Has prog ever made you cry?

though i know all this its just a escape , i run because i dont know where the prison lies , in songs like this i cant bear the weight , im running still i shall until one they i hope ill arrive.
Peter Hammill


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The Wall's build-up of emotions... wow

Prog made me cry with how dumb it is

this one is a beautiful, emotional crier

A number of tracks can make me well up, especially if I'm already in a sad or introspective mood...

The end of Fly on a Windshield/Broadway Melody (something similar to post-sex crying, shamefully enough, after all that build-up and eventual resolution), Celestial Elixir by Haken (OH GOD), Moon in June by Soft Machine (homesickness), Don't Give Up and Here Comes the Flood by Peter Gabriel, to name but a few.

The best one I can remember, though, was at a Karmakanic gig, as it drew to a close. I didn't know that they played any non-Karmakanic songs at all, so as Afterglow rang out, I listened curiously to the first few bars, finally placed it, then burst into awful, choking tears.

BIg Big Train's title track "the Underfall Yard" brought me to tears after I read more about the song and what it was about. The song is an ode to a famous 19th century Civil Engineer from the UK. My Dad was a civil engineer, and he is slowly dying of kidney failure at age 90.

Edited by aldri7 - March 20 2013 at 17:12

This one brings to memory a lot of things... see if you can restrain yourself, has to be one of the albums of the year

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUoR-LxLrpE

There are a number of tunes that reduce me to tears every time, firstly, 'Big Ship' by Cardiacs, 'Stoneage Dinasours', also by Cardiacs and the last section of 'The Lake' from Mike Oldfield's 'Discovery' album.

Edited by grasshopperman - April 07 2013 at 05:24

^Like this poster said, sometimes it's circumstantial to the mood I'm in, but there are a couple that are guaranteed to have that effect. 

The first section of Starless by King Crimson

In the Rapids by Genesis

The first movement of A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers by VDGG

The beginning and end of A Louse is Not a Home by Peter Hammill

Isolation Years by Opeth

The end of Close to the Edge by Yes

The Raven that Refused to Sing by Steven Wilson, especially with the video.

There are probably a few more out there, but these are the ones that come to my mind immediately, so they're likely the ones that have the greatest impact on me.

Edited by Neo-Romantic - April 08 2013 at 00:21

The end of Anesthetize by Porcupine Tree gets to me.  Also, not necessarily prog, but Tori Amos' 'Winter' is the saddest song I can recall.