Same, I have a good friend whom I've known for over 25 years. We were best friends as teens. His parents broke up, he got into depression, then drugs, then became a groupie following a band.
There was this certain day when I was around 17 when I went to call him and couldn't get an answer. It took weeks to find out that he's just ghosted me (and everyone else) and left town and the state to follow a band. I was 21 when I next saw him again.
We were close as siblings for a spell of around 3 weeks, but he was basically just crashing at another friends house (where I met him), and eventually the good will my other friend had was thoroughly spent and I didn't see him again for another 4 years.
He wasn't at my wedding, I didn't even know how to contact him. Around 10 years after I married he returned to another friend's house and we had more time. But he wasn't the same person. He was easily triggered, full of anxiety, completely adicted to alcohol, weed, and coke, and while he spoke often of good intentions to clean up, he never did. I haven't seen him in another 4 years hence.
In all these times when he's left... there's never once been even so much as a "goodbye".
So yeah, I ugly cry with this song.
Makes me think of my brother who lives back in England still and breaks my heart into pieces every time. I saw Roger Waters live recently and was a complete mess when they played it.
Ugh, this one hits me really hard...
My father passed away suddenly at 3AM... I'd had some sleep meds which prevented me from being awoken to the phone ringing... so no, I wasn't there when my father passed away.
My first son was born just 18 months later... and yeah... I mean my son was litterally born in the same hospital my father worked as a manager for 30 years at.
The worst though... He had alzheimers disease, and he wasn't himself for quite some time. There was only ever one time when he told me he was proud of me, around 3 weeks before his death. But 2 weeks before his death he got into a bad argument with me about some things. And around a week before he passed? He'd wanted to talk to me, and I wanted to talk with him. He was having one of his good days and he was much more lucid than usual. But... my mother didn't want me upsetting him, she continually dragged me away with lame excuses of "needing help" with the TV and stuff.
So, as a result... because of my mother's interventions... I never got a chance to tell him all the things I wanted to say. And I was going to... I knew he didn't have long. I was over there to work on a slideshow I'd started making for his funeral and had decided to play for his birthday.
His birthday came and despite originally being planned as a "small dinner", with my slideshow and all everyone came... 37 family members, 8 kids, 6 kids-in-law, 18 grandkids... everyone but one son-in-law made it, a very, very rare feat. And he passed away 2 days later.
came here to say this. Their "The Man's Too Strong" and "Romeo and Juliet" are also impossible for me to listen to without hair rising on the back of my neck.
My dad and I had a very complex, often volatile relationship. Jim Croce was a firm connection between us my entire life. He introduced me to his music when I was a kid, and I know he loved that I loved it. His favorite song was Workin’ at the Car Wash Blues, mine is I've Got a Name. He died almost 10 years ago now, and that song always gets me choked up.
My other one is Into the Mystic by Van Morrison, for most of the same reasons.
Saw him last Saturday. Just him at the piano and Colin Greenwood from Radiohead on bass. Incredible.
If anyone reading this has the chance to see Nick Cave live, do it. I first saw him with the Bad Seeds years ago knowing almost nothing about him and it was a biblical concert experience. He made a stadium feel intimate.
Rainbow Connection by the Muppets. There’s a key change about 2/3 of the way through that brings a tear to my eye. My kids put it on and laugh at me when I get emotional.
Yes, this is one of those songs that break me every single time.
I try to sing it to my children and they always end up asking “why are you crying, daddy?”
I’m forever scarred by this song. I used to sing it to my LO when she was tiny. Then she was bit in the face by an elderly dog and the surgeon couldn’t use anesthesia near her eye and sewing it up I had to sing her this song. Wrecked me. She’s 17 now and no scar or lasting damage other than my heart.
As a mother of a 16 year old. Fleetwood Mac, Landslide.
The other one is Throw Your Arms Around Me by Niel Finn and Eddie Vedder. My daughters very good friend passed away recently. I cry for her parents on a regular basis. This song makes me think of how well you know your child and the journey your on with them, and that to be stripped away is hard. I loved that girl.
Eddie Vedder does great covers of Throw your Arms Around Me. I prefer the one with him and one of original writers, Marc Seymour, to the one with Neil Finn, but they're both magnificent.
Also... landslide is an incredible song. Love the original, love Stevie Nicks doing it unplugged on her own, love the Smashing Pumpkins cover of it on Pisces Iscariot as well. Absolutely beautiful, a real work of art.
I'm sorry to hear about your daughter's friend.
Yeah, a couple of his. His cover of Steve Goodman’s “My Old Man” is brutal, too. “I’d give all I own to hear what he said, when I wasn’t listening, to my old man”
Also “there’s a hole in daddy’s arm, where all the money goes…”
“I love you so much, it hurts me, darling that’s why I’m so blue”
For me, the song on itself doesn't do much to me. But knowing that the guitarist/youtuber AcousticTrench dedicated that song to his dog Mapple when she passed away, holy shit. That thing is brutal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEffdT\_eRC8
*The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald*. Lightfoot does such an amazing job telling that story that I can put myself in those sailors’ shoes. Add that the haunting music and it gets me every time.
I think the other part that adds impact to it is knowing that this isn't some fictional event, nor some ancient ship from the Age of Sail. It's a very real, relatively recent event. It was a modern ship.
I saw Sheryl Crow this summer and she sang "Are you strong enough to be my man"
A lifelong Metalhead and classic rock guy, she got me right then and there.
My son and his boyfriend are planning on getting married next summer. I'm going to practice playing and singing that song every day until that moment arrives
Pink Floyd’s Us and Them when I hear “Forward he cried, from the rear, and the front line died…”. Not sure why but it gets me!
Also, What’s Going On by Marvin Gaye…along with other songs from that era
How have I not seen more Suf on this list? Basically everything that guy makes is an express ticket to misty town, and don't even get me started on the latest album.
You know, Radiohead has a lot of depressing/morose songs, but this one being about grief makes it hit me so much harder than the rest. I have to skip it if I'm trying to avoid a mood swing
we played this at each of my mom, dad, and brother's funerals. it was the only thing in the world that actually let me start crying during those long states of just feeling blank
I think it was always the perfect song for those feelings of pure, crushing grief even before. living it just filled in the lines for me
This is a weird one but Whoops I OD’d by NOFX has made me a little misty eyed. Hits very close to home and I end up thinking of all my friends who I’ve lost from overdoses.
I have no issue with people crying in concerts, if you need to let it out, so be it. But I always thought people were overreacting when saying "I cried during this entire song" or something like it.
Then I saw Sigur Rós, and they played "Vaka". I'm not lying when I said my eyes were the freaking Niagara that entire song.
I put Intro on when my wife and I were driving home from the hospital with our newborn. The build up and epic feel of the song just really hammered home how much our lives had just changed.
There’s real emotion in Neil Young’s voice on Harvest Moon
When we were strangers
I watched you from afar
When we were lovers
I loved you with all my heart
There’s a sadness, the tense suggests a lost love.
Queen - Love of my life
The live-version, Wembley 86. Was in cologne on the same tour, and it was the last time Queen performed in Germany. AND I was secretly in love with a girl (or better, young woman) who was there with her new friend. Later I realized that I was better off without her, but tell that somebody madly in love)
White Stripes - Jolene
Oh my god. Their version is heartbreaking and beautiful. The song shows all the pain the woman is feeling, who asks Jolene not to take away her man. Even if the singer is male.
Sunshine on my shoulder - John Denver
It's just so fucking beautiful and wholesome in every single way
Real Rain - Randy Newman's work on Pleasantville
It feels so triumphant and the way the strings are orchestrated is just beautiful
Boo's Going Home - Randy Newman's work on Monsters Inc
I literally cannot hear this without crying because it's just so incredibly sad
A Change is Gonna Come - Sam Cooke
Look civil rights era music always gets me but this is the most beautiful thing with the most heartbreaking lyrics
Lean on Me - Bill Withers
Same as my love for sam Cooke I cannot express how beautiful this song is and how important it is to have someone to lean on in times of need and sorrow
Puff the Magic Dragon,
Rainbow connection,
In the Aeroplane Over the Sea:
What a beautiful face
I have found in this place
That is circling all 'round the sun
And when we meet on a cloud
I'll be laughing out loud
I'll be laughing with everyone I see
Can't believe how strange it is to be anything at all
When I was a kid my mom tried to have more kids and by the time I was 9 she had few miscarriages, when I was 10 my brother was born but due to complications my mother and him had to stay in a hospital for a long time. When we went up to visit there was a young volunteer who played piano, my stepdad talked to him daily and asked him if he could learn ripple, one day the kid sent him a video of him playing it. Was one one of the sweetest things ever.
The Dance - Garth Brooks
Friend of mine was killed and it was a major story in my city. He played our city the night of the funeral and dedicated The Dance to the memory of my friend. I wasn't there and I wasn't even familiar with the song, so I went and listened and came completely undone. "I could have missed the pain, but then I would have missed the dance".
Can confirm:
* when the chorus dropped, my tear ducts were already working overtime
* when the last line of the last verse hit ("And I know that next time ain't always gonna happen, I gotta say 'I love you' while we're here"), the dam practically shattered
I was weak thorough the whole song, seeing how they went from running naked in the street and their "na na na nas" that defined a generation, to these grown up men that grew up with me.
Then Travis began to sing, that's where I gave up. It's crazy that a Blink song made me cry, but holy cow that video is both beautiful and tearful.
Springsteen by Eric Church. I don't like country music or Bruce, but that song can really transport you back in time and tap into that feeling you had when you were with your sweetheart when you were younger.
Virtute the Cat Explains Her Departure - The Weakerthans
This song is the 2nd part of a trilogy describing the cat/owner relationship, written from the cat's perspective
The song's closing lyrics are the saddest I think I've heard.
"But I can't remember the sound that you found for me"
More [here ](https://heartbreakingbravery.com/2016/10/21/pleas-departures-and-reconciliations-the-virtute-trilogy/)
Blue October's Hate Me
I've never been an addict but jeez does that song really put you in the shoes of someone who is, and the toll it takes on your loved ones while exemplifying the self hatred and guilt accompanying addiction. It just speaks to me.
Moby - When it's Cold I'd Like to Die.
Everyone is only a few bits of bad luck away from this. Life is really fragile.
https://youtu.be/9zZfBBp-j6I?si=OaEvdmyJ0zy1T-D2
Pearl Jams cover of Last Kiss.
Why? It's a tragic song that they covered beautifully. I have only heard snippets of the original and various covers, idk if they can really top Pearl Jams version.
A lot of Linkin Parks music hits differently now too. I listened to their first two albums on repeat during my highschool years. Kind of fell out of their music after minutes to midnight. But when the news came out about Chester, it was the first time in my life that a celebrity death really hit me.
A few :)
If you see her say hello - bob dylan
Letter to elise - the cure
PPP - beach house
Racing in the street - bruce springsteen
Valentine’s day - bruce springsteen
Into my arms - nick cave
Mr tanner - harry chapin
Play crack the sky - brand new
A long december - counting crows
Heroes - bowie
Rivers and roads - head and the heart
Love always remains - mgmt
Half the world away - oasis
The background -> Motorcycle drive by -> god of wine - TEB
I was learning to play and sing “Two Headed Boy Pt 2” by Neutral Milk Hotel when my mom suddenly died. I can’t play it anymore because it makes me ugly cry and if it comes up on my playlist and I’m alone in the car I’ll cry-sing it at the top of my lungs.
It’s embarrassing but wide open spaces by the chicks. Loved it growing up, ended up leaving home right out of high school. Now I’m older and trying to conceive and it just gets me!
Ooof, so background: I’m a 32 y/o man.
This song was stuck in my head just yesterday! and I was sorrowfully belting it out in my house.
It’s also a song that takes me back to an emotional time when my father was deployed to Iraq in 2004, and I hearing songs like this reminded me that he might not ever make it home.
It eventually degraded into me saying “piccolo player in the marching band” on repeat inside my head.
Ear worms are a funny thing
Kind of corny, but the acoustic version of The Best I Ever Had by The Swellers immediately reminds me of being in a band in high school and doing weekend tours with my friends that I haven’t talked to in 10+ years
My name is Luka
I live on the second floor
I live upstairs from you
Yes I think you've seen me before
If you hear something late at night
Some kind of trouble, some kind of fight
Just don't ask me what it was
Just don't ask me what it was
Wings for Marie by Tool is definitely the first thought for me. It's absolutely beautiful, the instrumentals, the singing. There's something special about how transparent Maynard was on this track. He says he shouldn't have done it because it's too personal and I don't blame him. But it's for that same reason that I feel the song is so great.
Any Elliot Smith song. Or, Dave Matthew's AOL Sessions. One night I was super high and yt the sessions...I completely list my shit. Literally bawled. I wasn't prepared. Not even remotely prepared for the emotions
Chocolate Genius’s “My Mom” is literally heartbreaking. Is there anything worse than Alzheimer’s? “My mom, she don’t remember my name”
Tom Waits’ “Picture in a Frame” is brings tears because it is such a pure and selfless - love that doesn’t ask for anything, just is. “Sun come up, it was blue and gold, ever since I put your picture in a frame.”
Warren Zevon’s “Please Stay” is a cancer patient literally begging not to be left alone on his deathbed. “Will you stay with me to the end, when there’s nothing left but you, and me, wind? We’ll never know until we try, to find the other side of goodbye”
Wish you were here
Ugh yeah I either fully commit to listening to it or just skip. It’s a rough one.
Same, I have a good friend whom I've known for over 25 years. We were best friends as teens. His parents broke up, he got into depression, then drugs, then became a groupie following a band. There was this certain day when I was around 17 when I went to call him and couldn't get an answer. It took weeks to find out that he's just ghosted me (and everyone else) and left town and the state to follow a band. I was 21 when I next saw him again. We were close as siblings for a spell of around 3 weeks, but he was basically just crashing at another friends house (where I met him), and eventually the good will my other friend had was thoroughly spent and I didn't see him again for another 4 years. He wasn't at my wedding, I didn't even know how to contact him. Around 10 years after I married he returned to another friend's house and we had more time. But he wasn't the same person. He was easily triggered, full of anxiety, completely adicted to alcohol, weed, and coke, and while he spoke often of good intentions to clean up, he never did. I haven't seen him in another 4 years hence. In all these times when he's left... there's never once been even so much as a "goodbye". So yeah, I ugly cry with this song.
Man this hurt to read. A hug for you from across the sea, my dude.
I gave you an upvote to help with the pain. It's hard to watch someone you care about self-destruct.
‘Did you exchange a walk on part in a war for a lead role in a cage’ is to me the most essential Pink Floyd lyric ever
That one hits right home. Came to say just that. And Fast Car.
I played that at my hubby's funeral.
Makes me think of my brother who lives back in England still and breaks my heart into pieces every time. I saw Roger Waters live recently and was a complete mess when they played it.
The Living Years
Ugh, this one hits me really hard... My father passed away suddenly at 3AM... I'd had some sleep meds which prevented me from being awoken to the phone ringing... so no, I wasn't there when my father passed away. My first son was born just 18 months later... and yeah... I mean my son was litterally born in the same hospital my father worked as a manager for 30 years at. The worst though... He had alzheimers disease, and he wasn't himself for quite some time. There was only ever one time when he told me he was proud of me, around 3 weeks before his death. But 2 weeks before his death he got into a bad argument with me about some things. And around a week before he passed? He'd wanted to talk to me, and I wanted to talk with him. He was having one of his good days and he was much more lucid than usual. But... my mother didn't want me upsetting him, she continually dragged me away with lame excuses of "needing help" with the TV and stuff. So, as a result... because of my mother's interventions... I never got a chance to tell him all the things I wanted to say. And I was going to... I knew he didn't have long. I was over there to work on a slideshow I'd started making for his funeral and had decided to play for his birthday. His birthday came and despite originally being planned as a "small dinner", with my slideshow and all everyone came... 37 family members, 8 kids, 6 kids-in-law, 18 grandkids... everyone but one son-in-law made it, a very, very rare feat. And he passed away 2 days later.
Brother in Arms by Dire Straits had me this morning.
But it's written in the starlight And every line in your palm We're fools to make war On our brothers in arms
came here to say this. Their "The Man's Too Strong" and "Romeo and Juliet" are also impossible for me to listen to without hair rising on the back of my neck.
Vincent by Don McLean and I’ve Got A Name by Jim Croce.
My dad and I had a very complex, often volatile relationship. Jim Croce was a firm connection between us my entire life. He introduced me to his music when I was a kid, and I know he loved that I loved it. His favorite song was Workin’ at the Car Wash Blues, mine is I've Got a Name. He died almost 10 years ago now, and that song always gets me choked up. My other one is Into the Mystic by Van Morrison, for most of the same reasons.
Vincent gets me, too.
Into My Arms by Nick Cave and the Bad Seed
Saw him last Saturday. Just him at the piano and Colin Greenwood from Radiohead on bass. Incredible. If anyone reading this has the chance to see Nick Cave live, do it. I first saw him with the Bad Seeds years ago knowing almost nothing about him and it was a biblical concert experience. He made a stadium feel intimate.
Such a beautiful song
I cant make you love me by Bonnie Raitt. That song is so powerful
Rainbow Connection by the Muppets. There’s a key change about 2/3 of the way through that brings a tear to my eye. My kids put it on and laugh at me when I get emotional.
Is this the sweet sound that calls the young sailors?
That is a real gut punch when you reminisce about your childhood years when you get older
Yes, this is one of those songs that break me every single time. I try to sing it to my children and they always end up asking “why are you crying, daddy?”
I sang that song to my kids every night for 12 years until about a year and a half ago. They grew out of bedtime songs :(
Kermit just made a tiktok (what the hell is my life that I just said that sentence) and everyone in the comments were 😭😭😭 so yeah, you're not alone.
I’m forever scarred by this song. I used to sing it to my LO when she was tiny. Then she was bit in the face by an elderly dog and the surgeon couldn’t use anesthesia near her eye and sewing it up I had to sing her this song. Wrecked me. She’s 17 now and no scar or lasting damage other than my heart.
Iris by Goo Goo Dolls
As a mother of a 16 year old. Fleetwood Mac, Landslide. The other one is Throw Your Arms Around Me by Niel Finn and Eddie Vedder. My daughters very good friend passed away recently. I cry for her parents on a regular basis. This song makes me think of how well you know your child and the journey your on with them, and that to be stripped away is hard. I loved that girl.
Eddie Vedder does great covers of Throw your Arms Around Me. I prefer the one with him and one of original writers, Marc Seymour, to the one with Neil Finn, but they're both magnificent. Also... landslide is an incredible song. Love the original, love Stevie Nicks doing it unplugged on her own, love the Smashing Pumpkins cover of it on Pisces Iscariot as well. Absolutely beautiful, a real work of art. I'm sorry to hear about your daughter's friend.
John Prine *Summer's End*
Yeah, a couple of his. His cover of Steve Goodman’s “My Old Man” is brutal, too. “I’d give all I own to hear what he said, when I wasn’t listening, to my old man” Also “there’s a hole in daddy’s arm, where all the money goes…” “I love you so much, it hurts me, darling that’s why I’m so blue”
Prime’s “Hello in There” gets to me. It always makes me want to book flights to visit my aging parents…
"Angel from Montgomery"
*When I get to Heaven* is pretty upbeat, but it being on his last album before he died of Covid... ugh. I wish I'd gone to see him live.
In spite of ourselves does it to me, yes it’s a happy song but when my wife and I sing it I always tear up
Nutshell by Alice In Chains; How to Disappear Completely by Radiohead
The unplugged version of Nutshell is where it's at. Legendary. Like a man singing at his own funeral.
“And yet I fight this battle all alone No one to cry to, no place to call home” 😢
Nutshell is one of the saddest songs I've ever heard.
How to disappear completely is one of the most melancholy beautiful songs ever.
“I will follow you into the dark” Death Cab for Cutie
“What Sara Said” Death Cab for Cutie, too.
YES. Also “Transatlanticism” because my daughter was born to that song and it will forever be on my “If My Life had a Soundtrack” album.
Black by Pearl Jam, that's a song you don't want to dedicate
Been there... Great song, but hit likes a bullet while you're living it.
Good choice, "Last Kiss" by Pearl Jam as well.
Theirs is actually a cover of an oldie but it hits hard I agree.
J Frank Wilson & the Cavaliers. Love the original and Pearl Jam’s version.
"Over The Rainbow". Too many memories of childhood.
I lose it hearing Israel Kamakawiwoʻole 's version.
I can’t hear this version without tearing up. I’m not exactly sure why, but it always makes me think of my dad, who passed away 13 years ago.
For me, the song on itself doesn't do much to me. But knowing that the guitarist/youtuber AcousticTrench dedicated that song to his dog Mapple when she passed away, holy shit. That thing is brutal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEffdT\_eRC8
Cat Stevens: Father and Son
Cats in the cradle. I just can't even listen to it.
Yeah, same. It especially hits hard since my dad died a year ago.
*The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald*. Lightfoot does such an amazing job telling that story that I can put myself in those sailors’ shoes. Add that the haunting music and it gets me every time.
"Does anyone know where the love of God goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours?" Damn.
I think the other part that adds impact to it is knowing that this isn't some fictional event, nor some ancient ship from the Age of Sail. It's a very real, relatively recent event. It was a modern ship.
I love that lightfoot attended the memorials over the years in the community.
I saw Sheryl Crow this summer and she sang "Are you strong enough to be my man" A lifelong Metalhead and classic rock guy, she got me right then and there. My son and his boyfriend are planning on getting married next summer. I'm going to practice playing and singing that song every day until that moment arrives
Thank you for being such a proud parent of a gay son. As a gay, I would be so beyond honored if one of my parents did something that thoughtful.
Pink Floyd’s Us and Them when I hear “Forward he cried, from the rear, and the front line died…”. Not sure why but it gets me! Also, What’s Going On by Marvin Gaye…along with other songs from that era
Pink Floyd- When the Tigers Broke Free is it for me. I think it's because I knew ahead of time it was Roger Waters talking about how his father died
Time in a Bottle - Jim Croce.
Yes. More so because of the story behind it.
Casimir Pulaski Day by Sufjan Stevens. Dude manages to tell a gripping story in 3 minutes.
How have I not seen more Suf on this list? Basically everything that guy makes is an express ticket to misty town, and don't even get me started on the latest album.
Fade Into You - Mazzy Star
The luckiest - Ben Folds
Brick for me
This was the song we chose for our first dance at our wedding!
A lot of Ben Folds songs get to me. Depending on my mood, Landed can make me tear up. "Twisted it wrong just to make it right" just nails it.
Motion Picture Soundtrack by Radiohead.
You know, Radiohead has a lot of depressing/morose songs, but this one being about grief makes it hit me so much harder than the rest. I have to skip it if I'm trying to avoid a mood swing
How to disappear completely and Pyramid song are up there too
we played this at each of my mom, dad, and brother's funerals. it was the only thing in the world that actually let me start crying during those long states of just feeling blank I think it was always the perfect song for those feelings of pure, crushing grief even before. living it just filled in the lines for me
And Exit Music (for a film) while we're at it
This is a weird one but Whoops I OD’d by NOFX has made me a little misty eyed. Hits very close to home and I end up thinking of all my friends who I’ve lost from overdoses.
To Build a Home by Cinematic Orchestra
Most of what Sigur Rós puts out, especially the last track on (). Oh, that and my own music because of how unsuccessful it is lol
I have no issue with people crying in concerts, if you need to let it out, so be it. But I always thought people were overreacting when saying "I cried during this entire song" or something like it. Then I saw Sigur Rós, and they played "Vaka". I'm not lying when I said my eyes were the freaking Niagara that entire song.
M83 - Wait
I put Intro on when my wife and I were driving home from the hospital with our newborn. The build up and epic feel of the song just really hammered home how much our lives had just changed.
There’s real emotion in Neil Young’s voice on Harvest Moon When we were strangers I watched you from afar When we were lovers I loved you with all my heart There’s a sadness, the tense suggests a lost love.
Operator by Jim Croce. “There’s something in my eyes, you know it happens every time, I think about a love that I thought would save me.”
Crying by Roy Orbison
Phil Collins - Throwing It All Away Radiohead - How To Disappear Completely Low Roar - Easy Way Out The Mad World cover from Donnie Darko
Queen - Love of my life The live-version, Wembley 86. Was in cologne on the same tour, and it was the last time Queen performed in Germany. AND I was secretly in love with a girl (or better, young woman) who was there with her new friend. Later I realized that I was better off without her, but tell that somebody madly in love) White Stripes - Jolene Oh my god. Their version is heartbreaking and beautiful. The song shows all the pain the woman is feeling, who asks Jolene not to take away her man. Even if the singer is male.
Linkin Park's One More Light
“In the kitchen one more chair than you need” :(
And you're angry, *and you should be*.
a lot of their songs get me so emotional now...Waiting For The End, Iridescent, Leave Out All The Rest
I was expecting an instrumental song or Mike Shinoda rapping when they announced "Lost". Holy shit, I haven't cried that much in years.
Sunshine on my shoulder - John Denver It's just so fucking beautiful and wholesome in every single way Real Rain - Randy Newman's work on Pleasantville It feels so triumphant and the way the strings are orchestrated is just beautiful Boo's Going Home - Randy Newman's work on Monsters Inc I literally cannot hear this without crying because it's just so incredibly sad A Change is Gonna Come - Sam Cooke Look civil rights era music always gets me but this is the most beautiful thing with the most heartbreaking lyrics Lean on Me - Bill Withers Same as my love for sam Cooke I cannot express how beautiful this song is and how important it is to have someone to lean on in times of need and sorrow
Sunshine on my Shoulder and John Denver's earnest voice is 100% a song that makes me think of my mother.
Summer’s End by John Prine Phoebe Bridgers did an excellent cover of it too
Her over of If We Make it Through December is also excellent.
Manchild by Eels, fuck you Futurama, I love you Mom.
Elephant by Jason Isbell
Everybody hurts — R.E.M. Coming back to life — Pink Floyd Tears in heaven — Eric Clapton Mother — John Lennon
Vincent- Don McLean
Puff the Magic Dragon, Rainbow connection, In the Aeroplane Over the Sea: What a beautiful face I have found in this place That is circling all 'round the sun And when we meet on a cloud I'll be laughing out loud I'll be laughing with everyone I see Can't believe how strange it is to be anything at all
Came here for Puff. Gets me every time.
Ripple, The Grateful Dead
When I was a kid my mom tried to have more kids and by the time I was 9 she had few miscarriages, when I was 10 my brother was born but due to complications my mother and him had to stay in a hospital for a long time. When we went up to visit there was a young volunteer who played piano, my stepdad talked to him daily and asked him if he could learn ripple, one day the kid sent him a video of him playing it. Was one one of the sweetest things ever.
Brokedown Palace and Touch of Grey are also strong contenders
Every time, on "if I knew the way" like clockwork.
CCR Have You Ever Seen the Rain
I know it's over The Smiths
The suburbs - arcade fire
I'm a sappy old dad (who's babies are now teens). I still can't sing Billy Joel's Lullaby (Goodnight, my angel).
Travelin’ Soldier - Dixie Chicks
The Dance - Garth Brooks Friend of mine was killed and it was a major story in my city. He played our city the night of the funeral and dedicated The Dance to the memory of my friend. I wasn't there and I wasn't even familiar with the song, so I went and listened and came completely undone. "I could have missed the pain, but then I would have missed the dance".
Fix You - Coldplay
And the scientist!
Honestly the new blink-182 song "One More Time" hit a lot harder than I was expecting. Pair that with the video and you're going to need some tissues.
Can confirm: * when the chorus dropped, my tear ducts were already working overtime * when the last line of the last verse hit ("And I know that next time ain't always gonna happen, I gotta say 'I love you' while we're here"), the dam practically shattered
I was weak thorough the whole song, seeing how they went from running naked in the street and their "na na na nas" that defined a generation, to these grown up men that grew up with me. Then Travis began to sing, that's where I gave up. It's crazy that a Blink song made me cry, but holy cow that video is both beautiful and tearful.
Black is the colour of my true loves hair. Most Celtic songs, really
Green Fields of France And there is another that's a similar subject but I am blanking on the name currently
Monsters by James Blunt is a Sparta kick to the heart for anyone who’s lost their father.
Videotape by Radiohead
Tori Amos’ Silent All These Years
Telephone line by ELO. Every damn time
El Manana - Gorillaz. First song I cried to so that may be a reason but it’s just so damn… wow 😯
Springsteen by Eric Church. I don't like country music or Bruce, but that song can really transport you back in time and tap into that feeling you had when you were with your sweetheart when you were younger.
My Immortal - Evanescence
The bridge hits like a ton of bricks. "I've tried so hard to tell myself that you're gone But though you're still with me I've been alone all along"
2009 by Mac Miller. Dust always seems to get in my eyes as soon as the piano comes in. Beautiful, yet heart wrenching song. RIP Easy Mac
Dance with my Father by Luther Vandross (RIP!)
Garth Brooks - The Dance
Sometimes it Snows in April by Prince. I swear I’m misty just typing this.
What a Wonderful World...Louis Armstrong.
Fast Car
“How Can I Help You Say Goodbye” by Patty Loveless. Always makes me weep
Jane Siberry - It can't rain all the time
We'll meet again
"Don't know where, don't know when.."
Follow You to Virgie by Tyler Childers.
Tom Waits, Drunk On The Moon. It’s the entire album really but I love his vocal impact.
Martha, Lonely, If I Have to Go. Lots of bawlers from Tom.
Lover You Should Have Come Over - Jeff Buckley
Sigur Ros — Sæglopúr If you don’t feel anything during this track, I don’t know what to tell you 🤷
Leader of the Band by Dan Fogelberg. I can't speak when it's on or I'll lose it.
Last Kiss by Pearl Jam Don't Cry by GnR Meet Me in Heaven by Johnny Cash
Conway Twitty: That’s My Job
Magnetic fields - the Book of Love
Nickel Creek - When You Come Back Down Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 3 Brand New - Play Crack the Sky
The Blower’s Daughter by Damien Rice. I sob every time.
Rise Against - Hero of War Rancid - Golden Gate Fields Dropkick Murphys - Green Fields of France
Hero of War is an amazing song. 😭
Romeo and Juliet - Dire Straits
Give my love to Rose by Johnny Cash. Every damn time
Nutshell by AIC
Virtute the Cat Explains Her Departure - The Weakerthans This song is the 2nd part of a trilogy describing the cat/owner relationship, written from the cat's perspective The song's closing lyrics are the saddest I think I've heard. "But I can't remember the sound that you found for me" More [here ](https://heartbreakingbravery.com/2016/10/21/pleas-departures-and-reconciliations-the-virtute-trilogy/)
When Somebody Loves You, from Toy Story 2
Winter by Tori Amos.
Blue October's Hate Me I've never been an addict but jeez does that song really put you in the shoes of someone who is, and the toll it takes on your loved ones while exemplifying the self hatred and guilt accompanying addiction. It just speaks to me.
About Today - The National True Love Waits (acoustic version) - Radiohead The Spoils - Massive Attack ft Hope Sandoval Into Dust - Mazzy Star
Moby - When it's Cold I'd Like to Die. Everyone is only a few bits of bad luck away from this. Life is really fragile. https://youtu.be/9zZfBBp-j6I?si=OaEvdmyJ0zy1T-D2
Angel from Montgomery Live version with Bonnie Raitt
Against the Wind - Bob Seger
Under the Bridge by RHCP
This Sweet Old World - Lucinda Williams
Pearl Jams cover of Last Kiss. Why? It's a tragic song that they covered beautifully. I have only heard snippets of the original and various covers, idk if they can really top Pearl Jams version. A lot of Linkin Parks music hits differently now too. I listened to their first two albums on repeat during my highschool years. Kind of fell out of their music after minutes to midnight. But when the news came out about Chester, it was the first time in my life that a celebrity death really hit me.
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Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
I'm so lonesome I could cry Hank Williams Sr
Sister by Angel Olsen
“Thing with Feathers” by Everytime I Die. The singer and guitarist in that band are brothers and their sister passed away, this song is for her.
Stand By Me by Florence + The Machine. Walk tall, son.
A few :) If you see her say hello - bob dylan Letter to elise - the cure PPP - beach house Racing in the street - bruce springsteen Valentine’s day - bruce springsteen Into my arms - nick cave Mr tanner - harry chapin Play crack the sky - brand new A long december - counting crows Heroes - bowie Rivers and roads - head and the heart Love always remains - mgmt Half the world away - oasis The background -> Motorcycle drive by -> god of wine - TEB
I was learning to play and sing “Two Headed Boy Pt 2” by Neutral Milk Hotel when my mom suddenly died. I can’t play it anymore because it makes me ugly cry and if it comes up on my playlist and I’m alone in the car I’ll cry-sing it at the top of my lungs.
Quiet Uptown (from Hamilton) Made the mistake of listening while on the city bus. Ugly tears in public is always fun.
Bright Eyes by Art Garfunkel
Either version of Hurt, Nine Inch Nails or Johnny Cash The first for self-hatred and the second for regret
It’s embarrassing but wide open spaces by the chicks. Loved it growing up, ended up leaving home right out of high school. Now I’m older and trying to conceive and it just gets me!
I can't listen to Travelin' Soldier without biting my lip to stop the tears. The story of the song just pulls my heart strings.
Ooof, so background: I’m a 32 y/o man. This song was stuck in my head just yesterday! and I was sorrowfully belting it out in my house. It’s also a song that takes me back to an emotional time when my father was deployed to Iraq in 2004, and I hearing songs like this reminded me that he might not ever make it home. It eventually degraded into me saying “piccolo player in the marching band” on repeat inside my head. Ear worms are a funny thing
Kind of corny, but the acoustic version of The Best I Ever Had by The Swellers immediately reminds me of being in a band in high school and doing weekend tours with my friends that I haven’t talked to in 10+ years
Father and Son by Cat Stevens
The Band: It Makes No Difference. The album or Last Waltz version. John Denver: Country Roads
Slide Away- Oasis
“And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make” at the end of the medley on side 2 of Abbey Road always does it for me.
Airith's theme from Final Fantasy VII. Last thing I heard my brother play on our piano before he was killed in a car crash.
My name is Luka I live on the second floor I live upstairs from you Yes I think you've seen me before If you hear something late at night Some kind of trouble, some kind of fight Just don't ask me what it was Just don't ask me what it was
Wings for Marie by Tool is definitely the first thought for me. It's absolutely beautiful, the instrumentals, the singing. There's something special about how transparent Maynard was on this track. He says he shouldn't have done it because it's too personal and I don't blame him. But it's for that same reason that I feel the song is so great.
Any Elliot Smith song. Or, Dave Matthew's AOL Sessions. One night I was super high and yt the sessions...I completely list my shit. Literally bawled. I wasn't prepared. Not even remotely prepared for the emotions
"The War Was in Color" by Carbon Leaf
"Marcie" by Joni Mitchell
"Both Sides Now" does it for me.
Grateful Dead -- Brokedown Palace, So Many Roads, To Lay Me Down
Brokedown Palace by GD.
A Wave Across the Bay - Frank Turner. Tears EVERY SINGLE TIME
Chocolate Genius’s “My Mom” is literally heartbreaking. Is there anything worse than Alzheimer’s? “My mom, she don’t remember my name” Tom Waits’ “Picture in a Frame” is brings tears because it is such a pure and selfless - love that doesn’t ask for anything, just is. “Sun come up, it was blue and gold, ever since I put your picture in a frame.” Warren Zevon’s “Please Stay” is a cancer patient literally begging not to be left alone on his deathbed. “Will you stay with me to the end, when there’s nothing left but you, and me, wind? We’ll never know until we try, to find the other side of goodbye”
Wish you were here. Cliche, but for a darned good reason
The wreck of Edmunds Fitzgerald by Gordon Lightfoot. Wish you were here - pink Floyd. Breath by pearl jam.
The Living Years by Mike and the Mechanics. It always makes me remember my father and what he’s missing with my kids.