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

Atmosphere by Joy Division

The Last Time I Saw Richard by Joni Mitchell

Every song on Portishead's Dummy

Say by Cat Power:

I hope all is well with you
I wish the best for you
When no one is around love will always love you

On the theme of Dire Straits, Romeo and Juliet is a great one.

Always by Bon Jovi

Someone mentioned Fast Car above. The lines that get me are:

You see, my old man's got a problem,
Lives with the bottle, that's the way it is.
His body's too old for working, his body's too young to look like his.
My momma went off and left him, she wanted more from life than he could give.
I said somebody's got to take care of him, so I quit school that's what I did

So much George Michael on this thread 💙

This Woman’s Work, Kate Bush.

"You can't start a fire sitting 'round crying over a broken heart
This gun's for hire
Even if we're just dancing in the dark
You can't start a fire worrying about your little world falling apart
This gun's for hire
Even if we're just dancing in the dark" - love it! Gives me the shivers whenever I hear it. I think it just means you can go through life accepting things or you can try and grab it with both hands, reinvent yourself, even if you'd got no idea what you're doing or if it will work out. Ah, The Boss!!

The whole of 'who'se lovin' you' Michael Jackson

Sipped a rum and Coke, told a dirty joke (OCS) always reminds me of a road trip in Devon in a convertible and it was playing as I drove round a bend and saw the sea which was sparkling and the sun was shining and I just remember being so unbelievably happy with life. I hear it now and don't know if I'll ever be that happy and carefree again

A few Elbow songs do this to me, because they're nostalgic and beautiful, but the one that gets me most is about betrayal, 'I've Got Your Number':
'Throwing advice like grenades at the table,
You're spinning your wisdom in stories that change.
Your lies are fluorescent, my baby-faced angel.
Grow a fucking heart, love.
I know what you have done.'

Also Beth Nielsen Chapman 'Sand and Water' makes me well up every time, it's about losing her husband:
'All alone, I heal this heart of sorrow.
All alone, I raise this child.
Flesh and bone, he's just bursting toward tomorrow
And his laughter fills my world, and wears your smile.'

The end of Layla by Derek and the Doninos - the instrumental bit they play at the end of Goodfellas.

The instrumental ending of Tunnel of Love by Dire Straits

This is going to sound terribly self absorbed, self pitying and trite but it made sense at the time.

When I was getting divorced and living in the family home by myself, every time I came into an empty house and turned the telly on, Friends always seemed to be starting.

I changed the words and sang "I'll be there for me cause no one else will..."

Like I said, self pity city but I often still sing it without thinking!

In your head, in your head, they are fighting
With their tanks, and their bombs
And their bombs, and their guns
In your head, in your head they are crying

Cat Stevens - How Can I Tell You

'Out of sorrow entire worlds have been built
Out of longing great wonders have been willed'

God that Nick Cave is a poet.
(Are You The One That I've Been Waiting For?)

I can't make you love me - George Michael

Sorry for everyone's losses.

A mixtape (remember those oldies?) of this lot would have us all prostrate with melancholy.

Mine is Warren Zevon 'Keep me in your heart'

"If I leave you it doesn't mean I love you any less,
Keep me in your heart for awhile"

I can't even listen to it!

"i'll keep a part of you with me, and everywhere I go, there you'll be"
Leanne Ryhmes?
Sorry, got something in my eye...

Barenaked ladies-what a good boy

I go to school, I write exams,
if I pass, if I fail, if I drop out,
does anyone give a damn?
And if they do, they'll soon forget 'cause it won't take much for me
to show my life ain't over yet.
I wake up scared, I wake up strange.
I wake up wondering if anything in my life is ever going to change.
I wake up scared, I wake up strange
and everything around me stays the

Barenaked ladies.. War on drugs.
Majority of the song but especially..

Hard to admit I fought the war on drugs
My hands were tied and the phone was bugged
Another died and the world just shrugged it off

And coldplay..definitely Fix you and The Scientist.. But do love Us against the World

And if we could float away
Fly up to the surface and just start again
..... Through chaos as it swirls
It's us against the world

Dance with my Father. Luther Vandross

Reminds me of my lovely Dad who died when I was 20 and I still miss him.

Heal your Pain, by George Michael. It helped me through the pain of an awful divorce. Here are a few lines, but the whole song resonates in my heart.

Who needs a lover
That can't be a friend
Something tells me I'm the one you've been looking for
Oh, if you ever should see him again
Won't you tell him you've found someone who gives you more
Someone who will protect you
Love and respect you
All those things
That he never could bring to you
Like I do
Or rather I would
Won't you show me your heart
Like you should

A Million Years Ago - Adele

A song about looking back, the choices made and regrets about changing and moving away.

A song you'd expect an older person to sing, but an extraordinary song for someone as young as her.

Great thread!

Drops of Jupiter by Train every time -

But tell me did the wind sweep you off your feet
Did you finally get the chance to dance along the light of day
And head back toward the Milky Way?
And tell me did you sail across the sun
Did you make it to the milky way to see the lights all faded
And that heaven is overrated?