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* Music/{{Creed}}'s "With Arms Wide Open", about a man welcoming his newborn into the world:
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* ''Teddy Bear'' by Red Sovine is a heartwarming narrative about a trucker talking to a paraplegic boy over a ham radio whose father had died in a trucking accident and dreams of riding in an 18 wheeler one day. The song tells of the narrator trying hard not to cry as he promises to make the little biy's dream come true. By the end of the song, you can hear him start to break down as the song cuts out.
-->I tried hard to swallow a lump just wouldn't stay down
-->As I thought about my boy back in Greenville town
-->I tried hard to swallow a lump just wouldn't stay down
-->As I thought about my boy back in Greenville town
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ManlyTears in music.
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* "Cry Like A Man" by Dan Penn (covered by Christy Moore):
-->Those deep emotions you keep in the dark\\
If you don't let them out they're going to freeze up your heart\\
You'll never be in love again\\
Until you cry like a man
* "Rise" by Music/{{Disturbed}} is basically about the energy of a performance. It ends on this note:
-->I cannot stop this\\
Pure emotion\\
Falling from my eyes\\
You were vindicating, liberating\\
Saviors of my soul
* "Man Enough to Cry" by Music/{{Accept}}
-->I am man enough to cry\\
Hearts are burning\\
I am man enough to cry
* "Growing Young" by Rich Mullins
-->And everybody used to tell me big boys don't cry\\
Well I've been around enough to know that that was the lie\\
That held back the tears in the eyes of a thousand prodigal sons\\
Well we are children no more, we have sinned and grown old\\
And our Father still waits and He watches down the road\\
To see the crying boys come running back to His arms
* The title track to the [[ChristianRock Lost Dogs]] album, ''Real Men Cry''
-->Do real men cry?\\
I never thought that it was true\\
Maybe I could tough this one out\\
Be strong enough to make it through\\
But now there's tears in the eyes of this stubborn fool\\
Do real men cry?\\
Baby, now you know that real men do
** The album title is also a DoubleMeaningTitle; while the song is ostensibly about a romantic relationship, the album ''Real Men Cry'' was the first album released after the death of founding member Gene "Eugene" Andrusco.
* "Grown Men Don't Cry" by Tim [=McGraw=] is actually an aversion of the MenDontCry trope. The singer describes several sad scenes, including bumping into a homeless family and [[WellDoneSonGuy having a bad relationship]] with his now deceased father, and the chorus is, "I don't know why they say grown men don't cry" which implies that ManlyTears are being shed at each of these instances.
* Music/{{Creed}}'s "With Arms Wide Open", about a man welcoming his newborn into the world:
-->Well I just heard the news today\\
It seems my life is gonna change\\
I close my eyes, [[RealMenLoveJesus begin to pray,]]\\
And tears of joy stream down my face
* "I Heard it through the Grapevine", when sung by a man:
-->I know a man ain't supposed to cry\\
But these tears I can't hold inside\\
Losing you would end my life, you see\\
'cause you mean that much to me
* "Teargas" by Katatonia:
-->What is it in my eyes\\
A piece of broken glass\\
Is this the time I should be on my knees for you\\
Is this your way of telling\\
Another has been found\\
Now I know it's teargas in my eyes
* "Boys Don't Cry" by KCAT. The singer states that "it takes a real man to show you what's inside", and that the difference between a boy and a man is that boys are too afraid to show who they are.
* "Tell Me Why" by Music/TheBeatles:
-->If it's something that I've said or done\\
Tell me what and I'll apologise\\
If you don't I really can't go on\\
Holding back these tears in my eyes
* From the Music/JonathanCoulton song "Soft Rocked by Me":
-->Have you ever been in love with a man who's sensitive?\\
Have you ever spent the night with a man who cries?\\
Well that's me, I'm sensitive\\
And I cry, I'm crying right now\\
In a manly way
* Music/RedHotChiliPeppers' song "Under the Bridge":
--> Sometimes I feel like I don't have a partner
--> Sometimes I feel like my only friend
--> Is the city I live in, the City of Angels
--> Lonely as I am, together we cry
* Music/BruceSpringsteen worked on the studio version of "Land Of Hope and Dreams" after the death of saxophonist Clarence Clemons. Since Clemons wasn't there, a pre-recorded version of his solo was added to the record. Springsteen said later that he cried when he first heard the completed version of the song.
** In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWOZotnFhLA this performance from the 2000 "Reunion" show in New York]] Bruce himself starts to cry as he is singing.
** This live version of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5-QMHFiIA4 "Blood Brothers"]] from the E Street Reunion Tour; he's really fighting to stay composed during the last verse.
* Korean boy band MBLAQ's song ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UggIMs8pdE Cry'']] is all about this. The music video features every member shedding very dramatic manly tears in the rain.
* Referenced in ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnFO5l63BGI "Could you please oblige us with a Bren gun?"]], a comedic UsefulNotes/WorldWarII song by Creator/NoelCoward. Colonel Montmorency apparently shed such at the thought of the Home Guard's lack of proper weapons.
* The first verse of Terri Clark's "Everybody's Gotta Go Sometime" is about an 18-year-old girl leaving home and contains the line, "It's the first time she's seen her daddy cry."
* Inspired by a newspaper article lauding the medical-technological advances made possible by the Iraq War, and nowhere mentioning the pain and anguish of the wounded soldiers, Music/NeilYoung wrote several of the songs in 2006's ''Living with War'', including "Families" -- about a dead soldier's spirit reaching out to his loved ones -- in a few hours. He called his wife to play them for her but was crying so hard he couldn't sing or speak. On the "Raw" version you can hear him crying as he sings.
* [[Music/NineInchNails Trent Reznor]] openly admitted to shedding tears when he first heard Music/JohnnyCash's cover of [[Music/TheDownwardSpiral "Hurt".]]
* While it's unclear if his song "Cry" is asking a man or a woman to "cry on [his] shoulder", James Blunt himself often looks/sounds like he's genuinely ''this close'' to breaking down sobbing during live performances, especially of the songs [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTbMvm6CPxE "Goodbye My Lover"]], which makes a break-up sound like the singer is a newly bereaved widower, and particularly the anti-war song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PstoHzMPNkI "No Bravery"]]. Note that while James Blunt may not exactly look like the manliest of men, he really is a war veteran, so the latter song was probably written from personal experience.
* Creator/WillSmith says there's no shame in this in his version of "Just The Two Of Us", which he sings to his son Creator/JadenSmith.
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* "Cry Like A Man" by Dan Penn (covered by Christy Moore):
-->Those deep emotions you keep in the dark\\
If you don't let them out they're going to freeze up your heart\\
You'll never be in love again\\
Until you cry like a man
* "Rise" by Music/{{Disturbed}} is basically about the energy of a performance. It ends on this note:
-->I cannot stop this\\
Pure emotion\\
Falling from my eyes\\
You were vindicating, liberating\\
Saviors of my soul
* "Man Enough to Cry" by Music/{{Accept}}
-->I am man enough to cry\\
Hearts are burning\\
I am man enough to cry
* "Growing Young" by Rich Mullins
-->And everybody used to tell me big boys don't cry\\
Well I've been around enough to know that that was the lie\\
That held back the tears in the eyes of a thousand prodigal sons\\
Well we are children no more, we have sinned and grown old\\
And our Father still waits and He watches down the road\\
To see the crying boys come running back to His arms
* The title track to the [[ChristianRock Lost Dogs]] album, ''Real Men Cry''
-->Do real men cry?\\
I never thought that it was true\\
Maybe I could tough this one out\\
Be strong enough to make it through\\
But now there's tears in the eyes of this stubborn fool\\
Do real men cry?\\
Baby, now you know that real men do
** The album title is also a DoubleMeaningTitle; while the song is ostensibly about a romantic relationship, the album ''Real Men Cry'' was the first album released after the death of founding member Gene "Eugene" Andrusco.
* "Grown Men Don't Cry" by Tim [=McGraw=] is actually an aversion of the MenDontCry trope. The singer describes several sad scenes, including bumping into a homeless family and [[WellDoneSonGuy having a bad relationship]] with his now deceased father, and the chorus is, "I don't know why they say grown men don't cry" which implies that ManlyTears are being shed at each of these instances.
* Music/{{Creed}}'s "With Arms Wide Open", about a man welcoming his newborn into the world:
-->Well I just heard the news today\\
It seems my life is gonna change\\
I close my eyes, [[RealMenLoveJesus begin to pray,]]\\
And tears of joy stream down my face
* "I Heard it through the Grapevine", when sung by a man:
-->I know a man ain't supposed to cry\\
But these tears I can't hold inside\\
Losing you would end my life, you see\\
'cause you mean that much to me
* "Teargas" by Katatonia:
-->What is it in my eyes\\
A piece of broken glass\\
Is this the time I should be on my knees for you\\
Is this your way of telling\\
Another has been found\\
Now I know it's teargas in my eyes
* "Boys Don't Cry" by KCAT. The singer states that "it takes a real man to show you what's inside", and that the difference between a boy and a man is that boys are too afraid to show who they are.
* "Tell Me Why" by Music/TheBeatles:
-->If it's something that I've said or done\\
Tell me what and I'll apologise\\
If you don't I really can't go on\\
Holding back these tears in my eyes
* From the Music/JonathanCoulton song "Soft Rocked by Me":
-->Have you ever been in love with a man who's sensitive?\\
Have you ever spent the night with a man who cries?\\
Well that's me, I'm sensitive\\
And I cry, I'm crying right now\\
In a manly way
* Music/RedHotChiliPeppers' song "Under the Bridge":
--> Sometimes I feel like I don't have a partner
--> Sometimes I feel like my only friend
--> Is the city I live in, the City of Angels
--> Lonely as I am, together we cry
* Music/BruceSpringsteen worked on the studio version of "Land Of Hope and Dreams" after the death of saxophonist Clarence Clemons. Since Clemons wasn't there, a pre-recorded version of his solo was added to the record. Springsteen said later that he cried when he first heard the completed version of the song.
** In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWOZotnFhLA this performance from the 2000 "Reunion" show in New York]] Bruce himself starts to cry as he is singing.
** This live version of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5-QMHFiIA4 "Blood Brothers"]] from the E Street Reunion Tour; he's really fighting to stay composed during the last verse.
* Korean boy band MBLAQ's song ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UggIMs8pdE Cry'']] is all about this. The music video features every member shedding very dramatic manly tears in the rain.
* Referenced in ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnFO5l63BGI "Could you please oblige us with a Bren gun?"]], a comedic UsefulNotes/WorldWarII song by Creator/NoelCoward. Colonel Montmorency apparently shed such at the thought of the Home Guard's lack of proper weapons.
* The first verse of Terri Clark's "Everybody's Gotta Go Sometime" is about an 18-year-old girl leaving home and contains the line, "It's the first time she's seen her daddy cry."
* Inspired by a newspaper article lauding the medical-technological advances made possible by the Iraq War, and nowhere mentioning the pain and anguish of the wounded soldiers, Music/NeilYoung wrote several of the songs in 2006's ''Living with War'', including "Families" -- about a dead soldier's spirit reaching out to his loved ones -- in a few hours. He called his wife to play them for her but was crying so hard he couldn't sing or speak. On the "Raw" version you can hear him crying as he sings.
* [[Music/NineInchNails Trent Reznor]] openly admitted to shedding tears when he first heard Music/JohnnyCash's cover of [[Music/TheDownwardSpiral "Hurt".]]
* While it's unclear if his song "Cry" is asking a man or a woman to "cry on [his] shoulder", James Blunt himself often looks/sounds like he's genuinely ''this close'' to breaking down sobbing during live performances, especially of the songs [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTbMvm6CPxE "Goodbye My Lover"]], which makes a break-up sound like the singer is a newly bereaved widower, and particularly the anti-war song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PstoHzMPNkI "No Bravery"]]. Note that while James Blunt may not exactly look like the manliest of men, he really is a war veteran, so the latter song was probably written from personal experience.
* Creator/WillSmith says there's no shame in this in his version of "Just The Two Of Us", which he sings to his son Creator/JadenSmith.
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