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Songs that make you teary eyed.


Cats In The Cradle - Harry Chapin

https://youtu.be/7OqwKfgLaeA

It gets me every time, daft bugger that I am.

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My Hometown

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6LABdHtkUA

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I’ve been lucky enough never to have lived in an area that’s been affected the way this song eludes to. Love the Boss, haven’t seen him live yet.

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it is a sad song. my hometown was much more peaceful the Bruce's

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The live version of Candle In The Wind. Never been a huge Elton fan, not that I don't admire and enjoy his work. Just a little too commercial for me. But when I first heard the live solo recording of Candle, it really hit me how heart felt and unusual it was, to write a love song to Norma Jean.
I would have liked to have known you, but I was just a kid. Your candle burned out long before your legend ever did.

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I’m a massive Elton John fan. Have a listen to his really early stuff from around 1970, just before he became really famous - not as commercial, but quite classy.

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Mike and the Mechanics / The Living Years
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hr64MxYpgk

Zac Brown Band / My Old Man
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_uGcW-v5EI

Probably because both are about the relationships between fathers and sons... I never had a great relationship with my father and I kinda f**ked up with one of my own sons.

Not quite the same thing but many of Hans Zimmer's mournful soundtracks make me weepy...

The Thin Red Line
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TG9-j3eevL4

The Last Samurai--A Small Measure of Piece
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OPDjcZdEEw


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The Living Years is such a powerful song. Never heard of the Zac Brown Band, so thanks for introducing them to me.

I understand the father son thing - my own father left me when I was a baby.

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Close to You by Karen Carpenter. That song was sung at my father's funeral and every time I hear that song, I burst into tears. It gets me every time... :(

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And now I feel sad too.

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Just hearing her voice, regardless of song, is very likely going to make me squirt.

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This being Memorial Day weekend, I've got to go with ...
Bruce Springsteen: The Wall - https://youtu.be/GR7liJUaZ3A

As I previously stated on hownos' 3 Favorite Springsteen Songs thread, two of my childhood friends' names are carved on that wall.
Thus this song (and video) gets me every time.

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I’ve recently been working through my Springsteen collection and was listening to this the other day.

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Linda Ronstadt - Long long time, try me again

Adele - All I Ask, One and only

Poison - Every rose has it's thorn

Jim Croce - Operator

Ambrosia - How much I feel

Little River Band - Lonesome loser

Def Leppard - Two steps behind

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Some great picks.

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Ronstadt has a lot of heartbreaking songs. Lose Again and Someone to Lay Down Beside Me (both written by Karla Bonoff) bookend the 1976 album Hasten Down The Wind. And while getting my facts straight, I was reminded of another --
"Some say the Heart is just Like A Wheel -- once you bend it, you can't mend it," etc.

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Alone Again Naturally - Gilbert O’ Sullivan: -
https://youtu.be/D_P-v1BVQn8

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