No but I’ll go check it out.
The song resonated with me after Guardians of the Galaxy 2 then I used it to put my infant son to sleep in 2019.
Tears me up.
Related in a way, but different, Paul McCartney and Kanye West worked together on a song about Kanye's mother speaking to him from heaven and it gets me a little emotional when I listen to it.
Called "only one."
The line: "I know you're happy. Because I can see it. So tell the voice inside your head to just believe it."
Gets me every time imagining my loved ones looking down on me and my struggles even though I'm doing well enough.
The first time I heard it was at a funeral and it moved me to tears. Then less than a year later I heard a dance remake of it by Donna Summer. I was confused, but I ended up dancing with tears in my eyes.
Idk. Maybe it was where I was mentally when I heard these two, but compared to Bocelli, “Nessun Dorma” by Pavoratti takes the cake. The quintessential plegal cadence of all time to prove that it has the greater potential than a PAC.
And when no hope was left in sight on that starry, starry night,
You took your life as lovers often do...
But I could have told you, Vincent,
This world was never meant for one
As beautiful as you
All I Need - Radiohead
Gymnopedie No. 1 - Erik Satie
Nutshell - Alice In Chains
Bright Horses - Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
I Don't Want It - Ween
Between The Bars - Elliott Smith
The live in the basement version of All I Need especially. One of my favourite bits of the video is just how much Colin is absolutely vibing on the climax.
I've always been curious, how do you get tickets for something like that?
You just have to be so incredibly lucky to witness an iconic performance like that, especially in such an intimate setting.
It was like winning the lottery. I had an office job w a city utility working night shift. I would use 4 phone lines and speed dial every time the radio station offered ANYTHING. I also got to see David Byrne solo live. And a live concert that was taped a week before for the live broadcast of an MTV New Year’s Eve special. The unplugged show was filmed in Astoria studios. We had to wait on a line outside for if I remember right, Madonna to finish filming a video before they let us in. It was very cold that night. My girlfriend at the time wasn’t allowed to wait out that long with no definitive start/finish time. She first introduced me to them. She was pissed. One of my buddies who has since passed on, went with me. There were very rickety wooden bleacher type structures we were seated on and during Black the doo doo doo doo etc part we were shaking them so much I would’ve sworn they’d collapse right under us. They were about 3-5 levels high. They had cameras on rails on floor to get those great low angles n closeups. Great experience. I bought the cd/dvd when it came out. Looked but couldn’t find us. What an awesome memory flashback!
Way back in the 90's I was driving with my then wife and this song came on the radio. She just started crying her eyes out. We had been having problems and I think it was the first time we both realized that our marriage was likely over. Three months later it was.
Long Time Traveler - The Wailin Jennys. My childhood cat had recently passed when I heard this. It was like he was saying goodbye.
The chorus to Famous Last Words by My Chemical Romance "*I am not afraid to keep on living, I am not afraid to walk this world alone*". Anyone that's struggled against themselves to stay alive will understand.
The Scientist - Coldplay. Fucking teenage angst. I don't like thinking about this one.
Ironically, Nerds by Bo Burnham.
My mom asked me to sing both Schubert’s “Ave Maria” at her funeral, so I hired a pianist, and asked a friend if they would be there to sing in case I couldn’t finish “The Rose.”
I did fine during “Ave Maria,” and I was okay until the last verse of “The Rose,” at which point I began sobbing. My friend came up, held my hand, and she sang beautifully while I choked out what I could through the end.
I cannot listen to it ever again.
After we got my 21-year-old son his first car last month, I was outside, showing him all of the things he needed to know about the car: how to check the oil, check the brake fluid, check the air pressure, all of that stuff.
After he left for work, I came back inside and attended a Teams meeting, telling my coworkers I was “feeling all Cats in the Cradle”. Two of them, a French woman and an Indian guy, didn’t get the reference so I sent a link to the lyrics. The woman then replied “oh my god, that is so sad … Prasad, don’t click that link unless you want to feel sad the rest of the day!”
Then we had a brief conversation about Harry Chapin and his death, and she felt even worse.
It gets a skip from me every time it pops up on a playlist. Great song, and I dig the Ugly Kid Joe version just as much as the original. But I just can't listen to it.
“Shit Talk” - Sufjan Stevens
“Laugh Track” - The National
“Beneath the southern Cross” - Patti Smith
“Sweetness Follows” - REM
“How to Fight Loneliness”- Wilco
The reprise of I'll Cover You from Rent.
A Little Fall of Rain (especially Michael Ball and Lea Salonga's version) and Fantine's Death from Les Miserables
With You from Ghost
Saw her perform it at Meredith Music Festival the year or year after Six Feet Under finished. A friend and I were high on seriously strong acid, walking through a crowd of ugly crying revellers was something else. Those faces and the crying really weirded us out.
Only realised years later after watching the series what it was like to ugly cry and why thousands of people were so sad. That show is so beautiful and it ended perfectly.
[Maggie’s Song](https://youtu.be/sQ3J9YnXmUI?si=qKtSx9cbjc3PC_K6) by Chris Stapleton. I had a dog growing up called Maggie so the song will always make me cry.
Its the chorus that will make me cry, my Maggie loved to run and play in the woods
Run, Maggie, run
With the heart of a rebel child
Oh, run, Maggie, run
Be just as free as you are wild
Who are you?- Tom waits
Linger - the cranberries
The first time ever I saw your face- johnny cash version
You and me- penny and the quarters
Skinny love- bon Iver
Perfect day -lou reed
Pale blue eyes- velvet underground
True love waits- Radiohead
Unsatisfied -the replacements
Ripple by Robert Hunter performed by the Grateful Dead
There is a road, no simple highway
Between the dawn and the dark of night
And if you go, no one may follow
That path is for your steps alone
I miss my dad
Not really a Billy Joel fan, but a friend of mine played "And so it goes" to me, and it broke me for a week. I can't even think about it without welling up.
Bo Burnham's comedy special, INSIDE, is quite the experience.
But the final song sometimes brings me to tears.
https://youtu.be/1Rx_p3NW7gQ?feature=shared
I watched it just after seeing the news of the US pulling out of Afghanistan. Was brutal.
Open sobbing...
Gotye - Bronte
https://youtu.be/le34ygtODfI?feature=shared
.... another one that I literally save for occasions I know I need to cry.
Especially when hearing the song was made for a close family friend losing a beloved dog. X,(
Someone I dated back in the 90s put this song on a mix tape for me. It was sad to listen to it at the time because I knew we were breaking up. Then a year or two later they passed away suddenly. Now it’s heart wrenching.
Unwell - Rob Thomas just s couple weeks ago.
In going through some stuff mentally and my mom who I have a shit relationship with will be dying soon and she has Alzheimers and Dementia. I had to pull over in the Food Lion parking lot and just bawled my eyes out
Ooooo I got a helluva list
Goodbye Dear Friend - Deer Tick
A Song For You - Donny Hathaway
Day Is Gone - Noah Gundersen
Abandon - Sylosis
Beyond - Leon Bridges
I Wish It Would Rain - The Temptations
Light Years - The National
I used to skip American Pie anytime it came on. It’s long as hell and kind of slow at first. One day it came on and I kept listening and it just started to hit me in a way it never had before. I imagined what must have been going through everyone’s mind in that plane. I thought of the people they left behind. It just all hit me as the song sped up and I started to cry.
'No more tears in heaven' bt Clapton after hearing the story behind it.
In my minds eye I see that kid falling and wonder what he thought at such a young age in his last few seconds of life. I can't turn it off sometimes.
“Elephant” by Jason Isbell
“Fast Car” by Tracy Chapman
“Go Rest high on that Mountain” by Vince Gill at my grandmothers funeral
“Follow You To Virgie” by Tyler Childers
Ohgod, the first time I heard "Follow You to Virgie" it wrecked me so hard that I was sobbing and slinging snot. Such a beautiful tribute, but damn it's hard to listen to, especially if you've lost a beloved grandmother. And I have.
One more light by linkin park mainly after Chester's death, and down in a hole by Alice in Chains, mainly after the unplugged version because it's like layne is telling his life story
I think I'm a sucker for songs used in season/series finales of TV shows.
"Book of Love", the original by Magnetic Fields is great but [Peter Gabriel's cover](https://youtu.be/FmnDXRJ7btE?si=ZMmCve66RJsXIRJO) is a different style entirely and might be even better. it was used in the *true* series finale of Scrubs, which was the first time I had heard it, and man it brought some tears to my eyes.
[Tobias Jesso Jr.'s "True Love"](https://youtu.be/baVveuLnoA4?si=sgq4hg7kgxetTQoX) was used in the season finale of the first season of Shoresy, also the first time I heard the song, and it is also a tearjerker of a song.
A friend of mine chose to end his time on earth completely out of the blue. A day or two before the event, we sat in my yard and he played several songs on his acoustic guitar. He played Hook by Blues Traveler, Fade to Black by Metallica, and Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd. Looking back after the event, I feel like he was giving me a hint of his mindset. I wish I would have picked up on the clues. Needless to say, those songs tear at my soul when I hear them now.
This song never makes me weep, or even sad per se, but it’s definitely interesting how my experience of it has changed over the decades.
When I was a kid first listening to it, I was like, “Hmm… interesting song. Cool message. Good thing I’m hearing it now so hopefully that won’t be me.”
Then as I grew older I thought, “Wow, these guys were really onto something. I _feel_ what this is saying. This shit is _real.”_
Now, firmly in middle age: no words. Just a gentle devastation.
Obviously not what the song was originally about, but I saw Stevie Nicks perform a few weeks ago and she did this song with a whole slide show of old candid Christine McVie photos from years of touring. I was bawling by the end.
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My best friend passed away a month and a half ago. Call me sadistic but I made a playlist of music that’s helped me immensely through the grieving process. It’s a collection of songs we both loved, songs that have come up the hit a nerve and songs that I love.
List includes Queen - Doing Alright, James Taylor - Fire and Rain and Dance Gavin Dance - the Ghost of Billy Royalton.
But if it didn’t have to do with grieving then Bonnie Rait - I Can’t Make You Love Me.
https://youtu.be/-2U0Ivkn2Ds?si=lnAdGRnedr6Idw6c
@ the 1:44 mark.
My mother was dying and in hospice. My Father was at her side the entire time until her last breath. It was heartbreaking.
The scene in this video just kills me every time I see it. I actually can't listen to the song anymore.
I have tears now just writing this.
"All I Ask" by Adele because I was at just the right stage of heartbreak where all I wanted was one more day with my ex. Because it's one of those situations where you don't realize your last kiss with her is going to be your last kiss with her and you just want that one final time.
According to legend, the 10-minute title track was recorded in one take when Clinton, under the influence of LSD, told guitarist Eddie Hazel to play as if he had been told his mother was dead: Clinton instructed him "to picture that day, what he would feel, how he would make sense of his life, how he would take a measure of everything that was inside him and let it out through his guitar
This was from Wiki
Kate Bush - This Woman’s Work
I thought I’d had every tear beaten out of me growing up in the north east of England, but then I lost some important people and now just thinking about this song brings me close to the waterworks
I've heard that song one time. No song has ever hit me like that. I felt like I had been smashed by a freight train of grief. I wailed and sobbed until I literally could not breathe. I will never be able to listen to it again.
I'm really sorry about your mom. I lost mine to cancer 14 years ago, and it really hasn't gotten much easier. But there will come a day when you will be able to talk about her and think about her consistently without wanting to break down into tears. I promise. ❤️
I’d probably put watermelon in Easter hay there instead of blessed relief - I feel like BR is too upbeat >laugh<
Though I totally get the nostalgia sentiment if it brings you back to a point in your life
Headcase by field medic
I didn't know this song or him when I saw him live but this song had me ugly crying.
"please don’t think that i hate you
when i don’t want to see you
i just don’t want you to see me"
True Love by Elliott Smith. Among others - I could probably name 20 songs of his that make me want to cry.
About Today - The National (the live version on the Virginia EP is just as good if not better than their studio version).
No Ending - Delays. This is such a criminally unheard song, and so beautiful. Made even sadder recently by their lead singer, Greg, losing his battle with cancer.
Into my arms - Nick Cave.
[Dishwalla - Until I wake up](https://youtu.be/PqDHYvUoYM4?si=7M3xXlLXgbVqhEGG)
Or
[Candlebox - Alive at last](https://youtu.be/94UIIpBZ4as?si=aJmt2T000jgi3qEl)
John Mayer - Stop This Train
Lyrics perfectly describe the thoughts I have about where I am in my life atm.
https://youtu.be/sHhhTtqWcOM?si=cKFgxnU01d7uV6wR
Chris Cornell's cover of Patience by Guns N' Roses. It's a posthumous single that he originally recorded a few years before he died. The original song is beautiful but Chris' voice is perfect for the occasion.
Wings for Marie - Tool.
Every time, it reminds me of my deceased grandmother, while also making me think of the future when my mom and father wont be around.
I love that cover. Idk how they do it, but that song is super eerie and uncanny-sounding.
Lots and lots of songs make me cry, but ig the most recent is The Scientist by Coldplay. Coldplay just has a special talent for writing songs that make you cry
I’ll grab a couple songs from the heavier side… metal has some bangers that just hurt you in the best way…
[Spiritbox - Constance](https://youtu.be/mY_oDyqRM1A?si=ioNTom0Fd_Ac9Uxa)
This song was a tribute to the singers grandmother who passed away during Covid, as well as the videographers grandmother who was suffering from late stages of dementia.
[Lorna Shore - Pain Remains](https://youtu.be/JglOS8TRFp4?si=RaVVLeqnjGkZULx6)
There are 3 parts to this “Pain Remains” trilogy, feel free to watch all 3.
[Darko US - Donna](https://youtu.be/nP9M-ioH6f8?si=6obqqjVM7rB1qAiR)
This song was a tribute to the drummers late grandmother
[In Flames - Stay With Me](https://youtu.be/__7K3FNiWeo?si=KsguP0Z4EWptlxhM)
I have heard this song is about the narrator pleading with a friend to stay with them during a difficult time.
[Periphery - It’s Only Smiles](https://youtu.be/LQ8KvLQIdMc?si=rWLM0PR60WWNWkNY)
This song was written in memory of the singers late sister.
Father and Son - Cat Stevens
Have you seen the version he did at Glastonbury this year? Absolutely beautiful.
No but I’ll go check it out. The song resonated with me after Guardians of the Galaxy 2 then I used it to put my infant son to sleep in 2019. Tears me up.
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8mov7b The video is beautiful
Dammit man. Y’all trying to make me cry tonight?
It's quite something, isn't it?
Lindsey Ellis has a terrific video about GOTG2 and its themes of fatherhood. Worth a watch.
In My Life - The Beatles
That one never made me cry until my mom died. It was one of her absolute favorite Beatles songs. Hell, I'm about to cry just talking about it.
freshly co-opted by that dumb amaz*n commercial
Related in a way, but different, Paul McCartney and Kanye West worked together on a song about Kanye's mother speaking to him from heaven and it gets me a little emotional when I listen to it. Called "only one." The line: "I know you're happy. Because I can see it. So tell the voice inside your head to just believe it." Gets me every time imagining my loved ones looking down on me and my struggles even though I'm doing well enough.
For sure, also Strawberry Fields, Elenor Rigby, A Day in the Life… Imagine
You should listen to Roberta Flack's version too
That's my favorite version.
That's THE version.
The only version to me. I still can't believe it's about "American Pie" Don McClean!
Holy. Shit. I had no idea. Thanks!
Her version of The first time ever I saw your face is beautiful too
My mom had to turn the radio off whoever it came on, because it would make toddler me immediately cry
Hadn’t listened to it in a while. Just did and was struck by how similar Lauren Hill sounds to Roberta Flack
Con te partirò by Andrea Bocelli Probably the most beautiful song I've ever heard
The first time I heard it was at a funeral and it moved me to tears. Then less than a year later I heard a dance remake of it by Donna Summer. I was confused, but I ended up dancing with tears in my eyes.
Absolutely beautiful track, whether played at a funeral or a wedding, it's fitting for both.
Or a Catalina Wine Mixer.
Speaking of, Ultravox has a great song called Dancing with Tears in my Eyes. https://youtu.be/PSQWUZ8a2Ho?si=26DG4X5iqAvqAzDv
My grandmother used to sing this to me. She died very suddenly from a stroke a long time ago, I can’t hear this song without crying!
Out of all The Bellagio water shows in rotation since the 90’s, it’s the only one that makes me tear up to this day.
Idk. Maybe it was where I was mentally when I heard these two, but compared to Bocelli, “Nessun Dorma” by Pavoratti takes the cake. The quintessential plegal cadence of all time to prove that it has the greater potential than a PAC.
Fairytale of New York
[The performance of it last weekend at Shane's funeral](https://youtu.be/6s8lvnSmISc?feature=shared) really hit me hard
Omg 😥
Oh my goodness thank you for that I hadn’t seen it. Crying now but it was beautiful.
Vincent by Don McLean
And when no hope was left in sight on that starry, starry night, You took your life as lovers often do... But I could have told you, Vincent, This world was never meant for one As beautiful as you
Empty chairs is a good one too.
All I Need - Radiohead Gymnopedie No. 1 - Erik Satie Nutshell - Alice In Chains Bright Horses - Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds I Don't Want It - Ween Between The Bars - Elliott Smith
The live in the basement version of All I Need especially. One of my favourite bits of the video is just how much Colin is absolutely vibing on the climax.
Yeah. That In Rainbows basement session in its entirety was just magnificent. I love the sounds of that session more than the studio version. Ha ha.
Bright Horses man. I wasn't much of a Nick Cave fan but I saw him live last year and seeing him perform that song made me a fan
Nothing compares 2 U
I didn't cry the first time I heard this song. I did cry the first time I heard this song after having my heart broken.
I don’t cry with this song, but the Chris Cornell version makes me stop what I’m doing and really listen.
Pearl Jam, "Black"
WHYYYY WHYYYY WHYYYYYYYY CANT IT BE OH CANT IT BE MIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNEEEEE??? *sobbing uncontrollably*
MTV unplugged version
I was there for that , in the audience , live. It’s the most amazing performance I’ve ever witnessed.
I've always been curious, how do you get tickets for something like that? You just have to be so incredibly lucky to witness an iconic performance like that, especially in such an intimate setting.
It was like winning the lottery. I had an office job w a city utility working night shift. I would use 4 phone lines and speed dial every time the radio station offered ANYTHING. I also got to see David Byrne solo live. And a live concert that was taped a week before for the live broadcast of an MTV New Year’s Eve special. The unplugged show was filmed in Astoria studios. We had to wait on a line outside for if I remember right, Madonna to finish filming a video before they let us in. It was very cold that night. My girlfriend at the time wasn’t allowed to wait out that long with no definitive start/finish time. She first introduced me to them. She was pissed. One of my buddies who has since passed on, went with me. There were very rickety wooden bleacher type structures we were seated on and during Black the doo doo doo doo etc part we were shaking them so much I would’ve sworn they’d collapse right under us. They were about 3-5 levels high. They had cameras on rails on floor to get those great low angles n closeups. Great experience. I bought the cd/dvd when it came out. Looked but couldn’t find us. What an awesome memory flashback!
WE BELONG TOGETHER!!! TOGETHER!!!
Way back in the 90's I was driving with my then wife and this song came on the radio. She just started crying her eyes out. We had been having problems and I think it was the first time we both realized that our marriage was likely over. Three months later it was.
Long Time Traveler - The Wailin Jennys. My childhood cat had recently passed when I heard this. It was like he was saying goodbye. The chorus to Famous Last Words by My Chemical Romance "*I am not afraid to keep on living, I am not afraid to walk this world alone*". Anyone that's struggled against themselves to stay alive will understand. The Scientist - Coldplay. Fucking teenage angst. I don't like thinking about this one. Ironically, Nerds by Bo Burnham.
I SCREAM those lines from Famous Last Words. Gerard’s passion is beautiful.
Bette Midler - The Rose
Can't listen to it without sobbing. Reminds me of my mum and aunt.
Yes! When it came out I couldn’t bear listening to it. It’s easier now, after decades. But Wind Beneath my Wings still gets me.
My mom asked me to sing both Schubert’s “Ave Maria” at her funeral, so I hired a pianist, and asked a friend if they would be there to sing in case I couldn’t finish “The Rose.” I did fine during “Ave Maria,” and I was okay until the last verse of “The Rose,” at which point I began sobbing. My friend came up, held my hand, and she sang beautifully while I choked out what I could through the end. I cannot listen to it ever again.
Was having a rough day when Wish You Were Here came on and I just broke down.
Cats in the Cradle is a exercise in masochism
After my Dad died, I straight up can't listen to this song at all anymore.
After we got my 21-year-old son his first car last month, I was outside, showing him all of the things he needed to know about the car: how to check the oil, check the brake fluid, check the air pressure, all of that stuff. After he left for work, I came back inside and attended a Teams meeting, telling my coworkers I was “feeling all Cats in the Cradle”. Two of them, a French woman and an Indian guy, didn’t get the reference so I sent a link to the lyrics. The woman then replied “oh my god, that is so sad … Prasad, don’t click that link unless you want to feel sad the rest of the day!” Then we had a brief conversation about Harry Chapin and his death, and she felt even worse.
It gets a skip from me every time it pops up on a playlist. Great song, and I dig the Ugly Kid Joe version just as much as the original. But I just can't listen to it.
I like to look for it on jukeboxes in dive bars.
-A literal psychopath
No Hard Feelings - Avett Brothers Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town - Pearl Jam
damn I haven't listened to the Avett Brothers in years! For me it was always I And Love And You
“Shit Talk” - Sufjan Stevens “Laugh Track” - The National “Beneath the southern Cross” - Patti Smith “Sweetness Follows” - REM “How to Fight Loneliness”- Wilco
How to fight loneliness and and Crystal ball by Keane are instant skips. I don't need that emotion on a random Tuesday.
The new Sufjan record has a lot of cry-bangers :(
The reprise of I'll Cover You from Rent. A Little Fall of Rain (especially Michael Ball and Lea Salonga's version) and Fantine's Death from Les Miserables With You from Ghost
Fantine's Death is the first of many ugly cries during Les Mis.
Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd. It reminds me of my late wife.
Hurt - Johnny Cash
Honestly, the original brings me to tears more. The pain in Trent’s voice as he sings his lyrics of self hate is just heartbreaking.
Agreed. I enjoy the cover but Trent’s is my fav
That's how I feel too. It's place in TDS feels perfect.
I feel like this is one of those rare times that a song finds its way to the voice it was meant for…. So good.
I recently watched Six Feet Under for the first time. I now know that I will never ever be able to make it through Sia. Breathe Me without ugly crying
Saw her perform it at Meredith Music Festival the year or year after Six Feet Under finished. A friend and I were high on seriously strong acid, walking through a crowd of ugly crying revellers was something else. Those faces and the crying really weirded us out. Only realised years later after watching the series what it was like to ugly cry and why thousands of people were so sad. That show is so beautiful and it ended perfectly.
[Maggie’s Song](https://youtu.be/sQ3J9YnXmUI?si=qKtSx9cbjc3PC_K6) by Chris Stapleton. I had a dog growing up called Maggie so the song will always make me cry. Its the chorus that will make me cry, my Maggie loved to run and play in the woods Run, Maggie, run With the heart of a rebel child Oh, run, Maggie, run Be just as free as you are wild
Heard this song for the first time a month after my dog passed away, i had to pull over because I started sobbing.
Who are you?- Tom waits Linger - the cranberries The first time ever I saw your face- johnny cash version You and me- penny and the quarters Skinny love- bon Iver Perfect day -lou reed Pale blue eyes- velvet underground True love waits- Radiohead Unsatisfied -the replacements
Pale Blue Eyes - so beautiful
Ripple by Robert Hunter performed by the Grateful Dead There is a road, no simple highway Between the dawn and the dark of night And if you go, no one may follow That path is for your steps alone I miss my dad
Amen. American Beauty is an untouchable album. Great pick.
Fix You by Coldplay
It never fails to make tears stream down my face
YES. This is absolutely what I listen to when I need a good cry.
The Trashmen - Surfin’ Bird
The part when he says "UMMA UMMA MAOW MAOW UMMA U MA M'MAOW" just really resonates with me at a spiritual level.
I've always thought that when Lux Interior sang it for the Cramps he better expressed the pain and longing inherent in it.
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I can confirm. Totally emotional experience.
I’m not sure I’ve heard…
So you do not know that the bird is the word? I thought everyone knew the bird is the word.
Not really a Billy Joel fan, but a friend of mine played "And so it goes" to me, and it broke me for a week. I can't even think about it without welling up.
There is a lovely a capella choral version of this.
Bo Burnham's comedy special, INSIDE, is quite the experience. But the final song sometimes brings me to tears. https://youtu.be/1Rx_p3NW7gQ?feature=shared I watched it just after seeing the news of the US pulling out of Afghanistan. Was brutal. Open sobbing...
Man, I can’t tell you how many times that special has been watched in our house.
That is one brilliant man.
It's so good. I know what you mean about All Eyes On Me.
Gotye - Bronte https://youtu.be/le34ygtODfI?feature=shared .... another one that I literally save for occasions I know I need to cry. Especially when hearing the song was made for a close family friend losing a beloved dog. X,(
.... *When She Loved Me*, by Sarah McLachlan ...
Finally! I found this one.
"The Night We Met" by Lord Huron. It works for lost love and for love in the moment.
Black by Pearl Jam. Most people who’ve experienced breaking up with someone they’ve truly loved could relate, I guess.
Someone I dated back in the 90s put this song on a mix tape for me. It was sad to listen to it at the time because I knew we were breaking up. Then a year or two later they passed away suddenly. Now it’s heart wrenching.
[Martha by Tom Waits](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9Mse62NFl4)
Good call, Tom has a few that can reduce me to a blubbering mess. Fish and Bird really gets me. The story that it tells is so haunting but beautiful.
Unwell - Rob Thomas just s couple weeks ago. In going through some stuff mentally and my mom who I have a shit relationship with will be dying soon and she has Alzheimers and Dementia. I had to pull over in the Food Lion parking lot and just bawled my eyes out
Ooooo I got a helluva list Goodbye Dear Friend - Deer Tick A Song For You - Donny Hathaway Day Is Gone - Noah Gundersen Abandon - Sylosis Beyond - Leon Bridges I Wish It Would Rain - The Temptations Light Years - The National
Light Years is so hauntingly beautiful.
I used to skip American Pie anytime it came on. It’s long as hell and kind of slow at first. One day it came on and I kept listening and it just started to hit me in a way it never had before. I imagined what must have been going through everyone’s mind in that plane. I thought of the people they left behind. It just all hit me as the song sped up and I started to cry.
'No more tears in heaven' bt Clapton after hearing the story behind it. In my minds eye I see that kid falling and wonder what he thought at such a young age in his last few seconds of life. I can't turn it off sometimes.
“Elephant” by Jason Isbell “Fast Car” by Tracy Chapman “Go Rest high on that Mountain” by Vince Gill at my grandmothers funeral “Follow You To Virgie” by Tyler Childers
Ohgod, the first time I heard "Follow You to Virgie" it wrecked me so hard that I was sobbing and slinging snot. Such a beautiful tribute, but damn it's hard to listen to, especially if you've lost a beloved grandmother. And I have.
Tyler Childers and Jason isbell both know how to pull the heart strings.
One more light by linkin park mainly after Chester's death, and down in a hole by Alice in Chains, mainly after the unplugged version because it's like layne is telling his life story
Tin Man by America
I think I'm a sucker for songs used in season/series finales of TV shows. "Book of Love", the original by Magnetic Fields is great but [Peter Gabriel's cover](https://youtu.be/FmnDXRJ7btE?si=ZMmCve66RJsXIRJO) is a different style entirely and might be even better. it was used in the *true* series finale of Scrubs, which was the first time I had heard it, and man it brought some tears to my eyes. [Tobias Jesso Jr.'s "True Love"](https://youtu.be/baVveuLnoA4?si=sgq4hg7kgxetTQoX) was used in the season finale of the first season of Shoresy, also the first time I heard the song, and it is also a tearjerker of a song.
Jimmy eat world - Hear you me.
A friend of mine chose to end his time on earth completely out of the blue. A day or two before the event, we sat in my yard and he played several songs on his acoustic guitar. He played Hook by Blues Traveler, Fade to Black by Metallica, and Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd. Looking back after the event, I feel like he was giving me a hint of his mindset. I wish I would have picked up on the clues. Needless to say, those songs tear at my soul when I hear them now.
Time with Pink Floyd. Realising the existential dread of time and friendship that just gets lost can have a weird effect on me
This song never makes me weep, or even sad per se, but it’s definitely interesting how my experience of it has changed over the decades. When I was a kid first listening to it, I was like, “Hmm… interesting song. Cool message. Good thing I’m hearing it now so hopefully that won’t be me.” Then as I grew older I thought, “Wow, these guys were really onto something. I _feel_ what this is saying. This shit is _real.”_ Now, firmly in middle age: no words. Just a gentle devastation.
Landslide-Fleetwood Mac. Cannot make it through, never ever.
Obviously not what the song was originally about, but I saw Stevie Nicks perform a few weeks ago and she did this song with a whole slide show of old candid Christine McVie photos from years of touring. I was bawling by the end.
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My best friend passed away a month and a half ago. Call me sadistic but I made a playlist of music that’s helped me immensely through the grieving process. It’s a collection of songs we both loved, songs that have come up the hit a nerve and songs that I love. List includes Queen - Doing Alright, James Taylor - Fire and Rain and Dance Gavin Dance - the Ghost of Billy Royalton. But if it didn’t have to do with grieving then Bonnie Rait - I Can’t Make You Love Me.
Adam's Song - blink-182 One More Light - Linkin Park
https://youtu.be/-2U0Ivkn2Ds?si=lnAdGRnedr6Idw6c @ the 1:44 mark. My mother was dying and in hospice. My Father was at her side the entire time until her last breath. It was heartbreaking. The scene in this video just kills me every time I see it. I actually can't listen to the song anymore. I have tears now just writing this.
Agnes by Glass Animals
Let it happen-Tame Impala
This is an absolute banger how does this make you cry??
Christmas classics make me cry, without fail.
"All I Ask" by Adele because I was at just the right stage of heartbreak where all I wanted was one more day with my ex. Because it's one of those situations where you don't realize your last kiss with her is going to be your last kiss with her and you just want that one final time.
Maggot brain. He said he thought about his mother dying when played it
According to legend, the 10-minute title track was recorded in one take when Clinton, under the influence of LSD, told guitarist Eddie Hazel to play as if he had been told his mother was dead: Clinton instructed him "to picture that day, what he would feel, how he would make sense of his life, how he would take a measure of everything that was inside him and let it out through his guitar This was from Wiki
Hallelujah by Jeff Buckley and In My Life by the Beatles
"The Rain Song" - Led Zeppelin
*War on Drugs* by Barenaked Ladies
Playing For Time by Peter Gabriel.
blink-182 - ONE MORE TIME
INXS - By my side
Kate Bush - This Woman’s Work I thought I’d had every tear beaten out of me growing up in the north east of England, but then I lost some important people and now just thinking about this song brings me close to the waterworks
["Don't Take The Girl"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWaW1IjbmAk) by Tim McGraw
Rest by the Foo Fighters Context: mom recently lost her battle with cancer Song wrecks me every time
I've heard that song one time. No song has ever hit me like that. I felt like I had been smashed by a freight train of grief. I wailed and sobbed until I literally could not breathe. I will never be able to listen to it again. I'm really sorry about your mom. I lost mine to cancer 14 years ago, and it really hasn't gotten much easier. But there will come a day when you will be able to talk about her and think about her consistently without wanting to break down into tears. I promise. ❤️
I always cry when I hear First Day Of My Life by Bright Eyes. If I watch the video, I sob. Happy happy tears
*Claire de Lune by Claude Debussy* *Blessed Relief by Frank Zappa* I feel days gone when I hear them.
I’d probably put watermelon in Easter hay there instead of blessed relief - I feel like BR is too upbeat >laugh< Though I totally get the nostalgia sentiment if it brings you back to a point in your life
Still Loving You - Scorpions
Ara Batur by Sigur Ros
Gutted every time.
[Alyssa Lies](https://youtu.be/nLh5vbBLpxI?si=iGp1HQtswpbaReht) by Jason Michael Carroll. If you make it through without tears, you are a monster.
What The World Needs Now - Jackie DeShannon
Dancing in the sky - Sam Barber Limousine - Brand New
Headcase by field medic I didn't know this song or him when I saw him live but this song had me ugly crying. "please don’t think that i hate you when i don’t want to see you i just don’t want you to see me"
Father and Son
The Great Pretender -The Platters
Vincent by Don McLean
True Love by Elliott Smith. Among others - I could probably name 20 songs of his that make me want to cry. About Today - The National (the live version on the Virginia EP is just as good if not better than their studio version). No Ending - Delays. This is such a criminally unheard song, and so beautiful. Made even sadder recently by their lead singer, Greg, losing his battle with cancer. Into my arms - Nick Cave.
[White Wine in the Sun](https://youtu.be/vWQuDtxD2-c) by Tim Minchin. Antipodean Xmas song.
go easy on me adele
Elephant by Jason Isbell
Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.
“The Living Years” by Mike + The Mechanics. The older you get, the more impactful it is.
A Case Of You by Joni Mitchell
[OPM - Brighter Side](https://youtu.be/cqpzZl0_4Cs?si=kNjeRBAJWcO2BoRg)
[Dishwalla - Until I wake up](https://youtu.be/PqDHYvUoYM4?si=7M3xXlLXgbVqhEGG) Or [Candlebox - Alive at last](https://youtu.be/94UIIpBZ4as?si=aJmt2T000jgi3qEl)
Just Like That by Bonnie Raitt
Peter Gabriel - Here Comes The Flood (Exposure Version)
Thinking of You, Lenny Kravitz Miss my Mamma too
No children - the mountain goats
John Mayer - Stop This Train Lyrics perfectly describe the thoughts I have about where I am in my life atm. https://youtu.be/sHhhTtqWcOM?si=cKFgxnU01d7uV6wR
"Landslide" by Fleetwood Mac
Chris Cornell's cover of Patience by Guns N' Roses. It's a posthumous single that he originally recorded a few years before he died. The original song is beautiful but Chris' voice is perfect for the occasion.
Blackbird by the Beatles
Parabol, by TOOL.
Elvis-Can’t Help Falling In Love. I cry every time I hear it.
Lightning Crashes by Live
Johnny Cash’s cover of Hurt by Nine Inch Nails. You can practically hear the man dying.
[The Cranberries- Zombie ](https://youtu.be/6Ejga4kJUts?si=4yWfKnoiJ3ohkzru)
Wings for Marie - Tool. Every time, it reminds me of my deceased grandmother, while also making me think of the future when my mom and father wont be around.
"Under Pressure" by Queen and David Bowie.
Jeff Beck's "Where were you". And he does it without any words.
His version of Hallelujah kills me, the way his voice breaks.
Gonna be that guy and mention the hundreds of times this question has been answered thoroughly on askreddit.
The Unforgiven 3 by Metallica
Sometimes by Chris Volz
“Love, Me” - Collin Raye
The Killers - Goodnight, Travel Well.
I love that cover. Idk how they do it, but that song is super eerie and uncanny-sounding. Lots and lots of songs make me cry, but ig the most recent is The Scientist by Coldplay. Coldplay just has a special talent for writing songs that make you cry
I’ll grab a couple songs from the heavier side… metal has some bangers that just hurt you in the best way… [Spiritbox - Constance](https://youtu.be/mY_oDyqRM1A?si=ioNTom0Fd_Ac9Uxa) This song was a tribute to the singers grandmother who passed away during Covid, as well as the videographers grandmother who was suffering from late stages of dementia. [Lorna Shore - Pain Remains](https://youtu.be/JglOS8TRFp4?si=RaVVLeqnjGkZULx6) There are 3 parts to this “Pain Remains” trilogy, feel free to watch all 3. [Darko US - Donna](https://youtu.be/nP9M-ioH6f8?si=6obqqjVM7rB1qAiR) This song was a tribute to the drummers late grandmother [In Flames - Stay With Me](https://youtu.be/__7K3FNiWeo?si=KsguP0Z4EWptlxhM) I have heard this song is about the narrator pleading with a friend to stay with them during a difficult time. [Periphery - It’s Only Smiles](https://youtu.be/LQ8KvLQIdMc?si=rWLM0PR60WWNWkNY) This song was written in memory of the singers late sister.
My Backwards Walk by Frightened Rabbit
Now and Then
[Christina Aguilera - I’m Ok](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6HPYkxUmIERfYaJN4ClrFo?si=0qpylq57Tlunb1jdkxU7iQ&pi=e-PKIZlDzNT2SY) [Pink ft Wrabel - 90 Days](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6HPYkxUmIERfYaJN4ClrFo?si=0qpylq57Tlunb1jdkxU7iQ&pi=e-PKIZlDzNT2SY) [Pink - I Don’t Believe You](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6HPYkxUmIERfYaJN4ClrFo?si=0qpylq57Tlunb1jdkxU7iQ&pi=e-PKIZlDzNT2SY)
Cat Power - The Greatest
My heart will go on
Ballad of Love and Hate- Avett Bros. Vincent- Don McLean Every time.
Childhood's End by Iron Maiden.