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Songs that instantly make you cry

#141
Sam Hain said:
Doesn't make me cry but definately strikes an emotional chord...

Cats in the cradle by either Harry Chapin or Ugly Kid Joe.

I was lucky, I had and still have a fantastic relationship with me dad. Hes my best friend, but I had a close friend who's relationship with his dad could have been the inspiration for that song.
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+1. My relationship with my kids has been difficult, and this song always gets to me.
 
#142
Actually, there are a couple (or 3) but here we go:

1. Little Help From My Friends (Joe Cocker) - personal reasons

2. The 8th Of November - B&R - Lost my best friend in Vietnam

3. Shannon - Henry Gross -funny story here....the band I was in in the early 70s played a show one night - got a little "drunk" after the show and that damn song came on the radio - we all cried like babies.....what a bunch of pusses.....:smug:

Just for reference:

 
#147
SMILEYSIXX said:
What songs really get to you and make you cry like a baby? I'm usually not too openly emotional with songs, but Jaco's Portrait of Tracy makes me tear up instantly.
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I never cry. I haven't in over 10 years. It's not that I don't have and feel the kind of feelings that would make a person want to cry; it's just that the tears never make it out of the ducts. My wife thinks I have some kind of emotional void.

However, music is the one thing that gets me close and the song that seems to get me on the verge every time I hear it is Queen's, "Bohemian Rhapsody". It is, in my opinion, a perfectly written song. Yes, there are many wonderful Queen songs but Bohemian makes me emotional everytime I hear it. Freddie Mercury was a pretty ballsy person and he wrote a pretty ballsy song to prove it.

Unfortunately, they could never reproduce the middle operatic part live due to the 180+ vocal overdubs that they laid down in the studio. They had to play it using tape. Keep in mind that when that song was recorded in the early 1970's you got at most 24 tracks or at least that's what I read in an interview with Brian May. For those of you old enough to remember analog recording that's a lot of bouncing tracks. A pretty big feat if you ask me.

Aw crap! I just went off on a bit of a tangent. Sorry. So yeah, Bohemian Rhapsody makes me think about wanting to cry when I hear it.
 
#149
I really don't listen to much country at all, so it's my mom's fault I ever heard this one- The Baby by Blake Shelton is kinda rough. A couple other people mentioned it, but My Immortal by Evanescence use to get to me also.

Not music, but that kid's book "I'll Love You Forever" (I forget the author) just KILLS me. Can't even think about it without getting choked up.
 
#152
"The Drowned" by the Decemberists - last song on the The Hazards of Love wherein the two lovers are married and kiss with their last breath as they are drowned in a river. Gorgeous song but I can't even read the lyrics without getting choked up. My wife and I listened to this album on our last road trip a couple months ago and I had forgotten how sad it was. I grabbed onto her hand and the tears just started coming out. I'm not really a cryer - I can't remember the last time I cried before that - probably my friend's funeral (suicide) about 8 years ago.
 

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