# Songs you can't listen to without crying **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 17, 2004, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-cant-listen-to-without-crying/234870 "2004-03-17T16:53:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Erik\_the\_Viking](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ce73a5/32.png) [@Erik\_the\_Viking](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Erik_the_Viking)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2004, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-cant-listen-to-without-crying/234870/41 "2004-03-17T21:38:02Z")
“True Companion” by Marc Cohn would have been the first song at our wedding, but Mrs. Viking can’t listen to it without bawling. At least it’s happy tears. ---
**Author:** ![Quack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e99b99/32.png) [@Quack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quack)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2004, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-cant-listen-to-without-crying/234870/42 "2004-03-17T21:41:45Z")
“No One Knows” by Green Day. The song itself isn’t very sad, it’s just tied forever to a very sad moment in my life. ---
**Author:** ![cheddarsnax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@cheddarsnax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cheddarsnax)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2004, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-cant-listen-to-without-crying/234870/43 "2004-03-17T21:55:58Z")
Elliott Smith - Between the Bars ([listen](http://www.killrockstars.com/bands/elliottsmith/audio/BetweenTheBars.mp3)) ---
**Author:** ![ltfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@ltfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ltfire)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2004, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-cant-listen-to-without-crying/234870/44 "2004-03-17T21:56:29Z")
…Suddenly I wake up…from the dream I make up… Of the girl I’ll never know In a place I’ll some day go Angels never fly this low She’s the girl I’ll never know Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons. For my first daughter, who died at the age of 3 weeks. ---
**Author:** ![FisherQueen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/58f4c7/32.png) [@FisherQueen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FisherQueen)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2004, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-cant-listen-to-without-crying/234870/45 "2004-03-17T22:04:04Z")
Not to go all highbrow or anything, but the one piece of music that reliably makes me cry is ‘E lucevan le stelle,’ in _Tosca_. ---
**Author:** ![Witch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/258eb7/32.png) [@Witch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Witch)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2004, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-cant-listen-to-without-crying/234870/46 "2004-03-17T22:05:45Z")
“Memory Motel” by The Rolling Stones. Oh, I could write a book. Perhaps someday I will. ---
**Author:** ![TeaElle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8491ac/32.png) [@TeaElle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TeaElle)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2004, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-cant-listen-to-without-crying/234870/47 "2004-03-17T22:08:48Z")
Des’ree’s “Kissing You” can bring a tear lately, but for the life of me I can’t explain exactly why. The lyric is sad, but there’s something beyond the face value of it that chokes me up. > [@](#): > > Pride can stand a thousand trials > The strong will never fall > But watching stars without you my soul cried > Heaving heart is full of pain > Oh, oh, the aching ---
**Author:** ![fishbicycle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aeb1de/32.png) [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2004, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-cant-listen-to-without-crying/234870/48 "2004-03-17T22:17:14Z")
I can’t listen to “Wanderin’” by James Taylor without becoming a big puddle. And “Someone To Watch Over Me” by Frank Sinatra. My brother and I made a video montage of family photos for Christmas one year. That was the music we used for the segment on our mom. She’s not here anymore, and I can’t listen to that song anymore. [sniff] ---
**Author:** ![askeptic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eb9ed0/32.png) [@askeptic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/askeptic)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2004, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-cant-listen-to-without-crying/234870/49 "2004-03-17T22:32:24Z")
Would it be an imposition if I post the lyrics of a song that means very much to me? Not that I think you folks have not heard it, but because I would like to share it with you. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![AllShookDown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d9b06d/32.png) [@AllShookDown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AllShookDown)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2004, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-cant-listen-to-without-crying/234870/50 "2004-03-17T23:09:25Z")
Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas by Judy Garland (from the movie musical Meet Me In St. Louis). I can’t hear that song without picturing poor little Margaret O’Brien bawling her eyes out. ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2004, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-cant-listen-to-without-crying/234870/51 "2004-03-17T23:33:42Z")
Many of the songs others have mentioned bring a lump to my throat, but the one that makes me lose it completely, as in I have to leave the room, is _In the Arms of theAngels_ It was popular around the time my son committed suicide. I have to think that he’s happier there. Ok, I’m blubbering now. ---
**Author:** ![Shayna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shayna/32/17976_2.png) [@Shayna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shayna)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2004, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-cant-listen-to-without-crying/234870/52 "2004-03-17T23:43:26Z")
> [@askeptic](#): > > Would it be an imposition if I post the lyrics of a song that means very much to me? No, it wouldn’t be an imposition, it would be a violation of copyright laws and the [rules of the board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=187235): > [@](#): > > **On posting song lyrics** > > Since we too often have to edit posts containing the complete lyrics to a song, let me restate our policy on posting complete lyrics. > > The policy is : don’t do it. > > It is okay to post a small snippet of the lyrics and include a link to another site which contains the complete text. But posting complete lyrics verbatim puts us in danger of violating copyright laws. > > Thanks for your co-operation. That is, of course, unless you wrote it yourself. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![askeptic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eb9ed0/32.png) [@askeptic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/askeptic)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2004, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-cant-listen-to-without-crying/234870/53 "2004-03-18T00:04:15Z")
I would have certainly provided appropriate attribution. I guess I’ll just take my song and go home. 🙂 Considering my song was by the Greatful Dead, who to my knowledge have never filed an action for copyright infringement, and in fact incouraged bootleg recordings, and performed free as often as not, I think you were a little harsh. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2004, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-cant-listen-to-without-crying/234870/54 "2004-03-18T01:16:07Z")
You _can_ post a link if the lyrics are online. ---
**Author:** ![DeadlyAccurate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ac91a4/32.png) [@DeadlyAccurate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeadlyAccurate)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2004, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-cant-listen-to-without-crying/234870/55 "2004-03-18T01:20:19Z")
> [@askeptic](#): > > I would have certainly provided appropriate attribution. I guess I’ll just take my song and go home. 🙂 Considering my song was by the Greatful Dead, who to my knowledge have never filed an action for copyright infringement, and in fact incouraged bootleg recordings, and performed free as often as not, I think you were a little harsh. 🙂 Considering she saved you from a potential banning, I’d say she wasn’t the least bit harsh. And to answer the OP, I’m ashamed to admit it, but that song that what’s-her-face sang for _Titanic_ always tears me up. _I_ deserve to be banned for that, I know. ---
**Author:** ![bibliophile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e36b37/32.png) [@bibliophile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophile)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2004, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-cant-listen-to-without-crying/234870/56 "2004-03-18T01:27:31Z")
John Lennon’s “Imagine” is always good for a sniffle or two. Jeff Buckley’s “Lover You Should Have Come Over” is a good one too. ---
**Author:** ![LVgeogeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b19c9b/32.png) [@LVgeogeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LVgeogeek)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2004, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-cant-listen-to-without-crying/234870/57 "2004-03-18T01:34:18Z")
The one that always gets me is **In My Life** by the Beatles. Also the **End Of Innocence** by Enigma from when I was a Sr in highschool and a good friend of mine was killed in a car accident. But that is because that is what I was listenig to when I found out he died. ---
**Author:** ![Paladud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Paladud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paladud)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2004, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-cant-listen-to-without-crying/234870/58 "2004-03-18T01:42:18Z")
Several Vysotsky songs, including _About the Clairvoyant Cassandra_ and _The End of the Wolf Hunt_. [http://www.interlog.com/~eugeniav/vysotsky.html#wolves](http://www.interlog.com/~eugeniav/vysotsky.html#wolves) ---
**Author:** ![CheekyMonkey613](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e480ec/32.png) [@CheekyMonkey613](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CheekyMonkey613)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2004, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-cant-listen-to-without-crying/234870/59 "2004-03-18T02:51:49Z")
[At This Moment](http://www.billyvera.com/atm.html)Billy Vera And The Beaters > [@](#): > > What did you think > I would do at this moment > When you’re standing before me > With tears in your eyes > Trying to tell me that you > Have found you another > And you just don’t love me no more ---
**Author:** ![MLS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/919ad9/32.png) [@MLS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MLS)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2004, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-cant-listen-to-without-crying/234870/60 "2004-03-18T03:08:54Z")
I’m very bad with remembering who sang what, but I think it was Bobby Goldsboro who did “Honey” – the one about the guy whose wife died and now the tree they planted together has grown so tall and how much he misses her. Also Cats in the Cradle. Most of all the last song Jim Croce wrote, which contains the line “Never seems to be enough time to do the things you want to do once you find them…” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-cant-listen-to-without-crying/234870.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-cant-listen-to-without-crying/234870.md?page=4)