Songs that instantly make you cry

[steve f]

Songs - never
Movies - all the time
Go figure...

 

[Deleted member 92857]

Anything by Eminem or any rap and hip-hop. I instantly begin to cry and whimper... make it stop, please in the name of God... MAKE IT STOP!!!!

 

[schmig]

Watch with care

 

[Phendyr_Loon]

Any rap song in which the "artist" samples (butchers) a classic rock song. I shed a tear for the defacement of real music.

If any of those fools even thinks about ruining a Rush song, I'll cut a bitch!

 

[themacinator]

My Immortal by Evanescence

+1

 

[throughthefire]

The Living Years, by Mike and the Mechanics. It was on the radio when I drove across England to get home after I was told my mother had died suddenly.

Walking Her Home, by Mark Schultz. I can't even read the lyrics without tearing up. No matter how long my wife and I will have together, it'll never be enough....

 

[azureblue]

"You and I" from the play "Chess" - with lyrics by Tim Rice and music by Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson

 

[EdHunter]

Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd (Is there anyone this song doesn't get to?)
Nobody Home - Pink Floyd (This strikes quite a chord with me - "I've got a strong urge to fly, but I've got nowhere to fly to")
Still In Love With You - Thin Lizzy (Quite pertinent to me right now)
Solitude - Black Sabbath (Another devastating one)
All of American IV - Johnny Cash (This is a man realising his own mortality, and facing his life head-on. Simply beautiful.)

 

[byronkowalski]

Tool - Parabol/Parabola gives me little wetnesses of the eyeball, but not in a sad way

also +1 to whoever said portrait of tracy, so much completely unveiled emotion there

 

[JCampbell72]

Oddly enough, one of the songs my band does will bring instant tears to my eyes. We always play it last and it kinda tops off the night. I love the fact it does that to me...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yt6uXLbW-p8

 

[TomA1234]

Any song by Kesha makes me cry...mostly for her father.

same here but for the pain that my ears have just endured.

That cover of Over the rainbow by that Hawaiian guy who has already been mentioned does it for me.

 

[bassist4dalord]

I don't know about instantly, but two or three come to mind:

"Come Home Running" by Chris Tomlin. My Mom sang it on Graduation Sunday at my church, and it always gets me choked up and homesick.

"Go Rest High On That Mountain" by Vince Gill. Rips me up.. It's about his brother who died. I couldn't imagine that..

 

[polyrhythmia]

How about "Working Class Hero" by John Lennon, or "Please Be the One" by Karla Bonoff? I really love sad songs in minor keys. Don't want to forget "Heaven" by Carl Wilson.

 

[rtav]

anything in the key of D minor. its the saddest of all keys. I weep instantly.

+10000

 

[GRAHAM SG1]

No song makes me cry but a kick in the nuts does

 

[rtav]

Queen's "The Show Must Go On" from Innuendo.

At the very end of his life, his body decimated by that horrible disease, having literally to be propped up in the studio, Freddie Mercury reaches into a place of stunning defiance against death and oblivion and powerfully asserts "I'll face it with a grin, I'll never give an inch - On With the Show."

In the single most awe-inspiring vocal performance from the greatest voice you or I will ever hear, he challenges his own death to try and silence him... the only appropriate response should be awe and tears.

 

[_Obra_]

The only one that made me cry was Purple Rain live in Vienna Austria.

 

[bassdog]

'bout anything by Eva Cassidy. Isn't it interesting how music can touch emotions?

 

[Rockmusician]

Nothing makes me cry but these songs are pretty emotional:
Jim Croce "Photographs and Memories"
Montgomery Gentry "Clouds"
Paul Davis "I Go Crazy"
Eric Clapton "Tears In Heaven"
REO Speedwagon "Keep on Lovin' You"
Toto "I'll Be Over You"

 

[leftiebass]

Four Green Fields - Tommy Makem