Songs that make you cry

Lost my girlfriend to cancer in '05 and havn't been able to listen to the Cure's 'The Same Deep Water As You' since...i'm not a 'cryer' but i know the first line or two would probably reduce me to a blubbering wreck.
(i can't post vids but pretty sure some of you will know the tune)
 
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMznNlfLXP4[/youtube]

And

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wl54ABY8VgY[/youtube]

"Brenda's Got A Baby"

Brenda's got a Baby
Brenda's got a Baby

I hear Brenda's got a baby
But, Brenda's barely got a brain
A damn shame
The girl can hardly spell her name
(That's not our problem, that's up to Brenda's family)
Well let me show ya how it affects the whole community.
Now Brenda really never knew her moms and her daddy was a
junky
Shooting death up in his arms, it's sad
Cause I bet Brenda doesn't even know.
Just cause your in the ghetto doesn't mean ya can't grow.
But oh, that's a thought, my own revelation
Do whatever it takes to resist the temptation.
Brenda got herself a boyfriend
Her boyfriend was her cousin, now lets watch the joy end.
She tried to hide her pregnancy, from her family
Who didn't really care to see, or give a damn if she
Went out and had a church of kids
As long as when the check came they got first dibs.
Now Brenda's belly is gettin bigger
But no one seems to notice any change in her figure
She's 12 years old and she's having a baby
In love with the molester, who's sexing her crazy
And yet she thinks that he'll be with her forever
And dreams of a world with the two of them are together,
whatever
He left her and she had the baby solo, she had it on the
bathroom floor
And didn't know so, she didn't know, what to throw away and
what to keep
She wrapped the baby up and threw him in the trash heep
I guess she thought she'd get away
Wouldn't hear the cries
She didn't realize
How much the the little baby had her eyes.
Now the baby's in the trash heep balling
Momma can't help her, but it hurts to hear her calling
Brenda wants to run away
Momma say, you makin' me lose pay, the social workers are here
everyday
Now Brenda's gotta make her own way
Can't go to her family, they won't let her stay
No money, no babysitter, she couldn't keep a job
She tried to sell crack, but end up getting robbed
So now what's next, there ain't nothing left to sell
So she sees sex as a way of leaving hell
It's paying the rent, so she really can't complain
Prostitute, found slain, and Brenda's her name, she's got a Baby?.
 
Don't know if this has been mentioned because I'm just charging into the thread and posting... Those were the days of our lives by Queen always made me cry when I was a kid, and listening to the lyrics now still gets me, now knowing how Ill Freddie was when he sung it.
 
somewhere over the rainbow, when my bro died..

and hes the greatest..when my dad died..

here any of these 2 records on the radio or in a shop i turn the radio off or i walk out of the shop...just typing this has made me emotional...
 
RIP Dad xxx
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZikH1DZgCME&feature=related[/youtube]
 
"Shattered Glass" - I cant remember who sings it and "All around the World" by Lisa Stansfield bring back happy and sad memories of important ex lovers and immediately take me back to different and stranger and more dramatic times.

"The way we were" by Barbara Streisland gets me because when my Mum died I was only 12 and my Dad took her to the pictures to see this just before she became ill and in effect it was their last date.

" Dont get me wrong" by the Pretenders seemed to be a song that I associate with my old workplace where we all got made redundant this year and I spent 26 years there. It just came on the Radio the other day and I filled up.
 
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGdJ99O7e14&feature=related[/youtube]

Well how do you do, young Willie McBride?
Do you mind if I sit here down by your graveside,
And rest for a while 'neath the warm summer sun?
I've been walking all day, and I'm nearly done.
I see by your gravestone you were only nineteen
When you joined the great fallen in Nineteen-Sixteen.
I hoped you died well, and I hoped you died clean,
Or young Willie McBride, was it slow and obscene?

Did they beat the drums slowly,
Did they play the fife lowly,
Did they sound the death march as they lowered you down?
Did the band play the last post and chorus,
And did the pipes play the flowers of the forest?

Did you leave any wife or a sweetheart behind?
In some faithful heart, is your memory enshrined?
Although you died back in Nineteen-Sixteen,
In that faithful heart are you forever nineteen?
Or are you a stranger without even a name,
Enclosed in forever behind the glass frame
In an old photograph torn, battered and stained,
And faded to yellow in a brown, leather frame

Chorus: Beat the drums slowly

The sun now it shines on the green fields of France.
There's a warm, summer breeze that makes the red poppies dance.
And look how the sun shines from under the clouds:
There's no gas, no barbed wire; there's no guns firing down
But here in this graveyard, it's still no mans land,
The countless white crosses stand mute in the sand,
To a man's blind indifference to his fellow man,
To a whole generation that were butchered and damned

Chorus: Beat the drums slowly

Ah, young Willie McBride, I can't help wonder why,
Do those that lie here, know why did they die?
And did they believe when they answered the call,
Did they really believe that this war would end wars?
Well, the sorrows, the suffering, the glory, the pain,
The killing and dying was all done in vain.
For young Willie McBride, it all happened again,
And again and again and again and again!

(Chorus repeated twice)
Did they beat the drums slowly,
Did they play the fife lowly,
Did they sound the death march as they lowered you down?
Did the band play the last post and chorus,
And did the pipes play the flowers of the forest?

And this one. Those who know me, know why
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oT57tjz9py8[/youtube]
 
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