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[Lemurnator]

What songs bring a tear to your eye no matter how hard you try to hold it in.

Whether or not it's due to the subject matter of the lyrics or haunting instrumentals. I know sometimes the perfection of some songs gets me teary eyed.

My Sweet Lord - Harrison
Across the Universe - Lennon
Yesterday - Mccartney
Hey Jude - Lennon/Mccartney
Changes - Black Sabbath

 

[SD-Ness]

Smashing Pumpkins - For Martha
Opeth - Benighted
Opeth - For Absent Friends
Opeth - Hope Leaves
Soundgarden - Black Hole Sun
Ozma - Baseball

 

[fart]

lost my tear ducts in the war, also my eyes.

 

[Mugen]

I'm beginning to hate the Beatles now.

 

[Incognito]

What songs bring a tear to your eye no matter how hard you try to hold it in.

Whether or not it's due to the subject matter of the lyrics or haunting instrumentals. I know sometimes the perfection of some songs gets me teary eyed.

My Sweet Lord - Harrison
Across the Universe - Lennon
Yesterday - Mccartney
Hey Jude - Lennon/Mccartney
Changes - Black Sabbath

Are you ever going to post an orginal topic? Christ.

 

[ShyGuy]

I agree, Yesterday is one of those songs.

While not exactly bringing tears to my eyes, these two songs are quite sad, lyrics-wise:

Butterfly Kisses - Forgot the artist
Dance with my Father - Luther Vandross (though Celine Dion's performance at the Grammy's 2004 was even more emotional).

They might be "pussy" songs, but sometimes I like the odd slow song.

 

[FightyF]

No song has made me cry, but I think Dire Straits' "Brothers in Arms" is really beautiful.

 

[SKluck]

Can't say a song has ever made me cry. I'm more visual, emotionally, I guess.

 

[aoi tsuki]

My Sweet Lord - Harrison

If that's the song i think it is, it's almost tear-inducing.

Only song literally made me cry was Rei I from the Evangelion OST (can't remember the offical name). i broke up with my girlfriend at the time, and i remember that song was playing at a pivotal moment of the breakup in ol' Winamp 1.x.

 

[Kuroyume]

Eric Clapton - Tears in heaven

 

[Mercury Fred]

The Breeders' cover of "Wicked Little Town"
Linda Thompson- "No Telling"
Liz Phair- "Shatter"

 

[demon]

Elliott Smith - Waltz #1

for various reasons, I suppose. One the lyrics are kinda sad and I can kinda relate to them, but also because melodically it's an incredibly somber song, and listening to it just makes me a bit depressed. It also helps that it was actually the song I was listening to when I read that Elliott Smith had killed himself. Whenever I listen to this song I think of that, of why the fuck one of my favorite musicians had to kill himself like that, and just hearing the song puts me in a bit of a blue mood.

 

[Lemurnator]

Eric Clapton - Tears in heaven

Winner

 

[Doth Togo]

Anything by the 80s group Tears for Fears.

 

[Bruce Vilanch]

Grow up, Lemurs.

 

[Wolfy]

I get very sad about an ex girlfriend when I hear liz Phair - Why Can't I?

 

[darkiguana]

You guys are gonna laugh but mine is:

Wind beneath my Wings

There is a reason though:

They played it at my teachers funeral when I was about 13. Since then everytime I hear it, I think of that. She died suddenly in car wreck and left 2 kids and a husband behind. So that song takes me back to that time.

Tears in Heaven is another really sad one.

darkiguana

 

[DCharlie]

Bright eyes - Simon and Garfunkle
Forever Autumn - The Moody Blues
The Luckiest - Ben Folds

 

[UtadaBarkley]

Tupac Shakur - Dear Mama & Life Goes On.
DMX - Slippin.

Can't say I cried over these songs, but I could feel their emotion.

 

[Baconäger]

Elliott Smith - Waltz #1

for various reasons, I suppose. One the lyrics are kinda sad and I can kinda relate to them, but also because melodically it's an incredibly somber song, and listening to it just makes me a bit depressed. It also helps that it was actually the song I was listening to when I read that Elliott Smith had killed himself. Whenever I listen to this song I think of that, of why the fuck one of my favorite musicians had to kill himself like that, and just hearing the song puts me in a bit of a blue mood.

Good tune, though I rank Condor Ave, Pitseleh, and Bled White above it. Smith was awesome. Now for a few more songs...

Ryan Adams - Dear Chicago
Butch Walker Take Tomorrow (One Day At A Time) <----- Live versions always make me weepy.
Jeff Buckley - Morning Theft

 

[Greekboy]

Sinead O'Connor - "Nothing Compares 2 U"

 

[yoshifumi]

lets not shit ourselves (to love and to be loved) by bright eyes makes me sad when he gets to the part about being in the hospital with his dad, but not really teary eyed. also, sleepy california by her space holiday when he gets to the part about his grandma dying.

 

[Eminem]

Eric Clapton - Tears in heaven

THAT'S IT, THAT'S THE LIST

 

[Baconäger]

The lyrics to this song also get to me (it's about a friend who has cancer.)

Butch Walker - If (Jeannie's Song)
All alone in your dirty chair, washin' all your dirty hair,
and you're wonderin' how long 'til they come for you.
Watch the lines form on your face and down the block all the people chase
just what you were after, before this happened to you.

And if I could be the chains, I'd fall from you and let you fly to the angels
If I could be your pain I'd run from you, so far away.
If I could turn the time back just one day it might just be enough to say
All the things I never said to you.

Make the plans to fall in place, only to fall behind in the race
and you can't keep up and I know that it pisses you off.
And your roller coaster climbs the hill, up and down, it sure does feel
a bit too much. Are you ready to get off?

If I could be the chains I'd fall from you and let you fly like an angel.
If I could be the pain I'd run from you, so far away.
If I could turn the time back just one day, It might just be enough to say,
all the things I've never said to you.[to you]

And what you don't know won't hurt you.
What you don't show will kill you.
What you don't know won't hurt you.
What you don't show will kill you

And what you don't know won't hurt you.
What you won't show will kill you.
What you don't know wont' hurt you at all.
And if I could be the chains I'd fall from you and let you fly like an angel
If I could be the pain, I'd run from you so far away.
If I could turn the time back just one day, It might just be enough to say,
all the things I never said to you. [to you]

Never said to you.
[What you don't know won't hurt you]
[What you don't show will kill you]
[What you don't know won't hurt you]
No, No, No, [what you don't show will kill you]
Never said to you,
to you,
to you.

 

[Star Power]

Jeff Buckley- Hallelujah
Radiohead- Motion Picture Soundtrack
Beck- Guess I'm Doing Fine
Interpol- Hands Away

 

[Mike Works]

Eric Clapton - Tears in heaven
Muse - Unintended
Johnny Cash - Hurt
Matthew Good Band - Apparitions

 

[jobber]

Atmosphere-The River and Summer Song

How could I forget... Our Lady Peace-Not Enough

 

[hobbitx]

Old Man River by Sinatra could make even the most hardcore gangsta cry like a bitch.

 

[ErasureAcer]

Treasure by The Cure
Trust by The Cure
To Wish Impossible Things by The Cure
The Loudest Sound by The Cure
The Last Day of Summer by The Cure

 

[Coen]

Travis - Turn

 

[Brian Fellows]

Songs dont have that kind of affect on me. When it comes to movies though I'm a big wuss.

 

[Dan]

Led Zeppelin - "Stairway to Heaven"

My cousin committed suicide and we played this while burying him, as he was a huge Led Zeppelin fan. I have a hard time hearing it now without thinking of him.

 

[Odoul]

R. Kelly - I Wish (Original and Remix)
Bone - Crossroads
2Pac - Dear Mama

 

[Error Macro]

You have not cried properly until you have listened to Randy Travis' "Three Wooden Crosses." Fuck me, there isn't any song that comes close to that in terms of the leaky eyes factor.