Songs that makes you cry...

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List them here.
For me, it's Two-Headed Boy, by Neutral Milk Hotel.
Then again, most of the songs on In An Aeroplane Over The Sea make me cry with joy.

Kilkelly, Ireland

Kilkelly Ireland, eighteen and sixty, my dear and lovin' son John
Your good friend the Schoolmaster Pat McNamara, so good as to write these words down.
Your brothers have all gone to find work in England, the house is so empty and sad,
The crop of potatoes is sorely affected, a third to a half of them bad.
And your sister Bridget and Patrick O'Donnell, are going' to be married in June,
Your mother says not to work on the railroad, and be sure to come on home soon.

Kilkelly Ireland, eighteen and seventy, my dear and lovin' son John
Hello to your misses and to your four children, that they may grow healthy and strong
Michael has got in a wee bit of trouble, I suppose he never will learn
Because of the dampness there's no turf to speak of and now we have nothing to burn.
And Bridget is happy you named the child for her, although she got six of her own
You say you've found work, but you don't say what kind, or when you'll be comin' home.

Kilkelly Ireland, eighteen and eighty, dear Michael and John and sons
I'm sorry to give you the very sad news that your dear old mother has gone.
We buried her down at the church in Kilkelly, your brothers and Bridget were there,
You don't have to worry, she died very quickly, remember her in your prayers.
And it's so good to hear that Michael's returning with money he's sure to buy land
For the crop has been poor and the people are selling, for any price that they can.

Kilkelly Ireland, eighteen and ninety, my dear and lovin' son John
I suppose that I must be close to eighty, its thirty years since you've gone
Because of all of the money you sent me, I'm still living' out of my own
Michael has built himself a fine house, and Bridget's daughters have grown
And thank you for sending' your family picture, they're lovely young women and men
You say you might even come for a visit, what a joy to see you again.

Kilkelly Ireland, eighteen and ninety two, my dear brother John,
I'm sorry I didn't write sooner, to tell you that father has gone.
He was living with Brigid, she said he was cheerful and healthy right down to the end
And you should have seen him play with the grandchildren, of Pat McNamara your friend.
And we buried him alongside of mother, down at Kilkelly churchyard
He was a stone and a feisty old man, considering that life is so hard.
And it's funny the way he kept talkin' about you, he called for you at the end
And why don't you think about comin' to visit, we'd all love to see you again.

"If You're Not The One" - Daniel Bedingfield
"Remember When" - Alan Jackson
"Concrete Angel" - Martina McBride
"Fast Car" - Tracy Chapman
"I Hope You Dance" - Lee Ann Womack
"I Pray" - Amanda Perez
"Grow Old With Me" - John Lennon

Porcelain - Moby
Remember Me, My Friend - Blue Jays
Watching and Waiting - Moody Blues
I Am...I Said - Neil Diamond
And So It Goes - Billy Joel
If You Could Read My Mind - Gordon Lightfoot
and others

The Hex Dispensers' song, "Forest Ray Colson", used to make me cry because the story was similar to that of a friend of mine who was killed by police. Then I learned that their song was about a famed mass murderer of yore, not someone they knew. So I wrote my own song about my dead friend.

And not long ago, I was listening to The Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime - while driving around my new city, and I started thinking about D Boon and how he died young and all, and this made me cry a little even though I never met him.

There are some songs I literally can't listen to without crying. So I don't listen to them much if at all. If I can remember what they are, I'll post a list.

To name a few:

Depeche Mode: Judas
Chameleons UK: Tears,Caution,Second Skin,Soul In Isolation
Mister Mister: Broken Wings
A Flock of Seagulls: The End,Remember David
Ultravox: All in One Day
The Church: Disenchanted
Siouxsie and the Banshees: Last beat of My Heart, Little Sister, Ghost in You
Anything Box: Someone Speaks,Hypocrites, Wish
Tears For Fears: Memories Fade

.............and many more

My music choices are mostly depressing as heck, but I have yet to find a song makes me shed tears.

'Lean on Me' by Bill Withers.
Makes me cry because I've never had that person to lean on that everyone else seemed to have.

"Somebody" - Depeche Mode


M.

There are one or two records I cannot listen to because they were made by lost friends' bands, and I like to avoid that kind of flood of emotion. Music brings out emotions in me like absolutely nothing else . . . .

Hallelujah by Jeff Buckley, it's a beautiful song and I didn't recognize its beauty properly until my grandma died last year. It makes me think of her.

Good love songs not any of that fake crap that somebody made in the back of a smoke filled room for someone to lip sink
I mean real stuff like if you know of that song I forget the name b/c I'm bad with them I think it's Roxanne anyway that's a real love song, albeit a secret one

Claude Debussy – Claire De Lune
Pink Floyd - Marooned
Garth Brooks - Cowboy Bill

Sentimental music, corny music, some hymns, it varies. I enjoy the experience of crying to music. very pleasant.