Songs That Make You Cry

[firstimer1]

truely madley deeply:-Savage Garden we wont go into detail but have to turn off when comes on

Belle

[digthatchick]

Lambchop - I can Hardly Spell My Name

Oh Rhona, I was beginning to think I was the only person who had heard of Lambchop - how about Paperback Bible.

As for Hallelujah - that is Leonard Cohen - if you want a weepie, listen to his Stranger Song.

As for my saddest - has to be send in the clowns. (and I don't like clowns)

[Rhona]

Lambchop - I was beginning to think I was the only person who had heard of Lambchop -

Moi aussi. His voice is beautiful.

I'm NEVER up at this time. It feels deeply weird - like a tumbleweed is about to rattle through!

Leonard is my total, special-dispensation hero. I'd fall at his feet and howl at his beauty and tear at his sheets...He's My Man...

And I do love the Stranger Song. Always brilliant to find another fan. x

[Joe]

Puff the Magic Dragon - so very sad.

It used to make me cry too when I was 7 and I still believed in dragons. I'd probably still cry if I tried to sing it now, as well as anyone within earshot.
Fancy forgetting your childhood friend like little Jackie in the song. It's no wonder there are no dragons left.

The song that does it for me now is the Christmas carol O come o come Emmanuel but it does depend upon who is singing it. It touches me emotionally, both the words and the haunting melody.

[Rhona]

send in the clowns. (and I don't like clowns)

I agree again - really lovely words. "Losing my timing this late in my career" and so on.

My utterly useless party piece is that I remember the precise words to every song I listen to - whether I like it or not. It's a joy when I need to entertain myself on a long train journey, but hard to explain why you know the words and arrangement to Haven't Stopped Dancing Yet, by way of example...

So anyway, it does make me appreciative of (what I think) are good lyrics.

[Johnny Appleseed]

Send in the clowns

I agree again - really lovely words. "Losing my timing this late in my career" and so on.

So anyway, it does make me appreciative of (what I think) are good lyrics.

I'm a sucker for the lyrics too Rhona and your list above is wonderful .

Nerdy Moment I've always had a soft spot for Send in the Clowns. Barbra Streisand contacted Stephen Sondheim to suggest the lyrics needed some more work as one verse didn't feel right to her and she felt with hindsight it needed more clarity. Sondheim agreed and on Streisand's album is the later version rewritten by Sondheim with the amended lyrics which do give the song more clarity and a different emphasis. Still a superb song whichever lyrics are used. End of Nerdy moment

[jackie j]

Lots of the above affect me but Annie's song was played at my sister Annie's funeral so that one does it for me. Also All she wants is another baby was played over and over on the radio when Annie had a miscarriage. Simply the Best was played at My mum's funeral, my mum was the best, also another one that escapes me now but will think of it later.

[Hashette]

Your'e beautiful by James Blunt, but for the wrong reasons, have to turn it off as it makes my ears bleed and anything by Celene Dion for the same reason.

Bocelli

LOL - I just sprayed tea over the keyboard!

Against All Odds - Phil Collins. It was on the radio around the time my Gran died "there's nothing left here to remind me, just the memory of your face"

[squashysu]

many songs make me cry, "Without you" now sung by Mariah Carey

But there is one hymn!! "All things bright & beautiful" - reminds me of my grandad and we sang it at his funeral and from then on 15 years ago, i now sob! He is the reason i garden - love ya grandad x

[HayleyB]

many songs make me cry, "Without you" now sung by Mariah Carey

But there is one hymn!! "All things bright & beautiful" - reminds me of my grandad and we sang it at his funeral and from then on 15 years ago, i now sob! He is the reason i garden - love ya grandad x

I do too always makes me cry in church, had it for my wedding as well.

Thought you were in Vine rehab for a few weeks Squashy, couldn't stay away could ya

[Flummery]

Dancing at Whitsun. It's about the ladies left after the first world war who had no boyfriends/husbands and no chance now of getting any. "The ladies go dancing at Whitsun."

Willie McBride. I think it's "Futility of War" songs that get me blubbing - and I don't blub easily, I'll tell you!

[Stacey Steve]

There are other songs that touch me deeply, "The Song of Farewell" sung by Jane Harrison, I had this played at my Mother's funeral as it always made her cry because it reminded her how much she missed my Dad. I contacted David Bedford for a copy of the lyrics so the congregation could follow why it was so important, I think it came from the musical Les Misarables.

Also Plaisir d'amour for no particular reason

[beefy]

Johnny Cash - Hurt
This one pretty much does it for me .

[Glutton4...]

Just thought of another...

Follow you, follow me - Genesis.

I've just got to hear the intro, and if there's other people about I have to turn it off. If I'm on my own the tears just flow - no idea why though!

[pipscariad]

Dire Straits 'Brothers in Arms' springs to mind, and if I could think more straight (well, I am onto my second glass of a very fine white!) I'm sure I could think of a few more!