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Out of all the depressing music I have, nothing seems to make me want to pull the trigger more than -- oddly enough -- Counting Crows' "Round Here." Not even Damien Jurado gets me sighing as deeply.
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"When the Tigers Broke Free" by Pink Floyd is a very sad song IMHO.
"Nothing Else Matters" by Metallica always used to make me cry but I am fairly sure that was just because of a person I associated with the song, not the song itself.
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For some reason, "Father and Son" by Cat Stevens always used to make me cry when I was growing up. I can't explain it. Just a personal reaction, I guess.
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No song has ever made me cry. But I think the most emotionally charged song I know is "Evaporated" by Ben Folds Five. It just happened to be being played in the background of a number of difficult times in my life. I always feel overwhelmed when I hear it.
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I don't have a song that makes me cry...but it brings back the memories that hurt the most...An ex-girlfriend and I were really serious and we had all the usual true loves things including a song, Eric Clapton's "Wonderful". It's a beautiful song but whenever I hear it I think about the good and bad times, and the worst time where we broke up a few days before I was going to pop the question to her. Needless to say everyone was shocked when we broke up(two and a half years of blissful loving). That's a burn that lasts a life time or lasted so far without the hurt leaving. If her mom didnt hate me we would probably still be together(they had a really close relationship:only daughter), but thats the past
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I connect more deeply with music than with anything else, and a lot of songs will mist me up if I let them. Off the top of my head, "Romeo & Juliet," both the Dire Straits version and the Indigo Girls version, "A Better Place to Be" and "Tangled Up Puppet," by Harry Chapin, "Back to Good," by Mathchbox Twenty, and many songs by Counting Crows and Indigo Girls.
One that I'm terribly embarrassed to admit is that awful, manipulative, transparent song "Butterfly Kisses." Everybody was playing it it all the time around fathers' day, which I thought was absurd, because it doesn't strike me as a good fathers' day song at all. And yet, despite how transparent it is, it does get me everytime, perhaps because I'm the father of girls. Whenever I hear it come on, I change stations.
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I got a paper cut from some sheet music for a medley of Phantom of the Opera songs, I'mnot afraid to admit that a few tears fell that day... Does that count?
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I'm embarassed at the number of Country songs, but:
"Love Me" - Colin Raye "Standing Outside the Fire" - Garth Brooks "She's in Love with the Boy" - Trisha Yearwood "Lightning Crashes" - Live "Smell the Color 9" - Chris Rice "Deep Enough to Dream" - Chris Rice "Ziploc" - Lit
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Hey, Eds! "'Round Here" does it for me, too -- and I don't know why.
I think it's the aching sadness that he manages to emote -- and even after years and several albums later, when he's completely cheapened that particular sound to the point that we find it in "Big Yellow Taxi," I'm still grabbed by the tonality when he hits, for some bizarre reason, "we all stay up very, very, very, very late."
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My music tend to deepen and intensify my feelings, but rarely cause them. Some of it will always make me feel better, but some of it was written for movies when the audience was supposed to get depressed and whenever I'm even vaguely sad it really gets me. I don't cry that often when I listen to it but...sometimes.
Philip Glass's Dracula (re-done soundtrack to the old 1920-30s Dracula) can really get me going.
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Songs have never made me cry - I don't cry often or easily - but there are some that I've cried along to through difficult times and some that have made me want to cry. The first one that comes to mind is A Question of Faith by the now-defunct Canadian band Sandbox. This is one of three songs that I listened to frequently during a particularly painful time in my life. The music is powerful because of the lyrics, so here's a snippet:
you left us all behind was this the way that you'd remind us to cry? how could I be this close and not go through what I'm supposed to, why? was there something I forgot? was it the service? maybe I'm just selfish today
and I can't comprehend why I'm not feeling sentimental is it a question of my faith? if you were here today, would you look at me and come out swinging? I never meant for you to hate me but I didn't feel
The second one was The Offspring's Gone Away. It's a pretty obvious choice.
laying flowers on your grave to show that I still care but black roses and 'Hail Mary's can't bring back what's taken from me I reach to the sky and I call out your name and if I could trade, I would
The third, and least important/relevant, was Creed's My Own Prison ("Gabriel stands and confirms I've created my own prison").
Of the songs that have made me want to cry at various times, the most poignant is Marilyn Manson's Man that You Fear. It contains the lyric "the boy that you loved is the man that you fear."
The theme from Gattaca has also been known to make me want to cry. Ben Folds' Magic is another ("saw you last night / stars in your eyes / shined in my room"). There's also The Smashing Pumpkins' Galapagos, which is a magnificent song.
and if we died right now this fool you love somehow is here, with you
Tool's Jimmy is a powerful one in two places. First, "it took me so long to realize / you hold the light that's been calling me back home" ...even more so when you realize what exactly he's talking about, and then the more cryptic "one and one are one, eleven" in the buildup to the song's climax. Staying with Tool, Prison Sex has a moment that makes me misty in a disturbing yet powerful way. Right at the end of the bridge, which is a climax in the song of sorts, we hear "I have found / a kind of temporary sanity in this / s__t, blood, and c_m on my hands / I've come around full circle" ...given that the song is about sexual abuse it's chilling but still somehow compelling. Jimmy also relates to abuse, but not as directly.
In Metallica's To Live is to Die/Dyers Eve, the middle section has a clean, quiet rhythm guitar progression (no band at all), but when the lead kicks in... wow. Moving.
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You know, I really don't like "pop country" much at all (with, of course, a few noteable exceptions), but once I got over my own preconceptions of the genre I found that I really like Garth Brooks. Although I did find his version of "American Pie" almost as bad as Madonna's. For some reason it didn't work for me at all.
quote: "Deep Enough to Dream" - Chris Rice
Wow! I haven't listened to Chris Rice in ages! This song is great, although I don't think it's ever made me cry.
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If we're not using "cry" too literally, there're plenty of Portishead and Lisa Germano songs that do this.
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There's a song by the Black Crowes that can make me cry, but only cuz it reminds me of my sister that died. It's "She Talks to Angels." My sister was schizophrenic and the song perfectly describes her.
She never mentions the word addiction In certain company. Yes, she'll tell you she's an orphan After you meet her family.
She paints her eyes as black as night now. She pulls those shades down tight. Yeah, she gives me a smile when the pain comes. The pain gonna make everything alright.
Says she talks to angels. They call her out by her name. Oh yeah, she talks to angels. Says they call her out by her name.
She keeps a lock of hair in her pocket. She wears a cross around her neck. The hair is from a little boy, And the cross from someone she has not met, well, not yet
She don't know no lover, None that I ever seen. Yeah, to her that ain't nothing But to me it means, means everything.
She paints her eyes as black as night now. Pulls those shades down tight. There's a smile when the pain comes. Pain's gonna make everything alright.
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I had posted this song in the "Songs that make you shiver" but It should be in this thread instead.
I hope you Dance - Lee Ann Womack
This song was played at my Aunt's funeral and ever since then I hear it and think of her and miss her terribly. The message in it is sooo right on.
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"Hurt - The Johnny Cash version. Though I think the video definitely contributed to that."
Oh, my, I had forgotten. The first time I saw the video, I was sobbing, especially when June was standing on the stairs looking down on him. That was before she died, and now, all I have to do is think of her standing there, and I get all choked up.
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I read the Johnny Cash thread a week or two ago and had no idea what any of you were on about, but this week I've seen the video twice on TV. I haven't heard the other version, but I understand what everyone meant about this one. The obsessive banging accompaniment in certain parts gets me. I'm floored. I need to hear it again!
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It's been a long time since I've cried at music - maybe I've numbed myself with techno, or maybe I just haven't listened to country since high school.
But, like Godric, I am a closet Garth Brooks fan. "The Dance" has always made me cry and it doesn't help that it was a favorite of a high school friend I had who died at a Rodeo. And he's got other tearjerkers among his hits, but there's a song on his Sevens album called "You Move Me" that is totally poignant. No, more than that - it's pungent. It starts out:
"This is how is seems to me; Life is only therapy. Real expensive, and No guarantee.
So I lie here on the couch With my heart hangin' out, Frozen solid with fear Like a rock in the ground."
I don't know why it gets me.
As far as rock, some songs sadden me, like (sorry it's so poppy) Madonna's "Frozen." And some can actually evoke tears like Everclear's "Wonderful" and "Father of Mine." And, for that matter, Pink's "Family Portrait," which my little sister played for me and I will never forgive her for.
Dire Straits's "Brothers in Arms" is up there, as is U2's "Peace on Earth," but only when I'm playing it acoustically and trying to sing and thinking about the words too much.
But the all-time saddest song, not just lyrically, but all together, is Billy Joel's "And So it Goes..." Oh, man.
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Well, I don't really cry at most anything. My wife completely freaks out if my eyes even start to water. But the song that I find the most emotionally wrenching is "Space Dye Vest" by Dream Theater. Kevin Moore wrote some great stuff for them. Glad he is still collaborating with Fates Warning.
Oh, speaking of FW, "Still Remains" by them is pretty melancholy, as is the entire album "A Pleasant Shade of Gray".
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Speaking of Kevin Moore, "Wait For Sleep" is pretty good, too. The most moving DT song, IMO, is "Lifting Shadows off a Dream", though.
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Here are a few of mine. I usually don't cry, but I definitely get steamy-eyed:
Pearl Jam - Jeremy
Eric Clapton - Tears in Heaven
REM - Losing my Religion (I just found out what this song really is about a couple weeks ago. If I would have known it's true meaning at the beginning, I probably wouldn't have had much of a reaction, but Michael Stipes has such poetic talent that I just can't help but get emotional when I hear it)
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Three men Hanging get on with it, put off the fuss you chickensh*t get on with it, can't you see its time to quit i seen three men hanging from a sycamore their bodies were stiff as a 2x4 and their heads were tilted down towards the groud and it aint been long since they been up there that their bodies turned cold hangin in that air and they mighta froze before that noose got to them
Old scracth has delt us a dirty hand he had the look of a saint but the greed of a man and his face a was worn and wrinkled like a leather boot and if i put this revolver to my head will God turn against me instead of taking pity on a brooken man get on with it, put off the fuss you chickensh*t get on with it, cant you see its time to quit get on with it get on with it
from Murder by Death (yea the name is terrible but they make good music, also note this is how the lyrics are printed for the most part, no capitalization, puncuation or much logical breakup)
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Angel Band from the O Brother Where Art Thou? soundtrack (too lazy to get the cd case and find out the artist, sorry) because I was driving my dog to the airport at the time to send her off to a rescue in Texas. (Long story, she had bitten my son) It's generally a sad song anyway, but of course, circumstances heightened my natural weepiness. I'm a big crybaby.
Hurt as done by John Cash, for reasons mentioned before. That atonal plonking on the piano, giminy crickets, that gets me.
Etta James' Love's Been Rough on Me is terrifically sad, as well as her I'm Gonna Cry Like A Rainy Day. I have to say that Rainy Day will consistently move me to tears.
I'm glad someone mentioned Pink. I love Pink, and I can't wait to hear her new album. She's got such a great range (not her voice, but her musical choices). I think she has real staying power. Family Portrait doesn't move me as much as Don't Let Me Get Me though. I understand where she's coming from in that one.
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As mentioned before (I hadn't listened to it when I first read this thread), "The Scientist" by Coldplay.
Also, "It's Not" by Aimee Mann is just really bittersweet and depressing and beautful. Gets me every time.
People are tricky you can't afford to show anything risky, anything they don't know. The moment you try, well kiss it goodbye.
So baby kiss me like a drug like a respirator and let me fall into the dream of the astrounaut where I get lost in space that goes on forever and you make all the rest just an afterthought and I believe it's you who could make it better but it's not. No it's not.Posts: 2443 | Registered: Apr 2002
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All the songs that make me cry are completely sappy and stupid. There's a country song called "Their Hearts are Dancing" - can't remember the artist, but it gets me every time because it reminds me of my parents (they're 3000 miles away and I miss them). It's a waltz: "One two three, step two three, whenever they're waltzing, He still counts out loud. She's tried to teach him, but the rhythm doesn't reach him, So they bounce through the crowd. But oh, won't you look at them smiling, not worried if they're out of time. He steps on her toes, she giggles and goes on, Cause love is forgiving and kind. Their hearts are dancing, to the love song that's played from the moment they met, Their hearts are dancing, in time with a tune love won't ever forget."
See what I mean? It's deeply, deeply sappy, and it got me just writing the lyrics. Okay, I'm crying a lot lately, but that's ridiculous! A lot of the songs that get me are about mother/daughter relationships - Dolly Parton's "Coat of many colours" and Faith Hill's "You can't lose me," - both of those get my mum, too.
John Denver's "Leaving, on a jet plane" gets to me as well. I think that's down to circumstances, too - my boyfriend and I are doing the distance thing (only a couple of hours by train, so not jet-plane distance, but still hard when we're used to spending most of most days together.
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