songs that provoke tears

VEGANGELICA · 08-21-2010, 09:14 AM

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Originally Posted by 333

Cliche as it may seem, this song changed me. Well, this whole album, really. Crucial for me in the self-growth and realization. I feel like I get ragged on a bit by my friends because Lateralus is my favorite Tool album. Let's face it, most choose Aenima or something older. I, for one, lean more towards progression than that initial rawness that came about with. Lateralus, to me, really showcases their growth and it moves me like no other albums of their's.

I don't like many Tool songs, but I love your description of how this one, Parabol, and the whole Lateralus album affected you!

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Originally Posted by RVCA

My dad sung this to me and my siblings as a lullaby when we were younger. He has a terminal brain disease now... this song just almost always brings me to tears and never fails to make me very sad

I'm sorry about your dad, RVCA. That's sweet that your dad sang you and your siblings a Janis Joplin song as a lullaby.

A song that often makes me tear up is Wilco's Reservations:

SaintSwan · 08-21-2010, 05:47 PM

The amount of country songs that reduce me to a blubbering mess is frankly embarrassing (The Baby by Blake Shelton, Cowgirls don't cry by Brooks, Dunn and Reba, Letters from Home by John Michael Montgomery). Doesn't matter that I know what they're trying to do, and it doesn't matter that I recognize the manipulative nature of what they're trying to do, it still works on me every time.

VEGANGELICA · 08-21-2010, 11:49 PM

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Originally Posted by SaintSwan

The amount of country songs that reduce me to a blubbering mess is frankly embarrassing (The Baby by Blake Shelton[/B], Cowgirls don't cry by Brooks, Dunn and Reba, Letters from Home by John Michael Montgomery). Doesn't matter that I know what they're trying to do, and it doesn't matter that I recognize the manipulative nature of what they're trying to do, it still works on me every time.

Heh heh...your post made me wonder if the songs would have the same effect on me, especially since I usually don't like country music because it can seem so sappy and sentimental, SaintSwan.

So I listened to "The Baby" and must admit...it reduced me to a blubbering mess! I like how it ended up with him crying like a baby, because that was a slightly clever twist on the song's main idea of a mother's love for her baby, a feeling I relate to very much.

Next, the "Letters from Home" song by John Michael Montgomery made me cry, too. I liked its mixture of humor and seriousness, in particular these lines: "But no one laughs 'cause there ain't nothing funny when a soldier cries, and I just wipe my eyes."

I made it stoically through "Cowgirls don't cry," though!

Wolfdog · 08-27-2010, 07:25 PM

Jimi Hendrix - Little Wing

This_Is_Corey · 08-27-2010, 07:46 PM

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Originally Posted by VEGANGELICA

A song that often makes me tear up is Wilco's Reservations:

That was a very intimate rendition, especially for being outside.

I always tear up listening to Get it Together by the Go! Team. It makes me want to be a kid again.

Insane Guest · 08-27-2010, 08:43 PM

With the story behind Eric Clapton's "Tears In Heaven", I actually shed a tear. Not to mention it is a beautiful piece.

VEGANGELICA · 08-27-2010, 10:25 PM

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Originally Posted by This_Is_Corey

That was a very intimate rendition, especially for being outside.

I always tear up listening to Get it Together by the Go! Team. It makes me want to be a kid again.

Yes, I like that Wilco song rendition, too!

I'm surprised that "Get it Together" makes you tear up! The song sounds so thoroughly happy to me! Maybe it is the nostalgia it inspires that makes you sad?

Here's a song that made me cry the first several times I heard it: "Saving all my Somedays," by someone who was on MusicBanter. Ack! I just tested it out again, and it *still* makes me tear up!

cardboard adolescent · 08-27-2010, 10:29 PM

Across the Universe has done it for me. It's a very inspired song, and to me shows the peak of the dream before it all fell apart.

VEGANGELICA · 08-27-2010, 10:55 PM

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Originally Posted by cardboard adolescent

Across the Universe has done it for me. It's a very inspired song, and to me shows the peak of the dream before it all fell apart.

I agree Across the Universe is a very beautiful song. I never interpreted it as describing the dream of oneness with a loving universe before that dream falls apart, though, so I never thought of it as a sad song, like you do, until now.

To me it seems like a song about the painful beauty of living and the euphoric loveliness of it all. It sounds like a song of welcome and encouragement to let yourself really be moved by life and unbothered by the little troublesome aspects of it.

cardboard adolescent · 08-27-2010, 11:12 PM

i don't find it too sad, it is very euphoric in a drifting sort of way. more bittersweet, i guess. it gives me a sense of endlessly spiraling upwards that moves me to tears with its beauty.

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SaintSwan Groupie Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Airdrie, AB Posts: 29	The amount of country songs that reduce me to a blubbering mess is frankly embarrassing (The Baby by Blake Shelton, Cowgirls don't cry by Brooks, Dunn and Reba, Letters from Home by John Michael Montgomery). Doesn't matter that I know what they're trying to do, and it doesn't matter that I recognize the manipulative nature of what they're trying to do, it still works on me every time. __________________ Whine bitch moan, rinse and repeat.

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Wolfdog Groupie Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Canada Posts: 2	Jimi Hendrix - Little Wing

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Insane Guest Music Addict Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: CA Posts: 1,322	With the story behind Eric Clapton's "Tears In Heaven", I actually shed a tear. Not to mention it is a beautiful piece.

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cardboard adolescent ;) Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: CA Posts: 3,503	Across the Universe has done it for me. It's a very inspired song, and to me shows the peak of the dream before it all fell apart.

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cardboard adolescent ;) Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: CA Posts: 3,503	i don't find it too sad, it is very euphoric in a drifting sort of way. more bittersweet, i guess. it gives me a sense of endlessly spiraling upwards that moves me to tears with its beauty.