Songs designed to make you cry......

skibum609
Massachusetts
Great music should elicit emotions, deep emotions and nothing is more emotional than sadness. Name 3 songs that in your heart are so emotional that they can and should bring you and others to tears. My 5 - Photograph - Ringo Starr; Seasons in the Sun - Terry jacks; Indiana Wants me - R. Dean Taylor; Don't Expect me to be Your Friend - Lobo; Tears in Heaven - Eric Clapton.

63 comments

  • twentyfive
    2 years ago
    Billie Holiday's recording of "Gloomy Sunday", and her rendition of "Strange Fruit" were said to inspire people to commit suicide.
    I believe they were recorded in the 1940s
  • skibum609
    2 years ago
    ^can you email a link to Icee?
  • twentyfive
    2 years ago
    LOL
  • Tetradon
    2 years ago
    Martika - Toy Soldiers
  • Icee Loco (asshole)
    2 years ago
    Strange fruit was about lynching of black people not suicide.
  • twentyfive
    2 years ago
    Iceefag
    I know exactly what it was about, read the words I wrote your reading comprehension is for shit
    Fuckn moron never shuts up
  • docsavage
    2 years ago
    Back to Black- Amy Winehouse
    Yesterday- The Beatles
    When the Party's Over- Billie Eilish
  • sinclair
    2 years ago
    Look Away - Chicago
    This was Chicago's last big hit that charted. It is about a guy who went through a break-up, but is still in love with the girl.
    https://youtu.be/2uKLTtVqQpE

    Adam's Song - Blink-182
    This is a song about a teenager committing suicide. Very different from the rest of Blink-182's music.
    https://youtu.be/2MRdtXWcgIw

    Heavy - Linkin Park
    One of many Linkin Park songs about depression. Five months after the song came out, Chester Bennington killed himself.
    https://youtu.be/5dmQ3QWpy1Q
  • skibum609
    2 years ago
    From now on the d bag known as Icee will be known as "buzz kill". Never seen such a joyless fuck in my entire life. Icee is the shriveled dick of humanity.
  • Studme53
    2 years ago
    Harry Chapin - Cat’s in the Cradle - full of regret.

    For more personal reasons, “Waiting for a Girl Like You” by Foreigner. First girl I really fell for, who I dated a couple times, told me she went to the Foreigner concert with her ex boyfriend (not really ex to my chagrin).
    Obviously, she wasn’t that into me. Broke my heart and that song was constantly on the radio. I couldn’t even listen to it.
  • Cashman1234
    2 years ago
    The Eric Clapton song Tears in Heaven (mentioned by the op) is very difficult to get through.

    The song by Mike and the Mechanics - The Living Years is a rough one for me as well.
  • Studme53
    2 years ago
    3rd…
    Ode to Billie Joe - Bobby Gentry. Sad, great slice-of-life lyrics that take you to a place and time -
    and mysterious - what did they throw off the Talahachi Bridge? Their secret baby? The world may never know.
  • twentyfive
    2 years ago
    ^ I thought Billie Jo McCalister jumped off the Tallahatchee Bridge
  • misterorange
    2 years ago
    "Bridal Chorus" by Wagner causes many dudes to cry, not when it's played, but several years later.
  • skibum609
    2 years ago
    Billie Joe McAllister jumped off the bridge.
  • datinman
    2 years ago
    Elephant by Jason Isbell
    Johnny Cash version of Hurt

    Don't want to hear either of these songs when I'm whiskey drunk. I might shed that one manly tear and look like that Native American when litter lands at his feet back in the 1970's.
  • Studme53
    2 years ago
    Philistines
    Yes - Billie Joe jump off the bridge but the preacher said he had seen Billie Joe and a girl who “looked much like you” throwing something off the T’ Bridge, presumably some days before Billie Joe jumped
  • Studme53
    2 years ago
    Just kidding with the Philistine comment, but you made me have Alexa play the song again and now I’m a little low.
  • skibum609
    2 years ago
    My bad I forgot the greatest tearjerker of all time: Sylvia's Mother - Doctor Hook and the Medicine show
  • twentyfive
    2 years ago
    Someone mentioned “Cats in the Cradle” Harry Chapin I find his version of “Taxi” to be one of the saddest stories of regret I’ve ever heard, and I also find “Auld Lang Syne” by Dan Fogleberg to be similarly wistful.
  • skibum609
    2 years ago
    And me I'm flyin in my taxi, taking tips and getting stoned....
  • Studme53
    2 years ago
    ^ Great song
    Chapin’s “Cat’s” always gets me because my dad and I never really connected - but he was a good responsible man - and I feel like I’m a better dad to my adult children than when they were little kids. I didn’t know what I was doing a lot of the time back then.
  • Goodclubrep
    2 years ago
    This thread.
  • skibum609
    2 years ago
    1 review and 132 whiny comments, way to go bitch.
  • Goodclubrep
    2 years ago
    It's 2 reviews, thank you very much.
  • skibum609
    2 years ago
    Lmao my bad.
  • Muddy
    2 years ago
    Honestly none whatsoever. Maybe I’m just odd but I never really give lyrics too much thought, Music for me it’s all about making you want to move and groove otherwise I just don’t care or ever cared.
  • SirLapdancealot
    2 years ago
    @twentyfive good call on Gloomy Sunday. Heather Nova does a great cover of it too - I like both but prefer hers over Billie Holiday's.

    Besides Gloomy Sunday I'll throw in Landslide by Stevie Nicks.
  • SirLapdancealot
    2 years ago
    ^ by Fleetwood Mac
  • SirLapdancealot
    2 years ago
    Pictures of You by The Cure
  • gammanu95
    2 years ago
    I get goosebumps and chills from some songs, but I do not cry (or throw up). I'm just not wired that way. Some pop songs that give me chills (and feel free to laugh, I get it):
    Eurythmics: Sweet Dreams
    Tears for Fears: Mad World
    Leonard Cohen: Hallelujah (not every rendition, just the one that appears on the Watchmen soundtrack)
    #1 song that gets me every time: Disturbed (cover): The Sound of Silence
  • Studme53
    2 years ago
    I get it Muddy, I think a lot of people listen like you,but I love the lyrics- always have. I loved when the albums covers had lyrics back in the day (album covers - what a lost piece of artistic expression). To me anyone who doesn’t pay attention to the lyrics is missing out and listening superficially.
  • motorhead
    2 years ago
    I have another Clapton song - “Wonderful Tonight”

    KISS - “Beth”

    But the sing that gets me every time even after all these years is “One Tin Soldier”.

    The song plays at the end of “Billy Jack” as the sheriff is taking Billy away in handcuffs


  • skibum609
    2 years ago
    Great choices. Billy Jack is a woefully underrated movie and the scene in the park (I am going to take this right foot....) kills it.
  • nicespice
    2 years ago
    This song might make some people in this thread cry 👀
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ttzijna8mg…
  • Icee Loco (asshole)
    2 years ago
    That would be perfect for the stripper hoe club
  • Studme53
    2 years ago
    ^ ughh - that video’s a boner killer
  • Huntsman
    2 years ago
    The Christmas Shoes by New Song plays every year in December. I admit, it gets me.
  • bubba267
    2 years ago
    2nd Pictures of You - The Cure
    1000x Broods
  • 48-Cowboy
    2 years ago
    Awww the big crybaby is trying to get others to cry with him so he is not the lone cry baby
  • Jascoi
    2 years ago
    The Living years… Mike and the Mechanics.
    waiting for a girl like you… Foreigner.
    My heart will go on… Celine Dion. (from Titanic)
  • crosscheck
    2 years ago
    Gone Away - The Offspring. One of the most painful songs about losing someone close to you I've ever heard. "And I feel like heaven's so far away. And it feels like the world has grown cold now that you've gone away..."
  • eyeofodin
    2 years ago
    Sam Stone - John Prine
    Whiskey Lullaby - Brad Paisley and Alison Krauss
    Travelin' Soldier - I think Dixie Chick did it justice.
    I can't write left handed - Bill Withers
    Songs about the losses in war get to me the most.


    Cash's version of Hurt
  • shadowcat
    2 years ago
    A Lap Dance Is So Much Better When The Stripper Is Crying.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uqbJE5n…
  • crosscheck
    2 years ago
    Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms
  • san_jose_guy
    2 years ago
    Kudo's to 25 for mentioning Billy Holiday's "Strange Fruit" . I would not have thought to mention that myself. It is bleak.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DGY9HvC…

    SJG
  • loper
    2 years ago
    A Whiter Shade of Pale. Not sure what the words are about, but the music feels like the best of Bach: an equal mix of yearning and serenity. That combo makes me weep.
  • loper
    2 years ago
    Keep Me in Your Heart for a While: Warren Zevon

    A lot of Leonard Cohen.
  • loper
    2 years ago
    Zombie: The Cranberries
  • Tetradon
    2 years ago
    Social Distortion - Ball and Chain
    https://youtu.be/_NWjehpGSO0

    Blue October - Hate Me
    https://youtu.be/UIU7Eabredw

    Inherently sad songs, but also reminded me of the desperation and the pain I caused my family in the worst days of bipolar depression.
  • loper
    2 years ago
    Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas: James Taylor
  • Icee Loco (asshole)
    2 years ago
    https://youtu.be/fHR1CZ9x61E
    Drake passionfruit

    https://youtu.be/uQFVqltOXRg
    Cesar Daniel get you

    https://youtu.be/WNeLUngb-Xg
    Linkin Park in the end remix
  • Icee Loco (asshole)
    2 years ago
    https://youtu.be/_4gUVl5pjps
    21 savage ball w/o you

    https://youtu.be/XXYlFuWEuKI
    The weeknd save your tears

    https://youtu.be/qod03PVTLqk
    Elton John cold heart remix
  • Icee Loco (asshole)
    2 years ago
    https://youtu.be/4IOIIgfiQlU
    Cypress hill illusions

    https://youtu.be/xtIr8k4eC7o
    Kendrick lamar sing about me
  • Icee Loco (asshole)
    2 years ago
    https://youtu.be/-lo5np2zHD0
    21 savage rip luv

    https://youtu.be/xfdG6vwIGGU
    Anuel aa culpables

    https://youtu.be/9jI-z9QN6g8
    No garcia te bote remix

  • IfIGottaBeDamned
    2 years ago
    “Streets of Heaven” by Sherrié Austin is a serious tear-jerker. Even after hearing it many times, my eyes often get watery when it pops up on my playlist. Thankfully I don’t have any such experience in my own life.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1Mokvqv…

    However, I closely relate two songs to emotional times in my own life. First: “Two Out of Three Ain’t Bad” by Meatloaf. My high school GF broke up with me, more or less giving me the reasons outlined in the song. And that morning I had to drive away from her college to my college as the snow turned to cold rain. As I started to drive, that song played on the radio. Sometimes art imitates life too closely, even decades later per the final verse.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5hWWe-t…

    Second: “Just Give Me A Reason” by P!nk was popular as my relationship with my first OTC fav was disintegrating. I had fallen very hard for her. She relapsed into addiction and rationally Iknew I had to get out. But emotionally I kept trying to hold on. If a couple of things had gone differently, I might have gone Full Gawker. It seemed like that song played on the radio every time we were together durning those last couple of months.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpQFFLBM…
  • dustyj
    2 years ago
    Johnny Cash - Hurt
  • kilgoretrout12
    2 years ago
    So many really great sad songs, many about relationships that either never were or went wrong.

    My honorable mentions:

    The River, the quintessential Springsteen New Jersey Dirge, and I mean that in the most complimentary way possible. The Harmonica, piano, and outgo are especially painful.
    What a Fool Believes, The Doobie Brothers (Michael McDonald) - an imagined relationship
    Most anything by Emmy Lou Harris, the woman could evoke tears with Happy Birthday
    Angel by Sarah Maclachlan, I always thought she was underrated in a lot of ways
    The aforementioned Keep Me in Your Heat by Warren Zevon, particularly give his circumstances at the time (terminally ill)
    The Who's The Song is Over -- Townsend's guitar

    My top 3, OK 4

    1. Cats in the Cradle by Harry Chapin Every father's sea of pathos. Part of the sadness is Harry's way too early passing,
    2. Everybody Hurts by REM
    3. Boulder to Birmingham by Emmy Lou Harris.
    4. Brothers in Arms by Dire Straits. The guitar by itself is haunting.











  • kilgoretrout12
    2 years ago
    and Dylan's "It's not Dark yet, but its getting there." Looking back at a life of regret.
  • loper
    2 years ago
    Ain't no sunshine when she's gone.
  • loper
    2 years ago
    Have to chime in again with one I just heard on the radio, Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd, esp. if you think about someone you love who is dead or who you've been separated from.
  • conan_mac_morna
    2 years ago
    Killing Joke - Jana
    Warren Zevon - Don't Let Us Get Sick and his cover of Knockin' On Heaven's Door, because when he recorded it, he was.
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