Songs That Make You Cry

[LikeNoOneBefore]

I just put up one about movies, so I figured that I'd make one for music too.



Bear with me. There's a lot.

"You and Me" by Lifehouse (If I hear the first five notes, I go psycho.)
"Stay (Faraway, So Close!)" by U2
"With Or Without You" by U2
"Fix You" by Coldplay (Shut up. )
"Mr. Curiosity" by Jason Mraz
"We're So Far Away" by Mae
"Skin" by Rascal Flatts
"I Will Remember You" by Sarah McLaughlan
"100 Years" by Five For Fighting
"You'll Think Of Me" by Keith Urban
"I Just Don't Think I'll Ever Get Over You" by Colin Hay
"The Hero Dies In This One" by The Ataris
"Goodbye My Lover" by James Blunt
"A Long December" by Counting Crows
"Nebraska" by The Lawrence Arms (Lyrics have a special meaning to me.)
"A Lack Of Color" by Death Cab For Cutie (Played it on loop before my friend left for the Air Force)
"Home To Me" by Josh Kelley
"All I Ask Of You" from Phantom of the Opera
"Here Without You" by Three Doors Down



...yeah and I probably forgot some, too.

 

[MrBrau1]

pretty much anything from "Kid A."

 

[MrBrau1]

but seriously.

The Living Dead by Suede.

It slays me.

 

[Lila64]

off the top of my head, I can only think of two:

John Lennon "Imagine"
U2 "With Or Without You"

sometimes:

U2 "One Tree Hill"

 

[mandy1973]

Depends on my mood (and the time of month ) but off the top of my head....

All I Want Is You
Kite
SYCMIOYO
WOWY
Running To Stand Still

Autumn Leaves - Nat King Cole
Everybody Hurts - REM
Goodbye My Lover - James Blunt (yeah, go on laugh)
Near You Always - Jewel
What a Wonderful World - Louis Armstrong
Imagine - John Lennon
Angels - Robbie Williams

yeah....I'm a big cry baby

 

[redhotswami]

RTSS
Lean on me - Kirk Franklin, Bono, and a million other people
Let your troubles roll by - Carbon Leaf
Block of wood - Carbon Leaf
Come downstairs and say hello - Guster
Two points for honesty - Guster
Imagine - John Lennon
Last Kiss - Pearl Jam
Somebody to love - Queen

 

[No spoken words]

One Tree Hill - for the reason it was written and how moving I find the lyrics to be

A Sort of Homecoming - no one reason, this song just affects me, I love it

Everybody Hurts - speaks for itself

More Than This by Roxy Music - lyrics get me

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Only Tounge Can Tell by Trashcan Sinatras - I have no idea why

Pass in Time by Beth Orton - again, not 100% sure why

Who Wants to Live Forever - Queen or Sarah Brightman version

That'll do it.

 

[LikeNoOneBefore]

"Ultraviolet" makes me cry too just because it's an amazing song to me. Not because it's sad.

 

[corianderstem]

Vincent (aka "Starry Starry Night") - Don McLean

The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald - Gordon Lightfoot (yeah, I know. Shut up.)

Philadelphia - Neil Young

 

[LMP]

Find the River by R.E.M.
Landlocked Blues by Bright Eyes
How to Disappear Completely by Radiohead
Running to Stand Still by U2
Hallelujah by Jeff Buckley

I'm sooo emoe I cried to a Bright Eyes song :makes myspace::cuts wrist:

 

[No spoken words]

Find the River by R.E.M.
Landlocked Blues by Bright Eyes
How to Disappear Completely by Radiohead
Running to Stand Still by U2
Hallelujah by Jeff Buckley

I'm sooo emoe I cried to a Bright Eyes song :makes myspace::cuts wrist:

Find the River is my favorite REM song and I cannot believe I left it off.

Someone Saved My Life Tonight by Elton John also makes me cry a bit...I think it's largely his voice...Daniel, too.

 

[elevation2u]

Smiths - I know It's Over
Springsteen - The River
Ryan Adams- Voices

ok, they don't actually make me cry
but I find them quite haunting & depressing
yet excellent

 

[indra]

These generally don't make me cry so much as have a lovely melancholia.

Film -- The Church -- it's instrumental, but the music does it to me every time
Swan Lake & It's No Reason -- both by The Church
Civil War Lament, Trapeze Boy, Providence, Even As We Speak -- Jack Frost
Horsebreaker Star, Dream About Tomorrow -- Grant McLennan
Hurricane Lamp -- Warp Factor 9
The Last Day of Our Acquaintance, I Am Stretched On Your Grave -- Sinead O'Connor


I'm sure there are more

 

[annie_vox]

Well lets see...

Crown of Love - Arcade Fire (I was very sensitive when that happened...)
Ordinary World - Duran Duran (just once )
Sky Phenomenon - Jens Lekman (I didn't cry actually but this song always get to me...)
Waiting For The Moon - Belle Sebastian
Sing For Absolution - Muse
Citizen Erased - Muse (just the last parte of the song when I saw it live...)
Too Much Love Will Kill You - Queen (I still don't know why, but it was just once too)
Street Spirit - Radiohead
Love Is Blindness - U2 (the live version that unfortunatelly I never saw personally )
Kite - U2

These are the ones I can remember right now...

 

[yertle-the-turtle]

Generally I don't cry to music very much but the one that gets me every single time is Johnny Cash's version of 'Hurt'.

 

[pgv]

Nothing compares 2 U - Sinead O'connor
It doesn't make me cry (nothing does) but it makes me sad

 

[MrsSpringsteen]

Danny Boy
Taps
Ave Maria
Sometimes the Star Spangled Banner makes me cry

Tears in Heaven
Angel by Sarah McLachlan
Streets of Philadelphia by Bruce
Imagine

 

[pgv]

I forgot Imagine, thats a pretty depressing song too. And let it be by the beatles.

 

[Blackberry]

Depeche Mode - somebody
Coldplay - fix you
U2 - with or without you
Christina Aguilera - hurt (dont say anything)

 

[corianderstem]

Generally I don't cry to music very much but the one that gets me every single time is Johnny Cash's version of 'Hurt'.

Oh my god, yes. Imagining the video in my head whenever I hear it certainy doesn't help.

In the right mood, Bruce Springsteen's "The Rising" gets to me, too.

 

[Aygo]

REM - Find The River
Aimee Mann - Wise Up
U2 - Yahweh
Madonna - Oh Father
U2 - One (some liver versions, or if accompained with the buffalo video)
U2 - Miss Sarajevo -> Human Rights video
U2 - Stuck In A Moment You Can't Get Out Of (I once cried with this song)
Garbage - Drive You Home
Depeche Mode - Home
Whitney Houston - My Love Is Your Love (those lyrics make my skin look like a chicken)
Eric Clapton - Tears In Heaven
John Lennon - Imagine

there are more, but I only remember these now.

 

[corianderstem]

Madonna - Oh Father

Ooh, that's a good song. Very underrated.

 

[cdisantis83]

A song has never brought to me to tears, although I came damn close one time when a live version of Where the Streets Have No Name came on my iPod Shuffle. Something about the opening guitar really gets to me.

 

[Aygo]

Ooh, that's a good song. Very underrated.

I think that even Madonna underrates this song. It's one of her best, and when I watch that video I can't help to drop some tears.

 

[1stepcloser]

A song has never made me cry before but i suppose the one that has come the closest is U2's Kite from Slane. One hell of an emotional performance. Though the outro to that song just kills off any chance of my tearducts seeing any action.

 

[BonosLil'Pal94]

SYCMIOYO by U2
In My Life by Beatles
Imagine by John Lennon

 

[GibsonGirl]

Radiohead - Exit Music
Radiohead - How To Disappear Completely
Pink Floyd - The Gunners Dream
Pink Floyd - The Final Cut
Echo And The Bunnymen - All My Colours
Queen - It's A Beautiful Day
Sigur Rós - Andvari (the string outro)
Nick Drake - Horn
Dmitri Shostakovich - Chamber Symphony for Strings, Op. 110a: I. Largo (Attacca)
Frédéric Chopin - Prelude in D flat major op. 28, No. 15

EDIT: Oh, and In The Backseat by The Arcade Fire. That line "Alice died in the night, I've been learning to drive my whole life" really chokes me up, considering the song's background info.

 

[Lila64]

Maddy just reminded me with her post...

Beatles - In My Life

Even more so, this song came on the radio right after my uncle had passed away, and I had just visited with my aunt and her daughter. The words...

 

[Screwtape2]

Running To Stand Still because I was listening to this song when I found out that my dog was put down.

This Woman's Work by Kate Bush
The Lamia by Genesis
Politik by Coldplay
Cowboys & Angels by George Michael

Nessum Dorma by Giacomo Puccini
Neptune The Mystic by Gustav Holst

 

[BrownEyedBoy]

I Grieve by Peter Gabriel

It's really mourning in music and words.

"It was only one hour ago ...it was all so different then.."