What are some songs that have literally made you tear up or just start bawling? I'm not talking about your random melancholy love songs, I mean songs that for whatever reason, whether it reminds you of someone who died, or a lost love or the lyrics are just heartbreaking--here are a few of mine in no particular order--especially potent around that *special time* when i'm a just a chaotic bundle of estrogen...

"better days/the grandma song" by diane reeves--makes me think of my grandmother who died a couple of years ago...never fails, i start crying

"oh father" by madonna -- the video is so sad that whenever i hear the song, i automatically think of the video and start to tear up...just a little

"everybody hurts" by r.e.m. -- if i'm already in a depressed mood, this one doesn't help

"condition of the heart" by uknowwho -- not a great song to listen to after u've been dumped...

"how do you mend a broken heart" by al green (as well as the bee gees) -- i made the mistake of listening to this song at the end of a relationship couldn't hold it in

"stardust" originally by hoagy carmichael, but also by nat "king" cole -- very touching lyrics

"are you lonesome tonight" by elvis -- admittedly i would have to be really depressed to let this one influence me...but hey...

"come back to me" by janet jackson -- ok, u gotta pay minor lip service to the psychotic, ravenous janet fans of the org, but it still kinda chokes me up

ok...i've shown you the tender side of wpc, what about you???

"Tender Love" - Force M.D.'s Just one of the most brilliant songs of all time, and I do want to cry at the end..but I dont all the way get there.


You Will Know - Stevie Wonder
I felt like he was speaking to me the first time I heard iton headphones on the bus. Tears did fall out my eyes and I felt so sorry 4 myself.


Whenever Wherever Whatever" Live and album version - Maxwell


The first time I heard this song I was sitting at my ex's house on the floor watin 4 him 2 get out the bathroom...BET's Midnight Love video's came on...OH MY GOD. I cried!! I was in tears, that man touched my heart so much I didnt know what to say at the end.

I downloaded it off the internet. I listened 2 it and it was the wrong version, "damn this aint the right one" I thought at first. At the end of that one too... IT WAS BETTER.

Feels So Right - Janet
This will always remind me of my ex boyfriend. It was the first album he bought from me (All For You) when i worked at Sam Goody. He would play that song at night romantically with candles and say 2 me, "this song is about me and you".

Then it came on the radio last year in the car by my surprise and all of a sudden I was stuck. I asked my boyfriend to turn it to another station until that song went off!

Damien Rice - Blower's Daughter
Carole King - You've Got A Friend/Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow/Natural Woman
Queen - Love Of My Life
Rolling Stones - Wild Horses
Tim Hardin - How Can We Hang On To A Dream
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Beth Gibbons & Rustin Man "Show"

Rolling Stones- Wild Horses

Jimi Hendrix - Angel

Prince - Sometimes It Snows in April

The Smiths - Please, please, please let me get what I want

Led Zeppelin - The Rain Song

Jeff Buckley - (a lot of them) but mostly Lilac Wine

John Lennon - Imagine

sometimes it snows in april - p

the gulf of araby - katell keineg

fast car - tracy chapman

the living - natalie merchant
beloved wife - natalie merhant

hey jupiter - tori amos

promise to try - madonna

he moved through the faire - sinead o'conner
black boys on mopeds - sinead o'conner

the cure:
the whole disintegration record, apart, to wish impossible things

what's the matter here - 10K maniacs
dustbowl - 10K maniacs

wow...there are so many prozac popping songs in my collection. this isn't even 1/8 of the tracks that could make my list!

minneapolisgenius said:

I Know It's Over - The Smiths
Lover, You Should've Come Over - Jeff Buckley
E-Bow the Letter and Country Feedback - REM
Rotten Apple - Alice in Chains
I Want You, Shipbuilding - Elvis Costello

I'd like to add a few U2 songs here, but they always leave me uplifted by the end of 'em; maybe 'So Cruel' or 'All I Want is You'

Not necessarily all sad songs, but while I them, they always put me in a deep blue sad when I hear them. Not sure why.

Lou Reed -Perfect Day
Sade -By Your Side
Ozzy Osbourne-Dreamer
The Cure -Lullaby
Mazzy Star -Fade Into You
Gary Jules -Mad World
Gordon Lightfoot -If You Could Read My Mind
Crash Test Dummies -Superman Song
Beck -Lost Cause
Elvis -In the Ghetto
Til Tuesday -Voices Carry
The Beatles -Eleanor Rigby
Rolling Stones -Wild Horses
Michael Jackson -Man in the Mirror
Hendrix -Little Wing


and the mother of all sad songs:

Tom Russell -Blue Wing


This song was played at my dad's funeral, and every time I've heard it since then, I cry.

zoloft - ween

No Easy Way by Seal

I thought this thread was talking about Prozac the cartoon music group that is popular in Canada.