Tell us about your tearjerker songs.

[ElsaVonM]

What are they, and why? Spill even if it's embarrassing. Especially if it's embarrassing. 

[ElsaVonM]

"Ghost" by Indigo Girls, related to a super-emotional breakup. Half a lifetime ago - I was in high school. I usually don't cry anymore, but I still get a feeling in the pit of my stomach. It's not sadness, just the memory of sadness.

"I Hope You Dance" by Lee Ann Womack. No reason why. I'm not sure that I even like this song. But I become a big ol' baby as soon as the first chorus starts.

[2brides]

"You are My Sunshine." The lyrics kill me.

[ballandchain]

After my miscarriage, I cried every time I heard "Try" by Pink. It's clearly about the end of some kind of romantic relationship but the chorus used to get me because I felt so defeated and was having so much trouble getting myself out of bed in the morning and getting through the day.

My mom was kind of a history buff, and there was a song in the Ken Burns Civil War soundtrack that she liked called "Ashokan Farewell." We played it at her funeral. I canNOT listen to it now without feeling choked up.

[seattlekari]

The one that comes to mind (which just reading the lyrics makes me tear up because I can hear the emotion behind her voice in my head) is Martina McBride, "In My Daughter's Eyes". Look it up if you don't know it, totally worth every tear.

[eratmama]

I come from a long line of softies, and since kids it is terrible.

"Home" by Philip Phillips is a big one now. I hope we can adopt them before its too played out. Oh, wait, maybe it's already too late.

"Open the door" an old camp song (Peter Paul & Mary, I think) but I think of how alone and sad I felt and can not get through the whole thing. This summer, I had to walk away from a group singing it.

[magdala]

100 years by Five for Fighting. I first heard it when my cousin played it for our grandmother's funeral.

[twotrue]

Pretty much any country song that speaks to child/parent relationships.  Like this one: