Lets Cry...for the fun of crying. Fav Tear Jerking Songs.

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I like crows.

Sometimes the same thing can elicit laughs, or tears, depending upon your mood.


https://youtu.be/7xBxZGQ1dJk

The above Seventies singer-songwriter really was both dying, and a Cubs fans, when he wrote the song. Knowing that can jerk a tear or two from you when you hear the song.

Lullaby for a Princess

Blue October - Hate Me

I was going through an extremely difficult time and was very anxious. This song came on while I was in a store, and I thought: “Everything’s going to be okay.” Tears of relief. Things could’ve just as easily not been okay, but here I am.

This breakup song does it for me



Tell me where you're going,
Or what is going wrong,
Felt you leaving,
Before you'd even gone.
Hold me now,
Or never, ever hold me again

This song made me cry when I was a teenager. It was originally by Wayne Cochran, but I preferred this version.

Pearl Jam - Last Kiss

https://youtu.be/WS3Lkc6Gzlk?si=BwUMmWFE_oLxP82G



Rainbow Connection
Kermit

^

Memories of Love - Chicago

Probably not what you expect when you think of Chicago, it was a more experimental piece from the second album. It actually has a preceding instrumental part. Now I cry easily but songs by themselves don't usually do it, but this one did when I first listened to the lyrics. Just the delivery of it got to me.

Poor Murdered Woman - Jackie Oates

This is an old British folk song, but given a very unique take by a newer British folk artist. Of course from the title you can already tell this is going to not be a happy song, but that's pretty common in old British folk songs. The presentation and instrumentation that the artist goes for with this particular interpretation just emits pure sadness. It makes it sound like a sad Auld Lang Syne.

Everything I Own - Bread

IIRC, this song is about the loss of one of the member's father (perhaps David Gates himself). I think when I first heard it, it was accompanied with that explanation and thus it made me cry.

Blowin' in the Wind - Peter, Paul & Mary

I suppose this one becomes even sadder with the context that its message holds true to today, which makes it even stronger. You can apply it to war, genocide, bigotry and even mass shootings and it hits hard.
"How many ears must one man have before he can hear people cry?
How many deaths with it take til he knows that too many people have died?"

^ Blowin’ in the Wind is a good one. It’s relevant for so many situations on a small and grand scale.

How many years can some people exist
Before they're allowed to be free?
How many times can a man turn his head
And pretend that he just doesn't see?



Don McLean - Vincent

This song is very personal to me.

https://youtu.be/5KVPEj__ugs?si=1Pz4CLUXVRXJsnvE




Somewhere in My Memory
Home Alone


Every. Single. Time.

I can't listen because it is going to make me sob at work. When Dumbo is reunited with his mama, I cry every time.

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The Drugs Don’t Work - The Verve