Songs that make you cry

Pet Shop Boys, Being Boring

By the time we get to the third verse, I’m a weeping mess (I never dreamt that I would get to be the creature that I always meant to be, but I thought, in spite of dreams, you'd be sitting somewhere here with me)

A couple Bruce Hornsby songs of late but Song C got me real good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTiMCE8Z32A

Anchorage by Michelle Shocked

map, “shine a light” doesn’t make me cry but it does make my heart feel bigger. same with “let it loose”

last song to make me well up was probably “this is the sea” by the waterboys. zevon’s “desperados under the eaves” got to me a few days ago too

The 6ths - Just Like a Movie Star

As You Turn To Go will do it for me

sometimes it feels more like tears of gratitude than tears of grief. Like I'm crying that such a beautiful song exists or something.

YES, I dig it.

This sort of thing happens to me so often since I last had neurosurgery that I could probably almost eschew music that doesn't elicit such observable physiological responses lol. Endless songs, many already mentioned, but it's the ability of wordless music to do it that endlessly amazes me.

eg.
Messiaen - 5th movement of Quator pour la fin du Temps
Love Unlimited Orchestra - Love's Theme
Janko Nilovic - Pop Avenue (HEAPS of corny/manipulative library music c.1972 really - those cats knew what they were doing)
Andrew Wasylyk - Last Sunbeams of Childhood
Ravel - 2nd movement of Piano Concerto in G
Piero Umiliani - almost the entire soundtrack of La ragazza fuoristrada fercrissakes
Aphex Twin - Mookid/Alberto Balsalm sequence
Donald Byrd - Lansana's Priestess

There's several that make me tear up, the one that gets me going more than any other is Wyatt's Sea Song

there are a few songs that make me cry in grief and pain on sade's soldier of love, like absolutely bawling. for such a smooth and immaculate recording artist, that is a seriously harrowing album.

Messiaen - 5th movement of Quator pour la fin du Temps

is this the cello one?

Cello and piano, yep!
Also apologies to the French for mangling spelling.

I was just on a car drive with an early 00s Low soundtrack going and pretty much every Mimi lead had me misty-eyed.