a song so beautiful it makes you cry

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Music can make me cry and I have worked out that in weepy emotional films I am never weeping about the situation of the character its the music which touches a nerve usually.
Songs that make me cry a few Suede ones and Roberta Flack.

Johnny Cash is one of my favourite artists, the American Recordings with Rick Rubin, all 5 albums, can put a lump in my throat. When you listen to the choice of songs, and add the context that he was so ill throughout. It was his song I Hung My Head that was going through my head when I destroyed my last relationship. Not because I shot someone but because the whole thing was so messed up.

Another one that gets me is the theme from Last of the Mohicans, when heard in context with the film, especially the final skirmish. Bang, tears every time.

me too, what an amazing film that is


'Anthem' by Leonard Cohen from the album The Future

love it

ring the bell that's still to ring
forget your perfect offering
there is a crack in everything
that's where the light gets in

The TV series Angel had emotional theme music.

Thinking about it, in an indirect way, Jeff Buckley's cover of Cohen's Hallelujah is a proper tear-jerker. And for some reason, Suzanne makes me sad, not neccessarily tearful, but definately sad.

That's a very sad song, especially if you know the story behind it.

I have been crying to "Just like heaven" by the Cure lately, before that the only song that was guaranteed to make me cry everytime was "Stuck in a moment" by U2 cause it reminds me of all the mistakes i've made in my life.

'My Skin'- Natalie Merchant

When I first heard that song, I pretty much fell apart for a good half-hour, and it's the same with Johnny Cash's cover of 'Hurt'. As well as being unbearably sad, they're beautiful. There are a whole other bunch of songs that make me cry, or get me close to tears, but none I can think of immediately that top those two.

My Chemical Romance - Cancer
(which just came on now)
but it doesn't make me cry any more as i've listened to it so often
it's the same for Good Charlotte - Emotionless, unless i see them singing it live
Working Class Hero - John Lennon
Pink - Family Portrait

And the videos for
Good Charlotte - Hold On
My Chemical Romance - Ghost Of You
Funeral For A Friend - Walk Away

Anything with and overload of emotion in it, even it it's happy emotion

Johnny Cash Hurt

didnt cry but def a very emosional song

partucularly sincie i think it is the last he made befor he past away

The allegretto from Beethoven's 7th symphony always gets me.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsVIVqmTjYw[/youtube]

Music is remarkably effective at getting me emotional. Some of the sure-fire waterworks songs for me:

Goodbye by Grandaddy
One More Robot Symphony 3000-21 by The Flaming Lips
Lonesome Tears by Beck
Gayane Ballet Suite Adagio by Aram Khachaturian

Particularly Grandaddy. Jason Lytle seems to have my temperament and problems.

cry from a song? like actually crying and sobbing? how is that possible?

With respect, if you have to ask the question, you will not understand the answer.

Good fortune,

- Icarus uses music as an emotional accentuator...

I don't think I've ever actually cried from a song. I am easily moved by soaring "melodramatic" music though (music from movie scores, for instance). When I hear something beautiful I get a tingling feeling down my neck and feel kind of spacey, like I could just melt away. It definitely isn't sadness though. I tend to like music that most people describe as "sad" because it makes me feel euphoric.