Songs That Make You Cry

Stopped reading at page 1, because I didn't know any of the songs.

I'll second "What Hurts the Most" even though I hate Rascal Flatts and "Don't Take the Girl." SC, the part that gets me is even before the baby...it's when the teen would give up the watch his grandpa gave him, and his car. Makes me cry every freaking time.

"At Your Best" by Aaliyah does it sometimes. So pure, so beautiful. Had special meaning to me once upon a time.

"For No One," the Beatles (Thanks Fenian)
"All of Me," Billie Holiday
"The Baby," Blake Shelton
"Almost Doesn't Count," Brandy
"I'll Never Get Over You Getting Over Me," Expose
"Unlove Me," Julie Roberts

 

"The day breaks/Your mind aches"
And then it gets sad.
You're welcome.

 

I wanna know what love is.

 

Has anyone mentioned "I Will Follow You Into the Dark" by Death Cab for Cutie?

 

Friends---Michael W. Smith

I'll Be There---Escape Club

Secret Garden---Springsteen

 

This post is a hidden gem on this thread. Great work.

 

No, but it's an amazing song that I still can't figure out why more people haven't picked up on it.

 

Because-The Beatles

Reason: Sentimental reason. They played it at a boyfriend's funeral (he passed away from a car accident) and this song was his favourite.

 

Solid, solid effort.

 

Just One Life -- Brian May

 

I hadn't seen this thread until today...and I must agree: Beautiful work as always, Smasher.

As for songs that really get me, good ol' shockey beat me to the punch with "Crying" by kd Lang and Roy Orbison and "You're Missing" by Bruce. I heard that song live at Shea less than two weeks after a friend of mine was killed in a car crash, leaving behind his wife and newborn son. I already thought the song was amazing, but my goodness, I've never been so sad listening to a song at a concert as I was at that moment.

"Purple Rain" live by Prince in 2005 almost got me. It built and built and built, getting more gorgeous and emotional by the verse, and I thought I was going to start blubbering right there in front of my wife.

Skewer me if you must for being a complete cheeseball, but "Summer of '69" has always struck me as incredibly sad. Like Double Down was saying w/the songs he heard on a mix tape an ex gave him, "Summer of '69" always reminds me of the summer after high school. I was in love for the first time, I was hanging out with the best friends I'll ever have and those two months of first and last times seemed to last forever. Yet the whole time, there was a lingering hint of sadness, that at some point, she'd break my heart and my best friends and I would drift apart.

Ditto for Ratt's "One Step Away." Ahh I've said too much.

"Through The Years" reminds me of my parents and puts a lump in my throat.

"Father of Mine" reminds me how good I've got it, and breaks my heart that it's not that way for everyone.

More cheese, but Mariah Carey's "Hero" came out when my sister was in the hospital after a serious car accident. It summed up what I thought--and think--of her.

Darlene Love singing "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)" gives me goosebumps every time. If I saw it live, you might need to mop me up.

And does anyone else remember the song "Dear Mr. Jesus?" It was written and sung from the point of view of an abused child. Scott Shannon played it on some countdown show right before Christmas one year. I remember I was in my room listening to the radio and my sister was in the living room playing Super Mario Brothers. I started crying in my bedroom and I walked out to the living room and there was my sister, sitting on the floor, her legs crossed, the game paused, and staring at the radio. She was crying too. Buncha wimps. But damn, that song was sad.

 

My parents had a player piano, so we'd get a catalog of the newest "rolls," and "Dear Mr. Jesus" was on the list in the late '80s. How fucked up would you have to be to want that song on a player piano?