Brad Paisley/Tear Jerker
Considering his reputation for upbeat, tongue-in-cheek lyrics -- This country singer does quite a lot of these songs that can make you cry.
- "When I Get Where I'm Going", particularly the chorus with Dolly Parton.
When I get where I'm going |
- "Whiskey Lullaby" (with Alison Krauss) is a song about a man who finds his wife cheating on him. He's broken by it, and becomes a drunk, eventually committing suicide. When she sees what she did to him, she follows the path. If the lyrics themselves don't have you in tears, the video will, as it shows the man was coming home from a war and she was the only thing that had been keeping him going.
He put that bottle to his head and pulled the trigger |
- Also affecting could be these lines:
We found her with her face down in the pillow |
- "Waitin' On A Woman". A young guy waits on his girlfriend/wife(?) in a mall, and sits down next to an old man who tells him about all the times he's had to wait on his wife over the years. It was worth it.
- It is made even more of a Tear Jerker with the video. They have Andy Griffith speak the lyrics in and out through the entire song. This is especially sweet and tear worthy when Andy is sitting on a bench in Heaven saying, "Honey, take your time, 'cause I don't mind... waiting on a woman." It might be far better than having Brad Paisley sing it.
- "You'll Never Leave Harlan Alive" (written by Darrell Scott) is basically a dirge about those who have lived and died in eastern Kentucky. In other words, it a ballad about getting out of a hellhole -- and falling back in again.
Where the sun comes up about ten in the morning |
- "A Man Don't Have to Die [dead link]" will cause Manly Tears to well up in its account of unemployment, divorce and alcoholism.
- "Letter to Me" can make one weep like a child.
- "He Didn't Have to Be".