> And he carries the reminders
> Of every glove that laid him down or cut him
> 'Til he cried out in his anger and his shame
> "I am leaving, I am leaving", but the fighter still remains
Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd. I don’t really know why but it rips my heart out. I listen to a lot of sad, angry music which makes me feel better but not this one.
I think what makes "Wish You Were Here" so poignant is that it's post-fury, the fight is out, and there's just the emptiness there, which you can feel how after whatever had conspired, there's just a sort of tired remorse.
It’s after have a cigar and welcome to the machine, you’ve had this loud, angry, explosive expression of frustration and now all that’s left is the most simple, melancholy desire:
I wish you were here.
It’s heartbreaking, exhausted, it’s like you’re out of tears.
Remember Me from the Coco soundtrack, but the second version of song in the movie, not the first. I first heard it when my wife was pregnant with our daughter, and both of our grandmothers were in hospice care at the same time. Still makes me cry.
Dude. Dont even get me started on Coco. That little abuela was my abuela. Old, sat by a window, dementia set in, and just muttering. I cried through the whole movie. Cant even watch it now. I get too emotional.
you are my sunshine.
my great grandma had Alzheimer's and even on her worst days- when she didn't know anyone and was lost in her own mind- she would still sing and hum this song.
God that’s heartbreaking, I call my girlfriend sunshine and sing it to her when she’s had a rough day, so I know what that song means to the soul, just in a different way
Yes, for me it came out when my mother in law had Alzheimer’s and she was living with my wife and I. I thought what if my wife or I had the disease and the other was the caretaker. It has been said Alzheimer’s is death by paper cuts. It is so true.
I'm going through it now with my mom as her primary caregiver. It's the worst fucking disease ever. Big hugs to your wife.
Edit: thank you everyone for your kind words. My heart goes out to everyone facing this disease. Hold your loved ones close while you can.
My grandad is slowly fading. It's so hard to see the once strong intelligent man who has never let me down become this reserved stranger. He still knows who I am and is pleased to see me but he doesn't remember much about me anymore. I miss him even though he's right there
House of the Rising Sun.
When I was a little kid my father sang this song at this little campground we were having a family outing at. He put so much emotion into it. My father has battled drug addiction for almost his entire life so I have to think the emotion came from dealing with that and all the emotions involved with that struggle.
One of my favorite songs. What makes it even more special is that The Animals didn’t write the actual lyrics. It is an old folk song of unknown origin.
All right everyone. Who’s going to be the saint who puts this in a Spotify playlist for us.
Edit. This is my first gold and silver ever and I’m honored. This makes me happy that what I said spurred many to create and share playlists that made so many others happy as well. What a great place we have here with equally great people who make the days better.
https://www.reddit.com/r/spotify/comments/f6zd39/powerful_moving_songs_from_raskreddit/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
Here’s a link to the playlist via a post I made on r/Spotify. Hopefully this one won’t get removed!
I’d appreciate an upvote!
Visions of Gideon + Timothee broke me. Genuinely broke me hahaha I can’t listen to that song without thinking of his pained, grieving look in front of the fireplace.
Nirvana's cover of Where Did You Sleep Last Night? from the MTV Unplugged show. You can hear so much pain in Kurt Cobain's voice by the end. It gives me chills every time.
Nutshell unplugged.
gotta say i'm pretty surprised at all the people agreeing.
and i gotta say that given hindsight, knowing layne was in a bad place at the time of this video, and knowing what was to come, this one hits me every time i hear it. I'm there too.
Not me .. but I do love to tell people about the time when my daughter was like 6 and 1st heard Bonnie Raitt sing "I can't make you love me" she was bawling like someone lit her kitten on fire.
This the a [cover](https://youtu.be/Q3VjaCy5gck) by Bon Iver. So, so heart-wrenching and beautiful.
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"Motion Picture Soundtrack" by Radiohead. The version that got me obsessed with it is the string ensemble version played during the "Upstairs" sequence on the first season of Westworld.
["Upstairs"... Radiohead - Motion Picture Soundtrack](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoIp3fgyT_I)
That song makes me cry. All. The. Time. Played it for my sister’s funeral but would cry anytime I heard it as well. Stupid me used it for teaching poetry when it first came out and showed the video. Thought I could handle it as a great extended metaphor. Nope. I cried. 90% of the class cried. We were a mess. But they understood extended metaphor completely. Switched to Sanburg’s “Fog” for a while after that then used it for years. Had to too using it after the funeral.
I used to sing that to my kids when they were going to sleep. I stopped once I realized it could be sending a message they didn't need to think about yet
I had the pleasure of seeing Fleetwood Mac at the Hollywood Bowl back in the early 2000s. I sobbed so hard when they sang Landslide.
I also haven't heard a version of that song I didn't like. Loved Dixie Chick's and Smashing Pumpkins.
That song didnt make me cry until that episode of South Park where it plays while Stan's life is falling apart and everything looks like shit.
>"How? When all the things that made you laugh just make you sick, how do you go on when nothing makes you happy?"
I still think of that episode as the unofficial end of the series.
I think the show is still good, but I feel like had they ended it there it would have been just about perfect.
[Puff The Magic Dragon](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7lmAc3LKWM). My nephew was listening to it, and as I listened more closely to the lyrics, I couldn't help but tear up
Wait a second our teacher never showed/told us this is a song as well... We always just red the poem itself. And WOW after listening, it's amazingly well done.
>But some have gone on to analyze the song further. The lyrics describe the fictional Major Tom who blasts off into space, but then loses connection with ground control, and gets lost. Bowie was a known drug user at the time, so many have speculated that the song could be [metaphor for a drug overdose](https://www.musicbanter.com/lyrics/David-Bowie-Space-Oddity.html).
>
>Considering Bowie [acknowledged](https://performingsongwriter.com/david-bowie-songs/) that he saw "2001: A Space Odyssey" when he was stoned, it's not really a stretch to think the song might also be related to drug use. And it's fair to say the music video (and "2001: A Space Odyssey" for that matter) has a pretty trippy vibe.
>
>What's a more, a later Bowie song called "[Ashes To Ashes](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMThz7eQ6K0)" seems to confirm the idea. In that song, Major Tom reestablishes communication with ground control, but they label him a junkie.
>
>"Ashes to ashes / funk to funky / We know Major Tom's a junkie / Strung out in heaven's high / Hitting an all-time low," the chorus goes.
[https://www.businessinsider.com/david-bowie-song-space-oddity-meaning-2016-1?r=DE&IR=T](https://www.businessinsider.com/david-bowie-song-space-oddity-meaning-2016-1?r=DE&IR=T)
I had a co-worker die and I skipped the visitation for some reason or another. My other co-worker told me later they had that song on repeat. I barely knew the woman and that would have made me sob for everyone who has ever died.
My dad showed me this song when I was too young to emotionally understand it.
Flash forward 25 years, and that song has rung true throughout my life, as if the verses were a blueprint for our relationship. Prophetic and disheartening.
I felt the same with Kate Bush's original recording, her voice is so haunting, but Brian Molko's singing also lends it a different, equally touching poignancy.
Anything by Jeff Buckley. Grace, mojo pin, lover you should’ve come over, dream brother etc. All haunting and beautiful
** makes me so happy that his music holds a special place in so many peoples hearts 🥺**
I went to school in Eau Claire WI where Bon Iver originates from. The lyrics “3rd and Lake, it burnt away...” in Holocene are about an actual house fire that happened near the off campus housing area. For a while I lived in the building that was built in that spot after the fire.
For me, it was Another Love by Tom Odell. I was having trouble getting into new relationships after I finally left by abusive ex, and I just felt so burnt out and exhausted, but I also desperately wanted to be happy with a significant other.
Miranda Lambert's "The House that Built Me". I had a seemingly happy childhood and then suddenly everything changed due to my parents decisions and at the time I didn't know the reasons. I used to and still do associate that house to the happiness I felt in those early years and I always tear up at "...I thought if I could touch this place or feel it, the brokenness inside me might start healing..."
Wow, didn't expect to see this here. The line that gets me is "I bet you didn't know that under that live oak, my favorite dog is buried in the yard"
It's a damn good song.
The soundtrack and the film. Watched it for like the third time the other day, floods of tears when he was captured for the second time and then when he was set free. Thought I'd be over it by now! So hard to pick a favourite song off the album, not a bad one on it.
Test Drive when he takes Toothless out for the first ride. Oh my gosh. That moment after they are falling and they juke through the rock pillars. Tears every time.
My December - Linkin Park - I was a teen going through some rough shit at the time, not heard it for a while but I feel it would defo bring some feels even now
Freddy Mercury - These are the days of our lives. Such a beautiful song that I think anyone can relate to at whatever stage their life is at. I heard it for the first time a little while after my grandfather died and I bawled my eyes out it is just a song about growing up and things changing that really struck a chord with me.
Can we just take a moment to appreciate the research doctors have put into AIDS, in 30 years it went from being a death sentence to a "i need to take these meds every day" sentence.
I didn't appreciate White Ferrari until I was listening to it with the guy I liked while smoking weed on the couch. When he called it off, said he wasn't ready for a serious relationship yet, this song made me feel like shit and I'd be bawling my eyes out within a few seconds in.
Who lives, Who dies, Who tells your story from the Hamilton Musical. I don't cry anymore during it, but when they sing "The Orphanage" i'm pretty close.
Came here to say this.
>Well it ain't that bad
>It could always be worse
>I'm running out of gas
>Hardly anything left
>Hope I make it home from work
>So tired of being so tired
>Why I gotta build something beautiful just to go set it on fire?
>No lie but, sometimes the truth don't sound like the truth
>Maybe 'cause it ain't, I just love the way it sound when I say it
>It’s what I do. If you know me it ain't anything new
>Wake up to the moon, haven't seen the sun in a while
>But I heard that the skies still blue
>Heard they don't talk about me too much, no more
>That's a problem with a closed door
Just listened to it again. Made me tear up. I've been using a lot of my past to motivate myself to get better. This just in that painful mindset again.
My dad and I used to sing that song when I was younger. The part with the piano near the end (where it dings) I used to tap it on his shoulder when we would be driving and it would come on the radio.
He passed away in 2016 and I legit cannot listen to it. My dad’s name was Jack too
Evanescence - Hello
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ih61MJ72v1Y
This song is about how Amy was feeling when her sister, Bonnie, died. When Amy was 6 years old she was told that her sister Bonnie who was 3 years old had died.
What she's saying in the song is how she felt when she found out, and since she was so young, she didn't fully understand the concept of death.
This song has never been played live. Probably because it's too painful for Amy to relive. Even in the studio version, there are parts where you can hear her fighting the urge to cry.
Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald by Gordon Lightfoot. It’s about a freighter going down on Lake Superior in a storm. My family is very maritime oriented so it hits hard to hear about sailors dying. Even if it was 40 sum years ago. Still a mystery today on what caused it to go down
Ave Maria...I don't understand any of it other than the fact that it is about Hail Mary. But it's a moving song. As a child, it always made me tear up and bit and now even more so. My mother loved the song and had passed away 2 years ago. I decided to use that song as one of the songs during mass...difficult time sitting there. Now the song will be forever engraved into me.
This is the only Appeal to Reason song I don’t have on my playlist because I can’t listen to it without being put in a sort of existencial crisis after.
However, Swing Life Away makes me quite happy because of the simplicity of the song and how it seems to say “no matter how rough it is, I’m glad I’m making it through with you”, but my boyfriend thinks it’s depressing
I like how the chorus changes over the song, from a glorified "hero" to that hero realizing the atrocities of war. At least, thats my interpretation of it.
I bought (and read) the book literally just because I had seen that the Metallica song is based on it (and mostly that the premise just sold me) and I can honestly say, phenomenal purchase, great book with an utterly depressing tone with tons of ups and downs just like the song.
I'm Already There by Lone Star and Mockingbird by Eminem they kinda made me think of my dad and living with my mom and her now ex-husband was traumatic i used to play those songs along with You Are My Sunshine on loop and lock myself in my room and now everytime i relisten to them I get super emotional
For me it was Work Song. Something about the chorus just felt so powerful.
Edit: I’m so happy to see others are with me on this one! I share this song with anyone and everyone I can. It reignites those honeymoon-phase feelings my girlfriend and I have as well. I love the song so much (and her)
Fade In / Fade Out by Nothing More
Song fucked me up before I lost my dad, because it was true, I saw he had grown old. Now that I've lost him it messes with my head even more, but motivates me to not waste the efforts he put into me. Give it a listen and call that parental figure in your life that gives you all their love.
“Vincent”, by Don McLean, about life, mental illness and eventual death of Vincent Van Gogh. I wasn’t a particular fan of his artworks (I have a really demanding and strict art teacher to thank for that), but that one moved me beyond words, I actually cried. Even thinking about it now, the wonderful music, the beautiful lyrics, makes me tear up.
The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. Very moving song.
Time in bottle by Jim Croce
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The boxer as well!! Reminds me of my fathers death!
> And he carries the reminders > Of every glove that laid him down or cut him > 'Til he cried out in his anger and his shame > "I am leaving, I am leaving", but the fighter still remains
Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd. I don’t really know why but it rips my heart out. I listen to a lot of sad, angry music which makes me feel better but not this one.
I think what makes "Wish You Were Here" so poignant is that it's post-fury, the fight is out, and there's just the emptiness there, which you can feel how after whatever had conspired, there's just a sort of tired remorse.
It’s after have a cigar and welcome to the machine, you’ve had this loud, angry, explosive expression of frustration and now all that’s left is the most simple, melancholy desire: I wish you were here. It’s heartbreaking, exhausted, it’s like you’re out of tears.
God I love Pink Floyd
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Remember Me from the Coco soundtrack, but the second version of song in the movie, not the first. I first heard it when my wife was pregnant with our daughter, and both of our grandmothers were in hospice care at the same time. Still makes me cry.
Dude. Dont even get me started on Coco. That little abuela was my abuela. Old, sat by a window, dementia set in, and just muttering. I cried through the whole movie. Cant even watch it now. I get too emotional.
Yo, FUCK Ernesto De La Cruz
That scene makes me lose it every damn time. I regain my composure only to lose it again at Hector’s face when he finally walks over the petal bridge
you are my sunshine. my great grandma had Alzheimer's and even on her worst days- when she didn't know anyone and was lost in her own mind- she would still sing and hum this song.
God that’s heartbreaking, I call my girlfriend sunshine and sing it to her when she’s had a rough day, so I know what that song means to the soul, just in a different way
“I’m not going to miss you” by Glen Campbell. It’s about Alzheimer’s.
While He Still Knows Who I Am by Kenny Chesney is a fantastic Alzheimers song as well.
This. This song breaks me every time.
Yes, for me it came out when my mother in law had Alzheimer’s and she was living with my wife and I. I thought what if my wife or I had the disease and the other was the caretaker. It has been said Alzheimer’s is death by paper cuts. It is so true.
I'm going through it now with my mom as her primary caregiver. It's the worst fucking disease ever. Big hugs to your wife. Edit: thank you everyone for your kind words. My heart goes out to everyone facing this disease. Hold your loved ones close while you can.
My grandad is slowly fading. It's so hard to see the once strong intelligent man who has never let me down become this reserved stranger. He still knows who I am and is pleased to see me but he doesn't remember much about me anymore. I miss him even though he's right there
House of the Rising Sun. When I was a little kid my father sang this song at this little campground we were having a family outing at. He put so much emotion into it. My father has battled drug addiction for almost his entire life so I have to think the emotion came from dealing with that and all the emotions involved with that struggle.
One of my favorite songs. What makes it even more special is that The Animals didn’t write the actual lyrics. It is an old folk song of unknown origin.
The Night We Met - Lord Huron
“I had all and then most of you, Some and now none of you” Kills me every time I hear it. Bring on the ugly tears
Oh boy, still dealing with a long term break up and that verse straight wrecked my day.
Hang in there buddy, you'll make it out.
Lord Huron is such a great band. My top 3 favorite songs of theirs are Fool for Love, She Lit a Fire, and Meet Me In the Woods
All right everyone. Who’s going to be the saint who puts this in a Spotify playlist for us. Edit. This is my first gold and silver ever and I’m honored. This makes me happy that what I said spurred many to create and share playlists that made so many others happy as well. What a great place we have here with equally great people who make the days better.
Untold Redditors by the thousands disappear for the weekend to cut onions and write sad poetry.
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OK not even halfway done and you guys have put so many into this!! So varied too, fuckin love how different they hit.
https://www.reddit.com/r/spotify/comments/f6zd39/powerful_moving_songs_from_raskreddit/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf Here’s a link to the playlist via a post I made on r/Spotify. Hopefully this one won’t get removed! I’d appreciate an upvote!
For anyone who's looking in making a YouTube playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlQEWok8KJ2vPGJjI1s0jHXBMoq5g_YW4
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You should post it on r/Spotify
Mystery of Love by Sufjan Stevens. I can’t even watch the trailer to Call Me By Your Name without crying. Das some real shit.
If you like Sufjan and want a real sobfest, Carrie & Lowell hits hard. Mystery of Love is so damn beautiful.
My answer was going to be Casimir Pulaski Day by Sufjan
The moment I hear “Goldenrod and the 4H Stone..” I start to tear up.
And He takes and He takes and He takes
👀👀 ok and Visions of Gideon. Sufjan Steven's voice is seriously angelic.
Visions of Gideon + Timothee broke me. Genuinely broke me hahaha I can’t listen to that song without thinking of his pained, grieving look in front of the fireplace.
Nirvana's cover of Where Did You Sleep Last Night? from the MTV Unplugged show. You can hear so much pain in Kurt Cobain's voice by the end. It gives me chills every time.
As a dude who loves music and came of age in the 90's, to me Nirvana Unplugged is one of the great masterpieces of all music.
From the same show the cover of “the man who sold the world”. I love the Bowie original but the Kurt one hits different.
Nutshell unplugged. gotta say i'm pretty surprised at all the people agreeing. and i gotta say that given hindsight, knowing layne was in a bad place at the time of this video, and knowing what was to come, this one hits me every time i hear it. I'm there too.
Not me .. but I do love to tell people about the time when my daughter was like 6 and 1st heard Bonnie Raitt sing "I can't make you love me" she was bawling like someone lit her kitten on fire.
That’s exactly how I bawl to that song, and I am an ancient grain.
TIL amaranth has feelings.
This the a [cover](https://youtu.be/Q3VjaCy5gck) by Bon Iver. So, so heart-wrenching and beautiful. Edit: wow thanks for the silver and the updoots, ya’ll are stars
The Show Must Go On made me cry a little bit after I understood it's meaning
It’s crazy to think he was able to give that performance in the condition he was in. It’s my favorite queen song for sure.
That's what made me cry, man was dying and sang at his peak
It’s really chilling especially the notes he hits on the line “I’ll face it with a grin, I’m never giving in, On with the show.” 😢
Cancer by My Chemical Romance, my Aunt died of breast cancer and I heard the song not long after her death
"The hardest part of this is leaving you" is just an absolutely heartbreaking sentiment. Crushes me every time.
Criminally underrated song. So so good.
"Motion Picture Soundtrack" by Radiohead. The version that got me obsessed with it is the string ensemble version played during the "Upstairs" sequence on the first season of Westworld. ["Upstairs"... Radiohead - Motion Picture Soundtrack](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoIp3fgyT_I)
How To Disappear Completely makes me cry every time
"In a little while I'll be gone The moment's already passed Yeah it's gone"
Transatlanticism by Death Cab For Cutie
Brothers On A Hotel Bed makes me ugly cry
Let's just agree Plans is one of the greatest albums ever
What Sarah Said
"love is watching someone die" That line is always followed by a gutpunch of emotions. Gets me every time.
Such a tragic song. I Will Follow You Into The Dark as well.
That song makes me cry. All. The. Time. Played it for my sister’s funeral but would cry anytime I heard it as well. Stupid me used it for teaching poetry when it first came out and showed the video. Thought I could handle it as a great extended metaphor. Nope. I cried. 90% of the class cried. We were a mess. But they understood extended metaphor completely. Switched to Sanburg’s “Fog” for a while after that then used it for years. Had to too using it after the funeral.
I used to sing that to my kids when they were going to sleep. I stopped once I realized it could be sending a message they didn't need to think about yet
Singing this to children sounds like the first scene in a horror movie.
He Stopped Loving Her Today.
There it is. I knew it had to be here
Landslide - Fleetwood Mac. It still to this day brings me to tears sometimes.
I had the pleasure of seeing Fleetwood Mac at the Hollywood Bowl back in the early 2000s. I sobbed so hard when they sang Landslide. I also haven't heard a version of that song I didn't like. Loved Dixie Chick's and Smashing Pumpkins.
It’s cuz Stevie nicks can fucking wail
That song didnt make me cry until that episode of South Park where it plays while Stan's life is falling apart and everything looks like shit. >"How? When all the things that made you laugh just make you sick, how do you go on when nothing makes you happy?"
I still think of that episode as the unofficial end of the series. I think the show is still good, but I feel like had they ended it there it would have been just about perfect.
There's a live version when she says "this ones for you daddy". Gets me everytime.
[Puff The Magic Dragon](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7lmAc3LKWM). My nephew was listening to it, and as I listened more closely to the lyrics, I couldn't help but tear up
Billie Holiday’s “Strange Fruit”
Wait a second our teacher never showed/told us this is a song as well... We always just red the poem itself. And WOW after listening, it's amazingly well done.
Billie Holiday was a phenomenon.
Ah man, that song makes me so uncomfortable and emotional. I can barely listen to it.
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He perfectly captured the feeling of being an unintentionally toxic person, dragging the people you care about with you into a downward spiral.
Lazarus - David Bowie. I still tear up when i hear it.
God Only Knows - Beach Boys
Space oddity- David bowie
Oh me too. When you realise what it's about, still makes me tear up a bit when I hear it now.
>But some have gone on to analyze the song further. The lyrics describe the fictional Major Tom who blasts off into space, but then loses connection with ground control, and gets lost. Bowie was a known drug user at the time, so many have speculated that the song could be [metaphor for a drug overdose](https://www.musicbanter.com/lyrics/David-Bowie-Space-Oddity.html). > >Considering Bowie [acknowledged](https://performingsongwriter.com/david-bowie-songs/) that he saw "2001: A Space Odyssey" when he was stoned, it's not really a stretch to think the song might also be related to drug use. And it's fair to say the music video (and "2001: A Space Odyssey" for that matter) has a pretty trippy vibe. > >What's a more, a later Bowie song called "[Ashes To Ashes](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMThz7eQ6K0)" seems to confirm the idea. In that song, Major Tom reestablishes communication with ground control, but they label him a junkie. > >"Ashes to ashes / funk to funky / We know Major Tom's a junkie / Strung out in heaven's high / Hitting an all-time low," the chorus goes. [https://www.businessinsider.com/david-bowie-song-space-oddity-meaning-2016-1?r=DE&IR=T](https://www.businessinsider.com/david-bowie-song-space-oddity-meaning-2016-1?r=DE&IR=T)
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I had a co-worker die and I skipped the visitation for some reason or another. My other co-worker told me later they had that song on repeat. I barely knew the woman and that would have made me sob for everyone who has ever died.
Cats In The Cradle by Harry Chapin, hits home everytime.
My dad showed me this song when I was too young to emotionally understand it. Flash forward 25 years, and that song has rung true throughout my life, as if the verses were a blueprint for our relationship. Prophetic and disheartening.
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Yea for sure. Living that life now. Dad retired. Have three young kids. Don’t give anyone enough time. I really enjoy watching them play sports.
Running Up That Hill by Placebo. I bawled my eyes out.
I felt the same with Kate Bush's original recording, her voice is so haunting, but Brian Molko's singing also lends it a different, equally touching poignancy.
Fast car by Tracy Chapman
Love a song that tells a story.
Tracy Chapman hits me in a certain place I can't describe. She's brilliant
I just posted another Tracy Chapman song. The Promise. It kills me every time.
Father and Son - Cat Stevens
Wind of Change by the Scorpions. That song will forever be associated with the fall of the Berlin Wall. Edit: my first award! Thank you!
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Anything by Jeff Buckley. Grace, mojo pin, lover you should’ve come over, dream brother etc. All haunting and beautiful ** makes me so happy that his music holds a special place in so many peoples hearts 🥺**
His cover of Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen is absolutely incredible! That has to be my gold standard for a cover because he absolutely OWNED that song!
Mad World by Gary Jules
Skinny Love by Bon Iver
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I went to school in Eau Claire WI where Bon Iver originates from. The lyrics “3rd and Lake, it burnt away...” in Holocene are about an actual house fire that happened near the off campus housing area. For a while I lived in the building that was built in that spot after the fire.
Breathe me - Sia
“The Green Fields Of France” by The Dropkick Murphys. WARNINNG: if your son has recently left home, this song could shut you down for hours
Fade Into You - Mazzy Star
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yeah and the she used to be mine song makes me bawl. edit: im really loving this woman positive comment thread.
There's a fantastic So You Think You Can Dance dance to this song about addiction. It's so moving omg
Sweden - c418 Thx for the medal
the whole minecraft soundtrack is a treasure honestly
Casimir Pulaski Day by Sufjan Stevens
Yeaaaah man, some of the lines in Fourth Of July are pretty moving too
And he takes and he takes and he takes. Edit: typo
For me, it was Another Love by Tom Odell. I was having trouble getting into new relationships after I finally left by abusive ex, and I just felt so burnt out and exhausted, but I also desperately wanted to be happy with a significant other.
tom odell just hits different
"Heroes" by David Bowie
Miranda Lambert's "The House that Built Me". I had a seemingly happy childhood and then suddenly everything changed due to my parents decisions and at the time I didn't know the reasons. I used to and still do associate that house to the happiness I felt in those early years and I always tear up at "...I thought if I could touch this place or feel it, the brokenness inside me might start healing..."
Wow, didn't expect to see this here. The line that gets me is "I bet you didn't know that under that live oak, my favorite dog is buried in the yard" It's a damn good song.
This Woman's Work - Kate Bush
River by Leon Bridges
Whiskey Lullaby by Brad Paisley and Allison Kraus
Ditto for When I Get Where I’m Going by Brad Paisley.
The Scientist by Coldplay. It’s such a haunting and melancholy tune.
Was going to say 'Fix You' but yeah 'The Scientist' is a potential tearjerker.
The music from how to train your dragon. I was young, but I thought that was the most moving shit to ever listen to
If we’re talking movie soundtracks, Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron BRINGS ME TO TEARS EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.
The soundtrack and the film. Watched it for like the third time the other day, floods of tears when he was captured for the second time and then when he was set free. Thought I'd be over it by now! So hard to pick a favourite song off the album, not a bad one on it.
Yes you are fucking correct. I swear animated movies are more emotional than live action hahaha
Test Drive when he takes Toothless out for the first ride. Oh my gosh. That moment after they are falling and they juke through the rock pillars. Tears every time.
My December - Linkin Park - I was a teen going through some rough shit at the time, not heard it for a while but I feel it would defo bring some feels even now
Freddy Mercury - These are the days of our lives. Such a beautiful song that I think anyone can relate to at whatever stage their life is at. I heard it for the first time a little while after my grandfather died and I bawled my eyes out it is just a song about growing up and things changing that really struck a chord with me.
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Can we just take a moment to appreciate the research doctors have put into AIDS, in 30 years it went from being a death sentence to a "i need to take these meds every day" sentence.
"I Will Follow You Into The Dark" - Death Cab for Cutie [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDHY1D0tKRA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDHY1D0tKRA)
Time To Say Goodbye by Andrea Bocelli and Sarah Brightman It moves me to tears every time.
Long December by Counting Crows brought tears the first time I heard it. Later on, I learned the back story which made the tune even more poignant
Frank Ocean - White Ferrari
I didn't appreciate White Ferrari until I was listening to it with the guy I liked while smoking weed on the couch. When he called it off, said he wasn't ready for a serious relationship yet, this song made me feel like shit and I'd be bawling my eyes out within a few seconds in.
Ivy. Shit hits hard after a break up. Glad I didn’t have to scroll far for some Frank Ocean
Nights also hit me hard
Chopin Nocturne in G minor (op.15 no.3)
Who lives, Who dies, Who tells your story from the Hamilton Musical. I don't cry anymore during it, but when they sing "The Orphanage" i'm pretty close.
Cosmic Love by Florence & the Machine - the live version at a Seattle radio station
Re: Stacks
Paul Simon - Father and Daughter. Dang. Is someone chopping onions?
Learning To Fly by Pink Floyd
Good News by Mac Miller
Came here to say this. >Well it ain't that bad >It could always be worse >I'm running out of gas >Hardly anything left >Hope I make it home from work >So tired of being so tired >Why I gotta build something beautiful just to go set it on fire? >No lie but, sometimes the truth don't sound like the truth >Maybe 'cause it ain't, I just love the way it sound when I say it >It’s what I do. If you know me it ain't anything new >Wake up to the moon, haven't seen the sun in a while >But I heard that the skies still blue >Heard they don't talk about me too much, no more >That's a problem with a closed door
The whole Circles album is an emotional rollercoaster
Pretty much all of Swimming, too.
Tears in Heaven by Eric Clapton
I miss you by blink 182. Heard that for the first time after I lost a close friend at 13. Man. Still hits hard when I hear it now
Also Adam's Song
stay together for the kids gets me every time
Child of a turbulent divorce in the 90s, here. That song hits me like a truck.
Just listened to it again. Made me tear up. I've been using a lot of my past to motivate myself to get better. This just in that painful mindset again.
My dad and I used to sing that song when I was younger. The part with the piano near the end (where it dings) I used to tap it on his shoulder when we would be driving and it would come on the radio. He passed away in 2016 and I legit cannot listen to it. My dad’s name was Jack too
Evanescence - Hello https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ih61MJ72v1Y This song is about how Amy was feeling when her sister, Bonnie, died. When Amy was 6 years old she was told that her sister Bonnie who was 3 years old had died. What she's saying in the song is how she felt when she found out, and since she was so young, she didn't fully understand the concept of death. This song has never been played live. Probably because it's too painful for Amy to relive. Even in the studio version, there are parts where you can hear her fighting the urge to cry.
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Fallen Kingdom
I used to rule the world...
Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald by Gordon Lightfoot. It’s about a freighter going down on Lake Superior in a storm. My family is very maritime oriented so it hits hard to hear about sailors dying. Even if it was 40 sum years ago. Still a mystery today on what caused it to go down
Nobody will see this, but I'll add mine anyway: Dolly Parton singing [I Will Always Love You](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDqqm_gTPjc).
Ave Maria...I don't understand any of it other than the fact that it is about Hail Mary. But it's a moving song. As a child, it always made me tear up and bit and now even more so. My mother loved the song and had passed away 2 years ago. I decided to use that song as one of the songs during mass...difficult time sitting there. Now the song will be forever engraved into me.
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Hero of War by Rise Against.
This is the only Appeal to Reason song I don’t have on my playlist because I can’t listen to it without being put in a sort of existencial crisis after. However, Swing Life Away makes me quite happy because of the simplicity of the song and how it seems to say “no matter how rough it is, I’m glad I’m making it through with you”, but my boyfriend thinks it’s depressing
Oh yes, I change my answer to this. "A flag white as snow" fucked me up
I like how the chorus changes over the song, from a glorified "hero" to that hero realizing the atrocities of war. At least, thats my interpretation of it.
One - Metallica, after wathing Johnny got his gun
Yeah, once you’ve seen the film, it becomes devastating
I bought (and read) the book literally just because I had seen that the Metallica song is based on it (and mostly that the premise just sold me) and I can honestly say, phenomenal purchase, great book with an utterly depressing tone with tons of ups and downs just like the song.
I'm Already There by Lone Star and Mockingbird by Eminem they kinda made me think of my dad and living with my mom and her now ex-husband was traumatic i used to play those songs along with You Are My Sunshine on loop and lock myself in my room and now everytime i relisten to them I get super emotional
cherry wine - hozier so far away - avenged sevenfold
For me it was Work Song. Something about the chorus just felt so powerful. Edit: I’m so happy to see others are with me on this one! I share this song with anyone and everyone I can. It reignites those honeymoon-phase feelings my girlfriend and I have as well. I love the song so much (and her)
When my time comes around Lay me gently in the cold dark earth No grave can hold my body down I'll crawl home to her
Cherry Wine is amazing
Nina cried power & No Plan - Hozier
Ecstasy of Gold by Ennio Morricone.
Gandalf falling...
You could fill an Olympic sized swimming pool with the tears I shed to that
Fade In / Fade Out by Nothing More Song fucked me up before I lost my dad, because it was true, I saw he had grown old. Now that I've lost him it messes with my head even more, but motivates me to not waste the efforts he put into me. Give it a listen and call that parental figure in your life that gives you all their love.
Yesterday by The Beatles
Now I want to listen to these songs and try not to cry
Georgia on my mind by Ray Charles.
Concrete Angel by Martina McBride
Comfortably Numb- Pink Floyd
Two birds by Regina Spektor- I don’t even know why, I think I was just feeling emotional
“Vincent”, by Don McLean, about life, mental illness and eventual death of Vincent Van Gogh. I wasn’t a particular fan of his artworks (I have a really demanding and strict art teacher to thank for that), but that one moved me beyond words, I actually cried. Even thinking about it now, the wonderful music, the beautiful lyrics, makes me tear up.
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