# What song is most likely to make you cry? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 19, 2007, 8:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-is-most-likely-to-make-you-cry/404706 "2007-05-19T08:19:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dnooman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/839c29/32.png) [@dnooman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dnooman)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2007, 8:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-is-most-likely-to-make-you-cry/404706/1 "2007-05-19T08:19:15Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![Caprese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9a28c/32.png) [@Caprese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caprese)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2007, 9:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-is-most-likely-to-make-you-cry/404706/2 "2007-05-19T09:53:09Z")
**Have A Little Faith In Me** by John Hiatt (the original, simpler version without the choir) **Snow** by the Red Hot Chili Peppers \*\* Keep Me In Your Heart For Awhile\*\* by Warren Zevon ---
**Author:** ![brendon\_small](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brendon_small/32/17101_2.png) [@brendon\_small](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brendon_small)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2007, 10:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-is-most-likely-to-make-you-cry/404706/3 "2007-05-19T10:25:48Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![Fiveroptic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiveroptic/32/8257_2.png) [@Fiveroptic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiveroptic)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2007, 10:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-is-most-likely-to-make-you-cry/404706/4 "2007-05-19T10:38:19Z")
**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!_ ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2007, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-is-most-likely-to-make-you-cry/404706/5 "2007-05-19T11:44:21Z")
\*\*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? ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2007, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-is-most-likely-to-make-you-cry/404706/6 "2007-05-19T11:49:20Z")
“Amazing Grace,” but only at the end of _Wrath of Khan_. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2007, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-is-most-likely-to-make-you-cry/404706/7 "2007-05-19T12:18:01Z")
**Where Were You When the World Stopped Turning** by Alan Jackson \*\*The Dance \*\*by Garth Brooks **Amazing Grace** performed on bagpipes ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2007, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-is-most-likely-to-make-you-cry/404706/8 "2007-05-19T12:23:13Z")
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** ---
**Author:** ![Fearless\_Leader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9fc348/32.png) [@Fearless\_Leader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fearless_Leader)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2007, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-is-most-likely-to-make-you-cry/404706/9 "2007-05-19T13:42:21Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2007, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-is-most-likely-to-make-you-cry/404706/10 "2007-05-19T13:55:36Z")
If You Get There Before I Do-Collin Raye ---
**Author:** ![fishbicycle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aeb1de/32.png) [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2007, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-is-most-likely-to-make-you-cry/404706/11 "2007-05-19T14:27:56Z")
_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…” ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2007, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-is-most-likely-to-make-you-cry/404706/12 "2007-05-19T14:57:41Z")
[QUOTE=Fearless Leader] 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. [/QUOTE] 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. ---
**Author:** ![Kokopilau](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Kokopilau](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kokopilau)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2007, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-is-most-likely-to-make-you-cry/404706/13 "2007-05-19T15:36:32Z")
Wonderful, by Everclear. Gets me every time. ---
**Author:** ![Lisa-go-Blind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Lisa-go-Blind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lisa-go-Blind)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2007, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-is-most-likely-to-make-you-cry/404706/14 "2007-05-19T15:51:04Z")
Dire Straits - “Romeo And Juliet” Badly Drawn Boy - “A Minor Incident” ---
**Author:** ![Number](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/number/32/242_2.png) [@Number](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Number)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2007, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-is-most-likely-to-make-you-cry/404706/15 "2007-05-19T16:10:49Z")
Kansas - _Icarus (Borne on Wings of Steel)_ And _Amazing Grace_ on bagpipes for me too. ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2007, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-is-most-likely-to-make-you-cry/404706/16 "2007-05-19T17:30:02Z")
“Dance with my Father” by Luther Vandross ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2007, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-is-most-likely-to-make-you-cry/404706/17 "2007-05-19T17:36:00Z")
“Russians” by Sting. “Hallelujah” as sung by Jeff Buckley. I think Leonard Cohen wrote it. ---
**Author:** ![MoodIndigo1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e8c25b/32.png) [@MoodIndigo1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MoodIndigo1)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2007, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-is-most-likely-to-make-you-cry/404706/18 "2007-05-19T17:42:02Z")
[QUOTE=ivylass] 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. [/QUOTE] It’s Jeff Buckley singing Hallelujah, a Leonard Cohen cover. ---
**Author:** ![wheelie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b4bc9f/32.png) [@wheelie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wheelie)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2007, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-is-most-likely-to-make-you-cry/404706/19 "2007-05-19T18:04:52Z")
**Washing Of The Water** by Peter Gabriel. Gets to me every time. ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2007, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-is-most-likely-to-make-you-cry/404706/20 "2007-05-19T18:06:13Z")
‘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](http://www.snopes.com/music/songs/firerain.asp) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-is-most-likely-to-make-you-cry/404706.md?page=2)