What Songs Make You Cry?

Cafe Society
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Which songs make you cry?

There can be a story, but I am more looking for songs that just make you choke up from some quality in the music, vocals, whatever…
Here’s a partial list for me (I cry pretty easily)

Superstar - The Carpenters
Cool Blue Reason - Cake
Do You Realize? - The Flaming Lips
Love is Blue - I’m not sure about the artist, but it is an instrumental and French
The Night Chicago Died - Again, I don’t know the artist, and maybe that’s not even the title
After the Gold Rush - Neil Young, the whole album
One Foot in the Grave -Beck, the whole album
Killing Me Softly -Roberta Flack

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To Where You Are - Josh Groban. Gets me every time.

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And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda - Eric Bogle (and others)
Willie McTell - Eric Bogle
The Dakota - Christine Lavin
Cold Missouri Waters - Cry,Cry,Cry
Amazing Grace
Jack and Lucy - Deliah Bell & Bill Grant
Where’ve You Been?- Kathy Mattea
I’m Hog-Tied Over You - Tennessee Ernie Ford & Ella Mae Morse

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anything by EMINEM

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She’s leaving home- The Beatles

Whats the matter here- 10,000 Maniacs

Amor Eterno- Juan Gabriel

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Alone Again Naturally – Gilbert O’Sullivan
If – Bread

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There’s only one song that makes me cry: Der Weg - Herbert Groenemeyer

It’s a love song to his wife he lost to cancer four years ago…
Here’s the English translation to the lyrics.

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“Try to Remember that kind of September.”

No wonder the Fantastics closed December 2001. Try singing that song every night after 9/11. Indeed, it will never mean the same thing again.

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“Tears in Heaven” by Eric Clapton
“Long Long Time” by Linda Ronstadt
“Something’s Always Wrong” by Toad the Wet Sprocket
“Crazy” by Patsy Cline

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“Watching TV”, Roger Waters – not the song itself really, but the part in the middle that samples Waiting for Our Executioners. I do just fine until the crying Chinese girl says “Long live the Republic!”

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Not sure why but Going to California by Led Zeppelin often gets me going when Robert Plant declares, “It’s not as hard, hard, hard as it seems.” I guess they’re more tears of hope than sadness.

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I forgot “Once Upon A Time”

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I Can’t Make You Love Me by Bonnie Raitt. I first heard it as I was breaking up with a guy, in the same situation as the singer of the song.

I cry every time I hear it even now, 12 years later. And yes, I am over him, but still…

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Get Blown Away by Ocean Colour Scene

It’s not the lyrics as such, but the guitar in the song really gets me…and one of the lines

“…and I loved her for a second…”

That, and I will second

**And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda **

Although not the version already mentioned, the one I know is sung by

Ronnie Drew of The Dubliners

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Before the Dawn - Judas Priest

Just about every song on Zakk Wylde’s Book of Shadows.

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Who Are You by Tom Waits. It’s hard to explain from just the lyrics; they seem too surreal to be all that sad. But when he sings them I often find myself crying, for the sheer pain in his voice.

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“the good stuff” kenny chesney
that song just gets to ya. after listening to it i get goose bumps and just start sobbing because its so close to the heart.
“im already there” lonestar - ooh… so touching!

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I’m not sure if I’m supposed to snicker at that…

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For personal reasons, “Starting Over Again” by Natalie Cole.

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Thirding And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda, especially when I hear it on ANZAC or Armistace Day.

Goosebumps and a very snotty nose are assured.