Songs that make you cry

[BillyRay]

Wether it be because they are beautiful or because you have strong emotional attachment to them, I'm curious as to what songs make people shed tears. Especially the guys.

For me Dock of the Bay is on the top of the list. So powerful by itself, the circumstances around its release makes it even more cry inducing. I once had to pull over whole I was driving and it came on the radio... Magnificient bassline too.

 

[soong]

Ghost Love Score by Nightwish.

 

[Nyarlathotep]

Candle in the wind.

Thats actually about it.

Im bassically just waiting for this to become an emo-bashing thread..... Tho maybe it wont. TB is pretty good IME.

 

[fetfet]

The last lyric of Won't Get Fooled again always brings a tear to my eyes.

 

[Modo74]

Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd.

Time to Say Goodbye - Andrea Bocelli & Sarah Brightman

 

[SpectorBass308]

Everybody, hand in your man cards.

 

[Ekim]

Steve Morse "Ghostwind" got me teary the first time I heard it.

Spock's Beard "Wind At My Back".

It's happened a few other times, but I don't recall the specifics.

 

[bamaky1]

little wing
and
danny boy

 

[NKUSigEp]

"Nights in White Satin" - Moody Blues (mom's favorite, she passed away when I was 13)

 

[FunkManDelo]

for your love by stevie wonder. what a masterpiece. what a genius

 

[tbone409]

"16 militar wives" - the decemberists

only once, but it is a song with such sad lyrics for such a peppy tune

 

[ShavedHippie]

I got to see Robert Jr Lockwood at a bar in Cleveland one night. Between sets with his jazzy band (drummer, electric bass, and horn section), he played and sang some songs by himself. Robert Jr was Robert Johnson's stepson and the only one who Johnson ever taught to play guitar. Sitting there, listening to the songs that are literally The Fountainhead of American Roots Music, I must admit I got a little misty.

 

[mikeypbass]

Hide and Seek, no idea who its by, but it rocks

 

[Hella]

Since I've Been Loving You by Led Zeppelin

@mikeypbass
Hide and Seek is by Imogen Heap

 

[adamrobertt]

Lots of songs have made me cry. Too many to list.

 

[SnakeAnthony]

Hide and Seek, no idea who its by, but it rocks

Imogene Heap. And yeah, I can see how that would do it.

'Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime' by the Korgis within the context of Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind did it for me. Or maybe it was the Beck cover, I cannot recall right now.

A lot of Elliott Smith at particularly weak personal moments have. And on a related note Late by Ben Folds, got me thinking about Elliott's passing.

Funeral by Band Of Horses when after a string of deaths occurred at seemingly one point in my life.

Neighborhood #3 (Power Out) by the Arcade Fire. I've got no real explanation for that one. It was one of my worse days to this point, and I was singing along, and just the way that he seems to be crying while he sings it just hit me in the wrong place, I suppose.

 

[BlackLake]

The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald - Gordon Lightfoot

I tear up, everytime.

"...he said, fellas it's been good to know ya"

 

[Mike Shevlin]

I Keep Forgettin' by Michael McDonald - If you are going through a painful break-up, this is a song that you REALLY want to stay away from.

 

[Bassman8416]

Cats in the Cradle ....Harry Chapin for my son who is now 23 and I thank God when he was little he cried when he heard it, so I promised myself I would always find time for him, although i feel I could have done better.

Loved by the Sun--Jon Anderson & Tangerine Dream....for my Daughter, when she was a little girl we watched the movie "Legend" with a young Tom Cruise.......when this song plays at the end I start crying every time...I'm listening to it now as I write this.....oh man!!!
I Love my kids!!!!!!!

 

[Axeman20]

Hmm there are a lot of songs that come to mind but these songs are probably the ones that made me shed a tear:

All or nothing by O-Town
Fields of Gold by Sting
Sorega ai deshou by Shimokawa Mikuni (not the original japanese but here's a link to an english fandubbed one )