The other day, I was transported to my college apartment, and I remembered sobbing to this song. I don’t remember why. You know how sometimes a visceral memory just hits you.
Regardless, I find this song emotional and soothing.
I’m a crier; I cry when I see super cute dogs, I cried in the Rugrats movie (I was 13), I cry when they announce the winner of Project Runway, I cry when I do mushrooms, and sometimes I cry when I hear a song in a certain way. These days, I am an exposed nerve.
In my never-ending search for cathartic release in these dark times, I was trying to think of more songs I’ve cried to.
LOL and this one’s gonna strike you as weird but bear with me. Just give it a try. By sheer chance, this one came on yesterday right after I’d read this piece by Michael Harriot at The Root and now I am a person who’s cried to God Bless America.
Hope you are all thriving in captivity.
Thank you for your continuous support of Deadsplinter.
Guns N’ Roses – Don’t Cry
and the video if you can handle axl’s face:
(Sandy) Alex G, Hope, about his roommate and dear friend who overdosed on fentanyl.
Oof. Oh man.
I’ve posted these before but the only 2 songs that consistently make me cry are these:
Dan Kelleher – I Couldn’t Help but Cry
There was a song my older siblings called “the song that makes (myo) cry” that my mom used to play while she was learning the acoustic guitar when I was a toddler. Every time I heard it, it made me cry.
According to mom (who I just texted to ask what the song was), when she asked me why I cried every time I heard it I replied in a very stern voice, “I don’t like that song!”
…and now that it has been playing while I was typing this, it’s safe to say that I still don’t.
Janie Fricke Down to my Last Broken Heart:
D’aww. My babiest brother used to cry REALLY hard – like WAILING – if you sang Happy Birthday at or near him.
This one brings back memories of a friend gone way too soon. Hits me a little hard.
Sorry for your loss <3
I haven’t cried in years. I don’t say that with any pride,I recognise it as a failing. But I’m not unemotional, when I’m sad it feels like an enormous weight on my heart. Anyway, this song always gets me. I couldn’t get the studio version to embed for some reason.
Bob Dylan – Baby, Stop Crying
I went maybe years in my 20s without crying. I’m not sure why. I was quick to cry before then, and I’m quick to cry now.
I blubber at the drop of a hat, but this John Prine song really gets me right here.
Oof, especially now.
yes, the crying power of this one is rather strong
This has made me cry since I was a kid – Wildfire
And for some reason this song makes me tear up. I guess piano based songs are sad to me.
I just realized how cheesy the Auld Lang Syne video is – apologizing in advance.
It’s okay, sometimes it’s the cheesy stuff that gets to you.
I like cheese.
Yeah those are real tear jerkers, but I have to say the cheesy karaoke video made me laugh a bit haha.
I come from a long line of weepers. I have an aunt who can cry on cue–literally, all you have to do is walk up to her and say “cry!”, and in five seconds she’ll be a mess.
Ollabelle’s “Heaven’s Pearls” has always made me cry, probably more than any other song. It helped me get through some of the really dark times over not being able to see my daughter.
I love that crying is a family trait! I’d never heard this one. It’s sad for sure.
After reading about the parade of one-finger salutes Trump received in DC today, I was determined to post a Johnny Cash track in honor of his own iconic fuck-off gesture.American IV: The Man Comes Around is just an emotionally devastating album.
When he recorded it, Cash’s autonomic neuropathy had left him with little to control beyond his voice, which, admittedly, is all he ever needed. On the album, the man in black sits down, looks his maker square in the eyes and records nothing but songs about death.
There are few, if any, artists alive that could pull the concept off the way Cash does, vulnerable beyond belief and yet, somehow, triumphant. Covers of “Hurt” and “Personal Jesus” leap out from the track listing — and Cash fucking owns them — but it’s traditional tracks like “Danny Boy” that are revelatory and heartbreaking, like you’d never heard them before and might not again.
Ooh, his “Hurt” is one that I could’ve added to this list. Gets me every time.
Every version of Danny Boy makes me weep.
Fact.
ooo…this one occasionally sets me off too
its nothing to do with the lyrics….its her pitch….i feel it in my teeth
A lot of times the songs that get me are less about the lyrics and something about the instrumentals or something.
…hmmm…pretty sure I ought to have a bunch to choose from…but I guess there’s different reasons to cry & I feel like you’re not looking for “strange fruit” type tears but how about some black roses?
https://youtu.be/ikc3wu96dYU
…& someone already mentioned the johnny cash rendition of hurt…so…songs are like tattoos…you know I’ve been to sea before
…or…in an arguably more upbeat kind of a way…despite the broken wrist
…but hey, tomorrow is another day
Fuck man, Chadwick Bozeman has me crying now.
I just stared at his picture trying to figure out if I was misremembering who exactly he was because it just didn’t seem possible… floored by that one.
I have had an extremely exhausting week, like all Louisianians, and found out about two deaths of acquaintances earlier today (AFTER I’d scheduled this post), and then the Bozeman thing just fucking broke me.