What song makes you cry?

-A Million Miles Away by Rory Gallagher
-Daughter Of The Everglades by Rory Gallagher
-Morning Glory by Tim Buckley
-Orphan Girl by Gillian Welch
-Streets Of London by Cat Stevens
-Hickory Wind by Gram Parsons + Emmylou Harris
-Dark End Of The Street by Gram Parsons + Flying Burrito Bros

 

I don't cry in songs (cause I am a robot) but I have gotten choked up. Here are some that i can think of right now...

Everybody Hurts-REM
In My Life-Beatles
Tears in Heaven-Clapton
The Little Ones-Yusaf Islam (Cat Stevens)...yeah, a song about children getting bombed, that will do it to me

hmm, I know there are way more, but I can't think of any more

PS- the "Hallelujah" from Shrek is Rufus Wainwright

 

The "songs" that move me most are frequently instrumentals. E.G. Frank Zappa's solo on What's New In Baltimore? (Studio & YCDTOSA#5). A short and almost standard blues solo - by comparison, at least - and it's the "almost" that's the key. It's like a solo you've heard a 1000 times before by as many artists but it never sounded quite like this. I'm probably wrong... but I always picture him grinning like the Cheshire cat as he was churning this one out... simultaneously beautiful & hilarious. (Gonna have to listen to it now).

More conventionally.....

Joy Division - 24 Hours
The Creatures - Say
Pink Floyd - Remember A Day

Dunno if this one has crossed the Atlantic from the UK....

Snow Patrol - Run

 

"Stairway to Heaven" by Led Zeppelin, because I knew a kid in jr. high who was the only one who could play the guitar solo at that point in our young lives, and he passed away a few years later.

Also, "The Engine Driver" by the Decemberists, because things with my boyfriend are complicated and stagnant right now.

~Nova

 

I cant really listen to songs that make me cry

Mabye remind me of sad instance's

String Cheese Incdent-Wake Up

 

aaah yeah the little ones...
that one needs to be on my list too.

 

Hallelujah - Jef Buckley's version

My Immortal - Evanescence

The Living Years - Mike & The Mechanics


These all have personal meaning to me, and will always make me cry. But there are plenty of songs already mentioned here than do make me sad and melancholic.

Want to go and find The Little Ones, to see if it's the same song I remember from years ago. If it is, then yeah, it affected me very deeply.

 

Famous Blue Raincoat & Chelsea Hotel #2 by Leonard Cohen. He also wrote Hallelujah!!

What's that one Mike And The Mechanics did about a father dying? That was sad!!

 

Moonlight Sonata, Op.27, No.2 by Beethoven

Poles Apart by Pink Floyd

Northern Land by Tori Amos (actualy, Tori's voice makes me cry, doesn't matter the song)

A Thousand Hours by The Cure

Wonderful One by Jimmy Page & Robert Plant

 

pearl jam - last kiss
aerosmith - dont wanna miss a thing
aerosmith - dream on
john butler trio - peaches and cream
damien rice - cannonball
eagle eye cherry - save tonight
pink floyd - wish you were here
lynard skynard - simple kind of man
lynard skynard - free bird
goo goo dolls - iris
johnny cash or nine inch nails - hurt
led zeppelin - stairway to heaven
velvet revolver - fall to peices

there are others, but i just cant think of em right now.. haha lots of songs make me cry.. cuz im weird like that...

 

led zeppelin- stairway to heaven
imogen heap- hide and seek
lynard skynard- free bird
devendra banhart- canela
devendra banhart- now that i know
supergrass- st petersburg
little birdy- message to god

i never usually cry in a song over the lyrics, but more of the tune or the way it sounds

 

anything by Roy Orbison makes me sad enough to cry, most of his songs are about his wife and daughter who died in a house fire

 

Goo Goo Dolls-Black Balloon
Pearl Jam-Last Kiss
Johnny Cash-Hurt
Jeff Buckley-Hallelujah
Matchbox 20-Unwell

 

Warren Haynes': Indian Sunset

 

Led Zeppelin-Stairway to heaven

 

Sting - Fields of Gold

 

Anne Clark - poem without words ii
Anathema - Parisienne Moonlight
Leonard Cohen - Blue Raincoat
Cure - Charlotte Sometimes
Silke Bischoff - Little Angel
Heather Nova - New Love

 

Okay, here's the somewhat complete list of songs (as far as I can remember, that is, there may be more) that have made me cry, somewhat in order of appearance in my life. Mkay? Right.

ABBA - The winner takes it all
Metallica - Low man's lyric
Metallica - Fade to black
Iced Earth - Melancholy
Iced Earth - A question of heaven
Demons & Wizards - The fiddler on the green
My Dying Bride - A kiss to remember
My Dying Bride - Sear me III
Tori Amos - Bells for her
Tori Amos - Ruby through the looking glass
Alanis Morissette - Thank you
Iron Maiden - Paschendale
Richie Havens - Handsome Johnny
Hair - The flesh failures / Let the sunshine in
The Cranberries - Zombie
Raemonn - Supergirl
Savatage - Gutter ballet
Cat Stevens - Sad Lisa
Cat Stevens - Oh very young
Cat Stevens - Father and son
Simon & Garfunkel - The boxer
Melanie - Ruby Tuesday (infinitely better than the original, dammit!)

 

i've come close with "If 6 was 9" by hendrix. It's just very relavent to my sad sad socail life. but I never cried cuse i'd always listen to it on the bus.

 

If I could die this very moment
I wouldn't fear
For I've never known completeness
Like being here
Wrapped in the warmth of you
Loving very breath
You stole my heart this moment
It might burst.
Could we stay right here
Till the end of time
Till the earth stops turning
Wanna love you till the seas run dry
I've found the one I've waited for.
All this time I've loved you
And never known your face
All this time I've missed you
And searched this human race
Here is true peace
Here my heart knows calm
Safe in your soul
Bathed is your size.
I've found the one I've waited for
The one
All I've known
All I've done
All I've felt
Was leading to this
Wanna stay right here
Till the end of time
Till the earth stops turning
Wanna love you till the seas run dry
I've found the one I've waited for.
The one.

This song played at my work a day after I found him.
Sun was shining, not a cloud in the sky and it was the middle of winter.
Turned out to be the hottest winter day recorded in Melbourne ever.
I broke down and sobbed with happiness in a full bar.

It's called Goreki by Lamb.
An amazing track