Has any song ever reduced you to tears?
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Rainingstairs
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"Don't Cry for me Argentinaaaaa!" I know. I'm a gay man in a straight girls body 
yes...but i'm not gonna saw what song or why. far too private to share with you lot
ebonics
on the black hand side
I discovered this song after I lost my mom, and it always leaves me breathless: "," Iron and Wine.
Mother I made it up from the bruise on the floor of this prison
Mother I lost it, all of the fear of the Lord I was given
Mother forget me now that the creek drank the cradle you sang to
Mother forgive me, I sold your car for the shoes that I gave you
And I've been down and out enough times that just the first line of "This Woman's Work" will leave me a mess.
Mother I made it up from the bruise on the floor of this prison
Mother I lost it, all of the fear of the Lord I was given
Mother forget me now that the creek drank the cradle you sang to
Mother forgive me, I sold your car for the shoes that I gave you
And I've been down and out enough times that just the first line of "This Woman's Work" will leave me a mess.
Sunflower by Low.
when i first took pie face to see Low, she scoffed at the idea of people being moved to tears.
30 seconds into Sunflower, she was sobbing with the rest of us
The Groke
hot hail/Paging Dr. Beat
Sunflower by Low.
ETA: "July" has had a similar effect on me - especially at the break-down/bridge part:
They'll never wake us in time
They'll never wake us in time
Maybe we'll wait 'til July
Then August, September
October, November or December
There's a few that stand out recently. Johnny Cash and his cover of 'Hurt' has been mentioned above - that track can just get you whatever state you're in; 'Lover, you should have come over' by Jeff Buckley and 'Fake Plastic Trees' by Radiohead are two more recent tear-jerkers. Then again, not long before that I could be set off simply by listening to the shipping forecast, so perhaps my input's not especially valuable.
Paulie Tandoori
shut it you egg!
the one song that does make me a bit weepy when i've had a couple is the whole of the moon by the waterboys cos the hippy-dippy mother of my daughter insisted on music in the delivery room and that's the song that was playing as she emerged into the world. poor girl 
Donna Ferentes
jubliado
The from Tristan und Isolde
Clair De Lune
Apocalypse cocktails
Ah yeah this too. I know all the words to the songs that got to me at one time or another.
Dirty Martini
gets what he cant want
That one always gets me, especially if it's an old recording.
Otherwise, the bit when the female vocal comes into the harmony towards the end of Dinosaur Act by Low, Jed's Other Poem by Grandaddy and, for some reason I can't fathom, Build by The Housemartins. I am a sentimental fool though.
ETA: "July" has had a similar effect on me - especially at the break-down/bridge part:
They'll never wake us in time
They'll never wake us in time
Maybe we'll wait 'til July
Then August, September
October, November or December
If we're talking Low, it's Dinosaur Act for me. Quite beautiful
Donna Ferentes
jubliado
Is there a more moving version than those I can find on Youtube?
seeformiles
Lost in the wood
Joe Brown - "I'll See You In My Dreams"
(we did a ukulele evening at our local and the whole place was in tears after that one...)
(we did a ukulele evening at our local and the whole place was in tears after that one...)
The Groke
hot hail/Paging Dr. Beat
Hey would you mind editing out my rare spelling mistake in the post you quoted 
BoatieBird
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It's a conventional answer, but Johnny Cash's version of Hurt really did make me weep buckets.That gets me every time. I think it's because you can hear the honesty and the regret in his voice (well, I can anyway!).
I heard Eva Cassidy singing Somewhere over the Rainbow on the radio on my way to work a few weeks ago and I had to sit in my car and dry my tears before I went into work
ETA: Jonny Nash singing I can see clearly now makes me cry these days too. It was played at my Dad's funeral - I picked it because I had such happy memories of him singing along to it in the car when I was a kid.
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