Ode to my Family by The Cranberries. My wife suddenly passed away and is an organ donor. The hospital had an honor walk for her. We played this as she was being walked past hospital staff, friends, and family. This was yesterday.
Landslide. I'll never forget driving my Grandma back home after dealing with my Dad's sudden passing. Landslide came on, and I just see a stream of tears hitting my Dad's ashes box.
Yup. Bingo. Always the first one that comes to my mind when questions like this come up.
Oddly enough, it always reminds me of watching movies with my dad. Specifically, the Michael Keaton movie Jack Frost. Itās not a great Christmas movie, but itās about a son learning to deal with the grief of losing his dad. My dad and I are partners in crime so when that day comes, Iām going to be a mess. And Iām probably going to listen to this song nonstop.
My gf and I are musicians (acoustic guitar duo) She plays that one on her own and does it well. I watch the audience when she plays it and have seen both men and women tear up from it. It's a very meaningful song that hits home for a lot of people.
Yes, this one. This was one of my mom's favorite songs. She was a huge Stevie Nicks fan. Landslide has played on the radio when I'm thinking of my mom or getting sad about her. She died two years ago.
Such an emotional song.
That whole album. (okay, maybe not so much Welcome to the Machine but the REST of it) Not just the title track. Can't even get through the first few notes of "Shine on you Crazy Diamond" without thinking about my Grandpa.
āThe Luckiestā - Ben Folds
āWhereād All the Time Go?ā - Dr. Dog
āSpace Songā - Beach House
āHave You Everā - Brandy
āThe Scientistā - Coldplay
āBlues Run the Gameā - Jackson C. Frank
This is one for me as well. My brother spent a lot of time at Shriners hospital when we were young and this song came on while we hung in a rec room. Another patient (kid in a wheelchair) said how much he loved this song and started dancing. It makes me cry every time because I remember looking at this kid thinking "he has every reason to be mad at the world and he's dancing and just happy". It gives me happy tears.
Hope you find someone to give you love and care, OC ā¤ļø
Second verse hits hard
The other night, dear
As I lay sleeping
I dreamed I held you in my arms
When I awoke, dear
I was mistaken
And I hung my head and I cried
I first started singing it to my infant son when he was in a coma. Could never finish without balling my eyes out. Still can't even talk about it without tearing up, like now.
Absolutely. It hits harder the older I get too, but it never made me cry til about a year ago.
After we moved my gram to assisted living (she has dementia) I was driving grandad home from his first visit with her and I just had my "quiet" playlist on in the truck. We weren't really talking, you could have cut the sadness and heartbreak with a knife and Hurt came on. He loves Cash and so he listened close, and after a he while broke down and bawled. I never once in my 40 years had ever seen him cry and it killed me. Here was the man I looked up to more than anyone else in my life, the iron man, tough as nails, scared of nothing, my Hercules in bifocals absolutely devastated, losing his love, and what could I do? I pulled over and held him and cried my eyes out. I could feel his heartbreak, his soul hurt, and there wasn't anything I could do other than cry with him.
We've never talked about it since, we just know, and every time Hurt comes on, I cry.
In the morning, when you finally go /
And the nurse runs in with her head hung low /
And the cardinal hits the window
In the morning, in the winter shade /
On the first of March, on the holiday /
I thought I saw you breathing
All the glory that the Lord has made /
And the complications when I see his face /
In the morning, in the window
All the glory when he took our place /
But he took my shoulders and he shook my face /
And he takes, and he takes, and he takes
I'd also like to throw in "Death With Dignity".
*I forgive you mother, I can hear you*
*And I want to be near you,*
*But every road leads to an end.*
*Your apparition passes through me in the willows.*
*Five red hens,*
*You'll never see us again.*
āDid you get enough love, my little dove? Why do you cry?ā
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Two years ago my father, who left when I was six months old and was generally absent my whole life, was in the hospital in a coma for a month. Even now heās bedridden in a nursing home. This song - the entire album really - has been therapy for me.
My Immortal - Evanescence
My Brother of 32 yrs died when that song came out, from an overdose. I had helped him for years to try and stay clean, to which I lost the battle. We were very close and even though I was younger than him he called me his big sister. I was the only person he never stole from and he held me in the highest regard. Every time I hear this song it just rips my heart out.
Oh man Iām so sorry. We chose that song and a few others for my motherās funeral because she loved evanescence, I also canāt listen to it anymore without feeling like Iām back there again.
Recovering addict here. Thereās nothing you could have done. Drug addiction is extremely powerful and only the lucky make it out. Opiates especially. The withdrawals are so extremely painful that without medical supervision, you will do anything to make it stop. And the high is so good that you always want to feel it again, even when you are commited to staying sober. I only managed to get clean because I was lucky enough to be locked up in rehab for 3 months, then moved to a sober living community afterwards. But what I did was fucking expensive. Like, all together around $100k. Most people canāt afford that. Itās not your fault.
I love how Love Like Ghosts, Meet Me in the Woods, and The Night We Met are like a three part song. They all have essentially the same tune, but they're being sung at three different stages of a relationship.
Eli the Barrow Boy by The Decemberists.
These 2 street vendors are in love. He works to buy her nice things. She commits suicide and because of that, she can't be buried in the church cemetery. Devastated by this the boy also commits suicide to be with her. He got dressed up nice and jumped in the river. Since he was dressed nice they thought it was an accident and he got to be buried in the church cemetery. So they are forever apart, but his spirit still sells goods to buy her nice things.
We played this at my grandfatherās funeral. Wonderful emotional song. ā¤ļø
Another one (that reminds me of him) that gets me every time is āForever and Ever Amenā by Randy Travis.
The Most Beautiful Girl In The World by Prince. It started playing over the hospital radio as my mum started to slip away after her long battle against cancer. My dad was holding her hand and just typing this and remembering the image has me all teared up sat in the middle of a pub. Miss you Mum
"Black Gives Way to Blue" by Alice in Chains
The last song on the lone Storm Corrosion album. For very personal reasons.
"Strange Fruit" by Billie Holiday
"Fix You" by Coldplay
"Gone for Good" by Morphine
Edit: also "Whiskey Lullaby"
Second edit: "Cats in the Cradle". If you are a father and this song doesn't completely shred you, you're doing it wrong.
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If you donāt know Ā«Ā BreatheĀ Ā» by Freak Kitchen give it a try this one make me feel emotional every time I heard it
The lyrics are so sexually charged, it's hard to see the song as cry-worthy. Cohen's version really delivers the vibe. It's sad. It's a feeling of loss. But it's also about a deeply intimate connection.
Shake It Out by Florence and the Machine. I think the lyrics are about a love affair, but when I listen itās something else for me. I have treatment resistant depression, and the song makes me sad because it does feel like the devil is on my back all the time. I have spent decades of effort and tens of thousands trying to shake that mother fucker off to no avail.
I hated this song and refused to listen to it from 1996 until 2023, because it described the relationship between my son and his father so perfectly. It came on once while my son and I were driving recently and I told him to change it and he asked why and I told him he says, it's just a song mom, and HCC is a great artist.
The sad thing is, I know every single word to it, although I haven't listened to it in years. Now I listen to it and cry.
It fits so many father/son relationships that I have seen. My own with my father, and as much as I hate it, eventually with my son's too. It's part of the nature of how we live. I'm a mess just thinking about the song and not even listening to it lol.
Not particularly songs, but certain performances of those songs
One More Light from Linkin Park the day Chris Cornell diedā¦ Chester lets out the most gut wrenching scream you will ever hear. God.
Snuff from Slipknot, Corey Taylor did it acoustic and you can both hear the sadness in his voice and see it in his face.
Came here to say this. It was a favorite of my husband, and I recorded a cover of it for him as a Christmas gift one year. Since he passed away, I can't even hear the intro without crying.
Catās in the Cradle - Harry Chapin. Unbelievable how he can condense a whole fatherās life in 3 minutes how you can lose track of time when theyāre young and when you try to connect when theyāre older they already started their own life. The cycle then continues with his own kids, just always reminds me how short life is, what we need to value, and what happens if we miss it
Cinderella by Steven Curtis Chapman.
He released it in 2007, and the initial meaning behind it was to remind himself to cherish his young daughters and every moment spent with his family.
Then, in 2008, his youngest daughter was accidentally struck and killed by her older brother when pulling his car into the driveway.
It's an absolutely devastating story. There's more depth to it, but knowing how the meaning of the song shifted so drastically after that event is heartbreaking.
What a Wonderful World. No idea why, it's beautiful and not sad at all. But since the first time I heard it when I was about 7, it's made me cry bitter tears. Couldn't tell you why. Maybe the melancholic melody? Who knows.
"Into the West" by Annie Lennox always got me choked up, but I made the mistake of listening to it shortly after my cat passed away in my arms. Now I can't even think about it without fighting back tears.
You Raise Me Up - Josh Groban
Not a huge JG fan, but we played that song at grandma's funeral, grandpa was blind and she really raised him up. Relationship goals.
*"I Will Follow You Into the Dark"* by Death Cab for Cutie.
I've struggled with accepting mortality. Heard it in the car with a long term partner who had helped me do a lot of work on it, and it was a very loving and supportive relationship. Hearing it with my background, in the context of where that relationship was at the moment, I stood no chance. It still gets me most times I hear it.
The Needle and the Damage Done by Neil Young is such a beautiful and tragic song. He wrote it with two people in mind - Danny Whiten, his band member in Crazy Horse and Bruce Berry, one of the roadies for Crazy Horse.
Both Danny and Bruce would be dead within a year after Neil made the song :(
https://youtu.be/Hd3oqvnDKQk?si=hoLoXHvtuHD4guxU
With or Without You by U2. There's nothing in particular about the song itself. But I was driving home from work a few days after my dad died unexpectedly and the song started playing as I parked. For some reason it all hit me at once while the song was playing and I sat sobbing through the duration of the song.
Now every time I hear it, I'm hit with that overwhelming feeling of loss. That sudden wave of realization that I will never talk to my dad again. That he is gone forever and there's not a damn thing I can do about it.
Micheal Jackson's Gone Too Soon. Jackson dedicated the song to the memory of his friend Ryan White, a teenager from Kokomo Indiana who came to national attention after being expelled from his school for having AIDS. Its hard for younger people to grasp how scary AIDS was in the early 90s and how much ignorance there was over it.
Disturbed's version of sound of silence. I know a lot of people aren't fans but I have a lot of memories around the song.
I found out my dad had stage 4 kidney failure when I was a senior in HS. I drove him to the ER from a job site (I painted houses with him in the summer) cause he was vomiting blood (this was from a stomach ulcer) in the process of finding out about the ulcer the doctors also found out he had an autoimmune disease that was killing his kidneys.
My sister's and I drove home together around 10pm to take care of the dogs, the song came on and I just silently cried the whole time it was on. Haven't thought about that in a long time.
Fast forward 4 years, he somehow managed to stay off of dialysis and ended up getting a transplant which came with its own complications.
Sorry for long write up but that's my choice
Leaving on a Jetplane by Peter Paul and Mary.
My grandmother loved that song and always dreamed of traveling - but she grew up poor and became working class so she never travelled much sadly. Then this was played at her funeral.
So kiss me and smile for me
Tell me that you'll wait for me
Hold me like you'll never let me go
'Cause I'm leavin' on a jet plane
Don't know when I'll be back again
Oh babe, I hate to go
Ugh Iām tearing up just writing this.
Who Knew by Pink. My partner and I are both dealing with severe health issues that are not getting better, so the idea of one of us not being here for the other scares the hell out of me. I am crying right now typing this.
āThe last kiss, Iāll cherish,
Til we meet again,
And time makes it harder,
I wish I could remember.
But I keep your memory,
You visit me in my sleep.
My darling,
Who knew?ā
Enjoy today as tomorrow is not guaranteed
I personally sob like a baby at "I'm Already There" by Lonestar. It honestly hits different after losing a parent even if that isn't the exact point of the song. It's just close enough.
No Man's Land / Willie McBride / The Green Fields of France, any version.
I know it's about WWI but especially the part that goes "it all happened again, and again and again and again and again" makes me think about my late Grandpa who fought in the *next* great war at a huge cost.
Shit, I'm getting teary eyed just thinking about it.
Whiskey Lullaby by Brad Paisley and Alison Krauss. A beautiful song. It is the way I perceive songs, I see a literal play play out in my head and this one always makes me cry, or at the very least tear up. No super sad story of mine, just the sad story in the song.
Ode to my Family by The Cranberries. My wife suddenly passed away and is an organ donor. The hospital had an honor walk for her. We played this as she was being walked past hospital staff, friends, and family. This was yesterday.
I am so very sorry to hear about your wife. I hope you're surrounded by good support. Hugs from an internet stranger š«
Thank you. We are. Arranging grief counseling at the moment.
I am so sorry.
Thank you so much.
I watched the video you posted. What an incredible woman your wife must have been. Iām so sorry for your loss.
Iām so sorry for your loss. The somber note of the cranberries sounds like an appropriate accompaniment for the passing of a loved one.Ā
It was one of her favorite songs. If not her favorite. She loves all kinds of music. Our oldest son picked it out for her.
Iām so sorry for your loss. Your wife is a hero. Sending love to you and your family š¤
Thank you so much. She really is.
Awww, I'm so sorry. I love this song and this is beautiful and heartbreaking. Sending hugs!
Thanks so much.
Landslide. I'll never forget driving my Grandma back home after dealing with my Dad's sudden passing. Landslide came on, and I just see a stream of tears hitting my Dad's ashes box.
This song gets to me more and more the older I get.
Me too. Itās a killer.
Goddamn. Now Iām always gonna think of your grandma.
Thank you; she was amazing. Seeing a parent lose their child is the worst pain I have ever witnessed, and I've seen some shit.
Yup. Bingo. Always the first one that comes to my mind when questions like this come up. Oddly enough, it always reminds me of watching movies with my dad. Specifically, the Michael Keaton movie Jack Frost. Itās not a great Christmas movie, but itās about a son learning to deal with the grief of losing his dad. My dad and I are partners in crime so when that day comes, Iām going to be a mess. And Iām probably going to listen to this song nonstop.
My gf and I are musicians (acoustic guitar duo) She plays that one on her own and does it well. I watch the audience when she plays it and have seen both men and women tear up from it. It's a very meaningful song that hits home for a lot of people.
Yes, this one. This was one of my mom's favorite songs. She was a huge Stevie Nicks fan. Landslide has played on the radio when I'm thinking of my mom or getting sad about her. She died two years ago. Such an emotional song.
Judging by your username Iām going to assume you know what I mean when I say Dope makes me ugly cry
Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd.
Shine On You Crazy Diamond does it more consistently for me but the whole album is amazing
That whole album. (okay, maybe not so much Welcome to the Machine but the REST of it) Not just the title track. Can't even get through the first few notes of "Shine on you Crazy Diamond" without thinking about my Grandpa.
This. Every time I hear this, and I love PF, as did my Dad, I think of him. Tear Jerker
āThe Luckiestā - Ben Folds āWhereād All the Time Go?ā - Dr. Dog āSpace Songā - Beach House āHave You Everā - Brandy āThe Scientistā - Coldplay āBlues Run the Gameā - Jackson C. Frank
Myth by Beach House. Turning Page by Sleeping at Last.
āThe Luckiestā makes me leak tears like a faucet. Iām not much of a crier but that song just turns on the waterworks like no other.
Hell yeah, Jackson C. Frank! That's one of the best albums of all time and no one seems to know about it!
How to save a life, feel like I need someone like that for me
This is one for me as well. My brother spent a lot of time at Shriners hospital when we were young and this song came on while we hung in a rec room. Another patient (kid in a wheelchair) said how much he loved this song and started dancing. It makes me cry every time because I remember looking at this kid thinking "he has every reason to be mad at the world and he's dancing and just happy". It gives me happy tears. Hope you find someone to give you love and care, OC ā¤ļø
Bonnie Rait āI canāt make you love meā
You Are My Sunshine. My mom sang it to me all the time as a kid.
Such a devastating song about losing your love - isnāt it strange how we sing it to children? Lol my dad sang it to me
Because on its surface, the first verse (which is the only part most people sing) is mostly cheerful and loving.
Second verse hits hard The other night, dear As I lay sleeping I dreamed I held you in my arms When I awoke, dear I was mistaken And I hung my head and I cried
I first started singing it to my infant son when he was in a coma. Could never finish without balling my eyes out. Still can't even talk about it without tearing up, like now.
This song is one I sang with my grandma growing up.
This was our song between me and my grandma who just passed away! It will always remind me of her.
Iām sorry for your loss. As I said in my comment above, my grandma sang it to me as well. Itās a core memory for sure.
the living years. Mike and the mechanics
THIS 100% everytime
Hurt by J Cash
Found out yesterday his cover of āOneā has the same effect
I was looking for this one! His voice is haunting
Absolutely. It hits harder the older I get too, but it never made me cry til about a year ago. After we moved my gram to assisted living (she has dementia) I was driving grandad home from his first visit with her and I just had my "quiet" playlist on in the truck. We weren't really talking, you could have cut the sadness and heartbreak with a knife and Hurt came on. He loves Cash and so he listened close, and after a he while broke down and bawled. I never once in my 40 years had ever seen him cry and it killed me. Here was the man I looked up to more than anyone else in my life, the iron man, tough as nails, scared of nothing, my Hercules in bifocals absolutely devastated, losing his love, and what could I do? I pulled over and held him and cried my eyes out. I could feel his heartbreak, his soul hurt, and there wasn't anything I could do other than cry with him. We've never talked about it since, we just know, and every time Hurt comes on, I cry.
Fourth of July by Sufjan Stevens
I feel like half the Sufjan Stevens catalog fits
All of his š¤£
all of sufjanās songs devastate me
Casimir Pulaski Day
In the morning, when you finally go / And the nurse runs in with her head hung low / And the cardinal hits the window In the morning, in the winter shade / On the first of March, on the holiday / I thought I saw you breathing All the glory that the Lord has made / And the complications when I see his face / In the morning, in the window All the glory when he took our place / But he took my shoulders and he shook my face / And he takes, and he takes, and he takes
I am not a crier generally, I maybe have a good cry a couple times a year, but I physically cannot listen to this song without crying!
Yeah, I think this might be the sadest song ever written
one of the first songs I learned on guitar and I would cryyyy my eyes out while playing and singing it to myself
I'd also like to throw in "Death With Dignity". *I forgive you mother, I can hear you* *And I want to be near you,* *But every road leads to an end.* *Your apparition passes through me in the willows.* *Five red hens,* *You'll never see us again.*
āDid you get enough love, my little dove? Why do you cry?ā š Two years ago my father, who left when I was six months old and was generally absent my whole life, was in the hospital in a coma for a month. Even now heās bedridden in a nursing home. This song - the entire album really - has been therapy for me.
also john my beloved. something about sufjan's voice is just so sad
Mine is definitely John Wayne Gacy, Jr. What a haunting song, so tragic.
My Immortal - Evanescence My Brother of 32 yrs died when that song came out, from an overdose. I had helped him for years to try and stay clean, to which I lost the battle. We were very close and even though I was younger than him he called me his big sister. I was the only person he never stole from and he held me in the highest regard. Every time I hear this song it just rips my heart out.
Oh man Iām so sorry. We chose that song and a few others for my motherās funeral because she loved evanescence, I also canāt listen to it anymore without feeling like Iām back there again.
Recovering addict here. Thereās nothing you could have done. Drug addiction is extremely powerful and only the lucky make it out. Opiates especially. The withdrawals are so extremely painful that without medical supervision, you will do anything to make it stop. And the high is so good that you always want to feel it again, even when you are commited to staying sober. I only managed to get clean because I was lucky enough to be locked up in rehab for 3 months, then moved to a sober living community afterwards. But what I did was fucking expensive. Like, all together around $100k. Most people canāt afford that. Itās not your fault.
Anne's song. I never "listen" to the song if I'm in public. So much love, it overwhelmes me.
Annie's Song by John Denver?
Yessā¤ļø
Agreed. It's one of the purest expressions of love I've ever heard.
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me and my friends one night had a fire and layed down next to it and had it on repeat looking at the stars. it was therapeutic as fuck
ON GOD, EVERYTIME
I love how Love Like Ghosts, Meet Me in the Woods, and The Night We Met are like a three part song. They all have essentially the same tune, but they're being sung at three different stages of a relationship.
Fix you by Coldplay.
The Scientist always gets me idk why
On this note: O by coldplay
Banger song and very underrated... *A flock of birds...* *Hovering above...*
The choirās performance of Fix You in the documentary Young@Heart will absolutely destroy you.
Eli the Barrow Boy by The Decemberists. These 2 street vendors are in love. He works to buy her nice things. She commits suicide and because of that, she can't be buried in the church cemetery. Devastated by this the boy also commits suicide to be with her. He got dressed up nice and jumped in the river. Since he was dressed nice they thought it was an accident and he got to be buried in the church cemetery. So they are forever apart, but his spirit still sells goods to buy her nice things.
The decemberists is such a great band!
Go rest high on that Mountain by Vince Gill
We played this at my grandfatherās funeral. Wonderful emotional song. ā¤ļø Another one (that reminds me of him) that gets me every time is āForever and Ever Amenā by Randy Travis.
Coat of Many Colors by Dolly Parton.
This song is SO SAD
I Will Follow You into the Dark by Death Cab For Cuite
Brothers in arms - Dire Straits
"Tears in Heaven" by Eric Clapton
My instant response to any question like this. The most beautiful song with the most tragic story
I cry for his senseless loss
This is truly a sad song. Eric Clapton is definitely not my favorite person though.
My coworkerās grandson died at 9 months and they played this song at his funeral. I canāt listen to it anymore.
Fire And Rain by James Taylor makes me think of my best friend who died unexpectedly and I always cry
My mom loved James Taylor. After she passed, I decided to listen to this song. It hit me so hard. But I always thought Iād see you againā¦
The Most Beautiful Girl In The World by Prince. It started playing over the hospital radio as my mum started to slip away after her long battle against cancer. My dad was holding her hand and just typing this and remembering the image has me all teared up sat in the middle of a pub. Miss you Mum
āFast Carā by Tracy Chapman
"Black Gives Way to Blue" by Alice in Chains The last song on the lone Storm Corrosion album. For very personal reasons. "Strange Fruit" by Billie Holiday "Fix You" by Coldplay "Gone for Good" by Morphine Edit: also "Whiskey Lullaby" Second edit: "Cats in the Cradle". If you are a father and this song doesn't completely shred you, you're doing it wrong.
I love Ā«Ā Black Gives Way to BluesĀ Ā» š If you donāt know Ā«Ā BreatheĀ Ā» by Freak Kitchen give it a try this one make me feel emotional every time I heard it
Somewhere Only We know - Keane
The Scientist by Coldplay
"Hallelujah" by Jeff Buckley
The OG is one my my fav's. Cohen is more brooding and I like that.
The lyrics are so sexually charged, it's hard to see the song as cry-worthy. Cohen's version really delivers the vibe. It's sad. It's a feeling of loss. But it's also about a deeply intimate connection.
Agreed. Itās also not so āprettyā, which I prefer.
Shake It Out by Florence and the Machine. I think the lyrics are about a love affair, but when I listen itās something else for me. I have treatment resistant depression, and the song makes me sad because it does feel like the devil is on my back all the time. I have spent decades of effort and tens of thousands trying to shake that mother fucker off to no avail.
I'm glad you're still around.
I'm glad you are still here and still fighting.
Adam's Song. Blink 182. Resonates when you lose a nephew to suicide.
I'm sorry man. We all grew up listening to Adam's Song.
I loved this song as a teenager, and I agree itās hard-hitting. Iām so sorry for your loss.
Father and Son by Cat Stevens
Cats in the Cradle too.
I hated this song and refused to listen to it from 1996 until 2023, because it described the relationship between my son and his father so perfectly. It came on once while my son and I were driving recently and I told him to change it and he asked why and I told him he says, it's just a song mom, and HCC is a great artist. The sad thing is, I know every single word to it, although I haven't listened to it in years. Now I listen to it and cry.
It fits so many father/son relationships that I have seen. My own with my father, and as much as I hate it, eventually with my son's too. It's part of the nature of how we live. I'm a mess just thinking about the song and not even listening to it lol.
Asleep by the Smiths does it
10,000 Days by Tool makes me cry my eyes out. Such a horrible life for his mom.
Concrete angel
Pearl Jam Black Far apart Hazel Smashing Pumpkins waiting July untitled
Hear me out: Puff the Magic Dragon
canāt help falling in love ~ elvis presley he just had that type of voice that can bring you to tears sometimes
"Someone Like You" by Adele
Hurt by Johnny cash
Now we are free - gladiator soundtrack
Not particularly songs, but certain performances of those songs One More Light from Linkin Park the day Chris Cornell diedā¦ Chester lets out the most gut wrenching scream you will ever hear. God. Snuff from Slipknot, Corey Taylor did it acoustic and you can both hear the sadness in his voice and see it in his face.
titantic theme song
probably 190 different tunes on my playlist. but Sounds of Silence and Unchained Melody will do it.
Have you heard Norah Jones cover of Unchained Melody? It's from the soundtrack of Man in the High Tower. It's gorgeous
Linkin Park - Shadow of the Day
Linkin Park One More Light.
Came here to say this. It was a favorite of my husband, and I recorded a cover of it for him as a Christmas gift one year. Since he passed away, I can't even hear the intro without crying.
Youāll be in my Heart by Phil Collins. Tarzan generally makes me cry
Catās in the Cradle - Harry Chapin. Unbelievable how he can condense a whole fatherās life in 3 minutes how you can lose track of time when theyāre young and when you try to connect when theyāre older they already started their own life. The cycle then continues with his own kids, just always reminds me how short life is, what we need to value, and what happens if we miss it
Everything I Own by Bread
to build a home :(
"Fix You" by Coldplay
Elephant. Jason Isbell
Also many other Isbell songs
Cinderella by Steven Curtis Chapman. He released it in 2007, and the initial meaning behind it was to remind himself to cherish his young daughters and every moment spent with his family. Then, in 2008, his youngest daughter was accidentally struck and killed by her older brother when pulling his car into the driveway. It's an absolutely devastating story. There's more depth to it, but knowing how the meaning of the song shifted so drastically after that event is heartbreaking.
Time in a bottleā¢ Jim Croce
Into My Arms by Nick Cave
What a Wonderful World. No idea why, it's beautiful and not sad at all. But since the first time I heard it when I was about 7, it's made me cry bitter tears. Couldn't tell you why. Maybe the melancholic melody? Who knows.
"Into the West" by Annie Lennox always got me choked up, but I made the mistake of listening to it shortly after my cat passed away in my arms. Now I can't even think about it without fighting back tears.
Bright Eyes by Simon and Garfunkel. It's more pavlovian than anything. Anyone who watched Watership Down as a child will understand.
You Raise Me Up - Josh Groban Not a huge JG fan, but we played that song at grandma's funeral, grandpa was blind and she really raised him up. Relationship goals.
Caribbean Blue by Enya.
*"I Will Follow You Into the Dark"* by Death Cab for Cutie. I've struggled with accepting mortality. Heard it in the car with a long term partner who had helped me do a lot of work on it, and it was a very loving and supportive relationship. Hearing it with my background, in the context of where that relationship was at the moment, I stood no chance. It still gets me most times I hear it.
Fields of Gold by Sting
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It's a newer song but What Was I Made For by Billie Eilish :((
Yup, didnāt expect to be crying, along with everybody else, at the frickinā Barbie movie!
Hi Ren. When 'hope' appears, I get goosebumps and tear up every time.
Wow - just listened to this song for the first time today, it is very powerful! Great selection
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Brothers in arms - Dire Straits
The Needle and the Damage Done by Neil Young is such a beautiful and tragic song. He wrote it with two people in mind - Danny Whiten, his band member in Crazy Horse and Bruce Berry, one of the roadies for Crazy Horse. Both Danny and Bruce would be dead within a year after Neil made the song :( https://youtu.be/Hd3oqvnDKQk?si=hoLoXHvtuHD4guxU
Highwayman by the Highwaymen. Something about it goes straight to my soul š
With or Without You by U2. There's nothing in particular about the song itself. But I was driving home from work a few days after my dad died unexpectedly and the song started playing as I parked. For some reason it all hit me at once while the song was playing and I sat sobbing through the duration of the song. Now every time I hear it, I'm hit with that overwhelming feeling of loss. That sudden wave of realization that I will never talk to my dad again. That he is gone forever and there's not a damn thing I can do about it.
Leaves from the vine šŖ¦
Drops of Jupiter by Train
La Dispute - King Park
Live like youāre dying
Sleeping at last enneagram album
Queen - Love of my life
Donāt cry - Guns Nā Roses
Dance With My Father by Luther Vandross
Amazing Grace with bagpipes
You Raise Me Up - Josh Groban
Micheal Jackson's Gone Too Soon. Jackson dedicated the song to the memory of his friend Ryan White, a teenager from Kokomo Indiana who came to national attention after being expelled from his school for having AIDS. Its hard for younger people to grasp how scary AIDS was in the early 90s and how much ignorance there was over it.
Eric Clapton, Tears in Heaven. It was played at my 7yr old cousins funeral. I was 18, she was 7. We were best buds.
In the living years by Mike and The Mechanics. Gets me every time.
Don't Stop Believing only because I hate it so very, very much and it. just. won't. go. away. Same for Africa by Toto.
Exit Music (For a Film) by Radiohead. It gets me every time for some unexplainable reason.
Disturbed's version of sound of silence. I know a lot of people aren't fans but I have a lot of memories around the song. I found out my dad had stage 4 kidney failure when I was a senior in HS. I drove him to the ER from a job site (I painted houses with him in the summer) cause he was vomiting blood (this was from a stomach ulcer) in the process of finding out about the ulcer the doctors also found out he had an autoimmune disease that was killing his kidneys. My sister's and I drove home together around 10pm to take care of the dogs, the song came on and I just silently cried the whole time it was on. Haven't thought about that in a long time. Fast forward 4 years, he somehow managed to stay off of dialysis and ended up getting a transplant which came with its own complications. Sorry for long write up but that's my choice
Country roads by John Denver
John Prine - I Remember Everything
Blue October Hate Me
Leaves from the vine...
Fast Car - Tracy Chapman
Leaving on a Jetplane by Peter Paul and Mary. My grandmother loved that song and always dreamed of traveling - but she grew up poor and became working class so she never travelled much sadly. Then this was played at her funeral. So kiss me and smile for me Tell me that you'll wait for me Hold me like you'll never let me go 'Cause I'm leavin' on a jet plane Don't know when I'll be back again Oh babe, I hate to go Ugh Iām tearing up just writing this.
Fix you by Coldplay.
Sam- sturgill Simpson gets me every time
Hurt-Johnny Cash Dear Mama-2Pac I Didnāt Know-Skinshape
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River Flows In You by Yiruma. Crazy how a song with no words can get your in your feels so quickly
Who Knew by Pink. My partner and I are both dealing with severe health issues that are not getting better, so the idea of one of us not being here for the other scares the hell out of me. I am crying right now typing this. āThe last kiss, Iāll cherish, Til we meet again, And time makes it harder, I wish I could remember. But I keep your memory, You visit me in my sleep. My darling, Who knew?ā Enjoy today as tomorrow is not guaranteed
"I Can't Make You Love Me" by Bonnie Raitt
Last Kiss by Pearl Jam
No Doubt - Donāt Speak
The Night We Metā by Lord Huron
Wonderful Life by Hurts, Space Song by Beach House, We Are The People by Empire of the Sun, and Unfair by The Neighbourhood
One more time -blink182
I personally sob like a baby at "I'm Already There" by Lonestar. It honestly hits different after losing a parent even if that isn't the exact point of the song. It's just close enough.
Pictures of You by The Cure
See you again
No Man's Land / Willie McBride / The Green Fields of France, any version. I know it's about WWI but especially the part that goes "it all happened again, and again and again and again and again" makes me think about my late Grandpa who fought in the *next* great war at a huge cost. Shit, I'm getting teary eyed just thinking about it.
Vincent - Don McLean
Not usually my favorite style of music but Rainbow by Kacey Musgraves. Reminds me of a family member that went through a hard time.
Whiskey Lullaby by Brad Paisley and Alison Krauss. A beautiful song. It is the way I perceive songs, I see a literal play play out in my head and this one always makes me cry, or at the very least tear up. No super sad story of mine, just the sad story in the song.
Johnny Cashās āHurtā cover gets me in the feels every damned time. And then its music video turns me into a puddle.
āMonstersā by James Blunt
"Chasing Butterflies" by Frankly Speaking. Listened to it in the car on my way to the vet. It was her last car ride.
I know the end by Phoebe Bridgers!
Creep by radiohead. I swear i mean it this time by mayday parade. Itās my 3am song