songs that make you feel like you might cry a little? (not that men cry)

[JetsIn06]

Originally Posted by Maple Leafs

Lights in the Sky by NIN:
YouTube - Lights in the Sky - The Slip - NIN

Great song

[Poli]

"In the Living Years"?

[SFL Cat]

Anything by Yanni....

[Schmidty]

Originally Posted by MJ4H

Dan Fogelberg

I love you. I've made no secret of my love for Dan's cheesy, but awesome music. I can't believe he's gone. Damn shame.

I'm an emotional bastard, so there are a lot of specific songs that pop into mind. Stream of thought - "Leaving Home Ain't Easy" by Queen (I've moved a lot and that song got to me during a certain time period), "Take It With Me" by Tom Waits, "Along the Road" by Dan Fogelberg, "Remember Me" by The Silver Jews...and that's it because I could go on forever.

Pretty much everything makes me kind of sad right now, since I was laid off today.

[BYU 14]

Originally Posted by Abe Sargent

Johnny Cash's remake of Hurt is the only song that affects me that emotionally.

Not so much the song, but watching that video is heartwrenching.

[Qwikshot]

Originally Posted by Abe Sargent

Johnny Cash's remake of Hurt is the only song that affects me that emotionally.

The video gives me chills.

[lordscarlet]

Originally Posted by -apoc-

YouTube - Green Fields of France - Dropkick Murphy's

This was going to be mine, but I'm trying to think of the other one that is on the tip of my tongue to post with it...

[Matthean]

Originally Posted by Drake

Classic Caedmon's Call. They were (and still are, I suppose) one of the great overlooked bands.

Woohoo. Somebody who knows about CC. Yeah, the period where Derek had left the band and their record company wanted them to kick out worship albums was a downswing in their output, but I loved "Share the Well." "Overdressed" was a little too effortless for my taste.

Originally Posted by dacman

I thought of SCC too, but this one instead:

YouTube - Tribute to Maria Chapman

Which, IIRC, is about one of the girls from Columbine. I hadn't listened to "Speechless" in ages, but when I did recently it immediately clicked in my head how that song fit so well for his daughter's death as well.

Although it's a Christmas song, Labor of Love sung by Jill Phillips and written by one of my favorite artist Andrew Peterson gets to me.

[Mac Howard]

Originally Posted by King of New York

Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings, op. 11. It was used in the movie "Platoon."

Spine chilling!

And this the same:

[Maple Leafs]

Originally Posted by BYU 14

This is song just tears me apart, especially knowing the tragic accident that took his daughter after he wrote the song.

YouTube - Cinderella - Steven Curtis Chapman

So I figured I'd give this a listen just now.

Holy crap, that song makes "Butterfly Kisses" sound like a Lil Jon record. It took me three tries just to get through verse one.

[Maple Leafs]

Here's another one that's maybe a bit unusual:

YouTube - Stan Rogers - Mary Ellen Carter
(Song starts at 1:40)

I heard it for the first time at a funeral. A friend of a friend had died young, and one of his drinking buddies played this song during the ceremony.

He introduced it as "the second catchiest song ever made about a shipwreck, after the theme from Gilligan's Island". But the last verse always gets me.

[rowech]

I guess I'll throw this out...

YouTube - (Britain's Got Talent ) Paul Potts' 1st Audition

I don't think the music itself does it but the backstory, the look, etc. make it superb.

[Poli]

Originally Posted by Matthean

YouTube - Center Aisle

I had forgot about this song. I bought their first couple of albums (after listening to "Lead of Love" on the radio). I still remember asking for Caedmon's Call, and having people at Christian Book Stores look at me funny since they had never heard of them.

[gkb]

I can think two songs that can get me a little teary-eyed sometimes.

Kenny G - Auld Lang Syne (Millenium/Freedom Mix)

They Slipped the Surly Bonds of Earth to Touch the Face of God

Billy Joel - Lullabye (Goodnight, My Angel)

And like a boat out on the ocean
I'm rocking you to sleep
The water's dark and deep
Inside this ancient heart
You'll always be a part of me

I've sung this to my son and two daughters. It always seems to calm them down and get them to sleep. I have to admit that when I sing it I think of all the people here on FOFC who have lost their children and how grateful I am to have mine.

Ok I'm adding one more...

Staind - Zoe Jane

I want to hold you
Protect you from all of the things I've already endured
I want to show you
Show you all the things that this life has in store for you
I'll always love you
The way that a father should love his daughter

[ColtCrazy]

The classics get me

Cat's in the Cradle
Leader of the Band
Time in a Bottle

[Poli]

Originally Posted by Matthean

As a long time SCC fan, I can't imagine what it would be like for him to perform that during his tour. There's no way I'm not openly bawling my eyes out during it.

YouTube - Mark Schultz-He's my son

Back story being that during the time I was being born my mother was having complications and the doctor basically said it was either her, or me, but both of us weren't making out of the hospital alive. She said we both were. The doctor went through with it and we both made it. There's enough lines in the song that just nail me. I can't recall how many times I listened to it before I wasn't basically losing my "stuff." Even now is fairly hit, or miss in how well I deal with hearing the song.

YouTube - The Dance - Garth Brooks

Zero personal ties to the song, but it can be a killer if it comes on at the right time.

YouTube - Center Aisle

Never had anybody close to me commit suicide, but I think it nails the topic as well as one could.

I hate to quote this post again, but I realized today that while I thought I had forgotten "Center Aisle" that I've caught myself singing it to myself from time to time...and I can remember doing that for the past 10 years or so. It kind of amazed me...that the song has stuck like it has.

I didn't even listen to the song after it was mentioned here. I remembered the song after matthean mentioned it...and today it hit me...as I was singing it to myself during a brief minute on my own...that it was "Center Aisle".

I got home and verified it by looking up the lyrics. Amazing, at least to me.

[Drake]

Heh. Like my post about the Les Mis song earlier, though I've got that album on CD, as soon as Matthean mentioned "Center Aisle", I bought the digital version of that album from Amazon, too.

[cthomer5000]

After Lee Ann Womack came up on shuffle tonight and made me cry again, I thought of a few other songs that have actually made me cry at points in my life:

Neko Case - "The Tigers Have Spoken"
I distinctly remember this... I was getting ready for work very early in the morning, and it was maybe the 2nd or 3rd time i had ever heard this song... it was on a radio station (woxy, streaming live from Cincinnatti, ohio)... and the song has only ever been released in live form... it's incredibly fuckin' sad.

This was either late 2004 or early 2005, more likely early 05.

Pearl Jam - "Elderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small Town"
I also distinctly remember this, I was driving home from my summer job right after my freshman year in college (so lets say summer 1999) working at a bank in Summit, NJ and this song came on the radio. I shed a tear while driving home... and was absolutely surprised as this happened. It's probably the first time i recall having a totally unconscious emotional reaction to a song.

[Kodos]

I finally have a real answer now:

Green Day's "Wake Me Up When September Ends" does moisten my eyes a bit. I don't know if it's based on real life or fictional, but it's about his father dying when he was a kid, and he just wants to sleep through the month that it happened in. He talks about the end of summer and the passing of innocence. Oddly enough, it was a CT & Jivin episode that made me decide to listen to it right now. (The one with Jivin's dream about his mother's house being on fire.)

[cthomer5000]

The latest to get me a little emotional is Sigur Ros' "Hoppipolla."

You think you dont know the song, but you do... you've heard the instrumental in numerous trailers/network montages... it's currently in the trailer for the movie 'Earth.' I would describe it as objectively beautiful.

YouTube - Sigur Ros - Hoppipolla

[Danny]

The song Skin by Rascal Flatts always gets me.

[BYU 14]

Well, after last night I have a new one.....

"Theres only one Ricky Hatton"

[Mac Howard]

This'll make you weep - or throw up

YouTube - Hank Willaims Snr, The Funeral.

And if you have any tears (or laughter) left then try this

YouTube - Be Carefull Of Stones That You Throw by Hank Williams

But you have to hear the song through for the punch line

[Crim]

Originally Posted by Mac Howard

This'll make you weep - or throw up

YouTube - Hank Willaims Snr, The Funeral.

And if you have any tears (or laughter) left then try this

YouTube - Be Carefull Of Stones That You Throw by Hank Williams

But you have to hear the song through for the punch line

Not sure if you're making fun of those two songs or not, and God knows this ain't my style of music, but I liked them. Especially the second.

[Mac Howard]

Originally Posted by Crim

Not sure if you're making fun of those two songs or not, and God knows this ain't my style of music, but I liked them. Especially the second.

Not so much making fun, crim, but recognising that, in this day and age, some will find them excessively sentimental. In my student country and western period (and who can avoid Hank Williams in that) I had the Luke the Drifter LP with both these on and so, taking account of the thread, I looked for them on youtube. I liked them back then but I can understand others who would feel they're a little too much.

For those who don't find them too sentimental here's a couple more:

YouTube - MEN WITH BROKEN HEARTS

YouTube - Pictures From Life's Other Side, a Remembrance Flight FS2004

Not sure about he video for the second but it's the only original song I can find.

And for those who do find them too sentimental there's this:

YouTube - If you Don't like Hank Williams

Edit:

At last I found it. I couldn't remember the title. I challenge anyone to listen to this and not choke up:

YouTube - Hank Williams Jr. - I dreamed about Mama last Night Lyrics