What’s a song that makes you tear up every time you hear it?

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1. Watching you by Rodney Atkins

2. Wasted days and wasted nights. Freddy Fender.

3. If I actually listen to it? I just wanna cry – Kieth Urban

4. Gone Away by The Offspring. Yeah, I know it rocks, but it was the first song I heard after my brother took his own life. The lyrics really touched me, so I learned to play it.

   I miss him every day and it’s been 24 years

5. “Coat of Many Colors” – Dolly Parton. Every damn time I hear that song.

6. Johnny Cash’s version of “Hurt”.

7. Somewhere over the rainbow by Israel Kamakawiwoʻole

8. Needle and the damage done by Neil Young

9. Nothing Compares 2 U

10. True Colors by Cindy Lauper.

11. Martyr – Polaris

12. Way too many.

    Cats in the Cradle – obligatory

    It’s Quiet Uptown (Hamilton) – oh lord

    Something I Can Never Have

13. I cannot listen to Joanne by Lady Gaga without crying.

14. Isolation years by opeth

15. Zoe Jane by staind

16. Star spangled banner

17. Closest one is “Alyssa Lies”

18. Taps….. At a funeral. 😢

19. Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) by Green Day.

    About a month after my Dad died at age 56 from lung cancer I was home listening to the radio when this song came on. It literally took me to my knees. It was my first experience with what I call “ambush grief” and that song has never lost the ability to make me tear up even though Dad’s been gone 24 years.