by Joni Mitchell. Oh sweet merciful christ, I forgot about this one. My mom started singing this song to me when I was a baby and its still her favorite piece to break out the guitar to when we spend too much time together. :smack: I used to think it was great when I was a kid, but now that my own child is somewhere between skating over ten clear frozen streams and cartwheels turning to carwheels, the song absolutely\* kills me\*. I have no idea how my mom sings it without bursting into tears halfway into the first verse. Urrgh. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2008, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-embarrassingly-weepy/463187/84 "2008-09-14T22:22:50Z")
“Let Love In” by Goo Goo Dolls. ---
**Author:** ![shantih](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f6c823/32.png) [@shantih](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shantih)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2008, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-embarrassingly-weepy/463187/85 "2008-09-14T23:00:40Z")
**Into the West** by Annie Lennox hits me hard every time. Herbert Grönemeyer has a song, **Mensch** , which always brings the conversation in the car to an instant halt and has us bumping each other’s hands as we reach for the volume knob to turn it up. He wrote this after losing his wife and his brother within a short time of each other. The song is so full of acceptance and understanding of what it means to be human, with such a poignant undertone of loss and longing … hey, who’s got the tissues? ---
**Author:** ![TommyTutone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c4cdca/32.png) [@TommyTutone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TommyTutone)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2008, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-embarrassingly-weepy/463187/86 "2008-09-14T23:02:14Z")
I’m a devout athiest, but damn if XTC’s ‘Dear God’ doesn’t break me down all the time. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2008, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-embarrassingly-weepy/463187/87 "2008-09-14T23:10:29Z")
The Ballad of John Henry’s Hammer by Johnny Cash. Reminds me of tough old men whom the world outgrew. Specifically, of my grandpa. The line “this is the first time I’ve watched the sun come up that I couldn’t come up with it” just tears me to shreds. ---
**Author:** ![Thin\_Ice](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/aeb1de/32.png) [@Thin\_Ice](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thin_Ice)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2008, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-embarrassingly-weepy/463187/88 "2008-09-15T00:27:45Z")
I’ll make it three for Puff the Magic Dragon. It just kills me when little Jackie Paper grows up and Puff loses his lifelong friend. Another song that brings a tear to my eye is Brook Benton’s version of Tony Joe White’s Rainy Night in Georgia. That voice and those lyrics move me. ---
**Author:** ![Euryphaessa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Euryphaessa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euryphaessa)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2008, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-embarrassingly-weepy/463187/89 "2008-09-15T05:05:20Z")
> [@Thin\_Ice](#): > > I’ll make it three for Puff the Magic Dragon. It just kills me when little Jackie Paper grows up and Puff loses his lifelong friend. Oh my god, fourthed. My dad used to play this on the guitar and I would get all choked up every time! Also, Adam’s Song by Blink-182. The line “Please tell Mom this is not her fault.” KILLS me. ---
**Author:** ![meenie7](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7993a0/32.png) [@meenie7](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/meenie7)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2008, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-embarrassingly-weepy/463187/90 "2008-09-15T05:27:39Z")
Most songs that make me cry don’t embarrass me, because I feel like you’d have to be made of stone not to cry at them. But since my fiancee broke up with me in March, I have had real issues with the song “That Was Yesterday” by Foreigner (and lest you think, “Why would she ever hear that song? It’s not the 80s anymore,” my parents are big Foreigner fans and have been frequently playing the live CD they got when they saw them live recently.) I can usually get through it, until this part: _But that was yesterday Love was torn from my hands But it’s not the end of my world Just a little hard to understand…_ It just kills me, because she broke up with me and never explained why, and I still don’t understand and maybe never will. And, if that part doesn’t get me, the end does: _Goodbye yesterday Now it’s over and gone But I hope somewhere deep in your heart yesterday will live on…_ I guess I feel embarrassed because it’s an overblown 80s song, and it’s not an obvious tearjerker…it makes me cry because something specific that happened to me, not because of some more generalized experience. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2008, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-embarrassingly-weepy/463187/91 "2008-09-15T06:40:24Z")
Ave Maria Schubert I Would Give Anything Bread The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald Gordon Lightfoot Wharf Rat The Grateful Dead A lot of great choices here. ---
**Author:** ![Snickers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Snickers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snickers)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2008, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-embarrassingly-weepy/463187/92 "2008-09-15T14:11:57Z")
> [@fisha](#): > > The Star Spangled Banner. Seriously. Instantly, every frickin’ time. Seeing that I coach, and my kids are involved in all sorts of sports, it’s embarrassing to be standing there, tears starting, wiping my eyes. > > There are plenty of other songs that make me tear up on occasion, but the anthem is the kicker. Yep, me too. I always take the time to reflect about my country and all the brave members of our armed forces currently serving where ever they are, and then there’s tears. But maybe this isn’t “embarrassingly weepy,” given the song, hey? ---
**Author:** ![Mrs\_Johnson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7cd45c/32.png) [@Mrs\_Johnson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mrs_Johnson)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2008, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-embarrassingly-weepy/463187/93 "2008-09-17T01:47:00Z")
\*Hey Jupiter \*by Tori Amos It’s not embarrassing because I’m not likely to hear it in public. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2008, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-embarrassingly-weepy/463187/94 "2008-09-17T02:21:36Z")
> [@Simmerdown](#): > > Also _Hockey_ by Jane Siberry. The Jane song that destroys me is “The Valley” ever since I saw Jane perform it with Tim Ray on piano at the Orchid Room. She introduced it talking about her grandmother’s death, and the relationship of the song to the Lord’s Prayer. I can’t even think about that without getting a lump in my throat, goosebumps and misty eyes. Probably the most intense single concert experience I’ve ever had. Kirsty MacColl’s “Angel”, doubly so now that she’s gone. Several Randy Newman songs: [“Texas Girl at the Funeral of Her Father”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5trPeUqOjyc), [“Jesse’s Song”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Is_hpHzEMiE), [“Marie”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dy_SnVLqdVY)…basically I’m just a total sap for his songwriting. Hell, I’m a giant weepy sap in general. ---
**Author:** ![MadPansy64](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/dc4da7/32.png) [@MadPansy64](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadPansy64)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2008, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-embarrassingly-weepy/463187/95 "2008-09-17T02:22:47Z")
> [@Aesiron](#): > > Also, **MadPansy64** , the song you’re thinking of is “If You Get There Before I Do” by Collin Raye Yep, that’s the one. \ I mean, really, WTH? \ \ \ I hate that fucking song. Especially when the kleenex box is empty. \ \ ---
**Author:** ![5-HT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/f19dbf/32.png) [@5-HT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5-HT)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2008, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-embarrassingly-weepy/463187/96 "2008-09-17T02:26:10Z")
> [@vivalostwages](#): > > “Let Love In” by Goo Goo Dolls. I’m sorry and I swear I mean no disrespect, but I can’t stop laughing at the idea of someone crying as the result of a song by the Goo Goo Dolls. Granted I was already laughing at the person who posted Candlebox lyrics. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2008, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-embarrassingly-weepy/463187/97 "2008-09-17T02:39:43Z")
_At Seventeen_ by Janis Ian _Blowin’ in the Wind_ by Bob Dylan _Strange Fruit_ by Billy Holiday ---
**Author:** ![Atomicflea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/58956e/32.png) [@Atomicflea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atomicflea)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2008, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-embarrassingly-weepy/463187/98 "2008-09-17T02:55:45Z")
I can’t listen to even a third of [I’m Going to Go Back There Someday](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJB5WSJkYLc&feature=related). What is shameful is that it is sung by a MUPPET, and that muppet is GONZO, and I can’t help it. My amazing, strong, pillar of a brother had a very traumatic experience when we lived in Peru and he used to sing this to himself and to me thinking about when we would move back to the U.S. My heart breaks for him and I’m crying just from the first four bars of the intro. I’ll forever associate that song with that experience. ---
**Author:** ![Rand\_Rover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/db5fbb/32.png) [@Rand\_Rover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rand_Rover)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2008, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-embarrassingly-weepy/463187/99 "2008-09-17T03:34:14Z")
Alone by Heart. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2008, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-embarrassingly-weepy/463187/100 "2008-09-17T03:40:23Z")
Just had dinner and was flipping through my iPod: Warren Zevon - [“Keep Me In Your Heart”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3c9RydEz3A). It would be sad and moving even if he was still alive, but being written by a man facing death with courage and humor - it’s devistating. I could go on but I’m worried about shorting out my keyboard. Kate Bush “The Ninth Wave”. A bit of a cheat, as it’s not one song by an album side long song suite. It’s a journey through death and rebirth and I’ve not been able to listen to the whole thing since my Mom died. If I have to select one song, it’s the last one, “The Morning Fog”. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-embarrassingly-weepy/463187.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-embarrassingly-weepy/463187.md?page=6)