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{{quote|''Well ain't there one damn song that can make me break down and cry?''|'''[[
These songs [[Tear Jerker|will surely make you cry]]. If not? Well...there's not much else we can say to ya. Sometimes involves [[Soundtrack Dissonance]].
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== Artist subcategories ==
* [[ABBA
* [[Alice in Chains
* [[Tori Amos
* [[Arcade Fire
* [[Rick Astley
* [[Emilie Autumn
* [[Avenged Sevenfold
* [[Barenaked Ladies
* [[The Beach Boys
* [[The Beatles
* [[Blue October
* [[Boards of Canada
* [[David Bowie
* [[Garth Brooks
* [[Jeff Buckley
* [[Johnny Cash
* [[Harry Chapin
* [[Leonard Cohen
* [[Coldplay
* [[Jonathan Coulton
* [[Counting Crows
* [[The Cure
* [[Current 93
* [[Death Cab for Cutie
* [[The Decemberists
* [[Disturbed
* [[The Doors
* [[Dream Theater
* [[Bob Dylan
* [[Eels
* [[Electric Light Orchestra
* [[Evanescence
* [[Fall Out Boy
* [[Flogging Molly
* [[Ben Folds
* [[Foo Fighters
* [[Peter Gabriel
* [[Gackt (
* [[Garbage
* [[Godspeed You! Black Emperor
* [[Gorillaz
* [[David Gray
* [[Green Day
* [[Josh Groban
* [[Guns N' Roses
* [[Iced Earth
* [[Insane Clown Posse
* [[Iron Maiden
* [[Michael Jackson
* [[Billy Joel
* [[Elton John
* [[George Jones
* [[The Killers
* [[Lady Gaga
* [[Linkin Park
* [[Manowar
* [[Marilyn Manson
* [[Mastodon
* [[Tim McGraw
* [[Reba McEntire
* [[Loreena McKennitt
* [[Sarah McLachlan
* [[The Megas
* [[Metallica
* [[Joni Mitchell
* [[Modest Mouse
* [[Muse (
* [[My Chemical Romance
* [[My Vitriol
* [[Neutral Milk Hotel
* [[Nickelback
* [[Nightwish
* [[Nine Inch Nails
* [[Nirvana
* [[Oasis (
* [[Brad Paisley
* [[Amanda Palmer
* [[Pearl Jam
* [[Pink
* [[Pink Floyd
* [[The Police
* [[Porcupine Tree
* [[The Protomen
* [[Queen
* [[Radiohead
* [[Rammstein
* [[Rascal Flatts
* [[Red Hot Chili Peppers
* [[Red House Painters
* [[REM
* [[The Residents
* [[Rise Against
* [[Stan Rogers
* [[The Rolling Stones
* [[Rush
* [[Seether
* [[Shinedown
* [[The Shins
* [[Simon and Garfunkel
* [[Skillet
* [[The Smiths
* [[Snow Patrol
* [[Sonata Arctica
* [[Britney Spears
* [[Regina Spektor
* [[Bruce Springsteen
* [[Sufjan Stevens
* [[Taylor Swift
* [[
* [[Type O Negative
* [[
* [[Carrie Underwood
* [[Velvet Underground
* [[Vienna Teng
* [[Voltaire (
* [[Tom Waits
* [[Within Temptation
* [[Yes
* [[Neil Young (Music)/Tear Jerker|Neil Young]]
* [[Warren Zevon
== Genre subcategories ==
* [[Classical Music/Tear Jerker|Classical Music]]
* [[Country Music/Tear Jerker|Country Music]]
* [[Tear Jerker
* [[Orphaned/Tear Jerker/Rock Music|Rock Music]]
* [[Vocaloid
* [[Main/Music/In Media/Tear Jerker|Tear Jerker]]
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* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2Cn6BqE4TM "Da Slockit Light"] by Tom Anderson.
* [[Aphex Twin]], yes, Aphex Twin, has a sweet little piano song off of ''Druqks'' called [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfYl6_f2Mdg Avril 14th.]
* [[
* Army of the Pharaoh's "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cH_BQZURZGg Into the Arms of Angels]" is a hip-hop example that's a chronicle of life in about as crapsack as a [[Crapsack World]] can get.
* 3000 Feet by Assemblage 23. The entire song is a guy calling his lover because he's on a plane that's going to crash. It's his last chance to talk to his lover. The worst part? When the poor guy has one more thing to say, and he gets cut off by the plane impacting.
* ATB's 2005 [[Softer and Slower Cover|ballad remake]] of his single "Let You Go".
* [[
** "The Waitress". It's about a homeless man's bickering relationship with a waitress and how he honestly doesn't have much life left in him {{spoiler|Oh and the waitress he's been argueing with the whole song? Yeah that's his daughter.}}
** "Yesterday". [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEHTTFOwsDs Just listen to it.] All the way through.
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* "Superman's Song" by the Crash Test Dummies. It's the perfect eulogy to give the Man of Steel.
* "Spancil Hill" by Cruachan has heart-wrenching lyrics about a man longing for his native Ireland.
* "I Know What Kind of Love This Is" was kind of depressing when The Nields did it, but when Cry Cry Cry covered it... [[Exactly What It Says
* Most songs by Rebekah Ann Curtis are tearjerking, but [http://www.ourstage.com/tracks/CNUIXKLKXMPF-byrons-song "Byron's Song"] can really make one tear up. It's about a friend of hers who died of cancer. Not to be confused with the film ''[[Brians Song]]'', whose protagonist also died of cancer.
* "Emotion" by [[
* Anything by Dark Sanctuary. Just try it. (Actually, this type of song was the premise of the band.)
* "Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Old Oak Tree" can make one mist up a little, especially the chorus and final verse.
* [[
* Skeeter Davis' "The End Of The World". After seeing ''[[Girl, Interrupted]]'', you may not be able for a time afterward to hear it without feeling a) deeply depressed or b) [[Nightmare Fuel|deeply disturbed.]]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnJOH5PImrw "The Host of the Seraphim"] by Dead Can Dance is incredibly haunting. Never mind its use as background music in The Mist, or accompanying the terrible scenes of abject poverty in Baraka.
* "Fatal hesitation" by Chris DeBurgh. "Oh Romeo is standing in the rain... I know I have let her slip away... Fatal hesitation..."
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Your pain will go away..." }}
* Sandy Denny's "Who Knows Where the Time Goes?".
* [[
* DeVotchKa's "How It Ends." A 7-minute, accordion-lead indie balled with VERY emotional vocals, an extended cello solo, haunting and vaguely Canadian pianos, and lyrics such as this:
{{quote| "In your soul<br />
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* "He Doesn't Know Why" by [[Fleet Foxes]] has the power to make some people incredibly emotional.
** Then follow it up with the more recent "Helplessness Blues" and try not to lose it.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIb-49ePFII This particular song] from the Fleischer Brothers' "[[
* "Happy Birthday" by Flipsyde. The song is an apology to the unborn child of the narrator, which was aborted. It talks about how he wonders what the kid would be like, and lights a candle every year for it. The song can make one choke up. God. This is just... "I love you, whoever you would've been"
* Flobots' song [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuK2A1ZqoWs "Handlebars"] can actually be depressing; [[Word of God|according to the music video]], it's about {{spoiler|two brothers going off on different paths: one becomes a protester with little money but happy nonetheless, the other becomes an evil, power hungry dictator who accidentally kills his brother during a political protest gone riot}}.
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{{quote| "I hope you noticed how much I loved you<br />
How could they take my sunshine away?" }}
* [[Exactly What It Says
* "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQsoAGgrh9g How can it be? I can taste you now...]" Damn you Goldfrapp, damn you...
* Jean-Jacques Goldman:
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He drank, but finally drowned in his sorrow..." }}
* Jennifer Hudson's "Can't Stop The Rain" is a song about drink driving, and is quite depressing.
* Hussalonia's latest release, "The Somewhat Surprising Return of the Hussalonia Robot Singers" is made up of songs sung by synthetic robot voices. The first track is hilarious, the second one is hilarious bordering on creepy, and all subsequent tracks are either [[Tear Jerkers]] or at least very disturbing. Special mention goes to "I Can Still Wave," which features the most Woobie-ish robot since [[The
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etw3aSumBEU "My First Friend"] by Hyadain. BAWWWW ;_;
* "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wM0puiA4c3w Just For Today]" by Hybrid. Despite being instrumental, it can give one the feeling of a [[Hopeless War]] and a [[Last Stand]]. But [[Your Mileage May Vary]] for most of you out there.
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Or the plans we'd made<br />
To go to New York City? }}
* "Aria" by Kalafina, especially in the context of the 4th [[
{{quote| "From within the endless darkness<br />
The bonfire you gave me<br />
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*** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boqUczdbjh4 "Stan"] by Eminem serves as one, since it runs very much like six minute story (or eight minutes for the longer version).
* "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ImiqaXBMkM Marvin, I Love You]" by Marvin might be hard to hear all the way through without getting teary eyed.
* "Gone" by [[
* The often clinical, sinister [[Everything Is an Instrument]] electronic duo Matmos have "For Felix (And All The Rats)", a tribute to their deceased pet played on the bars of his cage. It is almost impossible to not cry while listening to it.
* "Gravedigger", off Dave Matthews' solo album.
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* Her version done of "Marvin, I Love You" on her Christmas album ''A Winter Garden'' is even especially heart-rending thanks to her haunting instrumentation, gorgeous voice, and vibrato.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnGeHR-jveY Lover is Childlike by The Low Anthem]. The fact that it was written for The Hunger Games soundtrack, and fits well with {{spoiler|Finnick and Annie's}} love story (and we all know how that ends) just makes it worse.
* [[
* "Over It" by Katherine McPhee can have some people bawling even after the song ends.
* "Streets of London" by Ralph McTell. "One more forgotten hero, and a world that doesn't care...."
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* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Unms0DvGg_Q For Jo] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNjG1Cx-tW8 Fight or Flight] These two songs by [[Riddle TM]] The video with clips from the films make it more tear inducing.
* Some people may find themselves bawling at Sam Roberts' "Hard Road".
* "Shine Your Light" by Robbie Robertson. Thanks to a beautiful fanvid done to honor Doyle from ''[[
{{quote| "I thought I saw him walking by the side of the road<br />
Maybe trying to find his way home..." }}
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* "Runaway Train" from Soul Asylum is quite depressing because of the theme of the song, and also at the end of the video if you know that not all the (real) runaways that are shown got a happy ending.
* Something Coporate's 'Konstantine'. Near the end, all he says is, "Did you know I missed you?"
* 'Bad Days' by [[
* "Collapse" by Sparta. If the [http://www.plyrics.com/lyrics/sparta/collapse.html shockingly dark lyrics] don't do you in, the cello out of nowhere at precisely the right moment will.
* "Some Fantastic Place" by Squeeze. It can be hard make it to the guitar solo without breaking down and crying.
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* "Cry" by System F, featuring Saskia Lie Atjam on vocals. The original is sad enough, but the Rank 1 remix takes the cake.
* A rather obscure example, but "Read Me" by Tearwave.
** "Shattered Fairytale", [[Exactly What It Says
* [[They Might Be Giants]]' "I've Got a Match" can do it for some.
** As well as "Destination Moon". There might be other ways to interpret the song -- but one possible interpretation is about a perpetually sick and crippled person constructing delusional fantasies about stuff they know deep down they'll never be able to do.
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* "Tong Hua (Fairy Tale)" by Michael Wong. The [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3Na7ZNoAcE music video] will make you cry. You don't even need to know what the words mean.
** Alternative link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gz82_6hPrgI
* Yes, even comedy musician ''[["Weird Al" Yankovic
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNo8LvdOwSk "Skipper Dan"], amid the theater and Disney references, is a surprisingly sad tale of a man whose dreams of success and fame were shattered by reality, leaving him in an endless rut working day to day to pay the bills and deal with his depression. Not nearly as tragic as other examples on this list, but far more likely to hit close to home...
** "You Don't Love Me Anymore" might be far worse. Not only is the music genuinely sad, but it's about his girlfriend's attempts to murder him. The lyrics are intended to be humourous, but occasional lyrics like "you're still the light of life" and "my scars are all healing but my heart never will" implying the singer still loves the subject of the song might still bring tears to one's eyes.
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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 [[wikipedia:Sprung Monkey|Sprung Monkey]]. A song about, well, [[Exactly What It Says
{{quote| Cause you're always there<br />
And it's always right<br />
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