Anyone else have songs, or bits of songs that make your heart hurt?

Yes great thread, feeling quite isolated at moment so wonderful to share music love.
Saw Mr Cave live few months back, achingly powerful and emotional experience.

@thesunwillout
Lovely isn’t it. I love Ben Folds too.
Oh and The Flaming Lips ‘Do you realise?’ Is wonderful too...

‘Do you realise,
That you have the most beautiful face
Do you realise,
We’re floating in space,
Do you realise,
That happiness makes you cry
Do you realise,
That everyone you know
Someday will die

But instead of saying all of your goodbyes
Let them know you realise
That life goes fast
It’s hard to make the good things last
You realise the sun doesn’t go down
It’s just an illusion caused by the world
Spinning round.’

So. Wonderful.

Yes, 1sttime agree

froomeonthebroom
👍👍

Into my arms by Nick Cave.

‘I don’t believe in an interventionist god,
But I know darling that you do,
And if I did I would kneel down and ask him
Not to intervene when it came to you.
Not to touch a hair on your head
Leave you as you are
If he felt he had to direct you, then direct you
Into my arms.
Into my arms, oh lord, into my arms.’

It’s beautiful. Reminds me of my darkest times losing babies. Now sometimes I sit and cuddle DS and listen to it. The fact Nick Cave recently lost his own son makes it even more poignant now.

Also ‘Still fighting it’ by Ben Folds.

It’s a letter written to his baby son at his birth, for his 21st birthday. My favourite bit is this...

‘Good morning son,
In 20 years from now,
Maybe we’ll both sit down and have a few beers
And I can tell
You about today
And how I picked you up and everything changed.’

It’s just beautiful.

Don't know if it because it is miserable January or because we're going through a difficult time illness and family wise at the moment but Macklemore and Kesha's Good Old Days resonates with me at the moment. On in the car and had me sniffling yesterday ... especially the chorus
sung by Kesha:

I wish somebody would have told me that
Someday these will be the good old days
All the love you won't forget
And all those reckless nights you won't regret
Someday soon your old life's gonna change
You'll miss the magic of the good old days.

Sorry posted too soon.

Wichita Lineman by Glen Campbell: 'I need you more than want you, and I want you for all time'. Makes my throat catch.

Plus everything eastmidsgp said; we have very similar music tastes!

Wichita lineman

Thanks Enid

Half the World Away by Noel Gallagher is another one. Agree with so many others!

Wasn't Expecting That - Jamie Lawson caught me by surprise the first time I heard it whilst pregnant and emotional.

7 Years - Lukas Graham, just when he talks about hoping his children come to visit when he's older makes me really sad.

Slipping Through My Fingers - Meryl Streep in Mamma Mia really gets me now that I have a daughter too.

With Arms Wide Open - Creed.

Rockabye - Clean Bandit

God yes Meow, To Build a Home makes me sob

Great thread! Many of these songs bring back memories. I went through a massive period of depression years ago, I cried a lot, but especially at songs in the middle of the night due to insomnia. I listen to them now and they make me cry again because I'm still here and I've overcome so much.

All of this is worthy of a cry - Breathe Me by Sia, 'Ouch, I have lost myself again
Lost myself and I am nowhere to be found,
Yeah, I think that I might break
Lost myself again and I feel unsafe

Be my friend
Hold me, wrap me up
Unfold me
I am small and needy
Warm me up
And breathe me'

Having a good bawl at songs whether you are low or happy is cathartic. Some of the other ones that set me off:

Songbird the Eva Cassidy cover
To Love Somebody by Janis Joplin (as well as Ray LaMontagne cover)
First Time Ever I Saw Your Face by Roberta Flack
For Emma by Bon Iver
I Will Follow You Into The Dark by Death Cab For Cutie
To Build A Home by The Cinematic Orchestra

I Can Feel Your Pain by Manchester Orchestra, 'I was scared to call your mother
For news that you weren't getting better
Well my God, what the hell am I supposed to do?
And I ran off and ran on to something
That I swore was everything but beautiful
I only say that word for you
Cause I can feel your pain, in my bones, in my bones. '

Angels by The XX, 'And everyday
I am learning about you
The things that no one else sees
And the end comes too soon
Like dreaming of angels
And leaving without them'

“And girl it looks so pretty to me
Like it always did
Like a Spanish city to me
When we were kids”
Tunnel of Love, Dire Straits

Totally forgot Bonnie Prince Billy- I see a darkness. (Original version not the jaunty one)

Train- play that song...makes me smile everytime!

For any still born, my nephews memorial was full of tears with "precious child" Karen Taylor good

Pinky I hope this year is kinder to you.

Shouldn't read this haha i have got loads more going in my head now haha!

Rise up- been singing for days now

I sing in a choir and there are a few songs that we can't sing during rehearsals without tears. Also because one of us lost her husband very suddenly in October. Others recently lost a parent or just broke up.

• you raise me up - Josh Groban
• make you feel my love - bob dylan
• palabras de amor - queen

We also get happy energy from:

• mr blue sky

sayImtheonlybee 💗 That's really special.

All of those pull at my heart Blind. Strong memories associated with all three. All happy ones though.

Love Song for a Vampire - Annie Lennox

Come into these arms again
And lay your body down
The rhythm of this trembling heart
Is beating like a drum
It beats for you, it bleeds for you
It knows not how it sounds
For it is the drum of drums
It is the song of songs

And Eva Cassidy, Fields of Gold.

As I Lay Me Down by Sophie B. Hawkins:

It felt like spring time on this February morning
In a courtyard birds were singing your praise
I'm still recalling things you said to make me feel all right
I carry them with me today now

As I lay me down to sleep
This I pray
That you will hold me dear
Though I'm far away
I'll whisper your name into the sky
And I will wake up happy

Here You Me - Jimmy Eat World. It's my grandma's song

Growing Up - Macklemore ft Ed Sheeran. Listened to it so many times whilst pregnant and now my little girl is here it's more relevant by the day.

James Arthur _ Safe inside.

Its about children growing away from their parents and makes me sob thinking of my teenage girls and 6 year old ds.
The whole song but especially this bit:

Safe Inside
James Arthur
LYRICS
I remember when you were all mine
Watched you changing in front of my eyes
What can I say?
Now that I'm not the fire in the cold
Now that I'm not the hand that you hold
As you're walking away