Songs that make you cry or just get emotional

[Colleen M]

Harry Chapin.  Lots of Harry Chapin.  Cat's in the Cradle is just such a tale of misery being passed from one generation to the next, Mr. Tanner is a story of broken dreams, WOLD is about a wasted life, and Taxi about unrealized potential due to drug abuse...  I think the happiest song he ever did was about a trucker dying and scattering a truckload full of bananas all over the road. 

[Miss_Bungle1991]

The first time I heard this little song, my jaw dropped because it was so beautiful. Then I got teary eyed and had a lump in my throat...because it was so beautiful.

[antonia]

Something really pretty:

youtube.com/watch?v=e4dT8FJ2GE0

And then I might be a bit bias but it's my national anthem even though none of us can really sing it for,, ehh obvious reasons:



.youtube.com/watch?v=I7Jqh9HrqlI

[TerriT]

I cry at 90's Disney songs, which set me off for being so pathetically sappy but also because they remind me of a part of my life I had to cut myself off from growing up. Like I wasn't allowed those songs, only my sisters were. Songs I only heard from down the hall and never got to learn and sing and stuff. Dumb songs, like "Part of Your World" and "Colors of the Wind" and "Reflection" and all those things. I only rediscovered this stuff a little while ago so I'm digging into it all over again with the freedom to celebrate and connect with them. Those are the songs that make me cry these days.

[Ravensong]

Wow...just wow!  That Icelandic hymn was so beautiful, it made me cry too.  It epitomizes why I love hymns and chant.  Thank you for sharing that one. 

P.S.  The acoustics in that facility were amazing!!!

[JenSquid]

"Believe" by Savatage. I find I tear up by the time it gets to "And for all the years you borrowed / And for all the tears you hide / And for all the fears you had to keep inside." Beautiful song, even if it hurts to listen to sometimes.

[Kimberley Beauregard]

I'm not sure why, but this really resonates with me:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yY4bNCx9TY&feature=kp

[Olivia P]

This one has always spoke to me, even when I was in denial

[asiandracula]

Nearly anything by Sigur rós gets me emotional. It's really powerful stuff, both in the instruments and jónsi's incredible voice.
Their music is both heartbreaking and uplifting. It really depends on what mood you're in when listening to it, i guess.

[antonia]

I love Sigur Rós but then again, I used to live by their studio so again bias. Unfortunately they are going off YouTube since they refused to sing up to the new licence agreement, ohh well.

Álafoss is the name of a waterfall, the building their studio is in actually bridges the waterwall and is named after it, hence the song embedded but now shown unless you view the source.

Nearly anything by Sigur rós gets me emotional. It's really powerful stuff, both in the instruments and jónsi's incredible voice.
Their music is both heartbreaking and uplifting. It really depends on what mood you're in when listening to it, i guess.

[Evelyn K]

Played at my fathers bedside just as he was crossing over.

[Jo-is-amazing]

Played at my fathers bedside just as he was crossing over.

That is so beautiful ^ (hugs)
This one always does it for me :,(

piano is just amazing, isn't it?

[Eris]

Instrumental Music by Two Steps From Hell

[Amore34]

Such an empowering song.


Lot of Balmorhea's songs get the tears flowing for me.

[Buterfly99]

"Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness."
― Maya Angelou

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music."
― Albert Einstein

"Without music, life would be a mistake."
― Friedrich Nietzsche

[Buterfly99]

"Music... will help dissolve your perplexities and purify your character and sensibilities, and in time of care and sorrow, will keep a fountain of joy alive in you."
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer


Debussy: Claire de lune

[Buterfly99]

"La musique chasse la haine chez ceux qui sont sans amour. Elle donne la paix à ceux qui sont sans repos, elle console ceux qui pleurent."
-- Pablo Casals

Patricia Kaas - Et s'il fallait le faire

[PoeticHeart]

Sky scrapper by Demi Lovato gets me every time. It makes me reflect on my journey of recovering from depression and abuse.

[Buterfly99]

"Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common."
― Sarah Dessen



Patricia Kaas - Avec Le Temps

[Clarity]

I've had a few instances where a song caught me off guard. A few months ago, I was listening to a collection of Disney songs while just going about doing my normal computer business. When the song "God Help the Outcasts" came up, it made me cry. Also, I've found that "Hymn of Promise" could make me tear up on the last verse. I think that song spoke volumes to the uncertainty in life I was going through about a year ago. Probably the strangest one to cause me to cry was a remix I was listening to of the intro music for "Legend of Zelda, Windwaker." The whole track was instrumental, but it seemed to evoke something in me which I can't quite explain.