What songs make you sad?

[cybrkitn]

And speaking of music videos, I remember when Metallica's "Turn the Page" came out, that was a very sad music video and I always think of it when I listen to the song.

"Unforgiven" by Metallica, was one song that used to make me cry. And that was b/c at the time, it described me and what I was going through as a teenager. Thankfully, I got through that difficult time and the song doesn't bother me anymore.

 

[cybrkitn]

"He's My Son" by Mark Schultz

Is that the one about the son who was in the army? If it is, then it made me cry the first time I heard it as well as when I saw the video.

 

[kimmar067]

...by far [ *sniff*, *sniff* ] the SADDEST SONG [*whimper* ] known to man :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csrPT9ClVUc

 

[agnes!]

...by far [ *sniff*, *sniff* ] the SADDEST SONG [*whimper* ] known to man :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csrPT9ClVUc

Sniff, sniff....you are so right...I do kinda feel like I've been RickRolled though .

agnes!

 

[GRUMPY PIRATE]

...by far [ *sniff*, *sniff* ] the SADDEST SONG [*whimper* ] known to man :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csrPT9ClVUc

that...or

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=li8VfNetr28

or

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzcv5TJkJBA&NR=1

very sad!

 

[MickeyCrazedMom]

I am on the seriously sentimental side, so alot of songs make me tear up. But there are a few that just make me sob.

You Give Good Love by Whitney Houston - My fave uncle died in an accident when I was 12 and 2 weeks before we had a bar b cue at his house to celebrate my birthday and I remember him walking around singing it. I think as time has gone on it has become more about the first loss I ever really felt than specifically about him passing.

The Change by Garth Brooks - written as a tribute for the Oklahoma City bombing victims. Such a beautiful message in that song.

A New Day has Come by Celine Dion - Came out right at the same time I was struggling with fertility issues and my life changed with the adoption of my son. It explained my journey so well and was perfect timing.

What a Wonderful World - Never made me cry until last summer. My DD did a ballet dance to this at her recital and my 80 year old grandma cried through the whole dance and then told me that was the only song she had ever wanted played at her funeral and it was like DD did the dance for her. Gram is still with us, but I will never think of the song the same way again.

 

[BadRomance]

Half Life- Imogen Heap

Heartbreakingly Beautiful.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7O69oEOmuk

 

[kimmar067]

Sniff, sniff....you are so right...I do kinda feel like I've been RickRolled though .

agnes!

 

[PrincessKsMom]

...by far [ *sniff*, *sniff* ] the SADDEST SONG [*whimper* ] known to man :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csrPT9ClVUc

 

[jimmalru80]

"Kilkelly, Ireland" by Jim Branningan

"My Immortal" by Evanescence

"And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda" by Liam Clancy

 

[java]

Follow You Follow Me - Genesis(a friend was killed by a drunk driver in high school and this was her favorite song we played it at her memorial at school)

And Dance With My Father Again- Just because I miss Luther and hearing him sing about missing his dead father and then he dies- well

 

[LeeLee'sMom]

Angel by Sarah McLachlin. I remember it being out around the time JFK Jr died. Then my aunts best friend's husband died and he had requested it be sung at his funeral (my aunt sung it). He saw it on the ASPCA commercials. He had depression problems and I think he related to it (he died following open heart surgery but I think he knew he wasn't going to live).

Totally agree and the ASPCA commercials made it even more sorrowful

 

[overlyspoiled4sure]

I'm so glad someone FINALLY mentioned Dance With My Father Again! Breaks me up every time.

Butterfly Kisses & Brian's Song will do that too.

 

[bigbabyblues]

"Skin" by Rascal Flatts.

Yep.

Also, Cinderella by Steven Curtis Chapman.

 

[turkeymama]

Someone mentioned dance recitals and that made me think of the three years my DD took dance. Most of the music from her first recital was Winnie the Pooh music. This was during the time that my dad was terminally ill and he was in the hospital the night of recital. We talked about how we would just watch the video when it came in. I got the video about 2 weeks after he died.

Forever and Ever and Wherever You Are were the two songs that really choked me up the most.

The lyrics to both of those make me boo-hoo like a little baby and I can barely watch the video from that recital. Another previous recital song that gets me is Celine Dion's Come to Me.

 

[Tinkerbelle9980]

If You Get There Before I Do by Collin Raye

 

[nashville_minnie]

I Can Only Imagine -MercyMe
You Raise Me Up -Josh Groban
Daddy's Hands -Holly Dunn (if your father has passed, this is especially sad)
Goodbye My Friend - Linda Ronstadt
Fly -Celine Dion (this one is heartwrenching)
Amazing Grace(My Chains Are Gone) -Chris Tomlin
My Angel -Danny Wood (yes, Danny from the New Kids)
God's Fingerprints -Brad Cotter

and pretty much anything by Michael W. Smith

 

[Mrs.Toad]

What a Wonderful World by Louis Armstrong is such a beautiful song and didn't make me sad until it was featured in Good Morning Vietnam. Now whenever I hear it, I picture the scenes from the movie.

Same with Amazing Grace. At my friend's husband's funeral, it was sung by the same family member who had sung it at their wedding 20 years earlier. That fact just made it even sadder to me, and now I cannot hear it without thinking of that funeral.

 

[Mermaid02]

Waiting on a Woman

My heart will go on- sappy I know, but my son was born the year Titanic came out and I used to sing it to him to calm him down. He was a fussy, fussy baby and this song used to lull him to sleep. I'm getting a lump in my throat just thinking about it now....

 

[DramaQueen]

I am super emotional and sentimental and i can pretty much cry at almost everything, including most songs on this list.
my additions include:

*bridge over troubled water - elvis presley (no other version of this song makes me cry, probably because i have an emotional attachment to elvis)
*hurt- johnny cash (THIS MAKES ME LOSE IT!!!!! and again, the original version doesn't make me cry, but when johnny cash sings it....along with the music video...i'm a puddle!)
*after the war - sarah slean (it plays during the credits of the film Passchendaele while showing real footage from WWI and it made me cry so hard!)
*world's greatest - r kelly (i've done relay for life 4 times and every time they play that song and it makes me cry so much!)
*fix you- coldplay
*let it be - any version!!!