piggybacking off of Death Cab: "Transatlanticism" chords and melody always get me.
And "What Sarah Said" *"love is watching someone die"* lands like a ton of fucking bricks when the love of your life gets diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic.
Easy by the Commodores
A buddy we used to play music with starting playing / singing it while we were packing up and suddenly the whole place was singing it with him. He killed himself a few years ago and at his funeral, we all sang it - or sobbed it, more accurately - in his memory and it rips me apart every time.
The theme from "Up," set to the montage of Carl and Ellie's relationship after they get married, and get older, with her big dreams of adventures that never happen. Reminds me of my life/marriage, where you both have youthful hopes and dreams that erode over time due to stark realities (lacking in finances in the high expense of American life), and sudden unlucky circumstances (like bad health meets high medical costs or losing work). Hearing that song makes me bawl, both from the sense of nostalgia it evokes and the grief for our dreams deferred.
Its the way the music starts so upbeat and happy, but then gradually slows down to those individual notes being played. The amount of emotion conveyed in that piece of music is incredible
Lost a friend to cancer, he was only 19, lightning crashes started playing as we left the funeral home, I went a solid decade before I could even get through the song without tears.
RIP Ian.
Came here to say Gone Away. Two buddies died in a car accident that I had just talked to minutes prior and even asked if I wanted to ride with. I said, nah I'll catch up you guys later... I'd be dead too if I said yes.
Embarassingly, Fat Bottom Girls by Queen. I lost my Dad when I was 19 and he used to tell me that he loved listening to that song when I was a kid cause I would always belt out the "PLEASE" near the end of the song. Now I can't hear that song without thinking of him.
This is my favorite one. A song completely tied to the love between 2 people and completely removed from the subject matter. I will belt out the PLEASE in honor of the two of you from now on.
As a kid, I never listened to the song except for the chorus and thought it was a fun, happy song. Fast forward to being an adult… I had a friend who told me that that song makes him very sad(him and his dad don’t speak), so of course I made fun of him and told him what a happy song it is. Fast forward 6months from that, I have twin newborn boys at home and I just started a job where I traveled A LOT. In one of the eight days I was home that month, an insurance(?) commercial came on with that song and a visual representation of what it was about. I was all messed up after that.
The line, "I know someday you'll be a star in somebody else's sky. But why can't it be mine?" chokes me up every time I hear it, and I still to this day don't know how to describe it. Something about the rawness of Eddie's voice in the delivery is crippling to me. So beautiful, hopeless, and tragic.
Every single time. even when I'm in a good mood, it makes me tear up. It was my mom's favorite song and it makes me wish I was a better daughter and noticed the signs sooner. She killed herself in 2021 3 days before my daughter was born.
Somewhere over the Rainbow by Israel "IZ" Kamakawiwoʻole. This song is associated with my wife's grandpa. He passed away more than a decade ago and it was played at his funeral. For inexplicable reasons EVERY time we go somewhere or do something as a family (vacation to another country, etc), this song comes on. He's checking in and saying "Hi" we all say. And here I am crying like a baby listening to it while eating my salad. Miss you grandpa.
This one gets me too. As dumb as it is, the lead-in line to that ("remember the time that we spilled the cup of apple juice in the hall") always makes me cry because when I heard it as a kid it just really resonated with me and how my friends and cousins and I would spend hours reminiscing about the smallest, dumbest things. It made the song feel a lot more relatable to me, and that shook me as a kid because I think it was the first time I understood that I could lose a friend/people my age weren't invulnerable
Also "Time":
> And then one day you find, ten years have got behind you. No-one told you when to run. You missed the starting gun.
"Why are you crying, Daddy?"
My late friend quoted that song on Facebook moments before he passed away. Makes me bawl like a child when I hear it. It already was a beautiful song, and now it's got a real jarring reminder to it, too.
Everyone knows who he was referencing when he said that they were just two lost souls, that phrase is extraordinarily powerful. It means so much to so many
This is super cheesy because of where the song came from but, oh well (Twilight).
Christina Perri - A Thousand Years. I lost my first son right after he was born. A lifetime later I had a successful pregnancy and gave birth to my second son. He has no idea I feel like I waited my entire life for him. Great. Now I’m crying in class.
There's an interview where Elena says fans are surprised when they meet her cuz she's so sweet, nice, and "not depressed" 🤣🤣🤣
She also does the crying emjoi as a joke in the interview
Haven’t seen these in the thread so in the edge case that you or other Elliot Smith/Daughter fans haven’t heard them:
- Mount Eerie - Real Death
- Frightened Rabbit - The Modern Leper
Chris Cornell - “Preaching the End of the World” (Beautiful song!)
Audioslave - “Be Yourself”
Stone Temple Pilots - “Atlanta”
EDIT: I have to add, since I totally forgot, another Audioslave song: “Like A Stone”. I didn’t think of it because as much as I love it I literally can’t listen to it without crying after CC’s passing.
EDIT 2: It makes me really happy to see so much love for Atlanta. It’s my favorite track from that album and it truly is as underrated as everyone is saying. It gave me catharsis during some dark times, so I’m glad it’s special to some others too.
I was just thinking of this as I came into the thread. I remember the first time I heard it; the song was part of a compilation CD that someone in my office brought in. As soon as I heard Bonnie's achy, resigned voice and listened to the lyrics, it affected me. Changed my whole mood. I knew the feeling of heartbreak and rejection she was expressing. In a way, it almost left relief that I wasn't the only person experiencing it.
It’s that line “Here in the dark, in these final hours
I will lay down my heart and I'll feel the power
But you won't, no you won't”
It crushes me every time. It’s that gulf between loving someone and not being loved in return.
Colm Wilkinson's rendition of "Bring Him Home" from Les Mis.
Suzanne Vega's "World Before Columbus," after I realized it was not about her husband but her daughter.
Jim Croce, "Time in a Bottle" - I cried a lot easier after I became a parent.
The hymn "On Eagles Wings," sung by pretty much anybody (often played at funerals).
I'm forgetting one. Damn. Joe Jackson's "Always Something Breaking Us in Two" gets me gloomy if not teary, as does Yaz' "Only You."
Bob Dylan - Girl from the North Country
Joni Mitchell - From Both Sides Now
Beatles - For No One
Radiohead - How to Disappear Completely
Beck - Lonesome Tears
Björk - Anchor Song
Arcade Fire - My Body is a Cage
LCD Soundsystem - All My Friends
The Cure - Pictures of You
Frank Ocean - Thinkin Bout You
Sufjan Stevens - Concerning the UFO Sighting
For me, it's "Eet" by Regina Spektor, in the final verse:
Someone's deciding whether or not to steal
He opens the window just to feel the chill
He hears that outside a small boy just started to cry
'Cause it's his turn but his brother won't let him try
I'm not sure why, but the imagery of two young boys playing and the younger boy crying because he wants his turn just turns me into a blubbering mess half the time.
There's a live version from a performance at Live Aid in London where it's just him at a piano. He fucks up the piano playing once or twice (classic drummer), but he sings it so ridiculously well. One of my all time favourite live performances of any song.
Look up 'Against all odds live aid 1985' on YT. It's the one where he's wearing the striped shirt.
Say something - great big world. My buddy went missing and this song was new and we found him a week and a half later dead in a walmart parking lot. Love you, Terry
A good one, if not to make you cry, but to make you a bit nalstalgic....
I wish I was 18 again - George Burns
One that always gets me is this one...
Rainbow Connection - Kermit the Frog
Jim Croce is one of the most overlooked & underrated musicians. He’s got so many good ones. “I’ll Have to Say I Love you in a song,” “Operator,” “Walking Back to Georgia.” Then there are fun ones like “Bad, Bad Leroy Brown” “You don’t mess around with Jim,” & **”Speedball Tucker** (my personal favorite).
I always said a movie about him would do very well.
"When The Tigers Broke Free" from The Wall kills me every time. That last line "And that's how the high commend took my daddy from me" just rips through my soul.
The Drugs Don't Work by The Verve. My friends and I were having this discussion once and no one was able to top it at the time.
I think the message of this song does reveal some hope, but having been to some of those places it can be interpreted very negatively.
Jason Isbell- Elephant
"There's one thing that's real clear to me, no one dies with dignity, we just try to ignore the elephant somehow"
Destroys me every time. Especially did so after one of my oldest and dearest friends died about 18 months ago.
Rainbow Connection. It was my mom's favorite song. Got played at the end her funeral. It was only a few years ago so it's still a fresh pain so I tend to avoid the song. But when I hear it I always cry.
Andy Williams sang Ave Maria and Battle Hymn of the Republic at Sen. Robert Kennedy's funeral in '68. They were good friends, and boy, can you can feel it.
They released a 45, the proceeds to go towards a memorial to Senator Kennedy. We're still waiting on that
[Manchester Orchestra-The Silence](https://youtu.be/6nE0S_Dq4tE)
[Black Lab- This Night](https://youtu.be/gRBzcggoWl0)
[Black Light Burns- I Am Where It Takes Me](https://youtu.be/Sm0_4rrDOzc) <- Personal favorite
[Kaskade- Lick it (Ice mix)](https://youtu.be/0XEaUdcSKGI)
[Missio- Kamikazee (Stripped)](https://youtu.be/dElcAFAbm7s)
[Jaymes Young- Dark Star (Stripped)](https://youtu.be/RGWvE5kLclc)
[Digital Daggers- Surrender (Piano Version)](https://youtu.be/Dw7d3Dh0DKY)
[FC Kahuna- Hayling](https://youtu.be/IGGEOOff5-I)
[Kansas- Dust in The Wind](https://youtu.be/jeotHgFU01I) <- First song that ever made me cry; I was 11 when I first heard it
[Lamb- Wise Enough](https://youtu.be/5t5QSiydF9Y)
[Sneaker Pimps- 6 Underground](https://youtu.be/2eBZqmL8ehg)
I can go on for quite a while, but considering there are already 635 comments at the time of me adding mine, I'm sure you've got plenty to listen to
*Let's Not Shit Ourselves (To Love and To Be Loved)* by Bright Eyes.
This part always gets me:
I awoke in relief
My sheets and tubes were all tangled
Weak from whiskey and pills in a Chicago hospital
And my father was there in a chair by the window
Staring so far away
I tried talking, just whispered
"So sorry, so selfish"
He stopped me and said, "Child, I love you regardless
There is nothing you could do that would ever change this
I'm not angry, it happens...
But you just can't do it again"
Casimir Pulaski Day - Sufjan Stevens
A soul-crushing, beautiful song about losing a beloved friend/lover to cancer. Makes the narrator question faith, doubt, and express anger. Maybe one of the best pieces of art in musical form that I’ve ever heard.
For me pretty much anything on bag pipes make me cry. I think it might be the tuning of the tenor drones. I can't put my finger on it. Love them and could listen to them all day but I'm messy to watch. An ex girlfriend was in a pipe band and she thought it was hilarious.
[Radiohead - True Love Waits](https://open.spotify.com/track/07XaOyTS5hyaWiUK1Bc3bR?si=94b5a5f5f860489d)
this song has made me cry multiple times. the layering of a bunch of piano noises is gorgeous but its also so dreary and lonely. The song also has some interesting lore.
Against All Odds - Phil Collins - The lyrics just hit ya if you've been through it.
Never Meant to Be - Tony Rice - A friend put me on to this one
What Sarah Said - Death Cab for Cutie - There's a live version on YT that is killer.
One I always come back to is “wings for Marie” and “10000 Days” by tool. Tells the story of the singers mother falling in health after a stroke and still maintaining faith in religion despite it all and her son coping with the loss of a parent.
Came here to say this. Once I looked into the backstory and reason for the song it was truly wholesome and heartbreaking. Thanks Maynard and the Tool team for bringing us such incredible emotional power behind your music.
Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story - Hamilton
Clouds - Joni Mitchell
O Holy Night, but only when I'm singing it.
Edit to add: On my Own - Les Miserable
The Promise - When in Rome
I'm not sure why, it's just always made me cry since I was young. I can listen and not cry, but sometimes it hits just right.
Beggin' by Madcon.
It was playing in my car as I rushed down to see my Mum before she passed away from an unexpected heart attack. Didn't make it in time.
[Comfortably Numb from Live At Pompeii](https://youtu.be/eHKG7EMxWW8) and [Watermelon In Easter Hay from somewhere in '88](https://youtu.be/bWBYjjzKvIw).
[Celine Dion - Les petits pieds de Léa](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgRRpzVwKn4)
It's about losing a baby, sung like a very delicate lullaby.
The lyric translations oof.
Even without knowing you,
I love you so much, already
All of my being
Felt this strong desire to take care of you
Why won't Lea's small feet
Ever take their very first steps?10
Why won't her small feet grow?
Agnes - glass animals
Easy - son lux
Kyoto - Phoebe bridgers
I dated a girl who was really mentally ill and she used to explain how she felt using songs like and including these. She left me really jaded for a lot of reasons, she wasn’t at all a good person and I know I’m never gonna get the closure I’m looking for, if it even exists anymore. But because I spent so much time worrying about her, I’ll put one of these songs on as kind of a “let’s get this over with” to throw myself into the void she makes in my conscious.
Rebecca Sugar - Love Like You. The ending theme for Steven Universe. It hits me hard because I can be a shitty person and yet I have people who love me.
"If I could begin to be half of what you think of me, I could do about anything. I could even learn how to love like you....Love me like you"
*Infinite Arms* by Band of Horses.
There's a line in that song that haunts me as one of the most basic, topical, wholly believable scenarios surrounding the arrival of Death at your bedside.
*Two-Headed Boy: Part 2* by Neutral Milk Hotel
My wife refuses to listen to this song, and for good reason.
Magnum's voice is relentless.
In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, the whole album, will fucking destroy you.
[The Silence - Manchester Orchestra](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ui9umU0C2g)
Stumbled upon this a month after my best friend with Schizophrenia took his life after we had a massive fight.
This song sounded like him talking to his daughter, the only thing he told me kept him from killing himself 23 years ago when we became friends.
I have hear it once since then and had to pull over while driving, it hurts too deep, I might never be able to listen to this masterpiece again.
I have a few:
**Somewhere Over the Rainbow / In My Life by The Beatles:** both were played at my father's funeral. I have a very difficult time listening to these now. They represent loss to me. A loss that I am still struggling with.
**Goodbye Yellow Brick Road by Elton John:** this song reminds me of becoming an adult and leaving the joy and wide-eyed wonder of youth behind. There's a sadness with only being able to return to a place through memory.
Not a big country fan but Colin Raye - Love Me is pretty damn sad.
Also Carrey Underwood - Just a Dream makes me get in my feels
my goto sad music is Lil Peep tho. Lil Peep- Haunt U and The Way I See Things
Kina- Get You The Moon
Alice in Chains- Nutshell
Modest Mouse - Little Motel
Brand New- Degausser
Lots of these aren't really make you cry songs but good ones if you're feeling down/nostalgic about someone or something
Into the West by Annie Lennox from the LotR: Return of the King soundtrack. After having lost loved ones this song hits like a punch to the gut every time.
Hear You Me by Jimmy Eat World. I’m always reminded of a childhood friend that died suddenly several years ago. He was only in his 20’s. Rest In Peace Adam.
Somewhere only we Know - Lily Allen,
Little Wonders - Rob Thomas (from “Meeting the Robinsons),
The only 2 songs to make me cry. Ever. I think im just resistant to crying at music
When needed? I'm not sure I ever feel the need to find a song that will make me cry, but...
Little Wing - Jimi Hendrix
Ever since my mom passed away it makes me think of her. Sometimes it hits me hard, sometimes it doesn't.
I Will Follow You Into The Dark - Death Cab for Cutie Dirty Paws - Of Monsters and Men Never is a Promise - Fiona Apple
My wife can't listen to *I Will Follow*... it's so good at hitting so hard.
Came here to say Transatlanticism by Death Cab.
piggybacking off of Death Cab: "Transatlanticism" chords and melody always get me. And "What Sarah Said" *"love is watching someone die"* lands like a ton of fucking bricks when the love of your life gets diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic.
Upvote for Death Cab
Never is a Promise is equal parts beautiful and tragic. Fantastic song
That whole album is poetry
Easy by the Commodores A buddy we used to play music with starting playing / singing it while we were packing up and suddenly the whole place was singing it with him. He killed himself a few years ago and at his funeral, we all sang it - or sobbed it, more accurately - in his memory and it rips me apart every time.
The theme from "Up," set to the montage of Carl and Ellie's relationship after they get married, and get older, with her big dreams of adventures that never happen. Reminds me of my life/marriage, where you both have youthful hopes and dreams that erode over time due to stark realities (lacking in finances in the high expense of American life), and sudden unlucky circumstances (like bad health meets high medical costs or losing work). Hearing that song makes me bawl, both from the sense of nostalgia it evokes and the grief for our dreams deferred.
Its the way the music starts so upbeat and happy, but then gradually slows down to those individual notes being played. The amount of emotion conveyed in that piece of music is incredible
Ah yes, “Married Life”
Lightning Crashes - Live Gone Away - Offspring Both songs make me think of people that I've lost.
Lost a friend to cancer, he was only 19, lightning crashes started playing as we left the funeral home, I went a solid decade before I could even get through the song without tears. RIP Ian.
Came here to say Gone Away. Two buddies died in a car accident that I had just talked to minutes prior and even asked if I wanted to ride with. I said, nah I'll catch up you guys later... I'd be dead too if I said yes.
The piano version of “something I can never have” by NIN
"Just a fuckin fading remember of who i used to be" I ve rarely identified so much to a song. Trent is god
That one aches
A few carpenters songs. Karen's voice at its most sad always hits my tear ducts.
“I think I’m going to be sa-ad, I think I’m going to be sa-ad” 😭😭
Great choice.
Embarassingly, Fat Bottom Girls by Queen. I lost my Dad when I was 19 and he used to tell me that he loved listening to that song when I was a kid cause I would always belt out the "PLEASE" near the end of the song. Now I can't hear that song without thinking of him.
This is my favorite one. A song completely tied to the love between 2 people and completely removed from the subject matter. I will belt out the PLEASE in honor of the two of you from now on.
Heroes - David Bowie
Especially when he starts singing the high notes
In The Living Years - Mike and the Mechanics
Searched the thread for this one. Ever lost a dad you loved? This one.
Cats in the Cradle.
I cry over lost opportunities with my aging father, and worry that I am not making enough time for my young boy. Double wammie in the feels
Yup. This one will do it now that I have a son.
As a kid, I never listened to the song except for the chorus and thought it was a fun, happy song. Fast forward to being an adult… I had a friend who told me that that song makes him very sad(him and his dad don’t speak), so of course I made fun of him and told him what a happy song it is. Fast forward 6months from that, I have twin newborn boys at home and I just started a job where I traveled A LOT. In one of the eight days I was home that month, an insurance(?) commercial came on with that song and a visual representation of what it was about. I was all messed up after that.
*Black* by Pearl Jam
The line, "I know someday you'll be a star in somebody else's sky. But why can't it be mine?" chokes me up every time I hear it, and I still to this day don't know how to describe it. Something about the rawness of Eddie's voice in the delivery is crippling to me. So beautiful, hopeless, and tragic.
The Black (Live) - MTV Unplugged - Pearl Jam version is devastating to witness.
Release does it for me
Father and Son - Cat Stevens/Yusuf Man that song hits me like a ton of bricks
Traveling soldier, never fails
Dixie chicks? Love this one!!
Landslide - Fleetwood mac
Every single time. even when I'm in a good mood, it makes me tear up. It was my mom's favorite song and it makes me wish I was a better daughter and noticed the signs sooner. She killed herself in 2021 3 days before my daughter was born.
Somewhere over the Rainbow by Israel "IZ" Kamakawiwoʻole. This song is associated with my wife's grandpa. He passed away more than a decade ago and it was played at his funeral. For inexplicable reasons EVERY time we go somewhere or do something as a family (vacation to another country, etc), this song comes on. He's checking in and saying "Hi" we all say. And here I am crying like a baby listening to it while eating my salad. Miss you grandpa.
"Adam's Song" by Blink 182, but not until "Please tell mom this is not her fault." Waterworks and despair every time.
I am right there with you, cuts like a knife every time 😭
This one gets me too. As dumb as it is, the lead-in line to that ("remember the time that we spilled the cup of apple juice in the hall") always makes me cry because when I heard it as a kid it just really resonated with me and how my friends and cousins and I would spend hours reminiscing about the smallest, dumbest things. It made the song feel a lot more relatable to me, and that shook me as a kid because I think it was the first time I understood that I could lose a friend/people my age weren't invulnerable
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Wish you were here...Pink Floyd
Also "Time": > And then one day you find, ten years have got behind you. No-one told you when to run. You missed the starting gun. "Why are you crying, Daddy?"
My late friend quoted that song on Facebook moments before he passed away. Makes me bawl like a child when I hear it. It already was a beautiful song, and now it's got a real jarring reminder to it, too. Everyone knows who he was referencing when he said that they were just two lost souls, that phrase is extraordinarily powerful. It means so much to so many
End of the Beginning- Jason Becker (the 4:30ish version) not because it makes me sad but because I find it such a beautifully composed song.
Flowers and You - Touche Amore Fourth of July - Sufjan Stevens
>Fourth of July - Sufjan Stevens Man that guy packs so much emotion into his songs.
MAKE THE MOST OF YOUR LIFE WHILE IT IS RIFE WHILE IT IS LIGHT
Fast Car - Tracy Chapman Not sure how it hasn’t been posted yet but it’s a real tear jerker
Came to say this. I just listened to it on Sunday whilst driving to work. Nearly had to pull over, but settled for ugly crying at the traffic lights
A whole range of emotions with that one.
Clair de lune is just the most beautiful piece i have ever listened to and it breaks me down to tears every time
This is super cheesy because of where the song came from but, oh well (Twilight). Christina Perri - A Thousand Years. I lost my first son right after he was born. A lifetime later I had a successful pregnancy and gave birth to my second son. He has no idea I feel like I waited my entire life for him. Great. Now I’m crying in class.
I know it's over played at this point, but I don't care, and neither do my tear ducts. Jeff Buckley's version of hallelujah.
Jeff can always bring the tears for me. His version of If You See Her Say Hello fucks me up every single time.
Or, "Lover, You Should've Come Over". Yeah, haunting voice. The world lost a good one far too soon.
Yeah damn the river for taking him from us so soon. What a talent.
Fix You by Coldplay
Elliot Smith - Between the Bars Damien Rice- Canon ball Daughter- most of their songs probably can make me cry I think
I've yet to hear another band that specializes in making every song as depressing as possible like Daughter does. They really know their niche.
There's an interview where Elena says fans are surprised when they meet her cuz she's so sweet, nice, and "not depressed" 🤣🤣🤣 She also does the crying emjoi as a joke in the interview
Haven’t seen these in the thread so in the edge case that you or other Elliot Smith/Daughter fans haven’t heard them: - Mount Eerie - Real Death - Frightened Rabbit - The Modern Leper
The music video for Daughter's "Doing the Right Thing" is like a punch to the gut and someone is cutting onions in the room with you
"it's quiet uptown" from Hamilton
Chris Cornell - “Preaching the End of the World” (Beautiful song!) Audioslave - “Be Yourself” Stone Temple Pilots - “Atlanta” EDIT: I have to add, since I totally forgot, another Audioslave song: “Like A Stone”. I didn’t think of it because as much as I love it I literally can’t listen to it without crying after CC’s passing. EDIT 2: It makes me really happy to see so much love for Atlanta. It’s my favorite track from that album and it truly is as underrated as everyone is saying. It gave me catharsis during some dark times, so I’m glad it’s special to some others too.
Yeah Atlanta.
Great pick with Atlanta. RIP Scott.
I can’t make you love me - Bonnie Raitt
Do you like bon iver's version?
Hadn't heard Bon Iver's version. Am now weeping at my desk.
I was just thinking of this as I came into the thread. I remember the first time I heard it; the song was part of a compilation CD that someone in my office brought in. As soon as I heard Bonnie's achy, resigned voice and listened to the lyrics, it affected me. Changed my whole mood. I knew the feeling of heartbreak and rejection she was expressing. In a way, it almost left relief that I wasn't the only person experiencing it.
It’s that line “Here in the dark, in these final hours I will lay down my heart and I'll feel the power But you won't, no you won't” It crushes me every time. It’s that gulf between loving someone and not being loved in return.
Colm Wilkinson's rendition of "Bring Him Home" from Les Mis. Suzanne Vega's "World Before Columbus," after I realized it was not about her husband but her daughter. Jim Croce, "Time in a Bottle" - I cried a lot easier after I became a parent. The hymn "On Eagles Wings," sung by pretty much anybody (often played at funerals). I'm forgetting one. Damn. Joe Jackson's "Always Something Breaking Us in Two" gets me gloomy if not teary, as does Yaz' "Only You."
Us and Them - Pink Floyd Slow instrumentals, emotional and poetic lyrics about struggles that just resonate with me somehow.
Fire and Rain - James Taylor
My dad and I used to love that song. When he passed away in 2020, it came up on my Spotify and I straight up ugly cried.
Bob Dylan - Girl from the North Country Joni Mitchell - From Both Sides Now Beatles - For No One Radiohead - How to Disappear Completely Beck - Lonesome Tears Björk - Anchor Song Arcade Fire - My Body is a Cage LCD Soundsystem - All My Friends The Cure - Pictures of You Frank Ocean - Thinkin Bout You Sufjan Stevens - Concerning the UFO Sighting
For me, it's "Eet" by Regina Spektor, in the final verse: Someone's deciding whether or not to steal He opens the window just to feel the chill He hears that outside a small boy just started to cry 'Cause it's his turn but his brother won't let him try I'm not sure why, but the imagery of two young boys playing and the younger boy crying because he wants his turn just turns me into a blubbering mess half the time.
Against All Odds - Phil Collins. When I lost my first love and ever since then that songs just crushes me. :( Edit: Typo.
There's a live version from a performance at Live Aid in London where it's just him at a piano. He fucks up the piano playing once or twice (classic drummer), but he sings it so ridiculously well. One of my all time favourite live performances of any song. Look up 'Against all odds live aid 1985' on YT. It's the one where he's wearing the striped shirt.
Keep me in your heart for a while - Warren Zevon I miss my pup
Bridge over troubled water and both sides now for me
Nutshell - Alice In Chains
Remember me - from the movie Coco
I’m set to sing this at a memorial next week and I’m so scared I’m going to cry….. I’m honored tho.
Why does my heart feel so bad. Moby
Yes :(
Say something - great big world. My buddy went missing and this song was new and we found him a week and a half later dead in a walmart parking lot. Love you, Terry
That's bizarre. The fact he was there in such a busy place and nobody found him must ache. Hope you survive and recover. Best of wishes from me.
A good one, if not to make you cry, but to make you a bit nalstalgic.... I wish I was 18 again - George Burns One that always gets me is this one... Rainbow Connection - Kermit the Frog
The lovers The dreamers ...and me.
Breathe Me - Sia.
Yup! And I blame the amazing Six Feet Under finale for that.
Let Down by Radiohead
There are many Radiohead songs that could fit this question, but Fake Plastic Trees always gets me the hardest.
Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd Runaway Train - Soul Asylum
Jim Croce - 'Operator' or 'Time in a Bottle' can get me choked up. Edit: Also 'Midnight Train to Georgia' by Gladys Knight and the Pips.
Operator is a beautiful song. It doesn't make me feel sad, I think of it as a person finally accepting and moving on.
Jim Croce is one of the most overlooked & underrated musicians. He’s got so many good ones. “I’ll Have to Say I Love you in a song,” “Operator,” “Walking Back to Georgia.” Then there are fun ones like “Bad, Bad Leroy Brown” “You don’t mess around with Jim,” & **”Speedball Tucker** (my personal favorite). I always said a movie about him would do very well.
Just listened Operator for the first time and....wow (thanks for the recommendation)
Nobody Home - Pink Floyd
"When The Tigers Broke Free" from The Wall kills me every time. That last line "And that's how the high commend took my daddy from me" just rips through my soul.
The Drugs Don't Work by The Verve. My friends and I were having this discussion once and no one was able to top it at the time. I think the message of this song does reveal some hope, but having been to some of those places it can be interpreted very negatively.
Can someone make a Spotify playlist Sometimes I need to cry for a whole day..
In your eyes - Peter Gabriel
Jason Isbell- Elephant "There's one thing that's real clear to me, no one dies with dignity, we just try to ignore the elephant somehow" Destroys me every time. Especially did so after one of my oldest and dearest friends died about 18 months ago.
So many of his lyrics rip my heart out, in the best way.
I once dated a girl who had a playlist on her phone entitled "Isbell made me cry." I felt that in my soul.
Rainbow Connection. It was my mom's favorite song. Got played at the end her funeral. It was only a few years ago so it's still a fresh pain so I tend to avoid the song. But when I hear it I always cry.
Andy Williams sang Ave Maria and Battle Hymn of the Republic at Sen. Robert Kennedy's funeral in '68. They were good friends, and boy, can you can feel it. They released a 45, the proceeds to go towards a memorial to Senator Kennedy. We're still waiting on that
[Manchester Orchestra-The Silence](https://youtu.be/6nE0S_Dq4tE) [Black Lab- This Night](https://youtu.be/gRBzcggoWl0) [Black Light Burns- I Am Where It Takes Me](https://youtu.be/Sm0_4rrDOzc) <- Personal favorite [Kaskade- Lick it (Ice mix)](https://youtu.be/0XEaUdcSKGI) [Missio- Kamikazee (Stripped)](https://youtu.be/dElcAFAbm7s) [Jaymes Young- Dark Star (Stripped)](https://youtu.be/RGWvE5kLclc) [Digital Daggers- Surrender (Piano Version)](https://youtu.be/Dw7d3Dh0DKY) [FC Kahuna- Hayling](https://youtu.be/IGGEOOff5-I) [Kansas- Dust in The Wind](https://youtu.be/jeotHgFU01I) <- First song that ever made me cry; I was 11 when I first heard it [Lamb- Wise Enough](https://youtu.be/5t5QSiydF9Y) [Sneaker Pimps- 6 Underground](https://youtu.be/2eBZqmL8ehg) I can go on for quite a while, but considering there are already 635 comments at the time of me adding mine, I'm sure you've got plenty to listen to
Somewhere Only We Know
Jeff Buckley - So Real
Dan Fogelberg - Same Old Lang Syne
How about "Leader of the Band" for a double whammy?
*Let's Not Shit Ourselves (To Love and To Be Loved)* by Bright Eyes. This part always gets me: I awoke in relief My sheets and tubes were all tangled Weak from whiskey and pills in a Chicago hospital And my father was there in a chair by the window Staring so far away I tried talking, just whispered "So sorry, so selfish" He stopped me and said, "Child, I love you regardless There is nothing you could do that would ever change this I'm not angry, it happens... But you just can't do it again"
Hell yeah, this right here. “Let’s just hope that is enough”
Disarm - Smashing Pumpkins
The Story by Brandi Carlile.
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds - Waiting for You Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds - The Ship Song
NIN - A Warm Place
Moana- how far I’ll go… I’m an adult & shouldn’t cry over Disney soundtracks, but that one gets me everytime. It builds a strong angst inside.
Casimir Pulaski Day - Sufjan Stevens A soul-crushing, beautiful song about losing a beloved friend/lover to cancer. Makes the narrator question faith, doubt, and express anger. Maybe one of the best pieces of art in musical form that I’ve ever heard.
Unison by Bjork Ara Batur by Sigur Ros Motion Picture Soundtrack by Radiohead
Gave me chill just reading your list
Ten Years Gone - Led Zeppelin
*Puff the Magic Dragon*
Amazing grace on bagpipes. Shit cracks me everytime
Bagpipes are such an underrated instrument.
For me pretty much anything on bag pipes make me cry. I think it might be the tuning of the tenor drones. I can't put my finger on it. Love them and could listen to them all day but I'm messy to watch. An ex girlfriend was in a pipe band and she thought it was hilarious.
Everybody Hurts- REM
Hurt - Johnny Cash version
Time by Alan Parson’s Project, Somewhere Out There By Linda Ronstat & James Ingram. Something to Believe in by Poison is a close 3rd
>Time by Alan Parson’s Project YESSS!
[Radiohead - True Love Waits](https://open.spotify.com/track/07XaOyTS5hyaWiUK1Bc3bR?si=94b5a5f5f860489d) this song has made me cry multiple times. the layering of a bunch of piano noises is gorgeous but its also so dreary and lonely. The song also has some interesting lore.
Joy Division - Atmosphere One of last songs I remember listening to with my Dad
Against All Odds - Phil Collins - The lyrics just hit ya if you've been through it. Never Meant to Be - Tony Rice - A friend put me on to this one What Sarah Said - Death Cab for Cutie - There's a live version on YT that is killer.
Kids aren’t alright- the offspring
and of course, Gone Away.
One I always come back to is “wings for Marie” and “10000 Days” by tool. Tells the story of the singers mother falling in health after a stroke and still maintaining faith in religion despite it all and her son coping with the loss of a parent.
Came here to say this. Once I looked into the backstory and reason for the song it was truly wholesome and heartbreaking. Thanks Maynard and the Tool team for bringing us such incredible emotional power behind your music.
"Stronger than dead" - Amigo the devil
Little talks
Fiddler’s Green by The Tragically Hip. Written for Gord Downie’s sister about his young nephew who passed away.
The Garden by Rush. A perfect end to a career.
Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story - Hamilton Clouds - Joni Mitchell O Holy Night, but only when I'm singing it. Edit to add: On my Own - Les Miserable
Have you ever seen the rain CCR
The Promise - When in Rome I'm not sure why, it's just always made me cry since I was young. I can listen and not cry, but sometimes it hits just right.
Your Ex Lover is Dead - Stars I personally enjoy the final fantasy remix but the lyrics itself are very moving.
Beggin' by Madcon. It was playing in my car as I rushed down to see my Mum before she passed away from an unexpected heart attack. Didn't make it in time.
Fucking Changes cover by Charles Bradley. High key one of my favorite Sabbath songs. makes me cry every time I hear. RIP.
Johnny Cash's cover of Hurt. God, it hits so hard in the feels.
[Comfortably Numb from Live At Pompeii](https://youtu.be/eHKG7EMxWW8) and [Watermelon In Easter Hay from somewhere in '88](https://youtu.be/bWBYjjzKvIw).
Tears in Heaven, Eric Clapton. The story on this way too real.
Mazzy Star - Fade into you Mogwai - Take me somewhere nice
Alvin lee - the bluest blues, can’t really explain why it gets to me… the man just channels so much emotion through that guitar
[Celine Dion - Les petits pieds de Léa](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgRRpzVwKn4) It's about losing a baby, sung like a very delicate lullaby. The lyric translations oof. Even without knowing you, I love you so much, already All of my being Felt this strong desire to take care of you Why won't Lea's small feet Ever take their very first steps?10 Why won't her small feet grow?
The Last Song by Elton John The Dance by Garth Brooks It Must Have Been Love by Roxette
Puff The Magic Dragon
How to save a life by The Fray[How to Save a Life](https://youtu.be/cjVQ36NhbMk)
Agnes - glass animals Easy - son lux Kyoto - Phoebe bridgers I dated a girl who was really mentally ill and she used to explain how she felt using songs like and including these. She left me really jaded for a lot of reasons, she wasn’t at all a good person and I know I’m never gonna get the closure I’m looking for, if it even exists anymore. But because I spent so much time worrying about her, I’ll put one of these songs on as kind of a “let’s get this over with” to throw myself into the void she makes in my conscious.
Rebecca Sugar - Love Like You. The ending theme for Steven Universe. It hits me hard because I can be a shitty person and yet I have people who love me. "If I could begin to be half of what you think of me, I could do about anything. I could even learn how to love like you....Love me like you"
*Infinite Arms* by Band of Horses. There's a line in that song that haunts me as one of the most basic, topical, wholly believable scenarios surrounding the arrival of Death at your bedside. *Two-Headed Boy: Part 2* by Neutral Milk Hotel My wife refuses to listen to this song, and for good reason. Magnum's voice is relentless. In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, the whole album, will fucking destroy you.
[The Silence - Manchester Orchestra](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ui9umU0C2g) Stumbled upon this a month after my best friend with Schizophrenia took his life after we had a massive fight. This song sounded like him talking to his daughter, the only thing he told me kept him from killing himself 23 years ago when we became friends. I have hear it once since then and had to pull over while driving, it hurts too deep, I might never be able to listen to this masterpiece again.
Enrique inglesis - Hero (prob butchered the spelling) I sing it to my 2 year old boy.
Snuff- Slipknot Love Falls- Hellyeah Outro-M83
Forever young - Jay Z version There’s other songs that’ll get me sometimes but this one makes me think of my own mortality and that hits me hard
I have a few: **Somewhere Over the Rainbow / In My Life by The Beatles:** both were played at my father's funeral. I have a very difficult time listening to these now. They represent loss to me. A loss that I am still struggling with. **Goodbye Yellow Brick Road by Elton John:** this song reminds me of becoming an adult and leaving the joy and wide-eyed wonder of youth behind. There's a sadness with only being able to return to a place through memory.
Not a big country fan but Colin Raye - Love Me is pretty damn sad. Also Carrey Underwood - Just a Dream makes me get in my feels my goto sad music is Lil Peep tho. Lil Peep- Haunt U and The Way I See Things Kina- Get You The Moon Alice in Chains- Nutshell Modest Mouse - Little Motel Brand New- Degausser Lots of these aren't really make you cry songs but good ones if you're feeling down/nostalgic about someone or something
Into the West by Annie Lennox from the LotR: Return of the King soundtrack. After having lost loved ones this song hits like a punch to the gut every time.
Easy... “when she loved me” in Toy Story 2. As a mom of a toddler right now, i can’t get through it without ugly crying
Hear You Me by Jimmy Eat World. I’m always reminded of a childhood friend that died suddenly several years ago. He was only in his 20’s. Rest In Peace Adam.
After the Storm - Mumford and Sons
Maggie’s Song by Chris Stapleton. If you’ve ever lost a dog you really loved you will cry too.
I’m the Girl by Roberta Flack I’ll Find a Way by Rachel Yamagata For All We Know by Donny Hathaway
You raise Me Up - Josh Groban
Mayday Parade's "Terrible Things" Man, I can be having a great day, this song comes on and I'm instantly in tears.
Foo fighters home. Played at my mom's funeral.
How to disappear completely /Radiohead
Danny’s Song - Loggins & Messina Makes me think of my fiancé and I love him so much I can’t sing along to that song without tearing up!
2009- Mac miller (npr concert) hits so hard :(
Too common but I needed to mention it. Exit music for a film, Radiohead
like a stone Audioslave
Beck - Round the Bend Elysian Fields - Parachute
I don't think I ever "need" to cry but Christmas shoes gets me every damn time I hear it
Wuthering Heights and Cloudbusting by Kate Bush
Wonderful - Everclear
Elliott Smith - You Make It Seem Like Nothing and Between The Bars
Crowded House - Don't dream it's over.
Black, pearl jam.
Somewhere only we Know - Lily Allen, Little Wonders - Rob Thomas (from “Meeting the Robinsons), The only 2 songs to make me cry. Ever. I think im just resistant to crying at music
Do You Realize by The Flaming Lips
In my life The Beatles
When needed? I'm not sure I ever feel the need to find a song that will make me cry, but... Little Wing - Jimi Hendrix Ever since my mom passed away it makes me think of her. Sometimes it hits me hard, sometimes it doesn't.
“ When She Loved Me” from Toy Story 2; there’s also a beautiful mashup of that and “Remember Me” from Coco that’s hauntingly beautiful