What specific song lyrics make you cry and why?

[Kaycee]

Ok another country song--- Patti Loveless "How Can I Help You Say Goodbye"

Always makes me think of my grandmother when she was sick and dying. I miss her.

Me too, and for the same reason. My grandmother raised me, and the first time I heard this song I was driving from South Carolina to Kentucky to see her for the last time before she died. I miss her so much.

 

[Stacey2grls]

There are alot of songs that can make me cry.

1 Ava Maria (from my mothers funeral)

2 Baby mine from Dumbo (if you have kids you will understand)

3 In my life (so sad)

4 Proud to be an American (has killed me everytime I hear it)

5 In my daughters eyes ( I have 2 daughters)

6 One Small voice from Kenny Loggins My daughter and her class did sign language to this song at her pre k graduation ( thought I needed a mop for my face!)

 

[slo]

When You Wish Upon A Star

This song makes me cry almost everytime because I believe that it is the anthem to my life. There have been many down times in the past and this song would always make me feel like there was a light at the end of the tunnel. Now I don't have many down times, but there are things I still wish for all the time and this song makes me feel that these things are attainable.

I love this song so much that my DH and my mother both know that when I die, which better not be soon, I want this song played at my wake/funeral. Many people will probably think that this is corny, but I don't care - everyone knows that this is my song

 

[tiggersmom2]

Leader of the Band by Dan Fogelberg always reduces me to tears. It reminds me so much of my father.


An only child
Alone and wild
A cabinet maker’s son
His hands were meant
For different work
And his heart was known
To none --
He left his home
And went his lone
And solitary way
And he gave to me
A gift I know I never
Can repay

A quiet man of music
Denied a simpler fate
He tried to be a soldier once
But his music wouldn’t wait
He earned his love
Through discipline
A thundering, velvet hand
His gentle means of sculpting souls
Took me years to understand.

The leader of the band is tired
And his eyes are growing old
But his blood runs through
My instrument
And his song is in my soul --
My life has been a poor attempt
To imitate the man
I’m just a living legacy
To the leader of the band.

My brothers’ lives were
Different
For they heard another call
One went to chicago
And the other to st. paul
And I’m in colorado
When I’m not in some hotel
Living out this life I’ve chose
And come to know so well.

I thank you for the music
And your stories of the road
I thank you for the freedom
When it came my time to go --
I thank you for the kindness
And the times when you got tough
And, pap, I don’t think i
Said ’i love you’ near enough --

The leader of the band is tired
And his eyes are growing old
But his blood runs through
My instrument
And his song is in my soul --
My life has been a poor attempt
To imitate the man
I’m just a living legacy
To the leader of the band
I am the living legacy
To the leader of the band.
dan fogelberg lyrics

 

[jbird327]

Romeo and Juliet by Dire Straits (Mark Knopfler)

 

[b&j's_mom]

Hi,

I can't quote specifics, but there are two songs I can think of that make me cry.

One is "Hushabye". I've never heard the Mystics' 1959 original version, but the Beach Boys covered it on their 1965 album *All Summer Long*. I bought the Capitol Records "two-fer" cd, on which the album *All Summer Long* is paired with *Little Deuce Coupe*, a few days after my mom died. When I heard, "Hushabye, hushabye/Little darlin' don't you cry,/Guardian angels up above,/Help protect the one I love", I completely lost it.

Also, "Last Kiss". I don't know who originally recorded this song about a boy whose girlfriend dies in a car accident, but it really gets me. I know Pearl Jam covered it.

Jim

"Last Kiss" really gets me, too. It was originally recorded by J. Frank Wilson & The Cavaliers in 1964.

 

[C.Ann]

"Remember When" by Alan Jackson
----

" Probably Wouldn't Be This Way" by Leann Rimes

Got a date a week from Friday with a preacher's son
Everybody says he's crazy
I'll have to wait and see

I finally moved to Jackson when the summer came
I won't have to pay that boy to rake my leaves

I'm probably going on and on
It seems I'm doing more of that these days

[CHORUS 1:]
I probably wouldn't be this way
I probably wouldn't hurt so bad
I never pictured every minute without you in it
Oh You left so fast
Sometimes I see you standing there
Sometimes it's like I'm losing touch
Sometimes I feel like I'm so lucky to have had the chance to
love this much
God gave me a moment's grace
'Cause if I'd never seen your face
I probably wouldn't be this way

Mama says that I just shouldn't speak to you
Susan says that I should just move on

You oughta see the way these people look at me
When they see me 'round here talking to this stone

Everybody thinks I've lost my mind
But I just take it day by day

[CHORUS 2:]
I probably wouldn't be this way
I probably wouldn't hurt so bad
I never pictured every minute without you in it
Oh You left so fast
Sometimes I see you standing there
Sometimes I feel an angel's touch
Sometimes I feel like I'm so lucky to have had the chance to
love this much
God gave me a moment's grace
'Cause if I'd never seen your face
I probably wouldn't be this way

Probably wouldn't be this way

Got A Date a week from Friday with a preacher's son
Everybody says I'm crazy
I'll have to wait and see

-----Both of these remind me of my DH and how much I miss him.. I still can't listen to them - have to turn the radio off as soon as they come on..

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Also:

"Let There Be Peace On Earth"

"Where Were You When The World Stopped Turning"

"Little Girl"

"I Hope You Dance" (the last words my DD's best friend said to her before she slipped into a coma and died 2 years ago..)

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I really can't listen to very much music these days.. Still too emotional, I guess..

 

[KristiKelly]

I thought of more:

"You Raise Me Up" by Josh Groban - DS's 2nd grade class sang this last Mother's Day, they sang it acappella, it was so sweet.

"God Bless All the Little Children" - DD5 danced to this in her ballet recital last Spring, I had to be on stage with her and pregnant with our 3rd child. DH couldn't even video it because he was so teary. Fortunately I had heard the song 100 times and was able to keep it together.

"Remember When" Alan Jackson
"Butterfly Kisses"

Also, "I Miss My Friend" but not for the reason most others might cry. I heard this song the day we had to have our dog put to sleep. Now everytime I hear that song, it reminds me of Ike.

 

[reddixie]

ya'll named most of mine. I only have 2 that I can think of:

Me and Little Andy by Dolly Parton

Last verse:
She was just a little girl, not more than six or seven
But that night as they slept the angels took them both to heaven
God knew little andy would be lonesome with her gone
Now sandy and her puppy dog won’t ever be alone

Ain’t ya got no gingerbread
Ain’t ya got no candy
Ain’t ya got an extra bed for me and little (whispers) andy

2nd one Sammy Kershaw
Politcs, Religion, and Her

Abuse and death of a loved one gets me every time. I can't listen to Believe Diamond Rio, or Imagine by Mercy Me both played at funerals and I just leave if I am in the grocery store. Hopefully I will move past this as I love both songs.

 

[crazee4mickey]

The one I sit and cry over is....

Song: Baby Mine
Artist: Allison Krauss
Reason:I think it is originally from "Dumbo" and there used to be a video they would show on the Disney channel which fit perfectly with my reason for the tears .
The reason it makes me cry is that my oldest son had such a difficult time in school with a group who played hockey and made him(and any other student who didn't play hockey) feel worthless--if you don't play hockey you are dirt in this town.
They made every day of his life in school miserable...this song tears me up because if they would have just taken the time and "really" knew him they'd realize just how wonderful he is. The funny thing is, he played hockey with these kids and was their friend until grade 5 and then he quit---after that they acted like they didn't even know him.
As it turned out, his last year in high school, one of the girls of this group did take the time to know him and they are so happy together--her words to me were "I'm so glad I didn't listen to them and took the time to get to know him on my own because now I know how wonderful he really is"....

Baby mine don't you cry
Baby mine dry your eyes
Rest your head close to my heart, never to part
Baby of Mine

Little one when you play
Don't you mind what they say
Let those eyes that sparkle and shine
Never a tear
Baby of mine

If they knew sweet little you
They'd end up loving you too
All those same people who scold you
What they'd give just for the right to hold you
From your head, down to your toes
You're not much goodness knows
But you're so precious to me, sweet as can be
Baby of mine
Here's a pic of my DS and GF at graduation.....

 

[manhattan]

Forever and Ever by Pooh and Christopher Robin....I was away from my kids and hearing that song would make my heart hurt so bad.

A few Christmas Carols sung by young children at church....the first Christmas after 9/11 all I could think about was all the parents who would not be there to see their child.

 

[nhrenee]

Don't Laugh at Me
I'm a little boy with glasses, the one they call a geek
a little girl who never smiles cuz I got braces on my teeth
and I know how it feels to cry myself to sleep

I'm that kid on every playground who is always chosen last
a single teenage mother tryin to overcome her past
You don't have to be my friend if it's too much to ask

Don't laugh at me, don't call me names
Don't get your pleasure from my pain
In God's eyes we're all the same
some day we'll all have perfect Wings
Don't laugh at me

I'm a cripple on the corner
You pass me on the street
I wouldn't be out here begging if I had enough to eat
and don't think I don't notice that our eyes never meet

I lost my wife and little boy somewhere down that yellow line
The day we laid 'em in the ground was the day I lost my mind
Right now I'm down to holdin this little cardboard sign

Don't laugh at me, Don't call me names
Don't get your pleasure from my pain
In God's eyes we're all the same
Someday we'll all have perfect wings
Don't laugh at me

I'm Fat, I'm thin..I'm Short, I'm tall..I'm deaf.. I'm blind
Hey aren't we all
Don't laugh at me...... Don't call me names
Don't get your pleasure from my pain
In God's eyes we're all the same
Someday we'll all have perfect wings
Don't laugh at me

written by
Allen Shamblin & Steve Seskin, and
recorded by Mark Wills

 

[Mykelogan]

Wow, all the great stories in this thread have me teary eyed at work!

For me, it is many songs but as of late it is the song "For Good" from the Broadway musical "Wicked". It is about two friends who have chosen different paths in life but acknolwedge the impact they had on each other. It makes me teary because it soooo fits the student group that I had the year it came out. They started as best friends in our Resident Assistant position and over the three years they were RAs grew very very far apart. At graduation time i wanted them to remember the good that brought them to where there were that day so in our staff end of the year slide show I used this song when I did a four year retrospective for them. Let's just say a lots of tears and hugging occurred. I still get teary now when I hear it. Here are some of the lyrics... (Hope no one has posted them as i have not read every page yet! hehe)

"ELPHABA
It well may be
That we will never meet again
In this lifetime
So let me say before we part
So much of me
Is made of what I learned from you
You'll be with me
Like a handprint on my heart
And now whatever way our stories end
I know you have re-written mine
By being my friend:
Like a ship blown from its mooring
By a wind off the sea
Like a seed dropped by a skybird
In a distant wood
Who can say if I've been changed for the better?
But because I knew you:

GLINDA
Because I knew you:

BOTH
I have been changed for good

ELPHABA
And just to clear the air
I ask forgiveness
For the things I've done you blame me for

GLINDA
But then, I guess we know
There's blame to share

BOTH
And none of it seems to matter anymore

GLINDA ELPHABA
Like a comet pulled Like a ship blown
From orbit as it Off it's mooring
Passes a sun, like By a wind off the
A stream that meets Sea, like a seed
A boulder, half-way Dropped by a
Through the wood Bird in the wood

BOTH
Who can say if I've been changed for the better?
I do believe I have been changed for the better?

GLINDA
And because I knew you:
ELPHABA
Because I knew you:

BOTH
Because I knew you:
I have been changed for good."

 

[JVL1018]

One is cheesy-All Out of Love by Air Supply
"I'm all out of love, I'm so lost without you"
Just because it makes me think of my Mom.

Another is by Tim McGraw, it's Don't Take the Girl:
Johnny’s daddy was taking him fishin’
When he was eight years old
A little girl came through the front gate holdin’ a fishing pole
His dad looked down and smiled, said we can’t leave her behind
Son I know you don’t want her to go but someday you’ll change your mind
And johnny said take jimmy johnson, take tommy thompson, take my best friend bo
Take anybody that you want as long as she don’t go
Take any boy in the world
Daddy please don’t take the girl

Same old boy
Same sweet girl
Ten years down the road
He held her tight and kissed her lips
In front of the picture show
Stranger came and pulled a gun
Grabbed her by the arm said if you do what I tell you to, there won’t be any harm
And johnny said take my money, take my wallet, take my credit cards
Here’s the watch that my grandpa gave me
Here’s the key to my car
Mister give it a whirl
But please don’t take the girl

Same old boy
Same sweet girl
Five years down the road
There’s going to be a little one and she says it’s time to go
Doctor says the baby’s fine but you’ll have to leave
’cause his momma’s fading fast and johnny hit his knees and there he prayed
Take the very breath you gave me
Take the heart from my chest
I’ll gladly take her place if you’ll let me
Make this my last request
Take me out of this world
God, please don’t take the girl

Johnny’s daddy
Was taking him fishin’
When he was eight years old
And finally,
I Knew I Loved You by Savage Garden--I had a miscarriage before my daughter was born, and this song came out while I was pregnant with her, and it was exactly how I felt about her-I loved her before I met her, I dreamed so much for her..and then there she was.
I knew I loved you before I met you
I think I dreamed you into life
I knew I loved you before I met you
I have been waiting all my life

There's just no rhyme or reason
only this sense of completion
and in your eyes
I see the missing pieces
I'm searching for
I think I found my way home
I know that it might sound more than
a little crazy but I believe

[repeat chorus]

A thousand angels dance around you
I am complete now that I found you

 

[pkasbohm]

Kenny Chesney's song Who'd you be today gets me because a little 3 year old boy I did daycare for died in a house fire about a month and a half ago. Everytime I hear this song I cry my eyes out..he is missed!



Sunny days seem to hurt the most
Wear the pain like a heavy coat
I feel you everywhere I go
See your smile, I see your face
I hear you laughing in the rain
Still can't believe your gone

(Chorus
It ain't fair you died to young
Like a story that had just begun
But death tore the pages all away
God knows how I miss you
All the hell that I've been through
Just knowing, no one could take your place
Sometimes I wonder, who you'd be today

Would you see the world
Would you chase your dreams
Settle down with a family
I wonder what would you name your babies
Someday's the sky's so blue
I feel like I can talk to you
And I know it might sound crazy

(Chorus)

Today [3x]
Today [3x]

Sunny days seem to hurt the most
I wear the pain like a heavy coat
The only thing that gives me hope
Is I know, I'll see you again someday

Someday, someday

se a little 3 year old boy I did daycare for died in a house fire about a month and a half ago. Everytime I hear this song I cry my eyes out..he is missed!

 

[andromedaslove]

There are two that are impossible form e to get through without bawling. One is Wishes, and the other is a country song by Cherie Austin called "streets of heaven". On July 21st, 2003 my second son was born still. He had a birth defect that was "incompatible with life". I had already planned his first trip to WDW, it was a huge family trip for 10 of us, so instead of cancelling we went anyway. I thought of him the entire time we were there, but when we saw Wishes for the first time I couldn't stop thinking of him and couldn't stop crying. Everytime we see Wishes at the Magic Kingdom my DH and I both break down. The other one makes me think of my son in Heaven, and the hardest part is when she says "God have mercy, you lost a son once too".

Streets Of Heaven
(Lyrics)
Artist: Sherrie Austin


Hello God, it's me again. 2:00 a.m., Room 304.
Visiting hours are over, time for our bedside tug of war.
This sleeping child between us may not make it through the night.
I'm fighting back the tears as she fights for her life.
Well, it must be kind of crowded,
On the streets of Heaven.
So tell me: what do you need her for?
Don't you know one day she'll be your little girl forever.
But right now I need her so much more.
She's much too young to be on her own;
Barely just turned seven.
So who will hold her hand when she crosses the streets of Heaven?

Tell me God, do you remember the wishes that she made,
As she blew out the candles on her last birthday cake?
She wants to ride a pony when she's big enough.
She wants to marry her Daddy when she's all grown up.

Well, it must be kind of crowded,
On the streets of Heaven.
So tell me: what do you need her for?
Don't you know one day she'll be your little girl forever.
But right now I need her so much more.
She's much too young to be on her own;
Barely just turned seven.
So who will hold her hand when she crosses the streets of Heaven?

Lord, don't you know she's my angel
You got plenty of your own
And I know you hold a place for her
But she's already got a home
Well I don't know if you're listenin'
But praying is all that's left to do
So I ask you Lord have mercy, you lost a son once too

And it must be kind of crowded,
On the streets of Heaven.
So tell me: what do you need her for?
Don't you know one day she'll be your little girl forever.
But right now I need her so much more.
Lord, I know once you've made up your mind,
There's no use in beggin'.
So if you take her with you today, will you make sure she looks both ways,
And would you hold her hand when she crosses the streets of Heaven.

The streets of Heaven.

 

[WDWFAN9]

Who You'd Be Today - Kenny Chesney

Sunny days seem to hurt the most
Wear the pain like a heavy coat
I feel you everywhere I go
See your smile, I see your face
I hear you laughing in the rain
Still can't believe your gone

(Chorus
It ain't fair you died to young
Like a story that had just begun
But death tore the pages all away
God knows how I miss you
All the hell that I've been through
Just knowing, no one could take your place
Sometimes I wonder, who you'd be today

Would you see the world
Would you chase your dreams
Settle down with a family
I wonder what would you name your babies
Someday's the sky's so blue
I feel like I can talk to you
And I know it might sound crazy

(Chorus)

Today [3x]
Today [3x]

Sunny days seem to hurt the most
I wear the pain like a heavy coat
The only thing that gives me hope
Is I know, I'll see you again someday

Three years ago my DN was killed in a car accident, and this song eloquently says everything our family feels. A dear life taken too soon, and never to be forgotten. Robbie will always be in our hearts.....

 

[HOGFAN]

Breath of Heaven-Amy Grant

My Immortal

Little Rock-Collin Raye

That song by Van Morrison at the end of "Nine Months"

This Womans Work

O Holy Night

 

[HOGFAN]

Another one:


Blessed Assurance by Travis Tritt Beautiful

 

[krcit]

waaaaahhhh, just reading this thread has me in tears. I was going to post the song "Don't Laugh at Me" My dd's teacher played it when I was in the classroom the other day and I was in instant tears. Another one that gets me right away is 'sunshine on my Shoulders' by John Denver. Makes me think of my Dad who died 15 years ago.