songs that make you feel like you might cry a little? (not that men cry)

[cthomer5000]

I had my itunes on shuffle right now, and one of the songs that is so far afield of everything I own came on. It's a song i totally love but feel *slightly* embarassed about loving... and i admit i find it to be quite a moving song.

It's was a pretty big in the 99 or 2000 range, it's Lee Ann Womack's "I Hope You Dance" a country crossover hit.

YouTube - Lee Ann Womack - I Hope You Dance (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTQfERb9HVk)

It's kind of cheesy, but I guess I love the overall message of the song, especially since it sounds like it's sung to a child. I dunno, man, seriously... i feel embarassed for admitting this, it's a song that can put me on the verge of tears inexplicably. I think it's very well written by pop song standards.

I'm hoping I can prompt some other confessions of a similar nature. I'm going to go hide now.

ct

[Senator]

There is a greater than zero percent chance I am just a cold-hearted bastard.

[MJ4H]

Dear John by Styx

(countless examples of, well, heavier music, say Maslanka's 4th symphony, but I doubt that's what you were really going for)

The Styx song chokes me up every time.

Edit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjZih4Xj-Us

[Kodos]

It takes a big man to cry, but it takes a bigger man to laugh at that man.

[BYU 14]

This is song just tears me apart, especially knowing the tragic accident that took his daughter after he wrote the song.

YouTube - Cinderella - Steven Curtis Chapman (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tN7_qbOpuWs&feature=related)

[hawk4669]

"If You Leave This World Before Me" by Mike Ness

Always makes me think of my wife...and how lost I'd be without her. Cheesy, I know...but heartfelt.

Cheers!

[Mantle2600]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6PGrub3jUc

Sia - Breathe me

[Matthean]

This is song just tears me apart, especially knowing the tragic accident that took his daughter after he wrote the song.

YouTube - Cinderella - Steven Curtis Chapman (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tN7_qbOpuWs&feature=related)


As a long time SCC fan, I can't imagine what it would be like for him to perform that during his tour. There's no way I'm not openly bawling my eyes out during it.

YouTube - Mark Schultz-He's my son (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQlatFCT3IM&feature=related)

Back story being that during the time I was being born my mother was having complications and the doctor basically said it was either her, or me, but both of us weren't making out of the hospital alive. She said we both were. The doctor went through with it and we both made it. There's enough lines in the song that just nail me. I can't recall how many times I listened to it before I wasn't basically losing my "stuff." Even now is fairly hit, or miss in how well I deal with hearing the song.

YouTube - The Dance - Garth Brooks (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2E0-laiA7gI)

Zero personal ties to the song, but it can be a killer if it comes on at the right time.

YouTube - Center Aisle (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPppLK0Cn7o)

Never had anybody close to me commit suicide, but I think it nails the topic as well as one could.

[Uncle Briggs]

This is song just tears me apart, especially knowing the tragic accident that took his daughter after he wrote the song.

YouTube - Cinderella - Steven Curtis Chapman (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tN7_qbOpuWs&feature=related)

This song immediately came to mind when I saw the thread title.

[CU Tiger]

Another country song, "I miss you a little" John Michael Montgomery
Written about his Dad, but reminds me of my best friend who was taken by cancer at 27....

[Poli]

YouTube - Mark Schultz-He's my son (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQlatFCT3IM&feature=related)

Mark Schultz...for a different reason. "When You Come Home" came out shortly after my mom's death. A long time passed before I could hear that song and not be sad. I still sing the song to her when I visit her gravesite.

[Karlifornia]

A Lack Of Color-Death Cab For Cutie
The Past & Pending-The Shins

Both awesome album closers that make you emotional in a nostalgic way.

[Groundhog]

YouTube - Camel - For Today (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7POF19JqzA)

Camel - For Today.

Was written about the dude that jumped from the tower on 9/11. Just a very powerful song... Bands that have been around for 30+ years should not still be able to write music like that.

[Mac Howard]

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Dylan's "Auction Block".

[PackerFanatic]

YouTube - G.A.M. 06/29/07 Ben Folds Gracie (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmtzWBJkWh0)

"Gracie" by Ben Folds. My daughter's name is Grace and a buddy of mine who does some DJing in college played this song on his station the day we got home from the hospital, shouting out to us. I had never heard it before then, and even though she was only 3 days old at the time, it really hit home. Still does every time I hear it.

PS - Video isn't mine, first one I found on YT that had the full song.

[cuervo72]

Cliche, but Cat's in the Cradle by Harry Chapin gets me nearly every time.

Once heard Pride (In the Name of Love) while driving on MLK Boulevard in Baltimore - on April 4th - and got a little choked up.

[rowech]

Amazing Grace

[RainMaker]

Not a fan of this band or anything but the song is probably the saddest I've heard. My dog had been having health issues for months and was on seizure medication. One night he had a grand mal, rushed him to the vet, and I decided it was best to put him to sleep. It was 3am and I was driving back on an empty dark road and this song came on the radio. Just destroyed me.

YouTube - The All-American Rejects - It Ends Tonight (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XempunzHQ0U)

[Wolfpack]

Amazing Grace

+1.l If my mood is just right, I find it really challenging to keep myself in control.

Also I guess I'm more sentimentally emotional in my older age as I watch my girls grow up and experience things. The weirdest songs will make me be a bit emotional, especially if they have things related to children learning and experiencing things or of parents watching their children grow.

[General Mike]

"Light Years" by Pearl Jam

[RendeR]

Butterfly Kisses


Reminds me of my eldest daughter that I haven't seen or spoken too since 1995.

[MizzouRah]

The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus

"Your Guardian Angel"

When my wife's aunt was pregnant, their baby was born with cancer of the liver and died... it was so tough going to that funeral..

I played this song at a gathering we had and everyone was in tears. It's such a great song.

[LloydLungs]

Closest I came was on my first drive back into New Orleans three weeks after Katrina, listening to the Rilo Kiley album "The Execution of All Things," which contains EERILY relevant lyrics throughout the album (though it was written several years before). I really didn't need a whole lot of help from music at that point, though.

[Flasch186]

Butterfly Kisses


Reminds me of my eldest daughter that I haven't seen or spoken too since 1995.

that's a shame :(

[Sporkimata]

Time in a bottle--Jim Croce

Always leaves me a little choked.

[larrymcg421]

Bunch of fucking sissies in this thread.




"Fire and Rain", James Taylor

[Kodos]

I can't think of any that bring me to tears, but there are certain songs that give me chills. Although I can't think of any examples at the moment.

In movies, "Win, Rocky, win," always gives me chills.

[Maple Leafs]

Lights in the Sky by NIN:
YouTube - Lights in the Sky - The Slip - NIN (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVkV321rV3U)

[Drake]

YouTube - Center Aisle (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPppLK0Cn7o)

Never had anybody close to me commit suicide, but I think it nails the topic as well as one could.

Classic Caedmon's Call. They were (and still are, I suppose) one of the great overlooked bands.

[albionmoonlight]

Time in a bottle--Jim Croce

Always leaves me a little choked.


Yeah.

Also, and I am not even joking, I am moved by "You Are My Sunshine." I mean, look at these lyrics:

The other night dear, as I lay sleeping
I dreamed I held you in my arms
But when I awoke, dear, I was mistaken
So I hung my head and I cried.

I'll always love you and make you happy,
If you will only say the same.
But if you leave me and love another,
You'll regret it all some day:

You told me once, dear, you really loved me
And no one else could come between.
But not you've left me and love another;
You have shattered all of my dreams:

In all my dreams, dear, you seem to leave me
When I awake my poor heart pains.
So when you come back and make me happy
I'll forgive you dear, I'll take all the blame.

I cannot beleive that they used this song to sell mustard. Almost as bad as when they used Brown Sugar to sell glazed ribs.

[Qwikshot]

Yeah.

Also, and I am not even joking, I am moved by "You Are My Sunshine." I mean, look at these lyrics:



I cannot beleive that they used this song to sell mustard. Almost as bad as when they used Brown Sugar to sell glazed ribs.

Yeah "You Are My Sunshine" is a sad song.

[Qwikshot]

Tim Easton's "Watching the Lightning" had a profound affect on me. Last year was the first full year of not having my daughter around so much (since she was moved to Texas).

I popped this sampler from Mojo that is of Americana bands (this is an old compilation disc - including Damien Jurado, Ryan Adams, etc). I hadn't listened to it in a while.

I was just sing-songing this one and realized that during the chorus that I couldn't sing it all the way through, it was too heavy on me, I mean I tried too, but I couldn't. The song itself is just about losing someone.

I can listen to it now, but man, it was emotional.

[King of New York]

Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings, op. 11. It was used in the movie "Platoon."

[MJ4H]

Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings, op. 11. It was used in the movie "Platoon."

God, yes.

[Drake]

In that vein, "One Day More" from Les Mis always kills me.

[Ksyrup]

Will Hoge: "Baby Girl" - phenomenal song that came out between the birth of our girls. Simply incredible lyrics, a kind of wish for a newborn daughter from her dad.

Jon Crosby: "That's My Boy" - song about violence in the US; idk, there's something to the music and the emotion in it that gets to me. Very powerful song.

Pain of Salvation: "This Heart of Mine (I Pledge)" - song the wife and I would have chosen for our wedding if it had been around that long ago.

[Kodos]

In that vein, "One Day More" from Les Mis always kills me.

I've always liked "On My Own". Poor Eponine (however it's spelled.)

[Toddzilla]

Christmas Shoes (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNsvE33pRSw)

[lordscarlet]

Christmas Shoes (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNsvE33pRSw)

Watch the Paton Oswalt special when it comes out. :) (I saw him a week or two ago and they filmed his CD/special that night)

[JediKooter]

Ice Ice Baby...I weep for the music industry and the sad sad state that it has been in ever since it allowed that travesty to be released into the wild.

[dacman]

This is song just tears me apart, especially knowing the tragic accident that took his daughter after he wrote the song.

YouTube - Cinderella - Steven Curtis Chapman (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tN7_qbOpuWs&feature=related)

I thought of SCC too, but this one instead:

YouTube - Tribute to Maria Chapman (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0upiGvnwSRA)

[-apoc-]

YouTube - Green Fields of France - Dropkick Murphy's (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huRwBFmAx78)

[RainMaker]

Tears in Heaven has to go down as one of the sadness when you see the meaning. He no longer plays the song.

YouTube - Eric Clapton - Tears In Heaven - Live (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ld1HIVsocBw)

[Raiders Army]

Cats in the Cradle is a good song. Doesn't make me cry even a little though.

[Abe Sargent]

Johnny Cash's remake of Hurt is the only song that affects me that emotionally.

[rogmax11]

The Dance -- Garth Brooks

Leader of the Band -- Aaaarrghh! I cant recall the singer, sorry.

[MJ4H]

Dan Fogelberg

[rogmax11]

Dan Fogelberg

Yep, thats the guy. Thanks for the ID, I would be scratching my head in futility otherwise. Or Googling the title. Thanks anyway.

[AgustusM]

everything by Taylor Swift makes me cry, because that teen pop crap has completely hijacked country music. :banghead:

[Drake]

I've always liked "On My Own". Poor Eponine (however it's spelled.)

Right after you posted this, I had to dig up my 10th anniversary CD set, only to realize that I didn't have it at work like I thought I did...so I had to download it from Amazon for $20.

These damned threads about music always end up costing me money.

[JetsIn06]

Lights in the Sky by NIN:
YouTube - Lights in the Sky - The Slip - NIN (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVkV321rV3U)

Great song

[Poli]

"In the Living Years"?

[SFL Cat]

Anything by Yanni....

[Schmidty]

Dan Fogelberg

I love you. I've made no secret of my love for Dan's cheesy, but awesome music. I can't believe he's gone. Damn shame.

I'm an emotional bastard, so there are a lot of specific songs that pop into mind. Stream of thought - "Leaving Home Ain't Easy" by Queen (I've moved a lot and that song got to me during a certain time period), "Take It With Me" by Tom Waits, "Along the Road" by Dan Fogelberg, "Remember Me" by The Silver Jews...and that's it because I could go on forever.

Pretty much everything makes me kind of sad right now, since I was laid off today.

[BYU 14]

Johnny Cash's remake of Hurt is the only song that affects me that emotionally.

Not so much the song, but watching that video is heartwrenching.

[Qwikshot]

Johnny Cash's remake of Hurt is the only song that affects me that emotionally.

The video gives me chills.

[lordscarlet]

YouTube - Green Fields of France - Dropkick Murphy's (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huRwBFmAx78)

This was going to be mine, but I'm trying to think of the other one that is on the tip of my tongue to post with it...

[Matthean]

Classic Caedmon's Call. They were (and still are, I suppose) one of the great overlooked bands.

Woohoo. Somebody who knows about CC. Yeah, the period where Derek had left the band and their record company wanted them to kick out worship albums was a downswing in their output, but I loved "Share the Well." "Overdressed" was a little too effortless for my taste.

I thought of SCC too, but this one instead:

YouTube - Tribute to Maria Chapman (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0upiGvnwSRA)

Which, IIRC, is about one of the girls from Columbine. I hadn't listened to "Speechless" in ages, but when I did recently it immediately clicked in my head how that song fit so well for his daughter's death as well.

Although it's a Christmas song, Labor of Love (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SK2PX7hH6io) sung by Jill Phillips and written by one of my favorite artist Andrew Peterson gets to me.

[Mac Howard]

Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings, op. 11. It was used in the movie "Platoon."

Spine chilling!

And this the same:

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[Maple Leafs]

This is song just tears me apart, especially knowing the tragic accident that took his daughter after he wrote the song.

YouTube - Cinderella - Steven Curtis Chapman (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tN7_qbOpuWs&feature=related)
So I figured I'd give this a listen just now.

Holy crap, that song makes "Butterfly Kisses" sound like a Lil Jon record. It took me three tries just to get through verse one.

[Maple Leafs]

Here's another one that's maybe a bit unusual:

YouTube - Stan Rogers - Mary Ellen Carter (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fT-aEcPgkuA)
(Song starts at 1:40)

I heard it for the first time at a funeral. A friend of a friend had died young, and one of his drinking buddies played this song during the ceremony.

He introduced it as "the second catchiest song ever made about a shipwreck, after the theme from Gilligan's Island". But the last verse always gets me.

[rowech]

I guess I'll throw this out...

YouTube - (Britain's Got Talent ) Paul Potts' 1st Audition (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxOytYLlhiQ)

I don't think the music itself does it but the backstory, the look, etc. make it superb.

[Poli]

YouTube - Center Aisle (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPppLK0Cn7o)


I had forgot about this song. I bought their first couple of albums (after listening to "Lead of Love" on the radio). I still remember asking for Caedmon's Call, and having people at Christian Book Stores look at me funny since they had never heard of them.

[gkb]

I can think two songs that can get me a little teary-eyed sometimes.

Kenny G - Auld Lang Syne (Millenium/Freedom Mix) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vq-GMkqVUFw)

They Slipped the Surly Bonds of Earth to Touch the Face of God


Billy Joel - Lullabye (Goodnight, My Angel) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LraZEoRnkPc)

And like a boat out on the ocean
I'm rocking you to sleep
The water's dark and deep
Inside this ancient heart
You'll always be a part of me

I've sung this to my son and two daughters. It always seems to calm them down and get them to sleep. I have to admit that when I sing it I think of all the people here on FOFC who have lost their children and how grateful I am to have mine.

Ok I'm adding one more...

Staind - Zoe Jane (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03cR1tAFSmQ)

I want to hold you
Protect you from all of the things I've already endured
I want to show you
Show you all the things that this life has in store for you
I'll always love you
The way that a father should love his daughter

[ColtCrazy]

The classics get me

Cat's in the Cradle
Leader of the Band
Time in a Bottle

[Poli]

As a long time SCC fan, I can't imagine what it would be like for him to perform that during his tour. There's no way I'm not openly bawling my eyes out during it.

YouTube - Mark Schultz-He's my son (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQlatFCT3IM&feature=related)

Back story being that during the time I was being born my mother was having complications and the doctor basically said it was either her, or me, but both of us weren't making out of the hospital alive. She said we both were. The doctor went through with it and we both made it. There's enough lines in the song that just nail me. I can't recall how many times I listened to it before I wasn't basically losing my "stuff." Even now is fairly hit, or miss in how well I deal with hearing the song.

YouTube - The Dance - Garth Brooks (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2E0-laiA7gI)

Zero personal ties to the song, but it can be a killer if it comes on at the right time.

YouTube - Center Aisle (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPppLK0Cn7o)

Never had anybody close to me commit suicide, but I think it nails the topic as well as one could.
I hate to quote this post again, but I realized today that while I thought I had forgotten "Center Aisle" that I've caught myself singing it to myself from time to time...and I can remember doing that for the past 10 years or so. It kind of amazed me...that the song has stuck like it has.

I didn't even listen to the song after it was mentioned here. I remembered the song after matthean mentioned it...and today it hit me...as I was singing it to myself during a brief minute on my own...that it was "Center Aisle".

I got home and verified it by looking up the lyrics. Amazing, at least to me.

[Drake]

Heh. Like my post about the Les Mis song earlier, though I've got that album on CD, as soon as Matthean mentioned "Center Aisle", I bought the digital version of that album from Amazon, too.

[cthomer5000]

After Lee Ann Womack came up on shuffle tonight and made me cry again, I thought of a few other songs that have actually made me cry at points in my life:

Neko Case - "The Tigers Have Spoken"
I distinctly remember this... I was getting ready for work very early in the morning, and it was maybe the 2nd or 3rd time i had ever heard this song... it was on a radio station (woxy, streaming live from Cincinnatti, ohio)... and the song has only ever been released in live form... it's incredibly fuckin' sad.

This was either late 2004 or early 2005, more likely early 05.

Pearl Jam - "Elderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small Town"
I also distinctly remember this, I was driving home from my summer job right after my freshman year in college (so lets say summer 1999) working at a bank in Summit, NJ and this song came on the radio. I shed a tear while driving home... and was absolutely surprised as this happened. It's probably the first time i recall having a totally unconscious emotional reaction to a song.

[Kodos]

I finally have a real answer now:

Green Day's "Wake Me Up When September Ends" does moisten my eyes a bit. I don't know if it's based on real life or fictional, but it's about his father dying when he was a kid, and he just wants to sleep through the month that it happened in. He talks about the end of summer and the passing of innocence. Oddly enough, it was a CT & Jivin episode that made me decide to listen to it right now. (The one with Jivin's dream about his mother's house being on fire.)

[cthomer5000]

The latest to get me a little emotional is Sigur Ros' "Hoppipolla."

You think you dont know the song, but you do... you've heard the instrumental in numerous trailers/network montages... it's currently in the trailer for the movie 'Earth.' I would describe it as objectively beautiful.

YouTube - Sigur Ros - Hoppipolla (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EyI4p0yjDQ)

[Danny]

The song Skin by Rascal Flatts always gets me.

[BYU 14]

Well, after last night I have a new one.....

"Theres only one Ricky Hatton"

[Mac Howard]

This'll make you weep - or throw up ;)

YouTube - Hank Willaims Snr, The Funeral. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_iyxHyNJJw)

And if you have any tears (or laughter) left then try this

YouTube - Be Carefull Of Stones That You Throw by Hank Williams (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6U-H3hPYBmA)

But you have to hear the song through for the punch line :)

[Crim]

This'll make you weep - or throw up ;)

YouTube - Hank Willaims Snr, The Funeral. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_iyxHyNJJw)

And if you have any tears (or laughter) left then try this

YouTube - Be Carefull Of Stones That You Throw by Hank Williams (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6U-H3hPYBmA)

But you have to hear the song through for the punch line :)

Not sure if you're making fun of those two songs or not, and God knows this ain't my style of music, but I liked them. Especially the second.

[Mac Howard]

Not sure if you're making fun of those two songs or not, and God knows this ain't my style of music, but I liked them. Especially the second.

Not so much making fun, crim, but recognising that, in this day and age, some will find them excessively sentimental. In my student country and western period (and who can avoid Hank Williams in that) I had the Luke the Drifter LP with both these on and so, taking account of the thread, I looked for them on youtube. I liked them back then but I can understand others who would feel they're a little too much.

For those who don't find them too sentimental here's a couple more:

YouTube - MEN WITH BROKEN HEARTS (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLcVNzZgN5I&feature=related)

YouTube - Pictures From Life's Other Side, a Remembrance Flight FS2004 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-j9WbZpSE8&feature=related)

Not sure about he video for the second but it's the only original song I can find.

And for those who do find them too sentimental there's this:

YouTube - If you Don't like Hank Williams (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MdpmSA8AVY&feature=related)

Edit:

At last I found it. I couldn't remember the title. I challenge anyone to listen to this and not choke up:

YouTube - Hank Williams Jr. - I dreamed about Mama last Night Lyrics (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tc3UaiDH_XE)