Songs That Make Me Cry #1

There was a  recent article by James Hurley on the MSN Music website about songs that make men cry.  Worth a click through as he had the right intentions but I think he got most of the songs wrong.  I can never imagine shedding tears to True Faith or anything by Paul Weller (unless you forced me to listen to a whole album of his but that isn't the sort of crying he had in mind).

Nonetheless, it got me thinking and I thought I would expose my sensitive side over the next few Sundays with some of the songs that make me weep like a baby.  This one rarely fails to do the job.

Perhaps a bit of an obvious choice but you can't always choose the songs that get you blubbing.  They choose you.  Now you must excuse me, I need a few moments alone.

Comments

[Charlotte]

Ah, Nightswimming, what a beauty. Henceforth to be known as The Song That Makes Scott Cry.

[lance]

Lovely, lovely song.
For me it's pretty much 70% of the songs on those Rick Rubin-produced Johnny Cash Lps - praticularly 'I Hung My Head' (written by -cough- Sting!) and rather more obviously 'You Are Always On My mind' (Willy Nelson).
Both have me welling up...'Hurt' (Trent Reznor) too.

[Steerforth]

I can never listen to 'Two Little Boys' without feeling teary. Funnily enough, last week's Armstrong and Miller did a sketch in which a group of macho men on a stag night started blubbing to this song, so I'm not alone.

[Paul S]

Nightswimming . Great choice. My current vote is Chasing Cars. If you have seen some of the videos on YT (set in Iraq or Afghanistan) in which it is used, you will know what I mean.

[Marie Phillips]

I very rarely cry at songs. The last time was watching Rufus and Martha Wainwright duetting on Hallelujah in the Leonard Cohen documentary "I'm Your Man." It's not on the soundtrack album and I can't find it on YouTube, but here's them doing the same song at Glastonbury. It's unlikely to make you cry in this version, because there are too many jokes and mistakes, and Rufus is wearing a dressing gown, but even so you should get a flavour of it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12m3CRZQkHc

[Netta]

Mine has to be Snow Patrol - Set the fire to the Third Bar - it never fails and I have very fond memories of all the times I've cried listening to this!

[Drew Mishmash]

Good choice Scott - I 've often wondered why they didn't leave it as the last track on the lp.

I read a profile piece by Tim Finn a few years back where he said Nightswimming was the one song he wished he had written. Tim Finn said that...

Drew