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The Unofficial 'Tearjerker Songs Here' Thread

Hmm...didn't we already have a thread like this? Anyways, Space Doggity is pretty damn depressing if you know about Laika. I seriously tried to hold back the tears the first time I heard it, but it didn't work. I still get a tad choked up listening to it. Also, it is the first song that has ever made me cry.
 
The NIN version is sad, but the Johnny Cash cover of Hurt is just plain painful...in a good way.

Then there's Coldplay's Fix You, more of a tearjerker in a happy way, but yeah.

This one's kind of cheating, since a lot of it goes with the video but GOD DAMN SARAH MCLACHLAN AND THIS COMMERCIAL. This is the exact reason I don't watch Animal Planet past 12AM.

Do not ask how I Don't Want to Live on the Moon from Sesame Street is a tearjerker. Its power is inexplicable and absolute. And here's a very lovely instrumental, too.

Ai no Uta from the Japanese Pikmin commercials. It's not that sad...until you read the translated lyrics.

Finally, for Male Gardevoir or any other Mother fans in the audience, This is for you.
 
Lose You-Pete Yorn.

I've always cried because of this song, at times. But damn, now everytime I hear this, I will not be able to stop crying, ever since that epi of House last week. Damnit, Kutner. Why did you have to kill yourseeelf D': And with a gun to the head, no less...;.;
 
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My First Friend was sad, Skymin. I didn't cry, but I do feel sad.

EDIT: I just realized that it would fit perfectly(well, almost perfectly) with scenes from Episode 15(12 of the english dub) of Kirby of the Stars. Kirby gets a pet dog that was supposed to blow him up, but they grew attached so he jumps away from Kirby at the last moment. I nearly cried watching that.
 
Skymin said:
The NIN version is sad, but the Johnny Cash cover of Hurt is just plain painful...in a good way.
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the NIN version is loads better. though I think it's totally badass that Johnny Cash is a) willing to cover a song by a industrial band whose lyrics consist of stuff like "i want to fuck you like an animal, I want to feel you from the inside" or "god is dead and no one cares, if there is a hell I'll see you there" or "shoot! shoot! shoot! shoot! I am gonna cum all over you" etc. b) and he actually make his cover both faithful to and unique from the original. it really shows you how music can touch so many people in different ways, I guess.

anyway, the only song that really makes me want to cry is Blackout by Muse. I really have no idea why, it's not even that good of a song but for some reason it makes me kind of sad. *shrug*
 
names, by cat power. or metal heart by cat power (live version). or colors and the kids by cat power again.

cat power has a very emotive voice.
 
This. The subs are a little shoddy, but... with the visuals, that can be excused. It's just sweet and touching and horribly, horribly sad all at once. Especially touching when you realize that at 2:17-2:35,
she's looking at pictures of the Scientist's dead daughter who the Robot was modeled after...
Not to mention, earlier on, we gain insight into just how lonely the Scientist was- no one was around who cared about him enough to properly take care of his remains when he died- he just stayed in his chair for the next few centuries. The only one who ever seems to care about him after that, the Robot, is probably unaware that when a person dies, they need to be taken care of somehow. Either that, or I've been watching this video too much.
 
Most of the songs that make me really sad aren't inherently depressing but hold special meaning to me - Everybody Hurts by R.E.M., The Living Years by Mike and the Mechanics and even Ronan Keating's Life is a Rollercoaster fall into this category.

Aeris' Theme and Bright Eyes by Simon and Garfunkel (from Watership Down) used to make me cry when I was little.

I'll Cover You (Reprise) from Rent and For Good from Wicked make me terribly, terribly sad, especially when they're being performedin front of me ):

BNL's War on Drugs is hauntingly sad ("Out of town there's a viaduct/where people go when they're out of luck"). A lot of BNL's songs are very depressing, actually, but most of them don't sound sad (see: Fun and Games or Tonight is the Night I Fell Asleep at the Wheel), so they don't affect me as much.

And recently Wherever You Will Go by The Calling makes me really sad; it's a bit pathetic, but I really associate it with Willow and Tara from Buffy for some reason and... sad things! ;~;
 
This one made me cry once, and it make me feel like a wuss... I don't even know the translated lyrics (lolfail, self) but it just so... sad sounding.

(and this one will probably just be me and anyone who knows about what happened to Nina in the FMA anime will find this sad. It probably doesn't count since the video is what makes it so heartbreaking, but... The smile that Ed gives at the end... ; ; so sad...)
 
"Goodnight, Travel Well" by The Killers. It's just... Pain. And sadness. Just... listen to it.

The Worst Part:
"Everything you loved and every time you try,
Everybody's watching, everybody cry.
Stay.
Don't. Leave. Me!
The stars can wait for your sign,
Don't signal now!"
 
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