Songs that have made you cry at one point in your life?

[Superself]

It's So Hard To Say Goodbye To Yesterday by Boyz II Men, when my best friend died I was listening to it and I broke down. I don't remember ever really crying before that.

That one and A Song For Mama....that song tears me up everytime.

 

[Cadop]

First time I heard this song was in basic training. It really got to me there.

http://www.godtube.com/watch/?v=WGNNN8TX

 

[Perknose]

The Wreck of the Edmond Fitzgerald

My fave "sad" sea song is Barrett's Privateers by the late, great Stan Rogers.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-PQbdmQRwc

It's about a legless, penniless survivor but the song is as funny and rousing as it is sad, and has always made me want to DRINK MOAR BEER rather than cry in one.

I had the privilege of hearing the late Stan Rogers sing it in the famed but gone Cherry Tree music co-op located in the steamy, crowded-to-the-rafters basement of St Mary's Church on the U of P campus in like 1983 or so, and every man-jack of us joined in lusty, full-throated accompaniment.

Just two weeks later, he died in a plane crash. Perhaps his most famous song is yet another sad sea tale, the stately and elegaic Northwest Passage.

 

[MikeyIs4Dcats]

I've got a few that bring me close, but this one will do it every time I even think about it.

It was part of the soundtrack played at my brother's (bctbct) memorial service.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4G_bf6RNR0

 

[SithSolo1]

Christmas Shoes, every time.

First time I heard it I was riding in the car with my mom. It was fine until she started crying, then I lost it to. I'm surprised she didn't hit something. Now whenever it comes on we change the station.

 

[blackdogdeek]

jeff buckley's version of Hallelujah

 

[TheNinja]

TAPS at a military funeral
Time of your Life by Green Day brings a wet salty discharge to my eye ducts.

 

[BudAshes]

Going for truth. I am unlike most sissy boys on ATOT.

Oh my mistake.

 

[Away]

Temple of the Dog - Say Hello to Heaven

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmxaFf-lpZY

 

[yhelothar]

<3 up
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GroDErHIM_0&feature=related

 

[Modelworks]

Alyssa Lies
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpE73PvU9bk

 

[SlickSnake]

FYI:

I am NOT going to click every stupid youtube link to see what the song is and spend a lot of my valuable time doing it. If you feel the need and take the time to post a link, don't be so lazy you don't also post the song title too, you know?

The original video of Gary Jules' and Michael Andrews' cover version of Mad World from

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4N3N1MlvVc4

Donnie Darko - Mad World

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DR91Rj1ZN1M

Is that so hard? Sheese!

 

[SlickSnake]

it's cliche, but fuck. this guy is awesome and makes me cry every freaking time. he's usually thrown in at that time where he is meant to make you cry like a little baby:

http://vimeo.com/8578344

Over the Rainbow - Israel "IZ" Kamakawiwo'ole OFFICIAL VIDEO

Great song BTW, they play it on coasttocoastAM.com a lot. :thumbsup:

Not really sad to me, more melancholy.

 

[edro]

The Star Spangled Banner

It makes me think of my grandfather, 18 years old, in the south Pacific, killing to stay alive.

 

[SonnyDaze]

Everything I Own - Bread

 

[amdhunter]

Greatest love of all - Whitney Houston.

When I was a kid, my brother had a baby and she was allergic to our cats. I went with my mom to the ASPCA and they told her, in front of me, that they had to put down all 3 of them since they were older cats that wouldn't be adopted. These cats were my first pets, and I had had them ~10 years at that point.

This was the song on the loudspeaker that was playing when I realized my cats would all be dead in the morning. To this day that song haunts me.

 

[Beev]

I've not had any emotional events in life that had songs played for them, so none for me. I'm not much of a music person, though.

 

[caddlad]

Love Grenade

 

[crashtestdummy]

Haven't cried since I was 16 (messed up, I know). Closest I came, though, was back in college. I went home for the holidays right after an awful breakup and my father put this on in the car. I wanted to smash the window. Awesome music, I just couldn't take it at that moment.

 

[BrownShoes]

Fireworks by Katy Perry because it fucking sucks!!

 

[oppie1]

4 non blondes - drifting. That cd came out when I was 13 and I listened to it nonstop. I remember my grandfather had a stroke and soon after passed away from it and I was listening to the tape on the way to the hospital to see him. It just hit me and I started crying in the car. Now everytime I hear it I can't help but get a little teary eyed. Hell, I'm getting a little choked up now typing this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPdEoMH-IEw

 

[Anubis]

Fireworks by Katy Perry because it fucking sucks!!

you can apply "because it fucking sucks" to almost everything played on top 40 radio today

 

[Fritzo]

Tears In Heaven - not only does Eric Clapton share the pain of losing his son it was in heavy rotation on radio and TV due to the grammy nomination at a very sad point in my life.

Yes, this for me too. I can't believe he had the courage to sing this in public. I still tear up if I listen to the lyrics.

 

[Fritzo]

jeff buckley's version of Hallelujah

Robert Plant did a version of Jeff Buckley's "Song to the Siren" that makes me well up too. Lyrics are incredibly beautiful.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RN3XXa4u46A

 

[Andy22]

Right Here Waiting for You by Richard Marx. Right after my high school sweetheart and first love moved away. When this song would come on I wanted to change the station and never could. Made my heart physically hurt. Good ending though...we ended up getting back together 5 years later and have now been married 15 years

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_E2EHVxNAE