Songs that make you cry

Gimme_Shelter · Post by **Gimme_Shelter** » 12/24/2002, 6:10 pm

Wham - Wake Me Up Before You Go Go
it was so sad they way she didnt wake him up before she went went

or

Foreigner - Hot Blooded
its very sad that this medical condition of hot blood still happens to people

starseed_10 · Post by **starseed_10** » 12/24/2002, 9:22 pm

Gimme_Shelter wrote:it was so sad they way she didnt wake him up before she went went

Sufjan Stevens · Post by **Sufjan Stevens** » 12/24/2002, 9:39 pm

See, with the songs, I don't feel emotions if they just sound sad, I only like them if they mean something to me. For Your Lungs Only just reminds me of how my father has been living with me for the past 14 years (yeah, I didn't live with my parents for the first 4 years of my life) but really has done nothing for me. He's a live-in deadbeat dad, and I hate him for it. I wish my parents would have gotten a divorce when I was young so I would not know who my father is and who I should hate forever.

starseed_10 · Post by **starseed_10** » 12/24/2002, 9:45 pm

ya a song definitely should have meaning to it to bring on tears.... I"ve got nothing that deep though

ArlieKoz13 · Post by **ArlieKoz13** » 12/24/2002, 10:10 pm

OLP - In Repair, gets me every time.
OLP - Thief
Bush - Letting the Cables Sleep
Jimmy Eat World - Hear You Me
The Hip - Scared, especially live, me and my brother were crying at the concert, it's simply beautiful.
Treble Charger - Funny
Tea Party - Requiem
Tea Party - The Messenger
Incubus - I Miss You

allison · Post by **allison** » 12/25/2002, 1:03 am

This is a great thread! I can be a pretty big sap at times. A lot of songs make me cry for one reason or another. Although lyrical content can be extremely powerful, I'm more often moved by the way in which a song is presented. If I'm in the right mood, almost all of my favourite music can reduce me to tears. As Stephen Jenkin's so eloquently put it, "The right four chords can make me cry.".

Here are a few tunes that consistently cause me to break down:

left Pencey - Last Summer, Solution, Hollows, Time Machine, I Need This, Solution (Brad sings with so much raw emotion that I find it impossible not to shed tears while listening to the band's music)
Jump Little Children - Mother's Eyes (quite possibly the most beautiful song ever written)
OLP - Blister, 4am, Bring Back the Sun, Julia (piano version -- I actually cried when I saw this song live)
Emm Gryner - Doomsday, Acid
Finger Eleven - Swallowtail
Tori Amos - Hey Jupiter
Ours - Meet Me in the Tower
J. Englishman - Fade, Staring at the Sun, My Song
Smashing Pumpkins - Mayonaise
Sarah Slean - Me I'm a Thief
Chantal Kreviazuk - Brenda's Song, Wayne, Blue
The Beatles - Hey Jude

xoNoDoubt69 · Post by **xoNoDoubt69** » 12/25/2002, 10:32 pm

last night i actually fell asleep crying to the whole gravity album but it prob had more to do with how i flet not so much the cd. I get like that sometimes too if i'm really sad almost any slow song cAn make me cry

emily · Post by **emily** » 12/25/2002, 10:42 pm

Gimme_Shelter wrote:Wham - Wake Me Up Before You Go Go
it was so sad they way she didnt wake him up before she went went

or

Foreigner - Hot Blooded
its very sad that this medical condition of hot blood still happens to people

i just had to laugh too

sandsleeper · Post by **sandsleeper** » 12/25/2002, 10:44 pm

^^ yeah... sometimes i like to just put on depressing music and wallow in my miseries..

jeff buckley- dido's lament (just the meaning of that last line, the one above my avatar, it really strikes home with me for some reason.)

olp- the wonderful future... one powerful song

mgb - prime time deliverance ... one part gets to me just cause it freakishly describes a scenario i experienced... even though it really has nothing to do with the song..

DissolvedStorm · Post by **DissolvedStorm** » 12/25/2002, 11:28 pm

It was at the Jamesville Grove show in August, I think. I was in a sour mood over pretty much everything; the summer had turned from uneventful to frustrating and the show really wasn't cheering me up. In fact, I had spent most of the concert looking at my shoes, and telling myself that I really needed new ones.
I somehow remembered bits and pieces of "Innocent" and so I recognized it when it began. I was trying my best not to pay attention, but the lyrics caught my ear. Oh no, you don't. You aren't tricking me into showing any emotion other than anger. I now had three options:
I could sit there and take it. After all, I didn't really like Gravity anyways.
I could curl up on the ground and cry like I wanted to.
I could sprint to the stage, jump over the security guards and attempt to strangle Raine with his microphone wire.
In the end, I chose option 1, but I think that was the closest I'd come to ever crying over a song on it's own, in public or otherwise. Most of the time, I just sit in silence and stare at the ceiling. Or I throw something at my stereo and hope that somewhere, somehow, some songwriter is feeling my wrath. I don't like to cry much. That said, I have thrown things over the following songs for one reason or another:
OLP- Blister, Thief, Clumsy, Are You Sad?, Naveed, In Repair, Hope, Life, Waited
Radiohead- Fake Plastic Trees, Motion Picture Soundtrack, Pyramid Song, Street Spirit (Fade Out)
Doves- The Cedar Room, The Sulphur Man, Satellites
Coldplay- The Scientist, Trouble, We Never Change
Abandoned Pools- Blood, Fluorescein
Seatbelts- Call Me Call Me, Blue (I actually did cry over Blue, but that was mostly because of the fact that it was played during the last scene of one of my favorite TV shows*)
Massive Attack- Teardrop, Unfinished Sympathy
Pink Floyd- Wish You Were Here, Shine On You Crazy Diamond, Comfortably Numb
The Beatles- Yesterday, Elenor Rigby
Jeff Buckley- Lover You Should've Come Over
Something Corporate- Good News
October Project- After The Fall
Travis- Pipe Dreams
Sarah McLachlan- Angel

And I'm sure there are more I'm forgetting. Half of these probably weren't even meant to be sad, I'm just strange.
*= It was animated too, if that tells you anything.

emily · Post by **emily** » 12/26/2002, 8:09 am

would that be Cowboy Bebop?

DissolvedStorm · Post by **DissolvedStorm** » 12/26/2002, 10:42 pm

Yes.

I'm such a nerd :freak:

don't ask why · Post by **don't ask why** » 12/26/2002, 10:50 pm

matthew good band - strange days, boy and his machine gun, running for home
smashing pumpkins - tonight
bush - out of this world
simple plan - perfect
boxcar racer - there is
blink 182 - stay together

Odin · Post by **Odin** » 12/26/2002, 10:59 pm

...I never had any songs that make me cry.

But the Aeries scene in Final Fantasy 7 made me cry, the music played a large part in it.

Also the last scene of Evangelion.

And the Apparitions video made me sad, but not cry.

Al, you're joking right? How can "Quit Playing Games with My Heart" make you cry?

One-Eye · Post by **One-Eye** » 12/26/2002, 11:50 pm

REM - Why Not Smile?
Counting Crows - Raining in Baltimore

Bandalero · Post by **Bandalero** » 12/27/2002, 12:21 am

Aerindipity wrote:Counting Crows - Raining in Baltimore

that cd is the best....perfect blue buildings :cry:

alice in chains - no excuses
billy dean - somewhere in my broken heart
daivid lans - christofori's dream (classical music)
fuel - sunburn
garth brooks - the dance
keith whitley - when you say nothing at all
new radicals - someday we know

then there are the spanish songs if you guys are intrested

mana - como dueles en los labios
juan gabriel - hasta que te conocci
the corrs and alejandro sans - una noche

ok some of these really haven't but if i heard them at the right time they certainly would.

ANTI_SOSHELL · Post by **ANTI_SOSHELL** » 12/27/2002, 12:34 am

OLP - The Wonderful Futur
OLP - Stealing Babies
OLP - Thief
Red Hot Chili Peppers - My Friends
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Dosed
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Venice Queen
Incubus - Stellar
Radiohead - Fake Plastic Trees
Radiohead - High and Dry
Pearl Jam - Jeremy

... meh, there's more but I'm lazy :uh:

Post by **faninor** » 12/27/2002, 3:25 am

Led Zeppelin - Tangerine

Measuring a summer's day, I only finds it slips away to grey
The hours, they bring me pain

Tangerine, tangerine, living reflection from a dream
I was her love, she was my queen, and now a thousand years between

Thinking how it used to be, does she still remember times like these
To think of us again? And I do

emily · Post by **emily** » 12/27/2002, 10:16 am

nice cat

starseed_10 · Post by **starseed_10** » 12/27/2002, 10:51 am

smashing pumpkins - landslide <amazingly amazing x 5