Tear Jerker / John Lennon

• As eerie and Nightmare Fuel as it is, "Baby's Heartbeat" and "Two Minutes Silence" from Unfinished Music No. 2: Life with the Lions can be considered tearjerking considering the tragic backstory of it. The heartbeat comes from John and Yoko's unborn child, John Ono Lennon II who died after Yoko suffered a miscarriage in 1968.
• John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band:
  • "Mother" is almost unbearable and his astonishing vocal performance sells the utter pain and heartbreak of abandonment and loss. Especially if you have ever lost or been abandoned by a parent.
  • "God" – especially the line "I was the walrus, but now I'm John". Hearing him tear apart every last bit of his former idealism from his hero Elvis Presley to The Beatles is just heartbreaking.
  • "My Mummy's Dead" is another song that can bring people to tears and is a song that can border on Nightmare Fuel with the eeriness of John's voice with little to no emotion to it compared to songs dedicated to John's mother such as 'Mother' and 'Julia'. A very dark closer to the album.
  • "Working Class Hero". If "Imagine" is squarely in the "Idealism" side of the Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism, "Working Class Hero" is the opposite, as a bitter lamentation about the plight of working people.
• "Grow Old With Me", a beautiful song from John to Yoko based on a Browning poem. It has the lyrics "Grow old along with me/the best is yet to be" and they had only recently started work on recording it when he was murdered in 1980.
• Imagine:
  • Title track, of course. There's a very good reason why it's his Signature Song.
  • "Oh My Love" - such a beautiful song that it's likely to shed some tears. Particularly from the perspective of someone who really has found love for the first time in their life.
• The music video for "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)", as well as the song itself. If the shots of starved, dying African children in the video won't get you, the children's choir screaming "MERRY CHRISTMAS!" at the end of the song sure as hell will.
• "The Luck of the Irish", it's a Protest Song against the English!
• "Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)" would normally be considered a Heartwarming Moment, but listening to it knowing that John died when Sean was five is just heartbreaking, especially the way he whispers "Good night, Sean. See you in the morning" at the end. Poor, darling Sean.
  • Also, the line "I can hardly wait to see you come of age", knowing that he'd never have that chance.
• Possibly the fastest turnaround time for one of these — the last track on Milk and Honey is an interview which contains a conversation on how John would like to be remembered "when I'm dead and buried, which I hope is a long, long time from now." This was recorded on December 8, 1980 — the day he died.

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