Songs that bring you to tears

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While not a song per say, but a classical piece of music:

Arvo Part's Spiel Im Spiegel.

It doesn't help that it is a very morose peice of music and that I bought the cd of it during a very depressing period in my life.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwSGSMWSk3c[/youtube]This is the only song in memory that has brought me to tears.

"Fast Car" - Tracy Chapman
"Hurt" - Nine Inch Nails
"Together We Will Live Forever" - Clint Mansell
"Memories (Someone We'll Never Know)" - Clint Mansell
"Mad World" - Gary Jules
"Sitting On The Moon" - Enigma
"Eden" - Sarah Brightman

And probably the one I have cried while listening to the most:

"Canon in D" - Johann Pachelbel

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bR8XH3R95xE[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWL7dKl8_eU[/youtube]

"Turn Around" by Malveena Reynolds (aka the "Kodak song) is my number one tear jerker.



Others on the list would be:

'Color Him Father" by the WInstons
"Daddy's Hands" by Holly Dunn
"Abraham,and Martin, and John" by Dion

Fade to Black Metallica, Black Pearl Jam, Your Decision Alice in Chains, Nutshell Alice in Chains, Love Reign O'er Me The Who and Pearl Jam versions.

This one never fails. It's by Dan Balan, a singer from the Republic of Moldova, my current fave musician and sexiest man alive
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8-UqJvCjic

This one is also Dan's, but it's in Romanian. It is basically a suicide note, and the chorus can be translated as "And I am going up toward the sky...and I feel I'm leaving you, my angel. When rain will fall on the earth, you will know that I sing about you. (Despre Tine Cînt, the title of the song, means "I sing about you" in Romanian) When the sun will be on the earth, you will know that I sing about you."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zs45RtHxTmg

~Kate

This particular one hasn't literally, but it makes me feel like it:

Messages - Velvet Revolver

The theme/lyrics (9/11) coupled with the melody...


[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pjV1Ah6rNM[/youtube]

If your not the one - Daniel Beddingfield because it reminds me of my ex gf and (still) best friend. It was pretty complicated as when we met we were both in unhappy relationships but didn't meet up because we didn't want anything that shouldn't to happen. She was very untrusting and wary because of things that had happened to her in the past and... well, I'm me and useless socially. All I could do was be there and be the best friend I could. After three years of meeting and talking and knowing how much we liked each other and both being single we decided to met up and it was like we'd know each other forever. We sat up watching music channels, talking and ended up a bit drunk... which resulted in me singing this to her. In the end it didn't work out, we live to far apart and she's got too many unresolved past issues... but she is one of the few people I can call a friend. real bittersweet one for me but I tend not to listen to itcos I know I'll end up crying

Love - John Lennon

All Apologies - Nirvana

Needle In The Hay - Elliot Smith

America - Simon & Garfunkel

While My Guitar Gently Weeps - John Lennon
Mr. Bojangles - Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
Father and Son (or renamed) - Cat Stevens
Fly Away - John Denver
Forever Young - Alphaville
Piano Man - Billy Joel
Rock n Roll Fantasy - Kinks
Nobody's Diary - Yaz
Ripple - Grateful Dead
Eve Of Destruction - Barry McGuire
Sing your life - Morrissey
Always On My Mind - Petshop Boys
Granddaddy - Everything Beautiful is far away
Auld Lang Syne Millenium - Kenny G
Danny Boy - Irish Folk Song
Say You're wrong - Julian Lennon
Blowing in the Wind - Peter Paul and Mary
Daniel - Elton John
Lucky Man - Emerson Lake Palmer
Day is Done - Peter Paul Mary
Cats in the cradle -Harry Chapin
Don't cry for me argentina - Evita
Noah Plan - Peter Shilling
Big Country - Big Country
Magic Power - Triumph
Love is like oxygen - Sweet
Stumbling in - Suzie Quatro
Love like we do - Edie Brickell
Se la vida e - Petshop boys
Eleanor Rigby - Beatles
Listen to what the man said - Beatles
Like a rolling stone - Bob Dylan
This is the day - TheThe
Return to innocence - Enigma
Wonderful - Everclear
Yours Truly 2095 - Electric Light Orchestra
Young Turks - Rod Stewart
Those were the days - Doris day or Mary Hopkins
I'll find my way home - Jon Anderson
Wishes of Happiness - Yeha-Noha
Mrs. Robinson - Simon Garfunkel
House of Love - Shine On
Always the Sun - Stranglers
Neverending Story - Limahl
Total Eclipse of the Heart - Bonnie Tyler
Puff the magic dragon - Peter Paul Mary

Goo goo dolls: Iris
The Rasmus: Whatever
Plumb: Damaged
Val Emmich: A voice
The Rasmus: Bullet

There is one somg that never fails to make me sniffle everytime I hear it. I would really like to share it with you guys but unfortunately there's no youtube link for it.

Anyways, the song is called Blood and it's by Abandoned Pools. My boyfriend first played it for me when I was going through a rough time in life. The lyrics pretty much tell the story of my life.

I see the happy the family tree
It sways so easily
We're smiling all the time
This world just isn't mine

We watch it burn
And we never learn
This can't be what you're waiting for
Staring into the sun
We eat our young
This can't be what you're waiting for

Just take it easy on yourself
Forget all the stupid things we say
I know you beat up on yourself
I know it's in your blood

You say what no one understands
The seeds are in your hands
The branches break your bones
I can't just leave you alone
And watch you squirm

And I can't bring myself to look
I rip the pages from the book
And watch it burn

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

"Con Te Partiro" - the Andrea Bocelli version
"Beloved" -VNV Nation, if I'm in the past
Several Beatles songs

There are others. Kansas's "Dust in the Wind" has come close many times, because it was a favorite of Dave's, and I wanted to cry over his death, but for all the times I've felt the sting, it's never happened.

I'll post edits as I remember.

Fire and Rain by James Taylor. (The saddest song ever written)

Just yesterday morning they let me know you were gone
Susanne the plans they made put an end to you
I walked out this morning and I wrote down this song
I just can't remember who to send it to

I've seen fire and I've seen rain
I've seen sunny days that I thought would never end
I've seen lonely times when I could not find a friend
But I always thought that I'd see you again

Won't you look down upon me, Jesus
You've got to help me make a stand
You've just got to see me through another day
My body's aching and my time is at hand
And I won't make it any other way

Oh, I've seen fire and I've seen rain
I've seen sunny days that I thought would never end
I've seen lonely times when I could not find a friend
But I always thought that I'd see you again

Been walking my mind to an easy time my back turned towards the sun
Lord knows when the cold wind blows it'll turn your head around
Well, there's hours of time on the telephone line to talk about things
To come
Sweet dreams and flying machines in pieces on the ground

Oh, I've seen fire and I've seen rain
I've seen sunny days that I thought would never end
I've seen lonely times when I could not find a friend
But I always thought that I'd see you, baby, one more time again, now

Thought I'd see you one more time again
There's just a few things coming my way this time around, now
Thought I'd see you, thought I'd see you fire and rain, now