I am somewhat emotional. That won’t be a surprise to regular readers, or only as much of a surprise as saying ‘the sea is somewhat blue and wobbly’ or ‘glass is somewhat seethrough’ or ‘dogs are somewhat woofy’. My skin is not as thick as skins can be. I am, to external forces, a bit of a big pliable, malleable sponge, waiting for things to act upon/hurt me. I choose to think of this as a really interesting and good way of being. Shut up. I like it.
However it does mean that sometimes I cry and I can’t quite explain why. Sometimes I can come closer to explaining than others: I went to see the new Pixar film, UP, on a particularly stressful/emotional day and (just a warning to people in the UK waiting to see it) was crying so hard for the first half hour I had to shove my scarf in my mouth to stop myself actually wailing and screaming my sobs out loud like a professional tribal mourner. I would go back and see it tomorrow, when other things aren’t so fraught … but for the fear that it was nothing to do with externals; I’m just going to cry like that every time.
Anyway. Point was things make me cry. I realised that again this evening when I was listening to my favourite podcast: Coverville - which is, frankly, the best music podcast in the world if you like cover versions (and I really do; the person who writes the song is so rarely the perfect person to sing the song or interpretation).
And of the recent episodes, there were two songs that happen to be on the ‘SONGS THAT MAKE ME CRY’ list.
These are songs that are NOT related to any memory or anything, nor person; they’re just songs that - due to the lyric or the key changes or something - are pretty much guaranteed to make me weep as soon as listen to them.
So I thought I should make a list. And it’s funny, because I know there are lots more, but I don’t think I’m going to be able to think of them until I hear them. So this post will grow.
But to begin my list - for my own curiosity to see what the comment thread is, if nothing else:
SONGS THAT MAKE ME CRY (IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER)
1) Waterloo Sunset by The Kinks (or by anyone covering it. It’s the sentiment that makes me miss the bits of London I love.not moving back there, mind. Just makes me remember why I’m proud to be born there)
2) Time After Time by Cyndi Lauper - no excuse for this, I just BAWL. It’s the sentiment.
3) Best Days by Blur, I start crying by the chorus every time. Interestingly because it represents the flip side of all the London things I love in Waterloo Sunset.
4) One With The Birds by Bonnie Prince Billy - just does. Chord changes, I think.
5) Blackbird by the Beatles
6) I Will, similarly. And it upsets me even more that Paul McCartney can make me cry, because I generally want to punch him, frankly. But as a songwriter, these have me.UPDATE (next day) - as promised, I knew I’d realise more as I was listening to my ipod on shiffle (whichis the normal position) - and we were, today, while cleaning.
7) It’s Not Easy Being Green - Kermit
8) Rainbow Connection - The Muppets (It’s the guitar, here)
9) Plain Gold Ring - Nina Simone (The piano is SO SAD for this one; it’s like someone beating out their patience on your heart)…
10-Infinitum Other, by Other. I’ll add on here as things affect me. And they do. I just never remember until they come through the speakers. Then: suddenly: BAM. Tears.
[There are, of course, songs that just make me happy. I'll do a similar post about happy songs, because those are also good. I have a whole playlist of them on my ipod called HAPPY SONGS! And things like this ukulele version of the Imperial March that would be the thing to accompany me down the aisle if I was ever planning on doing that (don't hold your breath, you'll actually die). I'm not, but if I was, I would do it to this (wait for it to load, I promise you'll thank me)]
But in the meantime, and while I’m waiting to add more of your own, I’m desperately curious to know if this affects other people.
Songs that make you cry? Anyone? Anything?
And not the ones that are tied to memories: the ones that aren’t … is it the perfect lyric? The sentiment? The chord progression? Or just because you are, like all the best people, a ginormous sponge?
Fantasia on a theme of Thomas Tallis by Ralph Vaughan Williams. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-kWBOvfwdg
“After All” by David Bowie from ‘The Man Who Sold The World’ see - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBFPq7HIths
“Nobody’s Baby Now” by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. See - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7yq74GXpUA
All of them make me sob my heart out.
Comment by Mrs Jones — 18 July, 2009 1:26 am
That version of Imperial March is exactly how the film would sound if the Ewoks were running the universe! Brilliant!
Comment by Morgan — 18 July, 2009 2:17 am
this week’s one for me is from the soundtrack of Moulin Rouge, Ewan McGregor (phwoar) singing “Your Song” (I can’t abide Elton John doing it)….sniff. last movie that sent me over the edge (along with ALL the other adults in the cinema) was the bit when the girl cops it in Terabithia… BIG WAAAAAH).
SNIIIIIFFFFFF!
Comment by lucy — 18 July, 2009 2:38 am
“Eternal Flame” by The Bangles. Or any cover version thereof.
A long hot summer, I was going through a messy breakup with my First True Love. Even now, if I hear it, all the pain comes flooding back. “Songs in the key of Wah” indeed.
Comment by Exit, Pursued by a Bear — 18 July, 2009 2:39 am
Nothing compares 2U. The bit about the flowers in particular. Although lately, any song that I haven’t heard in a while makes me weepy, because of the old “I haven’t heard this since…” feeling.
Comment by Anna F — 18 July, 2009 3:58 am
“Solisbury Hill” by Peter Gabriel. In fact, one line of that song. The bit towards the end where he sings “You can keep my things they’ve come to take me home”. I listen to it driving over the severn bridge, and bawl and bawl.
Comment by Fee — 18 July, 2009 4:24 am
“Just a Day” by Feeder. It’s the memories and the lyrics and the music and mostly the memories, even when I first heard it it had some crazy ability to make me feel nostalgic about times that never existed. Spot on. Oh, and Hoppipolla by Sigur Ros, because it is just so beautiful, which is a pain when it shows up in a BBC David Attenborough advert..
Comment by Sophie — 18 July, 2009 4:41 am
Boy George’s “The Crying Game” is one that does it for me.
Then there’s “Why Can’t I Cry?” by Petula Clark which got played endlessly when my glamorous American actor boyfriend dumped me the day after I took him to see “The Tempest” at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford upon Avon.
And although there’s nothing very sad about “We” from the 1969 coming-of-age / self-discovery movie “Me, Natalie,” it makes my heart ache for the lonely gay teenager who watched it, spellbound, not long after being abandoned in Johannesburg when father took the rest of the family back to England.
Comment by Dave in Brum — 18 July, 2009 4:53 am
Whole of the Moon. I have no idea why, definitely no associations. Must be that ginormous sponge thing.
Comment by scroobious — 18 July, 2009 6:00 am
Hallelujah, when covered by Jeff Buckley. Don’t ask me why. It just does.
Comment by Krazy Kitty — 18 July, 2009 7:25 am
Carrying Cathy by Ben Folds. Oh dear.
Comment by Tuuli — 18 July, 2009 7:31 am
there’s nothing more sobering than going clubbing, hearing a remix being played and thinking “hang on, I remember this the FIRST time round”
Comment by Exit, Pursued by a Bear — 18 July, 2009 9:06 am
I, like you, am a giant sentimental sponge. So everything that has significant meaning to me can make me cry, like the They Might Be Giants’ cover of New York City (which is the song to which I fell in love with Stuart and is pretty much a snapshot of our first few months together). But YES, like you I have songs to which I have no explicit emotional connection, that nonetheless get me all welly. To wit:
Gracie, by Ben Folds - I don’t KNOW! But every time I hear it. Something about how perfectly it’s about parenthood.
Out the Blue, John Lennon - this is really recent, only because it’s the song to which Beth and Josh walked down the aisle a month ago and now I CANNOT HEAR IT without getting all mushy.
What a Wonderful World/Somewhere Over the Rainbow, Israel Kamakawiwo’ole - Hawai’ian guy who REALLY knew how to cover something with a ukelele, man, and this mashup is so perfect it’s almost like he owns the songs better than who first sang them, which is saying a lot for Louis and Judy.
Samba de Orly, Chico Buarque - sort of like your Waterloo Sunset, this song is just about being Brasilian to me. The lyrics are really heartbreaking; it was during Buarque’s rather self-imposed exile to France and he sings about saying goodbye to a Brasilian friend at the Orly airport, and how lucky his friend is to being going back home to Brasil, and to say hello to it for him, and CUE WELLY.
Well there you go. Least surprising thing in the world to you, really, that I’m just as sappy as you requested.
Comment by Krissa — 18 July, 2009 11:23 am
The Winner Takes It All - ABBA. Makes me cry every time and I don’t even like ABBA that might but the lyrics just sound so helpless. Otherwise:
Helpless by Neil Young
Satellites by Doves (Very epic) and most of The Bends by Radiohead have me sobbing. (As does Somewhere from West Side Story). And currently The Nicest Thing by Kate Nash. I cry very easily on the whole and often finds things giving me a lump in my throat!
Comment by Lara — 18 July, 2009 12:07 pm
The Piano Concerto by Micheal Nymann. It’s got no words, so it must be the way the notes flow. This one is easy to play and I used to own a piano. My friends would come over and start playing it and be shocked when I was so moved.
Comment by Les — 18 July, 2009 12:43 pm
I saw an advert (years ago now) for a double cd set called ‘Sad Songs’, and I couldn’t think of anything WORSE for me to buy (being a ginormous sponge myself and not needing too much encouragement to become sentimentally teary). I remarked to friends that what they really needed was a ‘Happy Songs’ cd, and then sure enough a few months later there was an ad for Happy Songs! I ran out and bought it (I literally left the house right after I saw the ad and went to the high street to buy it) and played it SO much that my flatmates at the time hid it from me and rationed me to 1 or 2 songs from it a week.
Happy songs: Don’t stop me now, Queen; You sexy thing, Hot Chocolate; Good Vibrations, The Beach Boys… oops, sorry, I was meant to be listing sad songs right?
Nah, I’m going to listen to Queen :-)
Comment by Clover — 18 July, 2009 11:58 pm
“Right here waiting” by Richard Marx. Oh yeah. I can still summon the thirteen year old girl who was trying on pearl eyeshadow shades in the mirror while waiting for some silly boy to call. Equally embarrassing: “Everything I do” by Bryan Adams. And more recently, “Start a War” by the National. Heavy, man.
Comment by Meg — 19 July, 2009 12:45 am
Starman, by David Bowie- always cry. Always. Quite dangerous as normally hear it on the radio while driving to work early in the morning.
And many, many more!
And movies, if you want a proper, serious cry, try watching Dancer in the Dark with Bjork. Not sure if many seen this, and it is quite old now, but it is the hardest movie to watch EVER.
Comment by scary azeri — 19 July, 2009 3:37 am
I’m with you The Beatles’s Blackbird. Unfortunately it is also one of my ear-worms.
Comment by keith — 19 July, 2009 4:12 am
‘Highways of my life’ by the Isley Brothers. First note of the piano solo introduction triggers the tear ducts every time.
Fabulous memory-jerking piece. Thanks.
Comment by Blazing — 19 July, 2009 9:10 am
I’m definitely a crier. As a matter of fact you described what I should have done this weekend … shove my scarf into my mouth in order to avoid sobbing, bawling out loud ‘like a tribe member’.
My bawling, however, happens in movies and tv shows. Not songs. I think because I’m tone deaf. My husband cries when I sing. It just hurts so much.
The closest I get might be Mozart’s Requiem … but I think more than crying, it just sends me to a state of teenage angst.
x, e
Comment by ellie — 19 July, 2009 10:44 am
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Into My Arms. Has me weeping like a complete crazy every single time. I think I just find the whole sentiment of the song completely and utterly beautiful. It’s my ‘how love should be song’. Just this intense, deep-voiced man sitting at his piano singing about a very beautiful kind of love. I’m starting to well up just thinking about it.
Oh and Regina Spektor Us because it makes me happy to the point of bursting. They both make me weepy and giddy with happiness all at once.
x
Comment by missalissa — 19 July, 2009 12:31 pm
I am a big old cry baby and will bawl in many many different contexts, and there are songs which I think are very sad, but… none that make me cry. And now I feel inadequate!
But fwiw, the ones which make me feel v sad are Waltzing Matilda (I know the Pogues version, but there are others) (I think that’s what it’s called anyway - “Did they play the pipe lowly, did they sound the drums holy, did they diddle-de dee as they lowered you down? Did the band play Waltzing Matilda… etc”) (they didn’t really diddle-de dee as they lowered you down, that would be rude - but I can’t remember what they did do), and Take a Message to Mary, by the Everly Brothers (”Take a message to Mary, but don’t tell her I’m in jail … you can tell her I’ve gone to Timbuctoo, you can tell her that my ship set sail / You can tell her she’d better not wait for me, but don’t tell her I’m in jail”), and Let Her Go Down (”Let her go down / swim for your lives / swim for your children / swim for your wives / but let her go down”), by Steeleye Span, and Gone to America also by Steeleye Span (”They said he’s gone to America / To work the land that some call Virginia … the night they saw him poaching and stealing wine was the night that he took comfort in these arms of mine … Married him in April, lost him in July”) and also the Cyndi Lauper one you mentioned, but the killers are the hymn Green Hill (”There is a green hill far away without a city wall / Where the dear lord was crucified, who died to save us all”), the carol In the Bleak Midwinter, and Davy’s on the Road Again, by Manfred Mann.
Ever since I was a kid I’ve loved the Green Hill one, and it’s a long time since I’ve believed in God but that’s not really relevant: it’s just such a wonderfully melancholy melody. Maybe that’s why they don’t actually make me cry, because I have a bit of a thing about melancholy, and wallowing, and all of that: I rather enjoy it. But then again I love a good sob for the same reasons, so that doesn’t explain why music doesn’t make me cry. The Manfred Mann one is a weird melancholy kind of nostalgia. It makes me feel profoundly nostalgic, and it’s been doing it to me for so long that I don’t even know what I’m feeling nostalgic for. It’s just Essence of Nostalgia, and it’s sad. But in a good way.
Oh, and there’s Let it Grow by Eric Clapton (”Let it grow, let it grow / Let it blossom. let it flow / In the sun, the rain, the snow / Love is lovely, let it grow”), but that’s more specific - connected to a particular heartache and memories thereof, so I think that’s against your rules.
Comment by Beleaguered Squirrel — 19 July, 2009 3:34 pm
PS Films make me cry. And soap operas. When that woman off Emmerdale had to give her baby son to Lauren, oh God. And indeed when the original baby (the one that wasn’t the other one, but kind of was really, ah feck it, you had to be there) died. And like Lucy, Bridge to Terebithia turned me to a stream of liquid human, trickling down the aisle. I had to sit there for ages after the lights went up before I was solid enough to stand up and walk out.
Comment by Beleaguered Squirrel — 19 July, 2009 3:43 pm
Lots of songs make me cry.
But then I cry at Kleenex commercials too. Especially the one with the little duckling. No idea why. I am just a cryer, I guess. I must be because I cried in the final episode last night of Masterchef (Australian TV).
Comment by 12ontheinside — 19 July, 2009 11:19 pm
It’s really interesting, knowing so many of these songs (including in the comments) and finding out how they hit people in different ways. Clearly my hard man image is at immense risk here, but I am also a ‘Rainbow Connection’ sobber. I mean, the song itself gets me enough, especially the image of the lonely and wistful frog playing the banjo. Then I read all the stories about how it was performed at the end of Jim Henson’s funeral and I was completely in pieces.
Oh dear. Here I go.
When I was a kid, it was the one about the mouse living in the windmill. Don’t know why.
Comment by JonnyB — 20 July, 2009 1:33 am
At the cinema to see Harry Potter the other day, I cried like a baby when I saw the trailer for Where The Wild Things Are. The strangers sitting next to me shifted very uncomfortably in their seats.
I could list lots of songs that make me cry, but the worst one, without fail, is Perfect Gentleman by Wyclef Jean. It’s the sentiment, in particular the line “Take me away from here, so far / Where they ride horses, no cars”.
*sobs*
Comment by Beth — 20 July, 2009 3:25 am
By the way, can I just say that I am really appreciating this multitude of Little Red Blog posts wot has been happening lately? Cos I am. It’s so nice to type “litt” into the browser bar and find new stuff is here when I arrive. Hurrah for that (but no pressure or anything - I mean, it’s OK when there isn’t stuff here too, but it’s extra nice when there is).
Comment by Beleaguered Squirrel — 20 July, 2009 4:18 am
Prettiest Eyes by The Beautiful South.
It’s the lyrics, they’re just so well crafted.
There’s no sadness, this is just crying because something is just so nice.
Fee - for lyrics along the lines of the one you highlighted, what about that bit in Fairytale Of New York which starts with Kirsty complaining that, “you took my dreams from me”? Happy crying again because it’s such a nice sentiment.
Happy crying, that’s the way to go!
Comment by Miss Nomer — 20 July, 2009 5:02 am
Forever Autumn - Justin Hayward - the first few notes are enough to get me going….. I’m welling up just thinking of it…. sniff, sniff
Comment by Inselaffe — 20 July, 2009 5:23 am
Minor keys and chord changes were made for crying.
Like Mrs Jones, Fantasia by Vaughn Williams gets me every time. I think it’s a gorgeous piece of music.
Most of the others that are total tear triggers are songs about time,experience and the loss of innocence/youth
Beck- Everybody’s Gotta Learn Sometime.
A combination of the lyrics and the music.
Cat Power- Metal Heart
Cat’s got a touch of grit to her voice that appeals to me.
Priscilla Ahn- Dream
A clear beautiful voice full of wishes.
Sunrise Sunset- Fiddler of the Roof
I feel completely manipulated whenever I happen to hear this. Still it gets me.
The entire original cast album of The Fantastiks
Personal history.. the only really weepy songs are September Song and You Are Love.
I could go on and on….
Comment by asta — 20 July, 2009 5:33 am
Oh - forgot. ‘Sunshine on Leith’ by the Proclaimers.
Comment by JonnyB — 20 July, 2009 7:06 am
Try To Remember - when I was a kid, this song made me so sad that if it were an actual person, I’d probably be able to sue it. Don’t know why - there’s no emotional connection with an event, but the chord changes are so sweet, it’s still too much. Minors, minor sevenths, augmented chords, sustained fourths and then goes major for the chorus. MAJOR!!! Like nothing’s wrong! Like everything tickety-fucking-boo. But it’s not, is it? It’s not all all right - because the verse is almost entirely in minor and you know it’s headed back that way. It’s one of the most beautiful lyrics I think ever written - the misplaced summers of a carefree youth and all.
Appalachian Spring gets me almost every time - there’s one part in it. Keith Jarrett – My Wild Irish Rose; The Gypsy by Charlie Parker. Hardly Getting Over It by Bob Mould is another one. And the end of U2’s One is beautiful.
But the winner by a long and snivelly nose is Return by OK GO for the specific lyrics and the helpless anger.
Comment by Cliff — 20 July, 2009 8:07 am
Oh, um. ‘The Stops’ by Elbow. Been there, done that; but who hasn’t? The lyrics just describe it beautifully: “No longer my affair - / Well I can’t go there just yet / So I’ve come to love and trust those friends / That are holding your net”
And ‘See a Little Light’ by Bob Mould, another breakup song by a bloke convinced he’ll get back together with the object of his affections. Spent two years listening to that - it didn’t happen. Thank God.
another Elbow one - ‘Puncture Repair.’ Sweet little song that makes me well up every time.
And lastly, ‘Here Comes the Flood’, by Peter Gabriel. Aaagghhhh.
Comment by Jim — 20 July, 2009 8:20 am
I don’t have many songs that make me cry, but I also cried quite a bit at the first part of UP. I even knew going in that it was going to be sad, but I cried anyway, it was really a bittersweet movie. I tried to explain this to other people and they just looked at me strange and wondered why I would cry at a kids movie.
Comment by Jessica — 20 July, 2009 8:30 am
Re Try to Remember… Do you mean this song here? Because it’s all in a major key… no minorness… sorry, not meaning to be pedantic, am just interested in this kind of stuff - particularly in how a song can be played in a major key and yet still sound melancholy.
Comment by Beleaguered Squirrel — 20 July, 2009 10:00 am
Guinevere by Crosby Stills & Nash.
Just about anything instrumental by Clannad.
The theme song from Watership Down.
Rise Above by Seether.
Comment by Maria in Oregon — 20 July, 2009 11:39 am
Hello, there.
You seem like an interesting person. I really needed to tell you that, but I shall be on my way now.
Oh, and PS - as for songs that make me cry, unfortunately I don’t usually. Now, you complain about crying. I complain about not. You see, when you really need to cry and you can’t, all that comes out is a lot of friend-bashing and groans of frustration. Your way is healthier for everyone. The Scientist - Coldplay, Like A Knife - Secondhand Serenade and Konstantine - Something Corporate are most likely to make me cry, however.
PPS, I apologise for the PS being longer than the actual comment. I’ll be going now. *tips hat*
Comment by Helen — 20 July, 2009 12:11 pm
AH! But I forgot to add a PPPS - my main point, you see. I think you should publish all of your blogs. Really, you’d make a killing. Metaphorically, of course. It all reminds me of Adrian Mole, only real.
Comment by Helen — 20 July, 2009 12:15 pm
Just one more, because I can’t believe I left it out. Yes, Try to Remember( which my family calls the September Song) is a weeper, but the one that really kills me from the Fantasticks is They Were You.
S’all
Comment by asta — 20 July, 2009 1:17 pm
Hello, I emailed you sometime ago about how we were pretty much living the same lives (basically because I am going to SF soon, arg but also yay, and because I was thinking about the phrase ‘i know right’) and incidentally covers are also one of my favourite things - in fact I have ‘covers sunday’ where I go through covers blogs and find new and unusual covers.
Anyway:
Wonderful Life by Black (still reminds me of a Lloyds ad, or was it milk?)
Picnic by the motorway, by Suede
loads others
Comment by Anna (a different one) — 20 July, 2009 3:57 pm
The Matter (Of Our Discussion) by Nina Nastasia. I don’t know if it’s just the words, her voice, or the combination of the two, but it gets me every time.
Comment by Dawn — 20 July, 2009 8:57 pm
Beleaguered Squirrel - Try To Remember is mostly minor, but its sounds major in that version, oddly. I double checked the chords on a bunch of tab sites.
Just for irony, I’m throwing in Sad Songs Say So Much, by Elton John. That isn’t and doesn’t. And - I Guess That’s Why They Call It The Blues. That also isn’t and they don’t.
Comment by Cliff — 21 July, 2009 3:16 am
Also, Nine Million Bicycles in Beijhing, by Katie Melua.
You Could Be Happy by Snow Patrol. I actually started crying at my desk at work the first time I heard this.
Comment by Maria in Oregon — 21 July, 2009 1:58 pm
I can’t believe no one has said Cats in the Cradle by Harry Chapin yet. Wow.
Comment by Christina — 21 July, 2009 2:08 pm
oh lawks. I have an entire playlist of weep songs, which includes (but is not limited to):
Fire + Rain, James Taylor
I’ve Been Loving You Too Long, Otis Redding
And I Love You So, Don McLean
I Don’t Want To Talk About It, Everything But The Girl
The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face, Roberta Flack
But the absolute killer is Liszt’s Consolations No 3, lento placido, in D-flat major.
Comment by curlywurlyfi — 22 July, 2009 2:53 am
Cut Here by the Cure.
And, strangely, an instrumental: Charlotte Mittnacht (The Fabulous Destiny Of …) by DeVotchKa.
I really love crying over films, books and songs. It’s amazing to spend an hour crying and then say “wow, that was great!”
The Railway Children (film) - I have to watch it while in my house alone because someone would think I was dying, I sob so much!
Comment by blueskies2day — 22 July, 2009 2:55 am
“Don’t Give Up” by Kate Bush. As for the suggestion up in the comments somewhere that you should publish your blog, read Bete De Jour by Stan Cattermole first - there’s an absolutely fantastic blog->book translation
Comment by NickyB — 22 July, 2009 4:16 am
It doesn’t make me cry (though I love it), but if you like Blackbird, and you like covers, you should listen to Julie Fowlis’ Gaelic version. The youtube version doesn’t do full justice to her lovely voice (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDxy0qXYR40) but if you like it it’s 79p from her website (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDxy0qXYR40).
Comment by Smith — 22 July, 2009 4:32 am
Rainy Night in Soho - Shane McGowan’s finest work. Incredibly poignant and a beautiful finish.
Still there’s a light I hold before me,
You’re the measure of my dreams.
How wonderful to be able to say that to someone - You’re the measure of my dreams.
Comment by Duck — 22 July, 2009 4:34 am
Lovely little David Mitchell of Mitchell and Webb chose Rainbow Connection as his favourite Desert Island disc last week - I’d never heard it before and here it is again. I happen to think it’s much too soon for him to be on DID, but anyway that’s another story.
Rainy Days and Mondays by the Carpenters gets me every time - just had to listen to it on Youtube to make sure and - yep here I go *sob*.
Comment by Jane — 22 July, 2009 7:01 am
Angel - Sarah McLachlan (lyrics and music make me bawl)
The Show Must Go On - Queen (again, lyrics and music)
And like Krissa, Somewhere Over the Rainbow - Israel Kamakawiwo’ole (lyrics and music)
I probably have more but can’t think of any right now…have “The Show Must Go On” playing in my head now and am sad.
Comment by Rebecca — 22 July, 2009 6:34 pm
“Til’ there was you” from the Music Man gets me every time.
The ukelele march just says ‘unavailable’ :(
Comment by baconguy — 25 July, 2009 11:25 am
Dear everyone commenting here,
we Indian folks [that is, Asians] tend to get teased about how we like to cry…so you can imagine how I’m grinning here, reading all these comments about crying.
Indian music makes me cry, especially those songs about blind boys looking for lost father / mother / sister. And the music of an African musician, Ali Farka Toure, makes my ‘eyeballs sweat’.
Comment by guyana gyal — 27 July, 2009 3:04 pm
I can understand “Time after Time”, but crying to Kermit the Frog…? Hmm, I want to listen to “It’s not easy being Green” now…
Comment by CoatMan — 2 August, 2009 12:33 pm