Best Songs That Make You Cry

The Top Ten
1 Teaching Angels How to Fly - Jackie Evancho

Jackie Evancho has the unique ability to make the toughest of tough guys cry totally unashamed.
Bikers, truckers, ex-military, all of them are reaching for the kleenex at Jackie Evancho concerts.
This song, about a young girl named Kimberly who died, is from Jackie Evancho's first CD, "Prelude To A Dream", but she has any number of songs since then that easily make grown men cry.

This is from Jackie's first album "Prelude To A Dream", self-released months before her appearance on the 5th season of America's Got Talent. The album was withdrawn upon her signing with SYCO/SONY records. It was indeed a prelude to the dream that she is still sharing with us.

This song written by Nashville's James Breedwell and exclusive Jackie Evancho original is a tearful story of a little girl who died at just 9 years old, and Mr. Breedwell was asked to write this song, in turn, Jackie was asked to sing... This was the very first song I heard her sing at age 9 on her "Prelude to a Dream" CD... Totally blew my mind.. Thank you Jackie and Mr. Breedwell

Concrete Angel, also from the Prelude to a Dream album, is also a powerfully emotional song, written by Martina McBride.
Jackie is simply the best at making her listeners cry.

2 Hurt - Johnny Cash

The original version by Nine Inch Nails is good, but this one is way more better. I just cry every time I hear this.

When I first herd it I was crying for 8 minutes

Its incredible

3 Tears in Heaven - Eric Clapton

I know that this is just a stupid internet list and I shouldn't care but, why is this not number 1? He wrote this song when his son fell out of a window and died. It reminds us of all the loved ones we know that have passed(for me it is my dog I had know since I was a kid. Who we had to put down because she just got to that age that dogs reach quicker than we do) and I know that is comment is way to long but.

Everything that is emotional will wake me cry but when I hear this song I think of the guilt he has and how it would feel I now love this song

Seriously not number 1?

4 Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd

Shine on You Crazy Diamond and Welcome to the Machine from the album are much more cry-inducing.

This should be higher

5 Open Fields of Grace - Jackie Evancho

Last night I saw you running
In the open fields of grace
No longer were you broken or in pain
The wind blew kisses through your hair
You laughed with beauty unaware
I wish I could be there with you

The high notes in this song sound really like coming from the open fields of grace, surely not from this world

I love this song so much! It's a song of freedom.

6 Wake Me Up When September Ends - Green Day

This is such an emotional song. I'm so proud of Billie Joe for being able to perform this song over and over again.

7 Skinny Love - Birdy

Skinny Love is a really sad song. It was my first listening to that song and it made my heart burst into tears. The singer Birdy, is a really good singer. When you listen to the song beware the it will exactly make to cry.

This song is really sad, I don't really cry at it but it does make me sad, her voice and words tell a story

8 Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppelin

It makes me cry because during this song my crush was dancing with another Girl.

A very sad song. Whether the melody or the text.

9 Saturn - Sleeping at Last
10 Cancer - My Chemical Romance

This song makes me cry every time I hear and/or sing it!

I cried so hard listening to this

The Contenders
11 Nightswimming - R.E.M.

The lyrics, vocals, and music each convey the pain of remembering when you were young and knowing those days are long gone. A beautiful, tear-jerking, and underrated song.

12 21 Guns - Green Day

This is the first Green Day song I ever heard. It makes me want to cry with joy and sadness at the same time (Wake me up when September ends is also very sad, but this has a lower place so I'm voting for it).

13 My Immortal - Evanescence

Jackie Evancho sucks, sorry but she is really overrated! Screw you BobG and Trancas! Why she is number 1 every time? She is really sucks and not impressive. But Evanescence is the best. Amy Lee is makes me cry every time. And this song namely My Immortal, most saddest song ever.

I'm a big EvFan and this song legendary. Makes me cry because it's very touching, sad piano, angelic voice (Amy) and the tune...
Best song ever! Jackie and she's songs is really really overrated!
Come on everyone, vote, vote please, My Immortal is easily number 1, enough said. Evanescence forever!

So sorry everyone but,
Jackie Evancho is bad;
Avenged Sevenfold is bad (Except for Seize The Day and So Far Away, are really good and sad songs :D );
Linkin Park is BAD!
Sorry, The all sad songs can not be identical with this song. My Immortal is the best.
Most crying song of all time. Enough said.

Very heart wrenching and touching song,
It is make you cry everyday, every time and every moment!
Evanescence all the way!

What is this? That should be number 1. Most sadness and cryiest song ever. Amy's haunting voice, piano and sound is make you cry.

Honestly, Best song ever. How this song is so low?

Come on Evanescence fans, vote for them.
My Immortal is very sad and make you cry every time. Please vote for this song.

14 When She Loved Me - Sarah McLachlan

The song from Toy Story 2

15 Seize The Day - Avenged Sevenfold
16 Elizabeth on the Bathroom Floor - Eels
17 Last Kiss - Pearl Jam
18 Manta Ray - J. Ralph and Antony
19 Anchor - Novo Amor
20 Yesterday - The Beatles
21 Imagine - John Lennon

Greatest song of all time!

22 Don't Cry - Guns 'n Roses

One the best Guns N' Roses songs ever!

23 Things the Grandchildren Should Know - Eels
24 I'm Not Okay (I Promise) - My Chemical Romance
25 High Hopes - Pink Floyd
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