Songs that always make you emotional--bring a tear to your eye....

[hlthe2b]

I'm NOT listening to Christmas music, obviously. But, I just came back from a Tower Records playing Neil Young's Greatest Hits in their mix and it made me realize these two from Young always make me weepy:

After the Goldrush....
(lyrics mean differnt things to different people, but I always associated the song with Vietnam, so hearing it brings flashes of tv news segments showing the violence, the body bags, the lies from Nixon, McNamara, et al, the antiwar protests and the inter-generational anger over the war).

Ohio...
(Kent State, obviously, but made even more poignant today since it feels that we have lost the passion and the fight that made these courageous youth risk everything for the cause of peace and justice)

Wow, when they played these two, the teens stocking the shelves must have thought I was nuts, because I automatically got that serious look on my face one gets when they are stifling tears!

So what songs automatically elicit those emotions in you?

[atreides1]

1. War IS Over

By John Lennon

[MotorCityMan]

20. That one always gets me, too

Also "Merry Christmas, Darling" by the Carpenters

[Pacifist Patriot]

37. Gets me too. No one should remake that!

[Goldeneye]

2. I've been trying to find protest songs like ohio...

do you have any other suggestions?

[hlthe2b]

16. we did a thread on this not long ago... If search is up, I'll try to find

the link... Please check back.

[Goldeneye]

139. Thanks, I'll keep an eye on this thread

[hlthe2b]

141. Here ya go (archived, so it took a while to find)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=2759280

[Goldeneye]

144. Thanks...I've been trying to get some songs together for a CD

[Not_Giving_Up]

3. Teddy Bear

The one about the little boy in the wheelchair who gets on the CB radio to the truckers...I bawl every time.

[Mikimouse]

4. Imagine- John Lennon...n/t

[mr_hat]

5. "He Thinks He'll Keep Her" by Mary Chapin Carpenter.

Such a sad story and told so well. Also, horribly frightening: I'd die if I managed to extinguish my wife's love.

[Joe Power]

6. Two that get me everytime

"Sweet Side" by Lucinda Williams and "Birdland" by Patti Smith.

Birdland

His father died and left him a little farm in new england.
All the long black funeral cars left the scene
And the boy was just standing there alone
Looking at the shiny red tractor
Him and his daddy used to sit inside
And circle the blue fields and grease the night.
It was if someone had spread butter on all the fine points of the stars
’cause when he looked up they started to slip.
Then he put his head in the crux of his arm
And he started to drift, drift to the belly of a ship,
Let the ship slide open, and he went inside of it
And saw his daddy ’hind the control board streamin’ beads of light,
He saw his daddy ’hind the control board,
And he was very different tonight
’cause he was not human, he was not human.

And then the little boy’s face lit up with such naked joy
That the sun burned around his lids and his eyes were like two suns,
White lids, white opals, seeing everything just a little bit too clearly
And he looked around and there was no black ship in sight,
No black funeral cars, nothing except for him the raven
And fell on his knees and looked up and cried out,
“no, daddy, don’t leave me here alone,
Take me up, daddy, to the belly of your ship,
Let the ship slide open and I’ll go inside of it
Where you’re not human, you are not human.”

But nobody heard the boy’s cry of alarm.
Nobody there ’cept for the birds around the new england farm
And they gathered in all directions, like roses they scattered
And they were like compass grass coming together into the head of a shaman bouquet
Slit in his nose and all the others went shooting
And he saw the lights of traffic beckoning like the hands of blake
Grabbing at his cheeks, taking out his neck,
All his limbs, everything was twisted and he said,
“i won’t give up, won’t give up, don’t let me give up,
I won’t give up, come here, let me go up fast,
Take me up quick, take me up, up to the belly of a ship
And the ship slides open and I go inside of it where I am not human.”

I am helium raven and this movie is mine,
So he cried out as he stretched the sky,
Pushing it all out like latex cartoon, am I all alone in this generation ?
We’ll just be dreaming of animation night and day
And won’t let up, won’t let up and I see them coming in,
Oh, I couldn’t hear them before, but I hear ’em now,
It’s a radar scope in all silver and all platinum lights
Moving in like black ships, they were moving in, streams of them,
And he put up his hands and he said, “it’s me, it’s me,
I’ll give you my eyes, take me up, oh now please take me up,
I’m helium raven waitin’ for you, please take me up,
Don’t let me here,” the son, the sign, the cross,
Like the shape of a tortured woman, the true shape of a tortured woman,
The mother standing in the doorway letting her sons
No longer presidents but prophets
They’re all dreaming they’re gonna bear the prophet,
He’s gonna run through the fields dreaming in animation
It’s all gonna split his skull
It’s gonna come out like a black bouquet shining
Like a fist that’s gonna shoot them up
Like light, like mohammed boxer
Take them up up up up up up
Oh, let’s go up, up, take me up, I’ll go up,
I’m going up, I’m going up
Take me up, I’m going up, I’ll go up there
Go up go up go up go up up up up up up up
Up, up to the belly of a ship.
Let the ship slide open and we’ll go inside of it
Where we are not human, we’re not human.

Well, there was sand, there were tiles,
The sun had melted the sand and it coagulated
Like a river of glass
When it hardened he looked at the surface
He saw his face
And where there were eyes were just two white opals, two white opals,
Where there were eyes there were just two white opals
And he looked up and the rays shot
And he saw raven comin’ in
And he crawled on his back and he went up
Up up up up up up
Sha da do wop, da shaman do way, sha da do wop, da shaman do way,
Sha da do wop, da shaman do way, sha da do wop, da shaman do way,
Sha da do wop, da shaman do way,
We like birdland.

[Shrubhater]

23. There was another song

entitled "Birdland" by the Manhattan Transfer.

[Joe Power]

24. I might cry even more

If they covered Patti Smith's version. ;)

[Shrubhater]

28. Don't worry,

That song bears no resemblance to the other song.

[KurtNYC]

7. Bruce Springsteen - Philadelphia

also
Piano Concerto No.21 in C by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

[kariatari]

125. Indeed!

[MsAnthropy]

8. "Leader of the Band" Dan Fogelberg's song about his father

Clapton's song about his son
that Mike and the Mechanic song about forgiving--what is that?! I can't remember

[loudestchick]

17. "In the living years" I've actually had to pull over for that song!

All three of your picks reduce me to weeping.

[donheld]

53. "In the living years" makes me sick

Some fathers are not what they should be

[Radio_Lady]

74. I sent a cassette of Mike and the Mechanics to a child of ours...

but never heard a word back.

[MsAnthropy]

88. It probably had the intended effect, though

that's a really powerful song. I'm not so good at forgiving and it hits home every time.

[MsAnthropy]

91. Me too

I didn't cry when my dad died until I was driving and this came on the radio. I sobbed through the whole thing and every time since!

[mother earth]

89. Agree wholeheartedly MsAnthropy

Leader of the Band always gets me crying, & Eric Clapton's song too, don't know the other....

[Coventina]

9. Cliche I know but....."Cat's In the Cradle"

"We'll get together then, dad...."

:cry:

[Radio_Lady]

73. Yeah, "Cat's In the Cradle" makes me weepy too...

But we're getting together with our grandson (and maybe our son, too, after years of estrangement)...

[Bertha Venation]

10. The Star-Spangled Banner

I think "America the Beautiful" should be the national anthem but the one we have now does it to me at every ball game. I can't help myself.

[kittycat1164]

11. Puff the Magic Dragon

Can't listen to it -- breaks me up every time.

[kslib]

14. Oh god!

I'm crying right now, just thinking about it

[Joe Power]

99. LOL!

So, it's not just me???

[kslib]

103. No way

When the little boy grows up, I just bawl!

[micrometer_50]

12. the Dance

And now I'm glad I didn't know
The way it all would end the way it all would go
Our lives are better left to chance I could have missed the pain
But I'd of had to miss the dance

[Robroy]

13. Springsteen's "Wreck On The Highway"

n/t

[TX-RAT]

15. 1 tin soldier

[u4ic]

29. That one gets me too

Also Livin In Shame by the Supremes, and Cat's in the Cradle and Taxi by Harry Chapin.

:cry: just even thinking about them.

[fluffernutter]

46. yep, me too, ever since i was little this made me cry.

[Shakespeare]

18. It's Not Easy Bein' Green

Yes, really.

[Patsy Stone]

79. I bawl... My mother did too. n/t

[lastliberalintexas]

135. Ah, Kermit

But it's his Rainbow Connection that does me in.

[Coventina]

19. "Baby Mine" from Dumbo

I know, it's my second post on this thread, but it really makes me bawl, snotty nose and everything.

[Joe Power]

22. great song

Have you ever heard Bonnie Raitt's version?

[deerhead]

36. Karla Bonoff's "Daddy's Little Girl"

makes me cry every time

[Beaverhausen]

41. Her version kills me!

but there is just something about the melody of that song that gets me everytime. :cry:

[Pacifist Patriot]

44. No, but I love Allison Kraus' version.

[Left Is Write]

93. Allison's version of "When You Say Nothing At All" can bring a tear

to my eye.

For that matter, so can the original by Keith Whitley.

[Coventina]

121. Yes I have!

Isn't it on that excellent compilation "Stay Awake"?

[Joe Power]

122. It sure is

The 'Mats doing "Cruella Deville" and Tom Waits bizarre version of "Hi Ho" are also on there, along with some other very cool covers.

[fluffernutter]

55. me too. and You'll Be In My Heart from Tarzan.

[lastliberalintexas]

136. Bette Midler did a fantastic

version of that song. And yes, it chokes me up too- especially now that I am a parent.

Also Bette's version of One for the Road, which was the song she sang to Johnny Carson the night he retired. Oh, it's just awful.

[Blue-Jay]

21. "I don't like Mondays" by Geldoff/Boomtown Rats

[hlthe2b]

142. I might cry now for different reasons--after rewatching the young Geldof

in LiveAid and knowing all the trauma in his life since then... The guy really has had a rough ride.

[Shrubhater]

25. "Loving You"

By Minnie Rippleton. Makes my cry every time.:cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:

[livinginphotographs]

26. Not a tear necessarily, but an instant seriousness.

Joy Divison's "Insight." Especially spooky since Ian Curtis killed himself shortly after the release of the second album. It reads like a suicide note:

Guess your dreams always end.
They don't rise up, just descend,
But I don't care anymore,
I've lost the will to want more,
I'm not afraid not at all,
I watch them all as they fall,
But I remember when we were young.

Those with habits of waste,
Their sense of style and good taste,
Of making sure you were right,
Hey don't you know you were right?
I'm not afraid anymore,
I keep my eyes on the door,
But I remember....

Tears of sadness for you,
More upheaval for you,
Reflects a moment in time,
A special moment in time,
Yeah we wasted our time,
We didn't really have time,
But we remember when we were young.

And all God's angels beware,
And all you judges beware,
Sons of chance, take good care,
For all the people not there,
I'm not afraid anymore,
I'm not afraid anymore,
I'm not afraid anymore,
Oh, I'm not afraid anymore.

[Blue-Jay]

27. Also "Carrickfergus"

That one always makes me shed a tear for some reason.

I wish I was in Carrickfergus
Only for nights in Ballygrand
I would swim over the deepest ocean
Just to see my love before I die

But the sea is wide and I cannot swim over
Nor have I wings so I could fly
I wish I could meet a handsome boatman
To carry me over my love and I

In Kilkenny it is reported
On marble stones as black as ink
With gold and silver I did support her
But I'll sing no more till I've had a drink

Well I'm drunk today and I'm seldom sober
A handsome rover from town to town
But I am sick now my days are numbered
Come all you young men and lay me down
Come all you young men and lay me down


It's about a man dealing with regret and his own mortality. Deep stuff.

[Joe Power]

30. No one has said...

..."Danny Boy" yet???

:cry:

[FarLeftRage]

31. Blitzkrieg Bop & Howling At The Moon

Hey ho, let's go Hey ho, let's go Hey ho, let's go Hey ho, let's go
They're forming in straight line
They're going through a tight wind
The kids are losing their minds
The Blitzkrieg Bop

They're piling in the back seat
They're generating steam heat
Pulsating to the back beat
The Blitzkrieg Bop

Hey ho, let's go
Shoot'em in the back now
What they want, I don't know
They're all reved up and ready to go

This song gets me all squishy inside out...

Sha-la-la-la
sha-la-la-la-la-la


ships are docking
planes are landing
a never ending supply

no more nargo
no more gangster
conservatives can cry

i took the law and threw it away
cause there's nothing wrong
it's just for play
theres no law, no law anymore
i want to steal from the rich &
give to the poor

sha-la-la-la
sha-la-la-la-la-la

it was glowing, glowing, glowing
glowing in the dark
it was sparkling, sparkling, sparkling
sparking in the night
i took the law & threw it away
cause there's nothing wrong
it's just for play

theres no law, no law anymore
i want to steal from the rich &
give to the poor

winter turns to summer
sadness turns to fun
keep the faith, baby
you broke the rules & won

sha-la-la-la
sha-la-la-la-la-la

keep it glowing, glowing,glowing
I'm not hurting anyone
keep it glowing, smoking, glowing
I'm howling at the moon
i took the law & threw it away
cause there's nothing wrong
it's just for play
theres no law, no law anymore
i want to steal from the rich &
give to the poor

oh baby
oh baby
oh baby
oh baby

i took the law & threw it away
cause there's nothing wrong
it's just for play

I'm smoking, baby
I'm smoking, oh baby

theres no law, no law anymore
i want to steal from the rich &
give to the poor

sha-la-la-la
sha-la-la-la-la-la

This song reminds me that there will be justice one day...

[Padraig18]

32. "Ave Maria"

My Gran has a CD of Perry Como (don't laugh--- she's old) singing it that brings tears to your eyes.

[Patiod]

104. My mother loves Perry Como, and still plays those albums

For some reason "Magic Moments" always gets to me

[nuxvomica]

119. The most beautiful song ever

It chokes me up for the sheer beauty of it.

[Miami Liberal]

33. "Pictures of You" by The Cure

I've been looking so long at these pictures of you
That I almost believe that they're real
I've been living so long with my pictures of you
That I almost believe that the pictures are
All I can feel

Remembering
You standing quiet in the rain
As I ran to your heart to be near
And we kissed as the sky fell in
Holding you close
How I always held close in your fear
Remembering
You running soft through the night
You were bigger and brighter and wider than snow
And screamed at the make-believe
Screamed at the sky
And you finally found all your courage
To let it all go

Remembering
You fallen into my arms
Crying for the death of your heart
You were stone white
So delicate
Lost in the cold
You were always so lost in the dark
Remembering
You how you used to be
Slow drowned
You were angels
So much more than everything
Hold for the last time then slip away quietly
Open my eyes
But I never see anything

If only I'd thought of the right words
I could have held on to your heart
If only I'd thought of the right words
I wouldn't be breaking apart
All my pictures of you

Looking so long at these pictures of you
But I never hold on to your heart
Looking so long for the words to be true
But always just breaking apart
My pictures of you

There was nothing in the world
That I ever wanted more
Than to feel you deep in my heart
There was nothing in the world
That I ever wanted more
Than to never feel the breaking apart
All my pictures of you

[livinginphotographs]

40. Good one.

"From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea" and "Trust" are two of my faves that instantly stab at me. (different album, I know, but still good)

[lastliberalintexas]

137. Letter to Elise, also

Though really anything sung by Robert Smith would be terribly sad.

[jdots]

34. Stairway to Heaven

if i hear it one more time i will break down and cry like a baby.

[jdots]

35. seriously now " A change is gonna come "

the Soloman Burke version.

[Patiod]

105. Yikes - "Stairway" reminds me too much of high school

the "last dance" at HS dances, where you got stuck being pawed by some short sweaty dweeb for 15 minutes.

NOT good memories

[Pacifist Patriot]

38. Sheesh, tons, but the most recent was John Mayer's "Daughters"...

Which is odd because I have three sons and no daughters. Maybe because I'm a daughter?

[Pacifist Patriot]

39. Have to add "Traveling Soldier" by the Dixie Chicks

I found out a friend of mine had died in Gulf War I when it was announced on stage at a Spring break glee club concert. I lost it and had to go out to the lobby. The superintendent joined me and I heard later he didn't make the announcement on stage for the rest of the tour.

[Beaverhausen]

42. You'll Never Walk Alone - especially at the end of Jerry's Telethon

oh boy does that song get me!

[Boswells_Johnson]

43. He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother

does it to me every time.

[eoberhauser]

45. Wow I'm really susceptible to this...

Danny Boy - just about any variation will do it
Landslide (Fleetwood Mac)
Somewhere over the Rainbow
Basically anything Tori Amos (Little Earthquakes thru Pele Only!)

Oh there's so much more!

Erin

[Pale Blue Dot]

58. Funny thing about "Landslide"

For years I never cared for this song, but I had never really listened to the words. Then it came on the muzak at the store one day, and I finally heard the words and realized what it was about.

I had to go into a stall in the men's room. :cry:

[Kathy in Cambridge]

47. Don't Laugh but "Moon River" seems to get me

I think it's the association with "Breakfast at Tiffany's".

Also, "Karma Police". Sad melody.

"Love in Vain" Robert Johnson

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

50. "Butterfly Kisses"

NOT! :puke:

Seriously, "Abraham, Martin and John" and Toto's "I Won't Hold You Back" (because it was out at the time my dad died).

[CO Liberal]

48. "Hail to the Chief" since January 20, 2001

:-)

[Ladyhawk]

49. "This is not America" by David Bowie n/t

[CBHagman]

51. "It Makes No Difference" by the Band

Did anyone ever convey grief and vulnerability better than Rick Danko? Okay, I mean BESIDES Richard Manuel.

I also like their covers of "Share Your Love with Me" and "A Change Is Going to Come."

[Boswells_Johnson]

75. Rick Danko had the voice of an angel

"Too Soon Gone", from 1993 was amazing.

[Joe Power]

96. No doubt about it

The Band was a treasure.

[tyedyeto]

52. 'Here Comes the Sun' Beatles

Was played at a Celebration of Life for a good friend of mine after she underwent a heart/lung transplant that didn't work out................................always makes me think of Sue. <BIG SIGH>

[fluffernutter]

54. Same Old Lang Syne

Met my old lover in the grocery store
The snow was falling Christmas Eve
I stole behind her in the frozen foods
And I touched her on the sleeve
She didn't recognize the face at first
But then her eyes flew open wide
She went to hug me and she spilled her purse
And we laughed until we cried.

We took her groceries to the checkout stand
The food was totalled up and bagged
We stood there lost in our embarrassment
As the conversation dragged.
We went to have ourselves a drink or two
But couldn't find an open bar
We bought a six-pack at the liquor store
And we drank it in her car.

We drank a toast to innocence
We drank a toast to now
And tried to reach beyond the emptiness
But neither one knew how.

She said she'd married her an architect
Who kept her warm and safe and dry
She would have liked to say she loved the man
But she didn't like to lie.
I said the years had been a friend to her
And that her eyes were still as blue
But in those eyes I wasn't sure if I saw
Doubt or gratitude.

She said she saw me in the record stores
And that I must be doing well
I said the audience was heavenly
But the traveling was hell.

We drank a toast to innocence
We drank a toast to now
And tried to reach beyond the emptiness
But neither one knew how.

We drank a toast to innocence
We drank a toast to time
Reliving in our eloquence
Another 'auld lang syne'...

The beer was empty and our tongues were tired
And running out of things to say
She gave a kiss to me as I got out
And I watched her drive away.
Just for a moment I was back at school
And felt that old familiar pain
And as I turned to make my way back home
The snow turned into rain

[JanMichael]

56. One Tin Soldier. I get all goofy when I here that one.

Just goofy....

[cry baby]

57. Last Chance Texaco by Ricki Lee Jones, Tuesday Afternoon

by the Moody Blues, The Dance by what's his name, Here comes the sun by the Beatles, Sad Lisa by Cat Stevens......I could go on and on, but I'm starting to get teary just thinking about it.

[Zomby Woof]

59. Searching For A Heart

Warren Zevon. Great, great song, from his 1991 release "Mr. Bad Example".

[AlienGirl]

60. Lightning Crashes by Live

Lightning crashes, a new mother cries
Her placenta falls to the floor
The angel opens her eyes
The confusion sets in
Before the doctor can even close the door

Lightning crashes, an old mother dies
Her intentions fall to the floor
The angel closes her eyes
The confusion that was hers
Belongs now, to the baby down the hall

Oh now feel it comin’ back again
Like a rollin’ thunder chasing the wind
Forces pullin’ from the center of the earth again
I can feel it.

Lightning crashes, a new mother cries
This moment she’s been waiting for
The angel opens her eyes
Pale blue colored iris, presents the circle
And puts the glory out to hide, hide
---

The line, "The confusion that was hers/belongs now to the baby down the hall" gives me goosebumps.

Tucker

[Left Is Write]

94. Yep, me too.

[patcox2]

115. My father died in a hospital room just feet from where my boy was born.

So that song just kinda hits that situation. Then I heard Paul Carrack sing "living years" in concert (with Ringo Starr of all things) and I had never heard the lyrics before and that hit too.

[patcox2]

116. Veronica, for the reminder, that every old woman was once a young girl

With dreams and hopes and magic. Old ladies dancing always get to me. Everyone deserves to be beautiful.

[EstimatedProphet]

61. Stella Blue

Jerry closed out the last show I ever saw with Stella Blue, just a few days before he checked into rehab and died.

[WindRavenX]

62. "Let Go" Frou Frou

Ya know, the song from Garden State? Jeebus, that song KILLS me...

[Cymbaline68]

63. Two Songs

Beautiful Child-Fleetwood Mac
Wish You Were Here-Pink Floyd

[frictionlessO]

64. Tori Amos' "I Can't See New York"

She was really in the air that day, coming in for Letterman... she was the first musical act on his after 911, her and Dan Rather.... Im crying remembering it as I wirte these words...

Anyways, worsd alone dont do it justice and the jagged writing style is intentional.

anyway heres the song



I Cant See New York



from here
no lines are
drawn
from here
no lands
are owned
13,000 and holding
swallowed
in the purring
of her engines
tracking the beacon
here
"is there a signal
there
on the other side"
on the other side?
what do you mean
side of what things?
and you said
and you did
and you said
you could find me here
and you said
you would find me
even in death
and you said
and you said
you'd find me
but i can't see new york as i'm, circling down
through white cloud
falling out
and i know
his lips are warm
but i can't seem
to find my way out
my way out i can't see.
of this hunting ground
from here crystal meth
in metres of millions
in the end all we have,
soul blueprint.
did we get lost in it
do we conduct a search
for this "from the other side"
from the other side?
what do they mean
side of what things...
and you said.
you again
it's you again
i can't see
i can't see new york from the other side
from the other side
i hum from the other side

[IHeart1993]

65. Hero- Mariah Carey

In 8th grade, I danced with a guy that I loved in my class. He was one of the few guys in my class who was really kind to me. I think of him when I hear that song. I relly miss him.

[hlthe2b]

66. Some great tear-jerkers here, all! Next time I need a good "purge,"

I'll know what to have playing in the background!

[Kire]

67. I made a Funeral playlist for my iPod

65 sad songs and counting.

Here is a sample:

Wild Horses, Love in Vain - Rolling Stones
Many Rivers to Cross - Jimmy Cliff
Hurt - the Nine Inch Nails version and the Johnny Cash version
Flower's Grave, House Where Nobody Lives - Tom Waits
Lonesome Tears - Beck
Something in the Night - Bruce Springsteen
The Scientist, Everything's Not Lost - Coldplay
The Other Side - David Gray
Who'll Stop the Rain - Creedence Clearwater Revival
Perfect Day - Lou Reed
Oh What a World - Rufus Wainwright

and a bunch of others

BTW, "Fly Away from Here" by Aerosmith (from Just Push Play) is incredibly tear-jerking. The lyrics are ostensibly about moving geographically, but that chorus is so obviously about death and dying. So beautiful.

[kittycat1164]

83. I have a 'Songs to kill yourself by' playlist. n/t

[kariatari]

126. great tunes! some of them just don't remind me of death. o well.

[pres2032]

68. "I don't like Mondays" by tori Amos

incredibly sad. about a girl who shoots up her school.


Also "Heal my Soul" by Savatage.
about a guy on his deathbed asking Jesus for forgivness. :cry:

[Bullwinkle925]

69. O My Gosh!!

Roy Orbison or Gene Pitney's voices can reel my heart in.

[WCGreen]

70. The Bravest by Tom Paxton...

The first plane hit the other tower
Right after I came in.
It left a gaping, fiery hole
Where offices had been.
We stood and watched in horror
As we saw the first ones fall.
Then someone yelled "Get out! Get out!
They're trying to kill us all."

I grabbed the pictures from my desk
And joined the flight for life.
With every step I called the names
Of my children and my wife.
And then we heard them coming up
From several floors below.
A crowd of fire fighters,
With their heavy gear in tow.

CHORUS:
Now every time I try to sleep
I'm haunted by the sound,
Of firemen pounding up the stairs
While we were running down.

And when we met them on the stairs
They said we were too slow.
"Get out! Get out!" they yelled at us -
"The whole thing's going to go"
They didn't have to tell us twice -
We'd seen the world on fire.
We kept on running down the stairs
While they kept climbing higher.

CHORUS:
Now every time I try to sleep
I'm haunted by the sound,
Of firemen pounding up the stairs
While we were running down.

Thank God, we made it to the street;
We ran through ash and smoke.
I did not know which way to run -
I thought that I would choke.
A fireman took me by the arm
And pointed me uptown.
Then "Christ!" I heard him whisper
As the tower came pounding down.

So, now I go to funerals
For men I never knew.
The pipers play Amazing Grace,
As the coffins come in view.
They must have seen it coming
When they turned to face the fire.
They sent us down to safety,
Then they kept on climbing higher

CHORUS:
Now every time I try to sleep
I'm haunted by the sound,
Of firemen pounding up the stairs
While we were running down.


(Audio from Garrison Keillor's radio show A Prairie Home Companion)

[miss_kitty]

71. Blame Canada

and Uncle Fucker.

[Radio_Lady]

72. "Sunrise, Sunset" from "Fiddler on the Roof"

We raised five kids. Some relationships didn't last. This song always gives me a lump in my throat.

[Patsy Stone]

76. She - Elvis Costello -- written by Charles Aznavour

She may be the face I can't forget
The trace of pleasure or regret
Maybe my treasure or the price I have to pay
She may be the song that summer sings
May be the chill that autumn brings
May be a hundred different things
Within the measure of a day

She may be the beauty or the beast
May be the famine or the feast
May turn each day into a Heaven or a Hell
She may be the mirror of my dreams
A smile reflected in a stream
She may not be what she may seem
Inside her shell....

She, who always seems so happy in a crowd
Whose eyes can be so private and so proud
No one's allowed to see them when they cry
She maybe the love that cannot hope to last
May come to me from shadows in the past
That I remember 'till the day I die

She maybe the reason I survive
The why and wherefore I'm alive
The one I care for through the rough and ready years

Me, I'll take the laughter and her tears
And make them all my souvenirs
For where she goes I've got to be
The meaning of my life is
She....She
Oh, she....

[Joe Power]

102. Also, "A Good Year For the Roses"

[Patsy Stone]

108. When I saw him

on the "When I was Cruel" tour, I cried the entire time. Even during the fast songs. He'd get into that hunched, guitar-playing Elvis C. pose and I'd lose it. My husband thought I was nuts. His voice just kills me... He rules.

[samplegirl]

77. WHite Christmas

daman .............it kills

[Floogeldy]

78. Constant Craving

Its beautiful.

[Thor_MN]

80. Tim McGraw "Don't take the girl"

From a phase where I was dating a girl who liked country and lived 150 miles away - lots of driving. A lot of country is easy to sing along with in the car - I could never make through this one without choking up.

[davis_islander]

81. Sweet Child of Mine....

By Guns and Roses. Lump-in-the-throat-city.

[SCDem]

82. Hurt by Johnny Cash

and the watching the video makes me even more emotional

[Jessica]

100. I hear you on that one. It was like his goodbye.

Gets me everytime.

[DebinTx]

84. Dust in the Wind by Kansas

that song really brings home the message that we're just a half-second blip on the radar screen.

[Bridget Burke]

85. While riding on a train going West

I fell asleep for to take my rest.
I dreamed a dream that made me sad,
concerning myself & the first few friends I had.

---B Dylan

[Florida_Geek]

86. Leather and Lace (reminds me of my love for a GF)

Leather and Lace
- written by Stevie Nicks
- duet recorded with Don Henley
- appears on Bella Donna (1981); Timespace - The Best of Stevie Nicks (1991);
The Enchanted Boxed Set (1998)
- released as a single; b-side: Bella Donna (U.S. October 1981)
- released as a single; b-side: Outside the Rain (U.K. October 1981)
- hit #6 on the Pop Charts

Leather & Lace

Lyrics

Is love so fragile...
and the heart so hollow
Shatter with words...
impossible to follow
You're saying I'm fragile...I try not to be
I search only...for something I can't see

I have my own life...and I am stronger
Than you know
But I carry this feeling
When you walked into my house
That you won't be walking out the door
Still I carry this feeling
When you walked into my house
That you won't be walking out the door

Lovers forever...face to face
My city or mountains
Stay with me stay
I need you to love me
I need you today
Give to me your leather...
Take from me...my lace

You in the moonlight
With your sleepy eyes
Could you ever love a man like me
And you were right
When I walked into your house
I knew I'd never want to leave
Sometimes I'm a strong man
Sometimes cold and scared
And sometimes I cry
But that time I saw you
I knew with you to light my nights
Somehow I'd get by
First time I saw you
I knew with you to light my nights
Somehow I would get by

Lovers forever...face to face
My city or mountains
Stay with me stay
I need you to love me
I need you today
Give to me your leather
Take from me...my lace

Lovers forever...face to face
My city or mountains...stay with me stay
I need you to love me...I need you to stay
Give to me your leather
Take from me...my lace
Take from me...my lace
Take from me...my lace

Th

[sendero]

87. "Love and Anger" - Kate Bush & "This will be Our Year" - Zombies

But the funny thing is, even tho both are love songs of a sort, I could not tell you why these two particular songs get to me, but they do.

It is really strange.

[SCDem]

90. This will be our year

I think that was a song on one of the CDs I got while giving to MoveOn.... This will be our year took a long time to come.... that song makes me kind of teary eyed too because I listened to it with such hope and conviction before the election that we were going to win... but I still listen to it now and though it does leave me a bit sad I still have hope for the future

[Patsy Stone]

109. Kate is God: The Man with the Child in His Eyes gets me every time n/t

[City of Mills]

92. What a Wonderful World - Louis Armstrong

I see trees of green, red roses too
I see them bloom for me and you
And I think to myself, what a wonderful world

I see skies of blue and clouds of white
The bright blessed day, the dark sacred night
And I think to myself, what a wonderful world

The colours of the rainbow, so pretty in the sky
Are also on the faces of people going by
I see friends shakin' hands, sayin' "How do you do?"
They're really saying "I love you"

I hear babies cryin', I watch them grow
They'll learn much more than I'll ever know
And I think to myself, what a wonderful world
Yes, I think to myself, what a wonderful world

[Patiod]

107. The Izzy version sends chills down my spine

Who would think falsetto + ukelele = genius?

[City of Mills]

117. Agreed!

Man, I miss the big guy :(

[hlthe2b]

133. Yes... with all due respect to Satchmo, but Izzy's version is

incredible...

[northzax]

143. yeah, bit Izzy cheated

and combined it with somewhere over the rainbow, that's not fair.

but you have to cry at the Dr Green Death Song, as it shall always be known in these parts.

I will contribute Iron and Wine's Such Great Heights, Hefner's Hymn for the Cigarettes, Tom Jones' Green, Green Grass of Home, and of course, Rufus' Hallelujah

[RUDUing2]

95. New one: 100 yrs...older one: its goofy, but:

"he stopped loving her today"...

[City of Mills]

97. Put Your Dreams Away - Frank Sinatra

Put your dreams away for another day
And I will take their place in your heart
Wishing on a star never got you far
And so it’s time to make a new start

When your dreams at night
Fade before you
Then I’ll have the right
To adore you

Let your kiss confess this is happiness, darling
And put all your dreams away

[Jessica]

98. "Get Together" -- The Youngbloods

Don't know why it always gets me -- I guess just because it reflects a time of hope & change.

Some may come and some may go
And we shall surely pass
When the one that left us here
Returns for us at last
We are but a moment’s sunlight
Fading in the grass

Come on people now
Smile on your brother
Everybody get together
Try to love one another right now

[Beer Snob-50]

101. My Way by Frank Sinatra

or any other Italian wobbler. I don't know why but this song does it for me.

[Joe Power]

106. I prefer Sid's version

Not really, I love them both equally. :kick:

[Phillycat]

110. "Informer" by Snow.

Not really.

[Patiod]

111. Dar Williams "When I Was a Boy"

and some I don't understand, like Dan Fogelberg's "Run for the Roses"

Songs my dad sang to me as lullabies, like Turaluralura, Danny Boy, and The Whiffenpoof Song (my dad is still alive, so beats me why this chokes me up)

Izzy's version of Over the Rainbow/It's a Wonderful World (even sadder now that he's gone)

The fourth verse of America the Beautiful, which used to get me even before 9/11:
Oh, beautiful for patriot's dream
That sees beyond the years;
Whose alabaster cities gleam
Undimmed by human tears.
America, America,
God shed His grace on thee
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea....

[corksean]

112. "Scorn not his simplicity" by Luke Kelly You probably never heard

of this song or Luke Kelly, regarded by many, including Bob Dylan, as one of the finest folk voices of his generation. The song was written by Phil Coulter about his autistic son, and I defy anyone to listen to it without filling up.
You can see / hear a snippet at

http://www.knockea.utvinternet.com/pages/singalong/scorn_not_his_simplicity.htm

See the child
With the golden hair
Yet eyes that show the emptiness inside
Do we know
Can we understand just how he feels
Or have we really tried

See him now
As he stands alone
And watches children play a children's game
Simple child
He looks almost like the others
Yet they know he's not the same

Scorn not his simplicity
But rather try to love him all the more
Scorn not his simplicity
Oh no
Oh no

See him stare
Not recognizing the kind face
That only yesterday he loved
The loving face
Of a mother who can't understand what she's been guilty of

How she cried tears of happiness
The day the doctor told her it's a boy
Now she cries tears of helplessness
And thinks of all the things he can't enjoy

Scorn not his simplicity
But rather try to love him all the more
Scorn not his simplicity
Oh no
Oh no

Only he knows how to face the future hopefully
Surrounded by despair
He won't ask for your pity or your sympathy
But surely you should care

Scorn not his simplicity
But rather try to love him all the more
Scorn not his simplicity
Oh no
Oh no
Oh no

[nuxvomica]

113. "Against All Odds" and "American Tune"

The former was a hit for Phil Collins around the time I lost my best friend:

How can you just walk away from me,
When all I can do is watch you leave
Cos we’ve shared the laughter and the pain and even shared the tears
You’re the only one who really knew me at all

So take a look at me now, oh there’s just an empty space
And there’s nothing left here to remind me,
Just the memory of your face
Ooh take a look at me now, well there’s just an empty space
And you coming back to me is against all odds and that’s what I’ve got to face.

The latter gets me all choked up over patriotism and how the great experiment of American democracy has played out. It makes me both sad and hopeful, like Arundhati Roy's quote about how we are not a great nation but we might be a great people:

And I don't know a soul who's not been battered.
I don't have a friend who feels at ease.
I don't know a dream that's not been shattered,
or driven to its knees.
Ah, but it's all right. It's all right.
For we've lived so well so long.
Still, when I think of the road we're travelin' on,
I wonder what's gone wrong.
I can't help but wonder what's gone wrong.
...
And we come on the ship they call the Mayflower.
We come on the ship that sailed the moon.
We come at the age's most uncertain hour,
and sing an American tune.

[hlthe2b]

134. Oh, yeah.. very bad breakup about the time of "Against All Odds...."

Lots of tears spilled to that....

[bobbobbins]

114. A little rain - tom waits, taxi - harry chapin, father & son -cat stevens

They've all turned me into a wuss

[leftofthedial]

118. Tecumseh Valley

Townes Van Zandt

[otohara]

120. Moodswings - State of Independence w/ MLK I Have A Dream Speech

I love hearing MLK speech to some nice music

[sugarmags]

123. Blackbird

Blackbird by The Beatles. Makes me think of my poor Casey dog that passed away in August with bladder cancer.

Just singing it in my head makes me well up.

[DS1]

124. that xmas "rum bumbumpbump bum" song fills me with such rage

there could be a tear or two

[Magrittes Pipe]

127. "The Humpty Dance"

Digital Underground cuts me to the quick. I, too, once got busy in a Burger King bathroom. Ah, memories. :cry:

[dolo amber]

128. Ok, I know I've posted this on a million threads

(this subject has come up before... ;))

Fishbone

Sunless Saturday


I see the pestilence outside my window
I see the dung heaps piled at least a mile high
I see the shards of shattered dreams in the street
I face the morning with my customary sigh

I hear the sounds of children laughing aloud
A stumbling wino has attracted quite a crowd
My breakfast finished now I brave the outside
But clouds have hidden all the warmth inside


Chase these clouds away
I hate this sunless Saturday


Freedom come
For us now
Light our sky
Burn away these clouds


Perhaps the charcoal grey and brown around me
Is just the mirror image of my tainted soul
I think the sun will never visit my sky
Until the truth is seen by each and every eye

I see the helpless and I see the insane
I see a pauper singing in the pouring rain
I see the means of help elude us again
I think the sun will never visit me again



Never fails to put a lump in my throat... :(

[kariatari]

129. "One" by U2 (when played live)/ "Fake Plastic Trees" by Radiohead

[Merrick]

130. Pitseleh - Elliot Smith

[Tyrone Slothrop]

131. "No Surprises" - Radiohead

Such a sad song...

[ET Awful]

132. Barbie Girl - Aqua

They're tears of pain, but you didn't mention what kind of tears :)

[Politicub]

138. "Crying" - the Roy Orbison, kd lang duet version

Another one is Imagine by john lennon.

[DemVIctory]

140. A few songs by Bob Dylan

'A Dying Cub Fans Last Request' by Steve Goodman, and just about anything by the Minutemen. Truth hurts real bad sometimes, even if told through humor!

[Skittles]

145. Bridge Over Troubled Water

that part where he sings "I'm sailing right behind.....I will ease your mind." - oh, it tears me up.