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What song(s) make(s) you cry?

bruinsrme said:
There is a song Christie McVie sing that is a wicked tear jerker. I hear it twice on vh1 but never jotted down the name
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Are you thinking Songbird, by Fleetwood Mac? If so, it's definitely a tearjerker.. it made Christine herself cry.

Personally, 4 songs have made me cry, one of those songs twice:

Jim Henson/Kermit the Frog: The Rainbow Connection. Pure childhood innocence, which was great as a child, but to go back and hear it again some 20 years later, after life slaps a couple doses of cold hard reality in your face, and feel that same innocence and the ability to dream again, and to share it with a child.. what else can be said.

America: The Last Unicorn. again, childhood innocence, and to be honest, my first to America, and anime (the movie is arguably anime, but you can see it in it). Same as the Rainbow Connection, the ability to bring out the child again.. it does get to you.

Crowded House: Don't Dream It's Over. Heard the album version in '86, and thought they called it a day afterwards. Then while living in Australia, saw that they were giving their Farewell to the World show at the Sydney Opera House. Was my first and last time seeing them. That was their last song, and everyone was crying.

Again, Crowded House: Don't Dream It's Over. I was lucky to pick up the special edition of their Best Of CD, that had another CD of them live in Newcastle, NSW. The pureness of Neil Finn's voice on that version, especially at the end of that song for some reason really got to me.

Finally, Journey: Send Her My Love. All I'll say is this: First song I heard after losing my 17-week old daughter. You can imagine the rest.

BL.
 
There's too many... I might cry looking through them :p I'm a mess. Music brings out so many feelings, thoughts you thought you buried deep
 
steve2112 said:
Yep. Every time.

Also, Johnny Cash's "Hurt" can do it. And yes, it is Johnny's. Even Trent Reznor said it was.
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I think this version is even better than Cash's:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57ta7mkgrOU

Ewan MacColl who wrote the First Time Ever I Saw Your Face wasn't too happy about Flacks and other versions:

"He hated all of them. He had a special section in his record collection for them, entitled 'The Chamber of Horrors'. He said that the Elvis version was like Romeo at the bottom of the Post Office Tower singing up to Juliet. And the other versions, he thought, were travesties: bludgeoning, histrionic and lacking in grace."
 
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Cat's in the Cradle.

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BTW, to do my part to stop the spread of bad info, this song is a Harry Chapin song, and was never covered or performed by Cat Stevens.
 
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bradl said:
Are you thinking Songbird, by Fleetwood Mac? If so, it's definitely a tearjerker.. it made Christine herself cry.





Finally, Journey: Send Her My Love. All I'll say is this: First song I heard after losing my 17-week old daughter. You can imagine the rest.

BL.
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Thank you for the Songbird reference

Sorry to hear about your daughter.

I lost my mom to breast cancer when I was 13. I balled my eyes out the first time I heard Wing beneath my wings.
My sister played that song for her first dance at her wedding, it was extremely emotional.
To this day, some 20 years later I cannot listen to that song.
 
Butterfly Kisses.

You're a soulless demon if you're a father to a little girl and this song doesn't bring a tear to your eye.
 
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This is a little too easy: Iced Earth - A Question of Heaven, Edguy - Sands of Time, Iron Maiden - Hallowed Be Thy Name and Nightwish - Dead Boy's Poem.
 
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bradl said:
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Jim Henson/Kermit the Frog: The Rainbow Connection. Pure childhood innocence, which was great as a child, but to go back and hear it again some 20 years later, after life slaps a couple doses of cold hard reality in your face, and feel that same innocence and the ability to dream again, and to share it with a child.. what else can be said.
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I cried the day Jim Henson died. Like a bit of my childhood disappeared.

The song that always gets me is I'm Going to Go Back There Someday sung by Gonzo/David Goelz - also from the Muppet Movie.
 
although I do not cry when I hear it ... a song that comes to mind is "Tears in Heaven" by Eric Clapton ... it is written in memory of his son Conor who tragically died when he fell from a window.

truly a sad tragedy
 
tigres said:
Bridge over troubled waters. The original-
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Ah, and from Bookends by the same S&G, Old Friends. Very poignant.

Only actual events can make me cry, and it's been quite a while for that.

Everybody Hurts is an excellent song.

We'll Met Again by Vera Lynn, was hugely symbolic during WWII. I was just wee lad, so no wise cracks, please.

Sorrowful Songs, from Henryk Górecki's Symphony No. 3.

Solveg's Song, from Peer Gynt.

OK, that's enough. Tearing-up now. <Punches shoulder, hard.> ;)
 
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