What specific song lyrics make you cry and why?

Ave Maria by Celine Dion (Reminds me that life is precious)
Everything I Own by Bread (Reminds me of how I miss my Mom)
A New Day Has Come by Celine Dion (Reminds me how much I love my son)
One Head Light by Walflowers (Reminds me of my Mom)
Good Riddence by Green Day (Reminds me of my Mom)
 
I have two that get me every time, both dealing with children. I am probably aging myself with these songs. Thank goodness they don't play them alot!
Flowers are Red
by Harry Chapin

and

Right Field
by Peter Paul and Mary
 
"I Hope You Dance" by Lee Ann Womack makes me cry every time I hear it. It makes me think about my DD's, and how they are growing up so quickly .

The "Wishes" soundtrack also makes me teary eyed...although there aren't too many lyrics. No particular reason, just thinking of our good times at WDW.
 
"In this proud land we grew up strong
We were wanted all along
I was taught to fight, taught to win
I never thought I could fail

No fight left or so it seems
I am a man whose dreams have all deserted..."

The song is Don't Give up by Peter Gabriel. Why? Got fired from a job I really liked in the mid 90s and have been a fan of Peter Gabriel since the mid 80s.



Don't Take the Girl by Tim McGraw. Already mentioned in other posts, but my wife had to undergo an unplanned C Section and this song was constantly going in my mind when I was in the Operating Room with her.



"We’ve been together for a long time, baby
Do you have to leave?
Please don’t go girl
I just can’t live without you..."

The song is "Please don't go girl" by New Kids on the Block. As a teenager, a girl broke up with me and this was a hit song at the time. Should have thrown my shoe at the radio.
 

You Say It Best When You Say Nothing at All by Alison Krauss. I would sing that song to my then newborn son and rock him. He was my first born and so precious to me. I'm kinda gettin' misty-eyed just thinking about those days....
 
"Live Like You Were Dying" This song came out just after my 46 year old brother died from pancreatic cancer.
 
A lot of the songs already mentioned in this thread,

She's Somebody's Hero......especially the end where it talks about the daughter feeding the mother in the nursing home and the mother smiling.....it makes me think of my grandma who has Alzheimers and has to be fed.

The country song I think by Lonestar, maybe it's called Somebody's Someone? About a dad and a little boy talking about a soldier who was killed......DH 21-yo cousin is getting ready to go to Iraq yet again (Marine) and I worry about him.

And so many more, but I'm crying again
 
Goofball said:
Also, and don't you laugh:

He Stopped Loving Her Today by George Jones

He said "I'll love you till I die",
She told him "You'll forget in time"
As the years went slowly by,
She still preyed upon his mind

He kept her picture on his wall,
Went half-crazy now and then
He still loved her through it all,
Hoping she'd come back again

Kept some letters by his bed
Dated nineteen sixty-two
He had underlined in red
Every single "I love you"

I went to see him just today,
Oh but I didn't see no tears
All dressed up to go away,
First time I'd seen him smile in years

He stopped loving her today
They placed a wreath upon his door
And soon they'll carry him away
He stopped loving her today

You know, she came to see him one last time.
Oh, and we all wondered if she would.
And it kept running' through my mind-
"This time he's over her for good."

He stopped loving her today
They placed a wreath upon his door
And soon they'll carry him away
He stopped loving her today

Listen to that without getting teary, I dare you!


Oh lordy, I won't laugh. That's the song I thought of too! It just kills me. Also there is one by Garth Brooks and I can't think of the name but part of the chorus is "she just went crazy, screaming out his name". Cheyenne might be in the title.

Lots of songs make me cry but that George Jones song kills me.
 
Same old lang syne by Dan Fogelberg, these lines just seem to get to me and make me tear up!

Just for a moment I was back at school
And felt that old familiar pain
And as I turned to make my way back home The snow turned in to rain...
 
will you still love me by chicago

Hard for me to say sorry by chicago

Have I told you lately that I love you Rod stewart

youve got a friend James taylor

My Immortal by Evannessence

I remember you by Brian Mcknight

Still in love with you by Brian Mcknight
 
Billy Joel

Miami 2017-(I've seen the lights go out on broadway)
The line where he says
"I watched the mighty skyline fall"
reminds me of September 11th.
 
Tinkerbell_Girl said:
Tim McGraw- Don't Take the Girl.

I cry everytime I hear that song. In fact I'm getting all teary eyed just thinking about it!

I can NOT listen to that song, and I love Tim. However, he did it in concert and I couldn't escape and I was balling my eyes out! Ohh, I really can not listen to that song.
 
Bronski Beat - Smalltown Boy specifically the line that says "Mama will never understanding why you had to leave" This song always makes me think of my friend Gilbert who killed himself when we were 19 years old. He was my best friend.


When my 19 year old nephew died in a horrific motorcycle accident in February, we were left wondering why...what was his state of mind...we found his journals where he talked of how sad he was and there are actually 3 songs that make me cry for Charlie...I miss him so much...

Shinedown - Burning Bright
I feel like there is no need for conversation
Some questions are better left without a reason
And I would rather reveal myself than my situation
Now and then I consider, my hesitation
The more the light shines through me
I pretend to close my eyes
The more the dark consumes me
I pretend I'm burning, burning bright

I wonder if the things I did were just to be different
To spare myself of the constant shame of my existence
And I would surely redeem myself in my desperation
Here and now I'll express, my situation

[CHORUS (2)]

There's nothing ever wrong but nothing's ever right
Such a cruel contradiction
I know I cross the lines its not easy to define
I'm born to indecision
There's always something new some path I'm supposed to choose
With no particular rhyme or reason

[CHORUS (2)]


Ozzy Osbourne - Mama I'm coming home
Times have changed and times are strange
Here I come, but I ain't the same
Mama, I'm coming home
Times gone by seem to be
You could have been a better friend to me
Mama, I'm coming home

You took me in and you drove me out
Yeah, you had me hypnotized
Lost and found and turned aroound
By the fire in your eyes

You made me cry, you told me lies
But I can't stand to say goodbye
Mama, I'm coming home
I could be right, I could be wrong
Hurts so bad, it's been so long
Mama, I'm coming home

Selfish love yeah we're both alone
The ride before the fall
But I'm gonna take this heart of stone
I just got to have it all

I've seen your face a hundred times
Everyday we've been apart
I don't care about the sunshine, yeah
'Cause Mama, Mama, I'm coming home
I'm coming home

(solo)

You took me in and you drove me out
Yeah, you had me hypnotized
Lost and found and turned around
By the fire in your eyes

I've seen your face a hundred times
Everyday we've been apart
I don't care about the sunshine, yeah
'Cause Mama, Mama, I'm coming home
I'm coming home
I'm coming home
I'm coming home

Guns N' Roses - Don't Cry (original)
Don't Cry

Talk to me softly
There's something in your eyes
Don't hang your head in sorrow
And please don't cry
I know how you feel inside I've
I've been there before
Somethin's changin' inside you
And don't you know

Don't you cry tonight
I still love you baby
Don't you cry tonight
Don't you cry tonight
There's a heaven above you baby
And don't you cry tonight

Give me a whisper
And give me a sigh
Give me a kiss before you
tell me goodbye
Don't you take it so hard now
And please don't take it so bad
I'll still be thinkin' of you
And the times we had...baby

And don't you cry tonight
Don't you cry tonight
Don't you cry tonight
There's a heaven above you baby
And don't you cry tonight

And please remember that I never lied
And please remember
how I felt inside now honey
You gotta make it your own way
But you'll be alright now sugar
You'll feel better tomorrow
Come the morning light now baby

And don't you cry tonight
An don't you cry tonight
An don't you cry tonight
There's a heaven above you baby
And don't you cry
Don't you ever cry
Don't you cry tonight
Baby maybe someday
Don't you cry
Don't you ever cry
Don't you cry
Tonight
 
skin - rascal flatts

3 wooden crosses - randy travis

closer - better than ezra

closer

and the morning light was breaking
slowly moving across the bed
he gets up without her waking
to the voices in his head

through the shadows in the hallway
to the room they painted blue
and on the inside he is frightened
at a loss for what to do

until he opens up his eyes
and the angels all look down

even closer than this life
closer than your faith
closer than the things that you hold dearly
and in vain
closer than this life
falling through again
giving more than anything
that you could hope to win

and he knows his life is changing
it's never easy letting go
for the first time you are mortal
as the child before you grows
and he wonders at the sight
of the joy that he has found

even closer than this life
closer than your faith
closer than the things that you hold dearly
and in vain
closer than this life
falling through again
giving more than anything
that you could hope to win

and what would you intend to find?
solitude? your peace of mind?
holding out for something less
than touching the hand of god?

even closer than this life
closer than this faith
closer than the things that you hold dearly
and in vain
closer than this life
falling through again
giving more than anything
that you could hope to win

closer than this life
closer finally
living for the only thing
you ever made complete
oh, for the one thing
that you both did perfectly
 
All three of these remind me of my Mimi who passed away a year and half ago:

Amazing Grace

Wind Beneath My Wings

Love, Me by Collin Raye

I read a note my grandma wrote back in nineteen twenty-three.
Grandpa kept it in his coat, and he showed it once to me. he said,
"boy, you might not understand, but a long, long time ago,
Grandma's daddy didn't like me none, but i loved your grandma so."

We had this crazy plan to meet and run away together.
Get married in the first town we came to, and live forever.
But nailed to the tree where we were supposed to meet, instead
I found this letter, and this is what it said:

If you get there before i do, don't give up on me.
I'll meet you when my chores are through;
I don't know how long i'll be.
But i'm not gonna let you down, darling wait and see.
And between now and then, till i see you again,
I'll be loving you. love, me.

I read those words just hours before my grandma passed away,
In the doorway of a church where me and grandpa stopped to pray.
I know i'd never seen him cry in all my fifteen years;
But as he said these words to her, his eyes filled up with tears.

If you get there before i do, don't give up on me.
I'll meet you when my chores are through;
I don't know how long i'll be.
But i'm not gonna let you down, darling wait and see.
And between now and then, till i see you again,
I'll be loving you. love, me.
Between now and then, till i see you again,
I'll be loving you. love, me.
 
"Turn Around" and "Sunrise, Sunset" always make me misty.

"Where are you going, my little one, little one?
Where are you going, my baby, my own?
Turn around, and you're tiny.
Turn around, and you're grown.
Turn around, and you're a young wife,
With babes of your own."
 
MinnieM3 said:
The country song about the little abused girl who knows Jesus, cause he was there with her, behind the couch, he got dowon from that cross... can't think of the name.

I agree!



Little Girl:
John Michael Montgomery.

Her parents never took the young girl to church,
Never spoke of His name,
Never read her His word.
Two non-believers walking lost in this world,
Took their baby with them,
What a sad little girl.

Her daddy drank all day and mommy did drugs.
Never wanted to play,
Or give kisses and hugs.
She'd watch the TV and sit there on the couch,
While her mom fell asleep,
And her daddy went out.

And the drinking and the fighting,
Just got worse every night.
Behind their couch, she'd be hiding:
Oh, what a sad little life.

And like it always does, the bad just got worse,
With every slap,
And every curse.
Until her daddy, in a drunk rage one night,
Used a gun on her mom,
And then took his life.

And some people from the city,
Took the girl far away.
To a new mom and dad:
Kisses and hugs everyday.

Her first day of Sunday school the teacher walked in,
And a small little girl,
Stared a picture of Him.
She said I know that man up there on that cross,
I don't know His name,
But I know He got off.

'Cause he was there in my old house
And held me close to His side.
As I hid there, behind our couch,
The night that my parents died.
 
There is a song by Gladys Knight called "Neither One of Us(Wants to Be the First to Say Goodbye) and there is also one by The Temptations called Since I Lost my Baby, I think on that one the way David Ruffin just belts it out, his voice was so unique it just gives me chills!
 
With Hope by Steven Curtis Chapman

Because the first time I heard it was about a week after I lost my baby.

This is not at all how
We thought it was supposed to be
We had so many plans for you
We had so many dreams
And now you've gone away
And left us with the memories of your smile
And nothing we can say
And nothing we can do
Can take away the pain
The pain of losing you, but ...

We can cry with hope
We can say goodbye with hope
'Cause we know our goodbye is not the end, oh no
And we can grieve with hope
'Cause we believe with hope
(There's a place by God's grace)
There's a place where we'll see your face again
We'll see your face again

And never have I known
Anything so hard to understand
And never have I questioned more
The wisdom of God's plan
But through the cloud of tears
I see the Father's smile and say well done
And I imagine you
Where you wanted most to be
Seeing all your dreams come true
'Cause now you're home
And now you're free, and ...

We have this hope as an anchor
'Cause we believe that everything
God promised us is true, so ...

We wait with hope
And we ache with hope
We hold on with hope
We let go with hope
 














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