Lets Cry...for the fun of crying. Fav Tear Jerking Songs.

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My personal number one in the category...demanding the tallest stacks of kleenex boxes...is this, being sung by Malveena Reynolds...the Australian lady who penned it...also known as the "Kodak Song" because a version sung by a male baritone was used in TV spots for kodak when I was a little kid. Dianna Ross also did a good cover of it too.


https://youtu.be/eCh13Rsd-WU

https://youtu.be/QTXs6uQg_ss?si=2vBzTdxPHPILqcMp




Here For You
Ozzy Osbourne

When I was at primary school we used to sing this song in assembly called Wind in the Willows. I think it's an old Irish folk song or something, it's sort of religious. It's not a particularly sad song or anything, but it just made me want to cry.

I used to pretend to sing it because if I actually sang I'd get too emotional and start crying. I don't know why it affected me like that.

https://youtu.be/vADADQYuylU?si=1CH3UeJ_DmgwbEF9




Blackbird (acoustic)




My son and his best friend played it on acoustic guitar at their high school graduation talent show.
They were sat on stools in a glow of purple spotlights.

They were at that age of angst and depression.
There wasn't a dry eye in the house.

I have it on video and wish I could share.
Maybe I'll share just the audio one day but it's really emotional for me.

Six years later my son's friend was jumped and stabbed by three random thugs.
He was face-down and stabbed repeatedly in the back, puncturing his lungs.

My son intervened to save his life.
They went for my son's heart but got him in the left bicep instead.

They were taken to separate hospitals.
At my son's hospital we were told his friend might not make it.

It was a very bad night.

They're both in one of the cottage pictures I posted, golfing with canoe paddles.

^

^

I didn't even know about the talent show until about an hour before.

"Hey mum, can you iron a shirt for me? I'm playing guitar in a school concert."

??

"Yeah and maybe can you drop me off? I'm running late ...."


lmaooo kids -- like it was no big deal.

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The song "Crying" does it for me too.
Anything Roy Orbison makes me cry but I love the KD Lang version too.

https://youtu.be/X6yj2b1UT08?si=rKuRe54bAKI457_9




For a good friend who walked me through Hell.



The Story
Brandi Carlile

Oh this is brilliant

I might learn how to cry with this thread



This almost does it for me. It makes me think of my recent reunion with my dad and the 51 years we was both looking for each other and it's one of his favourites as well

^

I love that song.
Congrats on finding your dad.

https://youtu.be/tM6JSuLu134?si=N_wICHEl-IyGU8Qo




Dream #9
John Lennon



I don't have a story to share for this one.
It just makes me cry.
There's something haunting about it.
It gives me profound feelings of nostalgia and saudade.

Plus, you know - John.

https://youtu.be/n603wAouaZU?si=pQKgSkll-LrmDfwt




Love Lies Bleeding
Elton John



I think I've shared this one before but it's that time of year again. My sixteenth birthday -- the day after Twilightprincess was born -- I was home in my parents' back yard with nothing to do because I was such a misfit at school, I had no friends. I felt sorry for myself because sixteenth birthdays are supposed to be a big deal for girls.

A floral delivery arrived at the house. It was a big box with 16 red roses inside, and a little card saying:


"Happy Sweet 16 Issy. Love, X"


The X meant I had a secret admirer! I was out of my mind trying to figure out which boy at school was secretly in love with me. I was pretty sure it was a senior I had a crush on despite never speaking to him in my life.

I was swooning with the romance of it all, and feeling good about myself for the first time in years.

My dad stood by watching, with tears in his eyes.

Just a couple of hours after that, we got word that my grandfather shot himself in the head. He committed suicide because of depression, anxiety, and social phobia (undiagnosed ASD), which is exactly what I'd been feeling at the time. He was found lying on his kitchen floor, bleeding.

I watched my dad's tears of joy about my roses turn to tears of anguish.

Only later did I learn that my dad had sent me the roses, not a random boy. He purposely sent them from "X" so I'd think they were from a boy, and I'd feel popular.

The song Love Lies Bleeding reminds me of that day, which was the best and worst of my life. It even begins with an instrumental called Funeral for a Friend.

There were red roses at my Gramps' funeral when I still had Dad's 16 red roses in my bedroom.

Not to be graphic but there was also a lot of blood when my grandpa died, and we later went to the house to replace the floor tiles because they'd been stained. Everything red reminds me of turning 16.

I still can't look at red roses or listen to this song without crying, especially on my birthday.


Lyrics:

The roses in the window box have tilted to one side
Everything about this house was born to grow and die
It doesn't seem a year ago to this very day
You said I'm sorry honey, if I don't change the pace
I can't face another day

Last but not least,





https://youtu.be/lo-cp1270eQ?si=zW4QVYoHNqde4NlT



For Ferr


Bright Eyes
Art Garfunkel

More than one dj did mash-ups of the late Amy Winehouse with this Sixties hit by Motown's Four Tops. The styles dovetail.
Resulting in a fun novelty record. Until the Rehab singer finnally succumbed to her inner demons. Now the male voices of the Tops ...representing a man addressing his defiant lover ...Amy...come off as rather poignant and even prophetic.


https://youtu.be/as-n717Fef8

Around 1970 Gil Scott Heron did "rap" almost a decade before rap became a thing. The title is misleadingly humorous. The song is wrenching.


https://youtu.be/DuaugaX8N2U

I'm a sucker for vocals like these.

I don't normally associate gang shouts with this sort of music but they work.