Songs That Make This Sergeant Cry

know the Delta characters in BlackHawk Down make me cry due to a feeling of inadequacy.

Agreed, but at the same time that depiction of those characters made me proud to be an American.

Sleepless in Seattle makes me cry. The scene where Tom Hanks is telling the talk-radio host about his dead wife, who had died from cancer. The first time I saw that was at a friends house for "movie night". It was two months after my fiance had died because of cancer.

Climax Blues Band's I Love You does it to me as well... that was "our song", and it pretty much mirrors our relationship.

For some reason, The Little Drummer Boy always makes me cry. That image of the boy giving Jesus his drum just jerks those tears for me.

Thanks CS - Most guys don't have the sack to admit that anything will make them cry...

Thanks CS - Most guys don't have the sack to admit that anything will make them cry...

It takes a big man to admit he cries. It takes a bigger man to make fun of that fellow.

CS - Off topic but do you work in "the Building"? If you do we may have closer ties than you think, my wife works there too.

 

Community - Please I *really* want to know... I will actually respond when you post to this thread as opposed to most "question" threads!

CS - Off topic but do you work in "the Building"? If you do we may have closer ties than you think, my wife works there too.

I'm not sure what "the Buidling" is. I can think of a couple of "the" sites here, "the Mountain" being the most prominent, but my building would not be considered "the" anything.

hmm probably not the place I was thinking of but in any case, glad to have you on our side friend.

This sounds like something I'd rather spend some time thinking about and then write up on my own blog. I probably will. But off the top of my head....

Movies:
* Well, as I said on one of PoetMom's question threads the first time I remember crying about a movie was when the dancer's teacher died in Flashdance.
* Lancelot coming in at the last second to rescue Guinevere from being burned alive in Camelot always gets to me.
* The last time I watched Superman: The Movie seeing Lois Lane get squished in the fault line got to me. Don't know if it was so much that or Superman breaking down once he finds her.
* You know that moment in Jaws where the shark has just eaten the little boy on the inflatable thing? Everyone has rushed out of the water. Things are claming down. People are looking at each other like "What happened?" And the little boy's mother is vainly calling his name? Damn -- that's just not right. Also in Jaws, when the chief's wife has sent their sons into a smaller "bay" like section thinking they'll be safe but the shark shows up there and the chief is running over to see if his kids are alive. Yeah, that too.
* The ending of 2010 (Dr. Floyd's message to his kids -> the credits).
* "Notting Hill" -- when the crazy roommate jumps out in the middle of a busy road and stops traffic so Hugh Grant can get through and try to stop Julia Roberts from leaving. I couldn't believe anyone would actually do that for a friend. Chokes me up.
* Rocky II -- Adrian, who was opposed to Rocky fighting any more, comes out a coma and tells Rocky she just wants him to do one thing -- "Win."

Songs:
* Marty Robbins has a song about the The Alamo that gets me every time -- just like the place itself does. All those men -- American legends and ordinary folks -- refusing to leave, waiting for help that isn't coming.
* "Mary Did You Know?"
* Garth Brooks' "In Lonesome Dove." I can't even try singing that. A couple lines and my voice is cracking. "She was a girl on a wagon train, headed west..." damn there I go again....

gene- those are great ones too...

What songs reduce you to tears? Or what movies?

Both Toby Keith songs you mentioned, as well as the Lee Greenwood and Alan Jackson songs.....also "There Goes My Life," Kenny Chesney, and "Streets of Heaven,"....but I can't think of the female artist who sings that one right this minute....Alan Jackson's "Remember When".....

Movies:
Bridges of Madison County
Beaches
Steel Magnolias
Camelot


There are more in both categories, but these are just quickly off the top of my head.

Pretty much any movie that shows a true hero sacrificing for others. Black Hawk Down was rough for me, although it was rougher when I read the book (which I did first, back at DLI). The book goes to even greater lengths to show you enough about each soldier, to make them real to you, and then it slaps you in the face with their deaths.
But I've totten teary over other stupid hero stuff, too. Spider-Man 2 got to me, ferchrissakes.

It's an interesting theory you have there, grey, about a lot of that stemming from feelings of inadequacy...

Another song I thought of is Evanescence's My Last Breath... about a dying girl saying her goodbyes to the man she loves. I think I've got a theme going on.

Everything makes me cry...even the Gecko commercials...I'm such a sap.

The scene in Somewhere in Time-(Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour) where she realizes he is gone is good one for bringing tears...hell, just thinking about it makes me get misty eyed.

3 Doors Down-When I'm Gone. The song is bad enough but the video is full of military separations/goodbyes

Of course, being knocked up and hormonal makes me cry when I see car commercials.........

The scene in Somewhere in Time-(Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour) where she realizes he is gone is good one for bringing tears...hell, just thinking about it makes me get misty eyed.

Oh gosh....I forgot about that movie.....I LOVE that movie....and yes, that makes me cry, too!!

I LOVE that movie....and yes, that makes me cry, too!!

One of my all time favorite movies! I've always meant to read the book. I love Richard Matheson's work.

Movies - I have to say Superman, too. That movie is one of my favorite of all time. Also, the new Spider-man flick during Aunt May's "hero speech". The hardest hitting movie, though, in recent memory was Band of Brothers (yeah, miniseries, not a movie, but still) in the scene where they find the concentration camp. I just can't imagine what it felt like to find such horror. Also the scene in the last episode when the soldier gets shot by the drunk private is rough for me. Also, 50 First Dates gets me. I'm a sap for that flick.

Songs - I have to agree with Toby Keith - Courtesy of the Red, White, and Blue and Lee Greenwoood - God Bless the USA. Also, REM - Everybody Hurts (it was playing on the radio when I found out someone close to me died). Also there's a live, long version of Tomorrow, Wendy by Concrete Blonde that gets to me.

That's all I got off the top of my head.

REM used to make me cry, but that's because I would intentionally listen to it over and over again when I was depressed.
That 3 Doors Down song doesn't make me cry... except for an edited version they played near base here, where they spliced in messages from deployed troops' families in the dead spaces between lyrics.

Also there's a live, long version of Tomorrow, Wendy by Concrete Blonde that gets to me.

Oh hell ya. "They say goodbye, tomorrow Wendy is going to die..."

Actually a lot of Concrete Blonde puts a lump in my throat.

Oh hell ya. "They say goodbye, tomorrow Wendy is going to die..."

Yeah, in the live from Brazil version, Johnnette talks/sings for a little bit about suicide and AIDS before she gets to the last part -
Only God gives life
But I set my own time
And if he ever saw it
It was through these eyes of mine
And if he ever suffered
It was us who did the crying
Hey, hey goodbye
Tomorrow, Wendy is going to die....

That versions a little different from what the original lyrics are but it's pretty good.

John Michael Montgomery has a song called "letters from home" that had me so bad I had to pull the truck over till I could see again. Yeah, it was on a country station, and yeah, I was driving my pick-up truck. The longer I live in Texas the more my latent red-neck gene comes to the fore. All I need now is a big hat.
As for movies, there's a scene in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves where Robin explains nobility to Marian, telling about witnessing a squire pull a spear out of his own body to use it to defend a dying horse... don't know why, that scene gets me every time.

Thanks for the responses folks, some of these movies I haven't seen (and probably won't as I try to avoid sad movies) and a lot of the sings I didn't remember until you mentioned them.

There is one song that always brings me to tears- The good old Star Spangled Banner.  Amazing Grace on the bagpipes comes in a close second.

There is this song that they play at Christmas time about this kid wanting to buy new shoes for his Mom in case she meets Jesus tonight.  I have no idea who sings it or the name of it, but I simply can't listen to it.

I hate classic Disney movies.  They always kill the Mom off and leave the kid to live by themselves.  Makes me sad.

I also can't stand it when a dog gets killed in a Movie.  Evidently, dogs being killed is found to be worse than killing people.  We did the play "Of Mice and Men" in a Drama competition in High school.  In on part, they take an old dog out and shoot it.  In the competition, we had to remove that part because it was found to be "too emotional of content".  However, other plays had deaths of people in it, and that was OK.

Tomorrow Wendy - Concrete Blonde

I LOVE that song - but I don't think it makes me cry anymore - Everything makes me cry - in particular Beaches - I watched it sporatically when it was on tv for the 200th time a few weeks ago and I still cried - I knew what was about to happen and I still cried - in the same place EVERY time.

Theres a song by .... a country/western family band that begins with W and they sing a song called 26c (cents) I cry when I hear that song.

I absolutely sobbed when I saw Raising Helen the other week I was okay the whole way through until Jenny let Helen read her letter - then I was GONE.

The only movies any of you mentioned that I've seen are Robin Hood (I don't think I cried) Steel Magnolias (oh my gosh how I cried) and Notting Hill (didn't cry)

another movie GUARENTEED to make me cry - terms of endearment and the evenig star (and I HATE when Patsy says the emma wasnted her to raise Melanie because in the first one debra winger clearly says I want mum to have the kids - patsy only wants emma etc)

I love these kinds of threads

I hate classic Disney movies. They always kill the Mom off and leave the kid to live by themselves. Makes me sad.

Why do they do that?
Dumbo - no dad and the mum is thrown in jail for being crazy
Finding Nemo - mum dies
Snow White
Little mermaid
Cinderella ---- Yes I realise that all of those are based on Fairy Tales by the brothers Grim or Hans Christian Anderson - who were male - did they not have mums? I don't get it - why is the stepmother always the wicked one - I mean I'm sure there are very nice stepmoms out there (Julia Roberts stepmom - another movie that made me cry)
Sword & the Stone
Bambi
Pinocchio
Ducktales
Jungle Book

I'm out of movies - but you get the picture - It's bad to be a disney mum.
You're either dead, intended to die or wicked.

Exception was Serabi who had a bit part and the role reversal of the father dying in the lion king.
and Lady - but she was only a mother for the last 5 minutes of lady & the tramp.

Oh wait - disney movie where no mothers died nor were they wicked - Hercules.

I forgot about Fragile by Sting. Didn't used to do anything special, but he was planning to do a live webcast concert on Sept 11, 2001. After seeing the events of the day on the news, he spent the entire day with family and friends and tried to decide whether to hold the concert or not. He eventually decided to do one song on the net and then call the show or continue depending on the mood. He ended up doing the entire show, but the only song broadcast on the net was the first song, Fragile. After watching the performance, the song has a bigger effect on me.