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

Ordinary World Duran Duran

“What has happened to it all?
Crazy, some are saying
Where is the life that I recognize?
Gone away

But I won't cry for yesterday
There's an ordinary world
Somehow I have to find
And as I try to make my way
To the ordinary world
I will learn to survive”

James Blake's version of A case of you (as well as Joni's own version as already mentioned by previous posters, in fact almost anything from her album -Blue)
Nick Drake - River man or Day is done (and most of his album - Five leaves left)
Jake Bugg -Simple as this

Morcheeba - Enjoy the ride, featuring Judy Tzuke's lovely voice
With the moonlight to guide you
Feel the joy of being alive
The day that you stop running
Is the day that you arrive...
Stop chasing shadows, just enjoy the ride

And Simon and Garfunkel's - Old friends, which reminds me of being 17 and first love
Time it was, oh what a time it was
A time of innocence, a time of consequences
Long ago, it must be
I had a photograph
Preserve your memories
They're all that's left you

Really enjoying this thread!

Perfect songs - as in, perfect to my ears and therefore fill me with joy;
God Only Knows - The Beach Boys
Can’t Stand Me Now - The Libertines
River Deep, Mountain High - Tina Turner
I Can Change - LCD Soundsystem

Deeply emotional songs:
Songbird - Fleetwood Mac (“and I wish you all the love in the world, but most of all, I wish it from myself”)
Tears In Heaven - Eric Clapton (the whole lot)
Strange & Beautiful - Aqualung (“I put a spell on you, and when you wake I’ll be the first thing you see, and you’ll realise that you love me.” - hurt my heart when breaking up with my ex-husband against my wishes)
One Last Time - Ariana Grande. I just can’t deal with the horror of Manchester.

Joan Armatrading has lots for me! Also Leonard Cohen We'll go no more a Roving.

For me it's Rule the world by Take That. I know it's meant to be a love song but for me it reminds me of how I feel about my daughter (hope that doesn't sound weird!) It took many, many years to get her and once I found out I was pregnant and the baby was doing well, it was like the black cloud which had been over me all those years had been lifted. The line 'you've saved my soul' makes my eyes fill with tears. She is my little star that lights up the sky above me. It's such a beautiful song, really tugs at my heartstrings!

Also, 'Hear you me' by jimmy eat world, it is beautiful

Sometimes it snows in April by Prince

Hauntingly beautiful. I don’t think any of Prince’s songs are available on YouTube in the original version, but here is a piano instrumental with the full lyrics in the description:

Damien Rice - Volcano

I kissed your mouth and back
But that's all I need
Don't build your world around volcanoes melt you down

What I am to you is not real
What I am to you you do not need
What I am to you is not what you mean to me
You give me miles and miles of mountains
And I'll ask for the sea

Coldplay Everglow came out around the time my mum was dying:

"How come things move on,
How come cars don't slow,
When it feels like the end of the world.
When I should but I can't let you go..."

And the very last chorus where he goes

"What I wouldn't give for this moment to hold,
But I live for this feeling, this Everglooooooow"

And his voice starts to crack a bit.

Makes me WEEP.

The last two or so minutes of Citizen Erased by Muse. Gets me every time, Matt Bellamy's voice...

Loads, two that spring immediately to mind are part of Tori Amos' Winter 'put my hand in my father's glove' because it reminds me of my GF (who was to all extents and purposes my 'dad') and all of Birdy's version of People Help the People just because it's utterly beautiful.

The lyrics to Ordinary World by Duran Duran written by Simon Le Bon after the death of his friend. 'I won't cry for yesterday'.

kalinkafoxtrot

Yes to The Mercy Seat

so stark

Dry your eyes mate by the streets used to really affect me for some reason.

More recently Lukas Graham 7 years is really powerful for me too.
And Wires by Elbow is it? About his young son who was very ill.
So many songs tug on my heartstrings.

Giggorata, we are united.

Mike and the mechanics the living years. Heard this after my father passed away 😢
So we open up a quarrel
Between the present and the past
We only sacrifice the future
It's the bitterness that lasts
I wasn't there that morning
When my Father passed away
I didn't get to tell him
All the things I had to say
I think I caught his spirit
Later that same year
I'm sure I heard his echo
In my baby's new born tears
I just wish I could have told him in the living years

Sam Smith Lay Me Down -

Yes I do, I believe, that one day I will be where I was, right there, right next to you

I can't even think about it without welling up, it was the song I chose for my dad when I had to plan his funeral aged 24

'For a friend' here also op

I want to cry just even thinking of how some songs make me cry lol.

Comfortably Numb Pink Floyd

Always on my mind, Esp the Pet Shop Boys one, just takes me back to when I was sad but hopeful, but now I sometimes feel sad and not very hopeful if that makes sense.

Genesis, Follow You Follow Me

John Denver, Annie's Song

Tinder sticks travelling light

Great thread, I'm off tho. X

Folding Stars by Biffy Clyro. Written for Simon's dying mum.

"I would do anything for another minute with you". Breaks my heart

Also, On my Own from Les Mis. Sums up my life

Travis - good feeling (whole album)
Supernaturals - first album. Both take me back to being 17.
James -.sometimes. god, it overwhelms me sometimes listening to it.

David Gray - be mine. First dance at my wedding. Hits me right in my heart.

I heard Bright Eyes - first day of my life
For the first time a few weeks ago and instantly started crying.

In am such a sentimental sap

This song is heart breaking because it's true , the video makes me sob.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=fdi8c70rE_4

Kodaline 'All I Want' gets me every time:

All I want is nothing more
To hear you knocking at my door
'Cause if I could see your face once more
I could die as a happy man I'm sure
When you said your last goodbye
I died a little bit inside
I lay in tears in bed all night
Alone without you by my side
But If you loved me
Why did you leave me

Oh @Giggorata you reminded me of Vincent - i only really.listened to it when I was living in London for a year and was feeling really alone.

Badly Drawn Boy - the shining at the same time and place. If I listen to it now I can remember vividly being on a train from reading to London, crying because someone let me down.

Christy Moore - ride on. Straight back to a pub I used to go to with flatmates at uni.

When I was pregnant with DS1 and the lead singer’s wife was also pregnant with his first. Every time I heard it it takes me back to the waiting and the love and the anticipation and then that first few hours with your newborn.

Savage Garden
Maybe it's intuition
Somethings you just don't question
Like in your eyes, I see my future in an instant
And there it goes, I think I've found my best friend
I know that it might sound
More than a little crazy but I believe
I knew I loved you before I met you
I think I dreamed you into life
I knew I loved you before I met you
I have been waiting all my life

Glasvegas - Geraldine. Huge sobbing tears the first time I heard this and it catches me every time.

Snow Patrol - Set the Fire to the Third Bar

Caledonia - it reminds me of when I was feeling homesick. I sang it to DD when she was tiny and still do at night time.

Amy MacDonald - the road to home. Also listened to this when I was feeling homesick.

The Beatles - Real Love and Golden Slumbers. Sang to DS when he was just a bump. I can't quite get through the songs without a lump in my throat. I found pregnancy difficult towards my due dates both times and singing these sings reminds me if it.

There are loads more. These are just off the top if my head. I find if I connect with a song it really digs in deep.