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

Yes to Annie's song. My sisters first dance at her wedding was this as was her fils favourite - he died just before my sister met her lovely dh. As soon as the first bars played her dhs mother, sister and brother burst into tears. So that one gets me every time.

Muse-Starlight...My life,you electrified my life.How i feel about my dh.

Also for some strange reason Annies song by John Denver. The whole thing makes me feel quite teary!

By My Side by INXS.

It was played at my dad's funeral, as he and my mum met at an INXS concert. It was then the "theme" song for the NRMA fire insurance ads for a long time, and it was at a time when Australia was enduring year-on-year bushfires, so it's burned (no pun intended) into my memory for that reason too.

Perhaps Love by John Denver and Placido Domingo

Some say love is holding on and some say letting go, some say love is everything and some say they don't know
....
if I should live forever and all my dreams come true my memory of love will be of you

Ryan Adams "feels like fire"

Just so you know
You will always be the hardest thing I will let go

@NSEA , my ex boss was absolutely convinced that Nothing Compares to you was about giving up smoking!!

@Autumnchill just googled the David Gray version, I find it a bit pub singer ish. Can’t beat the Soft Cell version. Check out Tainted Love, absolute class!

liquidrevolution Are You The One That I’ve Been Waiting For is one of my absolute favourite songs. I like the bit that goes:

“Oh we will know, won’t we?
The stars will explode in the sky
Oh but they don’t, do they?
Stars have their moment, then they die”

All of sinead oconnors nothing compares to you, but in particular the lines:

All the flowers that you planted mama
In the back yard
All died when you went away
I know that living with you baby was sometimes hard
But I'm willing to give it another try

Jim Reeves "I won't forget you" all of it. Came on the radio one morning while I was driving to work, was a snivelling wreck by the time I got there as it reminded me of my dad who was a huge Jim Reeves fan.

Garth Brooks-The Dance.

Jackson Browne-For a Dancer

Charlie Pride-The Comfort of her Wings

Thank you hooman & op

Everlong by the Foo Fighters, the line "breathe out, so I can breathe you in" makes me squishy.

A few weeks ago You're So Vain by Carly Simon came on the radio: a song that I neither love nor hate. For some reason I picked up on the line "you gave away the things you loved, and one of them was me" and it made me cry. Never noticed that line before but it's just so full of hurt.

Muse - unintended

Makes me cry everytime since i read the lyrics properly:

You could be my unintended
Choice to live my life extended
You should be the one I'll always love

I'll be there as soon as I can
But I'm busy mending broken pieces of the life I had before

I'll be there as soon as I can
But I'm busy mending broken pieces of the life I had before

Before you

Anything and everything by Leonard Cohen. Hallelujah especially but it's been ruined s but by everyone doing it.

Sarah McLachlan has one album that used to break my heart when I was in my 20s.

One that recently surprised me was a song on the Moana soundtrack. We have it in the car and I forgot to turn it off when the kids got out. There's a bit where the "baddy" is roaring and raging and Moana stays calm and sings in a beautiful haunting voice:

"This is not who you are. You know who you are."

I burst into floods of tears in the car!

Off to find the Soft Cell version, never heard it!

La Javanaise - Juliette Greco
Mercy Seat - Nick Cave
Dance Me To The End Of Love - Leonard Cohen

No real reason but they always get me just there.

505 also. That song has got me through some sad and lonely times.

Love me tender Elvis

“You have made my life complete and you always will”

@Autumnchill I’m an eighties girl, Soft Cell is the only version I know!

Just reading this thread through made me teary

Wires by Athlete
Mad world - Gary jules
Speeding cars - Imogen heap
Spies - Coldplay
Transatlanticism - death cab for cutie
Getting away with it - James

So many more!

Jim Reeves: You're the Only Good Thing

We have our ups and downs, like all lovers do,
But you know in your heart that I worship you,
So don't ever think of setting me free,
For you're the only good thing that's happened to me

Played at my papas funeral, song chosen by my gran. They were together since they were fifteen, very intimate, small and personal funeral with songs that meant a lot. I can't listen to it, I can barely think of it.

Also Only You, by the Platters, the whole song. Another one played at my papas funeral, he took my gran to see the platters when they were young and sang this to her on the bus home. I walked down the aisle on my wedding day to this song.

Lastly, the pampers preemie advert song, I'm coming home. My daughter was 10 weeks early, and this song gets me.

to those who have lost!

505 by Arctic Monkeys. Was the soundtrack to a toxic relationship of yester year.

But I crumble completely when you cry
It seems like once again you have to greet me with goodbye
I'm always just about to go and spoil the surprise
Take my hand off've your eyes, too soon

Doesn't look much written down but the way Alex Turner sings it

Oh, and 3am by Busted. Apparently I've never got over being a very emotional teenager

So many great songs here. The JCB Song always gets me, but noone else seems affected by it!