OT: songs that draw a tear or make your cry
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?
August 13th, 2022 at 11:37 PM ^
“hallelujah”
Jeff Buckley
August 13th, 2022 at 11:38 PM ^
”E is for estranged”
owen pallet
August 13th, 2022 at 11:49 PM ^
... "This Woman's Work"
... followed by "Hello Earth" and "A Choral Room" (inspired by her mom).
August 13th, 2022 at 11:50 PM ^
Mama Said - Metallica?
August 13th, 2022 at 11:40 PM ^
Family Business-Kanye West.
When I met my wife, we both found that we loved this obscure song off of Kanye’s first album. I was a huge West fan, and she just happened to stumble upon the song.
For some reason that song has always been one of both of our “go to” in emotional times. I’ve always liked the song too because it was originally recorded in 1999. Long before Kanye was well…Kanye. Just a kid from Chicago mixing something up in the studio, rapping about something he loved. It’s a reminder about the importance of family, and that before all the fame, glory, or success you achieve in your life, it was your family who was with you when you were just, well…you
August 13th, 2022 at 11:40 PM ^
Mother - John Lennon (I could hear the pain and longing in his lyrics and voice for his mother that died when John was young and his father that left the family, again when John was a young boy)
Kathy's Song - Simon & Garfunkel (not really sure why, it's just a beautifully composed, soft acoustic song with lyrics that strike a nerve in my soul)
Your Song - Elton John (written for his father, I think, or maybe it's fictional. Either way it's another one that strikes a nerve with me.)
August 13th, 2022 at 11:52 PM ^
Daddy - ELP
August 13th, 2022 at 11:55 PM ^
Over You - Blake Shelton / Miranda Lambert
Wonderful Tonight - Eric Clapton
August 14th, 2022 at 11:31 AM ^
Have You Ever Really Loved A Woman - Bryan Adams.
Great Spanish guitar work in that song.
August 13th, 2022 at 11:57 PM ^
I’ll tell you what got me. Both Sides Now at the end of the movie Coda when she’s signing the words to her family as she sings.
August 13th, 2022 at 11:58 PM ^
Good topic. For me, it's "Just Breathe" by Pearl Jam. I lost my mom unexpectedly a few years ago (after a botched surgery where she hung on for several days) and this song popped up on the playlist on my way home from the hospital the night she passed. Goes without saying it established a personal connection in my brain I will never shake.
August 14th, 2022 at 12:19 AM ^
Sorry for your loss. One of my personal favorite Pearl Jam songs to sing (perhaps because of the raw emotion involved) is Black. "How quick the sun can drop away" and "I know that someday you'll have a beautiful sun, I know you'll be the star in somebody else's sky but why, why, why can't it be, why can't it be mine?" are two of the best lyrics ever written.
August 14th, 2022 at 11:33 AM ^
My brother loved CSN and died way too you. 'Wooden Ships' reminds me of him.
August 13th, 2022 at 11:58 PM ^
Mr. Brightside when I’m a dozen Space Dusts deep in Indy with the boys and Michigan seals the conference for the first time in 17 years.
August 19th, 2022 at 12:02 PM ^
This might have made me shed a tear.
August 13th, 2022 at 11:59 PM ^
That Christmas song about the kid who wants to buy those red shoes for his dying mom gets me.
August 14th, 2022 at 9:13 AM ^
This is too funny! Maybe the worst saddest Christmas song of all time. "Christmas Shoes"
August 14th, 2022 at 12:11 AM ^
Shine On You Crazy Diamond, an elegy to brilliance lost too soon.
August 14th, 2022 at 12:14 AM ^
George Harrison. What is life. "Who am I without you"
August 14th, 2022 at 12:15 AM ^
Joy of My Life - Chris Stapleton
Can’t even look at my wife when it’s playing - would have written it for her if I had the talent.
August 14th, 2022 at 12:22 AM ^
All my tear-makers are musical theater related, and there are many. It's not necessarily the songs themselves, but the memories associated with them. I've mentored numerous youth theater groups and productions over the past 45 years, and both my children were extremely involved in theater starting at an early age and continuing past their college years--both did a bit of professional work--and the passion with which these youth have performed is what gets my eyes leaking. To name just a couple, 'What I Did For Love' from A Chorus Line and 'Epilogue' (the finale) from Titanic: The Musical get me every time. High school musical theater is a team sport every bit as much as football or softball.
August 14th, 2022 at 12:24 AM ^
Patty loveless. How can I help you to say goodbye.
August 14th, 2022 at 12:28 AM ^
Kid Rock - Picture
After 26 years of marriage my wife divorced me last year, this song gets me a little emotional.
August 14th, 2022 at 11:15 AM ^
That song always reminds me of a coworker from 20 years ago. An older lady who had had a rough life but always sang along to it, ever so softly and mournfully.
As soon as it starts, my mind goes right back to her. I have no idea if she's still alive, but I wish her peace wherever she may be.
August 15th, 2022 at 9:51 AM ^
I am sorry to hear that and I hope you're managing as well as one can
August 14th, 2022 at 12:41 AM ^
Carrie Underwood-How Great Thou Art
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yf6C0L_7-CA
Garth Brooks-The Dance & The Change
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2oGMyJzqM0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Je_k2LIDdYk
Buddy Guy-Feels Like Rain
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClpR3fOKPRA
Stevie Ray Vaughan-Life By the Drop
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJCOlmLxLeg
Frank Zappa-Watermelon in Easter Hay
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWBYjjzKvIw
AC/DC-Ride On
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFUGvdxuQGQ
Johnny Cash-Hurt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AHCfZTRGiI
Love the original by NIN but this one...
August 14th, 2022 at 12:41 AM ^
Into The West by Annie Lennox, played over the closing credits of Return of the King. Gets my waterworks going.
August 14th, 2022 at 12:52 AM ^
Pearl Jam's Last Kiss
Don Mclean's American Pie
Drive-By Truckers' The Deeper In
August 14th, 2022 at 12:56 AM ^
Everclear - Wonderful
James Blunt - Goodbye My Lover
August 14th, 2022 at 1:08 AM ^
There are a lot of songs that move me, but this one in particular seems relevant to our community. Love Betsy is another song from that album that really gets to me.
August 14th, 2022 at 1:13 AM ^
Dear Mama - Tupac
August 14th, 2022 at 1:19 AM ^
America by Simon & Garfunkel
First of all, it’s a beautiful melody.
And, after random whimsical snippets about snack pies, hitchhiking from Saginaw & the man in the gabardine coat being a spy, out of nowhere comes this line:
Kathy, I'm lost", I said, though I knew she was sleeping
I'm empty and aching and I don't know why
Chokes me up every time. I can’t sing along without my voice breaking and a little tear. So many times in our lives, for no apparent reason, in what should be a joyous or light moment, that aching just appears. So poignant. So beautiful. Thank you, Paul.
August 14th, 2022 at 9:01 AM ^
Plus it mentions Saginaw Michigan in there. So there’s that!
August 14th, 2022 at 10:48 AM ^
Simon & Garfunkel were poets at heart, who also happened to make great music. I mentioned Kathy's Song in an above post. They beautifully marry their words to the melody and are able to create a mood in any given verse. Those guys were fantastic.
August 14th, 2022 at 9:17 PM ^
No. Paul Simon is the poet at heart. Garfunkel was just a guy with a sweet voice who could sing nice harmony. He contributed zero to the songwriting, lyrics or otherwise. What did Garfunkel ever do on his own after the breakup? Zilch. Simon, on the other hand is a genius -- musically, poetically, and spiritually.
August 14th, 2022 at 1:01 PM ^
I’m a big fan of Yes’s cover of ‘America’
August 14th, 2022 at 1:55 AM ^
This Jamie Foxx song about his grandma who raised him, https://youtu.be/7QpjYrpZwcQ
August 14th, 2022 at 2:26 AM ^
Strong responses? Four really:
Puccini's Nessun Dorma, performed by Luciano Pavarotti. Once I translated the lyrics for her, my wife cannot help but tear up pondering the emotions of unexpressed love in the song. Her emotions move me.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cWc7vYjgnTs
Our couple's song, to answer the question posed by XM a while back! is Leanne Rimes', "How Do I Live?", especially the version she performed live before the Oscars,
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=syx_R5KQDKc
For me, only two songs really get me going: Eric Clapton's "My Father's Eyes". Long story about the end of my father's life, but all he could was look at you during his last few years. He was a lion in life. A most cruel way to die.
Jimi Hendrix's Star Spangled Banner, the 08/18/1969 @ 8am, Monday morning version. You had to be there. And stand for the performance. I can only play it about once a decade.
August 14th, 2022 at 2:26 AM ^
Right now Nada Surf is helping me with On Whose Authority, I Like What You Say and The Film Does Not Go Round.
Getting excited about the season...happy for Mr Bell and Co.
August 14th, 2022 at 2:42 AM ^
Landslide - Fleetwood Mac
If you're a parent you'll understand why.
"Even children get older, and I'm getting older too"
August 14th, 2022 at 2:57 AM ^
Mercy Street, by Peter Gabriel
August 14th, 2022 at 3:29 AM ^
The Wreck of Edmund Fitzgerald
Last Dance With Mary Jane - “Indiana boys on them Indiana nights”, my father born in Muncie passed a few years ago.
Don’t Take the Girl, absolutely crushes me every time.
August 14th, 2022 at 3:37 AM ^
No Surprises - Radiohead
August 14th, 2022 at 4:40 AM ^
A few Rush songs get me now that Neil Peart is dead. The world is a smaller place without him.
"And the men who hold high places, must be the ones who start, to mold a new reality, closer to the heart"
August 14th, 2022 at 1:12 PM ^
“When they turn the pages of history, when these days have passed long ago. Will they read of us with sadness, for the seeds that we let grow?”
August 14th, 2022 at 7:46 AM ^
Kentucky Rose
August 14th, 2022 at 7:46 AM ^
“The Walk” - Sawyer Brown
”Letters From Home” - John Michael Montgomery
August 14th, 2022 at 4:42 PM ^
The Walk is a great choice. Mark Miller was a really underrated songwriter.