Winds of Change- Scorpions.
Because of what it's about- the fall of communism in Europe and the Berlin wall coming down, written by someone with first hand experienced it. There was a lot of emotion behind it, so it's a very powerful song.
Le Ciel- Malice Mizer.
Quite a strange one in that I'm not entirely sure why this gets me like it does- I'm not 100% on what it's about (It's in Japanese, which doesn't always translate into English very well, so the only translations I could get aren't completely clear and lose a lot of the effect). It's mostly the hollow, depressed tone of the singers voice, as well as the visuals in the video (starts with a bedraggled young girl walking through- well, I think it's meant to be purgatory but it looks more like a city after a Nuclear Attack- and ending with the same girl looking sadly at various scenes, before being taken 'on', I suppose, by the singer) that get me.
Various- X Japan.
Tearjerker city, although as its mostly bits of songs and live performances that get me I couldn't really out on particular song. The beginning lyrics of Art of Life, the performance of Forever Love in the Last Live where half the band breaks down in tears, the line in Jade "Your Scars are Beautiful" (God, I wish I knew what that song was about!), The bit in the IV where they disply hide's guitar... just little tidbits that choke you up, all over the place...
Infection- D'espairsray.
This song it's cheesy and cliched as hell and the Engrish is horrible- but somehow, it still works, and the first time I heard it, I welled up.
Empty Walls- Serj Tankian.
It doesn't make me cry, but it does send shivers down my spine, even now, after I've heard it so many times. The video- children acting out war with toys- makes it worse, although the lyrics- begging someone not to go to war- are strong enough on their own. In fact, anti-war songs usually get me, to the point where I like them even if they're of a genre I don't tend to listen to. I love Nerina Pallot's indie-pop song Everybody's Gone To War just for the lyrics, Nena's 99 luftballon/99 red ballons is also growing on me, despite being, well, just pop. And John and Yoko's War Is Over still touches me a bit even though that type of music has really never, ever been for me.