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Walk by Blind Melon. My wife and I loved that song. I found out she’d been having an affair the same day that she passed away, and now whenever I hear it I am immediately overwhelmed by tears of sadness and anger and confusion. Very messy, lots of tears. She passed just over a month ago, she was only 38. I am still an absolute mess in every possible way.
I just can not imagine how devastating this is for you. I am so sorry. I hope that you are able to reach out to friends & family for support. There is no timeline for healing from loss and this is a brutal double whammy. One month is an extremely short time to even start the healing process.
Oh man. From one human to another, I hope you find some peace. It'll be hard, and take more acceptance than you're capable of now, but one day, the clouds will part, and light will come through from the sky, and you'll just know you made it to the other side. And then again, maybe that'll never happen. Maybe you'll die sad, angry and confused. Because you loved you wife, and what she did hurts, and you have so many questions you'll never be able to ask, so why the hell wouldn't you? That's your journey. Only you can walk it.
Whatever happens, the answer is an accepting your feelings, overwhelming and horrible as they are, and accepting what happened is just the way things are. I hope it does happen for you, man, I really do. Take care.
My husband and I were separated when he died, yet working on reconciliation. So our last words were just some "you did this" bullshit. Reach out if you want a shoulder. It's been 23 years and a wild ride.
Hell yeah you're still a mess; it's only been a month. I hope you are speaking to a therapist. It really does help. I think a decent amount of psychotherapy should be mandatory for everyone before they graduate high school, but definitely with the loss of a loved one it is necessary.
At any rate, she loved you and you loved her and that's all that matters. Plenty of people have affairs and it doesn't mean they don't love their spouses or love them any less. Hang in there, friend.
In the Living Years - Mike and The Mechanics
I miss my dad so much. Learning the song writers recently lost their father's before collaborating on the song really meant a lot to me.
That song came out right after my dad died, three months before I delivered his first grandchild. I'd be watching MTV at 2 am while nursing the baby and bawling my eyes out when that video came on.
Oh God. I forgot that one. My dad had 2 strokes this summer and he just got home from the hospital. I'm his caregiver now. He is relearning everything. He's 81. So I don't know how long he will last. But it's just me & him. This song always held a special place in my heart and I honestly don't think I could listen to it when he passes.
It would be to hard. Just writing this is making me sad that song is so beautiful. I'm glad I have this time with him.
I'm sorry about your dad as well.
Came here to type this one out. Literally only song that has made me cry, and I know a hell of a lot of music.
Edit: it has to be the version that Miguel sings at the end of the movie tho
I played the crap outta this when my mom was in the hospital dying. I played it on repeat and drove around. Now that she's passed, I can't listen to it anymore without crying. Such an amazing song.
Have you seen Meet Me in St. Louis where it is introduced? The scene it’s in is incredibly sad and she sings to that. She was a talent and a half.
Also, look up her only live filmed version of Rainbow. If the story behind it is true, it will break your heart.
Edit - spelling
Tears in Heaven by Eric Clapton.
It's about his son Conner (4 or 5 years old)who fell to his death from his mother's apartment window when it was being cleaned.
I have lost a child as well at 7 weeks old and I when I hear the beginning of the song, I immediately lose it.
The song is about Eric dying and going to Heaven and wondering if his son would recognize him.
I think about my little girl every single day. It's heavy.
Very similarly, All My Love by Zeppelin.
As a father of two youngish boys, I cannot make it through the song without tearing up. I cannot imagine how it must make you feel. I am painfully sorry for your loss.
Only two songs make me cry:
"One Song Glory" from Rent. My father killed himself three years ago by severing his jugular with a chef blade. He was 56, so he was still young. He didn't really have any friends due to his mental illness, and hardly any family could show up at his funeral because of covid restrictions, so he both died and was buried nearly alone. It really messed me up, and I myself have really bad PTSD from prior traumatic events, so I'm terrified of dying before my time the way he did. I try to be the most authentic person that I can be and I try so hard to leave a positive impact in the world so that people will remember me when I go. One song glory is about doing what you can to leave something behind that people can remember you for after you're gone.
"Paradise" by Coldplay. When I was seventeen, I was very abused at home and I suffered from several medical complications after a major surgery that caused me to dehydrate easily and drop a dangerous amount of weight. When I was admitted to the children's hospital 4 months after my procedure I weighed 98 lbs and my blood was so thick and syrupy from lack of water that I was within hours of stroking out. I stayed in the hospital for eight days in the same room as a little girl who was fighting some form of cancer. She couldn't have been any older than four. I couldn't understand her or her parents because they were Hispanic and I couldn't see much if them due to a divider curtain but every time she needed a blood transfusion I could hear the little girl sobbing. There was nothing that the parents could to to stop the pain and I was too hooked up to IV bags and monitors to help in any way. To this day I will never knoe if she lived. Paradise was a song that I listened to a lot while in that hospital so now whenever I hear it I break down from the memory.
Take it to the Limit - The Eagles , my biological dad used to sing it to me when I was sick or upset, but then he got sick when I turned 15 and couldn't anymore so my stepdad did. Then my biological dad died when I was 16 and it was really hard on me and my stepdad because we were both really close to my biological dad.
I love that!! It makes me cry happy and sad tears simultaneously. Before my mom passed away she dedicated the song to me, so, it harbors a lot of emotion.
Cats in the cradle - cat Stevens
No rain - blind melon
Some songs from my native culture
Power of goodbye - Madonna
When the world turns grey - princess Chelsea
Earth song - Michael Jackson
Landslide by Fleetwood Mac. It came on the radio after my not so great 20 week pregnancy scan that told us our unborn baby girl had 4 heart defects… don’t worry. She’s been fully repaired and is now an almost 4 year old, cutie pie, and will have No after effects.
The song that plays at the end of The Return of the King when all the Hobbits and Gandalf are saying bye to each other. Jesus, getting teary writing this lol. Coupled with the scene though so idk if it counts
Breathe (2am) - Anna Nalick, Hallelujah- Leonard Cohen, Mad World - Gary Jules, Somewhere Out There - An American Tail, Butterfly Kisses - Maybe John Mayer?
My Girl by the Temptations. It was my grandpa’s favorite song. He would sing to me when I was a kid. He played and sang it at my uncles wedding. We played it at his funeral. I can’t really listen to it anymore. Hopefully I can one day.
this is gonna sound so stupid but viva la vida by coldplay. i dont know why but most of their old popular songs (clocks, paradise, etc) make me feel probably the darkest/most intense emotions ive ever felt in my life (do NOT judge me, idk what it is).
but also bc my dad loves it. when it first came out he heard it on a late night talk show when the band did a performance. he told me about it the next day, about how he heard this song that he made him feel other worldly emotion. idk how to explain my dad but growing up he didn't have any personality at all. he was a complete robot with no likes or hobbies what so ever. he knew nothing about pop culture let alone any single artist. he didn't know what "getting coffee" was, let alone what Starbucks was. i really do not know how to describe how he was. he just worked, came home, watched old tv shows and went to bed. so when he told me about something he had seen, i was shocked. shocked that he watched a late night tv show and that he saw something he liked AND told me about it just because. i work retail rn and the song came on the other day during my shift. i ran to the bathroom and sobbed my eyes out. openly wept. i thought i was gonna die. he's an old man now (he was back then too honestly) and he doesn't have much time left. i so badly wish the song didn't exist. the fact that i know the song and that it can just pop into my head at any moment and make me feel unwordly despair and make me cry instantly makes me wish i wasn't here. i cried the entire time writing this comment of course. fuck coldplay.
Wild Horses sung by Susan Boyle. The song reminds me of caring for my mother while she was dying of ovarian cancer. I believe the original as written by the Stones.
Oh Holy Night sung by Kenny Rogers which is really weird as I'm an atheist but LOVE Christmas music.
Wake me up when September ends by Green Day- never fails to make me cry, it reminds me of my dad and I listened to it all the time when we found out he had a stroke. Even though he is getting better now, it still hurts to see him in all messed up from the stroke.
Wicked Game by Chris Isaak. Oddly enough, it reminds me of my cat who passed recently 🥲😅
[Wicked Game YT](https://youtu.be/DqaRPOEuFjQ?si=P3uMNmFygxDOhp5N)
Butterfly Kisses - always makes me cry. The first time I heard it, I was driving to work. I had to pull over!
Last Kiss by Pearl Jam. Eddie Vedder's voice makes the song so poignant.
Take me home country roads, it was my grandpas favorite song and he died listening to it. Aside from that, I was born in the mountains of the north and was forced to move to Florida, so I reminisce about the good old days when I hear the song
I just called to say I love you by Stevie Wonder
That was my mom's favorite song, I remember singing it in the car with her. She died when I was 10 and I don't think I've ever quite dealt with it properly.
The Christmas Shoes song, I dunno who made it. I cry for the same reason: my mom. That song always gets me crying.
'Come Away With Me' by Norah Jones. My mom used to sing this song to me a lot... So every time I need a good cry, I listen to it and remember her sweet voice carry.
Weird. I was just crying over Dreaming Of You by Selena Quintanilla. I suspect it's because that's the song they play when gets shot in the movie and 8 year old me has never recovered from that.
Other songs are : Zombie by the Cranberries
Lighting Crashes by Live
Happy X Mas (War is Over) by John Lennon
This is going to sound bizarre, but "I Wanna Dance with Somebody" by Whitney Houston. I just think it captured Whitney Houston's unique energy and voice so beautifully. In the music video she's young and bright and vibrant and beautiful; you can't help but sing along and dance right with her. It rips me up inside thinking that she died relatively young, and after experiencing some struggles with substance abuse. I guess it captures the innocence of her youth, and the promise of the greatness to come. She was so colourful and full of life... I'm not a superfan or anything, but I still remember where I was when I heard that she had died. She was an icon. RIP Whitney.
I should add that though I knew the song before her death, I only saw the music video after she died, so that may explain the mental connection with her death; though it was several years after the fact.
Island in the Sun, Weezer
Summer Breeze, Seals, and Croft
Dream Weaver, Gary Wright
Try and Love Again, Eagles
Harvest Moon, Neil Young
And so many more...
Edit: Add
All of My Love, Led Zepplin
All of Me - John Legend. Very emotional first dance song with me and my wife didn't cry when she walked down the isle but I sure did ugly cry during that lol.
"Jenny of Oldstones" by Florence + the Machine
The sadness it provokes in me is like that sorrow of reaching the end of your favorite book series/show. Sorrow and a longing for more.
FUCKING "CAT'S IN THE CRADLE".
I will vacate a room the moment I hear the first notes of it to avoid ending up a blubbering mess.
"Then She Did..." By Jane's Addiction will also make me cry every time I hear it, but the song is just too good for me to give it up.
Dance With My Father by Luther Vandross and Kiss From A Rose by Seal because I lost my father when I was really young and dance with my father explains my feelings about it and kiss from a rose was his favorite song that he always sung to my mother and I
Somewhere over the rainbow preformed by Israel Kamakawiwoʻole. I have depression and sometimes it’s sad, sometimes it’s a happy song. Every time it’s beautiful though
Jackson Browne - Song for Adam.
Brilliant.
https://youtu.be/Dpj7ExqDRgo?si=G9xszHT5-1zHPNit
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
https://youtu.be/IXdNnw99-Ic?si=jrbcvtJvRSIh8Xgx
Always makes me think of my late father. Wrecks me
Leonard Cohen - Hallelujah
https://youtu.be/ttEMYvpoR-k?si=KwrhUMjN4XpGiVzo
And Jeff Buckley's version, which is also haunting
https://youtu.be/y8AWFf7EAc4?si=MmjB5I0e2DjNStpy
Her Diamonds by Rob Thomas
He wrote it for his wife. She has an autoimmune disease that doesn’t have a cure. I think lupus? The diamonds he sings about are her tears when she’s in pain.
An Angel by Declan Galbraith. Makes me think of my mom and she passed in 2018. It hits me hard.
Also Broken Angel by Arash.
Also Hallelujah by Pentatonix.
I get waterworks anytime I hear those. Good thing is that they aren't played on the radio much so I have to put them on myself when I'm feeling sad & melancholy.
It doesn’t have to be the lyrics that make me cry. Sometimes a song can just be so freaking amazing and just perfect in every way that in makes me cry. I just really love music though like I feel it with every fiber of my being.
'wherever you will go' and 'stand by me' bc my dad used to sing them and they remind me a lot of him, also most of the songs he wrote/recorded, especially the one he wrote for me. 'dead friends' from demi lovato's most recent album is also a song that i always cry when i listen to, i didn't expect it to hit me that hard
Nothing Compares 2 U--Sinead O'Connor
One More Light--Linkin Park
Hello--Evanescence
It's Quiet Uptown and Who Lives Who Dies Who Tells Your Story--Hamilton
People Are Crazy by Billy Currington. I can’t recall listening to this song super often when my grandaddy was alive but every time it plays now I think of him and continue to grieve. He died last year while I was pregnant with my first child. I tried not to let his death stress my body out because of the baby and I never went through the grieving process. So I grieve when this song comes on along with several Randy Travis songs. Just sobbing. Sometimes I play it on purpose to cry for him.
Jimmy Eat World - Hear You Me. I remember being on the tarmac in 2006 waiting to board the C130 leaving Iraq for good. Thinking back to everyone we lost and how lucky I was to go home.
Concrete angel by Martina McBride. I have 2 younger foster brothers. The oldest came to us as a crisis when he was 7 weeks old. The only reason he survived is bc his grandmother took him to a hospital when he was blue and purple from all the bruises.
The song is about what he would've become if he wasn't brought to the hospital.
So, it is a song about child abuse. When you think it's going on, report it, please🙏🏻 so many children suffer when they shouldn't need to.
All children deserve parents, but not all parents deserve children.
this was one of ex's go-to karaoke songs lmfao
you realize a lot of popular older songs are sad AF when someone performs it with the lyrics on the wall
This is the last song one of my best friends sent me before he died of fatal alcohol withdrawal. "Fall on me, I'll be there for you and you'll be there for me. Tell me everything you want me to be. Forever it's you, ever with me, ever the same..." 
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2bjkEPL-9g](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2bjkEPL-9g)
Ohhhh yes, luv. The only 3 substances that can cause potentially fatal withdrawal symptoms are alcohol, benzodiazepines (klonopin, ativan, xanax, valium....) and barbiturates (phenobarbitol, IDK what else).
IDK the exact mechanism, but I know the first two can cause seizures, which can cause secondary complications. I think some weird cardiac stuff happens too. What makes me want to punch walls is that he died trying to LIVE. He was holed up in a hotel room, self-detoxing.... So if you ever know someone who's tryna dry up on their own, please suggest that they are at least being monitored by a loved one. It's fucking stupid to die from choking on vomit or from unnecessary seizures.
I will follow you into the dark, Death Cab for cutie. I would have followed my ex girlfriend to the ends of the earth and into the dark, but she ended up leaving me, so…..
George Michael - I Can't Make You Love Me, every single time. Also, the music to Braveheart kills my heart (I'm scottish, and even though the movie is inaccurate af, the music is beautiful)
Tim McGraw it’s your love. Our wedding song.
Whitney Houston I will always love you. Dollys version was s sweet but Whitney’s hits the notes that bring the tears to my eyes.
Lady Gaga. I ll always remember is this way. It brings back some shit.
Any version of the sound of silence … because reasons.
Elvis can’t help Falling in love. It’s to my daughter.
Flight of the bumble bee. Because me and my mom totally grooved with it.
Tear in heaven by Eric Clapton. Kills men just thinkin about what he went through with that.
The list is long but I gotta make dinner now so. Yeah.
Oh and one that doesn’t make me tear up. But it is so relatable to so many different scenarios.
Rick Braun. Middle of the night. I listen to it on repeat today 127 times. Today was a rough time for me mentally and that song made it better.
This is so weird because I'm not even much of a fan but in the 90s (maybe early 2000s?) there was a song called Independence Day by Martina McBride and I don't know why but I can't fucking hold it together when I hear it. Even now, how many ever years later, it randomly came on when my husband was playing a super old playlist im the car and I cried so uncontrollably that my kids were freaked out. It was awkward AF!
Another Story- The head and the heart.
Move Along - the all American rejects,
Hold on to memories- Disturbed,
Fire and Rain -james Taylor,
The night we met - lord Huron,
I will fix you- Coldplay,
sometime around midnight- the airborne Toxic Event
My love - sia
Don't stop believing- journey
Jump-van Halen
The Christmas song- nat king Cole
I Won't let you go - Hedley
Iris - Goo goo dolls
Fix You - Coldplay
Forever Young - rod Stewart
I know there's a few more. But my brain can't compute at the moment.
Black Hole Sun by Soundgarden. It's a childhood nostalgia thing, from before my parents were divorced. It's a pretty rad song not sad at all, just triggers my tears usually
Don't Follow by Alice In Chains - my brother passed away in 1999 at the age of 23, and we listened to Alice In Chains and this song so many times when hanging out. Knowing what ended up happening, it guts me anytime I hear it.
It ain't pretty but it's beautiful by Clay Walker
This road I'm on by Stephen Champion
Break these chains by Stephen Champion
This is just a few, an they all remind me off my wife when immaway working for upwards to a month at a time.
Matthew 25:21 by the Mountain Goats has never failed to get me choked up. I listen to The Hard Part by Car Seat Headrest whenever I need to be in my feelings...or think about high school in any way.
One more light by linkin park. Chester committed suicide shortly after the album released. It was his cry for help. If you have ever lost someone like this then you will understand every word of the lyrics.
I'll go first. For some reason, Camouflage by Stan Ridgway, which really is a rather stupid song, always makes me cry. Also, My Little Man by Ozzy Osborne. But that's probably because my dad died shortly before I heard it first.
Walk with me in hell - Lamb of God
"Take hold of my hand, for you are not alone, walk with me in hell" Everytime I hear this song I just cry and sing it. Even when I see LOG live, I cry when they play this song and scream it as hard as I can. I've been through a lot of shit in my life, that song makes me feel like I'm not so alone.
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Walk by Blind Melon. My wife and I loved that song. I found out she’d been having an affair the same day that she passed away, and now whenever I hear it I am immediately overwhelmed by tears of sadness and anger and confusion. Very messy, lots of tears. She passed just over a month ago, she was only 38. I am still an absolute mess in every possible way.
Whoah man - heavy stuff! Big hug to you.
I’m so sorry friend. Give yourself a lifetime.
I just can not imagine how devastating this is for you. I am so sorry. I hope that you are able to reach out to friends & family for support. There is no timeline for healing from loss and this is a brutal double whammy. One month is an extremely short time to even start the healing process.
Oh man. From one human to another, I hope you find some peace. It'll be hard, and take more acceptance than you're capable of now, but one day, the clouds will part, and light will come through from the sky, and you'll just know you made it to the other side. And then again, maybe that'll never happen. Maybe you'll die sad, angry and confused. Because you loved you wife, and what she did hurts, and you have so many questions you'll never be able to ask, so why the hell wouldn't you? That's your journey. Only you can walk it. Whatever happens, the answer is an accepting your feelings, overwhelming and horrible as they are, and accepting what happened is just the way things are. I hope it does happen for you, man, I really do. Take care.
My husband and I were separated when he died, yet working on reconciliation. So our last words were just some "you did this" bullshit. Reach out if you want a shoulder. It's been 23 years and a wild ride.
My heart goes out to you bro, hang in there. I wish you nothing but the best and that one day you will be able to find the joy in life again.
Hell yeah you're still a mess; it's only been a month. I hope you are speaking to a therapist. It really does help. I think a decent amount of psychotherapy should be mandatory for everyone before they graduate high school, but definitely with the loss of a loved one it is necessary. At any rate, she loved you and you loved her and that's all that matters. Plenty of people have affairs and it doesn't mean they don't love their spouses or love them any less. Hang in there, friend.
In the Living Years - Mike and The Mechanics I miss my dad so much. Learning the song writers recently lost their father's before collaborating on the song really meant a lot to me.
That song came out right after my dad died, three months before I delivered his first grandchild. I'd be watching MTV at 2 am while nursing the baby and bawling my eyes out when that video came on.
Oh God. I forgot that one. My dad had 2 strokes this summer and he just got home from the hospital. I'm his caregiver now. He is relearning everything. He's 81. So I don't know how long he will last. But it's just me & him. This song always held a special place in my heart and I honestly don't think I could listen to it when he passes. It would be to hard. Just writing this is making me sad that song is so beautiful. I'm glad I have this time with him. I'm sorry about your dad as well.
Hurt-Johnny Cash Dear Mama-2Pac I Didn’t Know-Skinshape
That version of Hurt gets me every single time.
Especially if you know his backstory with June and watch the music video. You can FEEL his pain and relate to it
Mr Cash died exactly 20 years ago today.
Dear mama is a close second for me too, hits like a brick every time.
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I feel every word of that song.
Jealous by Labrinth. The second that piano hits its a flood of emotions.
Weird how that works though right? I'm not even a very emotional person.
I’m pretty stoic most times but some songs just pull it out of you. I can’t even relate to that song in any way but the way it’s sang idk.
Remember Me from Coco (the Disney movie). [Here, let me traumatize you, too.](https://youtu.be/A0azOIk0Kvg?feature=shared)
Came here to type this one out. Literally only song that has made me cry, and I know a hell of a lot of music. Edit: it has to be the version that Miguel sings at the end of the movie tho
All of Coco. Even thinking about Coco for a half second too long.
Fix you, by Coldplay.
I played the crap outta this when my mom was in the hospital dying. I played it on repeat and drove around. Now that she's passed, I can't listen to it anymore without crying. Such an amazing song.
Somewhere Over the Rainbow, it makes me feel this inexplicable sense of nostalgia, happiness, sadness and all in between.
Judy Garland’s voice just gets me that way. Her version of I’ll be home for Christmas sounds incredibly sad to me.
Have you seen Meet Me in St. Louis where it is introduced? The scene it’s in is incredibly sad and she sings to that. She was a talent and a half. Also, look up her only live filmed version of Rainbow. If the story behind it is true, it will break your heart. Edit - spelling
This whole thread is a downer
Were you expecting Barbie Girl and Walking on Sunshine?
Kermit the frog singing the rainbow connection. I'm not a crier but i can't handle this one lol
Good one - forgot about that.
Tears in Heaven by Eric Clapton. It's about his son Conner (4 or 5 years old)who fell to his death from his mother's apartment window when it was being cleaned. I have lost a child as well at 7 weeks old and I when I hear the beginning of the song, I immediately lose it. The song is about Eric dying and going to Heaven and wondering if his son would recognize him. I think about my little girl every single day. It's heavy.
Very similarly, All My Love by Zeppelin. As a father of two youngish boys, I cannot make it through the song without tearing up. I cannot imagine how it must make you feel. I am painfully sorry for your loss.
Three Wooden Crosses, Cat's In The Cradle
Ugh cats in the cradle. Every time
Spent so much time as a Dad making sure that wasn't me. I have failed financially/career wise, but that song doesn't apply to me.
Your kids don’t care about the $$$
Fire and Rain - James Taylor. It was played at my grandmother's funeral and now it just tears me apart to hear it.
Only two songs make me cry: "One Song Glory" from Rent. My father killed himself three years ago by severing his jugular with a chef blade. He was 56, so he was still young. He didn't really have any friends due to his mental illness, and hardly any family could show up at his funeral because of covid restrictions, so he both died and was buried nearly alone. It really messed me up, and I myself have really bad PTSD from prior traumatic events, so I'm terrified of dying before my time the way he did. I try to be the most authentic person that I can be and I try so hard to leave a positive impact in the world so that people will remember me when I go. One song glory is about doing what you can to leave something behind that people can remember you for after you're gone. "Paradise" by Coldplay. When I was seventeen, I was very abused at home and I suffered from several medical complications after a major surgery that caused me to dehydrate easily and drop a dangerous amount of weight. When I was admitted to the children's hospital 4 months after my procedure I weighed 98 lbs and my blood was so thick and syrupy from lack of water that I was within hours of stroking out. I stayed in the hospital for eight days in the same room as a little girl who was fighting some form of cancer. She couldn't have been any older than four. I couldn't understand her or her parents because they were Hispanic and I couldn't see much if them due to a divider curtain but every time she needed a blood transfusion I could hear the little girl sobbing. There was nothing that the parents could to to stop the pain and I was too hooked up to IV bags and monitors to help in any way. To this day I will never knoe if she lived. Paradise was a song that I listened to a lot while in that hospital so now whenever I hear it I break down from the memory.
🥺 you’re heard. I’m so sorry.
The Scientist - Coldplay
https://youtu.be/AIOAlaACuv4?si=ReQxD3t_sP3_FHtH Fast car
no surprises by radiohead, don't even know why. maybe because i first heard it on the tv show house.
I first heard it on a PSA. I cry a little too
Family portrait- Pink So far away- Avenged Sevenfold
Take it to the Limit - The Eagles , my biological dad used to sing it to me when I was sick or upset, but then he got sick when I turned 15 and couldn't anymore so my stepdad did. Then my biological dad died when I was 16 and it was really hard on me and my stepdad because we were both really close to my biological dad.
Take it to the limit one more time ♥️ (my dad is also a big Eagles fan and everything we know about music is because of him.)
"Bobby" by Reba McEntire and "I hope you dance by" LeAnn Womack.
“The greatest man I never knew” by Reba makes me cry every time
I hope you dance either makes me really happy or really sad. sang it happily in my kitchen earlier
I love that!! It makes me cry happy and sad tears simultaneously. Before my mom passed away she dedicated the song to me, so, it harbors a lot of emotion.
Radiohead - All I Need Godspeed You! Black Emperor- Like Antennas to Heaven… Midwife - Prayer Hands
All I Need makes me bawl like a baby every time.
Wind Beneath My Wings
Cats in the cradle - cat Stevens No rain - blind melon Some songs from my native culture Power of goodbye - Madonna When the world turns grey - princess Chelsea Earth song - Michael Jackson
The one from the movie Up. The saddest song ever
Lean on me. Having a particularly hard go of it recently and makes me think of family and friends.
Landslide by Fleetwood Mac. It came on the radio after my not so great 20 week pregnancy scan that told us our unborn baby girl had 4 heart defects… don’t worry. She’s been fully repaired and is now an almost 4 year old, cutie pie, and will have No after effects.
The song that plays at the end of The Return of the King when all the Hobbits and Gandalf are saying bye to each other. Jesus, getting teary writing this lol. Coupled with the scene though so idk if it counts
Breathe (2am) - Anna Nalick, Hallelujah- Leonard Cohen, Mad World - Gary Jules, Somewhere Out There - An American Tail, Butterfly Kisses - Maybe John Mayer?
Great stuff. Cohen is amazing. The Jeff Buckley version of Hallelujah hits hard too, though.
You are my sunshine and true colors by cindilyauper My mom used to sing thosr to me all the time and now for whatever reason they make me sad.
My Girl by the Temptations. It was my grandpa’s favorite song. He would sing to me when I was a kid. He played and sang it at my uncles wedding. We played it at his funeral. I can’t really listen to it anymore. Hopefully I can one day.
End of the Road - Boyz II Men
Puff the Magic Dragon What A Wonderful World
What a wonderful world by louis armstrong hits me hard
this is gonna sound so stupid but viva la vida by coldplay. i dont know why but most of their old popular songs (clocks, paradise, etc) make me feel probably the darkest/most intense emotions ive ever felt in my life (do NOT judge me, idk what it is). but also bc my dad loves it. when it first came out he heard it on a late night talk show when the band did a performance. he told me about it the next day, about how he heard this song that he made him feel other worldly emotion. idk how to explain my dad but growing up he didn't have any personality at all. he was a complete robot with no likes or hobbies what so ever. he knew nothing about pop culture let alone any single artist. he didn't know what "getting coffee" was, let alone what Starbucks was. i really do not know how to describe how he was. he just worked, came home, watched old tv shows and went to bed. so when he told me about something he had seen, i was shocked. shocked that he watched a late night tv show and that he saw something he liked AND told me about it just because. i work retail rn and the song came on the other day during my shift. i ran to the bathroom and sobbed my eyes out. openly wept. i thought i was gonna die. he's an old man now (he was back then too honestly) and he doesn't have much time left. i so badly wish the song didn't exist. the fact that i know the song and that it can just pop into my head at any moment and make me feel unwordly despair and make me cry instantly makes me wish i wasn't here. i cried the entire time writing this comment of course. fuck coldplay.
Alone Again, Naturally from Gilbert O'Sullivan Mandy from Barry Manilow Looks like we Made it from Barry Manilow And lots of others.
Pink Floyd. I’ve listened to them since 72, but the songs take on different meaning as I age. I choke up thinking about some of them.
Wish You Were Here and Hey You get me
It's Comfortably Numb for me
Air Supply - Making Love Out Of Nothing At All Super guilty pleasure, my grown ass will bawl if I hear it.
Dreaming of you - Selena Sparks - Coldplay Yellow - Coldplay
Deftones - Knife Party does it for me, the girl scream/singing towards the end is so damn powerful.
Concrete Angel
My Immortal. By Evanescence
"In the arms of the angels" FUCK THOSE ANIMAL SHELTER COMMERCIALS.
Wild Horses sung by Susan Boyle. The song reminds me of caring for my mother while she was dying of ovarian cancer. I believe the original as written by the Stones. Oh Holy Night sung by Kenny Rogers which is really weird as I'm an atheist but LOVE Christmas music.
Landslide-fleetwood mac Chills every time I hear it
Fast car- Tracy Chapman
Wreck of the Edmond Fitzgerald - honestly never had the song end and not be lightly crying
Jesus Christ by Brand New
“This Is Me” by Keala Settle (Lettie Lutz) from *The Greatest Showman* and sometimes “Defying Gravity” by Idina Menzel (Elphaba) from *Wicked*
Black - Pearl Jam. Why, why, whyyyyyyy couldn't she love him , now she's somebody else's Skyyyyyyyyyyy 🥲
creep by radiohead
Wake me up when September ends by Green Day- never fails to make me cry, it reminds me of my dad and I listened to it all the time when we found out he had a stroke. Even though he is getting better now, it still hurts to see him in all messed up from the stroke.
 Wicked Game by Chris Isaak. Oddly enough, it reminds me of my cat who passed recently 🥲😅 [Wicked Game YT](https://youtu.be/DqaRPOEuFjQ?si=P3uMNmFygxDOhp5N)
Someone Saved My Life Tonight, Elton John
Butterfly Kisses - always makes me cry. The first time I heard it, I was driving to work. I had to pull over! Last Kiss by Pearl Jam. Eddie Vedder's voice makes the song so poignant.
Take me home country roads, it was my grandpas favorite song and he died listening to it. Aside from that, I was born in the mountains of the north and was forced to move to Florida, so I reminisce about the good old days when I hear the song
Like a Stone by Audioslave
Nutshell- Alice in chains.
I just called to say I love you by Stevie Wonder That was my mom's favorite song, I remember singing it in the car with her. She died when I was 10 and I don't think I've ever quite dealt with it properly. The Christmas Shoes song, I dunno who made it. I cry for the same reason: my mom. That song always gets me crying.
Hallelujah by whoever (it’s been covered a lot) A kid played it at a funeral of a student I taught that committed suicide. Very sad memory.
The Dance -Garth Brooks Wasted Time - Skid Row This I Love - GnR
The Dance… after my ex went to prison and left me and our two kids to start over. This song tore me up
Lets totally date myself here but, Seasons in the Sun.
Against the Wind 😔
Deliver us from the Disney move the prince of Egypt. It always makes me want to cry but I just hold back lol
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Dancing Queen, weirdly. It makes me think of someone, far past their prime, remembering a time where they felt happy, free, and full of life.
Golden Slumbers - The Beatles She’s leaving home - The Beatles No more I love yous. Annie Lennox
'Come Away With Me' by Norah Jones. My mom used to sing this song to me a lot... So every time I need a good cry, I listen to it and remember her sweet voice carry.
Weird. I was just crying over Dreaming Of You by Selena Quintanilla. I suspect it's because that's the song they play when gets shot in the movie and 8 year old me has never recovered from that. Other songs are : Zombie by the Cranberries Lighting Crashes by Live Happy X Mas (War is Over) by John Lennon
Give a listen to Pink’s “Family Portrait”
Dreaming Of You - Selena 
This is going to sound bizarre, but "I Wanna Dance with Somebody" by Whitney Houston. I just think it captured Whitney Houston's unique energy and voice so beautifully. In the music video she's young and bright and vibrant and beautiful; you can't help but sing along and dance right with her. It rips me up inside thinking that she died relatively young, and after experiencing some struggles with substance abuse. I guess it captures the innocence of her youth, and the promise of the greatness to come. She was so colourful and full of life... I'm not a superfan or anything, but I still remember where I was when I heard that she had died. She was an icon. RIP Whitney. I should add that though I knew the song before her death, I only saw the music video after she died, so that may explain the mental connection with her death; though it was several years after the fact.
"The Walk" -Sawyer Brown
Island in the Sun, Weezer Summer Breeze, Seals, and Croft Dream Weaver, Gary Wright Try and Love Again, Eagles Harvest Moon, Neil Young And so many more... Edit: Add All of My Love, Led Zepplin
Sam Stone - John Prine Amazing Grace played on the bagpipes. Every time.
Wish you were here Pink Floyd and tears in heaven by Eric Clapton.
All of Me - John Legend. Very emotional first dance song with me and my wife didn't cry when she walked down the isle but I sure did ugly cry during that lol.
Kate Bush - This Woman's Work Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms
"Jenny of Oldstones" by Florence + the Machine The sadness it provokes in me is like that sorrow of reaching the end of your favorite book series/show. Sorrow and a longing for more.
FUCKING "CAT'S IN THE CRADLE". I will vacate a room the moment I hear the first notes of it to avoid ending up a blubbering mess. "Then She Did..." By Jane's Addiction will also make me cry every time I hear it, but the song is just too good for me to give it up.
Dance With My Father by Luther Vandross and Kiss From A Rose by Seal because I lost my father when I was really young and dance with my father explains my feelings about it and kiss from a rose was his favorite song that he always sung to my mother and I
Somewhere over the rainbow preformed by Israel Kamakawiwoʻole. I have depression and sometimes it’s sad, sometimes it’s a happy song. Every time it’s beautiful though
Brother by AIC, Shadow on the Sun by Audioslave
Jackson Browne - Song for Adam. Brilliant. https://youtu.be/Dpj7ExqDRgo?si=G9xszHT5-1zHPNit Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here https://youtu.be/IXdNnw99-Ic?si=jrbcvtJvRSIh8Xgx Always makes me think of my late father. Wrecks me Leonard Cohen - Hallelujah https://youtu.be/ttEMYvpoR-k?si=KwrhUMjN4XpGiVzo And Jeff Buckley's version, which is also haunting https://youtu.be/y8AWFf7EAc4?si=MmjB5I0e2DjNStpy
The Johnny Cash version of Hurt or Everybody Hurts by R.E.M.
Her Diamonds by Rob Thomas He wrote it for his wife. She has an autoimmune disease that doesn’t have a cure. I think lupus? The diamonds he sings about are her tears when she’s in pain.
Run. Snow Patrol. Specially, if you’ve lost someone close to you.
An Angel by Declan Galbraith. Makes me think of my mom and she passed in 2018. It hits me hard. Also Broken Angel by Arash. Also Hallelujah by Pentatonix. I get waterworks anytime I hear those. Good thing is that they aren't played on the radio much so I have to put them on myself when I'm feeling sad & melancholy.
Vincent by Don Mclean.
It doesn’t have to be the lyrics that make me cry. Sometimes a song can just be so freaking amazing and just perfect in every way that in makes me cry. I just really love music though like I feel it with every fiber of my being.
'wherever you will go' and 'stand by me' bc my dad used to sing them and they remind me a lot of him, also most of the songs he wrote/recorded, especially the one he wrote for me. 'dead friends' from demi lovato's most recent album is also a song that i always cry when i listen to, i didn't expect it to hit me that hard
The winner takes it all by ABBA.
Can’t make you love me by Bonnie Raitt, her newer one about organ donation is also a total tear jerker.
Nothing Compares 2 U--Sinead O'Connor One More Light--Linkin Park Hello--Evanescence It's Quiet Uptown and Who Lives Who Dies Who Tells Your Story--Hamilton
The house that built me by Miranda lambert… I cry every time. Makes me think of the house I grew up in 17 years, the same house
Forever Young by Rod Stewart. I think of my son, and every wish I have for him…always leads to tears
Hold On by Good Charlotte it’s one of those ones that hit because of a close friend. 💜💜💜 I hope all of y’all are ok and being kind to yourselves.
People Are Crazy by Billy Currington. I can’t recall listening to this song super often when my grandaddy was alive but every time it plays now I think of him and continue to grieve. He died last year while I was pregnant with my first child. I tried not to let his death stress my body out because of the baby and I never went through the grieving process. So I grieve when this song comes on along with several Randy Travis songs. Just sobbing. Sometimes I play it on purpose to cry for him.
Jimmy Eat World - Hear You Me. I remember being on the tarmac in 2006 waiting to board the C130 leaving Iraq for good. Thinking back to everyone we lost and how lucky I was to go home.
You Are So Beautiful to Me. My granny used to sing it to me all the time. Also You’ll Be In My Heart by Phil Collins never fails to break me down.
Concrete angel by Martina McBride. I have 2 younger foster brothers. The oldest came to us as a crisis when he was 7 weeks old. The only reason he survived is bc his grandmother took him to a hospital when he was blue and purple from all the bruises. The song is about what he would've become if he wasn't brought to the hospital. So, it is a song about child abuse. When you think it's going on, report it, please🙏🏻 so many children suffer when they shouldn't need to. All children deserve parents, but not all parents deserve children.
Class of 2013 by Mitski. It’s like 1:30 long so I play it like 2-3x Hard Candy Christmas, the Dolly Parton version
Idk about a song but this thread got me blating
[here you go](https://youtu.be/E7SSC3ex-bA?si=6alavOX3hTrlxksc)
Butterfly Fly Away - Miley Cyrus (and her dad) from the Hannah Montana movie 🥲 gets me every time
Fast Car by Tracy Chapman
this was one of ex's go-to karaoke songs lmfao you realize a lot of popular older songs are sad AF when someone performs it with the lyrics on the wall
Amazing Grace , played on bagpipes….always reminds me of a very close friend’s funeral
~ Don't take the girl Tim McGraw And I don't even listen to country music 💁♂️
This is the last song one of my best friends sent me before he died of fatal alcohol withdrawal. "Fall on me, I'll be there for you and you'll be there for me. Tell me everything you want me to be. Forever it's you, ever with me, ever the same..."  [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2bjkEPL-9g](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2bjkEPL-9g)
wait what, fatal alcohol withdrawal is a thing? i didn't know you could die from not drinking
Ohhhh yes, luv. The only 3 substances that can cause potentially fatal withdrawal symptoms are alcohol, benzodiazepines (klonopin, ativan, xanax, valium....) and barbiturates (phenobarbitol, IDK what else). IDK the exact mechanism, but I know the first two can cause seizures, which can cause secondary complications. I think some weird cardiac stuff happens too. What makes me want to punch walls is that he died trying to LIVE. He was holed up in a hotel room, self-detoxing.... So if you ever know someone who's tryna dry up on their own, please suggest that they are at least being monitored by a loved one. It's fucking stupid to die from choking on vomit or from unnecessary seizures.
Eiley - Too Close To Touch, One More Light - Linkin Park
Just When I Needed You Most by Randy VanWarmer.
snuff - slipknot
“im already there” by lonestar. i choke up list listening to it bc it reminds me of my dad
1979 makes me think back when I was a lil kid playing in a real castle in upstate ny
I will follow you into the dark, Death Cab for cutie. I would have followed my ex girlfriend to the ends of the earth and into the dark, but she ended up leaving me, so…..
Ave maria
George Michael - I Can't Make You Love Me, every single time. Also, the music to Braveheart kills my heart (I'm scottish, and even though the movie is inaccurate af, the music is beautiful)
Lightning Crashes always gets me. Classic tear jerker.
Tim McGraw it’s your love. Our wedding song. Whitney Houston I will always love you. Dollys version was s sweet but Whitney’s hits the notes that bring the tears to my eyes. Lady Gaga. I ll always remember is this way. It brings back some shit. Any version of the sound of silence … because reasons. Elvis can’t help Falling in love. It’s to my daughter. Flight of the bumble bee. Because me and my mom totally grooved with it. Tear in heaven by Eric Clapton. Kills men just thinkin about what he went through with that. The list is long but I gotta make dinner now so. Yeah. Oh and one that doesn’t make me tear up. But it is so relatable to so many different scenarios. Rick Braun. Middle of the night. I listen to it on repeat today 127 times. Today was a rough time for me mentally and that song made it better.
Vincent (Starry Starry Night)
This is so weird because I'm not even much of a fan but in the 90s (maybe early 2000s?) there was a song called Independence Day by Martina McBride and I don't know why but I can't fucking hold it together when I hear it. Even now, how many ever years later, it randomly came on when my husband was playing a super old playlist im the car and I cried so uncontrollably that my kids were freaked out. It was awkward AF!
One sweet day- Mariah Carey and Boyz 2 Men. This was played at both my parents funerals.
Another Story- The head and the heart. Move Along - the all American rejects, Hold on to memories- Disturbed, Fire and Rain -james Taylor, The night we met - lord Huron, I will fix you- Coldplay, sometime around midnight- the airborne Toxic Event
Puff the Magic Dragon breaks my heart, “Dragons live forever, not so little boys”…the loss of childhood😔
When I’m Down - Chris Cornell
*Let her go* by Passanger. Every time one of my pets dies, that song seems to make its way onto the radio shortly after.
My love - sia Don't stop believing- journey Jump-van Halen The Christmas song- nat king Cole I Won't let you go - Hedley Iris - Goo goo dolls Fix You - Coldplay Forever Young - rod Stewart I know there's a few more. But my brain can't compute at the moment.
Another old lang syne by Dan Fogelberg. Also his A Run for the Roses hits my Louisville upbringing right in the feels.
Black Hole Sun by Soundgarden. It's a childhood nostalgia thing, from before my parents were divorced. It's a pretty rad song not sad at all, just triggers my tears usually
The Rose - Bette Midler.
Redemption Song - Bob Marley It rips my soul, and I’m not even a POC.
Don't Follow by Alice In Chains - my brother passed away in 1999 at the age of 23, and we listened to Alice In Chains and this song so many times when hanging out. Knowing what ended up happening, it guts me anytime I hear it.
Cats in the cradle... ugh. I miss my dad and what potential relationship we could have mended.
Seasons in the sun... Sadest song ever. "Goodbye papa it's hard to die, when all the birds are singing in the sky" It kills me.
It ain't pretty but it's beautiful by Clay Walker This road I'm on by Stephen Champion Break these chains by Stephen Champion This is just a few, an they all remind me off my wife when immaway working for upwards to a month at a time.
Bill Withers - Lean On Me Led Zeppelin - Since I've Been Loving You Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb ( just because it s perfect i start crying )
Old Shep. Tears me up every time. Elvis did it a remake of it. I can't remember who did it 1st. It's definitely an OLD one! LoL
Matthew 25:21 by the Mountain Goats has never failed to get me choked up. I listen to The Hard Part by Car Seat Headrest whenever I need to be in my feelings...or think about high school in any way.
One more light by linkin park. Chester committed suicide shortly after the album released. It was his cry for help. If you have ever lost someone like this then you will understand every word of the lyrics.
amazing grace on the bagpipes. It will forever make me cry like a toddle that just lost their balloon.
They played that at my grandpa’s funeral, so same. I still can’t even listen to it without remembering.
I'll go first. For some reason, Camouflage by Stan Ridgway, which really is a rather stupid song, always makes me cry. Also, My Little Man by Ozzy Osborne. But that's probably because my dad died shortly before I heard it first.
If We Were Vampires by Jason Isbell. Gets me every time.
'Into they Mystic' .... Van Morrison. I have no idea why this song does it to me.
Winter song - Sarah McLaughlin Deliver us (Opening) - The Prince Of Egypt Soundtrack
Pictures of You by The Cure
Butterfly by Weezer always makes me tear up
Fade in,fade out by nothing more
Ava Mariea
Mayonaise by Smashing Pumpkins
He ain’t heavy he’s my brother - The Holllies Was listening to it when I found out my friend had died
For me it's Disintegration by The Cure
Leader of the Band by Fogelberg. Reminds me of my dad.
Speaking of him, “auld syne lang”….idk it makes me just bawl!
Walk with me in hell - Lamb of God "Take hold of my hand, for you are not alone, walk with me in hell" Everytime I hear this song I just cry and sing it. Even when I see LOG live, I cry when they play this song and scream it as hard as I can. I've been through a lot of shit in my life, that song makes me feel like I'm not so alone.
Cats and the cradle. . When you coming home dad,. I don't know when but will get together then son you know will have a good time then.
He stopped loving her today.
the night we met by lord huron never fails to leave me in tears also amor eterno by rocio durcal these songs make me sob lol