When you feel down and you really want to cry but can't...

Do you have a song you put on to help you cry? A song so filled with melancholy and pain that is just makes you cry? Or just a melody that does it for you?

Mine is Nina Hagen Band's Naturträne, a song from

Nina is a classicly trained singer that went punk, meaning she gurgles, she screams, let's her voice go high. At the end of this song she actually makes a chicken sound...

The song is awfully beautiful because of it is haunting melody, Nina's passionate performance and the lyrics, which I think are one of the most beautiful I ever heard.
I can just imagine a person like Björk doing this... or Tori on just piano...

Oh, and it is in German.

This song, when in the proper mood, can make me bawl like a baby.

Offnes Fenster präsentiert
Spatzenwolken himmelflattern
Wind bläst, meine Nase friert
Und paar Auspuffrohre knattern

Ach, da geht die Sonne unter:
Rot, mit Gold, so muss das sein.
Seh ich auf die strasse runter,
Fällt mir ein Bekannter ein

Prompt wird mir's jetzt schwer ums Herz
Ich brauch' nur Vögel flattern sehen
Und fliegt main Blick dann himmelwärts,
Tut auch die Seele weh, wie schön!

Natur am Abend, stille Stadt
Verknackste Seele, Tränen rennen
Das alles macht einen mächtig matt
Und ich tu' einfach weiterflennen..
Aaaahhhh....



Through the open window I can see
The tiny clouds hovering in the sky
The wind is blowing, my nose is freezing
... a few exhaust pipes are spluttering.

Ah, the sun is going down
Red and gold, as it should be
I look down to the street below
And see a friend standing there

Suddenly my heart feels heavy
I just need to see birds fluttering
And my eyes turn up to the sky
How it jurts my soul - how beautiful!

Nature in the evening, a peaceful town
Tormented soul, the tears flow
It all makes me feel so feeble
And makes the tears flow even more
Aaah....!!

no.

'ok computer' made me cry once, and a song by johnny cash called 'spiritual' made me cry once. but not on repeat occasions.

Joni's new version of "Both Sides Now" has done it to me on several occasions and that's just been in the past few months.

"Dream Angus" by Annie Lennox never fails.

And of course, there's "Cooling"...

The Cure - A Letter To Elise

Somehow it just comes off to me as the most melancholic, beautiful song ever. Playing the sombre end of Brighter Death Now when feeling miserable will seriously fuck me up though. Instrumental music can be as good tear-jerking stuff as sung music with lyrics.

I never let myself cry. Call me old-fashioned, but seeing men cry kinda makes me sick.

But when the Beatles' Julia hits me in the right way, I can get a little choked up. Same thing with Carol King's So Far Away - female singer/songwriters are definitely not a mainstay with me, but I do think Tapestry is one of the few albums I've heard that is open and emotional without being wimpy or nauseating.
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damosuzuki said:

Ooh, that's cold.

Seeing is a different thing. If a guy cried publicly in front of me, I'd sure punch him in the face.

GangstaFam said:

Where does this song come from? I don't recall ever hearing it and I must track it down.

Suffering by a band called Satchel.

Meshell Ndegeocello - Bitter (whole album)

Xagain said:

It's from a rainforest benefit album called "Carnival" from about '96 or so.

The song is a Scottish traditional and just about the sweetest thing ever.

Cloudbuster said:

I'd send you into a total pukefest then.

"Dont Cry" by Seal. Not because it's a gorgeous song, I just like being disobedient.

Cloudbuster said:

for real. I have no problem with men crying. I'd rather see a man cry than pretend as if nothing ever gets to him and keeps thing bottled up. I'll never understand that whole "macho man" deal, but I'm just a girl so I wouldn't know.

A LOT of songs are tear jerkers for me. I'll only list two for now though....

Under the Ivy- Kate Bush (I guess it depends on my mood, but most of the time I cry)

Watching You Without Me-Kate Bush (the title alone says you're in for it)

When I was younger Peter Gabriel's "In Your Eyes" used to make me cry.....don't really know why. It's not meant to be a sad song, but it's a beautiful one. I can listen to it now without even shedding a tear.

for it
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Another

M - Ayumi Hamasaki

HamsterHuey said:

You know none of Bjork's songs get to me in that way, but some of Tori's does....

Me and a Gun-Tori Amos ( I can't even listen to it anymore to be honest.....I've probably listened to that song a total of 4 times )

Butterfly, Losing My Religion, sometimes Marianne.

CockBlocker said:

Upside down is also magical...

And another!


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Novabreaker said:

oh god, you too. It is nothing wrong with a man crying for God's sake. As long as the time is suitable for crying, but if he's crying everyday for no good reason, then he'd better look into some Zoloft.

MikeMatronik said:

yeah, that one'll do it for me too....depending on my mood. I listened to it the other day without crying though. I saw you post Hey Jupiter.....I think I'm almost the only fan who doesn't like this song I don't depise it, but it's definitely not on my list of favorites.

MikeMatronik said:

Putting the Damage On does it for me. Playboy Mommy too.

Xagain said:

Check inbox...

CockBlocker said:

Don't worry!

This Womans Work-Kate Bush/Maxwell

Kashka from Baghdad


Lives in sin, they say,
With another man,
But no one knows who.

Old friends never call there.
Some wonder if life's
Inside at all--
If there's life inside at all.

But we know the lady who rents the room.
She catches them calling a la lune.

At night
They're seen
Laughing,
Loving.
They know
The way
To be
Happy.

They never go for walks.
Maybe it's because
The moon's not bright enough.
There's light in love, you see.

I watch their shadows,
Tall and slim,
In the window opposite.
I long to be with them.

'Cause when all the alley-cats come out,
You can hear music from Kashka's house.

At night
They're seen
Laughing,
Loving.
They know
The way
To be
Happy.

'Watching every night.*
Don't you know they're seen?
Won't you let me laugh?
Let me in your love.

'Watching every night.
Don't you know they're seen?
Won't you let me laugh?
Let me in your love.

'Watching every night.
Don't you know they're seen?
Won't you let me laugh?
Let me in your love.

'Watching every night.
Don't you know they're seen?
Won't you let me laugh?'

DiamondGirl said:

OMG - that song is so sad! The melody and the way Kate Bush sings it with so much emotion in her voice.