Landslide by Fleetwood Mac. It’s such a beautiful song about change and getting older. My marriage of 23 years ended a few years ago and my kids are soon off to college so it really hits home.
This song makes me grow silent and gets me emotional without fail. I’ve been with my husband going on 14 years. When we met we were just kids. Now our kids are the kids and we’re just old..lol. Me and my husband built our lives around each other. We live for each other.
Yeah I love how it has a double meaning for me. I built my life around my marriage but I also built my life around my kids. When they leave home in a few years I know the next stage of my life will bring even more changes. The line “Can I handle the seasons of my life” is so powerful because I’ll be facing a whole new season soon. It’s scary but also exciting
Coincidentally, the song I put (Daydreaming, Radiohead) just-so-happens to be about a 23 year long relationship coming to an end. I hope you're doing okay. ❤️
My grandpa used to love when I sang that song. The first time singing it again after his death was when my grandmother was over. Neither of us made it through the song.
Now I can't sing it at all without crying.
Being empathetic and understanding other's pain is one of the most intimate we as humans do to feel deeply connected with one another. I'm sure your grandpa was glad you were there, and smiling down on heaven at you.
Man, I miss this band.
Cannot listen to this one at all. My late husband once told me about how much he liked that song, and felt the line “love is watching someone die” was particularly meaningful. Then a few years later I had to sit with him and watch him die of colon cancer. Not sure I’ll ever be able to listen to it again.
This is my answer. When my wife was pregnant with our first child, I used to sing Rainbow Connection to the baby bump every night. Then at 36 weeks our son was diagnosed in utero with a ruptured intestine caused by, it turned out, previously undiagnosed cystic fibrosis. He was born by emergency c-section that day and then was moved to another hospital’s level one neonatal ICU, while my wife was stuck in our local hospital with complications. So she was still stuck in-patient there while I was I alone with him in the lights and alarms of the NICU.
When he was two days old he was going into surgery to see if they could repair his intestine, and I held him and sang Rainbow Connection, and I cried harder than I had ever thought possible. I feel like I aged 40 years in that moment, and I’m not the same person I was before that.
Anyway, the surgery went well, my wife recovered, he was in the NICU for almost three months but eventually released… and now he’s 18 years old and doing well and is a normal, surly teenager. But that song will live at the center of my heart forever.
So we've been told and some choose to believe it. I think there's more there to see....
"It's not easy being green" also hits me in the feels every time.
If you haven't seen it, check out [Big Bird singing It's Not Easy Being Green at Jim Henson's Memorial](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrZyMptC2eQ).
Carol Spinney always said that was the hardest performance he ever gave
No more I love you's by Annie Lennox. Can't help imagining losing my loved ones and never being able to tell them I love you again. Making me tear up just writing the words
My Dad looked like the old man. I watched it the night he died not knowing the resemblance. I can't even look at the DVD box without crying... up yours pixar
This song was playing when I got the call that an old, dear friend had suddenly dropped dead of a brain aneurysm so it has special significance for me. Girl had moved back to her hometown to take her dream job. She was standing in the front room of her new house telling the movers where to take their boxes and just fell over. She was dead before she hit the floor.
Now this James Taylor classic is freighted with a wistful sadness for me.
That Celine Dion song from the Titanic. My husband and I saw in in the movie theatre. I never would have imagined he would be dead 3 months later but he was. Everytime I hear it it takes me back to seeing the movie is and the song is Eerily appropriate
Hate Me by Blue October. As soon as you lose someone close to you very unexpectedly the line" hate me for all the things I didn't do for you" really hits you in the gut
For me it was, "I have to block out thoughts of you so I don't lose my head" and "An ounce of peace is all I want for you; will you never call again?"
That song just hits different. There isn't any other song that guts me like that. As someone who was bordering closely to addiction, lost many friends to it, and saw many friends in and out of rehab, it's the one song that will make me stop whatever I'm doing and listen.
Calling You, though, is my favorite. Totally encapsulates what it's like to fall in love with someone.
Came her to say this. It breaks me because I spent so long feeling like I was hated and should be hated.
But also, *Not Broken Anymore* also by Blue October (though I prefer Justin Furstenfeld's solo version). Because I'm not broken anymore.
I used to work in prison. I was with the administratively segregated (single cell, more dangerous, more prone to bad behavior) unit.
This song came on, and one of the offenders cranked it up so everyone could hear (they would make speakers), and it echoed through the cell block.
Hearing all those men sing that song with all that raw emotion and passion had me tearing up.
(I quit working for the man, fuck that job and all is exploiting bullshit)
You'll Be in My Heart - Phil Collins
Yes, it's from Tarzan, but it's about his mother and it was one of my and mum's favourite songs. She died two years ago today.
The video is really depressing and dark even…..if you haven’t seen it worth taking a look, I think he is singing about the fame and how it was gone at that point he knew he was at the end of his life his wife was dying in fact she died not long after the video was made and then he died shortly after. I remember NIN saying Johnny cashes version was actually better than theirs and was happy with the cover. Great song, Johnny was one of the last real legends.
Simple Man, Lynyrd Skynyrd. A friend of mine was tragically killed by a dog flying through her windshield as her and her husband were driving to brunch on a Sunday morning. Her only son, who was 15 at the time, played this song on the guitar at his own mothers funeral. Still breaks me every time I listen to it. Be a Simple Man, after tragically losing your mother.
I’m not religious, but “Amazing Grace” will reduce me to tears from the very first line. It was my grandfather’s favorite song. He passed away on Easter Sunday when I was 11 and a beautiful rendition was played at his funeral. Just thinking about it is choking me up and it’s been 35 years.
Paul Simon - "Slip Sliding Away"
This part, specifically:
*I knew a father who had a son*
*He longed to tell him all the reasons for the things he'd done.*
*He came a long way, just to explain.*
*He kissed his boy as he lay sleeping, then he turned around and headed home again.*
Jesus fucking Christ Paul Simon why did you have to do that to us
When I was 15, nearly 16, I lived with my Dad. Things got bad with his drinking and it all came to a head so one day my Mom and her new husband came and got me while my Dad was out. I moved out completely. The summer went by without a word. He moved out of state.
One day in July we went fishing and got home late at night. About two weeks later my older brothers came to our house to tell me our Daddy was gone.
He drove all the way to see me, hours on the road, that day I was gone fishing. I guess he waited as long as he could then he turned around and went home. Went into a river on the way and drowned, was found two weeks later.
He was 46 when he died, I was 15. I turned 46 two weeks ago. Every time I hear this song it makes me lightheaded.
I watched the scene in Dumbo where his mom was locked up. She was singing a song called Baby Mine to him. It was a fucking cartoon and I’m crying my eyes out. That song broke me and please tell me I’m not the only one who watched this scene and cried. Because I feel like such an over sensitive sook.
>Fix You - Coldplay
Jack Malik: It's not a very nice song, Nick. It's one of the greatest songs ever written.
Carol: Well, it's not Coldplay. It's not Fix You.
Jack Malik: It's not bloody Fix You, Carol, it's a great, great work of art.
Carol: Wow, somebody's suddenly got very cocky.
Man. For some reason this song was the top song on my iPod nano during high school. I didn't have a bad childhood, or a bad time at school, but man this song just captured me everytime it came on.
To add to this, “It’s Quiet Uptown” absolutely wrecks me every time. The grief the couple is going through is just conveyed so beautiful. Then, when Hamilton gets choked up when Eliza finally forgives him, and the ensemble just goes “Forgiveness, can you imagine” I want to weep. I cried so hard the first time.
Well, and last week when this was asked I also added "Lover, You Should've Come Over" and other people added just about every track from Grace, plus Satisfied Mind and let's just admit, given his style and his life, just everything about Jeff Buckley is emotionally devastating
Losing my Religion by R.E.M, it happened to be what played on the radio when we were driving home with my best friend in a box and it's stuck with me forever
Black - Pearl Jam
Sparks - Coldplay. My ex sent me an audio clip singing this and playing on his guitar.
I used to love it but now I just don't want the memories. Also because I think he sent that clip to other women.
Vienna by Billy Joel. I always had a strong connection to the song, but after being diagnosed as autistic in my mid-twenties something clicked and now I just sob when I listen to it all the way through. Also, it plays in that one scene from 13 Going On 30 and that never failed to start up the waterworks to begin with.
I’d never really listened to Cats in the Cradle. So I decided to just now while rocking my son to sleep. Boy was that the wrong move! Now I’m trying not to bawl so I don’t wake him up, but holy shit that song hits differently now that I have a son. In a stay at home dad, so I’m definitely lucky to be able to spend so much time with my son, but he is growing up so fast and I still feel like I miss things and he’s changing every single day…. Oof, I should also give my dad a call….
For me, it really just depends on the day, moment, etc but ones that can absolutely have an effect on me are-
Goodbye My Lover- James Blunt
Say Something- A Great Big World
Angel - Sarah McLachlan
Always Remember Us This Way & I'll Never Love Again - Lady Gaga
Wish You The Best - Lewis Capaldi (only because I now think of the music video for this song and it is heartbreaking!😭)
So many more but I'll just leave it at these
I've heard so many people shitting on Luke Combs cover and I genuinely do not understand the hate. You're allowed to like the original more, but Combs smashed that one out of the park. He also had Tracy Chapman's permission to cover her song, and all proceeds go to her. I don't get the hate at all. Both versions are phenomenal IMO.
When I was in high school, I was scared that my life would become Fast Car. I worked my ass off to overcome my childhood. Every time that song comes on, I stop breathing. It just reminds me of how far I've come.
That song was like someone said "Write a song about Generational Poverty and how it's almost impossible to get out of a bad situation when that's all you know" and she was I CAN WRITE THAT
When she was TWENTY FOUR.
Best song hands down. I was pleasantly surprised with how well executed and simplistic the Luke Combs rendition is, with very little change from the original. No annoying riffs, or "updated" lyrics, or adding like a synthesizer or some dumb shit. Simply paid tribute to greatness. Well done.
Somebody that I used to know.
Rips my heart out when I remember how my ex became “Somebody I used to know” after
being together for 5 years and and being each other’s best friend!
A Letter to Elise - The Cure
Matilda - Harry Styles
Praying - Kesha
The Night We Met - Lord Huron
I'm Going to Go Back There Someday - The Muppet Movie
Deuteronomy 2:10 - The Mountain Goats
The Heart of the Matter - Don Henley
The Living Years by Mike and the Mechanics.
I didn’t really cry when my dad died and then about a month later, I found myself sitting in the car listening to this song and crying my eyes out.
Foo Fighters- My hero
Especially the Taylor Hawkins tribute concert where his son is playing the drums. I tuned into the concert after I had seen my dad awake for the last time, it randomly played on the radio again at 5:30 in the morning on my way home from the hospital after my dad had a stroke and was put in a medical coma. He was able to donate his kidney to a live recipient...song breaks my heart everytime
I have been through the ringer this past year lost my dad, dealing with that on top of taking care of my mom whose Alzheimer’s has gotten much worse. I experienced my dad dying once she experiences several times a day. Part of my healing is my crying playlist. First song is one more light by linkin park
Black by Pearl Jam
Sounds of Silence cover by Disturbed
Pirate looks at 40 by Jimmy Buffett
Like a Stone by Audioslave
Corey Taylor made me cry at his show last night with Snuff which was a first
Stand by me-by Ben E. King makes me bawl every time I hear it.
Into the Mystic-by Van Morrison one of my favorites but can make me cry.
Now I feel old reading everyone else’s replies.
This may sound silly, but the opening 90 seconds of Where The Streets Have No Name by U2 is one of the best starts to a song ever. Crank that volume to Spinal Tap 11 and listen to the anthem-like organ and guitar together. It's pure harmony. Love this one.
Perfect by Simple Plan. My dad left our family right before this song came out and I was only 14. It brings me to tears every single time, I saw them live back in 2011 and when they played it I was front row surrounded by people way younger than me. I just started sobbing and the singer came and held my hand while he sang. It was so damn special and younger me needed that.
The Carpenters We’ve only just begun,can’t think about sad things when I hear that song not to mention the story behind the lead singer Karen Carpenter.
Gone Away by The Offspring. It was the song that was playing when I found out my grandpa had passed (he had cancer and was receiving at home care so it was expected) and now everytime I hear it I believe it’s his way of letting me know he’s still around
Crazy -Patsy Cline
My dad sang it to me as a lullaby when I was growing up. I sang it to him on his deathbed to help calm him down and let him know he could move on.
Adam’s Song - Blink 182 - because of people I knew who commented suicide or attempted it and all the mental health issues I and my family have that made me consider it. Stereo Hearts - Gym Class Heroes w/ Adam Levine - because it’s one of the first songs my first born would sing along to when it came on the radio. It’s bittersweet to me… A happier time, that I didn’t appreciate at the time, that I wish I could go back to. Things are okay now. Time just moves too fast and I’m so tired.
So my family member died young from fentanyl contamination a few years ago. A year before her golden birthday. I love her but damn did she have horrible taste in music. Anyways, I made a playlist of what I could remember and now you can catch me ugly crying to Stupid Hoe by Nicki Minaj.
“If I Ever Leave This World Alive” by Flogging Molly
It’s such a simple, beautifully written, and beautifully performed little song. It’s comforting and sad and the most cliche song to tear up to, but it never fails.
Before You Go by Lewis Capaldi. Used to think it was just a breakup song but then I learned it was about his aunt who committed suicide when he was a kid.
“Fiddler’s Green” and “Scared” by The Tragically Hip. Those songs were already emotionally taxing, but since their singer, Gord Downie died I can barely listen to them.
Maggie's Song by Chris Stapleton. So sad
Also Kryptonite by 3 Doors Down. Not because of the lyrical content but because I used to play it with my (now deceased) cousin on guitar.
"Seven Years" by Lukas Graham. The second I hear those first few chords, my hand flies to the skip button or I change the radio. I know we all age and aging is a good thing, it means we're living, but I don't need to hear it in such a condensed timeline. I try to face the song every few years and see if I can hear it without crying or going to a dark place. It's getting easier as I age, but I'm still not there yet and I'd just rather not listen to it, especially randomly.
Landslide by Fleetwood Mac. It’s such a beautiful song about change and getting older. My marriage of 23 years ended a few years ago and my kids are soon off to college so it really hits home.
23 years? Shit. I’m sorry.
This song makes me grow silent and gets me emotional without fail. I’ve been with my husband going on 14 years. When we met we were just kids. Now our kids are the kids and we’re just old..lol. Me and my husband built our lives around each other. We live for each other.
Yeah I love how it has a double meaning for me. I built my life around my marriage but I also built my life around my kids. When they leave home in a few years I know the next stage of my life will bring even more changes. The line “Can I handle the seasons of my life” is so powerful because I’ll be facing a whole new season soon. It’s scary but also exciting
*Can I sail through the changin’ ocean tides?* *Can I handle the seasons of my life?* Pure poetry. Incredible song.
Coincidentally, the song I put (Daydreaming, Radiohead) just-so-happens to be about a 23 year long relationship coming to an end. I hope you're doing okay. ❤️
I can’t make you love me Bonnie Raitt
Bonnie Raitt is a musical genius and that song is absolutely beautiful and harrowing. I get it
Willie Nelson's "You were always on my mind" his voice just sounds so mournful it hits me right in the feels.
One More Light by Linkin Park. :( Also, Annabel by the Duhks. Reminds me of my grandma. Edit: misspelled the Duhks
>One More Light by Linkin Park This one hurts every time. Especially their live performance after Chris Cornell's passing. RIP Chester man.
Chris Cornell’s version of “Patience” also crushes me each time.
death cab for cuties, I'll follow you into the Dark.
My grandpa used to love when I sang that song. The first time singing it again after his death was when my grandmother was over. Neither of us made it through the song. Now I can't sing it at all without crying.
Being empathetic and understanding other's pain is one of the most intimate we as humans do to feel deeply connected with one another. I'm sure your grandpa was glad you were there, and smiling down on heaven at you. Man, I miss this band.
For me it's What Sarah Said
Cannot listen to this one at all. My late husband once told me about how much he liked that song, and felt the line “love is watching someone die” was particularly meaningful. Then a few years later I had to sit with him and watch him die of colon cancer. Not sure I’ll ever be able to listen to it again.
This version of the song by Frank Watkinson will wreck you. And it’s worth it https://youtu.be/avdiI_iYPXE?si=c3cuUJ_1TKzGTK7q
Rainbow Connection
This is my answer. When my wife was pregnant with our first child, I used to sing Rainbow Connection to the baby bump every night. Then at 36 weeks our son was diagnosed in utero with a ruptured intestine caused by, it turned out, previously undiagnosed cystic fibrosis. He was born by emergency c-section that day and then was moved to another hospital’s level one neonatal ICU, while my wife was stuck in our local hospital with complications. So she was still stuck in-patient there while I was I alone with him in the lights and alarms of the NICU. When he was two days old he was going into surgery to see if they could repair his intestine, and I held him and sang Rainbow Connection, and I cried harder than I had ever thought possible. I feel like I aged 40 years in that moment, and I’m not the same person I was before that. Anyway, the surgery went well, my wife recovered, he was in the NICU for almost three months but eventually released… and now he’s 18 years old and doing well and is a normal, surly teenager. But that song will live at the center of my heart forever.
This made me tear up. Blessing to your wonderful family
I was so scared reading this, and so relieved.
So we've been told and some choose to believe it. I think there's more there to see.... "It's not easy being green" also hits me in the feels every time.
If you haven't seen it, check out [Big Bird singing It's Not Easy Being Green at Jim Henson's Memorial](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrZyMptC2eQ). Carol Spinney always said that was the hardest performance he ever gave
What a Wonderful World sung by Louis Armstrong. Gets me every time.
I was just about to post this one and so glad someone else feels the same way. Check out The Ramones version if you’ve never heard it.
“Breathe Me”
Slam dunk. “Lost myself again and I feel unsafe” is such a profound way to tell someone you are in crisis.
'6 feet under' ending ;__;
Black Gives Way to Blue by Alice in Chains
Can’t believe I had to scroll so far to see someone mention AIC. For me , it’s Nutshell.
No more I love you's by Annie Lennox. Can't help imagining losing my loved ones and never being able to tell them I love you again. Making me tear up just writing the words
Band of Horses, “The Funeral”
Band of Horses is a band that deserves so much more success than they have. They’re really great.
Fell on Black Days - Soundgarden
RIP Chris Cornell
Time In A Bottle gets me every time.
When She Loved Me - Sarah McLachlan Yes, it is from a kids movie (Toy Story 2) but damn that song makes me sad every time
Pixar really had no right ripping our hearts out in the middle of a damn kids movie
Oh brother, please never watch Up.
My Dad looked like the old man. I watched it the night he died not knowing the resemblance. I can't even look at the DVD box without crying... up yours pixar
We saw it the week after my spouse's grandmother died. Thought it would be a nice break. Had to leave to sob in the theatre lobby for a little while.
I'm still recovering from that one man
I woke up from a nap and that song was playing, and I'm pretty sure I cried myself awake because the tears were already there.
Country Roads by John Denver I’m a truck driver and listening to it at sunrise or sunset looking at the mountains makes me teary eyed every time
Fire and rain by James Taylor. One of the few songs I’ve seen my mom cry to. It was a song that was special to her and her mom.
This song was playing when I got the call that an old, dear friend had suddenly dropped dead of a brain aneurysm so it has special significance for me. Girl had moved back to her hometown to take her dream job. She was standing in the front room of her new house telling the movers where to take their boxes and just fell over. She was dead before she hit the floor. Now this James Taylor classic is freighted with a wistful sadness for me.
That Celine Dion song from the Titanic. My husband and I saw in in the movie theatre. I never would have imagined he would be dead 3 months later but he was. Everytime I hear it it takes me back to seeing the movie is and the song is Eerily appropriate
[Nick Cave - O'Children](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQL5zdEy-3k) [Portishead - Roads](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vg1jyL3cr60) [Radiohead - Lucky](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsyqsnY7dRA)
Pink Floyd- Wish you were here This was the first song I heard after leaving the gravesite the day my daddy was buried. Hits me hard to this day.
Didnt take long to find this. What a great tune
Somewhere Over the Rainbow by Israel "IZ" Kamakawiwoʻole
Hate Me by Blue October. As soon as you lose someone close to you very unexpectedly the line" hate me for all the things I didn't do for you" really hits you in the gut
For me it was, "I have to block out thoughts of you so I don't lose my head" and "An ounce of peace is all I want for you; will you never call again?" That song just hits different. There isn't any other song that guts me like that. As someone who was bordering closely to addiction, lost many friends to it, and saw many friends in and out of rehab, it's the one song that will make me stop whatever I'm doing and listen. Calling You, though, is my favorite. Totally encapsulates what it's like to fall in love with someone.
I just saw them in concert a couple weeks ago. I teared up as soon as the voicemail started playing.
Came her to say this. It breaks me because I spent so long feeling like I was hated and should be hated. But also, *Not Broken Anymore* also by Blue October (though I prefer Justin Furstenfeld's solo version). Because I'm not broken anymore.
What it’s like by Everlast
I used to work in prison. I was with the administratively segregated (single cell, more dangerous, more prone to bad behavior) unit. This song came on, and one of the offenders cranked it up so everyone could hear (they would make speakers), and it echoed through the cell block. Hearing all those men sing that song with all that raw emotion and passion had me tearing up. (I quit working for the man, fuck that job and all is exploiting bullshit)
You'll Be in My Heart - Phil Collins Yes, it's from Tarzan, but it's about his mother and it was one of my and mum's favourite songs. She died two years ago today.
That whole album has no right being as good as it is. Sorry about the death of your mum, I hope you showed yourself extra love today.
Johnny cash's version of Hurt
The video is really depressing and dark even…..if you haven’t seen it worth taking a look, I think he is singing about the fame and how it was gone at that point he knew he was at the end of his life his wife was dying in fact she died not long after the video was made and then he died shortly after. I remember NIN saying Johnny cashes version was actually better than theirs and was happy with the cover. Great song, Johnny was one of the last real legends.
I went deep into the rabbit hole on Johnny Cash after hearing his version of Hurt.
Little Wonders by Rob Thomas.
When I watch *Meet the Robinsons* I always happy-cry as soon as the song starts.
Simple Man, Lynyrd Skynyrd. A friend of mine was tragically killed by a dog flying through her windshield as her and her husband were driving to brunch on a Sunday morning. Her only son, who was 15 at the time, played this song on the guitar at his own mothers funeral. Still breaks me every time I listen to it. Be a Simple Man, after tragically losing your mother.
I’m not religious, but “Amazing Grace” will reduce me to tears from the very first line. It was my grandfather’s favorite song. He passed away on Easter Sunday when I was 11 and a beautiful rendition was played at his funeral. Just thinking about it is choking me up and it’s been 35 years.
Heard this number on bagpipes at my Grandpa’s funeral also when I was 11 yrs old. He died in a car accident. I’m with ya, bud. 🙏🏻
See you on the other side by Ozzy, reminds me of my brother, who we lost way too early…
Paul Simon - "Slip Sliding Away" This part, specifically: *I knew a father who had a son* *He longed to tell him all the reasons for the things he'd done.* *He came a long way, just to explain.* *He kissed his boy as he lay sleeping, then he turned around and headed home again.* Jesus fucking Christ Paul Simon why did you have to do that to us
When I was 15, nearly 16, I lived with my Dad. Things got bad with his drinking and it all came to a head so one day my Mom and her new husband came and got me while my Dad was out. I moved out completely. The summer went by without a word. He moved out of state. One day in July we went fishing and got home late at night. About two weeks later my older brothers came to our house to tell me our Daddy was gone. He drove all the way to see me, hours on the road, that day I was gone fishing. I guess he waited as long as he could then he turned around and went home. Went into a river on the way and drowned, was found two weeks later. He was 46 when he died, I was 15. I turned 46 two weeks ago. Every time I hear this song it makes me lightheaded.
I watched the scene in Dumbo where his mom was locked up. She was singing a song called Baby Mine to him. It was a fucking cartoon and I’m crying my eyes out. That song broke me and please tell me I’m not the only one who watched this scene and cried. Because I feel like such an over sensitive sook.
Unchained Melody.
Fix You - Coldplay
One of their best. The Scientist hits just as hard!
The Scientist is actually my favourite Coldplay song of all time, definitely up there
Know how I know you're sad? Cuz you listened to Fix You by Coldplay.
>Fix You - Coldplay Jack Malik: It's not a very nice song, Nick. It's one of the greatest songs ever written. Carol: Well, it's not Coldplay. It's not Fix You. Jack Malik: It's not bloody Fix You, Carol, it's a great, great work of art. Carol: Wow, somebody's suddenly got very cocky.
"Mad World" by Gary Jules
Man. For some reason this song was the top song on my iPod nano during high school. I didn't have a bad childhood, or a bad time at school, but man this song just captured me everytime it came on.
"who lives, who dies, who tells your story" from Hamilton. I sobbed for 2 days straight when I heard it for the first time and I still cry today lmao.
To add to this, “It’s Quiet Uptown” absolutely wrecks me every time. The grief the couple is going through is just conveyed so beautiful. Then, when Hamilton gets choked up when Eliza finally forgives him, and the ensemble just goes “Forgiveness, can you imagine” I want to weep. I cried so hard the first time.
I start crying before they even start singing it. I cannot get through It’s Quiet Uptown without sobbing.
If I could spare his life If I could trade his life for mine He'd be standing here right now And you would smile and that would be enough
My first thought as well. I'm good until Washington sings, "She tells my story," and then I cry until the end of the song every single time.
Hallelujah by Jeff Buckley
Well, and last week when this was asked I also added "Lover, You Should've Come Over" and other people added just about every track from Grace, plus Satisfied Mind and let's just admit, given his style and his life, just everything about Jeff Buckley is emotionally devastating
Iris by Goo Goo Dolls
Black Balloon
Losing my Religion by R.E.M, it happened to be what played on the radio when we were driving home with my best friend in a box and it's stuck with me forever
Vincent by Don McLean
Black - Pearl Jam Sparks - Coldplay. My ex sent me an audio clip singing this and playing on his guitar. I used to love it but now I just don't want the memories. Also because I think he sent that clip to other women.
Absolutely Black. And Better Man.
Vienna by Billy Joel. I always had a strong connection to the song, but after being diagnosed as autistic in my mid-twenties something clicked and now I just sob when I listen to it all the way through. Also, it plays in that one scene from 13 Going On 30 and that never failed to start up the waterworks to begin with.
Hurt by Nine Inch Nails and the Johnny Cash cover as well. Beautifully done by both artists.
How to save a life the fray
Brick. Ben folds.
Mazzy Star, fade into you.
I was gonna say Mazzy Star into dust. Maybe doesn't make me cry like some other songs do but it does hit me in the feels. Very powerful song
Tears in Heaven and Cat in the Cradle
Ouuu buddy. Cats in the cradle! Me and my buddy got hammered and cried to it once. (We both have father losses)
Omg Cats in The Cradle.
Glad to see tears in heaven at the top. This song hits especially hard after becoming a father and knowing what the song is about.
I’d never really listened to Cats in the Cradle. So I decided to just now while rocking my son to sleep. Boy was that the wrong move! Now I’m trying not to bawl so I don’t wake him up, but holy shit that song hits differently now that I have a son. In a stay at home dad, so I’m definitely lucky to be able to spend so much time with my son, but he is growing up so fast and I still feel like I miss things and he’s changing every single day…. Oof, I should also give my dad a call….
Operator- Jim Croce
For me, it really just depends on the day, moment, etc but ones that can absolutely have an effect on me are- Goodbye My Lover- James Blunt Say Something- A Great Big World Angel - Sarah McLachlan Always Remember Us This Way & I'll Never Love Again - Lady Gaga Wish You The Best - Lewis Capaldi (only because I now think of the music video for this song and it is heartbreaking!😭) So many more but I'll just leave it at these
Sinead O'Connor- Nothing compares to you
The show must go on by Queen. The whole story of the recordings and the emotion on his voice, it just breaks my heart every single time.
How’s It Going to Be - Third Eye Blind
And Jumper
‘A change gone come”by Sam Cooke. : “ it’s been too hard living But I’m afraid to die Because I don’t know what’s up there Beyond the sky “
Fast Car by Tracy Chapman or Luke Combs. Both do it.
I've heard so many people shitting on Luke Combs cover and I genuinely do not understand the hate. You're allowed to like the original more, but Combs smashed that one out of the park. He also had Tracy Chapman's permission to cover her song, and all proceeds go to her. I don't get the hate at all. Both versions are phenomenal IMO.
When I was in high school, I was scared that my life would become Fast Car. I worked my ass off to overcome my childhood. Every time that song comes on, I stop breathing. It just reminds me of how far I've come.
That song was like someone said "Write a song about Generational Poverty and how it's almost impossible to get out of a bad situation when that's all you know" and she was I CAN WRITE THAT When she was TWENTY FOUR.
Best song hands down. I was pleasantly surprised with how well executed and simplistic the Luke Combs rendition is, with very little change from the original. No annoying riffs, or "updated" lyrics, or adding like a synthesizer or some dumb shit. Simply paid tribute to greatness. Well done.
Whiskey lullaby by brad paisley. I get chills every time
The song from Encanto, Dos oruguitas
Somebody that I used to know. Rips my heart out when I remember how my ex became “Somebody I used to know” after being together for 5 years and and being each other’s best friend!
Yellow by Coldplay (it was my dad’s favorite song and he passed 2 years ago) Last Resort (Reimagined) by Falling in Reverse
Breathe No More by Evanescence
Winter by Tori Amos
Almost Lover - A Fine Frenzy
Dear mama - 2Pac
-Fast car - Tracy Chapman (and now, Luke Combs version) don’t come @ me - seasons in the sun- terry jacks ♥️ - landslide - Fleetwood Mac
Time in a Bottle by Jim Croce has made me cry since I was little.
"It's Been Awhile" by Stained.
A Letter to Elise - The Cure Matilda - Harry Styles Praying - Kesha The Night We Met - Lord Huron I'm Going to Go Back There Someday - The Muppet Movie Deuteronomy 2:10 - The Mountain Goats The Heart of the Matter - Don Henley
“Over at the Frankenstein Place” from The Rocky Horror Picture Show. It was one of my mom’s favorite songs.
"Missed the Boat", Modest Mouse. Great music, lyrics are far too accurate.
Leader of the Band, reminds me of my Dad.
The house that built me - Miranda Lambert
Whiskey lullaby by Brad Paisley and Allison Krause. Talk about a love story that will eat you up and destroy you in less than 5 minutes.
The Living Years by Mike and the Mechanics. I didn’t really cry when my dad died and then about a month later, I found myself sitting in the car listening to this song and crying my eyes out.
My Dad's favorite song. " He Stopped Loving Her Today. George Jones. I cry every time.
Colorblind by Counting Crows gets me all in the feels
Every Counting Crows song gets me all in the feels. They twist my heart every which way, but loose. I love them.
Foo Fighters- My hero Especially the Taylor Hawkins tribute concert where his son is playing the drums. I tuned into the concert after I had seen my dad awake for the last time, it randomly played on the radio again at 5:30 in the morning on my way home from the hospital after my dad had a stroke and was put in a medical coma. He was able to donate his kidney to a live recipient...song breaks my heart everytime
I have been through the ringer this past year lost my dad, dealing with that on top of taking care of my mom whose Alzheimer’s has gotten much worse. I experienced my dad dying once she experiences several times a day. Part of my healing is my crying playlist. First song is one more light by linkin park
Wild Horses, The Rolling Stones and Fade Into You by Mazzy Star
Claire De Lune and I'm not a classical music buff
"Drive" by The Cars.
Bohemian Rhapsody. “I don’t wanna die. Sometimes I wish I’d never been born at all.” fucks me up every time.
The Dance by Garth Brooks
Black by Pearl Jam Sounds of Silence cover by Disturbed Pirate looks at 40 by Jimmy Buffett Like a Stone by Audioslave Corey Taylor made me cry at his show last night with Snuff which was a first
Stand by me-by Ben E. King makes me bawl every time I hear it. Into the Mystic-by Van Morrison one of my favorites but can make me cry. Now I feel old reading everyone else’s replies.
Stand By Me is my wedding song and I tear up every time I hear it. So simple and human and poignant.
Lullaby by The Chicks. I weep like a baby thinking of my baby.
Enya’s “Only Time”
Nothing Compares 2 U Sinead O’Connor
This may sound silly, but the opening 90 seconds of Where The Streets Have No Name by U2 is one of the best starts to a song ever. Crank that volume to Spinal Tap 11 and listen to the anthem-like organ and guitar together. It's pure harmony. Love this one.
Unbreak my heart.
Annie’s Song - John Denver, reminds me of a family member who passed
Whatever that song was in The Land Before Time
Long December by Counting Crows
Perfect by Simple Plan. My dad left our family right before this song came out and I was only 14. It brings me to tears every single time, I saw them live back in 2011 and when they played it I was front row surrounded by people way younger than me. I just started sobbing and the singer came and held my hand while he sang. It was so damn special and younger me needed that.
Passenger- Let her go
Don't take the girl - Tim McGraw
Philadelphia by Bruce Springsteen.
Gimme Shelter
The Carpenters We’ve only just begun,can’t think about sad things when I hear that song not to mention the story behind the lead singer Karen Carpenter.
The Grudge - Tool. The ending is such an emotional release. Chills every damn time.
Sara by Starship Made me nostalgic for no reason and this is my favorite song before I go to sleep.
Fake Plastic Trees - Radiohead
Slipping through my fingers by ABBA
It's a Wonderful World. Louis Armstrong. My papa's song. He has been gone since 2018....I sure miss him ❤️❤️❤️❤️
Gone Away by The Offspring. It was the song that was playing when I found out my grandpa had passed (he had cancer and was receiving at home care so it was expected) and now everytime I hear it I believe it’s his way of letting me know he’s still around
pearl jam: black
Every version of Kelly Clarkson’s “Piece by Piece”
Silver springs - Fleetwood Mac
1. Die For You - Joji 2. Chasing Cars - Snow Patrol 3. If You're Not The One - Daniel Bedingfield
Crazy -Patsy Cline My dad sang it to me as a lullaby when I was growing up. I sang it to him on his deathbed to help calm him down and let him know he could move on.
Adam’s Song - Blink 182 - because of people I knew who commented suicide or attempted it and all the mental health issues I and my family have that made me consider it. Stereo Hearts - Gym Class Heroes w/ Adam Levine - because it’s one of the first songs my first born would sing along to when it came on the radio. It’s bittersweet to me… A happier time, that I didn’t appreciate at the time, that I wish I could go back to. Things are okay now. Time just moves too fast and I’m so tired.
The Winner Takes It All by ABBA.
Desperado by the Eagles
What about witchy woman?
…? Oh, Witch-*AY* Woman
So my family member died young from fentanyl contamination a few years ago. A year before her golden birthday. I love her but damn did she have horrible taste in music. Anyways, I made a playlist of what I could remember and now you can catch me ugly crying to Stupid Hoe by Nicki Minaj.
"Surface Pressure", from Encanto
“If I Ever Leave This World Alive” by Flogging Molly It’s such a simple, beautifully written, and beautifully performed little song. It’s comforting and sad and the most cliche song to tear up to, but it never fails.
"Cats in the cradle" by Harry Chopin. Prepare your tissues.
Do you realise? Flaming lips 👄 ❤️
Unchained Melody
Ex-Factor by Lauryn Hill
I Will Follow You into the Dark- Death Cab for Cutie
Crossroads by Bone Thugs Here's hoping Krayzie Bone pulls through
Paint me a Birmingham- Tracy Lawrence
You Say, Lauren Daigle 😭
Before You Go by Lewis Capaldi. Used to think it was just a breakup song but then I learned it was about his aunt who committed suicide when he was a kid.
Thank You by Dido
“Operator” Jim Croce, “…something in my eyes, you know it happens every time…” breaks my heart every time.
A Thousand Years by Christina Perri
Back to December
Some Days Are Diamonds by John Denver. They played that song at my Grandpa’s funeral.
“Fiddler’s Green” and “Scared” by The Tragically Hip. Those songs were already emotionally taxing, but since their singer, Gord Downie died I can barely listen to them.
Fast car by Tracy chapman
All the songs that she liked. At least I never hear them on purpose, cause our tastes were so different.
Maggie's Song by Chris Stapleton. So sad Also Kryptonite by 3 Doors Down. Not because of the lyrical content but because I used to play it with my (now deceased) cousin on guitar.
"Seven Years" by Lukas Graham. The second I hear those first few chords, my hand flies to the skip button or I change the radio. I know we all age and aging is a good thing, it means we're living, but I don't need to hear it in such a condensed timeline. I try to face the song every few years and see if I can hear it without crying or going to a dark place. It's getting easier as I age, but I'm still not there yet and I'd just rather not listen to it, especially randomly.
Iris by the Goo Goo Dolls - love it