What is it about music that makes me want to cry sometimes?

Question:

What is it about music that makes me want to cry sometimes?

Even the Star Spangled Banner or America the Beautiful will turn on the tears....a special hymn in Church...a slow sweet song on the radio.... Elvis's song "In the Ghetto" is very sad....and makes me cry... I am not a "crier" and very seldom cry at anything else, but just wondering if music affects anyone else like this.... thanks

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Always!! It's probably just because that song reminds you of something... wether it's from your childhood, your family, friends, an event that recently happened, or just from things you heard on the news about gangs, and the war, and other shootings and tragic moments! Your human, you have feelings! LET EM OUT!! =D

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OMG!! LISTEN TO THIS SONG!! http://youtube.com/watch?v=wgafa8ng8s8...

IT'S SO BEAUTIFUL!!! I LUVVE IT! sweet emotion It also effects me sometimes I dont cry but I get sad inside but dont show it. Glad I could help.

?▲**Moi**▲? I know exactly what you're saying! I don't ever cry, but when I hear a slow or moving song I just want to ball my eyes out! I think it just has something to do with relieving stress. Because I usually feel better after hearing that kind of song! Your not alone -im a boy by the way... I feel like an idiot when it happens but it just does. Its weird... ;-) im usually a tough person, but some songs like "any other world" by MIKA and "apologize" but one republic and "wounds" by good charlotte reallyyy get me crying lol

the video for how to save a life makes me cry too along with those postsecret montages on youtube haha. you arent alone! Awww you are a rare breed. You see what it is we are sometimes gifted enough to create. Good bad and the ugly. I'm happy at your sadness. (sorry) But you just made me feel better about what I do. Thanks lol romance Cool, aye and a sensitive young lady she be. ;0) I dont know, I feel like im somewhere out of myself, like im entwined in beautiful instruments, sad or happy songs normally makes me highly emotional to a point of crying! its called being a human & being comfortable with your emotions. Ps. crying once in a while is healthy too, cleans your eyes! Wow, this is funny, I was just singing The Star-Spangled Banner yesterday and choking up. For me, it was the seamless poetry of the lyrics combined with the stirring melody: it doesn't slap you in the face with obvious rhymes like "love" and "dove." It embodies the highest ideals, the essence of what it means to be American. The third verse, especially, with its appeal to "the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation" is especially touching, because it really puts the struggles our country has gone through in perspective, and gives us hope for the future. That's just one example. Hymns like "Rock of Ages" or pop songs like "Collide" can make me well up, too. It's all about the quality of the lyrics, tune, and memories associated with it.

I am similar to you: I don't cry during "cute" movies or whatever. Music, I think, has more power to stir the soul than any other medium. Music is highly emotional, and it is connected so firmly with memories in the brain (especially among women, whose brains make more numerous connections), that those memories are instantly invoked when we hear the strains of the chords. Many people can remember the song that was playing when they first danced with their high school crush, or the wedding song, or the hymn played at their grandma's funeral. So yes, you are not alone. I think these are good quotations showing the connection between music and our emotions:

"Where words fail, music speaks."
-Hans Christian Andersen

"Music, because of its specific and far-reaching metaphorical powers, can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.
-Leonard Bernstein Hi .Me too ! Even the ghetto song, I love it, but the way he sings it, is sad. I dont even listen to music anymore, because I cant controll the way sad songs make me feel, I notice that alot of oldies take me back to my childhood , with my 1st. love, friends, brother, which is dead, & I wish he were here, etc... the other side of not listening to music is: i dont have energy like I use to when an upbeat song would come on. So I feel ya. I know what you mean. take care. It feels good to know someone else feels the way I do. Next time I here Ghetto, I"ll think of ya, & think its O.K. its an emotional song. I think depends on what a person has experienced in life when comes to lyrics,the person that singing it and the emotions they express when they are singing of playing it. We as human pretty much have the same emotions. So yes I am a member of the same club. Some music appeals to us at our most primal levels; perhaps we associate it with a special event (Nicole Mullins' "My Redeemer Lives" will forever be associated with my dad because his daughter-in-law Martha and step-niece Catrine sang it at his memorial; Shania Twain's "From This Moment" was the song at our wedding) or we're so drawn into the music -- not necessarily the singer -- that we can't help but respond. Patriotic songs are especially designed with this in mind.