Its always made me tear up, but ever since I lost my dad last September it absolutely devastates me.
I am a lot like my dad, in ways I love and in ways I hate. I always over-identified with him, particularly with the parts of him I was afraid of, which turned into parts of myself I’m afraid of.
“Well, I’ve been ‘fraid of changin’
‘Cause I’ve built my life around you
But time makes you bolder
Even children get older
And I’m gettin’ older, too
I’m gettin’ older, too”
He also could never really accept that my sister and I grew up. He hung onto our childhood because he stopped being a “good dad” by the time I was 10.
I think he killed himself, but I will never know for sure.
Father and Son by Yusuf/Cat Steven’s, at the end of seasons 3 of Ted Lasso. Made me miss my dad, who passed in 2014 and my son who lives with his mother in another city and I don’t see as much as I would like.
Wrecked is about lead singer Dan Reynolds’ (at the time) sister in law who passed away from cancer. WDYSG is about Juice WRLD. Juice mentored Laroi and Laroi was at the airport with him when he overdosed.
Those 2 songs helped me get my tears out last Sept. when my mom and my oldest cat died. They helped me again this weekend when I had to put my dog down. Had him for 10 years. Went to the vet hoping for answers and all they could say was that there was something wrong with his brain causing him to walk funny and something else making him lose weight and they wouldn’t be able to fix it.
I lifted her head, she looked at me and said
“Hold me darling, just a little while”
I held her close, I kissed her our last kiss
I found the love, that I knew I had missed
And now she’s gone, even though I hold her tight
I lost my love, my life that night
Monsters by James Blunt. It reminds me of my dad, who died four years ago. The lyrics “I’m not your son, you’re not my father, we’re just two grown men saying goodbye” hit me like a train. It has me in tears each time I hear it.
Like a Rock by Bob Seger. Played it a lot when my grandpa died in 1997. It’s almost 30 yrs later now, and I still tear up… except now I’m the one looking back on the passage of my own timeline.
The Christmas Shoes – I worked with an Autistic child and his mom and she died of breast cancer right before Christmas, and I heard this song for the first time that year. I absolutely cannot listen to this and drive. I will turn the radio off rather than bawl my eyes out while I drive!
My mother’s favorite song, “Danny Boy,” was played at her graveside by a piper in kilts.
It was extremely emotional for me at the time, so whenever I hear pipes play it, it remains difficult for me not to be brought to tears.
“Oh, Danny boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling
From glen to glen, and down the mountain side.
The summer’s gone, and all the roses falling,
It’s you, it’s you must go and I must bide.
But come ye back when summer’s in the meadow,
Or when the valley’s hushed and white with snow,
It’s I’ll be here in sunshine or in shadow,
Oh, Danny boy, oh Danny boy, I love you so!
But when ye come, and all the flowers are dying,
If I am dead, as dead I well may be,
You’ll come and find the place where I am lying,
And kneel and say an Ave there for me.
And I shall hear, though soft you tread above me,
And all my grave will warmer, sweeter be,
For you will bend and tell me that you love me,
And I shall sleep in peace until you come to me!”
“Make you feel my love” – Adele version. That song is like the book “Love You Forever” for me. It doesn’t matter that I know what happens, they both hit a deep fracture when I think about how much I love my son.
Before You Go. It was played at my grandpas funeral, and reflecting back to everything leading up to his death, I can’t help but relate to the song so much. Maybe if I had noticed something I could’ve helped him. But I was a angry teenager in the middle of C19
From This Moment On by Shania Twain. I know it’s a love song…but I had just come home from the hospital with my new baby girl and officially been separated from her Dad. I had woken up by the timer I kept to change her and feed her and turned the tv on…that song was playing on VH1 and it just made me feel better. Stronger. And not alone. My girl is 27 next month and that song still brings me to tears because I know I made the right choice.
This one, in all it’s versions as Eastman Kodak commercials. Just watched it again and yup, still makes me cry. Tried to find the later one from the 70’s, but this one will do.
Flow from FFXIV composed by Soken. A deity who welcomes souls back to the aetherial sea to rest sings to you after ten years of adventures and hardships, like the way a mother would welcome you home. I cry but not from sorrow but from that warmth.
The vocalist Amanda Achen does such a phenomenal job.
I was in a dark place a few years ago, pulled myself out of it, and I’m a little better now. I found this song a few months ago, and it makes me cry because it’s what I feel like inside, even though I’ve mostly beaten back the darkness in my head. It’s so relatable, like I could’ve written it myself.
So many give me the feels but not cry. I think the closest was Antony and the Johnson – Cripple and the starfish. Was going to therapy a lot during that time. I realized my upbringing wasn’t normal and no matter what my family did to me, I was resilient. It made me tear up.
Wasteland from the season 2 Arcane OST.
The lyrics “maybe death is like falling asleep” put me right back in the veterinary hospital with my senior dog on my lap.
It makes me think of my dad. My mom was verbally and emotionally abusive and, though she tried her best, I’m left with a lot of mental health issues from that. But Daddy was a haven of unconditional love, patience, sweetness, humor, and safety. “God only knows what I’d be without you”, Daddy.
He died suddenly in 2016, which was devastating for all of us. So there’s a lot of meaning in the lines: “If you should ever leave me, though life would still go on, believe me, the world could show nothing to me. So what good would living do me?” After his death, for a couple of years, I had a really hard time putting my brain back together.
I love you, Papa! You are what I want to be in the world. I hope very much that I made you proud.
Also, “The Show Must Go On”, by Queen. Freddy Mercury was dying when it was recorded, and it is just an incredible monument to his bravery, his strength, and how much passion he had.
To build a home by cinematic Orchestra it can make anyone cry it hits too deep in different parts of life it’s one of the saddest songs ever but very good.
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Whitesnake – Here i go again
Starry Night
Kiss me through the phone
Thievery Corporation — Sweet Tides.
https://youtu.be/sRbKzumSPVw?si=muPX-fXcIG0IgcJa
“Landslide” by Fleetwood Mac.
Its always made me tear up, but ever since I lost my dad last September it absolutely devastates me.
I am a lot like my dad, in ways I love and in ways I hate. I always over-identified with him, particularly with the parts of him I was afraid of, which turned into parts of myself I’m afraid of.
“Well, I’ve been ‘fraid of changin’
‘Cause I’ve built my life around you
But time makes you bolder
Even children get older
And I’m gettin’ older, too
I’m gettin’ older, too”
He also could never really accept that my sister and I grew up. He hung onto our childhood because he stopped being a “good dad” by the time I was 10.
I think he killed himself, but I will never know for sure.
Please never fall in love again
Taps
Somebody that I used to know
Fire and rain, James taylor
Badflower – Move Me.
I swear that song was written for me.
Bohemian Rhapsody, Shine on you crazy diamond, Box of Rain.
Slipping through my fingers-ABBA
5000 Candles in the Wind (Bye bye Lil’ Sebastion)
Counterparts – whispers of your death. It’s about his cat getting cancer and dying Dx
Ain’t no mountain high enough, Diana Ross
I Am Not Okay by Jellyroll. Just lost my dad and this really spoke to me
Landslide by Fleetwood Mac, Yesterday by the Beatles, One More Time by blink-182
Down by the Sea – The Strawbs.
I have no idea why. It’s just a huge piece of music and it’s the riff that does it – particularly live. Strikes me down every time.
I can’t make you love me by Bonnie Raitt
Jealous by Labrinth
How to save a life – The Fray
It’s Quiet Uptown from Hamilton
Concrete angel by Martina McBride
When my actions inadvertently result in misunderstandings
Sad Circassian /Caucasian music
https://youtu.be/N-ER6lx0ff4?si=oaArwDKnOnZ3VrJ5
You’ll never walk alone – Gerry and The Pacemakers
Father and Son by Yusuf/Cat Steven’s, at the end of seasons 3 of Ted Lasso. Made me miss my dad, who passed in 2014 and my son who lives with his mother in another city and I don’t see as much as I would like.
The Night We Met by Lord Huron
Wrecked by Imagine Dragons & Where Does Your Spirit Go? by Kid Laroi. The only 2 songs I’ve ever cried to.
Wrecked is about lead singer Dan Reynolds’ (at the time) sister in law who passed away from cancer. WDYSG is about Juice WRLD. Juice mentored Laroi and Laroi was at the airport with him when he overdosed.
Those 2 songs helped me get my tears out last Sept. when my mom and my oldest cat died. They helped me again this weekend when I had to put my dog down. Had him for 10 years. Went to the vet hoping for answers and all they could say was that there was something wrong with his brain causing him to walk funny and something else making him lose weight and they wouldn’t be able to fix it.
Last Kiss – Pearl Jam
I lifted her head, she looked at me and said
“Hold me darling, just a little while”
I held her close, I kissed her our last kiss
I found the love, that I knew I had missed
And now she’s gone, even though I hold her tight
I lost my love, my life that night
Monsters by James Blunt. It reminds me of my dad, who died four years ago. The lyrics “I’m not your son, you’re not my father, we’re just two grown men saying goodbye” hit me like a train. It has me in tears each time I hear it.
As a grown man, it’s obviously Cherry Pie by Warrant.
Harvest moon – Neil Young. Always knocks the flood gate out on memories
Stromae l’enfer
Broken-Evanescence
Tears In Heaven by Eric Clapton.
Remember Me from CoCo…
My grandma was in in the late stages of Alzheimer’s and the scene where Mama Coco hears it and slowly remember her family I started bawling.
Hold my hands by akon and mj
“Work song” by Hozier and “Let them talk” by Hugh Laurie
“When She Loved Me.” It’s from Toy Story 2 – ever since I was a kid, that song brings me to tears.
Break even
Lewis Graham – You’re not there
Cats in the cradle and amazing Grace
Like a Rock by Bob Seger. Played it a lot when my grandpa died in 1997. It’s almost 30 yrs later now, and I still tear up… except now I’m the one looking back on the passage of my own timeline.
Thought About You by Tim McGraw
No song really makes me cry but Into the west is powerful shit.
A bit of a obscure one, but Still Dancing from the clover album. Although I don’t know how much of it is because of the music video
Yakkity Sax.
Every. Damn. Time.
Fast car – Tracy Chapman
dear april and cayendo by frank ocean. they’re fucking devastating
It’s been a while, but “Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story” still makes me at least a little bit teary…
Not one song makes me cry. But candle in the wind can make me feel for dripping a tear
The Christmas Shoes – I worked with an Autistic child and his mom and she died of breast cancer right before Christmas, and I heard this song for the first time that year. I absolutely cannot listen to this and drive. I will turn the radio off rather than bawl my eyes out while I drive!
My mother’s favorite song, “Danny Boy,” was played at her graveside by a piper in kilts.
It was extremely emotional for me at the time, so whenever I hear pipes play it, it remains difficult for me not to be brought to tears.
“Oh, Danny boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling
From glen to glen, and down the mountain side.
The summer’s gone, and all the roses falling,
It’s you, it’s you must go and I must bide.
But come ye back when summer’s in the meadow,
Or when the valley’s hushed and white with snow,
It’s I’ll be here in sunshine or in shadow,
Oh, Danny boy, oh Danny boy, I love you so!
But when ye come, and all the flowers are dying,
If I am dead, as dead I well may be,
You’ll come and find the place where I am lying,
And kneel and say an Ave there for me.
And I shall hear, though soft you tread above me,
And all my grave will warmer, sweeter be,
For you will bend and tell me that you love me,
And I shall sleep in peace until you come to me!”
God bless my dear dear mother, “Mary.”
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Rammstein – Zeit.
The Christmas shoe one 🥺
If You Get There Before I Do
By : Collin Raye
Auld Lang Syne….every new year’s eve
I Will by the Beatles
Moon River -Frank Ocean
Wap😢
“Make you feel my love” – Adele version. That song is like the book “Love You Forever” for me. It doesn’t matter that I know what happens, they both hit a deep fracture when I think about how much I love my son.
Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) by Green Day
Untitled by Simple Plan
Here Comes Goodbye by Rascal Flatts
“Bridge over troubled water” by Simon and Garfunkel
“The best of you” by Foo Fighters
Sesame Street’s ‘I Don’t Want to Live on the Moon’ made me cry as a kid.
Before You Go. It was played at my grandpas funeral, and reflecting back to everything leading up to his death, I can’t help but relate to the song so much. Maybe if I had noticed something I could’ve helped him. But I was a angry teenager in the middle of C19
“Asleep” – The Smiths
Sad Story (out of luck)
Somewhere only we know
From This Moment On by Shania Twain. I know it’s a love song…but I had just come home from the hospital with my new baby girl and officially been separated from her Dad. I had woken up by the timer I kept to change her and feed her and turned the tv on…that song was playing on VH1 and it just made me feel better. Stronger. And not alone. My girl is 27 next month and that song still brings me to tears because I know I made the right choice.
Sabaton’s The Final Solution.
For obvious reasons, I should hope.
Angel Flying Too Close to the Ground – Willie Nelson
New kid in town. Eagles 🦅
Hero of war, by Rise Against.
Hurt, by Christina Aguilera. Reminds me of my parents.
Traveling Soldier, the #1 country song that got Dixie Chicks tossed out of clear channel Country radio.
Who is loving you – Jacksons 5
About Today – The National
The Night We Met//Lord Hurron TNWM
Wildflower
None
Fable – Gigi Perez.
Brokedown Palace by the Good Ol’ Grateful Dead
This one, in all it’s versions as Eastman Kodak commercials. Just watched it again and yup, still makes me cry. Tried to find the later one from the 70’s, but this one will do.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBWVWjdNWC0
Nutshell, Alice in Chains
Cat’s in the cradle. I tear up even thinking about it.
Loneliness – Decalius, probably the saddest song ive ever listened
The Bum Bum Song
Brontë by Gotye. It’s a whole song about a dead dog! It’s devastating!
“Where Are You Christmas?” It reminds me of my dog that died two weeks before Christmas. Worst holiday ever 😔❤️🩹
When It’s Cold I’d Like To Die by Moby
Johnny Cash’s Hurt cover
The Streets of Philadelphia by Bruce Springsteen.
Flow from FFXIV composed by Soken. A deity who welcomes souls back to the aetherial sea to rest sings to you after ten years of adventures and hardships, like the way a mother would welcome you home. I cry but not from sorrow but from that warmth.
The vocalist Amanda Achen does such a phenomenal job.
Would anyone care – Citizen Soldier
I was in a dark place a few years ago, pulled myself out of it, and I’m a little better now. I found this song a few months ago, and it makes me cry because it’s what I feel like inside, even though I’ve mostly beaten back the darkness in my head. It’s so relatable, like I could’ve written it myself.
“Weeping” by Josh Groban. It hit really hard when I decided I needed to go no contact with my Dad.
Don’t Cry – Gun’n’rose
What hurts the most by rascal flats. Every time
“Crystal” By: Stevie Nicks
Bright eyes out of the film watership down.
What Sarah said – death cab for cutie
Tears in heaven – Eric Clapton
Angels from Robbie Williams
My Immortal from Evanescense
Hi Ren by Ren
Glimpse of Us, Joji
“Empty Garden” by Elton John
“Bobby Jean” by Bruce Springsteen
“Father and Son” by Cat Stevens
When I see you again😢
Probably let her go by the passenger
From the movie Song of the sea – the one where Sirsha sings with her mother at the end.
Vincent
Travelling soldier
So many give me the feels but not cry. I think the closest was Antony and the Johnson – Cripple and the starfish. Was going to therapy a lot during that time. I realized my upbringing wasn’t normal and no matter what my family did to me, I was resilient. It made me tear up.
Landslide and forever young
Visiting Hours by Ed Sherron
Wasteland from the season 2 Arcane OST.
The lyrics “maybe death is like falling asleep” put me right back in the veterinary hospital with my senior dog on my lap.
“God Only Knows” by the Beach Boys
It makes me think of my dad. My mom was verbally and emotionally abusive and, though she tried her best, I’m left with a lot of mental health issues from that. But Daddy was a haven of unconditional love, patience, sweetness, humor, and safety. “God only knows what I’d be without you”, Daddy.
He died suddenly in 2016, which was devastating for all of us. So there’s a lot of meaning in the lines: “If you should ever leave me, though life would still go on, believe me, the world could show nothing to me. So what good would living do me?” After his death, for a couple of years, I had a really hard time putting my brain back together.
I love you, Papa! You are what I want to be in the world. I hope very much that I made you proud.
Happy birthday.
Slipping through my fingers by abba
Gets me every time lol
“Changes” but especially Charles Bradley’s version.
Also, “The Show Must Go On”, by Queen. Freddy Mercury was dying when it was recorded, and it is just an incredible monument to his bravery, his strength, and how much passion he had.
The dance. Played it at my husbands memorial service. Even typing this it makes me tear up.
Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross – Just Us
Aphex Twin – Avril 14th
Warren Zevon – Keep Me In Your Heart
Okonski – Old Friend
Tale of Jenny and Scretch – Ren
Good looking by Dixon Dallas
Always on my mind by Willie Nelson
Sober Sundays – The Castellows and Wyatt Flores
To build a home by cinematic Orchestra it can make anyone cry it hits too deep in different parts of life it’s one of the saddest songs ever but very good.
Architects – Gone with the wind.
It was written by their then guitarist who had terminal cancer. Lyrics are heart breaking.