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Songs that have made you cry
emmalee:
--- Quote from: overandover on 28 Jan 2009, 03:01 ---Songs that kill me every time:
> Sia - Breathe Me
Be my friend/
Hold me, wrap me up/
Unfold me/
I am small/
I'm needy/
Warm me up/
And breathe me
(Just, oh my god. You have to hear it to understand; just the lyrics do nothing. This song has always tugged at my heartstrings, but to top it all off it's in the season finale of Six Feet Under, which makes me absolutely sob every time I see it. Highly highly recommend this song, and show!)
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Oh man, me too. I haven't watched the show, but this song is so, so dripping with sadness. I always end up listening to it when I've had a terrible day.. bad idea, that. I was going to say "Breathe Me", too, but I have a few more.
Sigur Ros - "Hoppipolla". It's actually a pretty happy song, but it stirs up layers and layers of nostalgia for me, so I end up weeping over the "good old days" or something.
Buddy - "Blindsides". "You're not your best, so/let's just stay home/Disconnect the phone/we're still on hold" ... I've never cried, but it's damned depressing. Actually, most of the album "Alterations and Repairs" brings me down a bit.
Tegan and Sara - "You Wouldn't Like Me". Only when I'm incredibly lonely, though. That's more circumstantial.
Straylight Run - "Swing Life Away". Yeah yeah yeah shoot me. I don't listen to Straylight Run, but this was our senior song from band camp :[
Hey, I made a mix playlist for wallowing in sorrow too! :D (Even though emo got to the idea before me.) Good catharsis, anyway.
SrMeowMeow:
The only two songs that have ever made me cry are:
Find the River - R.E.M.
I loved it forever, but then our youngest cat ran away when I was away at school, who happened to be named River, and when I heard she'd been found hit by a car I knew this song would never really be the same. The lyrics are basically a complete metaphor for death anyway. I guess in terms of losing a friend or family member it's not on the same plane, but she was always a little screwed up from living in the wild, very hard to touch or even get near physically, and the thought of her running around terrified, and then dying alone on the street, is a really hard thing to think about for long. And this song always brings that back. Which is sort of a shame, because I love this song, but it gives it power.
Leaving on a Jet Plane - John Denver
My mother sang this to me when I was young and it just ruins me. It's so pretty, and it's just so sad. I guess when you're a kid, you're afraid of being left alone, and that's basically what this song is about.
LucyStag:
--- Quote from: Animal Ghosts on 01 Jan 2009, 15:07 ---Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros - Silver and Gold
Last song on the posthumous last album, all about the things he wants to do before he gets too old to do them. The song I want played at my funeral.
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Oh my God, I am so with you on this one. I can't even tell you. That song kills me.
Other ones that make me, if not quite tear up, get me as near as I ever get. Choked up at least.
The Carter Family - Can the Circle be Unbroken (mainly the line, "I told the undertaker, undertaker please drive slow, cause that body you are hauling, lord I hate to see her go." Something about that is so RIGHT and so exactly how I imagine losing someone you love.)
Warren Zevon - Keep Me in Your Heart for a While (basically his goodbye note)
Blanking on the rest right now. A bunch of Old Crow Medicine Show tunes get me right here.
digopheliadug:
I am stupid and girly and music makes me cry a lot, but here are the big ones:
Wish You Were Here - Rasputina cover
Lucky - Bif Naked
Love Ridden - Fiona Apple (I'm sort of embarassed about that one, but there you are)
Romeo and Juliet - Dire Straits
Snowblind Friend - Steppenwolf
Edit: How did I forget this one?
A Quitter - Rasputina
Yossarian:
Cases of actual tears in my eyes:
Listening to "Ommadawn - Part one" by Mike Oldfield while driving in my car after not having listened to it for many years. Overcome by memories I had to pull over and exit the highway. Right to this day I get very emotional, when hearing that chorus.
"Requiem - Libera me" by Gabriel Fauré and "Requiem - In Paradisum" by Maurice Duruflé - these two seem to always get me - as well as some parts in Profiev's first three piano concertos and the final scene of "Tosca" by Puccini with Maria Callas singing.
"In the backseat" by Arcade Fire. Wonderful and extremely emotional song.
Lately, "Bluish" by Animal Collective had me in tears - but of joy rather than anything else. It's just beautiful.
Serious cases of lump-in-throat:
"Jesus, etc." by Wilco
"This woman's work" by Kate Bush
"Fruit tree" by Nick Drake
"Ugly love" by Eels - one of the best piano ballads ever.
"Wise up" and "Save me" by Aimee Mann - for ever connected to the movie, and it really hit me at that time
"Blue Spanish Sky" by Chris Isaack - I just can't help it
... and then there is Jacques Brel: "La fanette", "Jef", "Fernand", "Les désesprés" and of course "Ne me quitte pas" really strike a chord in me.
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