What song consistently brings you to tears?

For me its the Grateful Dead's song Wharf Rat - especially the version on this album:


Skull & Roses

It is the most haunting song of a man whose fallen victim to a hard life and alcoholism - it always reminds me of my father. It amazes me how it gets me every time - I sing along and my voice cracks and I cry. Jerry's singing and playing on this particular version are haunting.

Anyway - how bout yourself?

I've always wanted to do a video for this song; it never fails to put a tear in my eye..

...and the Pogues' "Lullabye of London" unfailingly reduces me to a weepy baby. Great fuckin' tune, and I ain't even Irish! :thumbsup:

I was going to put Mo Tucker's version of "Danny Boy", too; it's beautiful..

And I AM Irish. :thumbsup:

I put this on a friend of Stephanie's funeral mix - it made his parents very happy!

by Jackson Browne. Especially now with the video on his website. It raises chills on my skin and brings me to tears.

The other one is Kathy Mattea's Where Have You Been? Whoa!

of that song in my car. It's amazing how little things have changed in the 20 years since Browne wrote it ("..how a government lies to a people, and a nation is drifting to war...).

I can listen to both versions of the song but I still prefer Jackson's.

In the morning when I wake up and listen to the sound
Of the birds outside on the roof
I try to ignore what the paper says
And I try not to read all the news
And I'll hold you if you had a bad dream
And I hope it never comes true
'Cause you and I been through so many things together
And the sun starts climbing the roof

It's a dream
Only a dream
And it's fading now
Fading away
It's only a dream
Just a memory without anywhere to stay

The Red River stills flows through my home town
Rollin' and tumblin' on its way
Swirling around the old bridge pylons
Where a boy fishes the morning away
His bicycle leans on an oak tree
While the cars rumble over his head
An aeroplane leaves a trail in an empty blue sky
And the young birds call out to be fed

It's a dream
Only a dream
And it's fading now
Fading away
It's only a dream
Just a memory without anywhere to stay

An old man walks along on the sidewalk
Sunglasses and an old Stetson hat
The four winds blow the back of his overcoat away
As he stops with the policeman to chat
And a train rolls out of the station
That was really somethin' in its day
Picking up speed on the straight prairie rails
As it carries the passengers away

It's gone
Only a dream
And it's fading now
Fading away
Only a dream
Just a memory without anywhere to stay

It's a dream
Only a dream
And it's fading now
Fading away
It's only a dream
Just a memory without anywhere to stay

It's a dream
Only a dream
And it's fading now
Fading away

That one does it too.

joplin

That one gets me. THe song is strong, but the video kills.

:cry:

and i like it better, i think.

It always kills me.

That whole album is fantastic

I asked for that CD for Christmas, and I never ask for music for Christmas!

So sad he's gone....:cry:

All of them make me choked up.

Written by Brendan Behan

:shrug:

i got really choked up.

by It's a Beautiful Day.

And Tears in Heaven - Eric Clapton

Mz Pip
:dem:

I don't know why, either.

In my Darkest Hour by Glenn Phillips

Isle of Hope Isle of Tears, various artists

My Hometown by Bruce Springsteen

Oh Danny Boy: anybody

Angel by Sarah MacLachlan

When I first heard it, I immediately thought of my Mom who passed away in 1994. One of our very last (and very rare) family outings was a Lake Tahoe paddle-boat trip out to Emerald Bay. The lyrical reference to an emerald bay kills me every time.

I'm a mom now and tried to sing this song to my kids...and I always end up sounding like a damn fool sobbing through the lyrics.

QDM

WELCOME TO DU!

Enjoy your stay in our crazy, dysfunctional addictive little town!

I'm pleased that you like my choice.....not many folks around here dig Billy Joel.....

And what a lovely poignant memory for you.....:hug:

by Tracy Chapman.

http://www.fortunecity.com/tinpan/parton/2/bandplayed.ram <- audio from radio performance in 1982

Now when I was a young man I carried me pack
And I lived the free life of the rover.
From the Murray's green basin to the dusty outback,
Well, I waltzed my Matilda all over.
Then in 1915, my country said, "Son,
It's time you stop ramblin', there's work to be done."
So they gave me a tin hat, and they gave me a gun,
And they marched me away to the war.

And the band played "Waltzing Matilda,"
As the ship pulled away from the quay,
And amidst all the cheers, the flag waving, and tears,
We sailed off for Gallipoli.
And how well I remember that terrible day,
How our blood stained the sand and the water;
And of how in that hell that they call Suvla Bay
We were butchered like lambs at the slaughter.
Johnny Turk, he was waitin', he primed himself well;
He showered us with bullets, and he rained us with shell --
And in five minutes flat, he'd blown us all to hell,
Nearly blew us right back to Australia.
But the band played "Waltzing Matilda,"
When we stopped to bury our slain,
Well, we buried ours, and the Turks buried theirs,
Then we started all over again.
And those that were left, well, we tried to survive
In that mad world of blood, death and fire.
And for ten weary weeks I kept myself alive
Though around me the corpses piled higher.
Then a big Turkish shell knocked me arse over head,
And when I woke up in me hospital bed
And saw what it had done, well, I wished I was dead --
Never knew there was worse things than dying.
For I'll go no more "Waltzing Matilda,"
All around the green bush far and free --
To hump tents and pegs, a man needs both legs,
No more "Waltzing Matilda" for me.
So they gathered the crippled, the wounded, the maimed,
And they shipped us back home to Australia.
The armless, the legless, the blind, the insane,
Those proud wounded heroes of Suvla.
And as our ship sailed into Circular Quay,
I looked at the place where me legs used to be,
And thanked Christ there was nobody waiting for me,
To grieve, to mourn and to pity.
But the band played "Waltzing Matilda,"
As they carried us down the gangway,
But nobody cheered, they just stood and stared,
Then they turned all their faces away.
And so now every April, I sit on my porch
And I watch the parade pass before me.
And I see my old comrades, how proudly they march,
Reviving old dreams of past glory,
And the old men march slowly, all bones stiff and sore,
They're tired old heroes from a forgotten war
And the young people ask "What are they marching for?"
And I ask meself the same question.
But the band plays "Waltzing Matilda,"
And the old men still answer the call,
But as year follows year, more old men disappear
Someday, no one will march there at all.
Waltzing Matilda, waltzing Matilda.
Who'll come a-waltzing Matilda with me?
And their ghosts may be heard as they march by the billabong,
Who'll come a-Waltzing Matilda with me?

I cannot make it play.

But I have a great story regarding that song.

I posted under the wrong name again...

Makes me cry- especially when I'm having a health problem

That's a current one. It sounds like a weepy old honky-tonk number, and damn if it doesn't make me well up.

The all-time tearjerker for me is Sarah Maclachlan's "Angel," or course. And you're right about Wharf Rat.


I'm such a wuss.

ever since January '01.

:P

http://peacetakescourage.cf.huffingtonpost.com/animations/decider.html

Good one Ava!

:thumbsup:

:pals:

It's funny how one insect, can damage so much grain...

What happened here
As the new york sunset disappeared
I found an empty garden among the flagstones there
Who lived here
He must have been a gardener that cared a lot
Who weeded out the tears and grew a good crop
And now it all looks strange
It’s funny how one insect can damage so much grain

And what’s it for
This little empty garden by the brownstone door
And in the cracks along the sidewalk nothing grows no more
Who lived here
He must have been a gardener that cared a lot
Who weeded out the tears and grew a good crop
And we are so amazed we’re crippled and we’re dazed
A gardener like that one no one can replace

And I’ve been knocking but no one answers
And I’ve been knocking most all the day
Oh and I’ve been calling oh hey hey johnny
Can’t you come out to play

And through their tears
Some say he farmed his best in younger years
But he’d have said that roots grow stronger if only he could hear
Who lived there
He must have been a gardener that cared a lot
Who weeded out the tears and grew a good crop
Now we pray for rain, and with every drop that falls
We hear, we hear your name

Johnny can’t you come out to play in your empty garden

this song just tears at my soul.

I mourn Lennon as well as the brash upstart that Elton John once was. MKJ

Migrant workers and the illness/death caused by pesticides, courtesy of big agribusiness. From the point of view of a small boy.

and there are a couple I wrote that I sometimes have trouble singing because of the lump in my throat

w/o a lump in my throat. And if it was Townes singing it w/ just his guitar, I was a blubbering mess..

me to tears.

"Mad World" originally by tears for fears, but Michael Andrews version/Finch's version was very good.

"Drowning" by Life of Agony

"Everybody Hurts"-REM

"Losing my Religion"-REM

"Please Forgive Me"-Bryan Adams

"Open Arms"-Journey

"I don't wanna Live without your love"-Chicago

"Estranged/Patience"-Guns and Roses...

A few...not all consistantly bring me tears, but all of them invoke, the emotions...

"He Stopped Loving Her Today" by George Jones.

Apparently they sing it in her class so I pulled out the "Peter, Paul and Mommy" CD and put it on. My daughter explained that her teacher thought it was sad when Jackie grew up and stopped believing in Puff. It always makes me sad, as well.

On a lighter note, I turned to my husband and subtly pantomimed smokin' a doobie ... heh heh ... one of those things you "get" about the song when you're older.

is so sweet. It's not about drugs. I refuse to believe it. There should be some things that are pure and beautiful, without the taint of juvenile adult attitudes.

And yes, of course, this is not the first time I'm hearing about the drug thing.

Sorry!

The writer even said it isn't. It's about the loss of childhood.

that is one

i could tell a story abt that one but won't bore you

it was always sad but now it will always make me think of the death of bay st. louis

The most recent song I've heard that wrecks me consistently. The video is awesome, but the song stands by itself.

There are two:

"Sailing" by Christopher Cross
"Too Hot" by Kool and the Gang

Hear me out.

They both came out right about the time my dad died. I was 13. "Sailing" was always on the radio driving back and forth from the hospital for a month beforehand.

The day he died, we made all our phone calls to family, and nearby cousins came over to stay with us. I still remember driving to pick up a bucket of chicken later that night with my cousin, and "Too Hot" came on the radio driving home. It stuck in my head.

I still turn into a blithering idiot. Especially if I'm in the car. I have to pull over and sob, and then when it's over, I'm OK again.

It's weird because they're such lame songs, but I feel so close to my dad listening to them, so I don't want to turn them off.

In the music marketing class I took, we discussed that women tend to associate music and songs with specific events while guys associate music with...uh....I can't remember what guys associate music with, but, for sure, it was said that women have this tendency.

Got into a discussion with a guy who got so annoyed at me for not liking a song itself but the memories it produced.

Hey. I yam what I yam.

Bob Dylan, from the third volume of his Bootleg Series.

And I will add Warren Zevon's "Searching For A Heart".

I know it's silly but that song elicits an immediate pavlovian response from me. I start thinking about how sad and mean that movie is--the only reason they accept Dumbo is because he figures out how to fly, but before that they were merciless towards him because his ears were big. That's just fucked up. Then his mother sings that song to him about how she loves him no matter what and I just lose it. I don't have to be watching the movie either. In fact I think I've only seen the movie once because I couldn't take it. But there are a few people who have recorded that song as a lullaby, so I've heard it many times. My husband actually has a verson on his ipod because he likes Allison Krause, and if it comes on I immediately start crying (and he immediately cracks up at me).

It's so heartfelt and tender.

And the scene with the mother in chains because she defended her baby.

It's just too much.....

:cry:

Damn, I don't even have to actually hear the song anymore!

I adore this song. And just have to think of it to start welling up.

From the final scene in Six Feet Under

Someone earlier today posted a link to the last 6 minutes of Six Feet Under. Wow, that was moving.

I posted the link. I've been moved ever since I saw it on DVD. I imagine I always will.

It makes me cry everytime. :cry:

Bridge Over Troubled Water
Danny Boy
What a Wonderful World
Everybody Hurts
Amazing Grace

it does make me cry but i suspect there is something abt it that makes a LOT of people cry -- it was used to make the heroine cry in the film, "12 monkeys," one of the best movies ever!

Used to sing it to Wayward Daughter when she was a baby to remind myself that children do not belong to us, but are entrusted to us for but a short time.

Still brings me to tears just like when she was three days old. The song has always helped me remember to cherish the present with her as she grew up.

but just barely. Try harder next time.

I have a soft spot for self-deprecating, slightly nerdy/awkward, but extremely sincere love songs. A far cry from the songs talking about how someone's eyes are like starlight and lips are like cherries, the songs that really get to me have things my husband might actually say. "Bangs" by They Might Be Giants and "Everyday Clothes" by Jonathan Richman are just two examples.

Bangs is about a guy who loves his girlfriend's new haircut and goes like this:
"...Bangs
Above your eyes your hair hangs
Blow my mind your royal flyness I dig your bangs...
And although I like you anyway, check out your haircut
A proscenium to stage a face that needs no makeup..."

Everyday Clothes is in a similar vein:
"...She had a black dress that I remember still
But in her ordinary clothes she was dressed to kill
I loved her
I loved her
At first sight I suppose
But I couldn’t have loved her more than in her plain old everyday clothes..."



But the one that gets me absolutely bawling is "The Luckiest" by Ben Folds. Listen to it sometime if you have never heard it. It's so sweet and so sincere. The fact that his musings are rather awkward makes it even better IMHO...

"I don't get many things right the first time
In fact, I am told that a lot
Now I know all the wrong turns, the stumbles and falls
Brought me here

And where was I before the day
That I first saw your lovely face?
Now I see it everyday
And I know

That I am
I am
I am
The luckiest

What if I'd been born fifty years before you
In a house on a street where you lived?
Maybe I'd be outside as you passed on your bike
Would I know?

And in a white sea of eyes
I see one pair that I recognize
And I know

That I am
I am
I am
The luckiest

I love you more than I have ever found a way to say to you

Next door there's an old man who lived to his nineties
And one day passed away in his sleep
And his wife; she stayed for a couple of days
And passed away

I'm sorry, I know that's a strange way to tell you that I know we belong
That I know

That I am
I am
I am
The luckiest"

About the abortion....

Damn that's haunting.....

Gets to me every time I hear it. Doesn't make me start bawling, but it does get me a little misty in the eyes. Nothing like a sad and bitter relationship-gone-wrong song to get me down.

from him is that much more poignant.

The song reminds me of my relationship with my dad, and also of the morning dad died, because I wasn't there. But unlike the song, I did have a chance to resolve a lot of things with my dad before he passed away.

Dixie Chicks.....

:cry:

:cry: every time

It's very well-done.

The song on the Disney soundtrack of "Tarzan" by Phil Collins also brings me to tears.

I never saw Tarzan.

Nightswimming also does it for me...

One song
Glory
One song
Before I go
Glory
One song to leave behind

Find one song
One last refrain
Glory
From the pretty boy front man
Who wasted opportunity

One song
He had the world at his feet
Glory
In the eyes of a young girl
A young girl
Find glory
Beyond the cheap coloured lights
One song
Before the sun sets
Glory- on another empty life
Time flies - time dies
Glory - one blaze of glory
One blaze of glory - glory
Find
Glory
In a song that rings true
Truth like a blazing fire
An eternal flame

Find
One song
A song about love
Glory
From the soul of a young man
A young man

Find
The one song
Before the virus takes hold
Glory
Like a sunset
One song
To redeem this empty life

Time flies
And then - no need to endure anymore
Time dies

"Waitin' Round to Die"

http://ippc2.orst.edu/coopl/lyrics/tvz_004.html

(Can't make a link for some reason.)

Tom Waits' "Please Call Me Baby"

Willis Alan Ramsey's "Ballad of Spider John" for the associated memories...

Willie Nelson's "It's not Supposed to be That Way", popular when my father died.

small world huh? :)

his mind was clouded by alcohol, even when he wasn't drinking

just saw him in coffee houses and bars in Houston in the '70s. His drinking was legendary.

I learned "Waitin' Around to Die" from my brother. It was about the only acoustic song he ever played. His interpretation was slower and sadder than the version on Townes' first album.

I don't miss much about Texas. Except the music...

He is a cutie.

He applied for a job at our Sound Warehouse years ago, but was naive enough to tell them how much pot he smoked. He wasn't hired.

I was mad too, cuz I wanted to ogle him while I worked!

Since most of you have probably never heard it, here are the lyrics.

Home From The Forest


Oh the neon lights were flashin'
And the icy wind did blow
The water seeped into his shoes
And the drizzle turned to snow
His eyes were red, his hopes were dead
And the wine was runnin' low
And the old man came home
From the forest

His tears fell on the sidewalk
As he stumbled in the street
A dozen faces stopped to stare
But no one stopped to speak
For his castle was a hallway
And the bottle was his friend
And the old man stumbled in
From the forest

Up a dark and dingy staircase
The old man made his way
His ragged coat around him
As upon his cot he lay
And he wondered how it happened
That he ended up this way
Getting lost like a fool
In the forest

And as he lay there sleeping
A vision did appear
Upon his mantle shining
A face of one so dear
Who had loved him in the springtime
Of a long-forgotten year
When the wildflowers did bloom
In the forest

She touched his grizzled fingers
And she called him by his name
And then he heard the joyful sound
Of children at their games
In an old house on a hillside
In some forgotten town
Where the river runs down
From the forest

With a mighty roar the big jets soar
Above the canyon streets
And the con men con but life goes on
For the city never sleeps
And to an old forgotten soldier
The dawn will come no more
For the old man has come home
From the forest


BTW, "My Hometown" by Bruce Springsteen gets me every time too.

And Amazing Grace, when it's done well.

Danny Boy is another one.

And sometimes, depending on my mood at the moment, a Hallmark commercial can do it...

:rofl:

sorry, just had to say it. ;)

Somewhere in a scrap book
There's a rose you gave to me
And a photograph that's torn in half
And all that's left is me

And happily ever after
That came after I was gone
And they tell you that you can't go back
Then why can't I go on?

When I should be laughin' at this joke
Dressed up as love, diguised as hope
And isn't funny after all this time
A tear is fallin' when i should be laughin'

Sunsets are like a painting, windows like a frame
The night comes in and I begin
To see it all again

Cause I should be laughin' at this joke
The damage done, the words I spoke
And isn't funny after all this time
Regret can find me, when I should be laughin'

I should laughin' at life
And all of the tricks that it plays
I should be laughing at time
And how fast its slippin' away

Somewhere in a scrap book
There's a rose you gave to me
And with one last look
I close the book
And let the past just be

When should be laughin' at this joke
Dressed up as love, diguised as hope
And isn't funny after all this time
A tear is fallin' when i should be laughin'

when it comes to crying at songs. But the one I think of that most affects me is "Memory" from CATS.

And it's because I love my furkits, and when my Kira got out of the house nearly three years ago and never came home, all I can think of is the pain, the horror and the torture she probably went through. And so I think of all the other lost cats, the alley cats, the feral cats who will never know a warm hand or soft voice, the millions mistreated or abused, and all those who will never know love or who have forgotten it as a thing of their past.

Some people treat my devotion to cats with dismissal because they say there are too many people in this world who are in worse straits, and that animal rights issues are a "luxury" in a world gone mad. But if we don't think about the animals--if we treat them with dismissal, and if we continue to push them aside, we will lose the very humanity we need to deal with ALL creatures, including human beings.

So, yes, I cry at "Memory" because it hits home a little too close.

version of "Hurt."

Damn the consistency of it all. :cry:

Totally changes the song.

Yeah, yeah, I know.

But it's a context thing.

:cry:

I love the words to the song. It chokes me up every time. I won't listen to it with anyone else around because I don't want them to see me tear up.

And the video to go with it.

also "Wind beneath your wings" by her.

But especially "The Rose"........The lyrics are astonishing.....

:hug:

:hi:

every time. :cry:

Walking Home - Iris DeMent

The Second Movement of Beethoven's Emperor Concerto

:cry: It's on right now...sniffle. :(

Sam Cooke's is a thing of rare beauty, too, but I really prefer Otis's, plus there's personal reasons why (which I know you know.)

Also:

"River," Joni Mitchell
"Twin Falls," Ben Folds
"Give Judy My Notice," Ben Folds
"Fight Test" and "Do You Realize??" by The Flaming Lips
"Ooh La La," The Faces
"Blue Red and Grey," The Who
"Sad Eyes," Robert John
"Eight Miles High" (what a catharsis!) Husker Du
"Why Won't You Stay?" American Music Club
"My Lady Story," Antony and the Johnsons
"Bartender's Blues," George Jones
"Living Life," "Hey Joe," and "Walking the Cow," K. McCarty
"Sail Away," "Louisiana 1927" and "Old Man," Randy Newman
"The End of the Rainbow," Richard and Linda Thompson
"I Just Can't Keep From Crying Sometimes," Blind Willie Johnson
"Any Day Now," Ronnie Milsap

Yup, I'm a sap. I'm a total sucker for sad songs.

:thumbsdown:

You're really a cool guy, especially when you're sincere (your eloquence shines).

...the entire "In the Aeroplane over the Sea" album makes me weep like a baby.

jerker for all time for me.

:hug:

:hug:

:cry:

because I remember when it came out and how it was played when George Harrison died. Oh, god.

came out at the same time we had to bury a very close friend, his family asked me to write his eulogy. I remember crying and singing to that song as I drove the cemetary.

Now I might tear up when I hear Here Comes the Sun next. :hug:

11-year-old kid walking with his brother and a friend in the rural mn. countryside. kidnapped; to this day not a trace of him has been found. it is a great and agonizing tragedy....

to SIDS, the organist played "Brahm's Lullaby" at the funeral. Enough said.

I got that CD right when my grandfather died, and that song is forever connected with lose and grief for me.

and "Silent in the Morning"

The Beatles version seems appropriate for a wedding.
The Cash version seems appropriate for a memorial.

You were once my one companion
You were all that mattered
You were once a friend and father
Then my world was shattered

Wishing you were somehow here again
Wishing you were somehow near
Sometimes it seemed if I just dreamed
Somehow you would be here

Wishing I could hear your voice again
Knowing that I never would
Dreaming of you won't help me to do
All that you dreamed I could

Passing bells and sculpted angels
Cold and monumental
Seem for you the wrong companions
You were warm and gentle

Too many years fighting back tears
Why can't the past just die?

Wishing you were somehow here again
Knowing we must say goodbye
Try to forgive, teach me to live
Give me the strength to try

No more memories, no more silent tears
No more gazing across the wasted years
Help me say goodbye
Help me say goodbye

by Henry Gross, about losing a beloved dog.

:cry:

Dammit!

I completely lose it when I hear Shannon. Every damned time. Falsetto and everything. Makes you want to hug your pet really tight and never let go!

ABBA!




:rofl:

Perhaps that is because I am a cyborg.

Oddly, sad songs don't really make me sad. Some upbeat numbers are so good they can make me shed a tear though. "Pressure Drop" is one of them.

My husband put it on after I returned from burying my brother in Texas back in 2004. We listen to it ever so often now and I have seen it performed a couple of times. It is a great experience.

Sang the "How Lovely is Thy Dwelling Place" in choir in college when on tour...and still start singing the parts when listening to it. The whole thing is just a masterpiece. Will always choke me up...

"To Where You Are"

Who can say for certain
Maybe you're still here
I feel you all around me
Your memory's so clear

Deep in the stillness
I can hear you speak
You're still an inspiration
Can it be
That you are my
Forever love
And you are watching over me from up above

Fly me up to where you are
Beyond the distant star
I wish upon tonight
To see you smile
If only for awhile to know you're there
A breath away's not far
To where you are

Are you gently sleeping
Here inside my dream
And isn't faith believing
All power can't be seen

As my heart holds you
Just one beat away
I cherish all you gave me everyday
'Cause you are my
Forever love
Watching me from up above

And I believe
That angels breathe
And that love will live on and never leave

Fly me up
To where you are
Beyond the distant star
I wish upon tonight
To see you smile
If only for awhile
To know you're there
A breath away's not far
To where you are

I know you're there
A breath away's not far
To where you are

The story of a woman who has been raped. And no longer knows where safety is.

The problem is that is so true..... "It's funny, you can laugh, but these things go through your head."



Sorry,

Khash.

Yeah, that song gets me, too.

It's a rough one to listen to without getting chills.

http://www.welcometobarbados.org/
"A Tori Amos inspired site for rape and sexual abuse survivors"

:cry:

I don't know why even, but it always chokes me up.

It's been seven hours and fifteen days
Since you took your love away
I go out every night and sleep all day
Since you took your love away
Since you been gone I can do whatever I want
I can see whomever I choose
I can eat my dinner in a fancy restaurant
But nothing ...
I said nothing can take away these blues,
'Cause nothing compares ...
Nothing compares to you

It's been so lonely without you here
Like a bird without a song
Nothing can stop these lonely tears from falling
Tell me baby where did I go wrong?
I could put my arms around every boy I see
But they'd only remind me of you
went to the doctor guess what he told me
Guess what he told me?
He said, girl, you better have fun
No matter what you do
But he's a fool ...
'Cause nothing compares ...
Nothing compares to you ...

All the flowers that you planted, mama
In the back yard
All died when you went away
I know that living with you baby was sometimes hard
But I'm willing to give it another try
'Cause nothing compares ...
Nothing compares to you

"I Can't Make You Love Me"--Bonnie Raitt
"Tears in Heaven"--Eric Clapton
"Stairway to Heaven"--Led Zeppelin
"The Living Years"--Mike and the Mechanics


AND, stereotypically:

"Graduation (Friends Forever)"--Vitamin C

:cry::cry:

It's a religious song but it always moves me when I hear it. I'm more or less an agnostic but that songs moves me.

Another song that truly moves me is from the late/great Celia Cruz, La Vida es un carnival(life is a carnival). Sings about how important it is to enjoy life and maintain a positive outlook no matter what happens.

If I listen to any song often enough, even if it brought me to tears, eventually it won't. But some "last" for many more listens than others, and James Keelaghan has written more of those than anyone else. He knows just how to put that little added twist in a disaster song, that really gets you because you weren't expecting it. In Cold Missouri Waters, it's the deathbed framing narrative, and also the morning after, planting crosses. In Captain Torres, it's the blinking red lights on the answering machines. wham! - he hits you with a delicate little nuance coming from a different direction.

There are a very few songs I deliberately limit how often I listen to, because I don't want to lose the power of the reaction they evoke. One of those is The Highwayman by Loreena McKennitt, which is her setting to music of a poem by Alfred Noyes.

daughter, every time I hear it.

Pretty soon you'll be able to remember her
Lying in the garden, singing
Right where she'll always be
The door is always open

This is the place that I loved her
And these are the friends that she had
Long may the mountain ring
To the sound of her laughter

And she goes on and on...
In her soft wind I will whisper
In her warm sun I will glisten
'Til we see her once again
In a world without end...

There's more but it's hard to type when I'm misty-eyed...
Miss you, Baby...

Did I say LOVE?

moment I heard them, and loved every single minute of every single Crowded House tune ever anywhere, and Neil is a damn genius.
I just do not get tired of listening to them!

"I Hope I Never" got me through an ugly divorce - Tim Finn has the voice of an angel too

"Wind Beneath My Wings"

is Steve Earle's My Old Friend the Blues, the song that actually brings tears to me is the Carter Family's Will the Circle be Unbroken, (at least I think that's the proper name).

This song was very popular when I graduated from high school and everything was changing.

"September's coming soon. Pining for the moon."

Kills me still.

I will fall into a wailing puddle listening to that one. Not very well known, though, I don't think anyway.

<snif>

But I don't listen to it anymore because it makes me much too sad. It's the saddest, saddest story.

My dad and I didn't have any contact with each other for the last twenty years of his life (at the urging of his second wife, who didn't want to acknowledge his children by a previous marriage).

I remember my dad playing the guitar when I was a kid, when we were close, when I was his little girl.

Fogelberg's musical tribute to his own father makes me teary eyed every time.

"Farther On," Jackson Browne, "From Boulder to Birmingham" by Emmylou Harris, and Simon & Garfunkel's "The Boxer."

You know the one I mean. It's impossible to hear it without thinking of the terribly cut short lives.

It makes me cry that they don't bother to tune their guitars.

:cry:

I'm grateful.

they're dead.

BLUEBERRY PIE!!!!

YUM!

What the hell does that mean anyway?

HeyHEY's mom is in town.

BA-ZING!!

When I hear a song after having been brought to tears (always while in my cups) by a prior listening, I usually feel foolish for having gotten all weepy the time before. Silly.

Lots of good, heart-wrenching songs out there though. Go, emo mongers, go!

Can't wait for the luncheon with vendors.

No wonder you post-punkers go for that stilted, cold, fey, removed shit: real life must be just too gauche.

:evilgrin:

Signed,

some skeevy Deadhead who cries a lot

tears my guts up!

It just haunts me every time I hear it.

"Paris, Texas," Ry Cooder; and "I Only Have Eyes for You," The Flamingos, all for a lover who commit suicide.

"Nothing Takes the Place of You," Toussaint McCall, and "California Stars," Jeff Tweedy (words by Woody Guthrie), for a lover I can never have.

I heard the Okie National Anthem played and bought the house a round!

COTTON FIELDS
WRITER HUDDIE LEDBETTER

When I was a little bitty baby
My mama would rock me in my cradle
In those old cotton fields back home
When I was a little bitty baby
My mama would rock me in my cradle
In those old cotton fields back home

Oh, when those cotton ball get rotten
You can't pick very much cotton
In them old cotton fields back home
It was back in Louisiana
Just about a mile from Texarkana
In them old cotton fields back home

--- Instrumental ---

When I was a little bitty baby
My mama would rock me in my cradle
In them old cotton fields back home
When I was a little bitty baby
My mama would rock me in my cradle
In those old cotton fields back home

Oh, when those cotton ball get rotten
You can't pick very much cotton
In them old cotton fields back home
It was back in Louisiana
Just about a mile from Texarkana
In those old cotton fields back home
In those old cotton fields back home...

People make fun of "Honey" all the time...and it makes me tear up.

You can do it...I won't laugh... Promise. :)

I can only Imagine.


I cry every time.

I always tear up at funerals when I hear "Be Not Afraid".

1. You shall cross the barren desert, but you shall not die of thirst. You
shall wander far in safety though you do not know the way. You shall speak
your words in foreign lands and all will understand. You shall see the face
of God and live.

R. Be not afraid. I go before you always. Come follow me, and I will give
you rest.

2. If you pass through raging waters in the sea, you shall not drown. If
you walk amid the burning flames, you shall not be harmed. If you stand
before the pow'r of hell and death is at your side, know that I am with you
through it all.

3. Blessed are your poor, for the kingdom shall be theirs. Blest are you
that weep and mourn, for one day you shall laugh. And if wicked men insult
and hate you all because of me, blessed, blessed are you!

Just hearing the introduction makes me start sobbing.

"Be not Afraid" and I didn't make it past the first chord.

It's so touching. :cry:

"Here's ya one chance Fancy, don't let me down"