Songs That Make You Cry- Page 2

[StockardFan]

Posted: 8/22/10 at 5:31pm

Oh don't even get me started on Les Mis. Practically that whole show makes me cry. It's embarrassing.

[broadwayboy101]

Posted: 8/22/10 at 5:37pm

I don't have a song that makes me cry every single time that I listen to it, but here are a few that have definitely made me tear up.

"When She Loved Me" - Sarah McLachlan
"Only Hope" - Mandy Moore
"My Heart Will Go On" - Celine Dion
"Send in the Clowns" from A Little Night Music
"Because of You" - Kelly Clarkson
"Over the Rainbow" - Judy Garland
"You'll Never Walk Alone" - Judy Garland
"On My Own" from Les Miserables

Updated On: 8/22/10 at 05:37 PM

[GlindatheGood22]

Posted: 8/22/10 at 8:07pm

That goddamn Christmas shoes song. It turns me into a blubbering idiot every time. To be fair, it aims outrageously for the tear ducts.

[CAX]

Posted: 8/22/10 at 8:11pm

There are a few... But thought I'd stick to the most surprising one.

Oddly enough...

"Pray" from Once on This Island

[wonderwaiter]

Posted: 8/22/10 at 8:21pm

If you want to talk about surprising... I tend to get choked up at strong musical "push" moments (key changes, full chorus singing forward, etc.) Something in the energy of the moment really affects me. The really obvious example would be the final key change in Les Miserables, EVERYONE'S crying at that point, but a similar key change/push happens during Jellicle Songs For Jellicle Cats. So, yeah, I'm the only queen in the theater getting emotional over the opening number of Cats. It's a little embarrassing.

[I<3bway]

Posted: 8/22/10 at 8:56pm

Well, on Friday I was watching Mr. Holland's Opus which I haven't seen in a while, and I just love the music in that movie!

Especially Visions of a Sunset--> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUrpcSRUlRk

Richard Dreyfuss singing Beautiful Boy-->http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0IMASimhRo&feature=related

And the final American Symphony for the finale.

Definitely got teary eyed lol.

[StockardFan]

Posted: 8/22/10 at 10:14pm

I have to add a song by my boyfriend to the mix. This song made me cry when I first heard it but now so much now. It's not a sad song, really. Just that I think the lyrics and harmonies are so pretty. Tennessee Line by Daughtry. Vince Gill sings the harmony and it's just so pretty the first few times I heard it I teared up. I know Joe hates him, (j/k) but I just love my boy and am so proud of him.

[MotorTink]

Posted: 8/22/10 at 11:10pm

I don't care who covers it but "Butterfly Kisses" will turn this sarcastic no tear duct B*tch into a blubbery mess.
and "I'll Cover You "Reprise" if done right, "You Had Me From Hello" - Bon Jovi (Bounce album) for personal reasons, "Silent Lucidity" by Queensryche, and yes that damn ASPCA commercial gets me everytime

[broadwayjim42]

Posted: 8/23/10 at 7:15am

For Good (Wicked)
Unusual Way (Nine)
I'll Be Waiting There (Kristina)
A House is Not a Home (any version)

Anything that reminds me of close friends or my partner has the tendency to make me tear up.

I know there are millions more but I have to hit the MP3 player before I can think of them.

[Shannon Bo Dannon]

Posted: 8/24/10 at 5:19am

Being Alive from Company gets me EVERY time. Also, At the Ballet from A Chorus Line.

Non-musicals songs that make me cry are Hallelujah by Jeff Buckley, Tears In Heaven by Eric Clapton, Yesterday by The Beatles, Hurt by Johnny Cash, and Seasons In the Sun by Terry Jacks.

[spiderdj82]

Posted: 8/24/10 at 5:48am

"Absolution" from BARE makes me SOB

[~FloweryFriend~]

Posted: 8/25/10 at 3:12pm

I made an iTunes playlist of songs that make me cry. Sometimes you just need to let it all out, you know? And different songs help at different times.


"A Quiet Night at Home" - Bare: A Pop Opera
"Let It Be" - The Beatles
"Brick" - Ben Folds Five
"LA Song" - Beth Hart
"Feathers and Doom" - The Cardigans
"Lead Me into the Night" - The Cardigans
"Plastic Roses" - The Chenille Sisters
"Color Blind" - Counting Crows
"I Know What Kind of Love This Is" by Cry Cry Cry *(Always gets me)
"The Blower's Daughter" - Damien Rice
"Hard Candy Christmas" - Dolly Parton
"My Immortal" - Evanescence
"You Walk with Me" - The Full Monty
"There Are Worse Things I Could Do" - Grease
"Comfortable" - John Mayer
"Both Sides Now" - Joni Mitchell
"Bring Him Home" - Les Miserables
"Empty Chairs at Empty Tables" - Les Miserables
"On My Own" - Les Miserables
"Lion Tamer" - The Magic Show
"A Few Small Bruises" - Maria Mena
"Through the Rain" - Mariah Carey
"Empty Room" - Marjorie Fair
"Don't Cry out Loud" - Melissa Manchester
"Together We'll Ring in the New Year" - Motion City Soundtrack *(gets me every time... and I don't know why.)
"Smoke" - Natalie Imbruglia
"Ti Moune" - Once on This Island
"El Greco" - Paula Cole
"Crying at the Disco" - Platinum Weird
"Everybody Hurts" - REM
"To the Moon and Back" - Savage Garden
"Two Beds and a Coffee Machine" - Savage Garden
"Where in the World" - The Secret Garden
"I'll Say I'm Sorry Now" - Shawn Colvin
"Lullabye" - Shawn Mullins
"I'm in Here" - Sia
"Globes and Maps" - Something Corporate
"I Want to Save You" - Something Corporate
"Me and the Moon" - Something Corporate
"I Wish It Would Rain" - The Temptations
"Cab" - Train
"Nobody Knows Me at All" - The Weepies

[gertiecummings]

Posted: 8/25/10 at 3:41pm

I'd Give It All for You and Hear My Song from Songs for a New World
Smile by Charlie Chaplin
Finale B of Rent

And pretty much any song from the season finale of Glee

[uncageg]

Posted: 8/25/10 at 4:33pm

No One is Alone/Children Will Listen - Into the Woods (Saw Bernadette sing Children Will Listen in concert 2 years ago and a bawled my eyes out)

"I'll Cover You (Reprise) - RENT (I only need to hear the 1st few notes and I am a mess!)

A Cradle in Bethlehem - Nat King Cole (On the Christmas Album.)

[JbaraFan1]

Posted: 8/25/10 at 5:01pm

Omg, that Christmas Shoes song is just too much. lol It doesn't make me sad so much as make me curse whatever radio station and DJ is playing it. I usually have to tune out when it comes on.

A sampling, in no particular order, of songs which tend to get to me in varying degrees, from making me just feel sad to making me cry outright.:

Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye (traditional Irish anti-war song)
^ Imho, could take the prize for saddest song ever.

I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry (Hank Williams or the BJ Thomas version)

Everybody Hurts (REM)

Tears in Heaven (Clapton)

Bridge Over Troubled Water (Simon & Garfunkel)

Luka (Suzanne Vega)
^ Hesitant to admit to this one. lol This dang hokey song will still, on occasion, pop into my head for no discernible reason, which can be a trifle annoying, but I've learned to go with it and "just don't argue anymore." - Barb