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

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IronWing said:
The Wreck of the Edmond Fitzgerald
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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.
 
kranky said:
Christmas Shoes, every time.
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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.
 
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!
 
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zinfamous said:
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
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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.
 
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The Star Spangled Banner

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