Songs That Have Made You Cry

[rexbeccarox]

This one makes me cry every time. I think it's because I've been *almost* Cathy too many times.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hP0mFcHek9M

Her window was hung like a painting
She worried it might come to life
She stared for hours
So obsessed was I and self-absorbed
That I didn't see that she was crying
There was always someone carrying
There was always someone carrying
Always someone's carrying Cathy
There were times when I'd find myself saying
That friends, you don't understand
And she's different when it's just me and her
And I closed the door and I tried to hang on
And she sank into the dark, I was over my head
There was always someone carrying
There was always someone carrying
Always someone's carrying Cathy
We gave you everything
You could have been anything
We gave you everything
You could have done anything
But to imagine a fall
With no one at all to catch you
There'd always been someone
Then one night she climbed into the picture frame
Out in the frozen air and out of sight
Woke up sad from this dream
I've been having the last couple nights or so
With her father and brothers we're all at the funeral
Carrying a box through the rain
Then somebody says that it's always been this way
Always someone's carrying
There was always someone carrying
Always someone's carrying Cathy

[brewer]

Taken out of context, I can't think of one.

The ones in context are mine alone.

[TheRocketSurgeon]

Even though I loathe Country music, and the song is overtly Christian, this song never fails to move me to openly weeping.





If you're reading this,
My Momma sitting there,
Looks like I only got a one way ticket over here.
Sure wish I could give you one more kiss
And war was just a game we played when we were kids.
Now I'm laying down my gun,
I'm hanging up boots,
I'm up here with God and we're both watching over you

[Chorus:]
So lay me down in that open field out on the edge of town,
And know my soul is where my momma always prayed that it would go.
If you're reading this, I'm already home.

If you're reading this,
Halfway 'round the world,
I won’t be there to see the birth of our little girl.
I hope she looks like you; I hope she fights like me-
Stands up for the innocent and weak.
I'm laying down my gun, I'm hanging up boots.
Tell dad I don't regret that I followed in his shoes!

[Chorus]

If you're reading this,
There’s going to come a day
When you'll move on and find some one else,
And that's okay.
Just remember this:
I'm in a better place,
Where soldiers live in peace
And angels sing Amazing Grace!

[Chorus]

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Any song to which I don't own the licensing rights that winds up in a TV advert.

Boru

[vorlon13]

Probably sounds a little odd, but the dancing scenes in the movie Saturday Night Fever get me choked up too.

[Hmmm?]

https://youtu.be/EfdMU2TcxH8

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A farmer and a teacher, a hooker and a preacher,

Ridin' on a midnight bus bound for Mexico.

One's headed for vacation, one for higher education,

An' two of them were searchin' for lost souls.

That driver never ever saw the stop sign.

An' eighteen wheelers can't stop on a dime.

There are three wooden crosses on the right side of the highway,

Why there's not four of them, Heaven only knows.

I guess it's not what you take when you leave this world behind you,

It's what you leave behind you when you go.

That farmer left a harvest, a home and eighty acres,

The faith an' love for growin' things in his young son's heart.

An' that teacher left her wisdom in the minds of lots of children:

Did her best to give 'em all a better start.

An' that preacher whispered: "Can't you see the Promised Land?"

As he laid his blood-stained bible in that hooker's hand.

There are three wooden crosses on the right side of the highway,

Why there's not four of them, Heaven only knows.

I guess it's not what you take when you leave this world behind you,

It's what you leave behind you when you go.

That's the story that our preacher told last Sunday.

As he held that blood-stained bible up,

For all of us to see.

He said: "Bless the farmer, and the teacher, an' the preacher;

"Who gave this Bible to my mamma,

"Who read it to me."

There are three wooden crosses on the right side of the highway,

Why there's not four of them, now I guess we know.

It's not what you take when you leave this world behind you,

It's what you leave behind you when you go. 

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  choosing the right youtube video I listened to this 3 times and unexpectedly cried each time.

[Cecelia]

There's some other songs that make me cry, but they're more for personal reasons like the first song I danced to at my wedding.  But this song just makes me cry for some reason.

Also the theme song for Finding Carter:

[Cyberman]

Wow, this is going to hit me very, very hard. One time, back in the day, my sweet Princess Sam put on the CD of her favourite film, threw her arms around my neck, gazed deep into my eyes and sang My Heart Will Go On specially for me. Just for me. For those few minutes, nothing else existed. Just Sam and me. Every word was just for us and us alone. Several years later, I made reference to it at her funeral when I stood up in front of everyone and read out my tribute - not a eulogy, they're for dead people - and led into a final playing of the song that meant everything to me. Now I can't stand to hear it; far too many memories.

I don't think I want to post it here, if it's all the same.

[SteelCurtain]

I went through a rough breakup when the first Adele album came out, and her music is always filled with such palpable sorrow for me. Her new song, "Hello," nearly fucked me when I first heard it. The lyrics are great. And she is one of the best singers out there today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQHsXMglC9A

[Longhorn]

Not necessarily cry, but when I first heard it with lyrics it shook my mind into complete numbness that took several days to recover from. Can't bear to listen to it still.

http://youtu.be/F5sIXUbMgF0

Though now that I think about it, I'm fairly sure there was some crying involved