Songs/pieces of music that bring tears to your eyes/take your breath away, etc.

I believe that I really do love him. I have filled my heart with love for years, waiting for him to arrive in my life.

Now, he is here…

And I cry sometimes just thinking of him…

Heaven

I hope that he has felt my love at least once when he has looked into my eyes, and that he has felt my heart.
 
It's Been Awhile by Staind

"And it's been awhile since I've seen the way the candles light your face, and it's been while but I can still remember just the way you taste." That line, coupled with my lust for men with shaved heads and tattoos = *swoon*

Lips of an Angel by Hinder
Ok, I just have to throw in a disclaimer on this one. I know it's not a great song--but the way that man sings the word "honey" in that raspy voice has me biting my wrist and wringing out my panties.
 
A song that makes me cry, but not for the lyrics or anything... Barber's Adagio for Strings sung to Agnus Dei

An awesome song in itself... But now it has a twist.
In the 90s there was a game called 'Homeworld', awesome game and very popular at the time.

Adagio for Strings is mission 3....A very emotionally charged mission where the music just ramps up the feelings.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJvYZXUT5Bk

Even now I can't help link the song to the emotions I felt when playing the game.

My other song that makes me all emotional...

'Everybody hurts' by REM.
At a very low point in my life I seriously considered suicide and this brings back all the thoughts and feelings I held at the time.
 
The 'Nessun Dorma' aria from the opera Turandot... recordings of it will make my eyes water, but the two times I got to see the full opera production and hear it live, I cried like a little bitch with a skinned knee and practically hyper-ventilated.

Certain tango music will make it hurt to breathe. The sound of the bandoneón [imagine a somewhat smaller version of an accordian] is so poignant sometimes, I don't know why, can't explain, it has made me forget to breathe.

Hubby will tear up with a certain Sarah MacLachlan tunes - makes him think of his dear departed mom and once he shared that with me, I also can't hear it without the waterworks kicking in.

Hubby and I both wept seeing Ritchie Havens in concert doing the most devastatingly beautiful cover of Pink Floyd's "The Turning Away" - I found an amateur video of that song and despite the less-than-stellar audio quality, I still get chills from it, some 10 years later.
 
The official video for the song gives a different take on how I view the song. I wanted this to be played at our wedding reception but at the time my wife didn't want to listen to it. Years latter she actually sat down and gave it a few listens in a row. By the time she called me she was crying and said how sweet of a song it was

All I Want Is You - U2
 
Lucky - particularly when played with the video. Intended as a fund-raiser for Bosnian children at the time of that conflict, but so appropriate for Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Afghanistan, Palestine...

Exit Music. Intended for use in the Baz Luhrmann version of Romeo and Juliet, and so appropriate:

'Wake from your sleep
The drying of your tears
Today we escape
We escape

Pack and get dressed
Before your father hears us
Before all hell breaks loose

Breathe keep breathing
Don't loose your nerve
Breathe keep breathing
I can't do this alone

Sing us a song
A song to keep us warm
There's such a chill, such a chill

You can laugh
A spineless laugh
We hope your rules and wisdom choke you

Now we are one
In everlasting peace

We hope that you choke, that you choke
We hope that you choke, that you choke
We hope that you choke, that you choke'​

Radiohead do good melancholy.
 
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