Music that brings tears to your eyes

[mousme]

Okay, so if you're anything like me, there is at least ONE song out there that, if it doesn't make you cry, it at least makes you a little misty-eyed.

Mine is Leonard Cohen's beautiful adaptation of Garcia Lorca's poem, "Litte Viennese Waltz." It makes me think of rainy days in Paris, of hiding in dusty attics, of losing myself in my father's old books, and the nostalgia just about breaks my heart.

(Okay, there are others, because I am a SAPPY WUSS, but this is the one that never fails.)

"Take This Waltz"

Okay, flist. Your turn. Spill. What song tugs at your heartstrings?

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[bodhifox.livejournal.com]

Danny's Song, sung by Kenny Loggins

(Ben is a Pisces)

[taxlady.livejournal.com]

Oh dear, you left yourself open with that one.

Tears in Heaven by Eric Clapton. I lost a baby (still born son) just about a year after Eric Clapton lost his son. That song is probably worse because I know it's about his son.

[heartofawarrior.livejournal.com]

Oh man - there are a lot that are getting to me lately (some that I never would have guessed, but I'm going to blame it on all the stress, and the boy-human being deployed)!

But, a couple that never fail are Def Leppard's "Gods Of War" (especially the live version from "In The Round, In Your Face" - Steve Clark's guitar solo is sheer heartbreaking brilliance to me, as is the near-begging "stop, stop fighting for the gods of war, what the hell we fightin' for?" that's basically the last line of the song), and Thin Lizzy's "The Boys Are Back In Town". I know that seems an odd choice, but when you really listen to the lyrics, it's very bittersweet, and it's Clint's fault I get choked up when I hear it, because before deployment #1, he was doing the standard planning for "if I don't come back, here's how I want my memorial service"...he was tossing around music ideas, some of them sarcastic, trying to lighten the mood (he actually threatened to come back and haunt me if "My Heart Will Go On" was played - it's sort of a joke going back to a random sing-along at aviation camp, when we met), and some of them serious - Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Simple Man" (which also chokes me up now) and "The Boys Are Back In Town" were two that he decided were serious choices. And now, the local classic rock stations seem to be on a Thin Lizzy kick of late...

[catsarah.livejournal.com]

Here without you - Three Doors Down

Bleed a little While tonight - Lowest of the Low

Do you sense a theme?

[joane.livejournal.com]

"Sometimes When We Touch," Dan Hill (it's a context/memory thing); "Rise Again," by the Rankins (now that I'm a parent especially); "Orinoco Flow," Enya (it's all about my dad).

The floodgates are open

[pasley.livejournal.com]

We’re talking just songs, right? Because don’t even get my going on classical music---the list would be way way too long!

As it is . . .

"The Mary Ellen Carter"-Stan Rogers
"The Scarlet Tide"-Elvis Costello, sung by Alison Krauss
"The Wexford Carol"
"The Coventry Carol"
"Taladh Chriosda"(Christ Child's Lullaby)
“Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas”-Judy Garland vrsn
"My Young Man"-Kate Rusby
"Turn, Turn, Turn"-Pete Seager vrsn
"Time Flies"-Rosemary Clooney
"River"-Joni Mitchell
“The Circle Game”-Joni Mitchell
"Time in a Bottle”-Jim Croce
“Turn Around”- ??
“Springtime Again” (the seasons song/cartoon)-Sesame Street, circa 1971, sung by Liza Minelli
“In My Life”-The Beatles
“Who Knows Where the Time Goes?”-Judy Collins vrsn
“Going Home”-Paul Robeson
“Old Man River”-Paul Robeson

Forget crying---were talking out and out sobbing for most of these. (Even compiling this list has got me all choked up.) I know there’s a ton more, but I’m blanking right now, and I need to get back to the endless marking . . . which also makes me want to cry, though for totally different reasons.

xox

[slipjig.livejournal.com]

All right, I guess if I need to fess up:

"No Telling," Linda Thompson (if I were going to limit myself to just one answer, this would be it, big time)
"When Ye Go Away," The Waterboys
"When I Was a Boy," Dar Williams
"Falling Slowly," Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova

There are many others, but I'm coming up blank at the moment.

[curtana.livejournal.com]

Songs that should be tearjerkers don't usually get me - I might like them, but they don't make me cry. Songs that I feel GET ME, however, can. For instance:

Rich Fantasy Lives, by Tom Smith and Rob Balder. You can hear it here (warning for autoplay).

Us, by Regina Spektor - because of the vid by lim, which can be seen here.

(And on a happier-sort-of-crying note, One Night Fandoms, download here.)

[curtana.livejournal.com]

Looking at lim's page reminded me of While We Have The Sun, which is also amazingly beautiful and heartbreaking.

no-fail tear jerkers for me ;_;

[longpig.livejournal.com]

Tea Party - These Living Arms.

Rasputina's cover of 'Wish You Were Here' - basically my and Ian's 'song' although we swore it wouldn't be! :V

And the Roslin and Adama theme from BSG... *nerd alert* I walked down the aisle to that. *nerd alert*

[luvenditti.livejournal.com]

O Holy Night. Just about any version.