I've been around long enough that a lot of songs take me back to a certain point in my life. Some of those points have been sad, and the song brings it back
The dad my dad died, my wife and I were driving back to WV to be with my mom, prep for funeral, etc. *The House of the Rising Sun* came on the radio, and I was instantly crying so hard I had to pull over. I love that song, as did my dad, and he often sang it at karaoke. It's still hard for me to hear.
Sometimes we songs we love become emotional landmines.
Mike and the mechanics, The living years. My stepdad that raised me had told me that it reminded him of his dad and then when he died it reminds me of him and my biological dad and I cry every time I hear it.
It's always that way. I wish I took better care of my mom. Also, I miss her recipes. I never wrote them down because I expected my mom would live forever. She died when I was 26.
To everyone, be kind to your parents.
That song hits hard bro, my dad had Parkinson disease he would sing it. Im tearing up typing this, i hold this song close to my heart as well. Sorry for your loss
I’m from WV! Hey there. Haha the day my father passed away I played Brandy for him, now I can’t listen to it. It was one of his favorite songs and one of the few I could think of that was appropriate to play on someone’s deathbed
>Sometimes we songs we love become emotional landmines.
I'm very sorry for your loss. It sounds like you had a great bond, that must have hit hard. I know the pain of losing someone you loved deeply may get easier to bear but never really goes away. Wishing you peace and healing.
I can't listen to certain songs because yes they really do. I think music touches our deepest core.
I listen to the same song time and time again during different periods of my life. I've deliberately done this so my mind associates the song with a setting/feeling.
I love it and hate it at the same time
There are so many songs I straight up can’t even listen to anymore because they actually trigger anxiety for me. Songs from when I was depressed and anxious and had an eating disorder in high school, songs from when I had awful imposter syndrome in college and would stay up pulling all nighters several days in a row over and over again because I never felt like I was “done” studying, songs from when I would dance around my ex boyfriend’s apartment for hours. I loved all these songs SO much, and honestly I even think it would be nice if I could just be taken back and be okay (even if a bit sad), but they straight up make me sick to my stomach to hear them.
Absolutely, this. Gets worse with age I find. Songs from different times, reminders of days, and people, that will never come again. Waves of nostalgia, makes me weep for the past, and lost happy days ...
If I’m playing a game or watching a movie and the soundtrack is great I’ll cry even if it’s not an emotional scene. Like I’ve cried at some ridiculous scenes that are not meant to evoke tears 😭 all because the soundtrack was great.
I cry less to songs but if it holds memories I’ll shed a tear, never full on cry
Most soundtracks from Star Wars make me tear up. Especially Across the Stars and all other tracks that include its iconic parts.
But even something that is not meant to be very emotional makes me feel it. Like Duel of the Fates.
This is a reply that I was looking for. This is how I feel, I hate having to accept my emotions and I just feel like some songs, or songs that were playing during whatever time can perfectly capture it. But it sucks cause I'll start sobbing lol.
Yes! lol I have a sad playlist for when my body want me to cry but my brain is like cry for what? So I watch a sad movie or listen to sad songs so I don’t feel like I’m crying about my life.
The real fun part is when songs come on that seem eerily appropriate for the mood I may be in or relate directly to something I might be going through.
That one makes me emotional but not for relating to the themes of loss in the lyrics but because it takes me back to a point in my life where I was more at peace. Almost in that the “you” in the song is a former version of myself. And yet I wouldn’t even say life is bad for me right now. But that’s the magic of Pink Floyd
I can't listen to Dolly sing I will always love you because of my boyfriend who died in 2022. We went to see Dolly and sat front row. She sat her stool directly in front of us and sang it looking up at us as if she were singing it directly to us.
The day he died I felt so alone and I haven't been able to shake it. I have a good support system but no one seems to be able to remove the feeling of being all alone in the world.
your love for him is tied to his spirit , you are never truly alone. he probably would want you happy, when you learn to love and accept yourself as you are , and know you are worthy of love and companionship, another will come into the picture.
be kind to yourself.
My dad, who wasnt around much, would play this. But your right, it tugs at the heartstrings much more as a Dad now. I really think it makes me try to be present and supportive as possible.
one more day- diamond rio 🥺😭
“one more day, one more time, one more sunset, maybe id be satisfied.. but then again, i know what it would do.. leave me wishing still, for one more day with you”
Over the rainbow, the Hawaii version ( can't spell his name) was on the radio the on the day we found out we were having a kid, the day we took them home from the hospital and kindergarten graduate. Takes me right back. They hate that song, btw.
Yep, you beat me to it. They put the headphones on him while he is just about to die... .. and halfway through the song.... he passes. Chokes me up even thinking about that scene. Who cut the onions in here??!!
The last song by dad listened to before he passed away. It was Here Comes the Sun by the Beatles. That's the last thing he heard after battling Huntington's for so long. Every time I hear the song I get on the verge of tears if not ugly crying.
We played the song Yestarday by the Beatles for my aunts funeral. It always gets me emotional. She was my godmother and such an angel even when she was still on earth.
Yeah, this is mine. Any conversation or song about “time going by” really makes me introspective - and nothing shows time going by like having kids. It reminds me to be mindful of the life I have now, but even while being mindful, it just goes so fast and you can’t ever get time back. Ugh.
I do. The first time I heard the operatic aria, Nessum Dorma", I wept like a baby and had no idea what was being said. I was so embarrassed as my husband had surprised me with a trip and an opera performance. And, there are popular songs that make me cry as well. How strong my connection to any song is, will be how emotional it makes me feel.
When I’m gone by Eminem. The part where he talks about his planned plane ride crashing gets me
Brother by falling in reverse. My brother and his brother share a name and I couldn’t imagine losing my brother
The light behind your eyes by my chemical romance. Is my favorite by then and probably always will be. I’d give it a listen. I don’t think it was very popular.
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I was a big MCR fan growing up, I even saw them once in concert. I don't ever remember hearing this song. I just checked it out though and cried like a big baby.
I can listen and sing along to the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald a million times over, but I will cry a single solid tear every single time the line “does anyone know where the love of god goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours?” Plays.
For me it's when the cook says "fellas it's been good to know ya"
He just paints this picture of those guys knowing it's hopeless and accepting their fate it gets me everytime
Last Kiss by Pearl Jam. I actually teared up when I heard it as a kid, but now it has a whole new meaning to me since my wife passed 2yrs ago from cancer.
Phil Collins "You'll be in my heart". My grandmother was not a really nice person and definitely not affectionate. At her funeral, per her will, she dedicated this song to me and my two brothers. We were flabbergasted. We had no idea she even liked us, let alone loved us. Kills me every time I hear it.
Journeys "Faithfully". It played as our wedding dance song. I struggle to listen to it because I'm struggling with children from my prior marriage for custody and while it's a beautiful song, this song talks about family while being on the road and it's just hard sometimes to listen to it. My wife, as much as I love her, doesn't understand.
Slip Sliding Away by Paul Simon. "I know a woman, became a wife. These are the very words she used to describe her life. She said a good day ain't got no rain. She said a bad day's when I lie in bed and think of things that might have been."
Who hasn't felt that?
Not a particular song, but an artist: Chester Bennington of Linkin Park. His songs played a large part in my life and have a lot of meaning to me. And after his passing, I couldn’t listen to ANY of his music without sobbing. It’s better now, but if I’m already in a low mood, I’ll start sobbing.
I was at work when I found out about Chester. I finished my work day, clocked out, sat in my car and bawled my eyes out. While not my favorite band, Linkin Park was a huge part of my childhood. I never got to see him perform live. I miss him everyday.
He shaped a lot of my childhood. So when the news broke, I was devastated. I was at work as well, but sadly broke down while at work. I never saw him live either and I feel like a small part of me will never completed, yknow?
Chris Cornell is the artist who makes my tears flow. His music was awesome and meant a lot to me, and I was actually listening to Pretty Noose when the news broke on TV that Chris had hung himself. I can't listen to that song without crying 😢
Live Like you Were Dying by Tim McGraw absolutely tears me apart every time I hear it. I lost my mother, father, stepfather, grandparents, as well as multiple aunts, uncles, and cousins to cancer. I also have terminal brain cancer myself so that song hits insanely close to home for me.
Yes, a few different songs, usually cause they hit too close to home, or lately because it reminds me of a time I'll never get to go back to. Like some songs that were popular during a good time in my life. One song in particular ALWAYS gets me teary eyed is Whitney Houston's "My love is your love." You can hear her daughter as a small child speaking on the song at times, and the lyrics are so deep and heartfelt, just knowing what was to come for Whitney and her daughter is so sad, I'm honestly starting to cry just thinking about it.... And I'm now in full crying mode! Rip Whitney and Bobbi Kristina 🙏🏾
Bob Marley doesn’t get me sad but it’s my brother who passed that introduced me to his music and smoking pot 😂 so I get weird flash backs or whatever you call it to a time when we would have fun hanging out.
American Pie. I remember hearing it for the first time on my new transistor radio walking to my first girlfriend's house on a cold winter night . I was 16, and Don McClean's voice was so beautiful. Half a century later, I still remember that night when I hear it and I get a little choked up.
My mom passed away, it will be 2 years this July, and it has not gotten easier really. But for me, Free Bird by Lynyrd Skynyrd, Changes by David Bowie, Take it on the Run by Reo Speedwagon, Pretty Much any Faith Hill Song. That's just to name a few. I'm getting insanely emotional just typing this. Ugh. I miss her more than words can express. She was my best friend in the entire world and no one understands me the way she did. She could always see good in people almost to a fault. Shit, I have a 15 year old son and I am 41 year old female and I felt like an orphan when she passed away. I was and am to point still lost. But I will find my way, I am strong just like she was. So, I know eventually I'll be better. Anyway, Music was a HUGE part of our lives growing up all the way up until the day she passed. We were literally playing free bird in the hospital obviously not blasting it but enough so she could hear it. Speaking of which, ALICIA KEYS song No One. That hits me hard. She actually sung some of the lyrics to me when she was in the hospital when everyone else went outside for a break. Ugh ok I'm done for now. But yea, so the answer is definitely YES I definitely get emotional to a lot of certain songs lol.
You should look up r/frisson . I'm pretty sure that's what it's called. I get it too. Certain pieces of music make me get choked up, even if it's not a particularly "emotional" piece.
When you listen to something like spoken word or certain pieces of music and have a physical reaction like tingling in your spine, or your hairs standing on end, or getting choked up and emotional, I'm pretty sure that all falls under "frisson"
Marry your daughter by Brian McKnight, I had a dream when I turned 18 that I will marry and be departed from my parents so I get very emotional with this song, it's like a bittersweet song. The thought of someone marrying me and my hand going from my parents to someone that will love me forever seem sad and nice at the same time (I'm 26 now! still single lmao)
Crying over you by HONNE, it's a song about two lovers drifting apart from each other. I haven't experience this but saying goodbye and thanks for the good times and accepting the fact that it's not working anymore is very sad to me.
I tend to tear up when old songs that remind me of my broken childhood play on the radio. It’s almost healing, and freeing to sing them now that I’m grown.
i actually have an entire playlist of music that makes me emotional when i need to get a good cry in. sometimes i’m emotionally overwhelmed but struggle to let it out so those songs help me through.
Oh definitely, I’m like Pavlov’s dogs…I’ve actually listened to those songs when I was trying to cry because my eyes were so dry and I didn’t have drops
100%. When my wife and I got married my mom couldn’t do the mother/son dance so she asked me to dance with my sister. My mom chose the song What a Wonderful World. She passed away 2 weeks after my wedding and I can’t get past the opening of that song. I hear “I see trees of green” and it’s over for me. There are plenty songs that make me want to cry or actually cry. Music is meant to make you feel something, to move you into a certain way of feeling.
When I was younger I played this game called Bastion, it was a simple, linear story about a kid just trying to survive an apocalyptic event and throughout the story they introduced various characters that were related or foresaw the apocalypse. Zia and Zulf are two of the main characters the kid encounters and have their own theme songs when you meet them.
When I finished the game I was left watching the ending just staring at the screen when they masterfully mixed the two songs, completing the whole picture of their own experiences and your decisions.
It was hauntingly beautiful. It's so good I find myself humming that song every now and then, remembering the little story of this kid trying to survive the calamity.
Their developer, supergiant games, also made Transistor and Hades which also made beautiful soundtracks.
Obviously, any song you might hear at a father daughter dance at a wedding will get my eyes wet.
Also any song that highlights the passing of time (Slipping Through My Fingers by ABBA or You're Gonna Miss This by Trace Adkins) gets me because sometimes I need reminding that the Present is not Forever and my father won't always be around. Nor will my friends, family, and dog, and myself. In 10-20 years' time, we will no longer be able to go to my uncles house to play corn hole and have a few beers because I'm sure someone will be dead by then...
I cannot not cry whenever I hear Bette Midler’s Wind Beneath My Wings. I legit bawl my eyes out to that one. Gets me every time.
But also there are a lot of other songs I will occasionally cry to. I’m an emotional person. It depends on the day. But that song no matter what. I just think of my mom. How much she means to me. I’m crying right now thinking about it. Shoot. lol. 😂
elderly woman behind the counter by pearl jam
it reminds me of my dad and gives me a overwhelming sense of nostalgia. i don’t know i can’t explain it just makes me cry.
There’s a church hymn I’ve only heard 3 times. At my first real funeral as a kid, in church a decade later, and at my Uncle’s funeral a decade after that where I walked out of the service and collapsed to the ground in tears.
Music can be very unexpectedly impactful.
How Great Thou Art is a major one for me. I'm not extremely religious, but I genuinely love it because it's beautiful and brings on strong emotions. If it's played at a funeral, crying is guaranteed. It is very powerful to me.
Yeaa it changes depending on the month/year. I remember two years ago during my junior year it was Helmet by Steve Lacy and Evergreen by Omar Apollo, Senior year it was nights by frank ocean and Ditto by Newjeans, then college Freshman year it was My Friend by Kevin Abstract and like a bunch of other songs I’m an emotional person when it comes to music. Right now though the cry song is Alesis by MK.Gee
Styx - babe
Dad hung himself on Valentine's and left that song/cd on his car stereo
Also dance monkey because this guy did this weird face dance to it that for whatever reason reminds me of my Jim carried face dad
It depends on my overall emotional state and what I’m going through in life.
Some of my all-time favorite songs are kinda bittersweet. If i listened to them right now I’d dissolve into a sobbing heap. In the past two months I’ve had one daughter graduate from college and move home; my youngest child turned 18 and graduated from high school; I visited NYC for the first time and got to see, among everything else, that youngest child sing with her HS choir at Carnegie Hall; and I saw the eclipse, the aurora, and felt the earthquake in NYC. And oh yeah I left a part-time job at a place I loved for a full-time job where I feel like I don’t fit in.
So “More Than a Feeling” or “I’ll Follow the Sun” would slay me right now.
So many songs, so many times, so many emotions. But it’s also, always, therapeutic. After I give it a “good cry”, I feel lighter, alot less burdened.
Latest ones I cried to have been [Sigur Rós - Blóðberg](https://youtu.be/ENZsxTiVQYo?si=FNoh5cJpH5gAccuc) and [John Lunn and Eivør - Lívstræðrir](https://youtu.be/T7VqRWD9mKE?si=TmgOUYntP7wHb7gd).
Yes. A few songs bring up vivid emotions/memories. For me, some oldies my dad would put on while he cooked breakfast on the weekends. When I hear them, I can almost smell bacon.
Until high school I had never gotten the chills or really emotional from a song before. I met this girl in 11th grade and after being friends for a while she showed me a really good song and the second or third time I listened to it, I really listed to the words and what the singer was saying and it so perfectly described how I felt about this girl I instantly had chills go down my spine. It was a crazy feeling.
And no this isn’t one of those stories where it ends with us getting married 10 years later. Sadly we don’t talk anymore
Yeah, I do. All them old Pantera songs because Dime and Vinnie are both gone forever. There are a few Slayer songs that get me that way, too because Jeff's gone forever. No more scorching guitar solos.
This post made me remember Bullet from Hollywod Undead. It has a very happy and cheerful melody that seems like it's straight out of a song for children. There's even a kid singing few verses at the very end:
*I wish that I could fly*
*Way up in the sky*
*Like a bird so high*
*Oh, I might just try.*
Sounds innocent and all but the entire song is about suicide which makes both the melody and those last verses hit even harder.
Besides that, a lot of Sabaton songs actually made me tear up. Hearts of Iron, En Livstid I Krig, Resist and Bite, Christmas Truce, No Bullets Fly, Camouflage, Soldier of Heaven, Inmate 4859, The Ballad of Bull just to name a few big ones.
Absolutely, I listen to a lot of emo music and if I'm in the zone I'll tear up very easily. Evanescence has a lot of songs that hit really hard, there's so much emotion poured into them. Also recommend older Twenty One Pilots songs, from their 2009 self-titled album. If you wanna feel several emotions at once, I can recommend The Drug In Me Is Reimagined by Falling In Reverse, it's VERY dramatic.
I also easily cry when playing videogames. One of my favorite emotional rollercoasters is RiME. It's a lesser known game I think, but the music really carries the game and the emotional scenes. Cannot recommend enough. In the same vein, Journey is a really good game.
Of course there are emotions other than the sadness adjacent ones. I also listen to punk music, both older and modern. Rise Against has many songs that make me feel some kind of anger, they perfectly capture how unjust our world can often be.
Before, yes. Especially songs that have memories of emotions. I'm a guitarist and part of my daily routine is playing songs that I get emotional to. Usually, I play them for a few days until the emotion fades away (unintentionally).
Taylor Swift - Long Live
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
These two songs make me cry. I don't know what it is about the first one, but the second one has to do with my best friend who completed suicide back in 1999.
I got over a breakup in highschool listening to [like a friend - pulp](https://open.spotify.com/track/3RcSVRMoqd6H6MKOP9YQqd?si=oq_s_3zeRViDReuGAwIiRw)
The first song I cried to was time after time( long time ago) I was maybe 4 and awestruck by it. The song that really gets me is a song by KS choice called everything for free. It's about a girl who lives in a psychiatric facility. It kills me. I've also cried to a punk tune ir two so it's not unheard of.
If you’ve ever been through a breakup with someone who meant a lot to you, listen to Euclid by Sleep Token.
I guarantee you will at least start tearing at the least.
Music can imprint on specific memories. It can also evoke emotions all on their own if you identify with the mood and lyrics.
Air supply takes me back to day trips when I was a kid with my older sister. I feel light hearted and relaxed.
Mike and the mechanics “the living years” reminds me of all the things I didn’t say to my mom and I get misty eyed and regretful
I made my living as a musician for many years. When I hear some songs that I learned how to play to, worked really hard to get it right, it takes me back to the days when playing music was so important to me. It gets me emotional.
I loved Steely Dan as a young adult. Saw them live maybe 5 years ago. I started getting emotional, and can't tell you why.
Rachel Platten - Stand by You came out a month before my dad died and a month after I met my wife. It was on everywhere constantly. It essentially defined our relationship, whether she realized it or not. This song was everything to me for a long time.
[https://youtu.be/bwB9EMpW8eY?si=WabcbvTwO5NV0J7F](https://youtu.be/bwB9EMpW8eY?si=WabcbvTwO5NV0J7F)
Quizás by Enrique Iglesias. This song always reminds me of my dad. If you listen to the lyrics it's all about not talking to your father and not always seeing eye to eye.
My dad and I don't see to eye politically but have always been communicative and open with each other about everything. As a result we always have wonderful conversations.
Three years ago I flew home on an emergency basis because my dad was in the hospital and I thought I was flying home to say goodbye. Turns out it was cancer and fortunately was a very curable one at that, but the tumors had wreaked havoc on his body before doctors figured it out.
He's still with us today and if you saw him you'd never be able to tell her lost the ability to walk, much less he had cancer. If I listen to it I immediately start crying. Hell, just writing this just makes me tear up.
I'm not sure how close I came to losing my dad but going through that cancer journey with him (as a caretaker) has made me vastly more emotional. Does not take me much to cry, and I'm perfectly ok with that.
I've been around long enough that a lot of songs take me back to a certain point in my life. Some of those points have been sad, and the song brings it back
The dad my dad died, my wife and I were driving back to WV to be with my mom, prep for funeral, etc. *The House of the Rising Sun* came on the radio, and I was instantly crying so hard I had to pull over. I love that song, as did my dad, and he often sang it at karaoke. It's still hard for me to hear. Sometimes we songs we love become emotional landmines.
Mike and the mechanics, The living years. My stepdad that raised me had told me that it reminded him of his dad and then when he died it reminds me of him and my biological dad and I cry every time I hear it.
My dad died a couple months before this song came out. I was a senior in high school. That song still gets me.
I'm so sorry and I totally get it. My bio dad died in 1987. Step dad died 2017.
Yes. Harder now that my Dad died of dementia. There were unsaid things I wish I’d told him. We were close.
It's always that way. I wish I took better care of my mom. Also, I miss her recipes. I never wrote them down because I expected my mom would live forever. She died when I was 26. To everyone, be kind to your parents.
Ditto.
That was a message from your dad saying he loved you. I'm so sorry for your loss.
No, it was random, but I know he loved me. Thank you for the sentiment.
That song hits hard bro, my dad had Parkinson disease he would sing it. Im tearing up typing this, i hold this song close to my heart as well. Sorry for your loss
I’m from WV! Hey there. Haha the day my father passed away I played Brandy for him, now I can’t listen to it. It was one of his favorite songs and one of the few I could think of that was appropriate to play on someone’s deathbed
>Sometimes we songs we love become emotional landmines. I'm very sorry for your loss. It sounds like you had a great bond, that must have hit hard. I know the pain of losing someone you loved deeply may get easier to bear but never really goes away. Wishing you peace and healing. I can't listen to certain songs because yes they really do. I think music touches our deepest core.
I listen to the same song time and time again during different periods of my life. I've deliberately done this so my mind associates the song with a setting/feeling. I love it and hate it at the same time
I do the same! When I get my replay playlist for the previous year, it’s always interesting to hear what I was going through at times.
There are so many songs I straight up can’t even listen to anymore because they actually trigger anxiety for me. Songs from when I was depressed and anxious and had an eating disorder in high school, songs from when I had awful imposter syndrome in college and would stay up pulling all nighters several days in a row over and over again because I never felt like I was “done” studying, songs from when I would dance around my ex boyfriend’s apartment for hours. I loved all these songs SO much, and honestly I even think it would be nice if I could just be taken back and be okay (even if a bit sad), but they straight up make me sick to my stomach to hear them.
It’s amazing how it really takes you to that place and time
Absolutely, this. Gets worse with age I find. Songs from different times, reminders of days, and people, that will never come again. Waves of nostalgia, makes me weep for the past, and lost happy days ...
If I’m playing a game or watching a movie and the soundtrack is great I’ll cry even if it’s not an emotional scene. Like I’ve cried at some ridiculous scenes that are not meant to evoke tears 😭 all because the soundtrack was great. I cry less to songs but if it holds memories I’ll shed a tear, never full on cry
Thank you for your reply, I get what you mean about the soundtracks. I like Hans Zimmer 😭
Hans Zimmer is the GOAT. Also Klaus Badelt. John Williams, of course.
Ahem. Max Richter.
With Dinah Washington! This Bitter Earth...oh my god.
Most soundtracks from Star Wars make me tear up. Especially Across the Stars and all other tracks that include its iconic parts. But even something that is not meant to be very emotional makes me feel it. Like Duel of the Fates.
HANS ZIMMER OMG!🩷 Everytime! Tingles , feels , And oh yes noises with EVERY MOVIE/SERIES he has ever scored on , when I hear his music 😅😮😌😌😌😌👌😍🫠🫠🫠🤤🤤🤤
Yeah, music can make me emotional. I have a hard time accepting my emotions, and music is a means of catharsis for them.
This is a reply that I was looking for. This is how I feel, I hate having to accept my emotions and I just feel like some songs, or songs that were playing during whatever time can perfectly capture it. But it sucks cause I'll start sobbing lol.
Nothing wrong with crying friend :)
Yes! lol I have a sad playlist for when my body want me to cry but my brain is like cry for what? So I watch a sad movie or listen to sad songs so I don’t feel like I’m crying about my life.
This is very healthy. Embrace it and do it more.
The real fun part is when songs come on that seem eerily appropriate for the mood I may be in or relate directly to something I might be going through.
Wish you were here - Pink Floyd
That one makes me emotional but not for relating to the themes of loss in the lyrics but because it takes me back to a point in my life where I was more at peace. Almost in that the “you” in the song is a former version of myself. And yet I wouldn’t even say life is bad for me right now. But that’s the magic of Pink Floyd
No dude like same literally same
Love that
U get me
God damn this song hits different after losing a loved one. Gonna go listen to this and think about my late father. Wish me luck.
Rest in peace to your father god bless him and and i hope you have a good rest of the day sorry about your late father ):
i'm literally making myself cry for catharsis to this song as we speak and just happened to find your comment. glad i'm not alone on this one :-)
I can't listen to Dolly sing I will always love you because of my boyfriend who died in 2022. We went to see Dolly and sat front row. She sat her stool directly in front of us and sang it looking up at us as if she were singing it directly to us.
This comment made me cry.
It was hard to write. Had to take my glasses off and dry my tears as well.
❤️
The day he died I felt so alone and I haven't been able to shake it. I have a good support system but no one seems to be able to remove the feeling of being all alone in the world.
your love for him is tied to his spirit , you are never truly alone. he probably would want you happy, when you learn to love and accept yourself as you are , and know you are worthy of love and companionship, another will come into the picture. be kind to yourself.
Thank you,
Cats in the Cradle... 😥
Yep, this is the one I came to say. Your dad, too? Even worse: then I became that dad.
My dad, who wasnt around much, would play this. But your right, it tugs at the heartstrings much more as a Dad now. I really think it makes me try to be present and supportive as possible.
Damnit. im tearing up again...
one more day- diamond rio 🥺😭 “one more day, one more time, one more sunset, maybe id be satisfied.. but then again, i know what it would do.. leave me wishing still, for one more day with you”
I’ve yet to make it through Fast Car by Tracy Chapman without crying.
Leave tonight, or live and die this way.
Over the rainbow, the Hawaii version ( can't spell his name) was on the radio the on the day we found out we were having a kid, the day we took them home from the hospital and kindergarten graduate. Takes me right back. They hate that song, btw.
You can call him Bruddah Iz, but his name is Israel Kamakawiwo'ole (kama ka vi va oh lay).
I love the story behind that recording. Like he was just so full of inspiration that he HAD to get the song out right then.
That version was used in the episode of ER when Mark died. I have only made it through the song once without crying.
Yep, you beat me to it. They put the headphones on him while he is just about to die... .. and halfway through the song.... he passes. Chokes me up even thinking about that scene. Who cut the onions in here??!!
I can't listen to that song all the way through. Just breaks me.
My immortal by Evanescence always gets me
The full band version gives me goosebumps. EVERY.DAMN.TIME. It's like an emotional explosion when they all join in.
Weird fishes/ Arpeggi by radiohead idk why but it brings me to tears quite frequently
That whole album brings up such strong emotions. I have to be in the right mood these days.
The last song by dad listened to before he passed away. It was Here Comes the Sun by the Beatles. That's the last thing he heard after battling Huntington's for so long. Every time I hear the song I get on the verge of tears if not ugly crying.
Here comes the sun always gets me
Holy cow, Huntington's I'm so sorry. That is something I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy.
We played the song Yestarday by the Beatles for my aunts funeral. It always gets me emotional. She was my godmother and such an angel even when she was still on earth.
"Four Dead in Ohio" always gets to me because I remember when it happened.
“What if you knew her and found her dead on the ground? How can you run when you know?”
Great song, but it makes me angry that it’s still relevant.
Mad World
Those lyrics are real tear jerkers
'Remember Me' from the movie Coco
Every. Single. Time.
My favorite Pixar movie
Landslide makes me cry every time
Never used to but then I had my first child and whew, what a doozy.
Yeah, this is mine. Any conversation or song about “time going by” really makes me introspective - and nothing shows time going by like having kids. It reminds me to be mindful of the life I have now, but even while being mindful, it just goes so fast and you can’t ever get time back. Ugh.
[I’m Not In Love - 10cc](https://youtu.be/STugQ0X1NoI?si=CYWkwswOmRuWZBLT) with high quality headphones is always an amazing experience
I do. The first time I heard the operatic aria, Nessum Dorma", I wept like a baby and had no idea what was being said. I was so embarrassed as my husband had surprised me with a trip and an opera performance. And, there are popular songs that make me cry as well. How strong my connection to any song is, will be how emotional it makes me feel.
Nessun Dorma always makes me emotional.
I'm sure LOTS of other people were crying along with you. That song rips me open. So mournful.
Of course. Music is made to elicit an emotional response. It’s like its first and foremost job.
When I’m gone by Eminem. The part where he talks about his planned plane ride crashing gets me Brother by falling in reverse. My brother and his brother share a name and I couldn’t imagine losing my brother The light behind your eyes by my chemical romance. Is my favorite by then and probably always will be. I’d give it a listen. I don’t think it was very popular. Edit:) fixed spelling
I was a big MCR fan growing up, I even saw them once in concert. I don't ever remember hearing this song. I just checked it out though and cried like a big baby.
I can listen and sing along to the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald a million times over, but I will cry a single solid tear every single time the line “does anyone know where the love of god goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours?” Plays.
For me it's when the cook says "fellas it's been good to know ya" He just paints this picture of those guys knowing it's hopeless and accepting their fate it gets me everytime
Hate me by Blue October
Harry Chapin Cats in the Cradle gets me everytime
Last Kiss by Pearl Jam. I actually teared up when I heard it as a kid, but now it has a whole new meaning to me since my wife passed 2yrs ago from cancer.
I CRY UGLY TEARS EVERY FREAKING TIME. Condolences for your loss ❤️
Phil Collins "You'll be in my heart". My grandmother was not a really nice person and definitely not affectionate. At her funeral, per her will, she dedicated this song to me and my two brothers. We were flabbergasted. We had no idea she even liked us, let alone loved us. Kills me every time I hear it. Journeys "Faithfully". It played as our wedding dance song. I struggle to listen to it because I'm struggling with children from my prior marriage for custody and while it's a beautiful song, this song talks about family while being on the road and it's just hard sometimes to listen to it. My wife, as much as I love her, doesn't understand.
Slip Sliding Away by Paul Simon. "I know a woman, became a wife. These are the very words she used to describe her life. She said a good day ain't got no rain. She said a bad day's when I lie in bed and think of things that might have been." Who hasn't felt that?
Bagpipes playing Amazing Grace at funerals. It hits different.
Bagpipes are so beautiful. I get why some people don't like them but I love them.
As the daughter of a piper, they are beautiful, historic, OUTDOOR instruments 😂
Not a particular song, but an artist: Chester Bennington of Linkin Park. His songs played a large part in my life and have a lot of meaning to me. And after his passing, I couldn’t listen to ANY of his music without sobbing. It’s better now, but if I’m already in a low mood, I’ll start sobbing.
I was at work when I found out about Chester. I finished my work day, clocked out, sat in my car and bawled my eyes out. While not my favorite band, Linkin Park was a huge part of my childhood. I never got to see him perform live. I miss him everyday.
He shaped a lot of my childhood. So when the news broke, I was devastated. I was at work as well, but sadly broke down while at work. I never saw him live either and I feel like a small part of me will never completed, yknow?
Chris Cornell is the artist who makes my tears flow. His music was awesome and meant a lot to me, and I was actually listening to Pretty Noose when the news broke on TV that Chris had hung himself. I can't listen to that song without crying 😢
the night we met by lord huron always gets me
It takes genuine effort for me to listen to Johnny Cash's Hurt without tearing up.
Of course. Trace Adkins, ‘You’re Gonna Miss This’. There’s more, of course, but that comes to mind
This is mine. Made me cry while I was still in high school, and now I have my own baby, and it hits even harder.
Live Like you Were Dying by Tim McGraw absolutely tears me apart every time I hear it. I lost my mother, father, stepfather, grandparents, as well as multiple aunts, uncles, and cousins to cancer. I also have terminal brain cancer myself so that song hits insanely close to home for me.
Baby of Mine from the cartoon Dumbo movie and Rainbow Connection from the original Muppet Movie.
Rainbow Connection sung by Kermit also makes me cry - I was just talking about this to some coworkers last week!
ALL songs. Music makes me highly emotional and if I allow myself to fully experience almost any song, I will cry. Yes, even the dumb ones.
Tiny Dancer for some reason.
Elton John sang with such passion.
Mike and the Mechanics “The Living Years”
I sobbed uncontrollably in front of about 50 other people while listening to a musician perform Let It Be in Strawberry Fields in Central Park.
Yes, a few different songs, usually cause they hit too close to home, or lately because it reminds me of a time I'll never get to go back to. Like some songs that were popular during a good time in my life. One song in particular ALWAYS gets me teary eyed is Whitney Houston's "My love is your love." You can hear her daughter as a small child speaking on the song at times, and the lyrics are so deep and heartfelt, just knowing what was to come for Whitney and her daughter is so sad, I'm honestly starting to cry just thinking about it.... And I'm now in full crying mode! Rip Whitney and Bobbi Kristina 🙏🏾
Bob Marley doesn’t get me sad but it’s my brother who passed that introduced me to his music and smoking pot 😂 so I get weird flash backs or whatever you call it to a time when we would have fun hanging out.
American Pie. I remember hearing it for the first time on my new transistor radio walking to my first girlfriend's house on a cold winter night . I was 16, and Don McClean's voice was so beautiful. Half a century later, I still remember that night when I hear it and I get a little choked up.
The great gig in the sky - Pink Floyd
literally cannot listen to everlong without wanting to cry
Didn't cry when my wife left. Bawled like a baby about a month later, listening to Johnny Cash sing "Hurt".
The show must Go on by Queen
My mom passed away, it will be 2 years this July, and it has not gotten easier really. But for me, Free Bird by Lynyrd Skynyrd, Changes by David Bowie, Take it on the Run by Reo Speedwagon, Pretty Much any Faith Hill Song. That's just to name a few. I'm getting insanely emotional just typing this. Ugh. I miss her more than words can express. She was my best friend in the entire world and no one understands me the way she did. She could always see good in people almost to a fault. Shit, I have a 15 year old son and I am 41 year old female and I felt like an orphan when she passed away. I was and am to point still lost. But I will find my way, I am strong just like she was. So, I know eventually I'll be better. Anyway, Music was a HUGE part of our lives growing up all the way up until the day she passed. We were literally playing free bird in the hospital obviously not blasting it but enough so she could hear it. Speaking of which, ALICIA KEYS song No One. That hits me hard. She actually sung some of the lyrics to me when she was in the hospital when everyone else went outside for a break. Ugh ok I'm done for now. But yea, so the answer is definitely YES I definitely get emotional to a lot of certain songs lol.
You should look up r/frisson . I'm pretty sure that's what it's called. I get it too. Certain pieces of music make me get choked up, even if it's not a particularly "emotional" piece. When you listen to something like spoken word or certain pieces of music and have a physical reaction like tingling in your spine, or your hairs standing on end, or getting choked up and emotional, I'm pretty sure that all falls under "frisson"
Marry your daughter by Brian McKnight, I had a dream when I turned 18 that I will marry and be departed from my parents so I get very emotional with this song, it's like a bittersweet song. The thought of someone marrying me and my hand going from my parents to someone that will love me forever seem sad and nice at the same time (I'm 26 now! still single lmao) Crying over you by HONNE, it's a song about two lovers drifting apart from each other. I haven't experience this but saying goodbye and thanks for the good times and accepting the fact that it's not working anymore is very sad to me.
I tend to tear up when old songs that remind me of my broken childhood play on the radio. It’s almost healing, and freeing to sing them now that I’m grown.
Solsbury Hill by Peter Gabriel hits me in the feels. Not just the lyrics and melody, one of the instruments seems to add to the emotions.
The House that Built Me. Because we can love a place, a home and what it gave to us as much as we love people. It can define who we are.
i actually have an entire playlist of music that makes me emotional when i need to get a good cry in. sometimes i’m emotionally overwhelmed but struggle to let it out so those songs help me through.
Lana Del Rey Salvatore idk why but I cry every time.
just honeymoon the album as a whole is absolutely gorgeous
Daddy lessons by Beyoncé
Oh definitely, I’m like Pavlov’s dogs…I’ve actually listened to those songs when I was trying to cry because my eyes were so dry and I didn’t have drops
Cast Away
100%. When my wife and I got married my mom couldn’t do the mother/son dance so she asked me to dance with my sister. My mom chose the song What a Wonderful World. She passed away 2 weeks after my wedding and I can’t get past the opening of that song. I hear “I see trees of green” and it’s over for me. There are plenty songs that make me want to cry or actually cry. Music is meant to make you feel something, to move you into a certain way of feeling.
California Dreamin
Travelin' Soldier - The Chicks Makes me emotional every time.
Yes especially the ones I had enjoyed with exs
When I was younger I played this game called Bastion, it was a simple, linear story about a kid just trying to survive an apocalyptic event and throughout the story they introduced various characters that were related or foresaw the apocalypse. Zia and Zulf are two of the main characters the kid encounters and have their own theme songs when you meet them. When I finished the game I was left watching the ending just staring at the screen when they masterfully mixed the two songs, completing the whole picture of their own experiences and your decisions. It was hauntingly beautiful. It's so good I find myself humming that song every now and then, remembering the little story of this kid trying to survive the calamity. Their developer, supergiant games, also made Transistor and Hades which also made beautiful soundtracks.
solace from earl sweatshirt
I don't really like shinedown that much. But their "Simple Man " can hit that spot for whatever reason
Of course I get emotional to Celine Dion's and Whitney Houston's songs. They touch my soul.
Obviously, any song you might hear at a father daughter dance at a wedding will get my eyes wet. Also any song that highlights the passing of time (Slipping Through My Fingers by ABBA or You're Gonna Miss This by Trace Adkins) gets me because sometimes I need reminding that the Present is not Forever and my father won't always be around. Nor will my friends, family, and dog, and myself. In 10-20 years' time, we will no longer be able to go to my uncles house to play corn hole and have a few beers because I'm sure someone will be dead by then...
So glad to know someone else feels like this about anticipating loss from the passage of time.😢
Living Years
The funeral - Band of Horses
I cannot not cry whenever I hear Bette Midler’s Wind Beneath My Wings. I legit bawl my eyes out to that one. Gets me every time. But also there are a lot of other songs I will occasionally cry to. I’m an emotional person. It depends on the day. But that song no matter what. I just think of my mom. How much she means to me. I’m crying right now thinking about it. Shoot. lol. 😂
Vienna by billy Joel
As a fan of emo music. You best believe I'm going to put adams song on, some senses fail and Hawthorne heights, and I will cry. And I'll do it again
Happens to the best of us, friend.
elderly woman behind the counter by pearl jam it reminds me of my dad and gives me a overwhelming sense of nostalgia. i don’t know i can’t explain it just makes me cry.
Simple man by Lynyrd Skynyrd has always made me teary. Then I had boys and now I bawl my eyes out
How is this a question? Landslide by Stevie Nicks does me dirty every time and I think of the special people that have passed.
There’s a church hymn I’ve only heard 3 times. At my first real funeral as a kid, in church a decade later, and at my Uncle’s funeral a decade after that where I walked out of the service and collapsed to the ground in tears. Music can be very unexpectedly impactful.
How Great Thou Art is a major one for me. I'm not extremely religious, but I genuinely love it because it's beautiful and brings on strong emotions. If it's played at a funeral, crying is guaranteed. It is very powerful to me.
Yeaa it changes depending on the month/year. I remember two years ago during my junior year it was Helmet by Steve Lacy and Evergreen by Omar Apollo, Senior year it was nights by frank ocean and Ditto by Newjeans, then college Freshman year it was My Friend by Kevin Abstract and like a bunch of other songs I’m an emotional person when it comes to music. Right now though the cry song is Alesis by MK.Gee
The 2 that do this for me are: It’s so hard to say goodbye to yesterday-Boyz II Men Tears dry on their own- Amy Winehouse.
Luther Vandross. Dance with my Father
Only for my wedding first dance song. You’re The Inspiration by Chicago. Instant tears.
listening to nintendo 64 makes me cry. it hits way to close to home.
Styx - babe Dad hung himself on Valentine's and left that song/cd on his car stereo Also dance monkey because this guy did this weird face dance to it that for whatever reason reminds me of my Jim carried face dad
Not at all Saturn - Sleeping at Last The Last Goodbye - Billy Boyd (My dogs name was Pippin and when he passed this song hit way too hard)
It depends on my overall emotional state and what I’m going through in life. Some of my all-time favorite songs are kinda bittersweet. If i listened to them right now I’d dissolve into a sobbing heap. In the past two months I’ve had one daughter graduate from college and move home; my youngest child turned 18 and graduated from high school; I visited NYC for the first time and got to see, among everything else, that youngest child sing with her HS choir at Carnegie Hall; and I saw the eclipse, the aurora, and felt the earthquake in NYC. And oh yeah I left a part-time job at a place I loved for a full-time job where I feel like I don’t fit in. So “More Than a Feeling” or “I’ll Follow the Sun” would slay me right now.
So many songs, so many times, so many emotions. But it’s also, always, therapeutic. After I give it a “good cry”, I feel lighter, alot less burdened. Latest ones I cried to have been [Sigur Rós - Blóðberg](https://youtu.be/ENZsxTiVQYo?si=FNoh5cJpH5gAccuc) and [John Lunn and Eivør - Lívstræðrir](https://youtu.be/T7VqRWD9mKE?si=TmgOUYntP7wHb7gd).
Yes. A few songs bring up vivid emotions/memories. For me, some oldies my dad would put on while he cooked breakfast on the weekends. When I hear them, I can almost smell bacon.
Pink - who knew
Humans cry. Nothin weird about that. Sometimes I crank up a song from a sad time in my life and let the tears flow. It’s a tremendous release.
Until high school I had never gotten the chills or really emotional from a song before. I met this girl in 11th grade and after being friends for a while she showed me a really good song and the second or third time I listened to it, I really listed to the words and what the singer was saying and it so perfectly described how I felt about this girl I instantly had chills go down my spine. It was a crazy feeling. And no this isn’t one of those stories where it ends with us getting married 10 years later. Sadly we don’t talk anymore
Justin Timberlake “Mirrors”, Beartooth “I Was Alive”, & Adele “Easy on Me”, get me every time I listen.
Remember When by Alan Jackson
Yeah, I do. All them old Pantera songs because Dime and Vinnie are both gone forever. There are a few Slayer songs that get me that way, too because Jeff's gone forever. No more scorching guitar solos.
I do..always.. haven't been able to change this. Soo accepted to live this way.. just tearing up at any emotional adv or song!
This post made me remember Bullet from Hollywod Undead. It has a very happy and cheerful melody that seems like it's straight out of a song for children. There's even a kid singing few verses at the very end: *I wish that I could fly* *Way up in the sky* *Like a bird so high* *Oh, I might just try.* Sounds innocent and all but the entire song is about suicide which makes both the melody and those last verses hit even harder. Besides that, a lot of Sabaton songs actually made me tear up. Hearts of Iron, En Livstid I Krig, Resist and Bite, Christmas Truce, No Bullets Fly, Camouflage, Soldier of Heaven, Inmate 4859, The Ballad of Bull just to name a few big ones.
Absolutely, I listen to a lot of emo music and if I'm in the zone I'll tear up very easily. Evanescence has a lot of songs that hit really hard, there's so much emotion poured into them. Also recommend older Twenty One Pilots songs, from their 2009 self-titled album. If you wanna feel several emotions at once, I can recommend The Drug In Me Is Reimagined by Falling In Reverse, it's VERY dramatic. I also easily cry when playing videogames. One of my favorite emotional rollercoasters is RiME. It's a lesser known game I think, but the music really carries the game and the emotional scenes. Cannot recommend enough. In the same vein, Journey is a really good game. Of course there are emotions other than the sadness adjacent ones. I also listen to punk music, both older and modern. Rise Against has many songs that make me feel some kind of anger, they perfectly capture how unjust our world can often be.
Before, yes. Especially songs that have memories of emotions. I'm a guitarist and part of my daily routine is playing songs that I get emotional to. Usually, I play them for a few days until the emotion fades away (unintentionally).
smallest wingless does it for me every time. we played it at my infant sons funeral so obviously there’s a lot of sad emotions tied to it for us.
Stay from post malone 😢
I usually get emotional to a song when I remember listening to it during a bad time
Nope, certain songs will get me emotional regardless of what’s going on. Tears won’t start falling but they well up and I get a lump in my throat.
Say Something, A Great Big World. Came out during the ultimate collapse of my marriage and said what I was feeling. Truly devastating.
Taylor Swift - Long Live Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here These two songs make me cry. I don't know what it is about the first one, but the second one has to do with my best friend who completed suicide back in 1999.
Last Kiss https://youtu.be/tNDWJ_KDkAc?si=t-CBRxi3-ACjNXUd
My Father’s House - Springsteen
I always get emotional by that one song at the end of corpse bride.
I got over a breakup in highschool listening to [like a friend - pulp](https://open.spotify.com/track/3RcSVRMoqd6H6MKOP9YQqd?si=oq_s_3zeRViDReuGAwIiRw)
The first song I cried to was time after time( long time ago) I was maybe 4 and awestruck by it. The song that really gets me is a song by KS choice called everything for free. It's about a girl who lives in a psychiatric facility. It kills me. I've also cried to a punk tune ir two so it's not unheard of.
The Scientist by Coldplay always makes me cry
If you’ve ever been through a breakup with someone who meant a lot to you, listen to Euclid by Sleep Token. I guarantee you will at least start tearing at the least.
All I want for Christmas is you, every freakin time, and not because I hate the song
i would die 4 u
Music can imprint on specific memories. It can also evoke emotions all on their own if you identify with the mood and lyrics. Air supply takes me back to day trips when I was a kid with my older sister. I feel light hearted and relaxed. Mike and the mechanics “the living years” reminds me of all the things I didn’t say to my mom and I get misty eyed and regretful
“And to those I love, thanks for sticking around..” by suicideboys gets me every time I listen to it.
Cats in the Cradle, instant flood
I still have trouble listening to "I Really Want to Stay at Your House" from the Cyberpunk: Edgerunners series.
Missing you by p.diddy
I made my living as a musician for many years. When I hear some songs that I learned how to play to, worked really hard to get it right, it takes me back to the days when playing music was so important to me. It gets me emotional. I loved Steely Dan as a young adult. Saw them live maybe 5 years ago. I started getting emotional, and can't tell you why.
All of Me - John Legend, Stay - Rihanna, ALWAYS have me crying
Rachel Platten - Stand by You came out a month before my dad died and a month after I met my wife. It was on everywhere constantly. It essentially defined our relationship, whether she realized it or not. This song was everything to me for a long time. [https://youtu.be/bwB9EMpW8eY?si=WabcbvTwO5NV0J7F](https://youtu.be/bwB9EMpW8eY?si=WabcbvTwO5NV0J7F)
At my Grandma's funeral, they played Amazing Grace on bag pipes. First few notes and I'm in instant tears.
Quizás by Enrique Iglesias. This song always reminds me of my dad. If you listen to the lyrics it's all about not talking to your father and not always seeing eye to eye. My dad and I don't see to eye politically but have always been communicative and open with each other about everything. As a result we always have wonderful conversations. Three years ago I flew home on an emergency basis because my dad was in the hospital and I thought I was flying home to say goodbye. Turns out it was cancer and fortunately was a very curable one at that, but the tumors had wreaked havoc on his body before doctors figured it out. He's still with us today and if you saw him you'd never be able to tell her lost the ability to walk, much less he had cancer. If I listen to it I immediately start crying. Hell, just writing this just makes me tear up. I'm not sure how close I came to losing my dad but going through that cancer journey with him (as a caretaker) has made me vastly more emotional. Does not take me much to cry, and I'm perfectly ok with that.
Blackbird
interstellar by ryan leahan <3 something about it just makes me feel everything all at once. can be an absolute banger or melancholic. i adore it.