I noticed, after I posted it, that the link I listed was a truncated version, with the whole of the 3rd verse excised (for time constraints, no doubt). Here is the full length version ...whenever I get to this part:

Caught in my fears
Blinking back the tears
I can't say you hurt me when you never let me near

Cause I've done everything I know to try and make you mine
And I think it's gonna hurt me for a long long time

I find it impossible not to blink back a few tears of my own...

True that be :boohoo: Saddest, sappiest, most heart-wrenching tear jerker of them all.

Well... 'cept for maybe Bill Monroe's .? nah . too country.

it's the happier songs that bring a tear. like wonderful world.

and yes, sometimes the us national anthem.

Yes, we Aussies cried every time it was played at the pool events in Beijing. LOL

pmpl-lol

Just thought of another song that does it for me - John Lennon's "Beautiful Boy"...of course, the event of his death so soon after recording it adds another layer of sadness in of itself, but even without that, it's a poignant, lovely song. I became a dad for the first time a couple of years after it came out, & watching my own "beautiful boy" grow & learn made me think of those words every day.

"Before you cross the street, hold my hand,
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans"

Excuse me...no,no, it's alright, just...something in my eye, that's all... :tear:

This is heartbreaking...
 

Battle of the Beanfield

I thought I heard something calling me
I've seen the pictures on TV
And I made up my mind that I'd go and see
With my own eyes

It didn't take too long to hitch a ride
With a guy going south to start a new life
Past the place where my friend died
Two years ago

Down the 303 at the end of the road
Flashing lights - exclusion zones
And it made me think it's not just the stones
That they're guarding

Hey, hey, now can't you see
There's nothing here that you can call free
They're getting their kicks
They're laughing at you and me

As the sun rose on the beanfield
They came like wolf on the fold
And no, they didn't give a warning
They took their bloody toll

I seen a pregnant woman
Lying in blood of her own
I seen her children crying
As the police tore apart their home

And no they didn't need a reason
It's what your votes condone
It seems they were committing treason
By trying to live on the road

And I say,
Hey, hey, now can't you see
There's nothing here that you can call free
They're getting their kicks
They're laughing at you and me

Hey, hey, now can't you see
There's nothing here that you can call free
They're getting their kicks
They're laughing at you and me

Bastards

Remember what you heard

Hey, hey, now can't you see
There's nothing here that you can call free
They're getting their kicks
They're laughing at you and me

I get choked up every single time I sing it.

I have to agree with this one.... with wet eyes.

Eva Cassidy singing Autumn Leaves Her singing is beautiful and she does this one with a haunting sadness that does it for me.

Another one is Israel Kamakawiwo'ole singing Over the Rainbow/What a Wonderful World...yup

It got to me for real. Thank you Salacious.




Here is something for our contemplating and supplication.
Turn your volume way UP, as These strings pull the heart out, tie it in a knot and squeeze for every last teardrop.
_ Feel _ the _ climax _ to _ anti _ climax _ and _ into _ repose _ @ _ 07:04s.0. :teleport:
Then relax, after you dispose of the tissues and get some more dry ones, crank the volume much higher yet for this Choral version of Agnus Dei (same composition, but it is) sung to the theme of Samuel Barbers Adagio for strings. Performed by The Choir of Trinity. :boohoo:

Someday Never Comes ~ CCR

Except I'd count myself lucky if my Dad had been around long enough to tell me that someday I'd understand.

I've always found the haunting sadness of Janis Ian's At Seventeen touches me deeply.

Cat's in the Cradle by Harry Chapin. I don't cry, but it does hit the heart.

He Didn't Have To Be by Brad Paisley :boohoo: :bfly:

Beautiful, beautiful song and a real tearjerker :nod: I thought I'd nearly managed to watch it without crying, but it got me again just now :o

A Blossom Fell ~~ by Nat King Cole

A blossom fell from off a tree
It settled softly on the lips you turned to me
The gypsies say and I know why
"A falling blossom only touches lips that lie"

A blossom fell and very soon
I saw you kissing someone new beneath the moon
I thought you loved me, you said you loved me
We planned together to dream forever
The dream has ended, for true love died
The night a blossom fell and touched two lips that lied

A blossom fell and very soon
I saw you kissing someone new beneath the moon
I thought you loved me, you said you loved me
We planned together to dream forever
The dream has ended, for true love died
The night a blossom fell and touched two lips that lied