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 travelgirl wrote:   Dance with my Father by Luther Vandross (which is ironic because I have never danced with my father-not even at my wedding-my dad's just not a dancer-type)...
                                                                         
Ditto someabout this song that gets me everytime, I think it  has to do with loosing a father

*Johnny Mathis The twelfth of never, Tracy Byrd Keeper of the stars,they were sang at our wedding 


I know there is more but I don't want to start crying b/c I would not stop for a while

Konstantine by Something Corporate. I know I sound like a 13-year-old. But it is such a sad song and I have emotions all tied up in it from my high school boyfriend. Obviously it's been eons since him and I don't cry for missing him, but I really loved him and I think just remembering how amazing love was for the first time, and how much our break-up hurt me (I think that was the hardest thing I've ever done)...it gets me every time!

"Baby" by Joe Nichols. I'm perfectly okay until he says the line "I got a call in Alabama, said to come on home to Louisianna, and come as fast as you can fly". It's just that one line that is like a switch. It turns me into a big blubbery mess

I don't cry every single time, but there are a couple songs by Meat Loaf that can get me going if I'm already kind of emotional. I know that sounds corny, but I just love him and some of his ballads get me in a way that nothing else can.

and "Leave" by Matchbox 20. There are more, but these are the ones that I think of first.

ETA: "Only Time" by Enya. I never really cared for it, but at a good friend's visitation they had a slide show of him on TV and just had like three songs looping. That's the only one I remember. Whenever I hear it I can't help but tear up.

-- Edited by ttara123 at 22:52, 2007-02-08

I run for Life by Melissa Ethridge ( I actually burst into tears in the middle of a spin class when this song came on)
Desperado by Eagles (reminds me of my first love and us listening to it over and over again in his bedroom)
I want love by Elton John
You raise me up by Josh Groban this song is amazing and it just moves me to tears every time I hear it. Alot of his songs do just becuase his voice is so spiritual.

Collette- I feel you on the Josh Groban.  We have these "sophisticated"/wine drinking/coaster using/take your shoes off at the door friends who always play that when we go over and i feel like i'm going to burst out into tears when i'm eating my mini quiches using perfectly pressed linen napkins. 

the only one that i can think of is "wind beneath my wings" because that was song that my dad and i danced to at the father/daughter senior dance before he got sick.  i also remember watching beaches with my grandma when she was undergoing dialysis at home.  so for me that song reminds me of people i love, how sad the movie beaches is, and how unfair life can be....

This is all highly embarrassing:

Dear Mama by Tupac
Nightshift by the Commodores
Appalachian Memories and actually a lot of other songs by Dolly Parton
Long Road - Eddie Vedder from the Dead Man Walking soundtrack
My Mom by Chocolate Genius
Nobody Knows Me by Lyle Lovett (this is really shameful because I get so choked up because it reminds me of the episode of 90210 where Dylan's new bride is killed-it was played in the scene where he is crying and hugging her wedding dress)
Sometimes You Can't Make it on Your Own by U2
And lots of country music. I grew up listening to it because of my parents. Two that come to mind:
Go Rest High on That Mountain by Vince Gill
Remember When by Alan Jackson - I first heard this song as I was fast approaching the end of my twenties and it struck a nerve.

ETA: Baby Mine from Dumbo. In the early nineties Bonnie Raitt covered it for an album of contemporary artists doing music from Disney. Heart wrenching!

-- Edited by boobaby at 20:47, 2007-02-08

The First Day of My Life by Bright Eyes

Good Mother by Jann Arden

I'm a wreck in the car on long drives. I couldn't cry if a friend was crying in front of me but give me a cheesy ballad/musical/country song? I'm bawling.

Tiny Dancer - Elton John
Both Sides Now - Joni Mitchell
I'll Fly Away - pretty much any version
Winter - Tori Amos
One Day I'll Fly Away - Moulin Rouge/Nicole Kidman (oddly)


Then there's this country song that I can never remember until I hear it. It's something about "don't give up on me/I'll be there when my chores are through" or something like that. It gets me every time.

Moon River by Harry Mancini - it is cheesy, but it was our first dance at our wedding.  Plus, whenever breakfast at tiffany's would be on TV when we were little, my dad would sing it in a fake awful voice to make us laugh!

It's a Wonderful World - Louis Armstrong- happy tears - but it does make me a little weepy.

Everybody Hurts - REM - because sometimes you just need to wallow in depression!

For some odd reason - Christmas carols make me a little weepy and sad that I'm not little anymore. 

A lot of the music from Puccini's Madama Butterfly and Turandot - especially when butterfly knows she has been abandoned. 

i can't make you love me - bonnie raitt   i love me some bonnie, but i simply cannot get through that song, even though i think it's beautiful

let him fly - patty griffin

puff the magic dragon - peter paul and mary