what's a cheezy song that makes you cry?

[no name no slogan]

for me it has to be "Daisy Jane" by America-- some combination of the lyrics and the chord progression. However, I am a sucker for Major 7th chords.

Flyin' me back to Memphis
Gotta find my Daisy Jane
Well the summer's gonne
And I hope she's feelin' the same
Well I left her just to roam the city
Thinkin' it would easy the pain
I'm a crazy man and I'm playin' my crazy game, game
Does she really love me I think she does
Like the star above me I know
Because when the sky is bright
Everything's all right

Flyin' me back to Memphis
Honey keep the oven warm
All the clouds are clearin'
And I think we're over the storm
Well I been pickin' it up around me
Daisy I think I'm same
Well I'm awful glad
And I guess you're really to blame, blame
Do you really love me
I hope you do
Like the stars above me how I love you
When it's cold at night
Everything's all right

aw jeebus, here comes the waterworks :cry:

[bigwillq]

1. "That's what friends are for"

Keep Shining...:)

[HEyHEY]

6. Me too - for very sacred reasons

My sister and I, when we were little kids, used to stay up listening to the radio when mom and dad thought we were in bed. THat song was huge at the time... I always get choked up thinking about those nights with sis, listening to the radio. That song brings it all back.

[bigwillq]

8. That's sweet.

:hi:

[Jade Fox]

17. Not cheesy!

I like that song, and especially like that it was written and sung in support
of people with AIDS. :)

[auntAgonist]

2. Not sure if it's cheesey ,... .but

Bridge over Troubled Water. Does it every time.

[Wickerman]

3. Blind Man in the Bleachers

always rips at my heart - and it get no cheesier - seriously, I defy you, find a cheesier song.

"He's just the blind man in the bleachers to the local hometown fans/
And he sits beneath the speakers way back in the stands
/And he listens to the play by play, he's just waiting for one name/
He wants to hear his son get in the game/
But the boy's just not a hero, he's strictly second team/
Though he runs each night for touchdowns in his father's sweetest dreams/He's gonna be a star someday though, you might never tell/
But the blind man in the bleachers knows he will

"And the last game of the season is a Friday night at home/
And no one knows the reason but the blind man didn't come/
And his boy looks kinda nervous, sometimes turns around and stares/Just as though he sees the old man sitting there/
Well, the local boys are tryin' but they slowly lose their will/
Another player's down and now he's carried from the field/
At half-time in the locker room the kid goes off alone/And no one sees him talkin' on the phone/
And the games already started when he gets back to the team/
And half the crowd can hear his coach yell, 'Where the hell you been?'/
'Just getting' ready for the second half' is all he'll say/
'Cause now you're gonna let me in to play'

"And without another word he turns and runs into the game/
And through the silence on the field, loudspeakers call his name/
It'll make the local papers how the team came from behind/
When they saw him playing out his heart to win/
And when the game was over the coach asked him to tell/
What was it he was thinkin' of that made him play so well/
'Well, you knew my dad was blind,' he said/
'Tonight he passed away/
It's the first time that my father's seen me play.'"

[no name no slogan]

4. OMG...that's like "Wildfire" cheezy

ladies and gentlemen, we have a WINNER! :7

[ofrfxsk]

7. I loved Wildfire desperately when I was a kid.

I'd think about that song when I was going to sleep and cry.
I was only 6 or 7, so give me a break.

[no name no slogan]

10. hey, I STILL love it

even though Michael Martin Murphy is a big Repuke.

In fact, I'm trying to get my band to cover it. The drummer says sure, the bass player thinks i'm on crack. And again, that's another song with those damned Maj7 chords!!! DAMN THEM ALL!!!!

Oh hell, let's just GO THERE :evilgrin:
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She comes down from Yellow Mountain
On a dark, flat land she rides
On a pony she named Wildfire
With a whirlwind by her side
On a cold Nebraska night

Oh, they say she died one winter
When there came a killing frost
And the pony she named Wildfire
Busted down its stall
In a blizzard he was lost

She ran calling Wildfire
By the dark of the moon I planted
But there came an early snow
There's been a hoot-owl howling by my window now
For six nights in a row
She's coming for me, I know
And on Wildfire we're both gonna go

We'll be riding Wildfire

On Wildfire we're gonna ride
Gonna leave sodbustin' behind
Get these hard times right on out of our minds
Riding Wildfire

[ofrfxsk]

12. Isn't it beautiful? LOL

I think it's the nostalgia factor. I remember replaying it on that stupid old eight track player. Still love that song. I had no idea he's a republican though.

Found the website but it is almost unreadable. White text on burnt red background. Hello headache.

http://www.michaelmartinmurphey.com/

[Napoleon Dynamite]

26. me too.. so I'm not alone.. I love Wildfire!

I didn't know he was a republican though.

[MrBenchley]

44. I still do...

Even knowing how cheezy it is, it gets to me...

So does "Total Eclipse of the Heart." Turn around, bright eyes.

[Jade Fox]

18. Wildfire.... my secret shame......

but what the heck is it about? Okay, Wildfire is a horse, but what exactly
is the BFD with the Hoot-Owl (is there any other kind?) by the guy's
window six nights in a row?? :wtf:

[DeaconBlues]

41. there's an old superstition about hearing an owl during the daytime

if you hear one hoot during the day, it means you will die. So maybe the owl in the song means the narrator is about to cross over to the other side, even though the song says that the owl is making noise at night when its supposed to.

[nuxvomica]

43. You win. That is *sniffle* the cheesiest song ever

:cry:

[Clintmax]

5. "Wind Beneath My Wings" by Bette Midler

That song may just as well be called the "Get Ready To Cry" song of the universe!

[Napoleon Dynamite]

25. I didn't cry before I saw Beaches

Now, the song makes me think of Hillary Whitney dying and leaving her little girl behind. Did you ever know... excuse me a moment.

[stanwyck]

40. One of the soccer moms

sang this at a soccer banquet. I didn't cry. But she did.
The parents were uncomfortable. The 10-yr. old boys continued eating and throwing food.

[AlienGirl]

9. Seasons in the Sun

[khashka]

13. Absolutely!

Seasons In The Sun can make me sob like a baby.

Also "Daniel" by Elton John. On the one hand it's a great song, on the other it has no subtlety whatsoever. I know I'm being manipulated, but I still tear up.


Khash.

[spacelady]

11. That damn song from Toy Story 2 where the girl goes off to college.

Oh and that Marley song "Don't Worry 'Bout a Thing, 'cuz every little thing's gonna be alright."

[blondeatlast]

14. "When She Loved Me" is the name of the song--BUCKETS. My kid was embarrass

by the buckets my sis and I cried when we watched it with him.

Fortunately, sis and I were joined by lots of mommy-sobbers in the theater!

[spacelady]

20. Yes , thanks for the title, we have it & it's like a pavlovian response.

I have to leave the room.

[blondeatlast]

23. Oh, do I know that feeling.

It's all too embarassing!

[DS1]

15. I can't listen to it

someone sent me a mix CD with it on it

You're dangerous 'cause you're honest
You're dangerous, you don't know what you want
Well you left my heart empty as a vacant lot
For any spirit to haunt
Hey hey sha la la
Hey hey

You're an accident waiting to happen
You're a piece of glass left in a beach
Well, you tell me things I know you're not supposed to
Then you leave me just out of reach

Hey hey sha la la
Hey hey sha la la

Who's gonna ride your wild horses?
Who's gonna drown in your blue sea?
Who's gonna ride your wild horses?
Who's gonna fall at the foot of thee?

Well you stole it 'cause I needed the cash
And you killed it 'cause I wanted revenge
Well you lied to me 'cause I asked you to
Baby, can we still be friends?

Hey hey sha la la
Hey hey sha la la

Who's gonna ride your wild horses?
Who's gonna drown in your blue sea?
Who's gonna ride your wild horses?
Who's gonna fall at the foot of thee?

Oh, the deeper I spin
Oh, the hunter will sin for your ivory skin
Took a drive in the dirty rain
To a place where the wind calls your name
Under the trees the river laughing at you and me
Hallelujah, heavens white rose
The doors you open
I just can't close

Don't turn around, don't turn around again
Don't turn around, your gypsy heart
Don't turn around, don't turn around again
Don't turn around, and don't look back
Come on now love, don't you look back!

Who's gonna ride your wild horses?
Who's gonna drown in your blue sea?
Who's gonna taste your salt water kisses?
Who's gonna take the place of me?

Who's gonna ride your wild horses?

[CanuckAmok]

16. Kung Foo Fighting.

It's so sad. Everybody was kung-foo fighting, and with expert timing...

:cry:

[Jade Fox]

19. It doesn't get much lower than this....

"I Honestly Love You" Olivia Newton-John.

[blondeatlast]

21. "Snow Bird"--yep, the Anne Murray one.

The first Time I heard it we'd just moved from beautiful Montana to this hell-hole small AZ town and my pet rabbit had just died, too.

I still think it's a great song and I'm not ashamed to say so!

[miss_kitty]

22. memories, by the old kitty in 'Cats'

:cry:

[Lady Effingbroke]

24. "Could It Be Magic" -- Barry Manilow

:cry: :silly:

[RandomKoolzip]

27. "Sad Eyes" by Robert John.

I honestly cannot hear this song without weeping.

My wife knows this and started humming the tune under her breath the other day in public just to get my goat...and of course, right there, on the corner of Clark and Diversey in Chicago, I began sobbing like a broken man.

[Napoleon Dynamite]

28. "The Baby" and "Cat's In The Cradle" are my two songs of shame

Lyrics for "The Baby"

http://www.lyricsdepot.com/blake-shelton/baby.html

Cat's In The Cradle

http://www.lyricsdepot.com/harry-chapin/cats-in-the-cradle.html

[SarahB]

29. The one that was written for me.

It wasn't cheesy though, but I haven't had a song make me cry since my Landslide moment nearly two years ago. That was a place of sadness. These were tears of joy. :)

[Pale Blue Dot]

31. You had a "Landslide" moment too?

Mine was about a year ago, in the middle of my divorce. That song came on the Musak at work and for the first time I heard the lyrics and realized what it was about....

But you know what they say, there's nothing wrong with us.... :D :hi:

[SarahB]

42. ...

You. :)

[Sugar Smack]

30. "Africa" by Toto-

I hear the drums echoing tonight
But she hears only whispers of some quiet conversation
She's coming in twelve-thirty flight
Her moonlit wings reflect the stars that guide me towards
salvation
I stopped an old man along the way
Hoping to find some old forgotten words or ancient melodies
He turned to me as if to say: "Hurry boy, it's waiting there for
you"


It's gonna take a lot to drag me away from you
There's nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do
I bless the rains down in Africa
Gonna take some time to do the things we never had

The wild dogs cry out in the night
As they grow restless longing for some solitary company
I know that I must do what's right
Sure as Kilimanjaro rises like Olympus above the Serengeti
I seek to cure what's deep inside, frightened of this thing that
I've become





Hurry boy, she's waiting there for you

[Sugar Smack]

32. Sodden, overwrought kick.

:cry:

[benny05]

33. All By Myself--Eric Carmen

still like it

[jurassicpork]

34. "Hail to the Chief."

JP
http://jurassicpork.blogspot.com

[WeRQ4U]

35. I have a few

Kathy Mattea - Where Have You Been

Ben Folds - Good Morning Son (Taken on more meaning lately)

Ben Folds - The Luckiest

[mykpart]

36. "Somewhere Out There"

from "An American Tail."

Also, "Baby of Mine" from "Dumbo." It's the scene where Dumbo goes to see his mother who is locked up as a mad elephant. They also used it in "Beaches."

[LaurenG]

38. I had a "wedding singer"

a relative with a great voice sing that at my wedding. It makes me cry too.

[blondeatlast]

45. Both of those turn on the waterworks for me, too. nt

[In_The_Wind]

37. Beautiful Goodbye

It’s like the most amazing sunset you’ve ever seen
There’s never another quite the same
It just falls into some deep eternal sea
Like the end of a movie that makes you cry
You’re sad when it’s over but you’re glad you had
That moment that moved you deep inside

Beautiful goodbye, baby goodbye
I enjoyed the ride, we really had us a time
It’s a strange kind of high
A beautiful goodbye

An standin’ here watchin’ you drive away
We were so grown up about it all
But how will it look in the light of day?
I miss you already but don’t turn around
It’s funny how you know when it just won’t work
And how letting go can echo the sweetest sound

Beautiful goodbye, baby goodbye
I enjoyed the ride, we really had us a time
It’s a strange kind of high
A beautiful goodbye

So ironic, and so confusing
To do the right thing and be losing
I’m always stuck with choosing
And ain’t that just like life?
Hey yeah, hey yeah

Beautiful goodbye, baby goodbye
I enjoyed the ride, we really had us a time
It’s a strange kind of high
A beautiful goodbye

Goodbye, yeah
Na na nan na nan na, goodbye

[enigmatic]

39. "Closing Time"- Tom Waits

The essence of melancholy, with a French Horn riff that puts a lump in my throat everytime I hear it. I always wanted to do a short film w/ this as a soundtrack; maybe one day..

[no name no slogan]

46. kick for the saturday morning crowd

[sakabatou]

47. Theme to the Wonder Years

[Rising Phoenix]

48. This Woman's Work by Kate Bush

every time

[SammyWinstonJack]

51. A Duer did a tribute to Kerry and Edwards using this song

It was a tear jerker. It's not available anymore because some repukes sent threats to those hosting the video. I think the title was "We had a dream" I can't remember the name of the DUer who made it.

[Democracy White]

49. "The Language of God"

I can't remember who the artist was but I have always loved that song.

I haven't heard it in years though.

Dee

[Trigger Hippie]

50. The Rose

Ugh. :hi: