# 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:** 14\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![if6was9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e47c2d/32.png) [@if6was9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/if6was9)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2007, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-is-most-likely-to-make-you-cry/404706/81 "2007-05-22T05:47:50Z")
[QUOTE=ivylass] [ **Amazing Grace** performed on bagpipes [/QUOTE] After Payne Stewart (the golfer) died in a plane crash, the morning the next tournament began they held a memorial for him. Very early in the morning, foggy, dew on the grass. The tv was showing a long shot down a fairway, and you barely started to hear bagpipes, then recognized Amazing Grace, then the guy playing appeared out of the fog. I tear up every time I think about it. ---
**Author:** ![Matt\_Holck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Matt\_Holck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Matt_Holck)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2007, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-is-most-likely-to-make-you-cry/404706/82 "2007-05-22T05:51:54Z")
sunrise sunset - fiddler on the roof ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2007, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-is-most-likely-to-make-you-cry/404706/83 "2007-05-22T05:53:13Z")
_I.O.U._, by Jimmy “Pork Showsage” Dean. ---
**Author:** ![Time\_Like\_Tears](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/df705f/32.png) [@Time\_Like\_Tears](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Time_Like_Tears)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2007, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-is-most-likely-to-make-you-cry/404706/84 "2007-05-22T07:25:19Z")
**Winter** - Tori Amos Makes me think of my dad, of course, and how I haven’t really lived up to his hopes. **The Dreaming Tree** - Dave Matthews Band Just a general tearjerker for me. **Fix You** - Coldplay One of my sister’s favorite bands, and also who I think of when I hear it. She’s making so many mistakes right now… **3 Libras** - A Perfect Circle Unrequited love. Who hasn’t been there? **Pushit** - Tool I have been locked and barricaded in a room by a man who was obsessively in love with me, and on drugs. That’s a scary thing to have happen to you, and it sticks with ya. > [@](#): > > ♪I am somewhere I don’t wanna be. > Push me somewhere I don’t wanna be. > Put me somewhere I don’t wanna be. > Seeing someplace I don’t wanna see. > Never wanna see that place again. > > Saw that gap again today > While you were begging me to stay. > Managed to push myself away, > And you, as well, my dear. > If when I say I may fade like a sigh if I stay, > You minimize my movement anyway, > One must persuade you another way. > Pushin’, shovin’, pushin’, shovin, pushin me > There’s no love in fear. > Staring down the hole again. > Hands upon my back again. > Survival is my only friend. > Terrified of what may come. > Remember I will always love you, > As I tear your fucking throat away. > It will end no other way, > It will end no other way.♪ **Face and Ghost** - Live > [@](#): > > ♪In spite of my confusion > up above all my pain > got a death grip on this vision > here we go again♪ And I’ve just realized I am partially [repeating myself](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=4666092&postcount=120). ---
**Author:** ![Nutty\_Bunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d07c76/32.png) [@Nutty\_Bunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nutty_Bunny)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2007, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-is-most-likely-to-make-you-cry/404706/85 "2007-05-22T12:13:16Z")
[QUOTE=WhyNot] Her name is now Issa. She broke her contract with her record company, sold all her possessions and hit the road. She decided to get rid of pretty much everything but her clothing - even her instruments, I believe, have to be provided by her venues. As part of this, she decided to stop charging a set fee for her music - it’s all available at her website, through downloads, with a suggested price, but you can pay whatever you like, or nothing at all. Her intent is to let her fans support her directly and pay her what they think she’s worth. Her record label, of course, wasn’t exactly on board with this decision. So the stuff they own the rights to is no longer “hers” and she can’t play it in concert anymore. ☹ [/hijack] [/QUOTE] OK. That’s…kooky, but kinda cool. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Darryl\_Lict](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@Darryl\_Lict](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darryl_Lict)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2007, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-is-most-likely-to-make-you-cry/404706/86 "2007-05-22T13:23:16Z")
[QUOTE=WhyNot] 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? [/QUOTE] This got me curious. I haven’t seen it, but was it “I Grieve” in Smallville at Clark’s dad’s funeral? ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2007, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-is-most-likely-to-make-you-cry/404706/87 "2007-05-22T13:25:54Z")
[QUOTE=WhyNot] (And, of course, my condolences for the loss of your grandson.) [/QUOTE] Thank you. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2007, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-is-most-likely-to-make-you-cry/404706/88 "2007-05-22T13:56:40Z")
[QUOTE=Darryl Lict] This got me curious. I haven’t seen it, but was it “I Grieve” in Smallville at Clark’s dad’s funeral? [/QUOTE] Ooooh…that might be it. _google google google_ _Kleenex, Kleenex_ Yep. I think I associated it with “Whedonverse” not because it’s a genre show, but because the song itself captures the same tone as “The Body” episode of Buffy - the “Wait - why is life going on like nothing happened?” numb slow-motion despair of grief. Thank you for helping me work this out. I appreciate it. ---
**Author:** ![Darryl\_Lict](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@Darryl\_Lict](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darryl_Lict)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2007, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-is-most-likely-to-make-you-cry/404706/89 "2007-05-22T14:04:45Z")
[QUOTE=WhyNot] Thank you for helping me work this out. I appreciate it. [/QUOTE] Hey, no prob. Most dopers like to practice their Google-fu if they find the topic interesting. ---
**Author:** ![Drum\_God](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drum_god/32/44_2.png) [@Drum\_God](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drum_God)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2007, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-is-most-likely-to-make-you-cry/404706/90 "2007-05-22T17:30:08Z")
_Keep Me in Your Heart_ by Warren Zevon “If I leave you for a while, it doesn’t mean I love you any less…” “Sometimes when you’re doing simple things around the house, maybe you’ll think of me for a while” It was written as Zevon was dying. It breaks me up every time. ---
**Author:** ![Missy2U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@Missy2U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Missy2U)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2007, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-is-most-likely-to-make-you-cry/404706/91 "2007-05-22T17:45:43Z")
Good Night Good Guy - Collective Soul Give me Something to Believe In - Poison I Hope You Dance - Lee Ann Womack Tears - Rush ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2007, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-is-most-likely-to-make-you-cry/404706/92 "2007-05-22T18:02:50Z")
_I Will Wait for You_—Connie Francis And believe me, I’ve got some pretty damn depressing songs in my collection, but _that one_…good god. ☹ Guess I’m just a big softy. ---
**Author:** ![lisacurl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/41988e/32.png) [@lisacurl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lisacurl)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2007, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-is-most-likely-to-make-you-cry/404706/93 "2007-05-22T18:19:00Z")
_Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans_ - any version _Wake Me Up When September Ends_ - Green Day \*River \*- Natalie Merchant \*Hurt \*- Johnny Cash cover of the Nine Inch Nails song. _Who Wants to Live Forever_ - Queen ---
**Author:** ![lisacurl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/41988e/32.png) [@lisacurl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lisacurl)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2007, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-is-most-likely-to-make-you-cry/404706/94 "2007-05-23T23:08:29Z")
I just heard Emmylou Harris singing Joni Mitchell’s _Magdalene Laundries_ and I have to add it to my list. > [@](#): > > I was an unmarried girl > I’d just turned twenty-seven > When they sent me to the sisters > For the way men looked at me > Branded as a jezebel > I knew I was not bound for heaven > I’d be cast in shame > Into the Magdalene laundries > > Most girls come here pregnant > Some by their own fathers > Bridget got that belly > By her parish priest > We’re trying to get things white as snow > All of us woe-begotten daughters > In the streaming stains > Of the Magdalene laundries > > Prostitutes and destitutes > And temptresses like me > Fallen women > Sentenced into dreamless drudgery > Why do they call this heartless place > Our Lady of Charity? > Sweet charity… > > These bloodless brides of Jesus > If they had just once glimpsed their Groom > Then they’d know, and they’d drop the stones > Concealed behind their rosaries > They wilt the grass they walk upon > They leech the light out of a room > They’d like to drive us down the drain > At the Magdalene laundries > > Peg O’Connell died today > She was a cheeky girl, a flirt > They just stuffed her in a hole > Surely to god you’d think at least some bells should ring > One day I’m going to die here too > And they’ll plant me in the dirt > Like some lame bulb > That never blooms come any spring > Oh, come any spring > No, not any spring > Not any spring [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-is-most-likely-to-make-you-cry/404706.md?page=4)