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** Even ''Bryter Layter'', which was probably his most cheerful album, isn't immune to this -- as seen with "One of These Things First" and the closing instrumental, "Sunday".
* Dream Academy's "Life in a Northern Town". So often dismissed as a [[Chorus-Only Song]], yet the verses are wonderfully evocative, and the "bye bye" in the third verse can trigger the tears.
* "Two Daughters and a Beautiful Wife" by Drive-By Truckers seems at its surface to be about a man realizing the importance of his family after he's died unexpectedly, but the entire tone of the song is changed once you discover that actually it's about the [
** Drive-by Truckers' "[http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=14153 Little Bonnie]" can hit some people hard in the gut.
*** Decoration Day. Just... Decoration Day.
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What of other's wives who missed it<br />
Came home to red lights blinking..." }}
** Also by James Keelaghan, "Cold Missouri Waters", a retelling of the 1949 [
*** ''OUCH''. "La mer ne pardonne pas", indeed. Then the long playout with the cello mimicking the stormy sea and the almost-audible voice breaking through every so often.
* Luke Kelly's powerful tenor and genuine emotion in his rendition of "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55OBEs98Pj4 The Town I Loved So Well]" is so moving, especially the end of the penultimate verse:
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All I love, all my love" }}
* Sarah Slean sings two of these. She specializes, it seems, in heartbreaking piano melodies. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Tn3X98c32M "I Know"] is Slean's reflection on violence against women, and she just sounds so damn resigned about it. Then, another, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7Kr7umPnjI&feature=related "Last Year's War"] about a couple getting over infidelity.
** Take Slean's penchant for heartbreaking music, combine it with one of the [
* The song "1000 Candles, 1000 Cranes" by Small Potatoes is about an American woman who lost two sons in WWII and a Japanese woman who lost her parents when the bomb was dropped on Japan.
* The song "Italy and France" by Debi Smith, a song about a mother comparing her "different" special-needs child with flying to Italy when she thought she was going to France.
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{{spoiler|わたしの全てを消して。(Power me down completely.)}}<br />
{{spoiler|ねえ、神様。(O, God.)}} }}
* "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pi9KHlSXIc&feature=related Friends]" by [
{{quote| Cause you're always there<br />
And it's always right<br />
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* The standard "You Don't Know Me" is all about unrequited love, but the two versions that might do it the most are Ray Charles' and Michael Buble'.
* "You Light Up My Life" will bring tears to anyone who has ever been loveless or known someone who has.
* "You'll Never Walk Alone" being sung at Anfield on anniversaries of the [
** Oh, god, the line "Hold your head up high and don't be afraid of the dark." Especially if one terrified of losing the people who support her and has an irrational fear of the dark.
* "Zog Nit Keynmol (The Partisans' Song)", a Yiddish song written in 1943 by Hirsh Glick, who was a Jewish inmate of the Vilna Ghetto.
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