What song is most likely to make you cry?

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I mean the one that either makes you cry, or (usually if you’re a guy) makes you have to look away to avoid crying.

I have a few that can make me emotional given the right mood and situation.

Drive - The Cars

Hallelujah - Jeff Buckley

Last Goodbye - Jeff Buckley

Everybody Here Wants You - Jeff Buckley

4AM - Our Lady Peace

The Reason - Hoobastank

Glycerine - Bush

Shape of My Heart - Sting

Trouble - Coldplay

Show Me the Meaning of Being Lonely - BSB

Hide and Seek - Imogen Heap

So, which songs trip your emotion meter?

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Have A Little Faith In Me by John Hiatt (the original, simpler version without the choir)
Snow by the Red Hot Chili Peppers

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Keep Me In Your Heart For Awhile** by Warren Zevon

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Brown Eyed Girl by Van Morrison.

That’s the only one I can think of right now, I’ll post some more after I get off work and go workout - once I get a chance to dig through the ipod…

Brendon Small

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River by Joni Mitchell

Alleluia by Randall Thompson

Adagio for Strings by Samuel Barber

Crystal Blue Persuasion by Tommy James and the Shondells because I hate it so much!

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**Hallelujah **- Jeff Buckley

100 Years - 5 for Fighting (shut up, I know it’s obvious and emotionally manipulating. It works, okay?)

**Cat’s in the Cradle **- Harry Chapin (I used to be so embarrassed when my mother would start crying whenever she heard this song. Alright, I get it now, Mom. Love you, too.)

And another one that I don’t know the name of and have only heard once. It was in a movie or TV show, over a burial scene or a person-looking-at-a-grave scene. My husband at the time said it was Peter Gabriel, but now neither of us remember the song or the exact context. I think it might have been something in the Whedonverse, but that could be a red herring. Whatever it was, the song itself, not the context, had me sobbing and gasping for breath. Any ideas?

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“Amazing Grace,” but only at the end of Wrath of Khan.

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Where Were You When the World Stopped Turning by Alan Jackson

**The Dance **by Garth Brooks

Amazing Grace performed on bagpipes

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Jezebel - 10 000 Maniacs
Self - Shelleyan Orphan
The Carnival Is Over - Dead Can Dance
The Man With The Child In His Eyes - Kate Bush
Atmosphere - Joy Division
Fragile - Sting
Biko - Peter Gabriel

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Hallelujah - Jeff Buckley
Fields of Gold - Sting
Don’t Take the Girl - Tim McGraw

And since it’s been mentioned before and is now in my head, Allelulah by Randall Thompson. It’s one of the most beautiful pieces I’ve ever performed, and it has so many memories attached - my college choir sang it on our trip to Italy.

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If You Get There Before I Do-Collin Raye

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Wanderin’ by James Taylor

I’m Carrying by Paul McCartney

An Old Fashioned Tree by Gene Autry

that lullabye about “Christopher Robin is saying his prayers…”

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Is that the one they played during West Wing, when CJ’s bodyguard was killed?

If it is, it doesn’t make me cry, but I am thunderstruck by its beauty. I’m impaled on it. I cannot move and can barely breathe.

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Wonderful, by Everclear. Gets me every time.

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Dire Straits - “Romeo And Juliet”
Badly Drawn Boy - “A Minor Incident”

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Kansas - Icarus (Borne on Wings of Steel)

And Amazing Grace on bagpipes for me too.

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“Dance with my Father” by Luther Vandross

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“Russians” by Sting.

“Hallelujah” as sung by Jeff Buckley. I think Leonard Cohen wrote it.

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It’s Jeff Buckley singing Hallelujah, a Leonard Cohen cover.

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Washing Of The Water by Peter Gabriel. Gets to me every time.

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‘Hallelujah’ by Jeff Buckley (cried during West Wing episode , cried when listening to album.)

I also cried during the West Wing episode ‘In Excelsis Deo’, when they switched between two scenes, with a choir singing ‘The Little Drummer Boy’ and a full Military Funeral.

‘Fire and rain’ by James Taylor also gets me, partly due to the background.

Fire and Rain