Song That Makes You Cry

Le Rack

I know there's loads of threads out there with Song About Your Ex or Your FAve Song or Song that Sums Up Your Ex but I'm just wondering does anyone have a song that when you hear it you just start crying or get goosebumps and stuff?

I've a friend and as soon as she hears the opening chord of Wake Me Up When September Ends by Greenday she just starts crying her eyes out! She's got no personal attatchment to it she just cries.

I get really upset when I hear She's Like The Wind by Patrick Swayze and I cry when I hear Nada Surf's cover of If You Leave and a few songs that my friends bands have.

Anyone else got a weird song?

scojones

Since I'm going through a breakup right now, a song that always gets me going is "Goodbye My Lover" by James Blunt.

lilmissprincess

I had a really bad day once, my friend had tried to commit suicide and we were all on tenterhooks, hoping she wouldnt try again, and when I went home, I switched play on my stereo, and Robbie williams " Angels" played. I cried for hopurs, and till cry when I hear it.

alleepally

You'll never walk alone

and the hymn "Abide with me"

Flukey

Anything by Daniel O'Donnell. Having to listen to him is painful, so I avoid it. You'd think with all the money he has, he'd get singing lessons.

Mr.Nice Guy

Le Rack wrote:

I get really upset when I hear She's Like The Wind by Patrick Swayze and I cry when I hear Nada Surf's cover of If You Leave and a few songs that my friends bands have.

How could you not cry listening to Patrick Swayze? It's PATRICK SWAYZE!

Nightwish

Dead Boys Poem by Nightwish
or Away from Me by Evanescence

Le Rack

but the lyrics of that song really get to me and I love that guy anyway and Dirty Dancing, come on,

Shes like the wind throuhg my tree, she rides the night next to me.
She leads through moonlight only to burn me with teh sun,
She's taken my heart but she doesn't know what she's done.
Feel her breath in my face her body close to me
Cant look in her eyes
shes out of my league
Am I just fooling myself that she stop the pain
Living without her
I'll go insane...etc etc etc

it so prettyfull

jezza

Anything by Britney Spears. She makes me wann atear my hair out.
Also "amazing grace" that song has so many bad memories.

Riamfada

Well Im gonna go for the obvious because ..well. ya know

Jeff Buckley - Halleluja

Green Day - Time of Your Life

cee_jay

The Old Man by Phil Coulter always sets me off in tears

gregos

I Want You, by Elvis Costello. Although now that I think a bit more, it probably makes me want to kick holes in doors, not cry.

rainbow kirby

Sleeping Sun by Nightwish... just reminds me of a certain person far too much.

DawnMc

"Goodbye My Lover"
"The Blower's Daughter"
"Wind Beneath My Wings"
"Ghetto Superstar" (don't ask!)

c - 13

Not me personally but my ex always used to start bawling her head off when she listened to Guns and Roses - November Rain.
It was really wierd the first time that happened let me tell you ....

cournioni

Anything by Damien Rice... Its just so terrible.

Femelade

kissing you - des'ree.
the words are so powerful .

Deadwing

PORNAPSTER wrote:

Anything by Damien Rice... Its just so terrible.

agreed...for the good of humanity he should be shot

Sammyjo

whenever i feel like i want to have a good cry i stick on november rain. its actually my favourite song anyway, but if im feeling a little upset, its guaranteed to make me cry. also shes like the wind too and strangely bonnie tyler, total eclipse of the heart....

joejoem

Live - Lightning Crashes

For those of you who dont know it, its a song about woman who dies giving birth, the first time you hear it, its pretty deep.

Lightning crashes, a new mother cries
Her placenta falls to the floor
The angel opens her eyes
The confusion sets in
Before the doctor can even close the door

Lightning crashes, an old mother dies
Her intentions fall to the floor
The angel closes her eyes
The confusion that was hers
Belongs now, to the baby down the hall

Oh I feel it comin' back again
Like a rollin' thunder chasing the wind
Forces pullin' from the center of the earth again
I can feel it

Lightning crashes, a new mother cries
This moment she's been waiting for
The angel opens her eyes
Pale blue colored iris, presents the circle
Puts the glory up to high, high

Oh I feel it comin back again
Like a rollin' thunder chasing the wind
Forces pullin' from the center of the earth again
I can feel it; I can feel it

Oh I, oh I, oh I

I can feel it comin' back again
Like a rollin' thunder chasing the wind
Forces pullin' from the center of the earth again
I can feel it (x3)

I can feel it; I can feel it

Einstein

Have yet to actually cry to a song,
but I'm with joejoem, Lightning crashes from Live is a really powerful song...esp. the unplugged version...

wow..a fellow live fan!

prospect

Springhill Mining Disaster - Luke Kelly - Goosebumps every time I hear that....


P.S. I like Damien Rice. Voice isn't the best, but his music/lyrics are fab...

joejoem

Divers wrote:

Have yet to actually cry to a song,
but I'm with joejoem, Lightning crashes from Live is a really powerful song...esp. the unplugged version...

wow..a fellow live fan!

Ha! Yeah we are few and far between, the live version with piano is fairly goosepimpley, Did you know yerman from live was in fight club? He was the guy who says "Mr Durden, anything you order here is free of charge"

StonedParadoX

Flukey wrote:

Anything by Daniel O'Donnell. Having to listen to him is painful, so I avoid it. You'd think with all the money he has, he'd get singing lessons.

LOL.. my mom loves dod cant stand that ****er

Einstein

C'mon dude you know the rules...ye don't talk about fightclub! (although I'll have to watch it again as i never realised that!!

Ahem back on topic...yes the piano is quite a goosepimply version

Kiera

Danny Boy. It was my Dad's song and gets me every time.

joejoem

also
Jeff Buckley Halleluhia (hard to spell)
Hurt - Johny Cash version
Nothing Compares To You - Sinead O'Conner

MorningStar

Nightwish wrote:

Away from Me by Evanescence

I don't understand the popularity of Evanescence, there is all these weird religious views in the music. Isn't "away from me" about being away from Jesus or God? There were a few religious rock bands around in the 80s and they were laughed at outside the US how this lot managed to make it and still have Goth kids listening to it is a miracle that their praying paid off.

A song that makes me cry is "Hurt" by Johnny Cash. The video manages to add to the music in an even more powerfull song.

Kiera

joejoem wrote:

Nothing Compares To You - Sinead O'Conner

Classic tear jerker!!!

skywalker

John Denver - Leaving on a jet plane.

StonedParadoX

**** forgot to name a song

R.e.m - Losing my Religion

Tobias Greeshman

Anything by "The Smiths" or "Daniel O Donnell", really upset me thinking about them. God truly awful trype...

Seriously:
Damien Rice - Older Chests
Johnny Cash - Hurt

BossArky

Song for Hope - David Kitt

This songs gives me a strange feeling whenever I hear it.

misswex

Stay - Shakespeares Sister, that song gets to me everytime I hear it!!

Macka

Time of your life by Green Day
Somewhere over the rainbow cos my Grandpappy used to sing it all the time
Rose of Sharyn by Killswitch Engage
Letters to you by Finch

Gross Halfwit

Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain - Elvis Presley
It was the last song He sang before He died. He sang it alone. He died alone.

Georgia - Ray Charles
Heartbreaking song. Reminds me of a Quantum Leap episode.

I'm so Lonesome I Could Cry - BJ Thomas
Sadness personified.

Just Pretend - Elvis Presley
I was heartbroken when I listened to it first.

Miss You Nights - Art Garfunkel
Speaks for itself.

I know Its Over - The Smiths
Gets me everytime.

scojones

misswex wrote:

Stay - Shakespeares Sister, that song gets to me everytime I hear it!!

Yeah, that one gets me too. I've already listed "Goodbye My Lover" by James Blunt
Other songs that get me include...
Hallelujah - Jeff Buckley
November Rain - Guns n' Roses
This Years Love - David Gray
A Song For Ireland - Mary Black
I'll Be Missing You - Puff Daddy (Best mate's fav song, he died in an accident two years ago)

xzanti

"The Rose" by Bet Middler.. it was played at my Granny Rose's funeral and it always reminds me of her

Megatron

A song that used to tug at my heartstings was Ireland - Gareth brooks.

this is while i was living in Finland.... always made me think of all the things
i couldn't take with me.

While i was waiting for my plane home to Ireland it came on the radio ... and i just had a big stupid grin on my face all the way home .

40 Fields of Green, was my Granddad's fav song ,and my granny's.

Wooden Jesus - Temple of the dog , remindes me of a girl i used to work with who took her own life

breakup songs are a little different ;P

scojones

The Green Fields of France, I only seem to cry when I sing that, not when it's on the radio.

Whatever_fools

Deadwing wrote:

agreed...for the good of humanity he should be shot

For the good of Humanity you should be shot for even suggesting such ****e

Washout

Still in love with you...Thin Lizzy

LadyJ

Bob Dylan-Like a rolling stone
Rolling Stones-Ruby Tuesday
Damien Rice-Amie
Oasis-Talk Tonight

Scubadevils

Pink Floyd - High Hopes.

BossArky

Yes, Pink Flyod - High Hopes forgot about that one, just read the lyrics... think about the division bell reference in line 4... and then think of people you knew when you were younger.

Beyond the horizon of the place we lived when we were young
In a world of magnets and miracles
Our thoughts strayed constantly and without boundary
The ringing of the division bell had begun
Along the long road and on down the causeway
Do they still meet there by the cut
There was a ragged band that followed in our footsteps
Running before time took our dreams away
Leaving the myriad small creatures trying to tie us to the ground
To a life consumed by slow decay

The grass was greener
The light was brighter
With friends surrounded
The nights of wonder

Looking beyond the embers of bridges glowing behind us
To a glimpse of how green it was on the other side
Steps taken forwards but sleepwalking back again
Dragged by the force of some inner tide
At a higher altitude with flag unfurled
We reached the dizzy heights of that dreamed of world

****

Encumbered forever by desire and ambition
There's a hunger still unsatisfied
Our weary eyes still stray to the horizon
though down this road we've been so many times

The grass was greener
The light was brighter
The taste was sweeter
The nights of wonder
With friends surrounded
The dawn mist glowing
The water flowing
The endless river

BossArky

and another song that references people we once knew:

Neil Young - One of these days

Didn't notice what a great song this was until I read the lyrics:

One of these days,
I’m gonna sit down and write a long letter
To all the good friends I’ve known
And I’m gonna try
And thank them all for the good times together.
Though so apart we’ve grown.

One of these days,
I’m gonna sit down and write a long letter
To all the good friends I’ve known
One of these days, one of these days, one of these days,
And it won’t be long, it won’t be long.

And I’m gonna thank,
That old country fiddler
And all those rough boys
Who play that rock ’n’ roll
I never tried to burn any bridges
Though I know I let some good things go.

One of these days,
I’m gonna sit down and write a long letter
To all the good friends I’ve known
One of these days, one of these days, one of these days,
And it won’t be long, it won’t be long.

From down in l.a.
All the way to nashville,
From new york city
To my canadian prairie home
My friends are scattered
Like leaves from an old maple.
Some are weak, some are strong.

One of these days,
I’m gonna sit down and write a long letter
To all the good friends I’ve known
One of these days, one of these days, one of these days,
And it won’t be long, it won’t be long.

One of these days, one of these days, one of these days,
And it won’t be long, it won’t be long.

Scubadevils

Fair play for listing the lyrics to High Hopes, puts shivers through me just reading them! Dont know the Neil Young track, must check it out.

irlirishkev

I used to cry to Elvis' version of Old Shep. I don't anymore, but it's a real sad song.

I have this problem though, when I come in after a night on the booze, I'll put on some Elvis music and if it's an emotional song, chances are I'll start crying. It's the combination of his beautiful voice, the power of the song, and the tragic end to someone so young...

The song "If I can Dream" is a good example, or "Peace in the Valley".

Kevin.

rideordie

I would have to say Erykah Badu's "Green eyes" it's quite sad

Scubadevils

oh and The Lonesome Boatman by the Fureys, a brilliant piece of music.

gregos

joejoem wrote:

also
Jeff Buckley Halleluhia (hard to spell)
Hurt - Johny Cash version
Nothing Compares To You - Sinead O'Conner

Three cover versions. Interesting.