What song can make you burst out into tears?

[The Dork Knight]

Honestly the song "Stuck In a Moment You Can't Get Out Of" always makes me want to cry.

[Calhoun07]

There is this song by Michael Kelly Blanchard and I forget what the name of it is, but its about 12 minutes long and tells the story of a girl who is sexually abused. Man, I don't know anybody who I've shared that song with who didn't get tears in their eyes. It's one powerful song.

[Maxie Zeus]

Most anything on Paul Simon's "Negotiations and Love Songs" CD.

[DR. BELCH]

--but Dylan's long pieces like "Desolation Row", "Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands", and "Brownsville Girl" I find haunting. Also, the final verse of "American Pie" seems to have taken on a chilling new significance after the Emergency Number Bombings ("And in the streets, the children screamed/The lovers cried, and the poets dreamed...."). I also have a soft spot in my heart for "The Greatest Love of All"....

[Salvor]

"With or without you". Classic :) It's just so... vivid.

[Bird Boy]

well, I was listenting to that Elton John song the other day..the one dedicated to Princess Diana..it made me wanna cry....I kept em' back though...tis' a good song..

-BB

[optimal321]

Well, i don't really cry at this song, but hearing that Vertical Horizon song Everything You Want makes me feel like it. Guess it jsut hits a little too close to home or something...

But today i heard a commercial asking for donations to help the victims from last Tuesday. It was had a collection of quotes taht were said and had some special meaning. And one part in it had an immigrant (she had an accent) who just said "I love this country." That really got me.

[oranthal]

anything that britney spears sing. the voice is so horrible that hurts my ears so much that i begin to tear-up in the eye.

[happyheathen]

I can't believe no one's mentioned 'Desperado' (Eagles)

[Singin' Stray Cat]

"Hazard" by Richard Marx (I think) or "Both Sides" by Phil Collins came closest to making me cry.

"Desperado...why don't you come to your senses?..."

... is that the one you mean, happyheathen? For some reason that's the only part I remember...I must be too young or not heard it enough times or something.

[happyheathen]

Originally posted by Singin' Stray Cat

"Desperado...why don't you come to your senses?..."

... is that the one you mean, happyheathen? For some reason that's the only part I remember...I must be too young or not heard it enough times or something.

that's the one - worth looking up (imo)

[Trent Lane]

Train's latest one on the radio, "Something More". Not that it makes me cry, it's just one of those songs that hits you *hits chest* right there...

[Failure]

I think a lot of Our Lady Peace songs are sad, especially from their album Happiness is not a fish... They've never really brought me to tears, but I thought Blister was a really, really sad sounding song.

[Betaman8]

this may sound weird, but many of the songs from the who's rock opera "Tommy" make me cry. cant pick just one, but christmas and cousin kevin get me alot.

[James]

Hmm, then end credits of Final Fantasy 7 - perhaps after spending 60 hours nurturing characters the last few bars have a special meaning to me....

Plus - and I hate to admit it - November Rain by Guns N' Roses is a cool song.... hidden memories to that one...

Retrovertigo by Mr Bungle.... I don't why.... sniff....

[Eraserhead]

As others have said, these songs dont make me "burst out into tears" but they do play with my thoughts and emotions (A few of them were played on AMERICA:TRIBUTE TO HEROES):

"The Long & winding road" (Beatles)
"Abraham,Martin & John" (?)
"What's going on?"(Marvin Gaye)
"He aint heavy, He's my brother" (?)
"Missing You" (Diana Ross)
"I'm not in love" (10cc)
"Again" (Janet Jackson)
"Imagine" (John Lennon)
"Dont fall on me" (REM)
"Redemption Song" (Bob Marley)
"Time" (Bread)
"Streets of Philadelphia" (Bruce Springsteen)
"I cant help falling in love (Elvis)
"Desperado" (Eagles)
"The greatest love of all" (Whitney)
"Let it be" (Beatles)
"Gone too soon" (Michael Jackson)
"Am I Dreaming?" (Xscape)
"One" (U2)
"End of the road" (BoyzIIMen)
"Wants to live forever" (Queen)

[The Mad Hatter]

"One" and "Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of" are two big ones for me, but then again I'm a huge U2 nut.

Here's one that'll show my age and how cheesy I can be: Madonna's "Used to be Our Playground." Not only is the song itself deeply sad, but it came out at the exact time I left a summer program where I had developed some good friendships over the past six weeks, and now we had to scatter back across the state. My mind just latched onto that song, and I still get misty every time I hear it.

[Calhoun07]

Not that many of you were probably wondering, but here are the lyrics to that rarely heard song I was talking about before....

Daddy was hard like his calloused hands
He lived every part of the military man
Concealing his heart, not revealing his plans
Til deep in the dark we'be be packed in the van
Moving the family again
Now Mother was kind, but afraid of him so
She threatened at times, but never would go
With four kids under nine and one of them slow
Her anger refined to a bedroom of "no"
Her anger refined to "no"
Saturday nights daddy gave us our baths
Scrubbed everyone of us sore
Naked with bubbles and giggles and laughs
A Saturday swim nothing more
A shampooing water-logged chore
So why'd he start closing the door?

(CHORUS)
The trouble with me is I can't seem to trust
My wounds just bleed and won't heal up
I don't know where I'd be if I'd never been touched
But I know I don't like me much

Now I was the youngest of three pretty girls
Janine and Contance and they named me Pearl
Then Dad said by accident came our brother Earl
A retarded innocent light in our world
And innocent light was ol' Earl
Now Dad was ashamed of his bumbling boy
Wanting someone to blame for his broken toy
But Earl's coutenance reigned it could not be destroyed
And we all came to depend on his joy
We all did depend on that that boy
After a while it was just Earl and me
There in the Saturday tub
Daddy gave "smiles" that Earl didn't see
As I frantically fished for some suds
And pleaded to please let me scrub
Til he'd look so alone and unloved.

REPEAT CHORUS

High schoool was happy, most of the time
I dated and partied and walked a fine line
Mother would worry, Daddy would pine
But I never was sorry for the life that was mine
The life that was finally mine
Now ol' Earl and I were as close as could be
My love a bribe, his love was free
He showed me a side of life we seldom see
"You count, I'll hide...how 'bout it, Pearly?"
Oh, Earl you're the pearl to me
One Saturday night Daddy came to my bed
Mother had gone to Janine's
I cursed him so angry, he finally said
"Pearl, you still belong to me."
Then a light in the room lit up three
"Daddy, you let Pearly be!"
And Earl, good ol' Earl, threw his arms around me

My folks moved again this time the midwest
I stayed with some friends as a permanent guest
Earl went with them, Mother thought it was best
Every now and again there'd be a letter addressed
"To Pearly...From Early...express!"
Then one chilly spring as the maple trees bled
With a boyfriend and a ring and a day picked to wed
Heard the telephone ring, heard dear ol' Earl was dead
"He didn't feel a thing" somebody said
Oh, my the tears that I shed
Now some Saturday nights I run me a bath
And soak in a strange memory
I think about Earl and just have to laugh
God, what a pair we were
God, he was as good as could be
God, what's the matter with me

REPEAT CHORUS

There's no sorrow that God cannot heal
There's no damage that He did not feel
Moment by moment he's there where you hide
Tenderly holding you close as you cry
Jesus, the Lord of the lonely inside
Jesus the Lord of all love crucified.

[Trent Lane]

I hadn't heard the National Anthem since the WTC bombing, but when they played it today before the Winston Cup race, itmade me well up a bit. I never really paid attention to the words until today and it's powerful stuff. I knew the words, don't think I'm a total moron, I just never sat there and thought about their meaning...

[Singin' Stray Cat]

Originally posted by flhero311
I hadn't heard the National Anthem since the WTC bombing, but when they played it today before the Winston Cup race, itmade me well up a bit. I never really paid attention to the words until today and it's powerful stuff. I knew the words, don't think I'm a total moron, I just never sat there and thought about their meaning...

I felt the same way after hearing Lee Greenwood's "God Bless the USA" on the radio the other day. (I think that's the name of the song...)

[TuffyCatt]

Originally posted by flhero311
I hadn't heard the National Anthem since the WTC bombing, but when they played it today before the Winston Cup race, itmade me well up a bit. I never really paid attention to the words until today and it's powerful stuff. I knew the words, don't think I'm a total moron, I just never sat there and thought about their meaning...

I'm part of a singing group, and we had a concert the weekend after the attack. The first song we sang was the National Anthem. I had to concentrate really hard on the director and not look at the audience to keep myself from crying. It was really tough. I now pay a lot more attention to all the patriotic songs, and I'm kinda of glad that I'm finally learning to appreciate them.

(Post 100! Yea me!!)

[Bluntman]

I'm going to sound like a total wuss here, but when I hear the Journey song "Send Her My Love", I start to get misty eyed. It reminds me of my ex, whom I loved a lot. Brian McKnight's "Anytime" does it for me too. U2's "When I Look At The World" makes me think of all the people that lost their lives on September 11. When you think about it, it saddens you a little. The Cure's "There Is No If" makes my tear up at the first line. Anyone going through a breakup can relate.

Oh yeah, Britney Spears' voice makes me want to cry too. Well, her and Whitney Houston.

Come on, I had to throw a joke in somewhere.

[Calhoun07]

I hear Britney's new video is something so bad it makes people want to cry. Anybody see it?

[Failure]

Originally posted by calhoun07
I hear Britney's new video is something so bad it makes people want to cry. Anybody see it?

Yeah, it's like a porn video, only with clothes. You'll really notice it when everyone's all bunched up in a corner in the end and Britney's splurting out random heavy gasps.

[Frozen]

I went through a phase of unrequited love with a girl a few years before I met my wife, and every time I heard "I Love You" on Sarah McLachlan's "Surfacing" album, it really touched a nerve.

Also, now I work a way from home, and miss my wife terribly, Dido's "Here With Me" has the same effect...

[zero zero nine]

nobuo uematsu is one of the best composers of all time... his songs "Julia" and "eyes on me" from final fantasy 8 and "song of memory" and "loss of me" from FF9... tear jerkers and lets not forget Yasunori Mitsuda for his work on chrono trigger... "At the bottom of the night" almost always makes me cry...

One Vo1ce with their song "Do We Stand a Chance" is a capella and the harmony is amazing.

I have a composer friend named Ryan... he has this one song... it's called "constant peace"... :( it's so perfect... I wish you guys could hear it...

[killercroc]

Blue Eyes crying in the rain - Willie Nelson

Wasted time- Eagles

Also, like Eraserhead said, Redemption Song by bob Marley.

[Manhunter]

One is "Grandma's Hands" by Bill Withers(he originally sang "Lean on Me").The other is "I Will Remember You" by Sarah McLachlan.

[The Mad Hatter]

Ah, I had forgotten "I Will Remember You." That does it to me, too.

[Captain Caps]

My songs include:

-"Tears In Heaven" by Eric Clapton (reminds me of my late father, who was a huge Eric Clapton fan)
-Whitney Houston's version of "The Star-Spangled Banner" (Upon news of the September 11th attacks, I put on my DVD of her greatest hits, and saluted when she sang)
-"God Bless The USA" by Lee Greenwood
-"Eternal Flame" by The Bangles
-"Close My Eyes Forever" by Lita Ford and Ozzy Osborne
-"There'll Be Sad Songs To Make You Cry" by Billy Ocean
-"Piano In The Dark" by Brenda Russell
-"Live To Tell" by Madonna
-"Gone Too Soon" by Michael Jackson
-"Once In A Lifetime" by Talking Heads (Okay, I don't necessarily cry at this song, but it makes me sad. Once again, it makes me remember my dad)

Sincerely,

John "Captain Caps" Kilduff

[Manhunter]

Tears In Heaven kind of does it for me too.

There's also "Dear Mama" by 2Pac. I remember the night he died.People kept requesting the video.Every time I heard it, I felt like crying.

Also,there's an old Whitney Houston song called "Didn't We Almost Have It All?" that gets to me.

[Captain Caps]

-"The Ground You Walk On" by Jill Jones (a great break-up song from the "Earth Girls Are Easy" soundtrack)
-"On and On" by Stephen Bishop
-"What A Wonderful World" by Louis Armstrong
-"Stay Gold", "Whereabouts" and "You Will Know" by Stevie Wonder
-"Naive Melody (This Must Be The Place)" (When you feel like you don't fit in anywhere, this song can sympathize with you)
-"Can't Cry Hard Enough" by Victoria Williams (I heard this on a September 11th memorial website. Williams sounds like Cyndi Lauper, which leads me to...)
-"Time After Time" by Cyndi Lauper (Need I say anything about this one?)
-"You Are" by Lionel Richie (in question, the version performed on "Saturday Night Live" in the year of my birth, 1982)

Sincerely,

John "Captain Caps" Kilduff

[Shriek]

I have to go with


Poison - Every Rose Has It's Thorn

Van Halen - When It's Love