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"Lightning Crashes" by Live is one that moves my father, tough as he is, to tears. My mom nearly died giving birth to my baby sister because of a doctor's incompetence. My mom, and my baby sister are alive and well, but my father can't keep his stoic demeanor every time he hears that song.
"Unbreak My Heart" by Toni Braxton always gets me teary eyed and to me seems like one of those forgotten 90s break up songs, as does "One Last Cry," by Brian McKnight- another tearjerker.
"The Rose" by Bette Midler always gets me. I can always hear her trying to keep believing something good is eventually going to happen despite the pain of the journey
That song is not even sad. Sure the pain is there but there's also the light of hope which outshines the pain. And Bette's voice is never saddening either.
Sinead O'Connor singing "Nothing compares to you" completely blew me away, it is so painful, sweet and gentle. It also has a open, raw, simple quality. Easily the most powerful song there for me.
"One more Light" was my go to for when my Dad passed away last year. It was sad before, but it was even more so after my Dad passed away. My Dad and I may not have seen eye to eye often, but he was important to me, and I miss him so much.
I knew Tears in Heaven had to be on this list. I was eight years old when Cats in the Cradle came out. It had a big influence on my parenting style as an adult. I always made time for my children, no matter what, and now, they always make time for me. I have a teenage granddaughter now. I can see that my daughter and son in law are doing the same thing. Things really do roll forward to the next generation. The Johnny Cash version of Hurt was very different from the original. From NIN, it was a whiny drug addicted kid. From Johnny Cash, it was a 70 year old man looking back on a lifetime of regrets. Absolutely beautiful.
I think your discrediting nine inch nails a little much. He was a drug addict but he was also extremely depressed and alone. And the emotion alone in his voice resonates a lot more than Cash who just sounds like an old guy
@@mojo3067 it's claimed to have saved 21 of the 36 people featured in the video. I say claimed because some of the people were adults that didn't want to be found. but still that is incredible.
Street Spirit - Radiohead Old And Wise - Alan Parsons Project When You’re Gone - Cranberries Vincent - Don Mc Lean The River - Bruce Springsteen A Salty Dog - Procol Harum So Long, Marianne - Leonard Cohen Song For Guy - Elton John All Of My Love - Led Zeppelin Half A World Away - REM
The living years gets me every time. I lost my father in 2015 and since then it crushes me....seeing the echoes of him in your own children is as heartbreaking as it is powerful
To be fair, there’s a lot of Evanescence songs that make me cry. Amy Lee has the most hauntingly beautiful voice, especially when paired with the piano.
Funny thing is, as a teenager, I hated Evanescence. Why? Because my sister would have them blasting through the house on repeat. Drove me bonkers. Now I can really appreciate Amy Lee and her work. She really does have the right voice to bring out such emotions.
@@lessismore8533you beat me to that one there lol Anyhoot there’s also her other song far from heaven from their newest album that also strikes ya in the heart
listen to his version featuring ray charles, very tragic sounding; two elderly men wondering where their love went wrong. overall the better version imo, vocal wise and overall vibe
World I Know - Collective Soul Shannon - Henry Gross Steelheart - Mama don't you cry The Marmalade - Reflexions of my life These 4 songs get me every time.
Hugely overlooked is The Blower's Daughter by Damien Rice. By the time the female voice singing "Did I say that I loathe you? Did I say that I want to? Leave it all behind?" I already soaked in tears 😢😭😭
Just the entire "O" album is a tear-jeaker, and hate to say it, it probably was peak Damien Rice too. Nothing since has really hit the same as that album by him.
Songs that make you cry When she loved you- Sara Mclachlan A thousand Years- Christina Perri My heart will go on- Celine Dion I loved her first- Heartland You raise me up- Josh Groban Jealous- Labrinth Through the rain- Mariah Carey You’ll be in my heart- Phill Colins I’ll stand by you- Pretenders If I had only known- Reba Macentire No place that far Sara Evens Un-break my heart Toni Braxton Because you loved me- Celine Dion I will always love you- Whitney Houston
Good list! I’d add the following songs: “I’ll Be There” - Escape Club “Sometimes Love Ain’t Enough” - Patty Smyth feat. Don Henley “How Can I Help You Say Goodbye?” - Laura Branigan “He’s My Son” - Mark Shultz “Goodbye” - Hootie and the Blowfish “In My Daughter’s Eyes” - Martina McBride And countless other songs that are beautifully written and performed well
2015 I took a TIA-stroke just less than a week before Christmas. Just after release from the hospital Home Depot Canada made me go back to work. I cried to so many songs I had to run to the lumber doors to get out of the store. My supervisor knew my reactions and he allowed me to run for the doors and asked me if I was ok when he saw me come back in. I have got back to listening to most of the songs, other songs I would still cry while listening to it and the third group I still cannot listen to more than 5 seconds. There will come a time where I will be able to listen to all songs, but they will still fall upon my heart😭❤🧡💛💚💙💜🤎🖤
I would like to say The Show Must Go On which was recorded a year before Freddie's death is just as poignant to Queen as Who Wants To Live Forever. Hell even the lyrics of Bohemian Rhapsody like "Too late, my time has come Sends shivers down my spine, body's aching all the time. Goodbye, everybody, I've got to go" hit different after Freddie passed!!
I agree, and also those were the days of our lives.....especially at the end of the video the last line, freddie looks straight down the camera, knowing he's dying, he whispers....I still love you
The most gut-wrenchingly painful song for me to listen to is Don McLean’s “Vincent”, a song about Vincent Van Gogh’s tortured life and his suicide: My lifelong friend - a wonderful but deeply troubled person - took his own life twelve years ago, and I’ve never been the same since. In a way, he killed both of us on that day. His name was Vincent too, and this song shakes me to my core every time I make the mistake of listening to it.
@@travsam Firstly, what is funny about sadness? Please explain, I am full of emotion now, and genuinely do not understand your remark. Secondly, Sadness is not a contestant in a race, it just - is. It deserves respect and compassion, not any kind of "position".
My Immortal never fails to bring tears to my eyes. Especially now that so many people I've loved have passed. The song is a beautiful and painful look into the grieving soul. An experience that all will experience in time and there is no being prepared for it. You think you are ready, but when the time comes, you break.
Mine would be How could you leave us - NF What hurts the most - Rascal Flatts Whiskey lullaby- Brad Paisley Who Knew- PINK Better than me- Hinder Don’t Jump - Tokio Hotel Hold on - Good Charlotte Untitled - Simple Plan Never too late - Three days grace How to save a life - The Fray ❤
what hurts the most is a beautiful song. Aaron Lewis does a really good acoustic cover of it. Don't Take the Girl - Tim McGraw seems like it would fit well on your list too.
1. Storm - Lifehouse 2. All I Want - Kodaline 3. Can't Cry Hard Enough - The William Brothers 4. Skinny Love - Bon Iver 5. Love Is Gone - Dylan Matthews 6. Foolish Games - Jewel 7. Old and Wise - The Alan Parsons Project 8. Chances - Air Supply 9. Sandra - Manilow 10. Promise Me - Beverley Craven
Great list -- I'd add (at least as honorable mentions): Gone Away - The Offspring Life Fades Away - Roy Orbison The Dance - Garth Brooks What Becomes of the Broken Hearted - Jimmy Ruffin (Sittin' on) The Dock of the Bay - Otis Redding Ain't No Sunshine - Bill Withers It's So Hard To Say Goodby To Yesterday - Boyz II Men Everything I Own - Bread Sunny - Bobby Hebb
The Dance - oh, yes. After the spring training accident that killed two Cleveland Indians pitchers, they won the pennant. When they unveiled the plaque on the outfield wall, they played The Dance and I remember Orel Hersheiser crying.
Whenever I hear Angel, I always think of the ASPCA commercials. The song alone doesn't make me wanna cry, but hearing it while seeing all those poor animals😭.
As a paramedic I was called to a little boy and his dog who were hit by a car. I had to wait on scene, unable to move the boy until the investigation was completed and sat in that ditch with them both, singing that song to that child. I remember watching the mom pull up from getting groceries, listening to her screams as her husband met her with the news. Their nightmare is wound with my memory of that song.
“Butterfly Kisses” by Bob Carlisle. A father singing about his young daughter & all the little things he’s grateful for. Always makes me cry, both as a daughter whose dad continues to spoil her & as a mother to four girls of my own. I forgot about “The Living Years” & that was the only one on this list that made me cry. My dad’s still here-almost 80-& he’s met his first great-grandchild but he’s getting frail with Parkinson’s. My mom, who no one thought would ever fall apart, is also breaking down physically. I don’t want to think about them being gone, but one day they will be.
Great list. Some of my honorable mentions: Something in the way - Nirvana Earth song - Micheal Jackson Amen Omen - Ben Harper Leave out all the rest - Linkin Park Ship song - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds You found me - The Fray Marriage - Moonmoon
There’s many rock songs that makes me cry. Lifehouse - everything/hanging by a moment (acoustic) Soul asylum - runaway train (especially the Music video) The fray - how to save a life The goo goo Dolls - Iris Hoobastank - the reason The calling - wherever you Will go Matchbox twenty - if you’re gone/unwell (acoustic) Snow patrol - chasing cars/just say yes (acoustic) These makes me wanna tear up and cry. 😢😭
“Everybody Hurts”- cannot listen to this song anymore. It’s beautiful but a couple of years ago my grown son got a Great Dane puppy. When it was 4 months old we had to rush him to the vet emergency room. We thought it was Parvo but he tested negative several times. He looked so very sick and pitiful. We had to leave him there for several days while they tried to find out what was wrong and tried to help him. It was hard on my son having to leave him there. One day they said he was doing better so I figured we’d probably get to pick him up the next day. I called one more time that night to check on him but the vet said the puppy’s health was again declining. On my way home from work “Everybody Hurts” came on the radio and I remember just bawling my eyes out, singing along. Thinking of this precious 4 month old puppy, scared and sick and alone in a kennel at the vet. He didn’t understand why we’d left him there and it broke my heart thinking of how he was feeling. The lyrics “if you feel like you’ve had enough, of this life, hold on” really got to me and I was belting them out, singing to the dog in my heart begging him to be ok. The next morning my son came in my room in tears. The vet had called him to say that his puppy didn’t make it. We were crushed and that song reminds me of him and I just can’t listen without crying. We love you Berus. Story number 2 nobody asked for: the song “When She Loved Me” from Toy Story 2 has always killed me. I have 2 grown sons who are and have always been my whole world. When they were little and we’d watch Toy Story 1 and 2 all the time this song would make me very emotional. It made me think about the future and that one day my little boys would grow up, not need me anymore, not feel the same way about me as they did at the time when they were little. It hurt my heart because I related so much to the lyrics even though it hadn’t happened to me yet and they were still “mama’s boys”. Now they are in their 20s. I still love them more every day but that song hurts even more now because I now have lived through that part of life. I have a 2 year old granddaughter now whom I treasure with all of my being. I look at her sometimes though and think about that one day too she will grow up and no longer need me and no longer love me the way she loves me now. I’m thankful for every age and stage of my children’s and grandchildren’s lives and I’m blessed to be a part of that. I just miss the special time I had with them when they were little and how close we were. #3 “Mah’s Joint.” My youngest son had this song on a playlist and it would make me sad because I was worried that one day soon I’d be able to relate to the singer’s pov. Several years later my amazing and beautiful 95 year old grandmother did end up getting dementia among some other health problems and unfortunately had to go live in a nursing home. She hated it and asked to go home every day. We just were not equipped with everything needed to be capable of caring for her at her home anymore. Every day my mother went to see her at the nursing home. She spent hours every day taking care of my grandmother, her mother. In short “my mother was a mother to her mom”, just as the lyrics said. We lost our family matriarch this Feb 2024 and I still miss her every day. I was a teenager-young adult when my grandmother, mother and I used to go visit my great grandmother in the nursing home. She too had dementia and I’d watch my grandmother with her. Then it’s like everyone swapped roles, my grandmother became the one in the nursing home who had dementia, my mother took over the role my grandmother had been in(caring for her own mother) and I took the role my mother had had as my own children now took on the role I had when my great grandmother was in a nursing home. It’s like a very sad, emotional cycle that I don’t want to continue but as my mother is 74 herself and has been showing signs of early dementia (in my opinion-she has not been diagnosed and I pray I’m wrong) for several years, it looks like one day she will take the part of the grandmother with dementia in the nursing home and I’ll be the daughter being a mother to her mom and so on. I hope not. Yeah but anyway very emotional song for sure I can’t even begin to listen to anything on Bowie’s last album. I’m 43 and I have loved and adored David Bowie since I was in middle school. He got me through some really hard times dealing with my father. I cried when I found out Bowie had passed away and every time I’ve attempted to listen to his last body of work I can’t do it. It’s too painful. Queen’s “Nobody but You”. Oh my gosh. Queen is my favorite band and Freddie Mercury means more to me than any stranger has a right too. I absolutely love and adore him and song, written for Freddie by his bandmates after his death, absolutely pulls the heartstrings apart
Powerful comment. You really opened up and I hope it was cathartic and healing in away. Know that there are strangers out here who read it all, and contemplated, and care. ❤
Sarah McLachlan is from my province - Nova Scotia - and she performed "Angel" in the aftermath of the mass shooting that took place here on April 18 & 19, 2020. It was the worst mass shooting in all of Canadian history. I have always loved the song but now I can't hear it without bawling, and thinking about all of the 22 innocent lives lost that horrible weekend. "A Reason to Fight" by Disturbed is a firm, and tear-jerking reminder to keep fighting no matter what, and a tribute to those we've lost. So is "Hold on to Memories", which is hauntingly beautiful. "The Sound of Silence" is beautiful whether it's the original or Disturbed's version. "Fast Car" was popular when I was in my teens... It's just as relevant today as it was back then, and it's so great to see people enjoying it and loving it again. It's a beautiful song, and Ms. Chapman has an amazing voice. Of course, "My Immortal" is one of my favorite songs of all time. Amy Lee has an incredible vocal range, and that song is perfect in my opinion.
“Who wants to live forever” marked the passing of my grandfather. I spent years without listening to it because it would make me cry. It became a strong yet beautiful mourning song for me.
I use to love this song but hearing it when I learned my mother was in the final stage of her battle with cancer, I haven’t been able to listen to it again 😭😭😭
I remember my mom being a perfect mother but when I hear songs from the late 80’s and 90’s I remember a pain I’d never want to relive. It doesn’t make any sense. She’d have gotten rid of my dad in a second if I asked but I felt bad for him. He was a vet with bad PTSD. Our first papillon was the one who ultimately healed him and as an adult I stayed with them to experience the happy childhood I originally should’ve had. My parents were never so happy. Though I never got married or was able to have children I accepted that I let those things go in order to let my dad have his best years with me and my mom and our two papillons. Because they were our best years as well. But even though in my early 40’s I’m too old to experience those things I can’t bring myself to regret my choice because the three of us were so happy together. Even though I’d now give anything but those years to have children of my own.
None of my business and I'm not trying to be nosey or out of place, but if you're interested in having a child, I know many women that have very healthy babies in their 40's
@ Thank you for saying so but I should have made it clear that I probably never would have been able to have kids anyway, due to endometriosis. So I just wish I’d tried. Knowing that and because it was the dogs that changed our lives, the three of us focused on giving them the best life possible. We literally called ourselves mommy, grandma and grandpa when speaking to them. My dad literally never left the house without them, and apparently being a Vet gives you a free pass here because even the doctors office and the market let him bring them in. And likely because my dad also turned even more into that kind funny guy everyone loves once he’d healed.
"Faithfully" by Journey, and DON'T LAUGH. Dad was in the Army Nurse Corps, and when we were stationed overseas, one of his annual duties was making sure everyone in the region got their flu shots. And there were a LOT of outlying posts in the area, so Dad would be gone for a couple months straight every autumn. So, one day toward the end of one of those long flu shot seasons, we were driving over to the Exchange, and "Faithfully" comes on the American radio station just out of nowhere. And I just...I lost it. I missed my Dad. Song still gets my waterworks going to this day. "Seasons Change" by Exposé. Again with the Army brat sads: we PCS'ed Stateside in '87, and a few months later, I got a letter from one of my old friends at Dad's last duty station. It would turn out to be the last contact we'd ever have: this was, don't forget, before the internet. So, I'm reading this letter, and, yup, "Seasons Change" comes on the radio, with predictable results. (My crazy luck with random songs on the radio is a bit of a personal running gag.)
Time by Alan Parsons Time, flowin' like a river Time, beckoning me Who knows when we shall meet again? If ever But time keeps flowin' like a river To the sea Goodbye, my love Maybe for forever Goodbye, my love The tide waits for me Who knows when we shall meet again? If ever But time keeps flowin' like a river (On and on) To the sea, to the sea Chorus: 'Til it's gone forever Gone forever Gone forevermore Goodbye, my friends (Goodbye, my love; now I'm asleep) Maybe for forever Goodbye, my friends (Who knows where we shall meet again?) The stars wait for me Who knows where we shall meet again? If ever But time keeps flowin' like a river (On and on) To the sea, to the sea Chorus: 'Til it's gone forever Gone forever Gone forevermore Forevermore Forevermore Forevermore
One big missed opportunity for this list: “Concrete Angel” but man, for years my mom could not get through Tears In Heaven. Also, I remember being at a family get together and hearing the Johnny Cash version of “If You Could Read My Mind” and there were absolutely zero dry eyes.
All of my Love-Led Zeppelin, Changes-Black Sabbath, So Sad- Marianne Faithful, Fade out- Radiohead, In the air tonight/Another day in Paradise- Phil Collins, Listen to your hear-Roxette, 20 years- Placebo, Aint no Sunshine - Bill Withers and the list can go on and on this is very subjective
While divorcing from my husband of 35 years I have played Silver Spring by Fleetwood Mac countless times. So many tears. He wanted out and I am devastated. The words are perfect. Good job it conveyed my feelings perfectly
This whole album basically, at least for me, Brother, Nutshell, Would?, Down in a Hole, Frogs, Killer is Me, they all seem quiet sad to me. With that said, it's still one of my all time favorite albums
Evanescence's the very first time hearing it was watching Daredevil during Valentine's day during the whole funeral scene with Elektra's father's. That song is just beautiful.
"These are the Days of our Lives" by Queen is also a sad song because it's one Freddie Mercury's last performance in the video and watching him is heartbreaking.
Good Riddance - Greenday Leave out all the rest - Linkin Park Longer - Dan Fongelberg Father and Son - Cat Stevens Blackbird - Beatles Iris - Goo Goo Dolls Untitled - Simple Plan Kendrick Lamar - Bitch dont kill my vibe J. Cole - Apparently
"One Sweet Day" by Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men. It came out around the time my grandma passed away and it still tugs at my heart when I hear it. Another one is "Holes in the Floor of Heaven" by Steve Wariner. A great song about life going on and the bittersweet moments in life we experience without those we love.
This song saved my life. Literally. I had had enough, and had plans to drive my car off a bridge. I knew the exact spot where there was no barrier. The dj came on and quietly said "wherever you are, whatever you're thinking of doing, don't give up…" and then this song came on. I had never heard it before, so it really struck me. It's 2024 and I'm still here 🥹
How about "Operator (That's Not The Way It Feels)" by Jim Croce. The song talks of a person on a payphone trying to get ahold of his ex to tell them there's no hard feelings and how he's doing. By the middle of the verse he can't even read the number that was given to him because he's too busy crying and eventually just gives up, thanking the operator on the other end for their time. The inspiration for the song was soldiers on break trying to call their loved ones before going back into battle.
I lost my mother about 6 years ago now to ALS. The song that makes me cry thinking of her is John Mellencamp's "Longest Days". The lyric "But nothing lasts forever. Your best efforts don't always pay. Sometimes you get sick and you don't get better. That's when life is short even in its longest days." Even as I type this, I'm crying.
Apparently after Johnny Cash recorded this, he showed it to his daughter. She said, "its as if you're saying goodbye" he replied, "I am." That makes the song even more emotional and after he closed that piano, he never opened it again. 😢😢😢 Rip Johnny Cash. You will never be forgotten.
Omg! Tysm for mentioning red sovine. I remember listening to his music on one of his tapes as a kid and losing it on several of them. He was a talented musician
A lot of the songs on this list that are about grief hit me hard in the feels. Just 8 months ago I lost my mom unexpectedly while I was battling a severe mental health crisis. I've been stubbornly working to get well again and am still experiencing all those feelings of grief and sadness. It didn't help that a friend of mine found a voicemail my mom had left during one of the times I was too unwell to be there for her...in the voicemail she was begging for someone to come over to her apartment and help her because she had fallen down and hit her head. It had been my friend who had called for an ambulance and ridden over on a bicycle to be there for her. I still feel guilty that I was not strong enough to help her in her final months and to be there for her the way she was my entire life and I guess that is one feeling I'm going to carry for a long time.
Please understand that your mom would not want you to feel that way. I'm an older woman with 3 grown daughters. I am closest to my middle child, but she has had some severe mental health issues too. There have been times when I really needed her but I understood she couldn't be there for me. But the main thing we mothers want to know is that you will be all right after we are gone. We don't want you to carry guilt about not being able to help. In the end, it is God that gets us through - He is our very present help in times of trouble. God was with your mom - no need for guilt. He will be with you too, and will help you if you turn to Him for whatever you need.
@@sheilastanaland Thank you. It's coming up to the 1 year anniversary of my mom's passing and I find myself sitting here replaying in my head the weeks leading up to her death. I swear I almost heard my mom's voice in m head as I read your comment and I started tearing up a bit because you sound almost like she did when she was still lucid. I hope your daughters realize how amazing of a mother they have and I wish the best for you and your family.
1-Hurt - Johnny Cash 2-No Suprises - Radiohead 3-Fade to Black - Metallica 4-Everyboby Hurts - R.E.M. 5-Nutshell - Alice in Chains 6-Leave out all the Rest - Linkin Park 7-So Far Away - Avenged Sevenfold 8-Adam's Song - Blink-182 9-Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd 10-Fix You - Coldplay
Elton John's "The Last Song", Barbra Streisand's "Places That Belong To You", "Send In The Clowns", "The Way We Were", Karen Carpenter"s voice in "Yesterday Once More" , "Yesterday When I Was Young" by Dusty Springfield or Charles Aznavour, Christina Aguilera's "Hurt", Don McLean's "Vincent", to name but a few! Thank you for the list!!!
I saw Mike + The Mechanics live in 1990. When Paul Carrack sang "I wasn't there that morning," the entire theater spontaneously stood up - for all the fathers.
There are so many songs that are emotional for me……to name but a few. Stay - Shakespeares Sister. Kate Bush - This woman’s work Cat Steven’s - Father & Son Whitney Houston- I Will Always Love You Annie Lennox - Why and No More I Love You’s Jorja Smith - Don’t Watch Me Cry George Michael - Different Corner Roxette - It Must Have Been Love
Hold on by Sarah Mclachlan. That one gets me every time. My dad died around the time I was listening to this album. Kept me in tears everytime I heard it.
How did “I Can’t Make You Love Me” by Bonnie Raitt NOT make this list?? I would also add “Jar of Hearts” by Christina Perri And “Falling Slowly” by Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova.
I would never claim one version excels another, especially where Simon & Garfunkel are concerned, but Disturbed's version of the Sound of Silence resonates with me today more than the original I grew up with.
It's a little known song by a lesser known band, but "Our Farewell" by Within Temptation. When I lost my first even pregnancy I listened to it on repeat and cried and cried and cried. It still will bring me to tears now, 10 years later.
Depending on when it hits me, Goodbye My Lover either makes me laugh hysterically thanks to The Office, or tear up just knowing one day it will be very relevant to either my wife or me.
Suffering from depression for 45 of my 54 years on this planet means that I have an enormous and powerful playlist of sad and self-pitying songs that can validate feelings of loneliness, worthlessness, despair and suicidal ideation. BUT, I found **STRENGTH** in the music, which is why I am still here today after decades of misdiagnoses and tribulations. Let me call out just a handful of songs to accompany your already worthy list: Carpenters… “Rainy Days and Mondays”, “Superstar” and “Yesterday Once More”; Simon & Garfunkel… “Bookends”, “I am a Rock” and “El Condor Pasa”; Bette Midler… “The Rose”, “Wind Beneath My Wings”, “In My Life” (Beatles), “I Think It’s Going to Rain Today”; Jim Croce… Gordon Lightfoot… Lady Gaga… just too many others to list - need a new video of “Top 100 Sad Songs” 😢😊❤
ordinary world by duran duran should be on this list, it makes many people cry in loss, but then feel hopeful at the end and you may cry with happiness that you will go on. it really affected me too.
Ordinary World hits different for a cancer survivor. When you go through the Dr. appointments, the labs (blood tests), the chemo, etc., all you want is that ordinary world back, and you don't know when or if you'll get it.
@@stevegallo8483 i guess its all in how you see it, music is like that, sorry if it doesnt help you, but i lost my mother to covid and i almost died of covid and i was in the hospital a awhile and for me the song and some others really helped me keep going, it made me calmer and made me want to get out of bed when i did not think i could get out of bed. the song is about the death of a close friend of simon le bon, and about he blamed himself for his death and about him trying to go on living despite the loss. some say its also about heaven, that i will find my way back to that person i lost in heaven someday . hope you find something in music that does help you after what happened to you
My father wasn't a big Bruce Springsteen fan, but his kids, my sister and I, are. And when he passed away last year we played "I'll see you in my dreams" at his funeral. I was so pleased Bruce made this his final song his latest tour. I have seen three concerts of this tour, and cried every single time (twice with my sister).
She Talk toAngels- black Crows, Daddy Doesn’t Pray Anymore - Chris Stapleton, May the Circle Be Unbroken, I Believe and You’re Gone - Diamond Rio, Carrie Me, Carrie - Dr Hook, Guiding Light - Foy Vance and Ed Sheeran, Face The Sun and Sun On Sunday. And The Girl That Never Was and Monsters - James Blunt, When I’m Gone - Joey + Rory, Homesick - MercyMe, Dancing in the Sky- Dani and Lizzie, Same Auld Lang Syne- Dan Fogelberg (There are just too many songs that touch my heart)♥️
One song not listed that always makes me cry is "Dreaming of You" by Selena, largely because it was one of the last songs she recorded and she was taken away from this world before it was even released. 😢
My List would be: Lady D'Arbanville-Cat Stevens In the year 2525-Zager & Evans Angie-Rolling Stones Painted Black-Rolling Stones Dress Rehearsal Rag-Leonard Cohen Seems so Long-ago Nancy-Leonard Cohen Sad Lisa-Cat Stevens Inside (If I was you, I'd Hide)-Chris Avantgarde feat. Red Rosamond The Traitor-Leonard Cohen Ballad of the Absent Mare-Leonard Cohen
One more light helped me deal with my grandfathers passing a few weeks before my 23rd birthday I’m sorry I wasn’t able to help you. I pray you’re doing well.
Honorable mentions: 1. "Say Hello 2 Heaven" by Temple of the Dog- a rocking and soulful tribute to the late Andrew Wood by his former roommate Chris Cornell 2. "Cinderella" by Steven Curtis Chapman- Steven wrote the song about sweet moments he wishes he could've had with his adopted daughter that died in a tragic accident 3. "Whiskey Lullaby" by Brad Paisely and Allison Kraus
I know a lot of people will not know the song but "Smile" by Charlie Chapman always makes me cry when it is played. It has been sung over the years my many singers.
Who Wants To Live Forever is one of my go to songs when I remember for my late mother who died in 2007. She was a big fan of the Highlander movies and series. And of course Mad World and Everybody Hurts.
The Way That You Were, Levitate, Drag Me Under, Blood Sport, Atlantic, Fall For Me, Missing Limbs, Shelter, and Are You Really Okay. All heart breaking songs by Sleep Token. Vessel’s voice takes you on an emotional journey that cannot be replicated by any other artist. From Thread the Needle to Euclid they’ve always been amazing. WORSHIP
Looking at the comments, you guys really need to do a Part Two of this thing and it be around more of the 60's, 70's, 80's thus being less repetitious than your usual lists for these things. Then you would have songs, among others, like: Bright Eyes - Art Garfunkel Ben and/or Earth Song - Michael Jackson Love Hurts - Nazareth Rainy Days and Mondays - Carpenters Honey - Bobby Goldsboro Seasons in the Sun - Terry Jacks Anne Murray - Broken Hearted Me Dusty Springfield - You Don't Have To Say You Love Me Elvis Presley - In The Ghetto Diana Ross - Do You Know Where You're Going To Bobby Vinton - In The Days Of Sand And Shovels Procol Harum - A Whiter Shade of Pale
I can't even listen to Honey, by Bobby Goldsboro. I can remember my mom listening to it when my dad was gone to Thailand & Vietnam. He came home but so many didn’t!
There's so many songs I think belong on this list, because they all came out around the time my mom and dad were getting divorced. They are.... 1. All these years-Sawyer Brown 2. Almost Goodbye-Mark Chesnutt 3. For my broken heart-Reba McEntire. Two other songs that belong on this list are, "Somebody should leave," by Reba McEntire, and "Go rest high on that mountain," by Vince Gill.
All lovely songs, have to add a few that aren't on here though, like.. Billie Eillish - What was I made for Ed Sheeran - Photograph Katie Melua - I will be there And a personal one that always makes me cry.. Baby mine by Betty Noyes.
That’s what is so beautiful about music. It means something different for everyone. Some people may not agree with all the songs on this list but that’s the beauty of it. Difference is not a bad thing thing and the absolute essence of what we are as human beings❤️
James Arthur - 'Say You Won't Let Go' is a song that pulls at the heartstrings and if you watch the video, well lets just say its really hard not to cry.
What song never fails to tug at your heartstrings? Let us know in the comments below.
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Tupac. Dear Mama. 😪
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See you again - bye Whiz Kalifa and Charlie Puth, always reminds me of my grandpa Jim and rotty Jake passing.
@@Reaperguy67did you see? I think he's replying to your year old comments which is sad
I listened to "Hurt" from Johnny Cash when I got the message that my grandfather died. That hit really hard
Than you also need to listen to "hurt" from Christina Aquilera. You'll cry your eyes out
awww im so sorry 😭😭🥺
"Lightning Crashes" by Live is one that moves my father, tough as he is, to tears. My mom nearly died giving birth to my baby sister because of a doctor's incompetence. My mom, and my baby sister are alive and well, but my father can't keep his stoic demeanor every time he hears that song.
I can't believe that didn't include that song.
Throwing Copper was definitely one of my top go-to albums of the 90’s. So many amazing songs.
"Unbreak My Heart" by Toni Braxton always gets me teary eyed and to me seems like one of those forgotten 90s break up songs, as does "One Last Cry," by Brian McKnight- another tearjerker.
Love Unbreak my Heart. I cry every single time.
The theme of the split from husband after 20 years.
That song is never forgotten. I mean whoever listened to it will always remember it.
"The Rose" by Bette Midler always gets me. I can always hear her trying to keep believing something good is eventually going to happen despite the pain of the journey
Can't stand this one, only because people think it's appropriate to sing it to me. ugh
That's a beautiful song. Only problem is it reminds me of Napoleon Dynamite.
That song is not even sad. Sure the pain is there but there's also the light of hope which outshines the pain. And Bette's voice is never saddening either.
Sinead O'Connor singing "Nothing compares to you" completely blew me away, it is so painful, sweet and gentle. It also has a open, raw, simple quality. Easily the most powerful song there for me.
Check out her songs My Special Child and Three Babies. Those are the ones that make me cry.
Chris Cornell does an incredible cover of this song too
"One more Light" was my go to for when my Dad passed away last year. It was sad before, but it was even more so after my Dad passed away.
My Dad and I may not have seen eye to eye often, but he was important to me, and I miss him so much.
Definitely deserves a higher place on the list
@@dilimamayanglambam7955 I played that after i found out my grandfather passed, I just walked downstairs and I felt time stopped
@@vanguardgaming1779oh my god im so sorry 🥺🥺
I bawled my face off when I first heard the song. I love it. Some days I can't listen to it without my eyes turning to waterfalls though
I knew Tears in Heaven had to be on this list.
I was eight years old when Cats in the Cradle came out. It had a big influence on my parenting style as an adult. I always made time for my children, no matter what, and now, they always make time for me. I have a teenage granddaughter now. I can see that my daughter and son in law are doing the same thing.
Things really do roll forward to the next generation.
The Johnny Cash version of Hurt was very different from the original. From NIN, it was a whiny drug addicted kid. From Johnny Cash, it was a 70 year old man looking back on a lifetime of regrets. Absolutely beautiful.
I remember when that happened. I can't sign that song if I hear it on the radio without crying
Cats was my youth theme song... my Dad was wonderful but a busy and quiet shift worker. I had little time to know about his history. I miss him still.
Ugly Kid Joe does a good version of Cats In The Cradle.
I think your discrediting nine inch nails a little much. He was a drug addict but he was also extremely depressed and alone. And the emotion alone in his voice resonates a lot more than Cash who just sounds like an old guy
Evanescence "my immortal " was definitely a teary-eyed number as a teen 😭
All their songs made me cry in agony of having to hear it.
the best cry song ever!
You ain't wrong wiith that
"Hello" from the same album is a much better sad song.
@@allanbaker3958 agreed
Soul Asylum - Runaway Train. I remember tearing up EVERYTIME the video came up on MTV.
That song helped a lot of people.
@@mojo3067 it's claimed to have saved 21 of the 36 people featured in the video. I say claimed because some of the people were adults that didn't want to be found. but still that is incredible.
Street Spirit - Radiohead
Old And Wise - Alan Parsons Project
When You’re Gone - Cranberries
Vincent - Don Mc Lean
The River - Bruce Springsteen
A Salty Dog - Procol Harum
So Long, Marianne - Leonard Cohen
Song For Guy - Elton John
All Of My Love - Led Zeppelin
Half A World Away - REM
The living years gets me every time. I lost my father in 2015 and since then it crushes me....seeing the echoes of him in your own children is as heartbreaking as it is powerful
To be fair, there’s a lot of Evanescence songs that make me cry. Amy Lee has the most hauntingly beautiful voice, especially when paired with the piano.
Funny thing is, as a teenager, I hated Evanescence. Why? Because my sister would have them blasting through the house on repeat. Drove me bonkers. Now I can really appreciate Amy Lee and her work. She really does have the right voice to bring out such emotions.
SAME
Like her song “Hello”
@@lessismore8533you beat me to that one there lol Anyhoot there’s also her other song far from heaven from their newest album that also strikes ya in the heart
Beside my immortal, everybody's fool hit me pretty hard ...
Yes, she is a kind of angel.
"Say Something" from A Great Big World feat. XTina. That just makes you cry when you're singing it at full volume.
Love that song.
"Sorry seems to be the hardest word" by Elton gets me every time!
listen to his version featuring ray charles, very tragic sounding; two elderly men wondering where their love went wrong. overall the better version imo, vocal wise and overall vibe
World I Know - Collective Soul
Shannon - Henry Gross
Steelheart - Mama don't you cry
The Marmalade - Reflexions of my life
These 4 songs get me every time.
Hugely overlooked is The Blower's Daughter by Damien Rice. By the time the female voice singing "Did I say that I loathe you? Did I say that I want to? Leave it all behind?" I already soaked in tears 😢😭😭
Just the entire "O" album is a tear-jeaker, and hate to say it, it probably was peak Damien Rice too. Nothing since has really hit the same as that album by him.
It's not the first song on the album but that key change was the moment I fell in love with Lisa Hannigan. That whole section is perfection.
Songs that make you cry
When she loved you- Sara Mclachlan
A thousand Years- Christina Perri
My heart will go on- Celine Dion
I loved her first- Heartland
You raise me up- Josh Groban
Jealous- Labrinth
Through the rain- Mariah Carey
You’ll be in my heart- Phill Colins
I’ll stand by you- Pretenders
If I had only known- Reba Macentire
No place that far Sara Evens
Un-break my heart Toni Braxton
Because you loved me- Celine Dion
I will always love you- Whitney Houston
Excellent list 😭
Beautiful songs!❤
"When She Loved Me" always makes me cry.
I love Sarah McLachlan - for me Adia definitely make me cry like river.
The songs "One Sweet Day" by Boyz II Men featuring Mariah Carey and "Say Hello 2 Heaven" by Temple of the Dog always gets me teary eyed.
One sweet day. Yes absolutely.
Mariah has had a few that get to me.
Good list! I’d add the following songs:
“I’ll Be There” - Escape Club
“Sometimes Love Ain’t Enough” - Patty Smyth feat. Don Henley
“How Can I Help You Say Goodbye?” - Laura Branigan
“He’s My Son” - Mark Shultz
“Goodbye” - Hootie and the Blowfish
“In My Daughter’s Eyes” - Martina McBride
And countless other songs that are beautifully written and performed well
2015 I took a TIA-stroke just less than a week before Christmas. Just after release from the hospital Home Depot Canada made me go back to work. I cried to so many songs I had to run to the lumber doors to get out of the store. My supervisor knew my reactions and he allowed me to run for the doors and asked me if I was ok when he saw me come back in. I have got back to listening to most of the songs, other songs I would still cry while listening to it and the third group I still cannot listen to more than 5 seconds. There will come a time where I will be able to listen to all songs, but they will still fall upon my heart😭❤🧡💛💚💙💜🤎🖤
I would like to say The Show Must Go On which was recorded a year before Freddie's death is just as poignant to Queen as Who Wants To Live Forever. Hell even the lyrics of Bohemian Rhapsody like "Too late, my time has come
Sends shivers down my spine, body's aching all the time. Goodbye, everybody, I've got to go" hit different after Freddie passed!!
I agree, and also those were the days of our lives.....especially at the end of the video the last line, freddie looks straight down the camera, knowing he's dying, he whispers....I still love you
The most gut-wrenchingly painful song for me to listen to is Don McLean’s “Vincent”, a song about Vincent Van Gogh’s tortured life and his suicide:
My lifelong friend - a wonderful but deeply troubled person - took his own life twelve years ago, and I’ve never been the same since.
In a way, he killed both of us on that day.
His name was Vincent too, and this song shakes me to my core every time I make the mistake of listening to it.
Sorry for your loss.
Both Vincent and Ameican Pie (a funny piece of sadness) deserved a position
For me too ❤
That is why these list are never definitive. But great for starting a discussion!
@@travsam Firstly, what is funny about sadness? Please explain, I am full of emotion now, and genuinely do not understand your remark. Secondly, Sadness is not a contestant in a race, it just - is. It deserves respect and compassion, not any kind of "position".
My Immortal never fails to bring tears to my eyes. Especially now that so many people I've loved have passed. The song is a beautiful and painful look into the grieving soul. An experience that all will experience in time and there is no being prepared for it. You think you are ready, but when the time comes, you break.
Mine would be
How could you leave us - NF
What hurts the most - Rascal Flatts
Whiskey lullaby- Brad Paisley
Who Knew- PINK
Better than me- Hinder
Don’t Jump - Tokio Hotel
Hold on - Good Charlotte
Untitled - Simple Plan
Never too late - Three days grace
How to save a life - The Fray ❤
what hurts the most is a beautiful song. Aaron Lewis does a really good acoustic cover of it. Don't Take the Girl - Tim McGraw seems like it would fit well on your list too.
Oh yes I do love that song as well. My mom used to play it all the time when I was a kid, can’t believe I forgot about it! Thanks. 😊
1. Storm - Lifehouse
2. All I Want - Kodaline
3. Can't Cry Hard Enough - The William Brothers
4. Skinny Love - Bon Iver
5. Love Is Gone - Dylan Matthews
6. Foolish Games - Jewel
7. Old and Wise - The Alan Parsons Project
8. Chances - Air Supply
9. Sandra - Manilow
10. Promise Me - Beverley Craven
“The Living Years” - Mike + The Mechanics; “Tears In Heaven” - Eric Clapton; “This Time Tomorrow” - Brandi Carlile; “The Last Song” - Elton John.
The Last Song literally hurts.
Those are some excellent choices. Brandi Carlisle “The Joke” makes me ugly cry.
The reason “Tears in Heaven” was written is absolutely one of the saddest reasons any song has ever been written
Love The Living Years. And the second verse that got chacked for the radio cut was genius.
The living years... every time I hear it
Great list -- I'd add (at least as honorable mentions):
Gone Away - The Offspring
Life Fades Away - Roy Orbison
The Dance - Garth Brooks
What Becomes of the Broken Hearted - Jimmy Ruffin
(Sittin' on) The Dock of the Bay - Otis Redding
Ain't No Sunshine - Bill Withers
It's So Hard To Say Goodby To Yesterday - Boyz II Men
Everything I Own - Bread
Sunny - Bobby Hebb
Yes, Bread!
I posted Bread Everything I Own, before I seen this comment. Great minds think alike!
Gone away. It's hard to imagine anyone not shedding a tear at the line "I reach to the stars/ and call out your name/ and if I could trade/ I would"
The Dance - oh, yes. After the spring training accident that killed two Cleveland Indians pitchers, they won the pennant. When they unveiled the plaque on the outfield wall, they played The Dance and I remember Orel Hersheiser crying.
Whenever I hear Angel, I always think of the ASPCA commercials. The song alone doesn't make me wanna cry, but hearing it while seeing all those poor animals😭.
That has happened to me, too, especially during the holiday season. Those are the saddest 🐶🐶🐶🐶🐶🐶😿😿😿😿😿😿😢😢😢😢😢😢
We used that song for my aunts funeral. So it’s quite emotionally charged still 16 years later!
Many people don’t know the why of that song and what she is talking about
When we put our old dog, Farley that night I couldn't be in the living room when that commercial came on the TV
As a paramedic I was called to a little boy and his dog who were hit by a car. I had to wait on scene, unable to move the boy until the investigation was completed and sat in that ditch with them both, singing that song to that child. I remember watching the mom pull up from getting groceries, listening to her screams as her husband met her with the news. Their nightmare is wound with my memory of that song.
A single, haunting bagpipe playing Amazing Grace, damn near takes me to my knees.
Whiskey Lullaby - Brad Paisley
Stay- Sugarland
Rockabye- Sean Mullins
Last Kiss - Pearl Jam
“Butterfly Kisses” by Bob Carlisle. A father singing about his young daughter & all the little things he’s grateful for. Always makes me cry, both as a daughter whose dad continues to spoil her & as a mother to four girls of my own.
I forgot about “The Living Years” & that was the only one on this list that made me cry. My dad’s still here-almost 80-& he’s met his first great-grandchild but he’s getting frail with Parkinson’s. My mom, who no one thought would ever fall apart, is also breaking down physically. I don’t want to think about them being gone, but one day they will be.
My Dad is going through Parkinson. Tough to watch!
I cry because I was raised by a single mother and never knew my father.
Great list. Some of my honorable mentions:
Something in the way - Nirvana
Earth song - Micheal Jackson
Amen Omen - Ben Harper
Leave out all the rest - Linkin Park
Ship song - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
You found me - The Fray
Marriage - Moonmoon
definitely Leave Out All the Rest ❤
Heal the world - Michael Jackson Shadow of the day - linkin park
Yup leave out all the rest...
Hank Williams- So lonesome I could Cry
Father & Son - Cat Stevens. Great cry song
There’s many rock songs that makes me cry.
Lifehouse - everything/hanging by a moment (acoustic)
Soul asylum - runaway train (especially the Music video)
The fray - how to save a life
The goo goo Dolls - Iris
Hoobastank - the reason
The calling - wherever you Will go
Matchbox twenty - if you’re gone/unwell (acoustic)
Snow patrol - chasing cars/just say yes (acoustic)
These makes me wanna tear up and cry. 😢😭
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“Everybody Hurts”- cannot listen to this song anymore. It’s beautiful but a couple of years ago my grown son got a Great Dane puppy. When it was 4 months old we had to rush him to the vet emergency room. We thought it was Parvo but he tested negative several times. He looked so very sick and pitiful. We had to leave him there for several days while they tried to find out what was wrong and tried to help him. It was hard on my son having to leave him there.
One day they said he was doing better so I figured we’d probably get to pick him up the next day. I called one more time that night to check on him but the vet said the puppy’s health was again declining.
On my way home from work “Everybody Hurts” came on the radio and I remember just bawling my eyes out, singing along. Thinking of this precious 4 month old puppy, scared and sick and alone in a kennel at the vet. He didn’t understand why we’d left him there and it broke my heart thinking of how he was feeling. The lyrics “if you feel like you’ve had enough, of this life, hold on” really got to me and I was belting them out, singing to the dog in my heart begging him to be ok.
The next morning my son came in my room in tears. The vet had called him to say that his puppy didn’t make it. We were crushed and that song reminds me of him and I just can’t listen without crying. We love you Berus.
Story number 2 nobody asked for: the song “When She Loved Me” from Toy Story 2 has always killed me. I have 2 grown sons who are and have always been my whole world. When they were little and we’d watch Toy Story 1 and 2 all the time this song would make me very emotional. It made me think about the future and that one day my little boys would grow up, not need me anymore, not feel the same way about me as they did at the time when they were little. It hurt my heart because I related so much to the lyrics even though it hadn’t happened to me yet and they were still “mama’s boys”.
Now they are in their 20s. I still love them more every day but that song hurts even more now because I now have lived through that part of life. I have a 2 year old granddaughter now whom I treasure with all of my being. I look at her sometimes though and think about that one day too she will grow up and no longer need me and no longer love me the way she loves me now.
I’m thankful for every age and stage of my children’s and grandchildren’s lives and I’m blessed to be a part of that. I just miss the special time I had with them when they were little and how close we were.
#3 “Mah’s Joint.” My youngest son had this song on a playlist and it would make me sad because I was worried that one day soon I’d be able to relate to the singer’s pov. Several years later my amazing and beautiful 95 year old grandmother did end up getting dementia among some other health problems and unfortunately had to go live in a nursing home. She hated it and asked to go home every day. We just were not equipped with everything needed to be capable of caring for her at her home anymore. Every day my mother went to see her at the nursing home. She spent hours every day taking care of my grandmother, her mother. In short “my mother was a mother to her mom”, just as the lyrics said. We lost our family matriarch this Feb 2024 and I still miss her every day.
I was a teenager-young adult when my grandmother, mother and I used to go visit my great grandmother in the nursing home. She too had dementia and I’d watch my grandmother with her. Then it’s like everyone swapped roles, my grandmother became the one in the nursing home who had dementia, my mother took over the role my grandmother had been in(caring for her own mother) and I took the role my mother had had as my own children now took on the role I had when my great grandmother was in a nursing home. It’s like a very sad, emotional cycle that I don’t want to continue but as my mother is 74 herself and has been showing signs of early dementia (in my opinion-she has not been diagnosed and I pray I’m wrong) for several years, it looks like one day she will take the part of the grandmother with dementia in the nursing home and I’ll be the daughter being a mother to her mom and so on. I hope not. Yeah but anyway very emotional song for sure
I can’t even begin to listen to anything on Bowie’s last album. I’m 43 and I have loved and adored David Bowie since I was in middle school. He got me through some really hard times dealing with my father. I cried when I found out Bowie had passed away and every time I’ve attempted to listen to his last body of work I can’t do it. It’s too painful.
Queen’s “Nobody but You”. Oh my gosh. Queen is my favorite band and Freddie Mercury means more to me than any stranger has a right too. I absolutely love and adore him and song, written for Freddie by his bandmates after his death, absolutely pulls the heartstrings apart
Wow Sara. Just Wow, thank you
Wow you really poured your heart out in this comment. Sending lots of Internet hugs from a stranger.
Powerful comment. You really opened up and I hope it was cathartic and healing in away. Know that there are strangers out here who read it all, and contemplated, and care. ❤
Sarah McLachlan is from my province - Nova Scotia - and she performed "Angel" in the aftermath of the mass shooting that took place here on April 18 & 19, 2020. It was the worst mass shooting in all of Canadian history. I have always loved the song but now I can't hear it without bawling, and thinking about all of the 22 innocent lives lost that horrible weekend.
"A Reason to Fight" by Disturbed is a firm, and tear-jerking reminder to keep fighting no matter what, and a tribute to those we've lost. So is "Hold on to Memories", which is hauntingly beautiful.
"The Sound of Silence" is beautiful whether it's the original or Disturbed's version.
"Fast Car" was popular when I was in my teens... It's just as relevant today as it was back then, and it's so great to see people enjoying it and loving it again. It's a beautiful song, and Ms. Chapman has an amazing voice.
Of course, "My Immortal" is one of my favorite songs of all time. Amy Lee has an incredible vocal range, and that song is perfect in my opinion.
“Who wants to live forever” marked the passing of my grandfather. I spent years without listening to it because it would make me cry. It became a strong yet beautiful mourning song for me.
I use to love this song but hearing it when I learned my mother was in the final stage of her battle with cancer, I haven’t been able to listen to it again 😭😭😭
@@joc161 I’m so, so sorry for your mom. Is she still here? Cherish your time together and your love. ❤️
I remember my mom being a perfect mother but when I hear songs from the late 80’s and 90’s I remember a pain I’d never want to relive. It doesn’t make any sense. She’d have gotten rid of my dad in a second if I asked but I felt bad for him. He was a vet with bad PTSD. Our first papillon was the one who ultimately healed him and as an adult I stayed with them to experience the happy childhood I originally should’ve had. My parents were never so happy. Though I never got married or was able to have children I accepted that I let those things go in order to let my dad have his best years with me and my mom and our two papillons. Because they were our best years as well.
But even though in my early 40’s I’m too old to experience those things I can’t bring myself to regret my choice because the three of us were so happy together. Even though I’d now give anything but those years to have children of my own.
None of my business and I'm not trying to be nosey or out of place, but if you're interested in having a child, I know many women that have very healthy babies in their 40's
@ Thank you for saying so but I should have made it clear that I probably never would have been able to have kids anyway, due to endometriosis. So I just wish I’d tried. Knowing that and because it was the dogs that changed our lives, the three of us focused on giving them the best life possible. We literally called ourselves mommy, grandma and grandpa when speaking to them. My dad literally never left the house without them, and apparently being a Vet gives you a free pass here because even the doctors office and the market let him bring them in. And likely because my dad also turned even more into that kind funny guy everyone loves once he’d healed.
I will pray that you continue to have a blessed and peaceful life. ❤@@redreaper2752
1. Monsters - James Blunt
2. I cant make you love me - Bonnie Raitt
I was just thinking that and then I saw your comment! 😎
"Mad World," "One More Light" and "Hurt" are three songs that get me. But "Hurt" is the one song that get's me tearing up.
"Faithfully" by Journey, and DON'T LAUGH. Dad was in the Army Nurse Corps, and when we were stationed overseas, one of his annual duties was making sure everyone in the region got their flu shots. And there were a LOT of outlying posts in the area, so Dad would be gone for a couple months straight every autumn. So, one day toward the end of one of those long flu shot seasons, we were driving over to the Exchange, and "Faithfully" comes on the American radio station just out of nowhere. And I just...I lost it. I missed my Dad. Song still gets my waterworks going to this day.
"Seasons Change" by Exposé. Again with the Army brat sads: we PCS'ed Stateside in '87, and a few months later, I got a letter from one of my old friends at Dad's last duty station. It would turn out to be the last contact we'd ever have: this was, don't forget, before the internet. So, I'm reading this letter, and, yup, "Seasons Change" comes on the radio, with predictable results. (My crazy luck with random songs on the radio is a bit of a personal running gag.)
Faithfully is a beautiful song who would laugh at you?
Leonard Cohen - Dance me to the End of Love gets me everytime. Beautiful videoclip too.
i prefer Madeleine Peyroux - Dance me to the end of love
Time by Alan Parsons
Time, flowin' like a river
Time, beckoning me
Who knows when we shall meet again?
If ever
But time keeps flowin' like a river
To the sea
Goodbye, my love
Maybe for forever
Goodbye, my love
The tide waits for me
Who knows when we shall meet again?
If ever
But time keeps flowin' like a river (On and on)
To the sea, to the sea
Chorus:
'Til it's gone forever
Gone forever
Gone forevermore
Goodbye, my friends
(Goodbye, my love; now I'm asleep)
Maybe for forever
Goodbye, my friends
(Who knows where we shall meet again?)
The stars wait for me
Who knows where we shall meet again?
If ever
But time keeps flowin' like a river (On and on)
To the sea, to the sea
Chorus:
'Til it's gone forever
Gone forever
Gone forevermore
Forevermore
Forevermore
Forevermore
Yesterday, by the Beatles, was my song to my late wife at her funeral. So it always brings a tear to my eye.
One big missed opportunity for this list: “Concrete Angel” but man, for years my mom could not get through Tears In Heaven. Also, I remember being at a family get together and hearing the Johnny Cash version of “If You Could Read My Mind” and there were absolutely zero dry eyes.
Johnny covered Gordon Lightfoot? I didn't know that, I'll give it a listen.
I'm surprised too, got to listen cash's version too. OG is amazing ..
Screw it, that's too much...
1. Whiter shade of pale. Procol harum
2.Unchained melody. Righteous brothers
Omg, “Whiter Shade of Pale” has ALWAYS been one of my favorites!! ♥️
My immortal by Evanescence always makes me emotional
My ex "gave/gifted/dedicated" this song to me... still trying to figure it out.
SAME
All of my Love-Led Zeppelin, Changes-Black Sabbath, So Sad- Marianne Faithful, Fade out- Radiohead, In the air tonight/Another day in Paradise- Phil Collins, Listen to your hear-Roxette, 20 years- Placebo, Aint no Sunshine - Bill Withers and the list can go on and on this is very subjective
While divorcing from my husband of 35 years I have played Silver Spring by Fleetwood Mac countless times.
So many tears. He wanted out and I am devastated. The words are perfect. Good job it conveyed my feelings perfectly
Nutshell by Alice in Chains, the Unplugged version is just so sad 😔 you can literally just see a man singing at his own funeral, RIP Layne Staley
This is a very powerful song that definitely belongs on the list
This whole album basically, at least for me, Brother, Nutshell, Would?, Down in a Hole, Frogs, Killer is Me, they all seem quiet sad to me. With that said, it's still one of my all time favorite albums
Evanescence's the very first time hearing it was watching Daredevil during Valentine's day during the whole funeral scene with Elektra's father's. That song is just beautiful.
"These are the Days of our Lives" by Queen is also a sad song because it's one Freddie Mercury's last performance in the video and watching him is heartbreaking.
Good Riddance - Greenday
Leave out all the rest - Linkin Park
Longer - Dan Fongelberg
Father and Son - Cat Stevens
Blackbird - Beatles
Iris - Goo Goo Dolls
Untitled - Simple Plan
Kendrick Lamar - Bitch dont kill my vibe
J. Cole - Apparently
In the Air Tonight... I always cry. Always.
"One Sweet Day" by Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men. It came out around the time my grandma passed away and it still tugs at my heart when I hear it. Another one is "Holes in the Floor of Heaven" by Steve Wariner. A great song about life going on and the bittersweet moments in life we experience without those we love.
Hurt sung by Johnny Cash still makes me emotional 😢😢😢😢😢😢😢
That song reminds me when I was going through a bad depression and had suicidal thoughts
NIN must have been ecstatic when cash redid hurt.
Three candles to remember Johnny Cash! 🕯️🕯️🕯️
You are not alone brother
@@andrewperez8593 He says it's not his song anymore.
Don’t Give Up - Peter Gabriel & Kate Bush
This song saved my life. Literally. I had had enough, and had plans to drive my car off a bridge. I knew the exact spot where there was no barrier. The dj came on and quietly said "wherever you are, whatever you're thinking of doing, don't give up…" and then this song came on. I had never heard it before, so it really struck me.
It's 2024 and I'm still here 🥹
How about "Operator (That's Not The Way It Feels)" by Jim Croce. The song talks of a person on a payphone trying to get ahold of his ex to tell them there's no hard feelings and how he's doing. By the middle of the verse he can't even read the number that was given to him because he's too busy crying and eventually just gives up, thanking the operator on the other end for their time. The inspiration for the song was soldiers on break trying to call their loved ones before going back into battle.
I lost my mother about 6 years ago now to ALS. The song that makes me cry thinking of her is John Mellencamp's "Longest Days". The lyric "But nothing lasts forever. Your best efforts don't always pay. Sometimes you get sick and you don't get better. That's when life is short even in its longest days." Even as I type this, I'm crying.
I’m so sorry. That’s the worst disease ever.
Apparently after Johnny Cash recorded this, he showed it to his daughter. She said, "its as if you're saying goodbye" he replied, "I am."
That makes the song even more emotional and after he closed that piano, he never opened it again. 😢😢😢
Rip Johnny Cash.
You will never be forgotten.
Well, there goes the last shard of my broken heart. That is just so sad.
He was broken hearted after his wife June died.
That song is VERY personal to Trent Reznor, who was hesitant. After he saw the video, Trent said, "That's not my song anymore."
Whether that’s true or not, I made it through that entire damn video and then scroll down and read this and, done 😢
😢😭😭😭😭😭😭😭☹️
There was also “Runaway Train” by Soul Asylum, especially the music video.
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Yes, so hauntingly sad.
Yes! I love this song but it does break your heart
I listen to that song at least once a week.
It’s even worse now that I know the history behind the song 😢
Seasons in the Sun by Terry Jacks kills me since i lost the first of my 3 brothers. Also,Giddy Up Go and Teddy Bear by Red Sovine kill me every time
Absolutely! Teddy Bear always brings a tear to my eye.
Omg! Tysm for mentioning red sovine. I remember listening to his music on one of his tapes as a kid and losing it on several of them. He was a talented musician
A lot of the songs on this list that are about grief hit me hard in the feels. Just 8 months ago I lost my mom unexpectedly while I was battling a severe mental health crisis. I've been stubbornly working to get well again and am still experiencing all those feelings of grief and sadness. It didn't help that a friend of mine found a voicemail my mom had left during one of the times I was too unwell to be there for her...in the voicemail she was begging for someone to come over to her apartment and help her because she had fallen down and hit her head. It had been my friend who had called for an ambulance and ridden over on a bicycle to be there for her. I still feel guilty that I was not strong enough to help her in her final months and to be there for her the way she was my entire life and I guess that is one feeling I'm going to carry for a long time.
Please understand that your mom would not want you to feel that way. I'm an older woman with 3 grown daughters. I am closest to my middle child, but she has had some severe mental health issues too. There have been times when I really needed her but I understood she couldn't be there for me. But the main thing we mothers want to know is that you will be all right after we are gone. We don't want you to carry guilt about not being able to help. In the end, it is God that gets us through - He is our very present help in times of trouble. God was with your mom - no need for guilt. He will be with you too, and will help you if you turn to Him for whatever you need.
@@sheilastanaland Thank you. It's coming up to the 1 year anniversary of my mom's passing and I find myself sitting here replaying in my head the weeks leading up to her death. I swear I almost heard my mom's voice in m head as I read your comment and I started tearing up a bit because you sound almost like she did when she was still lucid. I hope your daughters realize how amazing of a mother they have and I wish the best for you and your family.
1-Hurt - Johnny Cash
2-No Suprises - Radiohead
3-Fade to Black - Metallica
4-Everyboby Hurts - R.E.M.
5-Nutshell - Alice in Chains
6-Leave out all the Rest - Linkin Park
7-So Far Away - Avenged Sevenfold
8-Adam's Song - Blink-182
9-Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
10-Fix You - Coldplay
Elton John's "The Last Song", Barbra Streisand's "Places That Belong To You", "Send In The Clowns", "The Way We Were", Karen Carpenter"s voice in "Yesterday Once More" , "Yesterday When I Was Young" by Dusty Springfield or Charles Aznavour, Christina Aguilera's "Hurt", Don McLean's "Vincent", to name but a few! Thank you for the list!!!
I saw Mike + The Mechanics live in 1990. When Paul Carrack sang "I wasn't there that morning," the entire theater spontaneously stood up - for all the fathers.
Damn. Yeah that song gets me
My father died when I was 14. I can’t hear this song without getting tearful. I a crying now
The Living Years
Eric Carmen ( all by my self ) , bread ( everything l own / Aubrey ) , Michael Jackson ( Ben / one day on your live ) , queen ( love of my life ) .
There are so many songs that are emotional for me……to name but a few.
Stay - Shakespeares Sister.
Kate Bush - This woman’s work
Cat Steven’s - Father & Son
Whitney Houston- I Will Always Love You
Annie Lennox - Why and No More I Love You’s
Jorja Smith - Don’t Watch Me Cry
George Michael - Different Corner
Roxette - It Must Have Been Love
Hold on by Sarah Mclachlan. That one gets me every time. My dad died around the time I was listening to this album. Kept me in tears everytime I heard it.
How did “I Can’t Make You Love Me” by Bonnie Raitt NOT make this list??
I would also add “Jar of Hearts” by Christina Perri
And “Falling Slowly” by Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova.
Awesome!
Jar of Hearts, yes!
I would never claim one version excels another, especially where Simon & Garfunkel are concerned, but Disturbed's version of the Sound of Silence resonates with me today more than the original I grew up with.
Daddy’s Hands gets me every time. Played at my father’s funeral
It's a little known song by a lesser known band, but "Our Farewell" by Within Temptation. When I lost my first even pregnancy I listened to it on repeat and cried and cried and cried. It still will bring me to tears now, 10 years later.
Sharon Den Adel is such a phenomenal singer.
@@JamesStewart-lx5wb one of a few these days who actually sounds just as good live as recorded, possibly better!
6:48 My immortal
8:53 One more light
11:48 someone like you
16:14 fix you
These songs make me cry a lot😢
Never once cared for his music but it wasn't til after my dad passed that James Blunt's Monsters cut me real deep!
And the duet of Monsters with James Blunt and Iam Tongi at last year's American Idol finale was gold. If you haven't seen it, you should.
Depending on when it hits me, Goodbye My Lover either makes me laugh hysterically thanks to The Office, or tear up just knowing one day it will be very relevant to either my wife or me.
The girl that never was also has me in tears every time
Suffering from depression for 45 of my 54 years on this planet means that I have an enormous and powerful playlist of sad and self-pitying songs that can validate feelings of loneliness, worthlessness, despair and suicidal ideation. BUT, I found **STRENGTH** in the music, which is why I am still here today after decades of misdiagnoses and tribulations. Let me call out just a handful of songs to accompany your already worthy list: Carpenters… “Rainy Days and Mondays”, “Superstar” and “Yesterday Once More”; Simon & Garfunkel… “Bookends”, “I am a Rock” and “El Condor Pasa”; Bette Midler… “The Rose”, “Wind Beneath My Wings”, “In My Life” (Beatles), “I Think It’s Going to Rain Today”; Jim Croce… Gordon Lightfoot… Lady Gaga… just too many others to list - need a new video of “Top 100 Sad Songs” 😢😊❤
ordinary world by duran duran should be on this list, it makes many people cry in loss, but then feel hopeful at the end and you may cry with happiness that you will go on. it really affected me too.
Ordinary World hits different for a cancer survivor. When you go through the Dr. appointments, the labs (blood tests), the chemo, etc., all you want is that ordinary world back, and you don't know when or if you'll get it.
@@stevegallo8483 i guess its all in how you see it, music is like that, sorry if it doesnt help you, but i lost my mother to covid and i almost died of covid and i was in the hospital a awhile and for me the song and some others really helped me keep going, it made me calmer and made me want to get out of bed when i did not think i could get out of bed.
the song is about the death of a close friend of simon le bon, and about he blamed himself for his death and about him trying to go on living despite the loss. some say its also about heaven, that i will find my way back to that person i lost in heaven someday . hope you find something in music that does help you after what happened to you
My father wasn't a big Bruce Springsteen fan, but his kids, my sister and I, are. And when he passed away last year we played "I'll see you in my dreams" at his funeral. I was so pleased Bruce made this his final song his latest tour. I have seen three concerts of this tour, and cried every single time (twice with my sister).
Cats in the Cradle was my father and I. When he died, I literally felt nothing. With my son, I am active and involved and have been since day one.
Rascal flatt what hurts the most makes me cry everytime i listen to it.
She Talk toAngels- black Crows, Daddy Doesn’t Pray Anymore - Chris Stapleton, May the Circle Be Unbroken, I Believe and You’re Gone - Diamond Rio, Carrie Me, Carrie - Dr Hook, Guiding Light - Foy Vance and Ed Sheeran, Face The Sun and Sun On Sunday. And The Girl That Never Was and Monsters - James Blunt, When I’m Gone - Joey + Rory, Homesick - MercyMe, Dancing in the Sky- Dani and Lizzie, Same Auld Lang Syne- Dan Fogelberg (There are just too many songs that touch my heart)♥️
Honorable mentions (in my opinion):
Passing Afternoon-Iron and Wine
Pete Yorn- Lose Ya
Jimmy Eat World- Hear You Me
The Fray- How to Save a Life
And Rihanna - Lift Me Up
Damn the Jimmy eat world one… absolutely forgot about that one
One song not listed that always makes me cry is "Dreaming of You" by Selena, largely because it was one of the last songs she recorded and she was taken away from this world before it was even released. 😢
My List would be:
Lady D'Arbanville-Cat Stevens
In the year 2525-Zager & Evans
Angie-Rolling Stones
Painted Black-Rolling Stones
Dress Rehearsal Rag-Leonard Cohen
Seems so Long-ago Nancy-Leonard Cohen
Sad Lisa-Cat Stevens
Inside (If I was you, I'd Hide)-Chris Avantgarde feat. Red Rosamond
The Traitor-Leonard Cohen
Ballad of the Absent Mare-Leonard Cohen
One more light helped me deal with my grandfathers passing a few weeks before my 23rd birthday
I’m sorry I wasn’t able to help you. I pray you’re doing well.
Honorable mentions:
1. "Say Hello 2 Heaven" by Temple of the Dog- a rocking and soulful tribute to the late Andrew Wood by his former roommate Chris Cornell
2. "Cinderella" by Steven Curtis Chapman- Steven wrote the song about sweet moments he wishes he could've had with his adopted daughter that died in a tragic accident
3. "Whiskey Lullaby" by Brad Paisely and Allison Kraus
Whiskey Lullaby rips me apart
@@WillowMurdock YES!!!!!!
I know a lot of people will not know the song but "Smile" by Charlie Chapman always makes me cry when it is played. It has been sung over the years my many singers.
Who Wants To Live Forever is one of my go to songs when I remember for my late mother who died in 2007. She was a big fan of the Highlander movies and series. And of course Mad World and Everybody Hurts.
The Way That You Were, Levitate, Drag Me Under, Blood Sport, Atlantic, Fall For Me, Missing Limbs, Shelter, and Are You Really Okay. All heart breaking songs by Sleep Token. Vessel’s voice takes you on an emotional journey that cannot be replicated by any other artist. From Thread the Needle to Euclid they’ve always been amazing. WORSHIP
A song that always gets tears in my eyes is Abraham, Martin and John, a song about 3 great men who died fighting for freedom
Actually, your great Manas Bobby Kennedy is in a verse walking over the Hill
Looking at the comments, you guys really need to do a Part Two of this thing and it be around more of the 60's, 70's, 80's thus being less repetitious than your usual lists for these things. Then you would have songs, among others, like:
Bright Eyes - Art Garfunkel
Ben and/or Earth Song - Michael Jackson
Love Hurts - Nazareth
Rainy Days and Mondays - Carpenters
Honey - Bobby Goldsboro
Seasons in the Sun - Terry Jacks
Anne Murray - Broken Hearted Me
Dusty Springfield - You Don't Have To Say You Love Me
Elvis Presley - In The Ghetto
Diana Ross - Do You Know Where You're Going To
Bobby Vinton - In The Days Of Sand And Shovels
Procol Harum - A Whiter Shade of Pale
I can't even listen to Honey, by Bobby Goldsboro. I can remember my mom listening to it when my dad was gone to Thailand & Vietnam. He came home but so many didn’t!
Everything I Own by Bread and Operator by Jim Croce. Are great choices too!
The original Love Hurts is by The Everly Brothers.
Last Kiss (1961) and Teen Angel (1959/1960) tear jerkers
There's so many songs I think belong on this list, because they all came out around the time my mom and dad were getting divorced. They are....
1. All these years-Sawyer Brown 2. Almost Goodbye-Mark Chesnutt 3. For my broken heart-Reba McEntire. Two other songs that belong on this list are, "Somebody should leave," by Reba McEntire, and "Go rest high on that mountain," by Vince Gill.
I think this list is missing James Blunt. "Monsters", "Goodbye My Lover", "Carry You Home" are all tearjerkers.
“God Only Knows” from The Beach Boys reduces me to a pile of teary-eyed goo every time!
It does the same to Paul McCartney. His favorite song and the definition of a perfect pop song. Crazy to think, because Paul wrote one or two himself.
All lovely songs, have to add a few that aren't on here though, like..
Billie Eillish - What was I made for
Ed Sheeran - Photograph
Katie Melua - I will be there
And a personal one that always makes me cry.. Baby mine by Betty Noyes.
That’s what is so beautiful about music. It means something different for everyone. Some people may not agree with all the songs on this list but that’s the beauty of it. Difference is not a bad thing thing and the absolute essence of what we are as human beings❤️
James Arthur - 'Say You Won't Let Go' is a song that pulls at the heartstrings and if you watch the video, well lets just say its really hard not to cry.
"Believe" by Brooks & Dunn always got me as a kid.