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I was about to mention it too, but I wasn't sure since strictly speaking it's not a song. I first knew that wonderful piece when I heard it in the movie Platoon, and since then it moves me every time I listen to it.
 
Chris Bell - You and Your Sister
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A nearly perfect song. It's amazingly beautiful too. I think the 'Country' version is even better, but I can't seem to find that one on Youtube.

Tom Waits - Closing Time
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This is, in my opinion, the most beautiful instrumental ever recorded. It's perfectly arranged.
 
some songs carry a certain emotional weight that can overwhelm us. what was your first? i'm not sure but i think my first was:

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On occasion, this has been known to bring me to tears, starting with the lines "Twenty-seven people, even more/They were boys with their cars, summer jobs/Oh my God/Are you one of them?"

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Sufjan Stevens - John Wayne Gacy, Jr.
 
Again. Again. He died around a year later and I show this to everyone and bore them to death but this is what music really is to me:
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i don't mean to say that every time i hear the song it causes tears. just sometimes...

some others:

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out of sheer beauty:
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when the horn kicks in:
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the outro:
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and laughed, at himself, he thought he knew what that was...
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I don't like many Tool songs, but I love your description of how this one, Parabol, and the whole Lateralus album affected you!


I'm sorry about your dad, RVCA. That's sweet that your dad sang you and your siblings a Janis Joplin song as a lullaby.

A song that often makes me tear up is Wilco's Reservations:

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Ah, a song about dreams that don't die even when relationships and people do. So true! I'd never heard this song before. Or heard of the singer. :o:

Well, here's a super-famous song that doesn't make me cry now (*usually*), but I recall a night in my 20s when I realized I'd never be with someone I had hoped to, and I was just sobbing throughout the whole song. Sigh...sometimes it is hard to let go of the dream, isn't it, ribbons?

I'll post the youtube just in case someone even less knowledgeable about music than I is scrolling through and wonders, "John Denver, who's that?" :p:

John Denver - Annie's Song:

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And here he is singing it live...and dead. :(

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I appreciate this song very much, too. When it comes to Waits, though, there are so many more songs from him that move me much deeper than this one.
 
My dad sung this to me and my siblings as a lullaby when we were younger. He has a terminal brain disease now... this song just almost always brings me to tears and never fails to make me very sad

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The amount of country songs that reduce me to a blubbering mess is frankly erabarrassing (The Baby by Blake Shelton, Cowgirls don't cry by Brooks, Dunn and Reba, Letters from Home by John Michael Montgomery). Doesn't matter that I know what they're trying to do, and it doesn't matter that I recognize the manipulative nature of what they're trying to do, it still works on me every time.
 
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