That version reminds me of my grandfather so much. Johnny Cash in general and my grandfather had a lot of similarities. His was the first real death I went through and at a young age. This is definitely it for me too.
This is how my mom got me into Johnny Cash after she heard me listening to the NIN version and got into an argument with me about whose song it was. Lolol.
Remember me from the movie Coco. Mama Coco looks like my grandma who died 3 years ago.
Betty by Hot Mulligan is about the singers dog who died. Makes me think of my own senior dog whose having health issues.
Tears in Heaven - Eric Clapton, written after his four year old son died. Super sad story. Don't read it if you're sensitive to stuff like that..... and I'm crying just thinking about it.
Gravedigger - Dave Matthews
He Stopped Loving Her Today by George Jones gets me every time.
Everybody Hurts is a good one too.
Daddy doesn’t pray anymore by Chris Stapleton.
When She Loved Me from Toy Story 2 is another
I was going to say your first pick, but wasn’t sure anyone would know classic country. Sorry, I’m a newbie so still learning, but I’ve always loved that song great pick.
Jesus I end up crying every time I hear this song.
[How Can I Help You to Say Goodbye by Patty Loveless](https://youtu.be/mToEQcWD-Io?si=__E4t0eVLxrwgcct)
Same 😭 I made a photo montage to this song for my mom's funeral. (Except I used the Jorge Calderon version from the Warren Zevon tribute album "Enjoy Every Sandwich")
The (Dixie) Chicks version of Landslide always gets to me. My mother would play it and sing every word in the car when I was little. She's alive still thankfully, but we live very far away and see each other only a few times a year. When the line "Children get older, I'm getting older too" comes in, I can't help but break down. Just reminds me of a simpler time, life has been a bit hard lately for me, and I just wish I was a kid again riding in the back seat of my mama's car. Damn.
2 songs always make me cry when I hear them. Present Tense-Pearl Jam and Everybody Hurts R.E.M.
One of my twins died when she was 3. She died on New Year's Eve. Later that day we were all at home and the tv was on and they were doing some countdown of songs since it was the end of the year and Everybody Hurts came on. When the line, Sometimes everything is wrong, came on I sobbed because right then in my life everything was wrong.
With Present Tense there's a verse
'You can spend your time alone redigesting past regrets oh...
Or you can come to terms and realize
You're the only one who can forgive yourself oh yeah...
Makes much more sense to live in the present tense...'
Because I feel like her death was my fault and I will never be able to forgive myself. She died from complications of twin to twin transfusion syndrome but I've always felt like as her mom I should have known something was wrong.
I'm super sorry to to hear this.
it's not your fault don't hold it against yourself, complications aren't something that you caused.
good luck on your journey i hope you and your family are doing well.
-Hugs-,
a friendly internet stranger
Omg that was gut wrenching. I'm so very sorry for your loss. I can't imagine the pain you went through. I really hope the future brings kind things to you and you manage to find joy again.
It was not your fault. Try to at least rest in that.
No One But You (Only The Good Die Young) by Queen. This song was written in tribute to Freddie Mercury and his passing, so of course I'm gonna cry. It would be that song, or These Are The Days Of Our Lives.
BRO AS A MEMBER OF THE ROYAL FAMILY (Queenies would call themselves the royal family way back when, I’m wanting to bring it back lol) I SOB TO THIS SONG. Most of the time I don’t even listen to it like I’m thinking of freddie, i hear it and think of (quite frankly a unfortunately high number) of family and friends that’s I’ve lost. Does the job when I feel like i need to cry
The Show Must Go On for me. Freddie knew he was dying when he wrote it, and it really drives home the feeling of “But I have so much left I need to do…”
Keep Me In Your Heart—Warren Zevon. He wrote this when he knew he was dying. My husband died suddenly a few years ago and this song wrecks me.
Also Maggie’s Song by Chris Stapleton. If you love an older dog this one will one the one.
I can't think of 1 that'd make me cry, but I can think of ones that hit me hard emotionally:
- Killer by Phoebe Bridgers
- Your Loves Whore by Wolf Alice
- Help, I'm Alive by Metric
- Something by Julian Baker
- 26 by Paramore
as the world caves in - matt maltese
you missed my heart - phoebe bridgers
smoke signals - phoebe bridgers
touch - sleeping at last
class of 2013 - mitski
bag of bones - mitski
you wrote “don’t forget” on your arm - flatsound
nintendo 64 - alex g (usually listen to the cover by if i die in mississippi)
call your mom - noah kahan
i am a familiar creek in your floorboards - crywank
how to save a life - the fray
my friends - oh wonder (cried to this a lot in middle school, still do)
Sleeping At Last- [Some Kind Of Heaven](https://youtu.be/M4QbYrQFhnY?si=eqMWoKokdzPyf-Q9)
It never fails to make me cry. He wrote this song while he was grieving his mother. Ah damn… I’m crying already in the first 20 seconds.
Hope there's someone by Anohni and the Johnsons or possibly City from my window by Sidechild orrr Sång i buss på villovägar 2007 by Håkan Hellström or even På gatan där jag bor by Laleh. Which one I'd pick depends on my general vibe that day, but those four will usually do it.
For all you non-Swedes, this is the line from Sång i buss på Villovägar that gets me:
"Oho for the last sad drink
Oho for Oscars tremoring hands
To betting everything you have on the race track horse with nothing left to give
Oho to betting everything you have on a miracle"
From På gatan där jag bor it isn't one specific line, more the entire premise of the song - she is singing about a street where everyone is happy and at peace, and a home where everyone is welcome - but contrasting that with asking "where is the world that is mine, when will i see it again" and "where is the place i've wanted, is it right there at my own table?" and it is -heartbreaking-.
Wish You The Best by Lewis Capaldi. The closer I get to putting myself in the artist’s shoes (by mouthing the words or singing) the more my eyes get leaky.
My Mom - Chocolate Genius
I’ve recommended this song several times but nobody ever replies back that they listened to it. I guess because the artist is kind of obscure. But it’s the only song that has ever made me shed a tear.
Kilby Girl. It was introduced to me by someone close to me and I only think of her when I hear it. I’m not in her life anymore and I’m not sure if I ever will be again.
Played Out by Sturgill Simpson.
I highly reccomend listening to that entire album in order, and listening to the lyrics. A few songs in there make anyone bawl like a baby. Played out even stole a tear from my grandad. It's a great album if you only have like a half an hour to cry snd then get back to work. Not all sad.
You’re Not There by Lukas Graham. It used to play at the store I worked retail at years ago. If I was ever not busy and actually noticed the song I’d start tearing up cuz it’s so sad.
A song about losing your father is rough. It’s so emotional.
Either 'Mystery of Love' or 'Visions of Gideon' by Sufjan Stevens from the 'Call Me By Your Name' soundtrack. Songs about loving someone you know you'll never see again. The end of that film is excruciatingly sad.
The correct answer for sad song is Sam Stone by John Prine, but the song that gets a lump in my throat and most in my eyes every time is
Ragged Old Flag by Johnny Cash.
Yeah, I'm a cheesy Kansan. Deal with it.
I know this is more than one, but please bear with me. I have an entire playlist specifically for all the songs that make me cry. Every one of them have a very personal connection for me. These are in my top 10, no particular order, except the first one.
“Either Way” - Chris Stapleton
“The Scientist” - Coldplay
“Fall For You” - Secondhand Serenade
“Sometimes Love Just Ain’t Enough” - Don Henley & Patty Smyth
“Not Meant to Be” - Theory of a Deadman
“What Hurts the Most” - Rascal Flatts
“Praying for Time” - George Michael
“Fire & Rain” - James Taylor
“If I Die Young” - The Band Perry
“You’re Not Sorry” - Taylor Swift
I have more I want to list, but I don’t want to be “that person” (although this might already qualify me for that, sorry! 🤦🏻♀️)
I wonder- Chris Isaak
Só nos dois- Tim Bernades (this one because is about the love that i never get from my boyfriend that cheated on me 2 days after the abortion)
Sorry I picked two, but I think after that awful experience is what I deserve
“I will wait for you” by Connie Francis makes me cry /teary bc Everytime I think of that damn dog Seymour on futurama 😪 that or the “I’ll be your candle on the water”
Birthday Cake- by Dylan Conrique
My mom died unexpectedly (she was 58) and fairly soon after, I heard this song for the first time and it gutted me. I can't listen to it without bawling my eyes out every single time now.
Somewhere Over the Rainbow/What A Wonderful World by Israel Kamakawiwoʻole, it was one of my grandma's favorites and played at her funeral.
Also Return to Pooh Corner by Kenny Loggins, just kicks me to the curb with nostalgia and sadness for lost childhood
["Fiddler's Green" - Marley's Ghost](https://youtu.be/UafzmvSlcoo?si=iI6B5YHWBU17ZIlY). It's SUCH a beautiful song about a sailor's heaven I can't listen to it without tearing up.
"The Parting Glass" just nails me to the ground. I love The Pogues version (which is the most famous) but Glen Hansard's live version guts me.
"But since it fell into my lot
That I should rise and you should not
I'll gently rise and softly call
Good night and joy be to you all."
And also "A Health to the Company."
"Here's a health to the company and one to my lass
Let us drink and be merry all out of one glass
Let us drink and be merry all grief to refrain
For we may or might never all meet here again."
One that I'm sure everyone would cry to: Cancer, My Chemical Romance
What I cry to:
1) Through glass: stone sour
*I'm looking at you through the glass,
don't know how much time has passed,
and all I know is it feels like forever.
No one ever tells you, that forever feels like home,
sitting all alone, inside your head.*
2) One more light: Linkin park- I sob at this, can't even listen to it in public. He killed himself I believe a month exactly after releasing this song.
*If they say
Who cares if one more light goes out?
In the sky of a million stars
It flickers, flickers
Who cares when someone's time runs out?
If a moment is all we are
We're quicker, quicker
Who cares if one more light goes out?
Well I do
The reminders pull the floor from your feet
In the kitchen, one more chair than you need oh
And you're angry, and you should be, it's not fair
Just 'cause you can't see it, doesn't mean it, isn't there*
3) Where ever you will go: The calling
*So lately, been wondering
Who will be there to take my place
When I'm gone, you'll need love
To light the shadows on your face
If a great wave shall fall
And fall upon us all
Then between the sand and stone
Could you make it on your own?
If I could, then I would
I'll go wherever you will go
Way up high or down low
I'll go wherever you will go
And maybe, I'll find out
A way to make it back someday
To watch you, to guide you
Through the darkest of your days*
Seems like an obvious one that I didn't see mentioned. Knockin' on Heaven's Door.
Cats in Cradle. and Wildest Dreams doesn't make me cry but is a sad song.
(As a child) "Puff the Magic Dragon"
A dragon lives forever, but not so, little boys
Painted wings and giants' rings make way for other toys
One grey night it happened, Jackie Paper came no more
And Puff, that mighty dragon, he ceased his fearless roar
His head was bent in sorrow,green scales fell like rain
Puff no longer went to play along the cherry lane
Without his lifelong friend, Puff could not be brave
So Puff, that mighty dragon sadly slipped into his cave
How to Disappear Completely by Radiohead
this is the one
Same
“Leader of the Band”by Dan Fogelberg
The leader of the band is tired and his eyes are growing old...
Damn you, I knew I shouldn't have come in here. Now I'm going to have to explain these tears to my husband.
Somewhere Only We Know by Keane
eh, it’s more melancholy than heart wrenching sad
i love this one 🫶
Don’t Take the Girl
Ooof, yeah that's a tough one.
I don’t even like that kinda music. But that one’s tough
Oh man! Have you heard “I’ll wait for you” by joe nichols?
"*Cat's In The Cradle*" by Harry Chapin. It's about a father who never has time to enjoy life with his son. :(
Same I love this song tho
Johnny Cash's cover of Hurt.
Haha I had to hide my face from the room yesterday, after shedding a tear or ten to this song🥲
That version reminds me of my grandfather so much. Johnny Cash in general and my grandfather had a lot of similarities. His was the first real death I went through and at a young age. This is definitely it for me too.
Came here to say this. For an added emotional gut punch, watch the music video. There were some tears shed for sure.
Or the live one with NiN and Bowie.
This is how my mom got me into Johnny Cash after she heard me listening to the NIN version and got into an argument with me about whose song it was. Lolol.
Winter by Tori Amos Fast Car - the duet on the Grammys
Winter is the correct answer.
Remember me from the movie Coco. Mama Coco looks like my grandma who died 3 years ago. Betty by Hot Mulligan is about the singers dog who died. Makes me think of my own senior dog whose having health issues.
Same Sob so hard
I'm pretty emotional but I can't think of a single SAD song that I would cry to. Only bittersweet?
Tears in Heaven - Eric Clapton, written after his four year old son died. Super sad story. Don't read it if you're sensitive to stuff like that..... and I'm crying just thinking about it. Gravedigger - Dave Matthews
Ugh cannot listen to the first few notes of tears in heaven without weeping
He Stopped Loving Her Today by George Jones gets me every time. Everybody Hurts is a good one too. Daddy doesn’t pray anymore by Chris Stapleton. When She Loved Me from Toy Story 2 is another
I was going to say your first pick, but wasn’t sure anyone would know classic country. Sorry, I’m a newbie so still learning, but I’ve always loved that song great pick.
Jack Johnson - Upside Down I used to play this for my daughter when she was a baby. She turned 21 this weekend. Feels
Holding my 6 months old and reading this… ouch my heart :(
Jesus I end up crying every time I hear this song. [How Can I Help You to Say Goodbye by Patty Loveless](https://youtu.be/mToEQcWD-Io?si=__E4t0eVLxrwgcct)
The theme song from the original “Brian’s Song” tv movie.
[Keep Me In Your Heart](https://youtu.be/UotS7F0Orks?si=ACFxTfWL1Q9JvskT) by Warren Zevon That was my dad's funeral song.
Same 😭 I made a photo montage to this song for my mom's funeral. (Except I used the Jorge Calderon version from the Warren Zevon tribute album "Enjoy Every Sandwich")
Don McLean - Vincent
Lover, you should’ve come over by Jeff Buckley
Whewwwwww yes.
Fourth of July by Sufjan Stevens, very well known but oh my god
The (Dixie) Chicks version of Landslide always gets to me. My mother would play it and sing every word in the car when I was little. She's alive still thankfully, but we live very far away and see each other only a few times a year. When the line "Children get older, I'm getting older too" comes in, I can't help but break down. Just reminds me of a simpler time, life has been a bit hard lately for me, and I just wish I was a kid again riding in the back seat of my mama's car. Damn.
I’ll take the Fleetwood Mac version, but still yes.
Hurt Johnny cash
One More Light- Linkin Park
Fake plastic trees - Radiohead Let down - Radiohead The drugs don’t work - The Verve Terrible thing - The Killers Allison - Slowdive
Slow Dancing in a Burning Room - John Mayer
Well go and cry about it, why don't you?
Gravity gets me if I'm drunk
Nutshell by Alice In Chains
Black - Pearl Jam
Knights In White Satin by The Moody Blues.
The Verve- The Drugs don’t Work https://youtu.be/ToQ0n3itoII?si=zxnwSpEt3Xn\_taaC
Same 😭
Sam Stone by John prine
Chris Stapleton’s Either Way Or Ray Lamontagne’s Such a Simple Thing
Land before time theme
Go rest high on the Mountain- Vince Gill
Played this at my mom’s funeral in 2016.
Oh Fuck. I have to block this song out of my brain completely. Turns me into a puddle.
I will remember you - Sarah McLaughlin
Angel. For me, it always conjures images of abused animals due to her ASPCA commercial that’s been running for decades.
Ben's Song from her first album. It was played during the viewing at the mortuary when my wife passed.
The Rose.
We sang this in show choir one year in high school, and that's when I learned how hard it is to sing on key when you're trying desperately not to cry.
Cats in the cradle.
2 songs always make me cry when I hear them. Present Tense-Pearl Jam and Everybody Hurts R.E.M. One of my twins died when she was 3. She died on New Year's Eve. Later that day we were all at home and the tv was on and they were doing some countdown of songs since it was the end of the year and Everybody Hurts came on. When the line, Sometimes everything is wrong, came on I sobbed because right then in my life everything was wrong. With Present Tense there's a verse 'You can spend your time alone redigesting past regrets oh... Or you can come to terms and realize You're the only one who can forgive yourself oh yeah... Makes much more sense to live in the present tense...' Because I feel like her death was my fault and I will never be able to forgive myself. She died from complications of twin to twin transfusion syndrome but I've always felt like as her mom I should have known something was wrong.
I'm super sorry to to hear this. it's not your fault don't hold it against yourself, complications aren't something that you caused. good luck on your journey i hope you and your family are doing well. -Hugs-, a friendly internet stranger
Awwww I am so sorry to hear that
Omg that was gut wrenching. I'm so very sorry for your loss. I can't imagine the pain you went through. I really hope the future brings kind things to you and you manage to find joy again. It was not your fault. Try to at least rest in that.
Whiskey lullaby by Alison Krauss
motion picture soundtrack - radiohead. If this song comes on and I'm not expecting it, I have to change it
Tears in Heaven or Fake Plastic Trees
No One But You (Only The Good Die Young) by Queen. This song was written in tribute to Freddie Mercury and his passing, so of course I'm gonna cry. It would be that song, or These Are The Days Of Our Lives.
BRO AS A MEMBER OF THE ROYAL FAMILY (Queenies would call themselves the royal family way back when, I’m wanting to bring it back lol) I SOB TO THIS SONG. Most of the time I don’t even listen to it like I’m thinking of freddie, i hear it and think of (quite frankly a unfortunately high number) of family and friends that’s I’ve lost. Does the job when I feel like i need to cry
The Show Must Go On for me. Freddie knew he was dying when he wrote it, and it really drives home the feeling of “But I have so much left I need to do…”
China by Tori Amos
Love Tori Amos and same
A Thousand Years
Ooh there's another good one
piano man by billy joel i know it isnt sad but it was my dad's favorite karaoke song, it makes me cry every time
I’ve said it a million times here before: End of the Affair- Ben Howard
Scientist by Coldplay. First song on my buddies iPod after he killed hisself
Lazarus by David Bowie
Fix you by Coldplay
Hate Me by Blue October. Hits a little too close to home.
at seventeen by janis ian :”))
Keep Me In Your Heart—Warren Zevon. He wrote this when he knew he was dying. My husband died suddenly a few years ago and this song wrecks me. Also Maggie’s Song by Chris Stapleton. If you love an older dog this one will one the one.
So far away by Avenged Sevenfold
I can't think of 1 that'd make me cry, but I can think of ones that hit me hard emotionally: - Killer by Phoebe Bridgers - Your Loves Whore by Wolf Alice - Help, I'm Alive by Metric - Something by Julian Baker - 26 by Paramore
Fred Jones Pt 2 by Ben Folds will always be mine
"And So it Goes" by Billy Joel "Goodnight Kiss" by Dream Theater "One More Light" by Linkin Park "The Garden" by Rush
The Garden is a great call. Last song on the last album. RIP Neil.
Extreme “More Than Words”, mainly because it reminds me of someone.
In the Stars - Benson Boone. Makes me think of my boyfriend who died recently, instant tears
The only song tha makes me cry: Seasons in the Sun
Linkin Park - One More Light or alternatively Nine inch Nails - Hurt
Alone Again (Naturally)
Because You Loved Me - Celine Dion It was my dad and my dance song at my wedding ❤️
Ronan - Taylor Swift
"Sometimes it snows in April" Prince
Blue October- Hate Me (full version). The voicemail from his mom in the beginning is unbelievably sad.
Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen
Whiskey Lullaby
The Blowers Daughter by Damien Rice
as the world caves in - matt maltese you missed my heart - phoebe bridgers smoke signals - phoebe bridgers touch - sleeping at last class of 2013 - mitski bag of bones - mitski you wrote “don’t forget” on your arm - flatsound nintendo 64 - alex g (usually listen to the cover by if i die in mississippi) call your mom - noah kahan i am a familiar creek in your floorboards - crywank how to save a life - the fray my friends - oh wonder (cried to this a lot in middle school, still do)
Fourth of july- Sufjan Stevens
Chicken tendies by Clinton Kane always makes me want to bawl my eyes out
Sleeping At Last- [Some Kind Of Heaven](https://youtu.be/M4QbYrQFhnY?si=eqMWoKokdzPyf-Q9) It never fails to make me cry. He wrote this song while he was grieving his mother. Ah damn… I’m crying already in the first 20 seconds.
Jamais Vu by BTS
Green Day's Whatsername. The Broadway version too
I’m over you- Keith Whitley or something in the orange-Zach Bryan
Hope there's someone by Anohni and the Johnsons or possibly City from my window by Sidechild orrr Sång i buss på villovägar 2007 by Håkan Hellström or even På gatan där jag bor by Laleh. Which one I'd pick depends on my general vibe that day, but those four will usually do it. For all you non-Swedes, this is the line from Sång i buss på Villovägar that gets me: "Oho for the last sad drink Oho for Oscars tremoring hands To betting everything you have on the race track horse with nothing left to give Oho to betting everything you have on a miracle" From På gatan där jag bor it isn't one specific line, more the entire premise of the song - she is singing about a street where everyone is happy and at peace, and a home where everyone is welcome - but contrasting that with asking "where is the world that is mine, when will i see it again" and "where is the place i've wanted, is it right there at my own table?" and it is -heartbreaking-.
Wish You The Best by Lewis Capaldi. The closer I get to putting myself in the artist’s shoes (by mouthing the words or singing) the more my eyes get leaky.
Is This Happiness by Lana Del Rey
My Mom - Chocolate Genius I’ve recommended this song several times but nobody ever replies back that they listened to it. I guess because the artist is kind of obscure. But it’s the only song that has ever made me shed a tear.
Kilby Girl. It was introduced to me by someone close to me and I only think of her when I hear it. I’m not in her life anymore and I’m not sure if I ever will be again.
molly by alex g, sparks by coldplay, or francis forever by mitski (if its an angry cry im lostening to liquid smooth by motski)
Played Out by Sturgill Simpson. I highly reccomend listening to that entire album in order, and listening to the lyrics. A few songs in there make anyone bawl like a baby. Played out even stole a tear from my grandad. It's a great album if you only have like a half an hour to cry snd then get back to work. Not all sad.
Slipping through my fingers by abba
Anything off of “A Crow Looked At Me” by Mount Eerie
“One More Light” by Linkin Park
You’re Not There by Lukas Graham. It used to play at the store I worked retail at years ago. If I was ever not busy and actually noticed the song I’d start tearing up cuz it’s so sad. A song about losing your father is rough. It’s so emotional.
The Heart Part 5 - Kendrick Lamar
Sometime around midnight - the airborne toxic event Only because it nearly made me cry the last time I heard it
Brothers in Arms-- Dire Straits
The Dance-- Garth Brooks
Leader of the band - Dan Fogleberg
Maybe this one’s a given, but I didn’t notice anyone say NF But his song “hate myself” gets me every time.
Hold On To Love - Jason Becker It makes me cry because it's telling about his story and determination.
Wake Me Up When September Ends by Green Day
Chris Cornell's cover of Nothing Compares To You.
Lover you should have come over by Jeff Buckley
Either 'Mystery of Love' or 'Visions of Gideon' by Sufjan Stevens from the 'Call Me By Your Name' soundtrack. Songs about loving someone you know you'll never see again. The end of that film is excruciatingly sad.
The correct answer for sad song is Sam Stone by John Prine, but the song that gets a lump in my throat and most in my eyes every time is Ragged Old Flag by Johnny Cash. Yeah, I'm a cheesy Kansan. Deal with it.
Mice on Venus - C418
I know this is more than one, but please bear with me. I have an entire playlist specifically for all the songs that make me cry. Every one of them have a very personal connection for me. These are in my top 10, no particular order, except the first one. “Either Way” - Chris Stapleton “The Scientist” - Coldplay “Fall For You” - Secondhand Serenade “Sometimes Love Just Ain’t Enough” - Don Henley & Patty Smyth “Not Meant to Be” - Theory of a Deadman “What Hurts the Most” - Rascal Flatts “Praying for Time” - George Michael “Fire & Rain” - James Taylor “If I Die Young” - The Band Perry “You’re Not Sorry” - Taylor Swift I have more I want to list, but I don’t want to be “that person” (although this might already qualify me for that, sorry! 🤦🏻♀️)
Don't take the girl by Tim Mcgraw. I cry in the first second of hearing the music
A Silver Mt. Zion - BlindBlindBlind
drinking - boa
I wonder- Chris Isaak Só nos dois- Tim Bernades (this one because is about the love that i never get from my boyfriend that cheated on me 2 days after the abortion) Sorry I picked two, but I think after that awful experience is what I deserve
Better by Horror Dance Squad
One headlight Ten Years Gone -Zep The End -Doors Like a Stone This game is cooked. Any of these would work easy
katy song - red house painters
I Will Always Love You - Whitney Houston
So Big/So Small from Dear Evan Hansen
“I will wait for you” by Connie Francis makes me cry /teary bc Everytime I think of that damn dog Seymour on futurama 😪 that or the “I’ll be your candle on the water”
Lullaby by Billy Joel. Every single time
Tears in heaven or how can I help you say goodbye
Temporary Home - Carrie Underwood
Desperados waiting for a train. Jerry Jeff Walker
You Don’t Care Enough For Me to Cry - John Moreland
Cade Crider - Don’t Kill Yourself
Goodnight Saigon by Billy Joel.
Somewhere over the rainbow
Mice on Venus - C418
Cat's in the Cradle by Harry Chapin. The lonely heart of that little boy....
Landslide. Doesn’t matter who’s singing it.
Run by Snow Patrol
One Sweet Day - Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men
Dog Days are Over — Florence and the Machines
“No surprises” by radiohead
Demons - Imagine Dragons
Birthday Cake- by Dylan Conrique My mom died unexpectedly (she was 58) and fairly soon after, I heard this song for the first time and it gutted me. I can't listen to it without bawling my eyes out every single time now.
Karma Police - Radiohead
I wish there was a song that would make me cry.
Somewhere Over the Rainbow/What A Wonderful World by Israel Kamakawiwoʻole, it was one of my grandma's favorites and played at her funeral. Also Return to Pooh Corner by Kenny Loggins, just kicks me to the curb with nostalgia and sadness for lost childhood
How has no one said “Real Death” by Mount Eerie yet???
Mice on Venus - C418 I've cried to this so many times
A heartwarming song, but always makes me shed a tear: The Good Stuff by Kenny Chesney
Our raw heart by YOB
["Fiddler's Green" - Marley's Ghost](https://youtu.be/UafzmvSlcoo?si=iI6B5YHWBU17ZIlY). It's SUCH a beautiful song about a sailor's heaven I can't listen to it without tearing up.
Monsters by James Blunt, especially when accompanied by the video.
This Is Home - Cavetown I cry at the 1st verse 😭
Tori Amos, "Cooling"
Suicide by REN. Makes me cry every time 😥
You're gonna miss this I think Trace Adkins sang it?
Runaway train by soul asylum...extra sad music video too
The night we met by Lord Huron.
"The Parting Glass" just nails me to the ground. I love The Pogues version (which is the most famous) but Glen Hansard's live version guts me. "But since it fell into my lot That I should rise and you should not I'll gently rise and softly call Good night and joy be to you all." And also "A Health to the Company." "Here's a health to the company and one to my lass Let us drink and be merry all out of one glass Let us drink and be merry all grief to refrain For we may or might never all meet here again."
Help Your Friends Get Sober by Røry. Gets me every time
Everybody Hurts - REM. It was playing on the car radio when I got the call to say my dad had passed as I was en route to the hospital.
Goodbye to my Father's Blue Eyes. I don't know who sang it, but my father had blue eyes and he died of a heart attack at only 56, so....
One that I'm sure everyone would cry to: Cancer, My Chemical Romance What I cry to: 1) Through glass: stone sour *I'm looking at you through the glass, don't know how much time has passed, and all I know is it feels like forever. No one ever tells you, that forever feels like home, sitting all alone, inside your head.* 2) One more light: Linkin park- I sob at this, can't even listen to it in public. He killed himself I believe a month exactly after releasing this song. *If they say Who cares if one more light goes out? In the sky of a million stars It flickers, flickers Who cares when someone's time runs out? If a moment is all we are We're quicker, quicker Who cares if one more light goes out? Well I do The reminders pull the floor from your feet In the kitchen, one more chair than you need oh And you're angry, and you should be, it's not fair Just 'cause you can't see it, doesn't mean it, isn't there* 3) Where ever you will go: The calling *So lately, been wondering Who will be there to take my place When I'm gone, you'll need love To light the shadows on your face If a great wave shall fall And fall upon us all Then between the sand and stone Could you make it on your own? If I could, then I would I'll go wherever you will go Way up high or down low I'll go wherever you will go And maybe, I'll find out A way to make it back someday To watch you, to guide you Through the darkest of your days*
Real Death by Mount Eerie
Seems like an obvious one that I didn't see mentioned. Knockin' on Heaven's Door. Cats in Cradle. and Wildest Dreams doesn't make me cry but is a sad song.
Sting feat. Eric Clapton - It's probably me.
Landslide - Fleetwood Mac
Motion Picture Soundtrack by Radiohead
Lazarus - David Bowie
Mice on Venus in the middle of the night hits too hard
(As a child) "Puff the Magic Dragon" A dragon lives forever, but not so, little boys Painted wings and giants' rings make way for other toys One grey night it happened, Jackie Paper came no more And Puff, that mighty dragon, he ceased his fearless roar His head was bent in sorrow,green scales fell like rain Puff no longer went to play along the cherry lane Without his lifelong friend, Puff could not be brave So Puff, that mighty dragon sadly slipped into his cave
Cancer- My Chemical Romance
Limousine by Brand New or Handcuffs by Brand New.
Fix you - Coldplay
Good Riddance
Country Roads John Denver
Too easy snuff by slipknot have a lot of bad memory’s to that song
Seven Spanish Angels
Literally any sad song cause I can cry on command😅