Songs that make you embarrassingly weepy

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I’ve been listening lately to “I’ll set you free” by the Bangles, and even now it makes me cry… especially at the end when she’s repeating “*all I wanted was you” * (easily found on YouTube)

Perhaps 'cause my 12-year relationship is in the throes of dying that it’s hitting me again ( 'cause I can’t stop listening to it, of course…) or, could it be that that “one who got away” in the 80’s still haunts me? In either case … I’ve woken up for 3 days now, with it in my head… and eventually getting weepy.

A beautifully harmonious song that is totally Bangles wonderment - albeit one of the few of theirs that was on the more melancholy side. Worth a listen, if you’re craving something sweet and painful, about a long-distance love coming to it’s eventual conclusion. ( anyone got a hanky ? )

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Lots and lots of good stuff in this thread. Three contributions, and a request:

Dog and Butterfly by Heart:

Full Lyrics http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/Dog-And-Butterfly-lyrics-Heart/5745859D3C527A394825695E00291DB8

Two from the Alan Parson’s Project:

Turn It Up gets me to thinking on all the times I could have made a difference if only I’d gotten off my ass …

Full Lyrics http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/Turn-It-Up-lyrics-Alan-Parsons-Project/18216EBC0ABDD60348256A1D0011B84F

And this one, Days Are Numbers (The Traveler) just because I’ve left strict instructions that in be played at any memorial held on my behalf when I die. (This assumes that someone may actually dare to defy my wishes.)

Full Lyrics http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/Days-Are-Numbers-The-Traveller-lyrics-Alan-Parsons-Project/4390000EDD07A95048256A1D00101ACE

The sax solo is to be played at a minimum of 120 db. Yeah - it’s so good, I want it to hurt.

Now the request. A few years back, Madonna did a tear-jerker of a song with some really great Spanish guitar work in it. Can not for the life of me remember the title of the song, or find it on the 'net. Anybody care to offer a suggestion?

Lucy

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On my own, pretending he is beside me.
All alone, I walk with him till morning.
In the darkness, I feel his arms around me.
And when I lose my way I close my eyes and he has found me.

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Are you thinking of “Take a Bow”? That one always gets me. The video - if memory serves - is her rolling around on a hotel bed (in an angsty way, not a slutty one) while watching her man who is bullfighting on tv.

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‘A+E’ by Goldfrapp. I thought it was quite a positive song the first time I heard it, driving over the Dartford Bridge at sunset, having just been dumped by text message…then I got hold of the song and gave it a proper listen:

“It’s a blue, bright blue, Saturday
And the pain has started to slip away
I’m in a backless dress, on a pastel ward
It’s shining
Think I want you still, but it may be pills at work”

It seems more like it’s about a woman overdosing after a heartbreak.

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Naw. Not even close. I think I first heard it in back in the mid-90’s. Soft, mournful. I think it was, at the time, a very radical departure from the other stuff she had been doing. The guitar work was something very special. Something about remembering, but it’s not I’ll Remember.

Damn. I just went through the whole list of her songs on iTunes for the umpteenth time. Still don’t see a title that rings a bell …

I probably should take this search somewhere else - though I think that song qualifies for this thread. Sorry for the hijack.

Lucy

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This I find bizarre, but I suppose with my recent history it makes sense. Natasha Bettingfield’s “Unwritten” has been a guaranteed tear-jerker every time I’ve heard it the last few months. I realized that I really first heard the song right after my second back surgery…before that procedure, the pain was so hellacious I was petrified I would never work again, never walk normally again, never again hold my child, ride my horse, life MY life…but the operation gave me my life back again.

"Feel the rain on your face;
No one else can feel it for you;
Only you can let it in.
No one else,
No one else can speak the words on your list.

Today is where you book begins–
The rest is still unwritten."
Made me tear up just typing it. The song reminds me how very, very grateful I am to be living my life.

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Found it! (The word ‘ballad’ came in mighty handy in the search terms.)

Still think it’s a good fit for this thread.

You’ll See

Full Lyrics Here: http://www.lyricsfreak.com/m/madonna/youll+see_20086975.html

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EDITED: Missed where you said you found it.

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Darn! I was so sure the title was, “La Isla Bonita”. I used to sing along with it (with the car windows rolled up tightly, naturally).:frowning:

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I’ll add a heartfelt “me too” for Cat’s In The Cradle, and Amazing Grace, and toss in Terry Jack’s Seasons In The Sun.

Pink Floyd’s “When The Tigers Broke Free”

Someone from The Dope (I forget who) posted this a while back, and it still gets me. I think it’s the hurt, befuddled old man I sympathize with a lot.

Duran Duran’s Ordinary World, Melissa Etheridge’s This War Is Over, Sarah MacLachlan’s Angel, Air Supply’s Without You, Dead Can Dance’s Host of Seraphim, just about any version of Unchained Melody even remotely faithful to the original, Gordon Lightfoot’s Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, The High King’s The Parting Glass, Josh Groban’s Remember (from the movie Troy), R.E.M.'s Everybody Hurts,…

Ya know, I just realized I’m a big soppy mess.

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Oddly, the video to this song, too, features the same bullfighter. Which pretty much 100000% ruins the song for me as I think bullfighting is one of the most disgusting things on earth and anything even remotely associated with it is instantly destroyed for me.

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Some that have been mentioned before:

Rainbow Connection
Joey and ***Tomorrow, Wendy ***by Concrete Blonde

The Green Fields of France - I’m friends with several members of a women’s singing group that does this song, and I’m all weepy every time I hear it.

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I’ve never seen the video till just now, and I find myself in full agreement with you on that point. It’s such a beautifully done song, and I see no connection within the lyrics to bull fighting - I reaalllly do not see why she went that direction for that song …

'Course, there is only one other Madonna song I can stand to listen to, so I guess, after all is said and done, there really ain’t much about Madonna that I understand.

Lucy

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Another Joni Mitchell song, I’ve Looked At Love From Both Sides,Now.
Yikes. When I was little my older sis used to sing this song constantly.
She was a total performer.Sang at weddings ,funerals,Senior Operetta and danced as well. The way she sang this song she made it seem so upbeat.
It was only after she died(from lung cancer at 18 yrs old) that I really got the melancholic theme.“It’s life’s illusions I recall.I really don’t know love ,at all”.

The other is a rendition of Danny boy played on a trumpet/cornet type of instrument. Wow. really affecting.The words are impossible to ignore so together the horn and the lyrics bring on the waterworks.

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Perhaps Madonna was sleeping with that bullfighter at the time. Otherwise I don’t see a connection either.

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Creed’s “With Arms Wide Open” is a tune I literally can’t listen to.

It was popular while my wife was pregnant with our twins, my introduction to fatherhood. When they were delivered stillborn, I could never bring myself to listen to another note.
Still can’t, and I even misted up just now at the mention of it.

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Ugh.

I just want you all to know that this thread inspired me to go and check, and then spend the next 10 minutes sobbing over my keyboard.

The ones that do it for me are the ones that make me think about my mum, and make me feel guilty about not being a good enough daughter:

“When She Loved Me” by Sarah McLachlan.

“I know you by heart”, Eva Cassidy.

“Slipping through my fingers”, Abba.
I’d never heard this one till a group of us went to see Mamma Mia as part of my hen do. Within moments of Meryl Streep starting to sing, Mum and I were clinging to each other and wailing:

“What happened to the wonderful adventures
The places I had planned for us to go
(Slipping through my fingers all the time)
Well, some of that we did but most we didn’t
And why I just don’t know.
Slipping through my fingers all the time”

I should probably explain that I’m the only child ot a single mother, so we’re very close!

Added to that list are two songs that remind of my grandparents:

“Father and Daughter” by Paul Simon:

"I’m gonna stand guard
Like a postcard of a Golden Retriever
And never leave till I leave you
With a sweet dream in your head

Im gonna watch you shine
Gonna watch you grow
Gonna paint a sign
So you’ll always know
As long as one and one is two
There could never be a father
Who loved his daughter more than I love you"

My grandad was more like a father to me, and this song perfectly describes our relationship.

And lastly “Dance with my father” by Luther Vandross, because it reminds of my grandma’s pain now he’s gone and she’s on her own.

Sniffle I’m sad now. I hope you’re all satisfied!

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Has anyone mentioned “Rocky” by Austin Roberts? Love the song but still tear up.

“Rocky Iv’e never had to die before, don’t know if I can do it. But if you let me lean on you I might get through it…”

It has everything. Love. Marriage. A child. And… Well you just gotta hear it.
r,
WPT

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:smiley:

Lucy