What songs make you sad?

[graygables]

I Hope You Dance.

My then 12yo w/ Asperger's and PCOS-caused weight issues had worked VERY hard in her jazz dance class, the only activity she'd ever wanted to do. During a class, she fractured her ankle and wound up in a boot for 6 weeks, but she still went to dance class and practiced the upper body and as much lower as she could with crutches. She worked SO HARD. The recital was coming and this was going to be the first time I ever saw my overly-shy, selectively mute child on a stage. The studio measured and ordered costumes without parental input. When the costumes arrived, they gave my DD someone else's costume and it was impossibly small. The other girl got my DD's correct size, but since that girl had "grown" so much, they switched them out. I argued and fussed and we tried to contact the manufacturer to help us out to no avail. After a year of hard work and recovering from an injury, my DD could not dance. The owner of the studio performed her showcase dance to "I Hope You Dance" and I lost it and have lost it ever since. My DD has not danced in 3 years and no longer has any desire to do so. It breaks my heart even now.

 

[NEVERENOUGHWDW]

In A New York Minute ~ Don Henley

Everybody Hurts ~ REM

Hallelujah ~ Jeff Buckley

Mahogany ~ Diana Ross

My Way ~ Frank Sinatra

Hello It's Me ~ Todd Rundgren

Around the World ~ Christine Ebersol (Gray Gardens Soundtrack)

My Funny Valentine



I have so many more.......

 

[averill94]

This whole thread is making me cry........


Freebird - Lynard Skynard


Parents divorced when I was young and blah blah blah. All these years later it makes me sad.

 

[NEVERENOUGHWDW]

This whole thread is making me cry........


Freebird - Lynard Skynard


Parents divorced when I was young and blah blah blah. All these years later it makes me sad.

Oh my goodness......I forgot that one.
My cousin died in a motocycle accident in Florida a few years ago and at the funeral his 3 kids took his favorite song Free Bird and added video of my cousin riding on his new Harley...the bike that he was riding when he died.

 

[Thundergod]

My phone started playing a song from my playlist today and I couldn't believe I didn't put this down to start with.


Remember When- Alan Jackson

 

[CindysGusGus]

" You Can Let Go Now Daddy"-Crystal Shawanda
"Dust in the Wind" -Kansas
"Cats in the Cradle" Harry Chapin

 

[Aisling]

Oh Lord, I haven't thought of this song in years and it makes me want to cry right now.

"Seasons Change" by Expose'. It came out in 1986 just when my grandmother passed away. I'd sacrifice tomorrow just to have you here today.

 

[Poohbug]

Breathe-Anna Nalick
The Greatest Man I Never Knew-Reba McEntire

 

[superme80]

I Can Only Imagine by Mercy Me
He's My Son by Mark Schultz
I Will Cover You [reprise] from Rent
It Is Well [with my Soul]

 

[low-key]

Im so lonesome I could cry - Hank Williams, its before any of our times but something just so sad about being so lonesome you could cry

 

[Acklander]

Aubrey by Bread. It's not that it's an overly sad song but I think the music is sad. Actually most the songs by Bread seemed sad.

 

[Pigeon]

Natalie Merchant's "Beloved Wife."

 

[Beth]

Sometimes You Can't Make it on Your Own by U2.

From Wikipedia:
The lyrics were written by lead singer Bono as a tribute to his father, Bob Hewson, who died of cancer in 2001; Bono sang the song at his funeral. The video to the song begins with a note from Bono about his father, saying "I wish I'd known him better."

I've heard it was hard for him to do the song during the tour, as well. ...I lost my Mom to cancer last November - and each time I've heard that song since then..... well.... it was just too much.

But a beautiful song, nevertheless.

 

[HoneyPooh]

I'm not usually a person to cry because of a song, but I have a lot of them that I listen to that make me stop and REALLY listen for a few moments....

Together - The Kin
If Today was your last day - Nickelback
Alive and Living - One Night Rodeo
Little Wonders - Rob Thomas
Always Summer - BBC Philharmonic (from Brideshead Revisted)
Your Arms feel like home - 3 Doors Down
Into Dust - Mazzy Star
This years love - David Gray
Go Rest High - Vince Gill
Sorry seems to be the hardest word - Elton John
Live like you were dying - Tim McGraw
Please Remember Me - Tim McGraw
Remember - Josh Groban/Troy Soundtrack

lots more

 

[diz8297]

"The Living Years"-speaks to me about my relationship with my Dad who passed in 1997.
"Amazing Grace"-recessed from the church at the end of my Dad's funeral. Can't get through it without crying.
"The List" by Toby Keith. Makes me think of first responders on 9/11.
There are other songs that aren't sad but move me to tears.
for example "God Bless the USA".