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

Philadelphia by Bruce Springsteen - movie gets me every time, a whole box of tissues at least!

Professor greens read all about it
“Whenever I have kids, unlike you, I’ll never let them be without me”

My mum upped and left when I was small and this song gets me every time as, like most people, I’d move heaven and earth for my kids and it’s sucks that she didn’t x

Nick Cave, Brompton Oratory

Outside I sit on the stone steps
With nothing much to do
Forlorn and exhausted, baby
By the absence of you

Inspiral Carpets, This is how it feels to be lonely
Husband don't know what he's done
Kids don't know what's wrong with mum
She can't say, they can't see
Putting it down to another bad day
Daddy don't know what he's done
Kids don't know what's wrong with mum
So this is how it feels to be lonely
This is how it feels to be small
This is how it feels when your word means nothing at all

The first time I heard it, it absolutely summed up how I was feeling.

When my dad was dying, there was a song on the radio all the time, with the lines "Tell my mother, tell my father , I've done the best I can". I've driven down the motorway with tears streaming down my face so many times when that has come on, and even now it takes the wind out of my sails when I hear it.

@Yourenotcrazyitsyourmother — yes! And so many others by Paul Simon: Slip Slidin Away, Hearts and Bones, Still Crazy After All These Years. That doesn’t even include the ones with Garfunkel— Bridge Over Troubled Water, OMG.

I haven’t RTFT I admit — but someone must have mentioned The Living Years, right? I get choked up as soon as I hear the opening music but this is the part where actual tears come to my eyes:
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 newborn tears
I just wish I could have told him
In the living years

Wasn't expecting that by Jamie Lawson came out just after my late DP and I got together. Six weeks later DP was diagnosed with cancer. As we were driving home from the hospital the song came on the radio and I had to switch it off... 😪 😪 😪 😪

'If I could only fly'

^If I could only fly, if I could only fly
I'd bid this place goodbye to come and be with you
But I can hardly stand and I got no where to run
Another sinking sun and one more lonely night
The wind keeps blowing, somewhere, everyday
Tell me things get better, somewhere, up the way
Just dismal thinking on a dismal day
And sad songs for us to bare^

Mere Haggard made it famous but the original by Blaze Foley makes me properly cry every time I hear it. It's so beautiful and so sad at the same time.

Just this

And if a double-decker bus
Crashes into us
To die by your side
Is such a heavenly way to die
And if a ten-ton truck
Kills the both of us
To die by your side
Well, the pleasure - the privilege is mine

and

So for once in my life
Let me get what I want
Lord knows, it would be the first time

Yes...I like Morrissey!

Anything and everything by Sam Cooke. He could read out a shopping list and it’d break your heart.

“Losing love is like a window in your heart, everybody sees you’re blown apart. Everybody sees the wind blow...”

Since it is 9/11, May I respectfully add The Rising by Bruce Springsteen

Sky of blackness and sorrow (a dream of life)
Sky of love, sky of tears (a dream of life)
Sky of glory and sadness (a dream of life)
Sky of memory and shadow (a dream of life)
Your burnin’ wind fills my arms tonight
Sky of longing and emptiness (a dream of life)
Sky of fullness, sky of blessed life

Come on up for the rising
Come on up, lay your hands in mine
Come on up for the rising
Come on up for the rising tonight!

Reckoner by Radiohead

The part where Thom Yorke sings 'Because we separate like ripples on a blank shore' and then the song just takes off into something exquisite.

Not at all I watched wicked not long after my gran (who was a massive part of my
Upbringing) died and the song for good broke me in particular

It well may be That we will never meet again, In this lifetime, So let me say before we part, So much of me, Is made of what I learned from you, You'll be with me, Like a handprint on my heart

Because I wish I had the words to say this to her while she was alive

Hurt by Johnny Cash gives me goosebumps every time.
KD Lang's version of Hallelujah.
Fast Car by Tracey Chapman
The Weakness in Me by Joan Armatrading

Magnificent girl by Elbow
Lots of others, but I think that’s my motherhood song.

This one for my mum who was widowed young and raised 5 children without the love of her life by her side always makes me cry...
Mother doesn't know where love has gone,
She says it must be truth that keeps her feeling strong.
See it in her face that's turned to ice,
And when she smiles she shows the lines of sacrifice. (Spandau Ballet, Through the Barricades)

I haven't been able to listen to Urban Hymns by The Verve in 19 years without tearing up.

Dads are welcome @TallDad1974 - there's loads on here

I understand im a Dad and this is a Mumsnet page but check this...

vetoncall yes! I love that song.

Mine would be - "ill take the medicine, you take the credit, this thing could get the better of you if you let it, hold on I'm not finished just give me a minute, my everything looks so much nicer with you in it".

Kills me. My sister was so fucking sick and then died so young, she needed more time.

I’ve a severely disabled DB and “he ain’t heavy, he’s my brother” makes me so sad thinking of how much we love him how he is but so desperately wish for his sake his life could be different.
“I’ll be home for Christmas” always got to me from a young age. The thought of not being with your family.
Inxs- never tear us apart
George Michael - praying for time
Glen Campbell - Wichita lineman

I have a few

Never grow up - Taylor swift. I listened to it alone in my room after my parents dropped me off at university and just sobbed. These bits especially
"But don't make her drop you off around the block, remember that she's getting older too"
"I just realized everything I have is someday gonna be gone"
"So here I am in my new apartment, In a big city, they just dropped me off, It's so much colder than I thought it would be, So I tuck myself in and turn my nightlight on, Wish I'd never grown up"

My little girl - Tim McGraw
"Chase your dreams but always know
The road that will lead you home again
Go on, take on this old world but to me
You know you'll always be my little girl"

You can let go now daddy - Crystal Shawanda. The whole thing, I first heard it just after my dad had been diagnosed with aggressive cancer with a low survival rate (He survived thank god) and it just broke me.

Handbags and gladrags - stereophonics. My grandad worked so hard his whole life to give his children and grandchildren a better life than he had so the lyrics just hurt a little.

And not necessarily the lyrics (although they do get me) but more the video for Avril Lavigne when you're gone. The bit with the old man just absolutely kills me.

Tom Rosenthal and Rae Morris - all of them dreams.

It was used on a beautiful blog by the michalaks during the birth of their son. It made me so emotional. When I suffered a miscarriage I listened again and cried for both the beautiful birth video the michalaks filmed, and for the baby I wouldn’t have. It brings both joy and sadness to me.