Quake1028

Anyone else got some tearjerkers? Johnny Cash's "Hurt" is really emotional. They played it on the WWE tribute show to Eddie Guerrero last night .

digitalfreaknyc

Cathedrals by Jump Little Children

There are a few actually. I'll probably add more.

RichardW

Bette Midler's "Wind Beneath My Wings" tears me up now. We made a video for my mom's 50th birthday years ago where we put pictures and video to music. This was the final song on the video. She passed away last year, so whenever I hear the song, I always think of my mom.

GatorDeb

"Only Time" - Enya - I started crying the first time I heard this song (and I still don't know why).

"Untitled" - A Simple Plan

"My Immortal" - Evanescence

"Now and Forever" - Carole King

"Don't Take the Girl" - Tim McGraw - association with someone who is now dead

"This Used to be my Playground" - Madonna

Miyazaki

Hasn't really made me cry, but a really sad song that I love is "Dry Your Eyes" by The Streets.

Great song.

nickdawgy

Creep makes you cry?

fiver

Some of my favorite emotional (not necessarily sad) songs:

1) Boa - "Duvet"
2) Rachmaninoff - "Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini"
3) Michael McDermott - "Darkest Night of All"
4) Radiohead - Street Spirit (Fade Out)
5) Carly Simon - Like A River
6) Carly Simon - Better Not Tell Her
7) Harry Chapin - Dreams Go By
8) Harry Chapin - Flowers are Red

Michael

crankyman

last goodbye - jeff buckley
apron strings - everything but the girl
something i can never have - nin
when fortune turns her wheel - the drovers
all mixed up - red house painters
drowning man - the cure

all those songs make me meloncholy

iggystar

The last few that made me cry were....

"Fix You" - Coldplay
"Crazy" - K-CI & JoJo (my sister, who passed a few years ago, loved that song)
"Gravity" - A Perfect Circle
"Happy Home" - Garbage

JANK

(!) Wishful Thinking - China Crisis
Ballerina Out of Control - Ocean Blue
(!) Bonnie - Prefab Sprout
Don't Stop the Dance - Brian Ferry
Angel Street & No Promises - Icehouse
Streets of Your Town - The Go-Betweens
Can't Do A Thing (To Stop Me) & Wicked Game - Chris Isaak
See Emily Play - Pink Floyd
Under the Milky Way - Church
Everybody's Got to Learn Sometime - The Korgis (& Beck)
Chance Meeting - Roxy Music
The Actor - Moody Blues
Met You at the Wrong Time of My Life - Kim Carnes
Paris Without You - Don Potter
(!) Icy Cold as Winter & Make You Stay - Swing Out Sister


... I collect and compile these type of songs. There are lots more.

lordwow

Some Oldies But Goodies:
The Worst That Could Happen - Brookyln Bridge
My Eyes Adored You - Frankie Valli
Tracks of My Tears - Smokey Robinson & The Miracles
To Love Somebody - Begees
I Can't Tell You Why - The Eagles

Soft Rock:
I Wish It Would Rain Down - Phil Collins
Against All Odds - Phil Collins or Mariah Carey w/ WestLife
In Too Deep - Phil Collins
Just Another Day - Jon Secada (I think the Spanish Version is sadder personally though, "Otro Dia Mas Sin Verte")
One More Try - George Micheal

R&B/Soul:
You Are Everything - The Stylistics

My Ultimate Sad Songs Though Are:
Goodbye Girl - Hootie & The Blowfish
Let Her Go & Start Over - Huey Lews & The News

parker63

"You're Missing" by Bruce Springsteen. First heard it a couple of months after someone I loved very much died of breast cancer. Totally ripped me up then, and I still get choked up if I hear it today.

Charlie Goose

Haven't read this entire thread, so there may be some already mentioned.

Overjoyed - Stevie Wonder
He'll Have to Go - Jim Reeves
You Don't Know Me - Ray Charles
Scarlet Fever - Kenny Rogers
The Hungry Years - Neil Sedaka
The Rainbow Connection - Kermit the Frog
Yesterday - The Beatles
Shanghai Breezes - John Denver
Over the Rainbow - Israel Kamamawio'ole
The First Time - Surface
There's a Light in Your Eyes - Blessid Union of Souls
Wichita Lineman - Glen Campbell
A Time for Us - Johnny Mathis
Words - The BeeGees
Get Here - Oleta Adams
Behind Blue Eyes - The Who
Dust in the Wind - Kansas
Runaway - Del Shannon
Broken Wings - Mr. Mister

I'm sure there are many many more that I can't think of right now.

conscience

Not really depressing sad, but uplifting sad:

Feels Like Home, Bonnie Raitt

salamander2

ALONE AGAIN (NATURALLY) Gilbert O'Sullivan
I WILL STILL LOVE YOU Stonebolt
IF YOU REMEMBER ME Chris Thompson
THIS NIGHT WOUNT LAST FOREVER Michael Johnson
LOST WITHOUT YOUR LOVE Bread
EVEN NOW Barry Manilow
PRECIOUS AND FEW Climax
DON'T CRY OUT LOUD Melissa Manchester
SILVER LADY David Soul

tecumseh1000

Dance With My Father - Luther Vandross
Same Old Lang Syne - Dan Fogelberg
Evaporated - Ben Folds Five
Arms of a Woman - Amos Lee
Holdin' On to Yesterday - Ambrosia
Ships - Barry Manilow
Here, There and Everywhere - The Beatles
Blackbird - The Beatles
Our Love (Don't Throw it All Away) - Andy Gibb
Look What You've Done to Me - Boz Scaggs
If You Leave Me Now - Chicago
Sailing - Christopher Cross
Our House - C,S,N & Y
Make Love Stay - Dan Fogelberg
Where Were You (When the World Stopped Turning) - Alan Jackson
If You Could Read My Mind - Gordon Lightfoot
All the Right Reasons - The Jayhawks
Celebrate Me Home - Kenny Loggins
The Show Must Go On - Queen
Kite - U2

These songs actually blow right past my cry trigger and immediately, for a variety of reasons, make my heart ache. I'd be glad if I only needed to cry when hearing them...

TropicalRobot

Ryan Adams - Wonderwall
Kate Bush - This Woman's Work
Johnny Cash - Hurt
Red House Painters - Wop A Din Din
My Morning Jacket - Dondante

I.Flores

Since dad died a couple of years back, Cat Stevens "Father & Son" and Mike and the Mechanics "The Living Years" always hit the spot.

Andalusia

Yeah, "The Living Years" always depresses me. My dad's not dead, but every time I hear this I feel like I should call him. Of course, I never do...

Buford T Pusser

Never heard the M&M song. Is it somewhere online?

joeblow69

This is going to sound stupid, but one song that always majorly bums me out is Opeth's "To Bid You Farewell" particularly the ending:

conscience

Got another one - not sure if already mentioned

Everything But The Girl - Downtown Train

Their version is very emotional. Love Waits' version, though. Absolutely hate Stewart's version.

dick_grayson

Good call!

JANK

EXCELLENT call on "Downtown Train" - Waits version (note the guitar work by G.E. FisHer(? - he played on SNL for many years)) is awesome.

Most of EBTG stuff qualifies for saddest songs. Great group (duo, actually) .

creekdipper

Cat Stevens "How Can I Tell You?"
Gillian Welch & David Rawlings "Orphan Girl"
Sundays "Wild Horses" (cover)
Sarah MacLachlan "Hold On"
Jennifer Warnes & Leonard Cohen "Joan of Arc"
Jeff Buckley "Hallelujah"
Tori Amos "Winter"