What songs make you choke up or get teary-eyed?

[tomEisenbraun]

I think there's a few songs that'll do it for everyone, whether it be a certain couple of lyrics, or just something perfect in the music.

I've never had a song make me cry, but there's a few that always choke me up in a good way. MMJ's "Golden", right at the "we'll go through tis thing together, and on Heaven's golden shores we'll lay our heads" always gets me. Also, Iron and Wine's "Each Coming Night" does it, right at "will you say to them when I'm gone, "I loved your son for his sturdy arms"?" that bit never fails to give me a lump int he throat.

And I bit of a stranger one, Steve Burns (you may or may not recognize him as the original Steve from Blues Clues - go buy the album, its awesome) he has this one song called "Stick Around" there's this bit right around 3:06 that turns my heart inside inside out. The cellos in it just perform this heart-wrenching transition, I can't even begin to describe it, but its perfect. If you're not feelign sad when you listen to it, it will make you so.

That's all I can think up right now.

So what are yours?

[EC]

A couple of nights ago I put on I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning, and I started to cry, really really hard, to Landlocked Blues, and then I couldn't stop until the record was done.  Good thing that headphones have absorbent sponges on them for such occasions.

Bermuda Highway and Golden get me pretty bad.  There are a few MMJ songs.  

I used to put on Beethoven's 9th, and lie in the middle of the floor, and it always got me really bad.  But in a happy way.  Like a releasing way.

Dark Side of the Moon was the same.  I cry when things are really good, as well as sad, or evoking a certain time in my life.  

[utonynashm]

^^^OH man...I feel so at home here! hahaha, you guys really get it and are crazy like me when it comes to music...and that's a good thing!!!

I can honestly say when I first got into MMJ every song I heard kept blowing me away and just grabbed me...

But as of now, Strangulation fucking hits me like a truck to my face while I am tied to an electric chair...

But as I said...too many songs to list here.....I love um all...

[MMJ_fanatic]

The Bear, Bermuda Highway, Golden, The Way That He Sings

[antoniostrohs]

"Medication" by Damien Jurado.Don't get too teary-eyed,but it is such a sad song.

[Chills]

Here's a selection that comes to my mind, These can really get to me but I know there are more... and lotsa MMJ! Watch out, some usual suspects here!

NEIL YOUNG
Expecting to Fly
Mellow my Mind
Motion Pictures
Tired Eyes

TOM WAITS
Invitation to the Blues
Johnsburg Illinois
Tom Traubert's Blues
Ruby's Arms
Time

JOHN CALE
Close Watch

LEONARD COHEN
Famous Blue Raincoat

BIG STAR
Nighttime
Dream Lover

IRON AND WINE
Our Endless Numbered Days

OTIS REDDING
I've been Loving You For Too Long
A Change Is Gonna Come

BEACH BOYS
Caroline No

I'm almost teary-eyed writing these down ;)
And they can all fit in the rainy day songs category, I'll call em rainy day, teary eyed songs!

[peanut butter puddin surprise]

megan you can't cry!  that's too sad... :'(

the aforementioned "golden" does it for me, i just choke all up on that one.  "the bear" also sends the tear ducts into overdrive...not to mention "come closer"...

galaxie 500's "don't let our youth go to waste"
neil young's "the needle and the damage done"
morphine's "the saddest song"

oh shit, is this not a parallel to the "rainy day songs" thread or what??

[Chills]

It seems to be, no problem for me

'Caught you knocking on my cellar door
I love you baby can I get some more?'

[EC]

megan you can't cry! Êthat's too sad... :'(

It's a GOOD cry, though!!  It's okay!  :)

[SmoothOprtr]

I don't know if I'd say I cry, but I think Hopefully MMJ, Rhiannon- Fleetwood Mac, Wish Ain't Missen You- John Waite (I love the 80s) off the top of my head are all fairly emotional songs...

[sweatboard]

As long as everybody's being honest and we are in our "safe nest".  I'll admit to crying to "Don't you Cry Tonight" by Guns and Roses.  I was in highschool and my girlfriend had just broken up with me while we were at this party, I got really drunk and that damn song kept taunting me. :'(

Other than that I cried quite a bit durning that movie "8 seconds".  I'm not sure why, but I did.

[whothrewthecake]

i really love seeing everyone's answers to this one.

mmj: the bear, steam engine, i needed it most

other: hands down, i shall be released by the band. richard manuel's voice has this crazy power to make me cry like nothing else. also, it makes no difference. especially the version from the last waltz. it's a one way ticket to no mascara town.

[EC]

oh ho ho, sweatboard, you poor little thing.  

Also, this:

it's a one way ticket to no mascara town.

is awesome.  :)

[sweatboard]

I put in the Black Crows "Amorica" tonight in honor of them playing bonnarroo.  I had been thinking of one of my co-workers because his daughter is in criticle condition after being in a horrible car accident.  Anyway, "Descending" brought a couple of tears to my eyes tonight.

[EC]

I put in the Black Crows "Amorica" tonight in honor of them playing bonnarroo.  I had been thinking of one of my co-workers because his daughter is in criticle condition after being in a horrible car accident.  Anyway, "Descending" brought a couple of tears to my eyes tonight.

Oh no!  Oh my god!!
Oh man, I hope she pulls through okay.  Wow.   :-/

[SmoothOprtr]

For whatever reason (and I am probably forever ruining my credibility on this site), the first Gin Blossoms album gets to me as well.  

[MMJ_fanatic]

credibility schmedibility ;)

[TheMadHatter]

Death is the easy way is sad,but i always choke up on O is the One that is real because it brings me back to my days of dealing smack to school children

[primushead]

Yeah, I just got Bright Eyes' new albums, and Landlocked blues is incredible.  It's the soundtrack to getting drunk and feeling sorry for yourself

[SMc55]

Mandolin Rain - Bruce Hornsby  :'(