This may seem weird - but earlier - Time Waits For No One was on - when I was a kid - a dog of our was stolen - TWFNO was the song in '77 I equated with the tragedy - it just seemed so poignant - today when i hear it - I think of mortality - friends I have lost - friends who are sick - family growing up - and I admit it - this song puts tears in my eyes.

(why am i telling you people this?)

(oh, right - because I really like a lot of you people)

anyway.

anyone?

when voodoo lounge came out, "sweethearts together" made me cry, you know,
mick and keith singing it to each other "we've only just begun"

streets of love...but not a good kind of crying

There are so many Stones songs that have that affect.
The first I remember hearing that made me feel like that was Angie...
Then getting to know their music better, I can only add to the list:
Wild Horses
Waiting on a Friend
Blinded by Rainbows
How Can I Stop
Following the River
Salt of the Earth
Fool to Cry

Thanks for starting this thread. It's good to remember the sweet & sentimental songs they've written and recorded.



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Most of the Stones songs since Tattoo You to tell you the truth.

The last song The Stones sing live will always make me cry.Whatever that song might be it will end up going from a song that puts a spring in ya step because I love all The Stones songs to one that makes ya want to stay in bed all day

Well, TWFNO does give me a somewhat nostalgic feel, the passage of time, etc...
but it's Taylor's solo that does that, certain notes and phrases.
Others are Child Of The Moon, Sittin' On A Fence, Till The Next Goodbye, New Faces,
and Keith's We Had It All.

...that truncheon song always make me eyes well up...

ROCKMAN

I taught her everything
How to read and write
I taught her all she knows
She was a neophyte
I taught her everything
I loved to watch her grow
I taught her everything
And now I want to see her go

I taught her everything
I taught her how to cheat
I taught her all she knows
She was so indiscreet
I taught her everything
I taught her how to lie
I taught her everything
Now I'm gonna teach her how to cry

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The last song The Stones sing live

i wept with gratitude for the three years of shows during Brown Sugar at the final show of the ABB tour -
that was a strange sensation: weeping and going yeah yeah yeah wooo at the same time

at home, We Had It All does me in

winter

Interesting question, hbwriter!

I would have to say....the closest I might come to tears re: Stones' songs would have to be "You Got the Silver," and perhaps "Loving Cup."

Both because they're such open-hearted songs, such non-cynical celebrations. And I appreciate both Mick and Keith for going for it on these songs.

So that'd be ---tho I don't recall them literally being--- tears of joy/gratitude.

And tears of sorrow/ennui? It would have to be that one part of Angie...

"Angie, I still love you baby. Everywhere I look, I see your eyes. Ain't another woman that comes cah-LOSE to you"

Kills me every time. And (as I've said before on iorr) no other song before or after--anywhere, anytime--captures that very specific response to the most wrenching ending of a relationship. The ambivalence about ending, the unrelenting reminders of what you most closely were drawn to, that unique aspect of your lover, the eyes, and sort of misplaced anger at the other person because, regardless of who or what initiated it, it's going to be damn hard if not impossible to replace them.

- swiss

Most of the Stones songs since Sticky Fingers to tell you the truth.



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winter

My (only) choice, too!

Ruby Tuesday and Wild Horses.

Hands down, their greatest ballads.

@#$%& blues!

And songs that make you laugh..?

Cocksuker blues

Start Me Up

"Through the Lonely Nights"
Keith singing "Somewhere over the Rainbow"
"Loving Cup" - love the high harmonies on the last word in each line "....come on uuuup"
In "Can you hear the music" the one line "trouble disappear" also gets me.

There's no crying in rock and roll. If you need a good cry, try these.












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Their original classic "As Tears Go By" always did and always will....Ruby Tuesday comes very close!

WOW Chris,this one really hits home ,Me and my first wife song was Angie,she was Stones fan like me,when she passed away,at the church where we had the services,l had the Minister mention our love for that song and he quoted the lines "all the dreams we had so closed,seemed to go up in in smoke", so everytime l hear that song it does bring tears to my eyes,as a tribute to her and our times together l did a video of our years together,using Angie as the soundtrack,althouht l had to use an instrumental version,since youtube claimed l was violating some copyright laws,anyway that's the one that does it for me..

We Had it All...no others



'some things, well, I can't refuse'

None........music don't make me cry.............I can feel happy when I hear music .....but cry!!!

nice call on satie tatters. angie for sure and agree about everything after 1980

funny, this just made me fill up yesterday...few know Chaplin wrote the melody:






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Start Me Up

I presume that makes you a 'grown man'?

'Angel in my heart', my wife passed away last October and she wanted an angel theme for her funeral, this fitted perfectly so now every time i hear it I think of her.

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steffiestones
winter

Winter makes me melancholic ...Hopefully no Stones songs made me cry yet .