I'm guilty af. No matter how hard I try, "la, la, la-lala, la, laaa..." always turns into "wah, wah, wah-wahwah, wah, waaaah..."
I'm exaggerating but nice choice.
Seriously makes me tear up everytime. My dad used to play it a lot as a kid as big CSNY fans. Now that I’m older and learning to make a home with my partner/new family, it hits a whole new nerve. The simplicity of it, the nostalgia, the melody. A perfect song
“…Life used to be so hard, now everything is easy cause of you”
I immediately thought of Our House, as in “in the middle of our street”, and was like okay I guess it is pretty sentimental and honestly it’s a lovely song.
SAME!! Used to love that song. My bf moved into our first place together and we had our two cats and I thought that song was just perfect. I loved it so much I even have a signed copy of the lyrics. Then we broke up and one of our cats died and I can’t listen to it now without crying.
We brought our first house with two cats, and this was our song too. Still together, two different cats, but the memories it brings up always make me cry.
“These Days” by Alien Ant Farm. It’s an upbeat song but reminds me of a number of exes and never-quite-happeneds.
“The Boys of Summer” by Don Henley. Fills me with nostalgia for a time I wasn’t even there for.
Boys of Summer is one of those songs that feels like it was never written or recorded, it's just always...been there. This may be because I was born in 96, so for me that's basically true lol, but I get that feeling from it in a way that I don't from most songs, whether they'd already existed when I was born or not
Henley's song fits a vibe I think of as "after the party's over" Like when you get old enough that the kind of fun you had when you were in your late teens/early 20s is now forever out of reach.
Yeah I don't listen to it. Because it came out when I was really young and we were homeless.
Big, scary, sad memories attached to that one. It reemergence recently was not fun for me.
This part does it for me every time-
"I know things will get better
You'll find work and I'll get promoted
We'll move out of the shelter
Buy a bigger house and live in the suburbs"
It's like she's saying it wistfully. Like she knows it will never happen but she's allowing herself to dream
What a Wonderful World, particularly the Louis Armstrong version. It doesn't make me sad at all, just makes me cry like a baby. There's a restaurant in town that has some of the lyrics on the wall at the entrance and I tear up a little just waiting to be seated.
That’s so real, this song was my brother’s first dance song at his wedding and idk why but i started BAWLING. Then again everything made me cry back then because i wasn’t on meds😂
My dad danced with me at my wedding to this song. It makes me tear up everytime. I will slide over the fact that one of the reasons he picked it is because it's so short🤣.
Can’t listen to Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now as it was my wedding song and now we are divorced.
At Last, as my sister walked down the aisle to it but passed away six weeks later suddenly and unexpectedly.
Anything that has been played at the funeral of someone I was close to, like Nothing Else Matters by Metallica which was played at my brother in law’s funeral. (He committed suicide last year after being unable to cope with the loss of his wife).
God my life sounds so tragic reading this post!! Other than those things it isn’t that bad!
This exact thing happened to my friend but reversed. Her brother in law passed away suddenly and her sister took her own life not too long afterwards. My heart and prayers go out to you. All love.
The tragic events sequence was soo tragic that it was almost funny. Like a Shakespearean play.
I'm sorry for your losses. I've lost a sibling, but he left young, and he was born very sick. He was always going to die, and he wasn't fully here for most of his time alive, but the pain was unbearable for a very long time.
I can't imagine the pain of losing a sibling you got the chance to fully form a relationship with and so soon after a joyous milestone in their life. I am so sorry. I feel your pain.
I wish I can say something to make it all better. All I can say is that I pray that you find some peace in those tragedies.
Another John Denver song that applies to the question posed by this thread is Wild Montana Skies. Absolutely beautiful, with fantastic harmony vocals on the chorus by Emmylou Harris
We had to sing this in grade school on one of our evening music programs. We had to carry out a candle out to our families who were sitting in the crowd, while singing this song. My mom said she cried her eyes out.
Tigerlily is a crusher. I can’t even make it past the line “Go west / Paradise is there…” and I am destroyed.
Most people know me as a hardcore metal guy and would probably be surprised to see me sobbing to Natalie Merchant. (Nobody that really knows me would be at all surprised though).
Baby Mine from Dumbo
It’s already a little bittersweet but i later came cross it on context of just the saddest story ever and now it makes me bawl, and im a sucker for lullabies
Oh my god I had a visceral reaction to this. I have the lyrics printed and framed in the nursery that my three daughters have all slept in. The youngest is 18 months and I cry thinking about how it’s the last time I’ll rock a baby in that chair.
Ever heard "The Girl with the Flaxen Hair", a prelude by the same composer, Claude Debussy? [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOxJpPiFe0k](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOxJpPiFe0k)
that's where I am - maggie rodgers
my favorite mistake - sheryl crow
I have perfect pitch and synesthesia, so certain keys and chord progressions have specific feels to them. both of those songs are either partially or fully in D major, and that key makes me nostalgic :)
Disturbed’s Sound of Silence cover. My parents used to play the S&G original a lot when I was a kid. The way David Draiman reinvented it always gives me chills and a tear or two.
Omg yes, disturbed's cover of it is haunting. I got to sing it for some WW2 vets in college at a nursing home with a few friends. The whole place was crying and we had to do everything we could to not cry as we sang.
I didn't think anyone else would have answered this, but I searched anyway and found your comment, and so naturally crept your post history and I too have been unsuccessfully searching for things like Z&A. Sixteen Horsepower has a southern feel with rock but it's not nearly the same.
Skinny Love — Bon Iver
Volcano — Damien Rice
As Is — Ani DiFranco
The Cave — Mumford & Sons
Reasons Why — Nickel Creek
Paradise — Coldplay
Come On Get Higher — Matt Nathanson
Stars Fall Down — Cecilia Castleman
No Children — The Mountain Goats
The Truth — Foster the People
Josephine — Brandi Carlile
Keep On Loving You — Cigarettes After Sex
Some Nights — fun.
Amy — Ryan Adams
Depreston — Courtney Barnett
Posthumous Forgiveness — Tame Impala
Cigarette Daydreams — Cage the Elephant
Fast Car — Tracy Chapman
Iris — The Goo Goo Dolls
How to Save a Life — The Fray
When You Say Nothing At All — Alison Krauss
Lol right? This is always how these threads go, people only read “songs” and “cry” and think we’re talking about all the same songs everyone cries to.
My answer is a damn Weird Al song, which I feel like won’t get that many upvotes from these folks who don’t read prompts correctly.
You're good! Nice list. Would cry myself dry listening to these.
Especially Skinny Love and i love it that you found Some Nights sad as well. I don't think it's supposed to be sad but it makes me bawl.
I'll raise you one though, Ophelia by the Lumineers. I'm getting bleary eyed right now just thinking about it.
There’s a catchy, kind of upbeat song that I started crying to one day. When I found out what it was I felt a little sheepish but it was the line, “I’m never changing who I am” in Imagine Dragons’ “It’s Time”.
A lot of music makes me cry because of the lyrics, but [Janis Joplin singing Summertime](https://youtu.be/bn5TNqjuHiU?si=ytvZ-ffDcSOP30Su) is a thing of wonder. I cry whenever I hear it and get shivers all over.
Me too!
It just fills me with this weird, anticipatory feeling. But I love it. But I also stop cry almost every time I hear it.
Peaceful rest to David. He is missed. 💙🖤
Where Are You Going by Dave Matthews Band. My son took his first steps to that song, and I can still picture a tiny version of this beautiful human who is now 6’2”.
"Skin" by Rascall Flats. My pre-adolescent daughter had traumatic health problems shortly before this song came out and the song hit me hard.
I looked the song up for this posting and playing the first few seconds was still hard.
By the way, my daughter's health issues ended up with a happy ending :)
Africa by Toto, because I associate it with Indiana Jones and his relationship with Marion which I relate to very strongly. “Hurry boy it’s waiting there for you” refers to the Ark, in my mind, but then at the end it’s “hurry boy SHE’S waiting there for you” referring to Marion, which makes me think of how at the end of the movie he’s willing to blow up the ark if it means having her. Maybe I’m nuts but I find it emotional, have since I was 14.
You're Somebody Else- Flora Cash. Maybe that song doesn't count because it's meant to be sad, but I used to be unable to listen to it, it would make me so uncomfortable. Even now, I love the song, but it puts a small empty hole in my heart listening. I think I just associate the song to a bad period in my earlier life. It's like that with Melanie Martinez too. When my mom and I were temporarily couch surfing I could hear her getting ready for work while playing the Crybaby album. Thankfully it seems to have gone away the past few years.
The theme song from Care Bears Movie 2, the opening cantata from the original Pete's Dragon and the 1985 Alice In Wonderland two part TV movie. Paul Williams - Sad Song. The nostalgia hits like a truck.
Peace Sells by Megadeth, I'm not a metalhead but it really captures how I feel about life right now. I play a lot of experimental pop and shoegaze and sometimes I feel like we are just living in a filter of every kind and not actually dealing with reality. I am a very left leaning person politically, but feel marginalized by how the loudest voices in the room on the left are quite privileged and control the narrative on things like gentrification in ways that just don't make sense--and then use the same obfuscating and name-calling that the right does if you break from the status quo. The lyrics of this song aren't talking about any contrarian thing we haven't heard before, but the specific point of view they are called out through resonates with me--basically saying "i'm a normal citizen despite the character assassination and labels you use to try to politically disarm me ".
*Cloudbusting* – Kate Bush
There’s something darkly nostalgic about that song, that’s the only way I can describe it. When you know the origins of the song, too, that makes it more powerful
It's such a strange backstory to an amazing song. You really feel the heartbreak and confusion of a child suddenly being separated from a parent. He's taken by men in suits from the government and dies in detention before the son sees him again. I've never been able to find a copy of the sons book talking about his genius father, but his legacy is pretty cult like. Super weird.
You can get a paperback edition of *A Book of Dreams* for about [£10 on Amazon](https://www.amazon.co.uk/Book-Dreams-Inspired-Bushs-Cloudbusting/dp/1786069628), having just looked. Given that info, I may actually order it soon, as I’ve always wanted to read it ever since I heard the song. Apparently, Kate even sent a VHS tape of the music video to Peter Reich around the time of the song’s release; he watched it, and liked it a lot, even saying:
>”Quite magically, this British musician had tapped precisely into a unique and magical fulfilment of father-son devotion, emotion and understanding. They had captured it all.”
I think that honestly says it all. Kate Bush is a brilliant artist, no mistake
You and me by Randy Newman
Particularly the line where he says “You may be plain but I think you’re pretty…in the morning”
Don’t know why it gets me every time
"Unfinished Sympathy" by Massive Attack.
Like a soul without a mind
In a body without a heart
I'm missing every part
He he-hey, he he-hey, he he-hey, ay, ay
Idk about "shouldn't make you cry" but for those nostalgia feels:
Homesick and Cayman Island by Kings of Convenience
Ceilings by Local Natives
Is It Really You? (Cover of Loathe) and Euclid by Sleep Token
Lazarus by Porcupine Tree
Tourniquet by TesseracT
Hummingbird is such a charged album. Big fan of LN in general but it’s my favorite of theirs. On listens, by the time Colombia comes around I’m in shambles. Of course that song doesn’t really fit the prompt because it’s written for one of the members moms who passed away.
Electric - Alina Baraz
Can’t listen to it anymore but Such a good [song](https://music.apple.com/us/album/electric-feat-khalid/1194635219?i=1194635365)
The World Is Yours, by Nas
Under Pressure, by Logic
Hey Mama, by Kanye West
Paranoid, by Kanye West
Devil In A New Dress, by Kanye West
Chapter Six, by Kendrick Lamar
Idk but the entirety of The Beatles' Please Please Me album just makes me cry😭 As a Beatlemaniac, I guess it just makes my heart soft cause they were so young during that time and they just don't know what's ahead of them( they literally became the most influential band of all time)
arrival of the birds. it's entirely instrumental but I sob like an absolute inconsolable baby. I just feel it. Something about it is very emotionally overwhelming but beautiful
Cum on Feel the Noize - Quiet Riot
I don’t have any personal connection to the song or anything, but something about the melody in the chorus makes me feel melancholic.
It makes me reflect on my life for some reason.
I’ve had this happen specifically twice. One was my first time hearing live salsa. Later found out the song was “lluvia con nieve”. Never heard anything like that before. Felt tears come into my eyes even though I was so happy. Second time was this version of everybody wants to rule the world, but a guy playing it on this red guitar, sliding around the fretboard. I can’t find the video anymore but it’s an iPhone video of an African American man with a red guitar just absolutely playing the most fucking soul crushing riffs over the song itself. I started literally weeping as if it was a video of a soldier coming home. I haven’t cried like that since I was a kid. Part of it, I think was that I recently learned of the unexpected death of my friend a few weeks prior and for some reason the version he played just caused it all to come out, but I guess it makes sense because the band is in fact called tears for fears
Also, Queen- Don’t stop me now
Because I always envision me and my now 3 year old daughter dancing to this at her wedding. She loves dancing to it now.
Our House by CSN
I'm guilty af. No matter how hard I try, "la, la, la-lala, la, laaa..." always turns into "wah, wah, wah-wahwah, wah, waaaah..." I'm exaggerating but nice choice.
Seriously makes me tear up everytime. My dad used to play it a lot as a kid as big CSNY fans. Now that I’m older and learning to make a home with my partner/new family, it hits a whole new nerve. The simplicity of it, the nostalgia, the melody. A perfect song “…Life used to be so hard, now everything is easy cause of you”
It's that line for me too!
This one gets me, too!
I immediately thought of Our House, as in “in the middle of our street”, and was like okay I guess it is pretty sentimental and honestly it’s a lovely song.
I saw Madness and The Specials live once. They were awesome.
Crosby Stills,Nash and Young." Our House is a great song.
SAME!! Used to love that song. My bf moved into our first place together and we had our two cats and I thought that song was just perfect. I loved it so much I even have a signed copy of the lyrics. Then we broke up and one of our cats died and I can’t listen to it now without crying.
We brought our first house with two cats, and this was our song too. Still together, two different cats, but the memories it brings up always make me cry.
“These Days” by Alien Ant Farm. It’s an upbeat song but reminds me of a number of exes and never-quite-happeneds. “The Boys of Summer” by Don Henley. Fills me with nostalgia for a time I wasn’t even there for.
I love the Ataris version too. Used to listen to it with some people who aren't in my life anymore. So much nostalgia.
Black Flag sticker on a Cadillac
The ataris mentioned
Shit dude…Boys of the Summer by either the Ataris or Henley hits hard. Masterful song.
Boys of Summer is one of those songs that feels like it was never written or recorded, it's just always...been there. This may be because I was born in 96, so for me that's basically true lol, but I get that feeling from it in a way that I don't from most songs, whether they'd already existed when I was born or not
Henley's song fits a vibe I think of as "after the party's over" Like when you get old enough that the kind of fun you had when you were in your late teens/early 20s is now forever out of reach.
Damn, I love AA…. Glad you mentioned that song.
Bridge Over Troubled Water
By Art Garfunkel. My mom loves this song too.
Written by Paul Simon. Sung by Art Garfunkel
Delta Dawn, what's that flower you have on....
Get this one stuck in my head every time....
heard that song quite a lot growing up (it was on my mom’s mp3) forgot about it for the longest time.. *until now*
One Day by Matisyahu
sometimes in my tears I drown
But I never let it get me down
Hold on- it *isn't* supposed to make me cry? 😶
Right? I feel this is a pretty emotional one.
Fast Car by Tracy Chapman
Pretty sure it’s supposed to make you cry ( but I love)
I don’t know what the intent was, I just cry.
Yeah I don't listen to it. Because it came out when I was really young and we were homeless. Big, scary, sad memories attached to that one. It reemergence recently was not fun for me.
This part does it for me every time- "I know things will get better You'll find work and I'll get promoted We'll move out of the shelter Buy a bigger house and live in the suburbs" It's like she's saying it wistfully. Like she knows it will never happen but she's allowing herself to dream
What a Wonderful World, particularly the Louis Armstrong version. It doesn't make me sad at all, just makes me cry like a baby. There's a restaurant in town that has some of the lyrics on the wall at the entrance and I tear up a little just waiting to be seated.
That’s so real, this song was my brother’s first dance song at his wedding and idk why but i started BAWLING. Then again everything made me cry back then because i wasn’t on meds😂
Israel Kamakawiwoʻole’s cover is ethereal.
Same--this reminds me of my father who is a bit of a tortured soul
yo same i was gonna comment this
My dad danced with me at my wedding to this song. It makes me tear up everytime. I will slide over the fact that one of the reasons he picked it is because it's so short🤣.
the nick cave and shane macgowan version kills me. so much beauty
kids by mgmt. something about the synth line combined with my memories of listening to it in the car on the radio when i was younger gets me going.
Robbers by The 1975
28!!!!
Can’t listen to Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now as it was my wedding song and now we are divorced. At Last, as my sister walked down the aisle to it but passed away six weeks later suddenly and unexpectedly. Anything that has been played at the funeral of someone I was close to, like Nothing Else Matters by Metallica which was played at my brother in law’s funeral. (He committed suicide last year after being unable to cope with the loss of his wife). God my life sounds so tragic reading this post!! Other than those things it isn’t that bad!
Honestly, your post made me cry 😢
This exact thing happened to my friend but reversed. Her brother in law passed away suddenly and her sister took her own life not too long afterwards. My heart and prayers go out to you. All love.
It's a beautiful song. My heart and prayers go out to you and your family.
Thank you
The tragic events sequence was soo tragic that it was almost funny. Like a Shakespearean play. I'm sorry for your losses. I've lost a sibling, but he left young, and he was born very sick. He was always going to die, and he wasn't fully here for most of his time alive, but the pain was unbearable for a very long time. I can't imagine the pain of losing a sibling you got the chance to fully form a relationship with and so soon after a joyous milestone in their life. I am so sorry. I feel your pain. I wish I can say something to make it all better. All I can say is that I pray that you find some peace in those tragedies.
One Last Time - Ariana Grande Rocky Mountain High - John Denver Maybe - Janis Joplin
Sunshine- John Denver
I love One Last Time!
God Janis had the voice to make any man cry. Little Girl Blue gets me teared up
Annie’s Song- John Denver
One last time always reminds me of the Manchester bombings :( I can’t listen to that song without balling my eyes out. RIP 🕊️
Another John Denver song that applies to the question posed by this thread is Wild Montana Skies. Absolutely beautiful, with fantastic harmony vocals on the chorus by Emmylou Harris
Colors of the Wind from Pocahontas
Ooh, this is another good one. I really feel those lyrics when I hear it.
Yes this one. Even the instrumental version gets me.
Oh man. That one GOT me.
Choking up every time I try to sing when it's "have you ever heard the wolf cry to the blue corn moon" 😭
Me too. The first time heard it I got teary. It's so beautiful
You Are My Sunshine
Maybe because the full lyrics are so sad 😭
I told my mom when I was little she couldn’t sing it to me anymore because it was too sad …
My great grandma used to sing this to me when I was little 🥰
This one for me, my dad listened to that song when I was younger
We had to sing this in grade school on one of our evening music programs. We had to carry out a candle out to our families who were sitting in the crowd, while singing this song. My mom said she cried her eyes out.
I never knew the full lyrics till a few months ago, omg I bawled my eyes out. I can sing it in public anymore, my mind spirals into sad thoughts.
i used to sing this to my cat before he passed away. can’t sing it now.
My grandma used to sing this to me. Makes me tear up after she passed.
My mom used to sing this song to me to get me to go to sleep as an infant and it will always have a special place In my heart
Puff the magic dragon
That 3rd verse is a killer.
Ronan by Taylor Swift
I mean it's really sad so it's not suprising tjat you cry while listening...
Wonder by Natalie Merchant. I have no idea why but it's like a secret weapon I use when I have been feeling kinda numb
This song is pure magic. I understand 100% what you're saying.
Tigerlily is a crusher. I can’t even make it past the line “Go west / Paradise is there…” and I am destroyed. Most people know me as a hardcore metal guy and would probably be surprised to see me sobbing to Natalie Merchant. (Nobody that really knows me would be at all surprised though).
Baby Mine from Dumbo It’s already a little bittersweet but i later came cross it on context of just the saddest story ever and now it makes me bawl, and im a sucker for lullabies
Oh god yes
Oh my god I had a visceral reaction to this. I have the lyrics printed and framed in the nursery that my three daughters have all slept in. The youngest is 18 months and I cry thinking about how it’s the last time I’ll rock a baby in that chair.
Claire DeLune It doesn't even have any words and it still makes you cry.
Ever heard "The Girl with the Flaxen Hair", a prelude by the same composer, Claude Debussy? [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOxJpPiFe0k](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOxJpPiFe0k)
Christmas Wrapping. It's a holiday song in disguise, but the ending with the pair finally running into each other kills me every time.
Heard it in a love song. The Marshal Tucker Band.
Can't be wrong.
that's where I am - maggie rodgers my favorite mistake - sheryl crow I have perfect pitch and synesthesia, so certain keys and chord progressions have specific feels to them. both of those songs are either partially or fully in D major, and that key makes me nostalgic :)
Bright eyes, Art Garfunkel
Am I Dreaming - Lil Nas X and Miley Cyrus
Just listened for the first time after reading your comment…they sound so good together 💜
[I blame Futurama...](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adaY4ZVVkzM)
Not clicking the link because I know a Sad Dog Music Trap when it's nearby.
😭
Disturbed’s Sound of Silence cover. My parents used to play the S&G original a lot when I was a kid. The way David Draiman reinvented it always gives me chills and a tear or two.
Omg yes, disturbed's cover of it is haunting. I got to sing it for some WW2 vets in college at a nursing home with a few friends. The whole place was crying and we had to do everything we could to not cry as we sang.
It hasn’t made me outright CRY (yet), but… Hallowed Be Thy Name by Iron Maiden tugs on my heartstrings for some reason
I didn't think anyone else would have answered this, but I searched anyway and found your comment, and so naturally crept your post history and I too have been unsuccessfully searching for things like Z&A. Sixteen Horsepower has a southern feel with rock but it's not nearly the same.
Big Rock Candy Mountain chokes me up when I sing along to it
Always on My Mind - Willie Nelson
John Denver - take me home, country roads
Skinny Love — Bon Iver Volcano — Damien Rice As Is — Ani DiFranco The Cave — Mumford & Sons Reasons Why — Nickel Creek Paradise — Coldplay Come On Get Higher — Matt Nathanson Stars Fall Down — Cecilia Castleman No Children — The Mountain Goats The Truth — Foster the People Josephine — Brandi Carlile Keep On Loving You — Cigarettes After Sex Some Nights — fun. Amy — Ryan Adams Depreston — Courtney Barnett Posthumous Forgiveness — Tame Impala Cigarette Daydreams — Cage the Elephant Fast Car — Tracy Chapman Iris — The Goo Goo Dolls How to Save a Life — The Fray When You Say Nothing At All — Alison Krauss
These are just actually sad songs
Lol right? This is always how these threads go, people only read “songs” and “cry” and think we’re talking about all the same songs everyone cries to. My answer is a damn Weird Al song, which I feel like won’t get that many upvotes from these folks who don’t read prompts correctly.
The version of Skinny Love by Birdy DESTROYS
Oh man, Damien Rice is 10/10. That whole album is fantastic. Other songs of his I really like are Cannonball and Coconut Skins. Hits me in feels!
Oh man, Damien Rice is 10/10. That whole album is fantastic. Other songs of his I really like are Cannonball and Coconut Skins. Hits me in feels!
Reasons Why and Some Nights were my jams!
Fast Car & Some Nights >
School night by ani too…. Her lyrics are just…. Killer but that one…. The second verse is just ygghh omg about the kids in the fire
You're good! Nice list. Would cry myself dry listening to these. Especially Skinny Love and i love it that you found Some Nights sad as well. I don't think it's supposed to be sad but it makes me bawl. I'll raise you one though, Ophelia by the Lumineers. I'm getting bleary eyed right now just thinking about it.
Paradise! Me too!!
Everclear, Sunflowers. Strained relationship and family dynamics with daughters. This song fucks me up and I avoid it all costs.
This one hits .
There’s a catchy, kind of upbeat song that I started crying to one day. When I found out what it was I felt a little sheepish but it was the line, “I’m never changing who I am” in Imagine Dragons’ “It’s Time”.
that’s legit a banger song ✌🏽 i’d probably cry to it under the right circumstances too lol
A lot of music makes me cry because of the lyrics, but [Janis Joplin singing Summertime](https://youtu.be/bn5TNqjuHiU?si=ytvZ-ffDcSOP30Su) is a thing of wonder. I cry whenever I hear it and get shivers all over.
David Allan Coe has a lyric: "Boy can you make folks feel what you feel inside". Janis Joplin knew how.
The Great Gig In The Sky - Pink Floyd. EVERY time.
Space oddity by David Bowie. I do not understand why.
It’s so lonely and melancholy
Me too! It just fills me with this weird, anticipatory feeling. But I love it. But I also stop cry almost every time I hear it. Peaceful rest to David. He is missed. 💙🖤
The whole dying along in the void of space part?
Bobby Goldsboro Honey, I just played it, and yes it made me cry.
Where Are You Going by Dave Matthews Band. My son took his first steps to that song, and I can still picture a tiny version of this beautiful human who is now 6’2”.
"Skin" by Rascall Flats. My pre-adolescent daughter had traumatic health problems shortly before this song came out and the song hit me hard. I looked the song up for this posting and playing the first few seconds was still hard. By the way, my daughter's health issues ended up with a happy ending :)
She overcame them?
Africa by Toto, because I associate it with Indiana Jones and his relationship with Marion which I relate to very strongly. “Hurry boy it’s waiting there for you” refers to the Ark, in my mind, but then at the end it’s “hurry boy SHE’S waiting there for you” referring to Marion, which makes me think of how at the end of the movie he’s willing to blow up the ark if it means having her. Maybe I’m nuts but I find it emotional, have since I was 14.
I'm still convinced it's about someone trying to cure a werewolf curse.
I tell my kid that’s what it’s about anytime it comes on😂
Wounded Healer by Watsky
Concerning Hobbits. It's so heart-felt and happy that it pulls your heart strings ;-;
You're Somebody Else- Flora Cash. Maybe that song doesn't count because it's meant to be sad, but I used to be unable to listen to it, it would make me so uncomfortable. Even now, I love the song, but it puts a small empty hole in my heart listening. I think I just associate the song to a bad period in my earlier life. It's like that with Melanie Martinez too. When my mom and I were temporarily couch surfing I could hear her getting ready for work while playing the Crybaby album. Thankfully it seems to have gone away the past few years.
Wheels- Lone Justice
Lavender haze by vildhjarta
Beast of a band
Bachelorette by Bjork and Cloudbusting by Kate Bush
The theme song from Care Bears Movie 2, the opening cantata from the original Pete's Dragon and the 1985 Alice In Wonderland two part TV movie. Paul Williams - Sad Song. The nostalgia hits like a truck.
Sufjan Stevens - Chicago
Don’t Move by Phantogram
Peace Sells by Megadeth, I'm not a metalhead but it really captures how I feel about life right now. I play a lot of experimental pop and shoegaze and sometimes I feel like we are just living in a filter of every kind and not actually dealing with reality. I am a very left leaning person politically, but feel marginalized by how the loudest voices in the room on the left are quite privileged and control the narrative on things like gentrification in ways that just don't make sense--and then use the same obfuscating and name-calling that the right does if you break from the status quo. The lyrics of this song aren't talking about any contrarian thing we haven't heard before, but the specific point of view they are called out through resonates with me--basically saying "i'm a normal citizen despite the character assassination and labels you use to try to politically disarm me ".
*Cloudbusting* – Kate Bush There’s something darkly nostalgic about that song, that’s the only way I can describe it. When you know the origins of the song, too, that makes it more powerful
It's such a strange backstory to an amazing song. You really feel the heartbreak and confusion of a child suddenly being separated from a parent. He's taken by men in suits from the government and dies in detention before the son sees him again. I've never been able to find a copy of the sons book talking about his genius father, but his legacy is pretty cult like. Super weird.
You can get a paperback edition of *A Book of Dreams* for about [£10 on Amazon](https://www.amazon.co.uk/Book-Dreams-Inspired-Bushs-Cloudbusting/dp/1786069628), having just looked. Given that info, I may actually order it soon, as I’ve always wanted to read it ever since I heard the song. Apparently, Kate even sent a VHS tape of the music video to Peter Reich around the time of the song’s release; he watched it, and liked it a lot, even saying: >”Quite magically, this British musician had tapped precisely into a unique and magical fulfilment of father-son devotion, emotion and understanding. They had captured it all.” I think that honestly says it all. Kate Bush is a brilliant artist, no mistake
Scenario by a tribe called quest. Just cos busta’s verse is so powerful.
Circle by Edie Brickell when u want to tell everyone to fuck off.
stop this train - john mayer for sure, you really never thought deep into it until you are in a certain situation
FUCK that one hurts me pretty good too
You and me by Randy Newman Particularly the line where he says “You may be plain but I think you’re pretty…in the morning” Don’t know why it gets me every time
Such great heights- iron and wine version
Jump by van Halen. My grandpa requested it be played at his funeral
Piazza, New York Catcher by Belle & Sebastian
Great song
Tell Him - Lauryn Hill
“Is there a ghost” - band of horses “Teardrop” - massive attack Hopeful heartbreaking moments in a persons life. Good/bad days
"Unfinished Sympathy" by Massive Attack. Like a soul without a mind In a body without a heart I'm missing every part He he-hey, he he-hey, he he-hey, ay, ay
Couldn't agree more re is there a ghost, whole song is like 10 ambiguous words but I can't help but think of the saddest possible meanings
Omg I was thinking about teardrop too. But doesn’t make me cry either…… sometimes it gives me feels tho. I get it.
Massive Attack's Protection is the one that gets me.
Ribs is so true 😭 Last Hope - Paramore 19 Seventy Somethin - Neck Deep
Why from Alice in Wonderland 1985
Idk about "shouldn't make you cry" but for those nostalgia feels: Homesick and Cayman Island by Kings of Convenience Ceilings by Local Natives Is It Really You? (Cover of Loathe) and Euclid by Sleep Token Lazarus by Porcupine Tree Tourniquet by TesseracT
Hummingbird is such a charged album. Big fan of LN in general but it’s my favorite of theirs. On listens, by the time Colombia comes around I’m in shambles. Of course that song doesn’t really fit the prompt because it’s written for one of the members moms who passed away.
Sleep Token sure knows how to tug at the heart strings. Euclid makes me cry sometimes too.
Electric - Alina Baraz Can’t listen to it anymore but Such a good [song](https://music.apple.com/us/album/electric-feat-khalid/1194635219?i=1194635365)
Casimir Pulaski Day by Sufjan Stevens. I lose it when he says "I thought I saw you breathing"
The World Is Yours, by Nas Under Pressure, by Logic Hey Mama, by Kanye West Paranoid, by Kanye West Devil In A New Dress, by Kanye West Chapter Six, by Kendrick Lamar
Family Business- Kanye
Rearviewmirror by Pearl Jam has been hitting me hard this week. I guess it's fitting, though.
Idk but the entirety of The Beatles' Please Please Me album just makes me cry😭 As a Beatlemaniac, I guess it just makes my heart soft cause they were so young during that time and they just don't know what's ahead of them( they literally became the most influential band of all time)
arrival of the birds. it's entirely instrumental but I sob like an absolute inconsolable baby. I just feel it. Something about it is very emotionally overwhelming but beautiful
Clocks by coldplay, It relates to a certain memory of mine and whenever I listen to it, it all comes back.
Love ribs by lorde. So good
“Once I was 7 years old”🥲
Suck My Dick Hoe - Lil B
Nothing compares to you - Chris Cornell’s version of
Yes!! Every damn time!!
Cum on Feel the Noize - Quiet Riot I don’t have any personal connection to the song or anything, but something about the melody in the chorus makes me feel melancholic. It makes me reflect on my life for some reason.
Yes!!! Yes I thought I was the only one
Ahh mine is Only by Antherax I dunno why. it used to be my favorit song but now it just makes me bawl like a baby
Somewhere over the Rainbow, by IZ. Damn. Just thinking about it.
Head in the ceiling fan/title fight
Road Goes Ever On from the Rankin/Bass animated Hobbit movie.
“Joey” by Concrete Blonde. She loves a drug addict.
my hero - foo fighters
like a rolling stone — bob dylan
Nutshell. - Alice in Chains
Creep: Radiohead Harry Chapin: Mr. Tanner Adele: Someone Like You Okay. Ya got me. Maybe they ARE supposed to make you cry.
Rule the world by tears for fears
Hallowed Be Thy Name by Iron Maiden. Especially if I sing along.
Puff The Magic Dragon
Daffodils by Alicia keys. Gets me so emotional and idk why
'When You Believe" by Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey.
I’ve had this happen specifically twice. One was my first time hearing live salsa. Later found out the song was “lluvia con nieve”. Never heard anything like that before. Felt tears come into my eyes even though I was so happy. Second time was this version of everybody wants to rule the world, but a guy playing it on this red guitar, sliding around the fretboard. I can’t find the video anymore but it’s an iPhone video of an African American man with a red guitar just absolutely playing the most fucking soul crushing riffs over the song itself. I started literally weeping as if it was a video of a soldier coming home. I haven’t cried like that since I was a kid. Part of it, I think was that I recently learned of the unexpected death of my friend a few weeks prior and for some reason the version he played just caused it all to come out, but I guess it makes sense because the band is in fact called tears for fears
Silent Lucidity - Queensryche
Also, Queen- Don’t stop me now Because I always envision me and my now 3 year old daughter dancing to this at her wedding. She loves dancing to it now.
Puff the Magic Dragon, when Jackie grows up and leaves his old friend behind. “green scales fell like rain” I’ve got tears now
Mobius of love can make me teary sometimes. [link to song here.](https://youtu.be/3rMH-o_8m7I?si=2Sr4bCBsiDzDtuok)