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Anyone have one of those songs that just rips your heart out and can bring you to tears every time you hear it?

I got such a song...

Last year around this time I went to a regular bar/saloon fully dressed as myself (girl). People their were descent and I was having an awesome time dancing and having fun!

I was using the ladies bathroom and the owner came up to me and said I needed to use the men's room and stay out of the ladies room. He wasn't mean about it, but it still sort of gutted me.

So I'm sitting at the bar having a beer and this song comes on that I hadn't heard for years. I wish I never heard this song because it's haunted me ever since I left my wife last year. Yeah, the song reminds me of her...

The song starts to play on the juke box and I had to flee the bar!!! It was powerful enough to instantly gut me! I was sitting there hearing this song feeling guilty over being a girl and being at a bar when I should be with my wife!

II cry even as I right this because I miss her. I wish I would have never heard this song.

Telephone Line BY ELO

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRJQLzc-bco# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRJQLzc-bco#)

When in a certain mood this song has been known to make me a little misty-eyed. It's one of those songs that just sort of transports me to another time and place whenever I listen to it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDw3CyOmj20# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDw3CyOmj20#)

And this song has always pulled on my heartstrings a bit since it came out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRxr3Zt8U2U# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRxr3Zt8U2U#)

sorry for that , but you shouldn't feel guilty for being yourself , or for decisions you have made . who knows what would have happened otherwise .
hope you feel better soon

anyway , my always-make-cry-song is this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MHGtlEYZBA# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MHGtlEYZBA#)

Quote from: Osiris on May 27, 2010, 12:12:27 PM
When in a certain mood this song has been known to make me a little misty-eyed. It's one of those songs that just sort of transports me to another time and place whenever I listen to it.

OMGosh! Dante's Prayer by Loreena McKennitt is my most emotional song too.  I have such strong feelings and attachments to the song.  Everyone should do themselves a favor:

1) Quiet everything around you in the house, stop the TV, the kids, the phone, everything.
2) Open the windows to let a breeze in to hear the natural sounds of the world around them.
3) Sit in quiet peace for a moment clearing your mind.
4) Listen to Dante's Prayer and really focus in on the words.
5) Feel yourself lifted away into the sublime in a way that can only be related to a spiritual experience.

Not a song but an album.   'All about Chemistry' by Semisonic.   The title appears at first glance to be a cheery pop number but as the album goes on the despair increases.   Definitely an album about breaking up, which happened to me just after I bought it.  I cannot listen to the album without collapsing into a blubbering heap.

I don't really cry

but Jeff Buckley's hallelijah makes me feel real goopy and sad
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIF4_Sm-rgQ# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIF4_Sm-rgQ#)

Illusion -  VNV Nation

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pu-8wGbWMro# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pu-8wGbWMro#)

I was with this wonderful guy (prior to accepting my manhood). Actually I still love him. I had to break it off because I had to move 3 states away. Everytime I hear this song it makes me think of him. then I miss him terribly and have to wonder where I'd be if I'd stayed...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zNf4sOO_mg# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zNf4sOO_mg#)

Quote from: Osiris on May 27, 2010, 12:12:27 PM
When in a certain mood this song has been known to make me a little misty-eyed. It's one of those songs that just sort of transports me to another time and place whenever I listen to it.

oh yeah that's one on my list too; I know exactly what you mean. Put it together with this one and it's definitely mist-time.. but no way there's just one song...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuhLjNFrmFA# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuhLjNFrmFA#)
And this one by Bruce Springsteen which is partly about a suicide bomber and partly about the tragedy of 9/11 is not only sad it's haunting, and I never hear it without breaking into tears...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGd9bx69j4A# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGd9bx69j4A#)

I also love Hallelujah, and the version by Allison Crowe is the best and heart rending rendition I have ever heard. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIMOdVXAPJ0# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIMOdVXAPJ0#)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bv7w200rrcs&feature=related# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bv7w200rrcs&feature=related#)

i lived this song. its about losing someone to HIV.

Hide & Seek - Imogen Heap
In fact, its hard to listen to a lot of them...I'm listening to it now, and my heart is racing :p Reminds me of my first bf. hah :/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYIAfiVGluk# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYIAfiVGluk#)

xoxo

Hauser, that is so sad, I was bawling by the end of it :'( I'm sorry you had to experience that.

Hope it isn't too late to contribute to this thread.

I know just what this girl is feeling.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pwT2wiZsg0# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pwT2wiZsg0#)

A bunch for me but The following 2 songs are major ones:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dBW4pViRTU# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dBW4pViRTU#)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcWQIsG9Rqw# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcWQIsG9Rqw#)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jz7wKhVa_VE# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jz7wKhVa_VE#)

Gets to me,..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvISfWS84Tk# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvISfWS84Tk#)

it gives me this nostalgic feeling that's hard to explain...

"Cat's in the Cradle" by Ugly Kid Joe.  Makes me cry every time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnR0dNsndAw&feature=related# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnR0dNsndAw&feature=related#)

Tears From the Moon ~ Conjure One featuring Sinead O'Connor

Couldn't sleep so I went out walking
Thinking about you and hearing us talking
And all the things I should have said
Echo now, inside my head

I feel something falling from the sky
I'm so sad I made the angels cry

Tears from the moon
Fall down like rain
I reach for you
I reach in vain

Tears from the moon, tears from the moon

It just ain't fair this thing called loving
When one's still there and the other feels nothing
I would have done anything for you
I still love you, baby I adore you

All day I keep from falling apart
But at night when the sky gets dark

Tears from the moon
Fall down like rain
I reach for you
I reach in vain

Stop, Stop haunting me
It should be easy
As easy as when you stopped wanting me

Tears from the moon
Fall down like rain
I reach for you
I reach in vain

Tears from the moon
Fall down like rain
but tears from the moon
can't wash away the pain

Tears from the moon, tears from the moon
Tears from the moon, tears from the moon

This is just one of many songs that can easily make me shed a tear or two. This one especially because it is such a strong reminder of someone I will always love.

reflection - christina aguelera, I feel like this song is about me, always makes me cry.
Ignorance - kasey chambers, just always makes me sad
I did it my way - Frank Sinatra, was played at my grandfathers funeral, I didn't cry at all until I heard this song, then I couldn't stop - still cry now whenever I hear it
Samson- regina spector, she just has a beautiful but haunting voice, also some songs by George for the same reason.
Winter by Vivaldi

-Tali

there are many for me. usually songs attached to good or bad memories.
music has definitely helped me through some tough times.

I have listened to lots of Animal Collective during my transition.  and I cry
anytime I hear the song "Brothersport".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGQjyGT1-mc# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGQjyGT1-mc#)

the lyrics can be tough to decipher so here is a somewhat out of context excerpt:

"You got to weigh what he said
To help you shape the way you play
You gotta get rid of the mourning
Sort out the habits of your mind

Until fully grown
You got a real good shot
Won't help to hold inside
Keep it real keep it real shout out"

Someday (I Will Understand), My Baby and Girl In The Mirror - Britney Spears.

Aaliyah - "I miss You"
:'(

always be my baby- mariah carey

 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbSXSjbVBHg#)

This song is We Are Pilots by Shiny Toy Guns, and it explains how I feel about being transgendered and how my family makes me feel perfectly.

The whole song makes me want to cry, especially the parts I've put in bold since I relate to those the most. :(

Holding close my secrets
Naked broken pieces
-from the madness in what you do
The fingers point right back at you
What about my problems?
The people try to solve them
I guess I'm under the weather...
Since no one else belongs here, with me

Chorus-
Hello mother,
Some news for you
I'm really not that crazy.
Hello father,
I'm curious?
Why you think there's something wrong with me.

Sunday I cried all night...
And it hurt so bad
But if you try to understand--

This is who I am

V2-
Color coated sweetness
Swords beneath my clean dress
I'm making sense of shattered dreams
Because I want you to be proud of me
What about my problems?
The people try to solve them?
I guess i'm under the weather
Since no one else belongs here with me....

Some really great tracks in this thread!

This is the one I feel is most like me.. in a weird unexplainable way :) It makes me cry but also feel happy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjIWriDTptY# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjIWriDTptY#)

(I consider it my theme song ;) )

I have a few songs that gets to me, My World by Ashton Nyte, cause it puts me in mind of my life. Daddy by Korn, I'm not about to say way too personal. Uhh I have too many that pains me to hear at times