You know it makes me want to cry, cry, cry

God I feel down today and it got me thinking what are those real tearjerkers that you just want to sit down and have a good cry to. I've been reading the lyrics to sad songs all day and this is a good one.

Landslide by Stevie Nicks....

I took my love, I took it down
Climbed a mountain and I turned around
I saw my reflection in the snow covered hills
'till the landslide brought me down

Oh, mirror in the sky
What is love
Can the child within my heart rise above
Can I sail thru the changing ocean tides
Can I handle the seasons of my life

Well, I've been afraid of changing
'cause I've built my life around you
But time makes you bolder
Children get older
I'm getting older too

Oh, take my love, take it down
Climb a mountain and turn around
If you see my reflection in the snow covered hills
Well the landslide will bring it down

If you see my reflection in the snow covered hills
Well maybe the landslide will bring it down.


Or how about this....Wonderful Life by Nick Cave (one of many the depressed man could choose!)

Come in, babe
Across these purple fields
The sun has sunk behind you
Across these purple fields
That idiot-boy in the corner
Is speaking deviated truths
Come on, admit it, babe
It's a wonderful life
If you can find it
If you can find it
If you can find it
It's a wonderful life that you bring
Ooh it's a wonderful thing

Speak our secret into your hands
And hold it in between
Plunge your hands into the water
And drown it in the sea
There will be nothing between us, baby
But the air that we breathe
Don't cry
It's a wonderful, wonderful life
If you can find it
If you can find it
If you can find it
It's a wonderful life that you bring
It's a wonderful, wonderful thing

We can build our dungeons in the air
And sit and cry the blues
We can stomp across this world
With nails hammered through our shoes
We can join that troubled chorus
Who criticise and accuse
It don't matter much
We got nothing much to lose
But this wonderful life
If you can find it
And when you find it
And when you find it
It's a wonderful life that you bring
It's a wonderful, wonderful, wonderful thing

Sometimes our secrets are all we've got
With our lives we must defend
Sometimes the air between us, babe
Is unbearably thin
Sometimes it's wise to lay down your gloves
And just give in
Come in, come in
Come in, come in
To this wonderful life
If you can find it
And if you find it
It's a wonderful life that you bring
It's a wonderful, wonderful thing
It's a wonderful life
It's a wonderful life

 

Can't think of any songs that directly make me feel like crying. Maybe a few which remind me of times/people/places which might cause a bit of welling up if heard in the right situation.

However, cheer up mate

 

the album Judges Juries and Horsemen by the The Weather Prophets is a sad one for me - I used to play this when I broke up with my first love (around when the album first came out circa 1987)...I got dumped of course...I recently bought this on cd quite cheap and it still makes me feel sad - tho, I don't have any feeling for that lass I was seeing at the time!

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos...8-2/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i2_xgl/026-6280082-2062061

 

Any album by Leonard Cohen will drive me to the bottle if not actual tears - and oh yeah how about say it softly Don Williams aaaahhhh get the tissues

 

Nelly the elephant paps her trunk,
And says goodbye to the circus,
Off she goes with a Trumpety Trump,
Trump, Trump, Trump.