OT: songs that draw a tear or make your cry

Submitted by WindyCityBlue on August 13th, 2022 at 10:48 PM

I’m just trying to get in as much OT action before the season begins. So what songs cultivate a strong emotional reaction with you? Weather that’s a few tears to full on crying. 
 

Mine are:

1. Mother - Pink Floyd

2. Give me Something to Believe in - Poison

3. Philadelphia - Neil Young

I’m skipping several, but wanted to get the input from the MgoGlitterati.
 

So what say you MgoBoard?
 

 

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mooseman

August 13th, 2022 at 11:01 PM ^

All the father and son ones. Living Years and Father and Son as above. Cat's in the Cradle by Harry Chapin. Springsteen Independence Day, My Father's House, Factory (even though it's not specifically "father" makes me think of my dad particularly "factory takes his hearing, factory gives him life". 

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XM - Mt 1822

August 14th, 2022 at 6:55 AM ^

didn't mean to make you get verklempt, sorry about that. 

thank you for sharing this photo.  i know this isn't the time or place but i'm guessing hearing about your father, his life, the military part of it, etc. would be very interesting.

fortunately my dad and i were pretty close, especially after mom died when i was a kid.  i have close relationships with my own children but, like a marriage, i don't take them for granted and i try my imperfect best to nurture those bonds.  when the last of them leave home it will be very difficult.  very. 

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Blueblood80

August 14th, 2022 at 9:22 AM ^

Wow.  I know that song but never really knew the lyrics.  Good one!  
As someone else said, any song to do with father and son relationships gets me.  As someone who had a terrible relationship with his father and now is a father to 3 boys, I never can hold my shit together when those songs come on.  I have many of them, both secular and non-secular, but the one I just thought of was the Zac Brown song “My old man”

https://youtu.be/T_uGcW-v5EI

I remember a few years ago driving to a job site and had to take an extra long detour because this song came on and had hit just right.  I’m sure I showed up with puffy red eyes and all. Good stuff!
 

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lawlright

August 14th, 2022 at 4:31 AM ^

Pneuma huh?

I just wish that Maynard had popped off on this album. Just once. The whole album needed just one Maynard scream in it and it would have been a masterpiece and imo it's a shame it never happened because now it's their best and probably last? piece of work together and it's always going to be missing that. 

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Mattinboots

August 14th, 2022 at 2:17 PM ^

Danny said back in March fans won’t have to wait 13 years. So maybe we will get a new one. The way they record, or so I have heard it, is interesting: 1) Danny, Adam, and Justin compose and do all the music, 2) they send the instrumentals to Maynard who writes the lyrics and melodies for the vocals, 3) Maynard records his vocals, 4) they do the final mix. 
 

so they don’t have to get everyone together to do it. This works well since Maynard is generally the busiest what with Puscifer and Perfect Circle gigs too. 

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Twitch

August 13th, 2022 at 11:21 PM ^

My uncle committed suicide and it was the first "real" funeral i had in my life... I was a senior in high school.  His two favorite songs were "Turn the Page" and "Every Rose Has It's Thorn".  I can still close my eyes and see my dad (his brother) closing his eyes and bobbing his head to the song....  hurts every damn time I hear those songs.  My uncle's dad also committed suicide, my second cousin committed suicide, and my aunt "has had her problems" according to my dad.  As a result, "Hold On" by Good Charlotte hits hard.  Lately "Under Your Scars" by Godsmack has evoked some tears.  In my hope that there's still something to live for (I've had my own desires to end it) "I Believe" by Blessed Union of Souls is a tear jerker.  Any time I see Skillet live something makes me tear up.  Hope?  I don't know.  But this list could go on forever.

Edit*  Just had one come across my YouTube...  its a certain version but if you know your Alice In Chains, the unplugged version of Nutshell is soul crushing.  "If I can't be my own,  I'd feel better dead" ...

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Twitch

August 14th, 2022 at 12:09 AM ^

To quell some fears/concerns, the desires/demons have way duller teeth than they used to.  I refrained from commenting on the substance abuse thread because they (substance abuse and depression) are so intertwined its hard to give advice from the inside.  At least for me.  I've always felt like you can't give advice on beating demons when you can't even tame your own.  And always, Go Blue!

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Twitch

August 15th, 2022 at 10:08 PM ^

I often wonder how things would have turned out for him if Demri hadn't died.  

This thread ended up being somewhat cathartic for me (cheers OP).  Some people listed some songs that used to really get to me.  "The Dance" by Garth Brooks and "Black" by Pearl Jam being two of them.  "Vermillion" by Slipknot used to be my go to song to release rage over a break up.  "Remember Everything" and "Coming Down" by 5 Finger Death Punch (I know, they aren't well liked) are two songs that still hit very hard.  "Fixxxer" by Metallica is a very poignant song for me.  "Citizen Soldier" by 3 Doors Down and "Hero" by Skillet were songs that brought me to tears when my WW2 veteran grandfather passed away and still make me think of him.  

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