SOng that make you want to cry?

[HEyHEY]

I gotta go with "hey joe" sad story, but so much soul

[proud patriot]

1. Seagull by paul rodgers

:hi:

[radwriter0555]

21. Elton John's "Last Song'... wells me up every time... I've lost so many

friends to AIDs....

Yesterday you came to lift me up
As light as straw and brittle as a bird
Today I weigh less than a shadow on the wall
Just one more whisper of a voice unheard

Tomorrow leave the windows open
As fear grows please hold me in your arms
Won't you help me if you can to shake this anger
I need your gentle hands to keep me calm

`Cause I never thought I'd lose
I only thought I'd win
I never dreamed I'd feel
This fire beneath my skin
I can't believe you love me
I never thought you'd come
I guess I misjudged love
Between a father and his son

Things we never said come together
The hidden truth no longer haunting me
Tonight we touched on the things that were never spoken
That kind of understanding sets me free

`Cause I never thought I'd lose
I only thought I'd win
I never dreamed I'd feel
This fire beneath my skin
I can't believe you love me
I never thought you'd come
I guess I misjudged love
Between a father and his son

[Rowdyboy]

2. "I Will Always Love You"...

by the incomparable Dolly Parton. Breaks my heart every time I hear it.

Also the great Moe Bandy and "Too Old to Die Young"

I won't depress you with the lyrics. Just know that they're heartbreaking...

[short bus president]

39. good one!

you wouldn't happen to know who the guy was who performed the less-famous version of that song from that Whitney Houston movie, would you? I think I like his version even better than the incomparable Ms. Parton's.

[babzilla]

67. that was John Doe

of the band X.

And Iiiieeeeiiii will alwaaays love John Doe. :loveya:

[arwalden]

70. Dolly's Original Version Is Priceless...

I even liked watching the Verizon commercials that had Dolly reprising a new version of it for the background.

-- Allen

[REP]

3. Un Belle Di Vedremo

from "Madame Butterfly," when sung correctly.

[BeHereNow]

4. Stardust- Hoagy

I have a rare 78 of it...just him and a piano.
Makes me cry everytime.
I played it for some kids on their way to college tonight.
They all felt the same way.

BHN

[sandnsea]

5. Wide Open Spaces

My daughter was 16 and I knew she'd be leaving soon and she just loved the song... you get the picture, can't even talk about it without crying.

[HEyHEY]

6. That reminds me

If I can be sentimental, when I left for University. My mother, was very upset, she thought my leaving was some kind of fault of hers. I just before I left she handed me a card and broke out in tears, saying, "Here, whenever I try to say it I start to cry." I held it until I was alone in the airport. I read it, it was a whole thing about our relationship...I won't go into details, always makes me choked up. But I still have it hidden somewhere.

[sandnsea]

12. Mothers & Daughters

*sigh* What are we to do. My daughter is almost 20 now and she's on her own and, on cue, left within weeks of her 18th birthday. Of course, I never could keep her around the house. She walked through paths in the woods, climbed under and over fences, whatever it took to get to the nearest friend's house. And that was at 3 and 4 years old, I'm not kidding. She just has an independent streak and always has. That she would end up in nursing school and working in a senior citizen home is something I never would have imagined, but she loves it and she just loves those old people. I think she sees the spirit of their youth or something and just wants to help them feel that as best she can.

I don't even know what it is about having your daughter leave, but it really is a different feeling than with your sons. For me anyway.

Thanks for sharing and letting me rattle a bit too.

[sandnsea]

16. And so now I see you're a son!

I have 3 of those, 1 daughter, maybe that's the difference for me!

[HEyHEY]

19. See

My mommy is a tomboy...so the son was a touh one..plus I was the adventurous one..so..

[sugarcookie]

7. "Going Home" by Mary Fahl

n/m

[Jalixm]

8. Holocaust by Big Star

that "Your mother's dead" line always kills me.

[scucci]

9. "My Immortal"

by Evanescence.
Makes me want to sob every time I hear it. My God, that woman has a beautiful voice. Just listen & weep.

[sasquatch]

10. 1916 Motorhead

That is a song about two sixteen year old boys dieing in WWI

[CanuckAmok]

48. Good pick!

It's almost corny, but manages to remain very sincere. It's spooky, actually.

"It's gotta be dangerous, or it ain't rock 'n' roll"--Lemmy Kilmister

[Kenneth ken]

11. Dar

The Babysitter's Here

Dar Williams
The Honesty Room

[VOX]

13. "Our Town" by Iris DeMent

CHORUS:

And ya know the sun's setin' fast
And just like they say, nothing good ever lasts
Go on now and kiss it goodbye
But hold on to your lover 'cause your heart's bound to die
Go on now and say goodbye to our town, to our town
Can't you see the sun's settin' down on our town, on our town
Goodnight

Up the street beside that red neon light
That's where I met my baby on one hot summer night
He was the tender and I ordered the beer
It's been forty years and I'm still sittin' here

CHORUS

It's here I had my babies and I had my first kiss
I've walked down Main Street in the cold morning mist
Over there is where I bought my first car
It turned over once but then it never went far

CHORUS

I've buried my Mama and I've buried my Pa
They sleep up the street beside that pretty brick wall
I bring 'em flowers about everyday
But I just gotta cry when I think what they'd say

CHORUS
If they could see how the sun's setting fast...

Now I sit on the porch and watch the lightnin' bugs fly
But I can't see too good, I got tears in my eyes
I'm leavin' tomorrow but I don't wanna go
I love you, my town, you'll always live in my soul

But I can see the sun's seting fast
And just like they say, nothing good ever lasts
Go on, I gotta kiss you goodbye
But I'll hold on to my lover 'cause my heart's 'bout to die
Go on now and say goodbye to my town, to my town
I can see the sun has gone down on my town, on my town
Goodnight, Goodnight

[HEyHEY]

14. reminds me of two good town songs

Springsteen, "my hometown", and I don't care what people say, I saw that happen to my town.
And "Mon pay Bleu" or "Durham town" by ROger whitakker.

Check it out

[Kenneth ken]

18. ooh yeah -

good pick! I really like her; I need to write her name down, because I don't own anything by her, and that's a shame.

[otohara]

15. Mood Swings / State of Independence

has the "I Have A Dream" speech by MLK. Chrissie Hynde is wonderful on lead vocals - gives me goose bumps

[nemo137]

17. cigarette by ben folds five.

reminds me of how my step-grandfather was when my grandmother was dying.

[last_texas_dem]

45. "Smoke" by Ben Folds Five

That one gets me choked up; depressing associations with a deteriorating relationship...

A lot of songs get to me, though; I've posted several others on here before.

[jafap]

20. What are you waiting for?

by Gibson Miller

Cowboy Bill by Garth Brooks
Kentucky Rose by Michael W. Smith

[bbernardini]

22. Goodbye To Me, Strictly Genteel, A Long Day's Life

Goodbye To Me - Stuart Davis
Strictly Genteel - Frank Zappa (the orchestral version, while technically not a song (songs have words, except for collections of pieces called "Songs Without Words"...but I digress), always brings me to the brink of tears)
A Long Day's Life - Kevin Gilbert (such a waste that he went so early)

[Pobeka]

23. Soldier in the rain

Sung by England Dan and John Fort Coley. On of the few songs I like by them and was a poignant way of summing of our country's inability to deal with our accountability in Vietnam war in the mid to late 1970's.

[CO Liberal]

24. "Hail to the Chief" - Since January 20, 2001

:-)

[AnnabelLee]

25. Ailein Duinn

from the Rob Roy soundtrack. I can't understand a word of it, but it's so sad...I looked up a translation eventually; it's apparently about a woman whose fiancee was lost at sea.

[tarkus]

26. Portishead- Undenied

It is just so repetitive and so incredibly sad.

[newyawker99]

50. Hi tarkus!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[PinkTiger]

27. Hail to the Chief....

At least right now, when they play it for the imposter Bush.

[Iris]

28. "Joey" - by Concrete Blond

also the song about Wendy. "Tomorrow Wendy's going to die" - not sure if that's the title.

[Aristus]

30. Oh God, those songs are beautiful!

I love Concrete Blonde.

The live version of "Joey" on the 'Still In Hollywood' CD is just achingly lovely.

[Iris]

32. is there also a live version of the "Wendy" song on that?

because I remember hearing one several years ago. Maybe I'll get that CD.

"achingly lovely" describes both songs perfectly!

[Fenris]

29. "The Chalet Lines" by Belle & Sebastian

Possibly the most depressing song ever written. Features only vocals, a soft piano, and a nearly nonexistent cello part.


He raped me in the chalet lines
The girl I shared with was away for the night
I couldn't get up for my shift today
I'll have to leave the camp now anyway
I'll go to London there's a mate of mine I know
she'll give me a place
Full of woe and further to go
She caught the bus
"Oh I'll go anywhere"
She caught the bus
Her face was just a smear on the pane

He raped me in the chalet lines
I had just said no for the final time
Although it's last month it's like yesterday
I missed my time, I don't think I could stand
To take the test, I'm feeling sick
Fuck this, I've felt like this for a week
I'd put a knife right into his eyes
My friend can't see
She asks me why I don't
Tell the law
Oh what's the fucking point at all

He raped me in the chalet lines
It was a party, it was going fine
With the boys from the amusement park
A few were idiots, they were a really good laugh
They had the shows on till way after dark
I hope she'll give me a place
Full of woe and further to go
She caught the bus
"Oh I'll go anywhere"
She caught the bus
Her face was just a smear on the pane


Runner up: "Asleep" by the Smiths

Okay, this is the second saddest song ever written. Here's a hint: he's not singing about sleeping. This is another vox/piano song, only this one features howling winds and a music box in the background.



Sing me to sleep
Sing me to sleep
I'm tired and I
I want to go to bed

Sing me to sleep
Sing me to sleep
And then leave me alone
Don't try to wake me in the morning
'Cause I will be gone
Don't feel bad for me
I want you to know
Deep in the cell of my heart
I will feel so glad to go


Sing me to sleep
Sing me to sleep
I don't want to wake up
On my own anymore


Sing to me
Sing to me
I don't want to wake up
On my own anymore


Don't feel bad for me
I want you to know
Deep in the cell of my heart
I really want to go


There is another world
There is a better world
Well, there must be
Well, there must be
Well, there must be
Well, there must be
Well ...


Bye bye
Bye bye
Bye ...

[JohnKleeb]

31. so much

really

[Ramsey]

33. Scarecrow

By Melissa Etheridge. Her ode to Matthew Shepard

[Darth_Ole]

35. I Am A Rock by Simon & Garfunkel..

Maybe because it describes what MY high school life was like too well.

[ornotna]

34. Farewell Party by Gene Watson and

We Three by Patti Smith

[chaska]

36. Cowboy, take me away

Dixie Chicks. For some reason I associate it with my ex-girlfriend, who cheated on me and promptly married the guy. I'm not in the song, incidentally.

[SyracuseDemocrat]

37. Don McLean - American Pie

does sometimes. I'm not sure why.

[greyl]

49. Don McLean - Vincent

oh crap, you can kiss me goodbye. About Van Gogh...

"Starry, starry night
Paint your palette blue and gray
Look out on a summer's day
With eyes that know the darkness in my soul
Shadows on the hills
Sketch the trees and daffodils
Catch the breeze and the winter chills
In colors on the snowy linen land

Now I understand what you tried to say to me
How you suffered for your sanity
How you tried to set them free
They would not listen, they did not know how
Perhaps, they'll listen now

Starry, starry night
Flaming flowers that brightly blaze
Swirling clouds in violet haze
Reflect in Vincent's eyes of china blue
Colors changing hue
Morning fields of amber grain
Weathered faces lined in pain
Are soothed beneath the artist's loving hand

Now I understand what you tried to say to me
How you suffered for your sanity
And how you tried to set them free
They would not listen, they did not know how
Perhaps, they'll listen now
For they could not love you
And still your love was true
And when no hope was left inside
on that starry, starry night
You took your life as lovers often do
But I could have told you, Vincent
This world was never meant
for one as beautiful as you

Starry, starry night
Portraits hung in empty hall
Frameless heads on nameless walls
With eyes that watch the world and can't forget
Like the strangers that you've met
The ragged man in ragged clothes
The silver thorn of bloody rose
Lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow

Now I think I know what you tried to say to me
How you suffered for your sanity
Then how you tried to set them free
They would not listen, they're not listening still
Perhaps, they never will..."

[nuxvomica]

52. I love that song

But you had to post the lyrics, didn't you, and I have to sing them when I see them and when I got to the part "And when no hope was left inside/on that starry, starry night..." I got all messy.

[Shanty Oilish]

38. The Rose

Makes me want to drive two sticks of Arrid right into my eyes. I never listen to stuff that would make me cry.

[sham]

40. I know it's cheesy, but

Does anyone remember "Sister" by The NIxons?

It makes me think of my sister. They still play the song from time to time on the radio here in Dallas, and it makes me cry every time I hear it.

[DeaconBlues]

41. Disaster at the Mannington Mine

A truly heart-wrenching song by Hazel Dickens:



"...There is a grave way down in the Mannington mine
There is a grave way down in the Mannington mine.
Oh, what were their last thoughts, what were their cries
As the flames overtook them in the Mannington mine...."

[Norbert]

42. The Best of Kristy MacColl

Bought it used, of course. Found it at a nice price. Some of her music I had forgotten about over the years and it was nice to hear them again. Kristy, I hardly knew you.:(

[CanuckAmok]

46. She's great!

I have "Galore". Her versions of "You Just Haven't Earned it Yet Baby" and "Days" are total tear-jerkers.

But she can be lots of fun, too...

[Sufi Marmot]

43. John Hiatt...

"Slow Turning" - a song about redemption...Can't explain why, it just does...

Also "Jet Plane in a Rocking Chair" by Richard and Linda Thompson often brings a lump to my throat...

[CanuckAmok]

44. "My Youngest Son Came Home Today"--Billy Bragg

also "Tramp the Dirt Down" by Elvis Costello, and Costello's live version of "God Only Knows" with the Brodsky String Quartet, not because it's sad, but because it's perfect.

[Kamika]

47. that would be "runnin to stand still" by U2

get it

[ForrestGump]

51. MacArthur Park (Richard Harris' original) solely becauseof its utter,

utter horridness.

[nuxvomica]

53. "Against All Odds","Good Riddance","Homeward Bound"

And oddly enough, Shania Twain's "Your Still the One." My sister made a video montage of old family photos for my parents' anniversary and she had that for background music. Chokes me up ever since.

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

54. goo goo dolls- name

and elton john's "your song"

[Nihil]

55. Many possibles (depending on mood) but these three for sure ...

"I'd give my life for you" (from "Miss Saigon")
-- Having children, I feel that one a lot

"Empty chairs at empty tables" (from "Les Miserables")
-- Ties into a recurring dream/nightmare and still gets me

"Come away Melinda" (Uriah Heep)
-- Listen to it before you judge it by the band's name & reputation

Nihil

[Hubert Flottz]

56. Heil to the Thief!

When thet play it for the imposter in thief!

[YellowRubberDuckie]

57. A classic

Whenever I hear "I'll Be Seeing You." It makes me think of some old man that has lost his wife, and he wanders around their town seeing her everywhere he goes...I'm welling up just thinking about it.
Duckie

[MissMillie]

58. Allison Kraus

"New Favorite"


Also, "I've Had It" by Aimee Mann

[Nikia]

59. I saw the Concrete Angel video this weekend

I usually don't like country music much but it came on after one of the videos I chose to see on Launch. I cried the first three times I saw the video and listened to the words.

[Jen72]

60. My songs...

Rod Stewart - Handbags and Gladrags
Madonna - You'll See
The Beatles - Hey Jude
Air Supply - All Out Of Love
Elton John - I guess you could call it the blues
Survivor - The Search Is Over
Billy Joel - Innocent Man
Eva Cassidy - Fields Of Gold
Nenah Cherry - Woman
Madonna - Power Of Goodbye
George Michael - A Different Corner
Gabrielle - Sunshine
Dido - Thank You
No Doubt - Don't Speak
Diana Ross - Touch Me in The Morning
The Beatles - He Comes The Sun
The Righteous Brothers - The White Cliffs of Dover
Elivs - Suspicious Minds
Freddie Mercury - Days Of Our Lives
Kate Bush - This Womans World
Frankie Goes To Hollywood - The Power of Love

[arwalden]

61. Hail To The Chief...

Hail To The Chief
He's the chief and he needs hailing.
Hail to the chief
So-o-o everybody hail like crazy.

[jmm]

62. Let the Eagle Soar

[Section_43]

63. "Hope I'm Around" by Todd Rundgren

"Love" by John Lennon

[NashVegas]

64. It's Not a *song* But

"Fanfare for the Common Man" comes about as close as anything to leaving me with a swell.

[JitterbugPerfume]

65. Bridge over Troubled water

makes me puddle up every time

[bloom]

66. "On the phone with my sister" by Catie Curtis

.

[NightTrain]

68. Two songs reduced me to tears the first time I heard them

The first one many of you will know: "A Change Is Gonna Come," the posthumously released B-side of Sam Cooke's "Shake." It's one of the most heartfelt and humanistic recordings I've ever heard. Makes me wonder if Cooke would've done more socially conscious material had he not died to ignominiously in December 1964.

The other recording is far more obscure; another B-side, this one from 1969. It's by Dee Dee Warwick (Dionne's sister) and it's called "Thank God." Sample lyrics:

For every one man who cries for war,
there are ten crying for peace.
Thank god.

For every one man who says, "Let's take,"
there are ten saying, "Let's give."
For every one man who says, "Kill him,"
there are ten crying, "Let him live."
And I thank god.

Granted, those lyrics may look corny, but Dee Dee Warwick sang the hell out of them. And with a gospel chorus backing her up, it makes for an intense listening experience!

[EOTE]

69. Inevitable by Shakira.

My Spanish is very poor and it's very difficult for me to follow Spanish lyrics, that didn't keep me from crying the very first time I heard that song.

[Lindsey]

71. Kamika -Running to Stand Still -U2

is an absolutely AWESOME SONG.