Which songs make you cry?

[mr_hippo]

Following on from movies, which songs make you weep?
Ebony Eyes - Everly Brothers
Old Tige - Jim Reeves - strange because l don't like dogs
I saw Mummy kissing Santa Claus - takes me back to a Christmas when I was about 7, can't remember why
Any Vera Lynn WWII song

 

[vernon]

None of them.

 

[Archie_tect]

A few 'singers' make me want to.

 

[MattHB]

Any rap. But not for the right reasons!

 

[roadrash]

sinead o connor ...nothing compares to you ... gives me goose bumps

 

[ianrauk]

Only 1 song has every bought a lump to my throat. And that was when I watched the Johnny Cash video for Hurt for the first time.

A couple of scenes from the video really got to me.
The first one was when his wife is watching him from the stairs. You can just see the total love for him in her eyes.
The second one is at the end of the song when he closes the piano and runs his gnarled old hands over the lid, you just know that he knows it was probably the last time he would play that piano.

 

[Keith Oates]

Land of hope and glory, always makes my eyes a bit misty!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Ludwig]

Never had it so good (and felt so bad) by the Chi-lites.

 

[Browser]

A few 'singers' make me want to.

Especially at karaoke nights when they murder ballads.......

 

[sdr gb]

Not a pop song but the hymn "Abide With Me" always brings a lump to my throat.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Who's Gonna Drive You Home - The Cars
Lovesong - The Cure
Numb - The Cure
The Day Before You Came - Abba

 

[Archie_tect]

OK I'll fess up!

Five years ago... driving back from Birmingham on the M1 after leaving our son at The Chamberlain Tower when "Father and Son" [Cat Stevens] came on... then,
Three years ago...listening to "Slipping through my fingers" [Abba]: sitting on our daughter's bed after she'd gone off to university.

I'm an old softie really.

 

[Paulus]

Comfortably Numb ---Pink Floyd, the lines----When I was a child, i caught a fleeting glimpse out of the corner of my eye, I turned to look but it was gone, i cannot put my finger on it now, the child has grown, the dream has gone, I have become comfortably numb. Gets me every time I play that track. Especially after half a bottle of red.

 

[ianrauk]

Comfortably Numb ---Pink Floyd, the lines----When I was a child, i caught a fleeting glimpse out of the corner of my eye, I turned to look but it was gone, i cannot put my finger on it now, the child has grown, the dream has gone, I have become comfortably numb. Gets me every time I play that track. Especially after half a bottle of red.

Scissor Sisters version is much better.. more upbeat, more fun, more jolly..

 

[Yellow Fang]

Doesn't really make me cry, but I find "I Would Give Everything I Own" by Bread quite plaintive. It was one of the first songs I remember liking as a child, although I think that was the reggae cover.