Is there a sad or emotional song that makes you cry every time you hear it?

The Beatles’ “Long and Winding Road” doesn’t make me cry but comes awfully close. For me, it has a lot of meaning.

I love music and I always have some going when I can, but honestly I don’t have a song that does that to me. I have way too much other stuff for that.:)

I won’t say that I cry every time I hear it, but I like Bon Iver’s Wisconsin.

Aside from the tune, the tone and the words of the song, I understand why Justin Vernon renamed himself “Bon Iver” for the purposes of the work, why he named the album “For Emma, Forever Ago”, and I’ve loved Wisconsin, and still do, including its good winters and bad. I can closely identify, and it’s a sad song to boot.

I also quite like the them from Cast Away by Alan Silvestri.

I’ve also always been intrigued by the name of the move in two words, rather than “Castaway”, which would be the noun that you’d expect, instead of the participle phrase. Yeah, that’s sad.

This one gets me a bit emotional: http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dipFMJckZOM

Most of the themes in On Golden Pond are evocative of bittersweet memories.

That’s not me playing!

Our Town by Iris Dement comes pretty close, I guess.

The Sailor Moon song when prince Darien dies… Also is the Romeo and Juliet love song .

Iowa by Dar Williams.

She Moved Through the Fair sung by Loreena McKennitt.

Cold Missouri Waters by Richard Shindell.

Hot Chocolate – Emma.

It was out when I was about 5. My parents were fighting and I would sit in my bedroom and play it, and wondered what it would be like not to cry anymore. The memory is always fresh when I hear it.

This reading of a letter from Maj. Sullivan Ballou to his wife Sarah with the overplay of Ashokan Farewell (from the PBS Civil War series).

This cover of a classic Archies song.

A country song called “That’s That” by an artist with the last name Jackson gets me every time I hear it because the song was out when my parents got divorced and it reminds me of losing my mom being in the same house.

The other one that often gets me is I think called “100 years” and I think it’s by Five for Fighting but I’m not sure.

Hurt by Johnny Cash makes me choke up a little.

I can’t say I cry over it, but this song will stop in me in my tracks..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12IOjYadxDs

This one does make me cry. Every time. My Old Man.

And this one.

In the garden of your mind by Fred Rogers.

this, but only if you listen closely and pay attention to the lyrics.

“El Shaddai” by Amy Grant has more than just a couple of times brought tears to my eyes. Oddly I’m an agnostic. Perhaps I want to believe in God so bad that on some level I do. Thank you Jesus where ever you are.

Israel K’s “Somewhere Over the Rainbow/What a Wonderful World,” and Redbird’s cover of “You Are the Everything.”

Schubert’s Der Erlkônig, sung by Fischer Dieskau gives me goose bumps.

Vincent by Don McClean gets me a bit emotional.

This always bringsTEARS! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDDlxmsciqY

Here is another one that my last post reminded me of. I first heard IZ’s version in the cemetery where both of my parents are buried. My cousin and I sat in her car and listened to this as the tears began flowing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYnHZklJKGg

James Taylor’s “Fire and Rain.” It makes my heart ache for my friend who killed herself last year. Which sucks because it’s a great song and also very popular. Hearing it in a restaurant with company is the worst.

Also, the Youngbloods’ “Darkness, Darkness.”

Uh, @gailcalled that’s your timer-on-a-rope link. Not quite what Schubert had in mind, I think.

Old Man by Neil Young and Cats in the Cradle by Harry Chapin.

Plenty! Most (if not all) are country songs.

The House that Built Me by Miranda Lambert – “And I bet you didn’t know / that under that live oak / my favorite dog is buried in the yard” gets me choked up.

You Can Let Go Now Daddy by Crystal Miller – Full-on sobbing, every time.

You Were Mine by The Dixie Chicks

Temporary Home by Carrie Underwood

Concrete Angel by Martina McBride

Alyssa Lies by John Michael Montgomery

If I Don’t Make It Back by Tracy Lawrence

It’s been years since I cried to a song, and when I did it was usually due to sadness in my life, not necessarily the music. One song that I love that is sad and emotional is Society, by Eddie Vedder. It’s from the movie Into the Wild, based on a true story.

@CWOTUS: Oh dear; To hear Fischer Dieskau try this.
Sorry about the rope-a-dope.

Zappa’s watermelon in easter hay is a melancholy and hauntingly beautiful guitar instrumental. it is strange in that it is both sad and at the same time beautiful.

I Drive Your Truck by Lee Brice.
The Way She Feels by Between the Trees.

POD’s song Beautiful makes me cry because it reminds me of my daughter and the bad times she went through.

I have posted this link a dozen times. It is heartbreaking.

I am a very emotional person. I have been since I was little. I could probably list 1,000 or more songs that make me cry. But ones that make me cry every time (or almost every time), probably more like a dozen. But I will spare you that many and list the big ones.

You and Me against the World by Helen Reddy http://youtu.be/gJAKmWAIKcY
(this came out when my parents were divorcing and it really felt like it was my mom and I against the world. and now that she is 88 and very sick, well it comes back like a flood)

Moonlight Serenade by Glenn Miller http://youtu.be/n92ATE3IgIs
(my mom’s most favorite song ever. she wants it played at her funeral. it was also played at my dad’s funeral)

Auld Lang Syne by Guy Lombardo/various http://youtu.be/Ik7ktS3PqEs
(on NYE I always think about all the people I have lost the year before and who might be gone that same time next year)

Iris by the Goo Goo Dolls http://youtu.be/B8UeeIAJ0a0

Beloved by VNV Nation http://youtu.be/BuE4ZHkJl5I

And about half the well known Christmas tunes out there.

P.S. I have no idea how to make a link with the title on it. Someone teach this noobie

@anniereborn

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“Title”: URL, with no space between the colon and the first character of the URL.

“Hurt” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l95D7leeU3w

Sort of cheating,

Loreena McKennitt’s Stolen Child. The lyrics are the Yeats poem by the same name.

Also, Everclear’s Father of Mine.

The hardest Christmas Song for me

I’ll be home for Christmas
Bing Crosby

back in my sad, late-teen breakup days I had: Nothing Compares 2U

Then there’s Morissey with:

I know it’s over

or

Please Please Please

and

Asleep

It’s a toss between Ambrosia’s How Much I Feel and Debby Boone’s one hit wonder You Light Up My Life. Eric Carmen’s All By Myself is another teary song for me.

Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas and I’ll be Home for Christmas both by Mr. Sinatra.

@Pachyderm_In_The_Room absolutely

@anniereborn, I like you. ;-)

@Pachyderm_In_The_Room actually “Baby Elephant Walk” makes me sad too. My first dance recital (when I was 5) was to that song

Alan Parsons Project – - Old and Wise

I can’t imagine how I forgot a couple of Dire Straits’ classics here:

Going Home (you’d think that a song about “going home” would be more upbeat, but I like this as it is)
Brothers in Arms

How did I miss this?????

Just A Dream by Carrie Underwood

This song is brutal.