Songs That Make Me Look Like A Blubbering Idiot

Posted on 03.19.08 in Family Parenthood and there are 10 comments.

(Parent’s University is on Spring Break this week. Classes will resume next week with some really fun stuff.)

I am a woman. I’ve been pregnant three times. I have three small kids. I don’t watch much on tv besides sports, so my drama-o-meter can be set off pretty easily.

Bottom line? I cry easy.

Hallmark commercials. March Madness. A great song…

I have been known to drive through Waco sobbing and talking to my radio. I cry at any song remotely family related.

Here are a few songs that have sent me on a tissue hunt lately.

Steven Curtis Chapman

Thanks to Los, earlier this evening, I sat on my couch with tears streaming down my face. He posted a video with a song by Steven Curtis Chapman called Cinderella. For some reason, I hadn’t heard it before and after a rough day with my girls, it broke me.

Here’s the song:

Mark Schultz

I think this man is out to get me.

Seriously. I think that part of his songwriting process is, “How can I make Kat look like a an emotional basketcase while driving to Target?”

Do you doubt me? Let me provide some proof.

Exhibit A:
Let’s see there’s the song about the woman whose son went off to war.

Exhibit B:
Then there’s the one about a father whose son has cancer.

Exhibit C:
And the man who lost his wife after 60 years together:

I’ve pretty much come to expect something emotional to happen by the end of any Mark Schultz song. If I don’t prepare myself - I lose it.

Okay. Fine. I lose it anyway. Whatev.

Tim McGraw

This song never made me cry before, but it was on our Shuffle the other day when I went for a run.

Did you know it’s really hard to cry and run at the same time?

Yup.

The last verse struck me because that’s what happened when The Smallest Person was born almost a year ago - so yeah, I cried.

While running.

To a Tim McGraw song.

I am so cool.

So, if you see a weepy half filipino, fashion challenged, suburban mom who doesn’t have a nose ring but still thinks she wants one, driving a minivan with red eyes and tissues stuck up her nose, you can probably guess what the songs are on the radio.

Are there any songs that make you tear up?

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Breath of Heaven (Amy Grant)

Arise (I don’t care for the commercial versions, but I’ve heard some good tenors at live performances)

I Will Be There (Steven Curtis Chapman)

Take This World From Me (not sure of title--Mercy Me)

Most of the love songs from Broadway musicals

You are SO funny! 

I like that Cinderella song--it made me cry the first time I heard it.  Then I made my husband listen to it and his response was basically, “Oh.  That’s an interesting song.” Um...seriously?  You’re not going to cry and get all emotional about how we only have such a short time with our kids?  You’re not going to run to find the kids as quickly as you can to give them a hug?  That’s right.  Cuz I’m the girl, not him! 

I find myself tearing up much more as I get older...not saying that you’re getting old or anything… just a personal observation.

This song makes me smile and almost tear up, strange combo. (don’t know the folks in the video, just liked the song version better than some others)

http://youtube.com/watch?v=cjuKfUQ17vs

...oh, and I don’t even have a daughter.

These songs are definite tear jerkers...I also am a cryer!!!  Tim also has the one about a man who is dying of cancer...I think.  “Live Like You are Dying” Definitely a two boxer!!  (of tissues, that is)

I guess I moved past the tough guy thing a few years ago, now I sometimes do the same thing.

My Pooh girl’s fiance was killed in a car wreck on the way to our house 3 years ago.  At his funeral they played that Mercy Me song, “I can only imagine” and it was a horribly depressing funeral. 

Capitan of the power lifting team, he and my daughter taught a junior high discipleship class, one of the best looking kids you have ever seen, no joke, a God-lover, he was a kid you dream of your daughter marrying. 

I cannot hear that song without tears flowing.

And that “Breath of Heaven” song gets me too.

Stealing Cinderella by Chuck Wicks. I can hear 2 words and start tearing up.. tell me you’ve heard it~

I’m with you on Don’t take the girl… I used to SOB HYSTERICALLY every time it came on.

it boils down to basically anything that makes me think about my girls (or people dying)

My mom’s best friend, and MY “other mother” lost her battle with cancer about 8 years ago.  At Leslie’s memorial service, another close friend sang “It is Well” SO BEAUTIFULLY.  It was something that Leslie had asked for.  She actually planned out the entire service before she died, so everything was especially personal and touching… Anyway, I cannot even hum the tune to “It is Well” without being moved to tears.  And I’ve left the room many times when it gets sung because I simply cannot control myself.  I really miss that woman.  And I don’t know if I’ll EVER be able to sing that song through!

Seeing as I’m 33 weeks pregnant pretty much anything makes me cry these days.

I do agree that Mark Shultz is out to get me as well. He is an amazing song writer.

OK, I am going to have to remove you from my favorites if you keep doing this. I just listend to Mark Schultz “Walking Her Home”. Tears are flowing. DH’s tears are flowing. I was OK until the end.

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