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    Default Re: Songs that Make You Cry

    You guys have reminded me of a lot of ones that I agree with!

    Soda, I completely forgot about Celine Dion! "Because You Loved Me" makes me cry every single time, but the song that REALLY makes me absolutely bawl of hers is "Goodbye's The Saddest Word."

    Some other ones that you all mentioned that I had forgotten:

    When I Get Where I'm Going - Brad Paisley/Dolly Parton
    One - U2
    Where The Streets Have No Name - U2 (superbowl performance)
    Hurt - Johnny Cash
    Tears In Heaven - Eric Clapton
    Christmas Shoes - Newsong
    Arise My Love - Newsong

    And Willie, I was the same way with How Long

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    Default Re: Songs that Make You Cry

    Thought of a couple more:

    Something to Believe In-Poison
    Fountain of Sorrow-Jackson Browne
    Sky Blue and Black-JB
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    The first two that spring to mind that make me cry every time are:
    1. "Keep Me In Your Heart-Warren Zevon
    2. "On and On and On"-Wilco

    Warren's song was written for his last album, "The Wind", and it was the last one he wrote before the album was released. Sadly, he passed away not long after that.
    Wilco's song was written by lead singer and songwriter Jeff Tweedy. He wrote the song to comfort his dad, shortly after his mother passed away.

    I can never listen to either of these songs without tearing up.

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    I can't make you love me - Bonnie Raitt (I love the version by Mike Reid too)

    The Water is Wide - James Taylor

    Late for the Sky - Jackson Browne

    I'll Never Have the Heart to Leave This Town - Mike Reid
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    Reading through your posts, I see "Tears In Heaven" appears on a few lists. It didn't pop immediately to my mind, but it certainly has made me cry too. I haven't listened to it in a while, but it will be hard, because I can relate to it now.

    Songs make me cry for different reasons, and like FP, it depends on the mood or frame of mind I'm in. It could be the subject matter of the song, it could be the way the performer is singing it, and it could be about the performer him/herself, regarding the significance the song has to the performer. It could also be the personal significance a song has for me.

    A few songs I can think of at the top of my head are as follows:

    What Now My Love (Elvis Presley)
    An American Trilogy (Elvis Presley)
    Love (John Lennon)
    Here Today (Paul McCartney)
    The Girl From Yesterday (Eagles)
    The Heart Of The Matter (Don Henley/Eagles)
    Tears In Heaven (Eric Clapton)
    Unchained Melody (The Righteous Brothers)
    Vincent (Don McLean)
    Stardust (Nat 'King' Cole)
    Dance With My Father (Luther Vandross)


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    Default Re: Songs that Make You Cry

    Quote Originally Posted by Stars View Post
    "Keep Me In Your Heart-Warren Zevon
    That one makes me cry, too!

    Always in our hearts, Never forgotten

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    I need to know ..... everybody is moved to tears by Tears In Heaven. I am not. I know very well what it is about, but unfortunately I find the song rather mawkish. How terrible to say that.

    I notice a couple of others that I agree with and I will add a couple more to prove that my heart isn't made of stone:

    An American Trilogy - Elvis Presley
    Can't Help Falling In Love - Elvis Presley (this is not a happy song - it tells of deep, dark despair).
    Biko - Peter Gabriel
    Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
    Love Of My Life - Queen
    A Change Is Gonna Come - Sam Cooke
    Rainy Days & Mondays - Carpenters

    But I might be more likely to cry at my favourite lines of poetry, or I might get angry, particularly at this part of my favourite poem, Yeats' The Second Coming:

    The best lack all conviction, while the worst
    Are full of passionate intensity

    and I could quote the Shakespearean stuff that makes me cry for the rest of the day.

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    Hmm, I thought Tears in Heaven was incredibly moving. I suppose some songs no matter how tragic the circumstances simply don't move people.

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    Yes, the circumstances were tragic. Yes, the song is moving.

    However, it is not compulsory for me to feel exactly the same way others feel about it. I decided to offer a dissenting opinion. That is all, EL, OK?

    And I DID say 'how terrible to say that' because I was well aware how it could be perceived.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Freypower View Post
    I need to know ..... everybody is moved to tears by Tears In Heaven. I am not. I know very well what it is about, but unfortunately I find the song rather mawkish. How terrible to say that.
    I think it is fair. Nothing terrible in sharing what you feel and think.

    Some folks hate the song "danny boy"... but, in the right context (oh say 2 am at Lefty's in SF after a Giant game when the bar is full of fans about to go home and the singer/pianist begins singing it... and the bar joins in... it is pretty overwhelming and not corny.

    At yankee stadium after a close win, the stands are electric and Sinatra starts in with NY NY... oh man!

    or at the end of Giants games when Tony Bennett wafts along the water... it is as though you might float away!

    not everything moves every one. i think that is beautiful, not shameful.

    I remember in my youth I had a record and when I would put it on, my best friend would come into the living room and say, "oh boy, rp, where are you heading to." I always played it when I'd had enough and was ready to leave... the song? Wichita Lineman by Glen Campbell. Tons of people think it is the corniest song of all time... for me, it is my soul....

    I've found that you like what you like and while it is good to examine the why's and wherefore's... it is cool to like what you like.
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