Songs and music that have made you cry..

[redunderthebed]

I've banned myself from listening to this because it brings back feelings that i don't really want.

[Rum]

I have a penis and testicles. I don't cry.

Yeah. I can't think of a single song or movie that has made me cry since I got pubic hair. It's been over 10 years since I cried about anything. That time was when I was confessing a lie to a girlfriend. Before that, maybe my early teens when my grandfather died.

I can't say I have had a real all out sobbing cry for many a year really. I think probably the last time was when my daughter was involved an a near fatal car accident. Two people were killed in the car she was in and for a few hours she was touch and go. Then they said she would be OK. When I got home at the end of the day after being awake by then for over 20 hours the day had simply been too much and it caught up with me.. That was all seven or eight years ago now.

..the tears I'm talking about in this thread area bit self indulgent and involve a lump in the throat and perhaps a tear dribbling down one's cheek..

[redunderthebed]

I've shed alot of tears last year its necessary but overrated.

[FBM]

..the tears I'm talking about in this thread area bit self indulgent and involve a lump in the throat and perhaps a tear dribbling down one's cheek..

Yeah, I just don't get that way. Not sure if it's related or not, but I also never get lonely, rarely feel sentimental nostalgia, etc. I promise I'm not a cold-hearted person...

[redunderthebed]

Strangely enough FBM its being opposite for me its only being in the last 6 years of my life or so that i've actually cried on a somewhat regular basis.

[FBM]

Hmm. Maybe when I get older.

[pErvinalia]

For very different reasons than above.

PaulG/AuntNancy posts that on facebook every friday to annoy the shit out of everyone.

[pErvinalia]

A penis and testicles are inherently ridiculous. One should be allowed to giggle at such silliness I think.

I don't think they're inherently ridiculous. I don't understand why people have this attitude, except as a legacy of Christian hatred of the physical and Christian backlash against Greek Art.

They're no more ridiculous than breasts or the vulva or clitoris.

Evolutionarily speaking, I think balls are a bit ridiculous - hanging down there just waiting to get kicked or snagged on something...

[Cormac]

A penis and testicles are inherently ridiculous. One should be allowed to giggle at such silliness I think.

I don't think they're inherently ridiculous. I don't understand why people have this attitude, except as a legacy of Christian hatred of the physical and Christian backlash against Greek Art.

They're no more ridiculous than breasts or the vulva or clitoris.

Evolutionarily speaking, I think balls are a bit ridiculous - hanging down there just waiting to get kicked or snagged on something...

If there's an evolutionary issue, it is surely the need to keep sperm and testicles cool - which is why they hang outside the body in the first place.



Still, our culture does poke fun at male genitalia, and this has always puzzled me.

[Cormac]

These may be a bit mawkish...

Reminds me of being away from my family working...



Written by Phil Coulter (and personal to him), and performed by Luke Kelly.



Leaving Nancy - for anyone who's ever said goodbye to a loved one as they had to leave... (not a very good recording)



Romance, poverty, purity of love.


The Croppy Boy (a song about the last chance Ireland had for Independence without Sectarianism - 1798, and internecine strife).




Romance (About a farmer who is utterly smitten by a woman he sees while he is walking his land one evening - and he has to keep it secret)



Lifelong love - and the real meaning of "in sickness and in health"



Futility of War



At 25 seconds into this song, I had tears streaming down my face partly the music, partly the video - The Wall - Roger Waters. (I saw this in Dublin and am going again in August).

In fact, this has tears in my eyes right now:


Just realised that part of that clip comes from here:

... and it is just as emotional for me.

[Cormac]

Grace - about a young medical student, a leader of the 1916 Rising, who married his love in his prison cell, 7 hours before his execution.

[Cormac]

Anti-Nuclear

[Cormac]

Jaysus. I must be always balling listening to music!

[Animavore]

The generation gap is apparent here

It was old when I was a kid. Have you actually listened to it? Worth it..to the end.

Yeah. I listened to it. It seems very stagnant to my ear. Something grannies listen to in an old folk's home. I have to slow right down to catch up.

Your loss mate. Your loss.

I haven't lost anything. Please don't condescend.

[Animavore]