Songs That have Broken you Down

**OCEAT** · Joined: 13 Jul 2009 Posts: 357 Location: Boston, MA

I'd like to nominate Harry Chapin's entire song catalogue:
Songs like the aforementioned Cat's in the Cradle, but also W*O*L*D, about a morning radio DJ who plays love songs for his wife whom he's no longer with, but then when he returns from his constant traveling he finds she has a new husband.
Or Mr. Tanner, about a cleaner in a small town who can sing extraordinarily well: "Music was his life/It was not his livelihood/And it made him feel so happy/And it made him feel so good/He did not know how well he sang/It just made him whole." He then goes to New York to perform and gets wrecked by critics. He returns, smiles to his inquisitive friends, and says nothing. He never sings again, except late at night, along, folding clothes.
There are several more- I Wanna Learn A Love Song, Shortest Story, but the two I described are the ones I know best.
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**MetalManiac3021** · Joined: 23 Jan 2007 Posts: 352 Location: New Jersey

No song has ever moved me as much as The Mountain Goats' "Matthew 25:21".
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**SPinD0cter** · Joined: 11 Dec 2007 Posts: 675 Location: Omaha, NE

Lapse by Envy On the Coast
The Sadness Will Never End by Bring Me the Horizon
Intesity in Ten Cities by Chiodos
Lindsay Quit Lollygagging by Chiodos
Basically every A7X song now.
Wake Up by Coheed & Cambria
Snuff by Slipknot
Danger/Keep Away by Slipknot
Sleeping Giant by Mastodon (That opening lick gives me goosebumps)
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**sirhcruiz** · Joined: 09 Oct 2007 Posts: 188

Cold by Crossfade
So Far Away by Crossfade
No Giving Up by Crossfade
Already Gone Also Crossfade
Come Back to Me by David Cook
Pain by Three Days Grace
Lips of an Angel by Hinder
Dont Go Away by Buckcherry
Sorry By Buckcherry
Dont Forget by Demi Lovato
Got Dynamite by Demi Lovato
When Im Gone by Eminem
Thnks fr th mmrs by Fall Out Boy
Never Enough by Five Finger Death Punch
Im On Your Side by Hawthorne Heights
Sad But True by Metallica
Nothing Else Matters by Metallica
Someone that your with by Nickleback
I Miss You by Blink 182
Father of Mine by Everclear
Gotta go my own way by Vanessa Hudgens

Wow this list was alot longer then I thought it was going to be. Im a very musical person and I have a very wide variety of music I listin to as you can see lol.
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**olle92** · Joined: 13 Jun 2008 Posts: 656 Location: Stockholm

The only song that has made me cry is Grace by Jeff Buckley. I think it's the most emotional and beautiful song ever made. It's like, whatever you're feeling, this song will make that feeling 10 times stronger. If I'm happy when I listen to it, it just makes me feel amazing inside. Peaceful. But if I'm feeling a bit down this song makes me cry almost every time. If any of you haven't heard this song, listen to it now, it's amazing.

EDIT: There is one other song, but it's in swedish, so not many on here will understand it

Anyway, here's a link if you want to hear it. It's about a kid in my age who got beat to death over a girl outside a house-party in my town a couple of years ago. Also, Joshua Radin's Sunny Days (the sesame street cover) gets me sometimes.
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**SaidinWoT** · Joined: 06 Feb 2008 Posts: 190 Location: United States

The only song I can remember crying because of is On Eagles Wings, which was played at my grandfather's memorial. Ironically, he's the grandparent I was least attached to, yet I cried not only when it was played at the memorial, but the next time I heard it as well. It's still pretty powerful for me.

A number of other songs have definitely moved me, but I can't think of specific ones right now
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Queen - Bijou

**machchunk** · Joined: 28 Oct 2006 Posts: 3829 Location: Pasco, WA

You Learn by Alanis Morissette got close one time, just because of how dense that chorus is.
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**Vampire-Jekyll** · Joined: 11 Oct 2006 Posts: 630 Location: Sleepy Eye, MN

Only one song I have ever heard has ever brought me to tears: Redemption Song performed by Joe Strummer. That guy was a hero to me and it just destroys me inside when the chorus hits. "Won't you help to sing / these songs of freedom / cuz all I ever had / redemption song"
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**jeffo2448** · Joined: 17 Aug 2007 Posts: 1171

Fine, I'll fess up... I occassionaly get emotional over these songs, especially after my breakup w/ my ex

Don't Want To Miss A Thing - Aerosmith
November Rain - Guns n' Roses
Fake Plastic Trees - Radiohead
We've Got Tonight - Bob Seger
Asleep - The Smiths (this song is very depressing)
Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd (very rarely...only if I'm feeling really down)
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**eddaket** · Joined: 19 Jul 2007 Posts: 2020

Recent song for me is

"If It Means A Lot To You" by A Day To Remember

mostly because it was my ex's favorite song, and the reason we broke up is kind of presented in that song.

**blackhawk12** · Joined: 14 Feb 2008 Posts: 448 Location: ¯\(°_o)/¯

Call Me by Shinedown

and The Crow & the Butterfly by Shinedown.

and... aw, hell, I'm just in a Shinedown mood lately.

**Spikey** · Posted: Mon Jan 11, 2010 6:38 am Post subject:

Sometime Around Midnight by The Airborne Toxic Event.

The chorus gets me every time.

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