Music that makes you cry

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SageObserver@reddit

Times of Your Life by Paul Anka. It’s a reminder to stop and appreciate

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Quilterforlife-@reddit

Yes. Wasnt this also the kodak commercial song??

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Quilterforlife-@reddit

Dust in the wind-Kansas
Old man-Neil Young
Blue Eyes-Elton John
Bridge over troubled water-S&G
Unchained Melody-Righteous Brothers (It was my parents song and now they’re gone).

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sungodly@reddit

There aren't many, but there are a couple that bring up this sense of melancholy like nothing else. Bob Dylan's "Knocking on Heaven's Door" and Zeppelin's "Bron -Y- Aur" are two.

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funinmass2005@reddit

All my music that’s on the oldie’s channel, supermarkets and/or elevators.

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You are my Sunshine. Awhile ago there was a vid that showed this really old woman in a hospital bed and you could tell she was not long for this life. Sitting beside an old man, her husband, was holding her hand and was singing to her you are my Sunshine. I don't know why but I cried. My eyes are watering now as I write this.

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Pur_Veyor_01@reddit

Sometimes It Snows In April - Prince

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KezzaK2608@reddit

Cancer by My Chemical Romance

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Primary-Will-2192@reddit

At Seventeen, Janis Ian

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kammie694@reddit

Early prediction that I’ll make a Spotify playlist of the answers

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RestlessDreamer@reddit

Currently doing it haha

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tiddervul@reddit

Please come back and share it!!

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Phobos1982@reddit

Les Misérables soundtrack. "Do you hear the people sing?"

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Odd_Policy_3009@reddit

On my own—major tears every time

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NVJAC@reddit

For me it's "No Cars Go" by Arcade Fire. That one feels like it's touching the heavens.

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LadySlayinem@reddit

Smile by David Gilmore. Quite ironic

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VeraForever2023@reddit

Just saw MCR live last night sing Cancer. Gets me every time ❤️

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LadySlayinem@reddit

I'm seeing them in August and I'm taking my tissues. I already know 😢😭

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Busy-Idea-8641@reddit

Disco Duck

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VeraForever2023@reddit

Guilt Tripping by Frank Iero. But I can’t stop listening to it.

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PropaneBeatsCharcoal@reddit

The Big Ship - Brian Eno. Just a very moving sound, every time.

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flyers1169@reddit

whoa I had sailing on 45 in 1979 at age 10. It made me cry in a good way. Music always touched me that way.

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CharlesKBarkley@reddit

Angel from Montgomery, Bonnie Raitt

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plnnyOfallOFit@reddit

time after time by cyndi lauper or home by the talking heads. or anything by john denver. kinda diverse cry material

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BH85Xcountry@reddit

Father of mine by Everclear gets me every time.

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Fight_Tyrnny@reddit

Same here, probably the old usual terrible boomer father thing that a lot of us had

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outlandishone25@reddit

Ave Maria

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MammothButterfly9618@reddit

Shes Leaving Home The Beatles

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Vegancyclist420@reddit

Big John by Jimmy Dean, not really a Gen X song but my father played it on vinyl for me when I was a kid. I can’t listen to it without crying as an adult. It’s the only song that hits me that way.

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tovasfabmom@reddit

I recently watched an amazing YouTube video about this exact same topic https://youtu.be/-PGSshpRerA?si=VoWN-fzRMy9eiE2a

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louiebabybird@reddit (OP)

Fascinating! It’s called frisson. It actually makes one sad to listen to certain music. But sad and happy at the same time.

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Displaced_in_Space@reddit

Oh man..."This Woman's Work" especially if you've seen it in the movie. Yikes.

"Angel" by Sarah Maclachlan, ESPECIALLY if you watch the VH1 live version where she explains the genesis of the song. You can just picture yourself despairing in that hotel room. Jeez.

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Upset_Peace_6739@reddit

Stolen Child - The Waterboys

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MajYoshi@reddit

Oof, Division Bell - beautiful, sad, haunting. And Gilmore's playing is full of heart and emotio on High Hopes. He isn't just playing guitar on that one he's pouring his soul into it. It makes me react viscerally every time.

The Dream by David Sanborn is another like that.

Toto's version of While My Guitar Gently Weeps from Looking Glass is the same. Lukather pours his heart into his playing.

The Forgotten pt1 and pt2 by Satriani is the same deal.

Chorale VI Cantus Song of Aeolus by Adiemus.

Conviction of the Heart by Kenny Loggins as well.

Moon Over Madness by Gino Vanelli.

Now, all of these, too, are felt much, much more deeply with the right setup. I strongly encourage a part of studio monitors if you can, but minimally a pair of Sony MDR-7506 headphones will change how you listen to well engineered music played with heart.

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louiebabybird@reddit (OP)

Wow! Thank you for the recommendations. My favorite guitar player is Mark Knopfler from the Dire Straits. I just love how he plays. Their song “On Every Street” just makes me want to cry but also makes me happy at the same time. What do you think about his playing?

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MajYoshi@reddit

Dude, I love Knopfler as well!

I love guitar, and as a lifelong drummer love drums too, but I approach music as a whole and love feeling all the instruments blend together.

Second to that I love when engineering is done well and you can hear the space between the instruments, the occasional breath before singing, the light slide of fingers on strings, and mostly the depth around them.

Brothers In Arms won a Grammy in '85 for Knopfler's engineering work on it. Then again for engineering the 5.1 mix 20 years later in '05.

Get those headphones I mentioned and listen to that album all the way through, it's a very, very different experience through studio monitors.

The Man's Too Strong just punches you in the gut.

Yeah, my dude, Knopfler is rad.

Now if you like guitar and are cool with contemporary jazz (NOT Kenny G), Russ Freeman (The Rippingtons) is an incredible guitarist and composer. Try Sun King or Rivers of Gold for examples but he's got 25 albums and each has an interestingly distinct flavor and all are super fun.

Pat Metheney as well. He and Lyle Mayes together were composing geniuses. Pat has a 48 strong guitar! It's rad. Songs that are accessable for them would be Letter From Home (piano piece but beautiful), Minuano Six Eight, Follow Me, and maybe ast Train Home. Though Imaginary Day is an incredible album that goes on a journey.

Sorry for the ramble there. Music has been very important to me my entire life and am happy to talk about what I've found with anyone who shares similar interests.

Who are some others you really like?

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MadanjoMab@reddit

Knopfler’s soundtrack to Cal is just piercingly gorgeous, too.

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MajYoshi@reddit

Thanks, dude! Will absolutely have to check it out!

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louiebabybird@reddit (OP)

Well thanks for that information. I’ll look into the headphones you recommended. I also love Slashes solo in November Rain. And Eric Johnson’s Cliffs of Dover is amazing.

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sherlockjr1@reddit

These Are The Days Of Our Lives by Queen, probably because it’s the last video he made and you can see he’s saying goodbye

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ancientastronaut2@reddit

Marcy's song

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MadanjoMab@reddit

Tim Minchin’s White Wine in the Sun absolutely and deeply reaches inside me, and I weep with how my heart cracks and swells.

He also cuts to the core with When I Grow Up from the musical Matilda.

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Decline_of_Humanity@reddit

Everybody Hurts by R.E.M.

Fade to Black by Metallica

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Fluffymanolo@reddit

There was only one song that will make me cry. "Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again" from Phantom of the Opera. It'll bring me to tears every time because it's a girl wanting to see her dad again. My dad died when I was 11 and it encapsulates that feeling perfectly.

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RCA2CE@reddit

Dan Hill - Sometimes When We Touch

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Unexpected_Cheddar-@reddit

Slip slidin’ away by Paul Simon. My dad was in the navy back then and I distinctly remember it playing on the car radio as we were dropping him off at the airport for a long deployment, which always made me sad. It still gets me every time.

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mlad627@reddit

A TON of Tori Amos songs especially the ones very special to me and the majority of her new album released on May 1 made me sob. My goddess of 32 years is still making incredible music.

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toooldforlove@reddit

Thank you by Led Zeppelin. My parents were married for over 60 years when my mother died last year. My dad practically worshipped my mom. The song made me think of how much my dad loved my mom and what he lost. I'm sitting here in podiatrist office waiting for my appointment and I'm trying hold back tears just thinking about it.

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mlad627@reddit

Tori Amos does a wonderful cover of this song.

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RelationshipGlobal90@reddit

Wildfire

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Still-Syrup-438@reddit

Bright Eyes by Art Gunfunkel. It reminds me of when my father died.

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Plane-Fan9006@reddit

The Living Years - Mike and the Mechanics

....every freaking time....

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WarpJuiceWookie@reddit

Oddly…. both “A Warm Place” and “At the Heart of It All” by Nine Inch Nails. Both are instrumental.

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mesmerize138@reddit

Holy crap I haven’t thought about A Warm Place in forever! I’m going to listen to it right now. Thank you!

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keysandcoffee@reddit

You Can Close Your Eyes by James Taylor

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3shadesoftea@reddit

The Greatest Man I Never Knew, by Reba McEntire. I'm not really big on country. I just heard it shortly after my dad was given 2 years to live (he fought for 15), and it just became the top song on the soundtrack for my mourning in life for him. I worked hard those years so the lyrics wouldn't become my truth, and his. I made sure he knew he hung the moon for me too.

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Key-Remote-1261@reddit

Puff the Magic Dragon. My mom used to sing it to me. She passed in '87 when I was 18. Tearing up just typing this ffs

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Lazy_Possibility_363@reddit

Simple Man-Lynyrd Skynyrd My Son (only child) fell deep in addiction when he was 21. Every time I heard this song it tore my heart out, it’s all I could have wanted for him. He pulled himself out a few years later, and he has worked to put his life back together. Still, that song takes me right back there.

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xFraggle42x@reddit

You are my Sunshine.

Never really listened to the words until it was played at a funeral I attended.

now it just kills me.

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socgrandinq@reddit

Dancing Queen.

An odd choice. When I was was young it wasn’t a song that brought a tear. But in older age it hits differently. In the song, the perspective is third person. We are watching the dancing queen having the time of her life. We are cheering her on. At the same time, we, the older people, know how fleeting this moment is. She won’t be 17 for long. I see the song as we the narrator seeing the dancing queen and remembering how that was once us out there.

For me the emotional high point is “you can dance, you can jive, having the time if your life.” The chord structure there gives me all the feels and coupled with the vocals, I find myself tearing up and I often can’t get through that part.

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louiebabybird@reddit (OP)

I love it in Murials Wedding. It just makes the movie.

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xFraggle42x@reddit

A truly under appreciated australian film.

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BraveG365@reddit

Time in A Bottle by Jim Croce

Heard it on the local public broadcast station on the way home from the hospital the night my mom passed.

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xFraggle42x@reddit

Yeah, that one hits hard.

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Droll_hrlady888@reddit

The Rose. It was played at my aunts funeral when I was 6 and it always hits hard. I hadn’t heard it in years and we had the radio on in the car as we drove away from our wedding reception as newlyweds and it came on the radio.

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yupjustarandomranger@reddit

Sloop John B was my dad’s fave song. He’s gone 19 years and it still hits like yesterday when that song plays.

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spavolka@reddit

Romeo and Juliet. Dire Straits

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ChickenOneDay@reddit

I also love the Indigo Girls version

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UFO-Band-Fanatic@reddit

❤️

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CanadianContentsup@reddit

The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face. Gordon Lightfoot, Roberta Flack. Roberta was at my wedding as first dance, and Gordy's version will be at my funeral.

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ChickenOneDay@reddit

Vincent is definitely a powerful song.

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louiebabybird@reddit (OP)

Sorry about your brother. :(

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garybababooey@reddit

Daughter by London Wainwright. I’d imagine this one would only apply to those with daughters though.

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Worldly_Row6833@reddit

Don't Fear the Reaper, BOC.

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Duran518@reddit

The rainbow connection, After all(Peter Cetera and Cher), and the Lion King opening theme song.

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orange728@reddit

After All, Dan Fogelberg's Same Old Lang Syne,and U2 's With or without You tear me up every time I hear them, They are such strong reminders of the first love that was so strong, nobody else has ever come close.

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Duran518@reddit

The lyrics of After all are amazing. First loves leave an imprint for sure.

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Duran518@reddit

The lyrics of After all are amazing! First loves leave such an imprint.

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louiebabybird@reddit (OP)

Peter Cetera has the most amazing voice.

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Duran518@reddit

Yes! Chicago was never the same after he left.

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schmearcampain@reddit

The Rainbow Connection.

Imagine also works, but I’m getting too cynical for that one to work these days.

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Round-Public435@reddit

Daddy's Hands by Holly Dunn
Annie's Song by John Denver (or any slower song by John Denver, honestly)

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Polymathena@reddit

Faster John Denver songs, too. Wild Montana Skies (with Emmylou, of course) always gets me crying, but in an exultant way.

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Beneficial_Law_5720@reddit

Same! It’s kind of a “happy” cry but .. not exactly. Love JD!

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HissTankDriver@reddit

Some say he was a john

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TheBigNoiseFromXenia@reddit

Jimmy Buffet, it’s been a lovely cruise

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wolf19d@reddit

Bubbles Up for me…

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Fine_Inspection8090@reddit

Sunshine on my Shoulders - John Denver

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ExperienceWild4244@reddit

"House On Pooh Corner", Kenny Loggins. Can NOT sing it without choking up huge.

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mediathink@reddit

What Sarah Said-Death Cab For Cutie

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Saddestpickle@reddit

This one makes me WEEP

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kev0153@reddit

Let it be

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ButterflyStock1791@reddit

The Long and Winding Road for me.

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sustainablogjeff@reddit

"Leader of the Band" - Dan Fogelberg

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orange728@reddit

This song always makes me think of every frat teacher I ever had. Some of them have passed anyway now, which should ni be hard to belive, but it is. It's also a comforting reminder that their wisdom lives on through me and so many others.

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sherlockjr1@reddit

I will occasionally catch myself humming this song, and immediately tear up.

Like I’m doing right now. It’s hard to type when you can’t see the screen

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Blue4668@reddit

I have an odd combination and I hope to heaven they've never been played together.

Wind Beneath My Wings - I have walked out of stores, restaurants and events as soon as I hear it.

Puff the Magic Dragon has made me bawl since I was tiny.

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Entire-Flower1259@reddit

I don’t walk away. I just find a quiet place and let the tears flow.

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MaternalHeartt@reddit

Omg I feel this. I get it.

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MaternalHeartt@reddit

Hands To Heaven-Breathe

Wildfire-Michael Martin Murray

A Better Man-Little Big Town

There’ll Be Sad Songs-Billy Ocean

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Big-Plant240@reddit

How Much I Feel by Ambrosia

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MaternalHeartt@reddit

Great, great song and me too.

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BAHGate@reddit

I am embarrassed to say it but, "Puff, the Magic Dragon" by Peter, Paul and Mary.

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Blue4668@reddit

Count me in with this group. My dad still will bring up how unconsolable I got as a small child b/c of that song.

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HissTankDriver@reddit

💘 lost my shit to this song just the other day

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After_Departure_7929@reddit

My mom used to play guitar and sing that song when I was little, so much that I still knew all of the lyrics more than 20 years later when my daughter was born. During one of the late-night feedings I was singing it to her and it occurred to me that although the final verse is an important part of the story, I didn't think it needed to be the END of the story. I ended up writing another verse about how Jackie Paper grew up and had a daughter, and he told her about Puff.

Jackie Paper married, and had a little girl Told her 'bout his giant friend from another world That night in her dreams she found the cherry lane Found Puff the magic dragon, and off they went to play Jackie leaned a lesson when his daughter smiled Painted strings and giant things can be passed on to a child

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Float_0n@reddit

Don't be embarrassed, I can't listen to that without crying! A song like this paints a picture for me.

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SheCantGoHome@reddit

You don’t have to be embarrassed. That song breaks my heart!!!!

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Curiousferrets@reddit

Yup. Every single time.

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Mysterious-Ganache-7@reddit

God Only Knows by The Beach Boys Miss Misery by Elliott Smith

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TripMaster478@reddit

"Plath Heart" by Braids. Saw them live at SXSW once and I was a mess.

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niff007@reddit

Johnny Cash's version of Hurt

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SwimmingDragonfly328@reddit

Agree, also his Little Drummer Boy

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SwimmingDragonfly328@reddit

Lover, You Should've Come Over, Jeff Buckley

In The Shape of A Heart Solo Acoustic Vol 2., Jackson Brown

Cornelia Street and Right Where You Left Me, Taylor Swift

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eVilleMike@reddit

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Minute-Prune-2919@reddit

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toconnor76@reddit

You mean "High Hopes"?

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louiebabybird@reddit (OP)

Yes! You’re right. It’s called High Hopes not the Division Bell. My bad.

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toconnor76@reddit

I had to go back and double myself so I get it 😂

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thisgenXer@reddit

Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, right when he sings the line

"Where does the love god go, when the waves turn the minutes to hours."

Hits me every time

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CivilBridge7792@reddit

There's a book called “The Gales of November” which gives amazing insight and first-hand accounts from families of those lost. A truly good read

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PrehistoricSquirrel@reddit

It's a powerful line & really hits me too.

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sherlockjr1@reddit

It didn’t used to. But then I took a tour of those waters and realized that the wreck was something that happened relatively recently.

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z80a4mhz@reddit

You've got a friend by Carole King, and James Taylor(Cover ver.)

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Yeastlord427@reddit

...also Fire and Rain. "I always thought that I'd see you baby, one more time again"

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velociraptorlunch@reddit

Samson - Regina Spektor

Kissing you - Des’ree

Marianne - Tori Amos - the lines: how she could outrun the fastest slug, she could - I’m just having thoughts of Marianne - quickest girl in the frying pan

Sight for Sore Eyes - Tom Waits. This is the song version of that one season of The Wire with the guys who worked down at the shipping docks

Oh my Lordy have yall been watching Yellowjackets? They use Tori Amos songs at just the right times. Deadloch season 1 also had some Tori right at the right moment

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Paperbackpixie@reddit

Walking in Memphis - Marc Cohn

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MsAfleetAlex@reddit

I love to sing this one in the car.

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Paperbackpixie@reddit

You and me both

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louiebabybird@reddit (OP)

Oh yes! This one for sure.

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Solid_Row3202@reddit

Its not a song. But rachmaninoff symphony no. 2 conducted by andre previn, London symphony orchestra. It makes me cry. I love it. And a part that for some unknown reason makes me think of my grandparents who passed 30 odd years ago.

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LessIsMore74@reddit

Regina Spektor just barely missed being Gen X, but I have been incredibly moved by “Samson.” Worse, the song first struck me while on an L train home in Chicago, with the fall sunset and the crisp air.

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louiebabybird@reddit (OP)

Oh yes! She’s so talented. I love her song “Better”. Amazing voice.

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Better_Ad7836@reddit

Do You Remember by Phil Collins

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HissTankDriver@reddit

The video was special too

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LadyNorbert@reddit

Can't listen to "Leader of the Band" by Dan Fogelberg without choking up.

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HissTankDriver@reddit

His Auld Lang Syne hits me.

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emmaapeel@reddit

As a band director's child, I concur.

My dad was not a gentle man, but when it came my time to fully go my own way, the level of support that was given to me by him (and my mother, too) was, in hindsight, astounding. He was an amazing man, an exceptional teacher, a skilled musician, and a man of good character (and funny as hell); a strict parent who also gave his kids incredibly long leashes that got even longer before we were released into our young adulthood(s).

I miss him so very much and feel lucky that he was my dad.

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grantij@reddit

Cats in the cradle - Harry Chapin. A few others by him also.

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HissTankDriver@reddit

Hits hard. Sometimes I change the channel because it's too much to endure while driving to work.

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thewomb@reddit

Hush, Hush, Hush - Herbie Hancock feat. Annie Lennox

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sherlockjr1@reddit

It’s a Dark Road by Annie Lennox was a song my friend picked for his mother’s funeral

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mandoaz1971@reddit

Cats in the cradle

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sherlockjr1@reddit

Boy Blue by Cindi Lauper. She’s singing about a friend of hers who died of AIDS, I believe. Mostly because I saw a video of her performing it live. She leaves everything on that stage

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Nickk66@reddit

It every time but: Ceremony by New Order/Joy Division Everybody want to rule the world by Tear for Fears(reminds me of being 18/19 with the rest of my life ahead of me)

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xFraggle42x@reddit

In the Living Years by Mike and the Mechanics. It always used to get to me but since dad died several years ago it will almost guarantee ill cry if it comes on.

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sherlockjr1@reddit

I’m tearing up now, just thinking of it

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MsAfleetAlex@reddit

I have no reason why but I can’t sing along to “Colors of the Wind”from “Pocahontas” without choking up.

“Hey Jupiter” by Tori Amos is another one.

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sherlockjr1@reddit

Silent All These Years Tori Amos

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youngkpepper@reddit

"These Are Days", 10,000 Maniacs

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sherlockjr1@reddit

What’s The Matter Here by 10,000 Maniacs. Heartbreaking

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youngkpepper@reddit

k.d. lang and Roy Orbison's duet of "Crying"

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-NachoBorracho-@reddit

Anything by Nick Drake.

Also many songs in Yob’s discography can bring me to tears.

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MorningGlory439@reddit

"4 am" Our Lady Peace

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bastardofdisaster@reddit

Blink 182 "Adam's Song".

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Severe_Broccoli7258@reddit

In My Life

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JoyousZephyr@reddit

Ozark Mountain Jubilee, by the Oak Ridge Boys.

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mrdudsir@reddit

The Winner Takes It All by ABBA. The line "You've come to shake my hand." nails that feeling perfectly.

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MutedInvestigator840@reddit

Drops of Jupiter by Train had me choked up. I think it was more of missing the stage of life i was in when that song came out rather than the actual song. I have never been a huge Train fan either.

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MsAfleetAlex@reddit

I like the imagery in that song.

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Gloomy-Athlete701@reddit

When I’m feeling the need to deal with pain and sadness I wallow in Sarah McLachlan's “Elsewhere” and “Fear” and usually end up listening to the rest of the FUMBLING TOWARDS ECSTASY album.

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MsAfleetAlex@reddit

One of my desert island discs, no question.

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otterfeets@reddit

Piano Sonata No. 14 (Moonlight Sonata) - Beethoven. If you don’t feel something listening to it, there’s something wrong.

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jmfewd@reddit

My dad used to play this, along with Fur Elise, every Sunday morning. Sigh….both bring on such nice memories of a beautiful time for my family.

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Sassenach00@reddit

The Living Years - Mike + The Mechanics

A Different Corner - George Michael

Three Wooden Crosses - Randy Travis

Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now) - Phil Collins

Holding Back the Years - Simply Red

Both Sides Now - Joni Mitchell

Who You'd Be Today - Kenny Chesney

Brick - Ben Folds Five

Seminole Wind - John Anderson

For Crying Out Loud - Meat Loaf

Objects in the Rear View Mirror May Appear Closer Than They Are - Meat Loaf

Against The Wind - Bob Seger and The Silver Bullet Band

All These Years - Sawyer Brown

Butterflies Instead - K's Choice

Drive (For Daddy Gene) - Alan Jackson

Lady Down On Love - Alabama

Round Here - The Counting Crows

Seal Jubilee - Bat For Lashes

Why - Rascal Flatts

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JaxBoltsGirl@reddit

We have similar tastea in music, so I'm going to add mine here...The Dance - Garth Brooks

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neskatan@reddit

Oh man the entire counting crows album that song is on (August and Everything After) is such a sad vibe. I used to listen to it every Labor Day when I was moving from summer to fall but I just can’t anymore.

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otterfeets@reddit

A Different Corner gets me every time.

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TobyDaMan8894@reddit

“The Corner” by Staind. It hit hard the past year. I’d been listening to this randomly from that album on and off for about 16 years. And never paid attention to the lyrics until last year. Opening verse is my life “It sheltered me from nothing, but the weather..I called it home for a moment of my life…

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HighSideSurvivor@reddit

Rod Stewart: Forever Young

I remember the song from my youth, and that it got a lot of air time, but I wasn’t particularly in love with the song then. But as a parent, and as my kids were growing into their teenage years, this song REALLY started to hit me.

If I attempt to sing along, I will always have to stop because I get so choked up. I’m feeling emotional right now, just thinking about it.

My first born will leave for college in the Fall. It’s the end of a period of my life that I honestly felt would last forever. I’m not ready.

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Competitive_Pea_3478@reddit

For a guy whose voice is so gravelly and who put out some awful stuff, he can put out some songs that pack an emotional punch. Downtown Train came out around the same time and for some reason makes me sad.

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DominisDruid@reddit

Ice Cream by Sarah McLachlan

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Old-Childhood-5497@reddit

When You’re My Age by Lori McKenna.
Lots of Noah Kahan songs

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Aggressive_Farmer399@reddit

Classic Rock:

Landslide by Fleetwood Mac

Modern Rock:

Fade In / Fade Out by Nothingmore Daylight by Shinedown

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chouxphetiche@reddit

Vincent by Don McLean.

Stairway to Heaven.

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Key-Cattle-2866@reddit

“Relatively Easy”- Jason Isbell

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Informal-Gene-8777@reddit

Cast Iron Skillet

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NoIamthatotherguy@reddit

Half of Jason Isbell's catalogue...

Children of Children Yvette Dress Blues Miles When We Were Close

to name a few.

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WrongwayFalcons@reddit

The 4 right chords can make me cry

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Fish-Weekly@reddit

I always get locked in on that bell tolling in the background of “The Division Bell”. It’s off the main beat, just doing its own thing but it fits in perfectly.

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Ordinary_Nothing_348@reddit

Gravity by A Perfect Circle

Silver Springs by Fleetwood Mac

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PersephoneHagne@reddit

Yes to Silver Springs. Every damn time.

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Worldly-Suspect-6681@reddit

Silver by Nirvana

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Awkward_Guess4031@reddit

First time I heard “One” by U2 I cried.

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Formal_Plum_2285@reddit

Depends on my mood tbh, but I weep like a baby everytime I hear Nessum Dorma.

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Electrical_Ad2652@reddit

You should watch Solo Mio

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abbagodz@reddit

It's the video for the song 'When All Is Said and Done' by ABBA that does it for me. Haven't seen it in a few years. Can't, I just can't.

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Putrid-Tale-5114@reddit

Grandma's Hands - Dianne Reeves Love this way again & Don't Make Me Over- Dionne Warwick

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73rd-virgin@reddit

Eyes of a Stranger - Queensryche

Is this all that's left of my life before me?
Straitjacket memories, sedative highs
No happy endings like they've always promised
There's got to be something left for me

Seasons in the Sun - Terry Jacks

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ReachParticular5409@reddit

I cry way too easy to music to list all of them

“Sailing” by Christopher Cross

Yeah that's a powerful one

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ScreenTricky4257@reddit

How to Save a Life - The Fray

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Deer-in-Motion@reddit

"Adeiu" Yoko Kanno, Cowboy Bebop OST.

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GooseySill@reddit

Oh...Blue. That one, too. Right in the feels.

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Deer-in-Motion@reddit

Call Me, Call Me...let me know you're alright...

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GooseySill@reddit

Summer's Glory by Alcest

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CynfullyDelicious@reddit

Hold On by Sarah MacLachlan.

Nutshell by Alice in Chains

Lanternlight by Nightwish

The Christmas Truce by Sabaton

Russians by Sting

Daddy by KoЯn

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spavolka@reddit

Nutshell tears my ass up.

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Zwergonyourlife@reddit

“Drive” by The Cars and “Harvest Moon” by Neil Young.

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spavolka@reddit

Drive reminds me of Jill and Harvest Moon reminds me of my ex wife. Sometimes I miss both of them like they just left me.

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gooseneckmonkey@reddit

Jeff Buckley - Grace (album) -Lover you should have come over -Grace -Hallelujah
-Last Goodbye

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RandomObserver13@reddit

Father & Son by Cat Stevens…honestly surprised no one else seems to have mentioned this (or maybe I missed it). I have 2 grown boys and one still at home…yeah.

Beyond that I think most have been mentioned. Nightswimming by REM, Cats in the Cradle by Chapin…Only the Young (Journey) and Crazy For You (Madonna) from the VisionQuest Soundtrack for reasons I won’t go into.

Definitely a few Floyd songs but Comfortably Numb‘s guitar solos hit harder every year…

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neskatan@reddit

Long Long Time by Linda Ronstadt

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suzepie@reddit

First thing that comes to my head isn't something anyone here will probably know.

It's a song called Isn't That Right by a band called Satchel, played here at Lollapallooza in 1996.

It's about the death of someone I knew a little and saw perform a ton, coming of age in late '80s Seattle, the amazing Andy Wood of Malfunkshun and Mother Love Bone.

And Satchel's singer is another guy I knew a little, and he's gone now too, the great Shawn Smith. There are many reasons for this to break my heart other than it just being a perfect, beautiful song.

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UpstartCrow88@reddit

Free by Prince

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PMFSCV@reddit

Dutch group - de Ambassade, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLRnNMUOccY

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RestlessDreamer@reddit

Look Away - Chicago

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louiebabybird@reddit (OP)

Both of those songs are amazing. Peter Cetera has the most amazing voice. I absolutely love “ Next time I fall in love” with him and Amy Grant. I’ll sing that one at the top of my lungs in my car.

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RestlessDreamer@reddit

Ohhhhhh I totally forgot about that song!! Yes!

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No-Lettuce-5783@reddit

That song in Toy Story 2 that accompanies Jessie's story by Sarah McLaughlin. I don't know the name of it exactly, but some of the lyrics go "When She Loved Me." I literally heard one note of that song and was reduced to tears. And I'm a big ol' 53-year-old man.

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RestlessDreamer@reddit

When She Love Me - Sarah Mclachlan <3

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No-Lettuce-5783@reddit

thank you. I couldn't remember if that was the actual name of the song.

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sd_glokta@reddit

Look on Down from the Bridge - Mazzy Star

Your Wildest Dreams - The Moody Blues

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phillymjs@reddit

Beethoven’s 6th Symphony “Pastoral”. It’s supposed to be a happy, uplifting piece, but to me it is forever linked to a scene in Soylent Green that is anything but happy or uplifting.

She Used to Be Mine, by Sara Bareilles. Reminds me of someone I cared for deeply that went through a very rough patch after a divorce and is staying in a toxic relationship with a terrible person. I had to remove her from my life, but I missed the person she was long before that happened.

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Tim-oBedlam@reddit

Red Dirt Girl - Emmylou Harris

Downbound Train - Bruce Springsteen

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evility@reddit

Red Dirt Girl..I haven't thought of that song in ages. Poor Lillian. And the Boss makes me cry far too often.

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Tim-oBedlam@reddit

Poor Lillian indeed.

Nobody knows when she started her skid
She was only 27 and she had five kids
Coulda been the whisky, coulda been the pills
Coulda been the dream she was trying to kill
But there won't be mention in the news of the world
'Bout the life and death of a red dirt girl
Named Lillian
Who never got any further across the line
than Meridian

Heartbreaking.

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SenorTemppist@reddit

I had a job, I had a girl I had something going, mister, in this world

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Tim-oBedlam@reddit

now I work down at the car wash, where all it ever does is rain

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SenorTemppist@reddit

And at the end of the song his actual job is laying down tracks for the Downbound Train. Ugh.

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Awkin-Sopwith@reddit

Mozart: Papagena and A Tutti Contenti

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purple_pine_cone@reddit

Thanks for listening to it! Yeah when I first heard it , I was like, “omg is this what I think it is??”

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Chibi-Skyler@reddit

"The Living Years", Mike + The Mechanics. I lost my dad when I was 16 and my mom 10 years after. I still miss them very much, decades later.

"Tears in Heaven," Eric Clapton. I remember when he lost his son Conor. The MTV Unplugged version is SO GOOD, and so heartbreaking at the same time.

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louiebabybird@reddit (OP)

Wow! Both of those are so beautiful. I’m sorry for the loss of your mother. And yes when Eric Clapton sings about his son it’s so heartbreaking.

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Chibi-Skyler@reddit

Thank you.

I watched Clapton's Unplugged show, and I remember that "Tears" and "Layla" were so popular that MTV put them in their regular rotation a stand-alone videos.

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Absotivly_Posolutly@reddit

Solsbury Hill - Peter Gabriel

I was adopted by my biological father at the age of 10. (I know, it’s a long story) When he arrived to pick me up he said these exact words:

"Son," he said "Grab your things, I've come to take you home"

He was a beautiful human. He left for the last time 20 years ago, and I still miss him terribly. That part of the song rips me apart.

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socgrandinq@reddit

That’s so beautiful. Made me tear up. Sounds like an amazing person

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Anj_Ja@reddit

Poignant story. Incredible song. I'll go Gabriel too: Wallflower.

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Legal-Intention-6361@reddit

The one you love by glenn frey

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louiebabybird@reddit (OP)

That one is so poignant. Which person will the lady choose to be with.

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MatrixRecycled_2015@reddit

The Last Song - Elton John

Falling Down Blue - Blue Rodeo

Why - Annie Lennox

Pretty much anything by Kathleen Edwards (but Alicia Ross - honestly - sob every time.)

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fr33poh@reddit

Yes. The Last Song. ❤️

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Nuclear-Blobfish@reddit

Only Time by Enya because it was always being played in the aftermath of 9/11, Anyone by Roxette

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louiebabybird@reddit (OP)

Oh yes! Enya is amazing! One of my favorite artists.

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bobniborg1@reddit

Fade in fade out. It's more recent in gen x terms but careful if you've lost your dad.

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SheCantGoHome@reddit

This is the Last Day of Our Acquaintance by Sinead O’Connor

Caroline by Concrete Blonde

More Than This by Brian Ferry

So Far Away by Dire Straits

Come Undone and Ordinary World by Duran Duran

Oh Father by Madonna

Night Swimming by REM

And of course, Hurt, the Johnny Cash version

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louiebabybird@reddit (OP)

Oh my God! I forgot about Dire Straits! Brothers in arms and On every street literally make me want to cry. Such an amazing band. Mark Knopfler is the best guitarist ever in my opinion

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Techchick_Somewhere@reddit

No thanks. lol.

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ericamutton@reddit

"Kiss You All Over" by Exile.

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Inkdman73@reddit

Purple Rain- Prince / Live to Tell- Madonna/ Time After Time- Cyndi Lauper/ Logical Song- Supertramp

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purpleReRe@reddit

You Are So Beautiful by Joe Cocker is the only song that makes me cry. But only when I would sing it to my babies (I’m not a singer).

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hypermark@reddit

"Time After Time."

Two lines particularly destroy me.

"The second hand unwinds"

"If you fall, I will catch you, I will be waiting."

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Elric71@reddit

Can’t Find My Way Home by Blind Faith always brings a tear to my eye. Steve Winwood’s vocals are angelic but oddly desperate. Great song.

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BlakeMajik@reddit

Grand Central Station - Mary Chapin Carpenter

Basket - Dan Mangan

Hearts in Armor - Trisha Yearwood

The Dress - Emily Scott Robinson

Today's the Day - Lucy Kaplansky

Unraveling - Liz Longley

War on Drugs - Barenaked Ladies

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walk2daocean@reddit

War on Drugs fuck that song just ... fuck 😭

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Ewe_Search@reddit

What a Fool Believes - Doobie Brothers

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AprilOneil11@reddit

Fields of Gold by Sting

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Spiritual-Currency39@reddit

The Eva Cassidy version is a gut punch, too. Especially if you know her story.

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AprilOneil11@reddit

I will check that out thank you!

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mybloodyballentine@reddit

Sliver, Nirvana

Take the Long Way Home, Supertramp

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hikingdub@reddit

Grandma take me home, I want to be alone

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Zealousideal_Half550@reddit

Here Comes a Regular - The Replacements

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Turnips4evr@reddit

Dolly Pardon's "Hard Candy Christmas". It's considered an Xmas song but it's not. To me it feels like the pep talk you give yourself while trying to cope with a depressive episode. Trying to think about a pleasant future, acknowledging that "now" sucks but it will get better. the chorus always gets me-

"I'm barely getting through tomorrow
But still, I won't let sorrow bring me way down"

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ConstructionOk4996@reddit

A Song for You - Leon Russell

Hurt - Johnny Cash cover

And So it Goes - Billy Joel

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mhc2001@reddit

Who Wants to Live Forever? - Queen

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Iamnotthatinvested@reddit

Don't forget "The Show Must Go On". One of the last songs he recorded before he pay away makes all the more bitter sweet.

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Sockm0nkey@reddit

No Son of Mine - Genesis All Mixed Up - Red House Painters

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Spiritual-Currency39@reddit

“Hurt” (Johnny Cash cover)
“Keep Me In Your Heart” Warren Zevon
“The Parting Glass” Hozier

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OhSoScotian77@reddit

Fast Car - Tracy Chapman

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txtw@reddit

I have to assume that most people don’t listen to the lyrics, because I think it’s one of the saddest songs I’ve ever heard.

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Iamnotthatinvested@reddit

I love the lyrics, but they don't make me sad, they make me angry at the subject of the song.

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Mugwumps_has_spoken@reddit

David Bowie "space oddity"

Maybe not cry, but it's a very sad, soulful song.

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KeggyFulabier@reddit

The black star album by David Bowie. I can’t listen to it in one go. I’m tearing up just thinking about it.

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Anj_Ja@reddit

Oh yes, absolutely agree. Dollar Days absolutely grabbed me, and the whole album has a real atmosphere about it 🔥 😭

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spoink74@reddit

Around the same time, Leonard Cohen did You Want it Darker. They make a fantastic pair.

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dawnwc@reddit

He knew he was dying, he was saying goodbye 😢

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KeggyFulabier@reddit

Yep, fucks me up every time

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dawnwc@reddit

Have you seen the Lazarus video?

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KeggyFulabier@reddit

I don’t watch many film clips I listen to albums.

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dawnwc@reddit

The video is heartbreaking

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dawnwc@reddit

Have you seen the Lazarus video?

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spoink74@reddit

Belong by REM. The simple chorus of ooh brings car karaoke tears.

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Float_0n@reddit

So many tied to memories, but the top three are: The Dark is Rising - Mercury Rev, Our House - Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young and & Gold Day - Sparklehorse. I love them all, they're incredibly poignant and full of the best memories.

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batty_lashes@reddit

Just saw Mercury Rev last weekend. They were great!

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Float_0n@reddit

That's so cool, glad you enjoyed the gig!

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spoink74@reddit

There’s a song called The Middle by Jimmy Eat World. It was covered as a ballad by an obscure geek band called The Doubleclicks. I cry when I hear it because kiddo misses all the developmental milestones due to being autistic. It is so comforting and safe that the tears flow.

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Left_Guess@reddit

The Wreck of Edmond Fitzgerald. It gets me.

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grzebelus@reddit

Ok this is a little embarrassing. Just discovered Chris Stapleton’s (Super Bowl) Star Spangled Banner on YouTube and … wow. And I’m not even particularly patriotic!

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batty_lashes@reddit

My name is Luca.

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leaky_eddie@reddit

Joni Mitchell- [River](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OLHxxBTl71I). I mean, really, all of Blue, but River in particuler.

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evility@reddit

Jungleland-Bruce Springsteen

Force of Nature-Todd Snider

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TheVioletEmpire@reddit

Clair de Lune

I cried just thinking about it.

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defiantnoodle@reddit

The Promise, by When in Rome

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english_major@reddit

The Waterboys song which does it for me is “A Man is ln Love.” We danced to it at our wedding.

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defiantnoodle@reddit

I had to search to find which album it was on, Room to Roam. I had forgotten a lot, it seems!

I'm going to play that next, thank you!

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Plus-Promise5075@reddit

Blackbird by Alter Bridge

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Haunting-Breadfruit9@reddit

Also Eva Cassidys version of somewhere over the rainbow recorded when she had terminal cancer. Beautiful voice and heartbreakingly sad.

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Haunting-Breadfruit9@reddit

Show must go on by Freddie Mercury - recorded when he was in terrible pain at the end of his life. Heartbreakingly sad.

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in-a-microbus@reddit

"Loser" by Garfunkel and Oats

The last line of the last verse puts so much of being old into perspective

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SocialSyphilis@reddit

Release--Pearl Jam

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DaffyStardust@reddit

“Ruby’s Arms” by Tom Waits

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buuk_werm@reddit

Little Person - Jon Brion

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in-a-microbus@reddit

"Surrender" by Cheap Trick

I fully identify with "Father" in this song

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Flababulous@reddit

"Send in the Clowns" - Judy Collins "Adiago for Strings" - comp. by Samuel Barber "Baby Mine" - Betty Noyes (from "Dumbo") "Hurt" - Johnny Cash

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Every_Cheesecake_477@reddit

Keep Me in Your Heart - Warren Zevon

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txtw@reddit

This destroys me. I can’t listen to it.

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superguysteve@reddit

Yeah that’s a good one. I went to a funeral where a guy played this on an acoustic guitar when his uncle died. Gets me every time.

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Aquaboobious@reddit

For Once in My Life, Stevie Wonder. It was ‘our’ song from the love of my life who I was with for 15 years. He died 4 months ago and it makes me bawl my eyes out.

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JumpingJackFlashes@reddit

Scorn not his simplicity

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nadiaco@reddit

Just motzarts requiem I use it to morn

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chlorculo@reddit

In a Big Country

Everybody Wants to Rule the World

Hounds of Love

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LeighofMar@reddit

Time by the Allan Parsons Project.

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jonesys_10th_life@reddit

Wish You Were Here (Pink Floyd)

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PinkyLeopard2922@reddit

This one gets me but also Shine on You Crazy Diamond, all parts of it. It is just so beautiful, like a musical love letter sent through all of time and space to the universe.

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Mysterious_Can_6106@reddit

The Sound of Silence… Disturbed not Simon and Garfunkel…. It is crazy the difference between them!! If you get a chance give the Disturbed version a shot…. Let me know what ya think 😉😉
Love Sailing too 🫶🏻

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Equal_Trash6023@reddit

Love this song. Its weird for me its Luchenbach, Texas. My dad loved Waylon & Willie. We moved to Texas in the mid 70s. I remember dancing with my dad to that song in Luchenbach. I was like 8.

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jvlpdillon@reddit

My Beloved Wife - Natalie Merchant About Today - The National Tomorrow Wendy - Concrete Blonde

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LynahRinkRat@reddit

Black Muddy River - Grateful Dead, although Dead & Company does it justice too. I hear the first 2 notes....and if I am not in the right mood I know I have to change the channel or skip the song. They played it at a concert I attended and I just gave in and let the tears stream down my face. (Deadheads get it. Some of the kindest people....)

That song wrecks me.

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feralabama@reddit

Dead and company 6-28-17

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rebelsoul_8@reddit

Joey - Concrete Blonde , Wendy Mathews - The Day You Went Away

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purple_pine_cone@reddit

Have you heard the Jeremy Pinnell cover of Joey? It’s really good.

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rebelsoul_8@reddit

Just listened to it , outstanding , thanks for the recommendation

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peachesandsir@reddit

Unconditional by Arcade Fire. I’m a mom and this beautiful song hits hard.

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mungquack@reddit

Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini 18th Variation & Looking Glass Half Full by Michael Giacchino from about 2:16 until the end

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jcostello50@reddit

Come Sail Away by Styx Dance with my Father by Luther Vandross

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lord_of_the_shants@reddit

Change - Blind Melon

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Mysterions@reddit

There is an Ryukyuan (Okinawn) folk song called Tinsagu nu Hana (Chinsagu no Hana in Japanese) that makes me very emotional when I hear it.

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Meep42@reddit

Aw man, I’m in peri/second puberty…everything makes me cry. The nostalgia is too much sometimes.

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Admirable-Avocado-94@reddit

Same. If the physical symptoms weren’t enough, the nostalgia is something else.

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OkTouch5699@reddit

Waterfalls

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hemidak@reddit

Goo Goo Dolls - Black Balloon

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MyNextVacation@reddit

For me it’s Mercy Street by Peter Gabriel.

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pumkinut@reddit

Red Rain gets me too

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the_OG_fett@reddit

Moving On - James

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redeyeglasees@reddit

High Tide or Low Tide - Bob Marley

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thatsmilingface@reddit

Breathe Me - Sia

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pbjdelphina@reddit

Only You by Yazoo

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ahusby@reddit

Eva Cassidy - Authumn Leaves

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superguysteve@reddit

“Shake it Out” - Florence and the Machine

Not to be confused with “Shake it Off” which also makes me cry but for a different reason.

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Kind_Worry_9836@reddit

The album Hejira by Joni Mitchell. And anything by Mazzy Star.

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Oxjrnine@reddit

Jane Says

Jane’s Addiction makes me sob

The good news is the real Jane survived that period and ended up having a good life as of 2004

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chunky694@reddit

Time for Me to Fly - by REO Speedwagon - I was in 8th grade and it was mine and my sister’s theme the summer before she left for college. We were besties and I missed her so badly at that pivotal moment when I started high school.

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