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

Find the river - R.E.M.

Me, my thoughts are flowers strewn
Ocean storm, bayberry moon
I have got to leave to find my way
Watch the road and memorize
This life that pass before my eyes
Nothing is going my way

The ocean is the river's goal
A need to leave the water knows
We're closer now than light years to go

There's many different interpretations of these lyrics, as always with R.E.M. but the one I like is that Michael S is saying that the journey is the important thing, the destination doesn't matter, it's what you do on the journey. Loads of R.E.M. music, gets to me, so much so that I couldn't listen to them for years, their music hurt me a bit iyswim? And when I was feeling fragile it would make me feel too much.

Supertramp - Logical song

Fascinating Aida - Sometimes

Sometimes I feel so tired and I wish I could see your healing smile
Sometimes I weep in the dark and I wish I could see you the while
Sometimes I feel so old and I wish I could hear you laugh once more
Sometimes I just close my eyes and I wish you would walk through the door

Remembered another 2 from when my fiancé passed away in 2002...

Ronan Keating - If Tomorrow Never Comes
Oasis - Stop Crying Your Heart Out

Those 2 used to break me

The Beastie Boys Three Mcs and One DJ which like most of their songs is a joyful celebration of music, daftness and having a good time, and then when Ad Rock says 'but don't worry I'll take care 'a ya' and I think of what he and his wife were going through at the time, and it makes me well up.

Good Charlotte's :

Hey Dad,
I'm writing to you
Not to tell you that I still hate you
Just to ask you how you feel
And how we fell apart
How this fell apart

Are you happy out there in this great wide world?
Do you think about your sons?
Do you miss your little girl?
When you lay your head down,
How do you sleep at night?
Do you even wonder if we're alright?

If we're alright,
We're alright

It's been a long hard road without you by my side
Why weren't you there all the nights that we cried
You broke my mother's heart
You broke your children for life
Its not okay
But we're all right ----
I remember the days you were a hero in my eyes
But those are just a long lost memory of mine
I spent so many years learning how to survive
And I'm writing just to let you know I'm still alive

The days I spent so cold, so hungry,
Were full of hate, I was so angry
The scars run deep inside this tattooed body
There's things I'll take to my grave
But I'm okay
I'm okay

Sometimes I forgive
Yeah, and this time
I'll admit
That I miss you
Said I miss you
Hey Dad.

Also, Good Charlotte's "Hold On", among many other non-Good-Charlotte songs...!

If I loved you, reprise from Carousel.

American Tune by Paul Simon.

Tiny Dancer by Elton John.

Shy Violet by Owl City. I spent my teenagehood listening to this song, desperately daydreaming about having my own little girl named Violet someday.
She's mine now, 10 months old and utterly wonderful. ❤

'She dried my eyes, and drifted off,
While every tear was held aloft,
The heavy rain clouds felt terrible,
But she made my stormy skies beautiful'.

Eyes shut-Years and years
'nothings gonna hurt me with my eyes shut, I can see through them'
We were going through ds2 asd diagnosis and this song just reminds me of that whole time feeling sad, not wanting to talk to anyone now I still listen to it but it makes me feel empowered we did get through it as a family and if I'm feeling down I can shut my eyes and feel sad for a little while.
Bon Iver-Holocene
'And at once I knew I was not magnificent'
This is my absolute favourite song ever, I listen to it everyday without fail it reminds me of being so incredibly happy in my life, we even had it on while signing our marriage certificate abroad, whenever I listen to it, it takes me right back to that moment and I never, ever want to forget that feeling. Every year we visit the country we got married in and I always listen to it taking off on the plane feeling incredibly happy! Im not even sure why the lyrics aren't exactly happy, its just the whole tone of the song its beautiful! So it doesn't exactly make my heart hurt but its very special to me, it makes me very emotional and means alot.

Hotel California-Eagles
This song really hurts me, it reminds me of my Grandad who died when I was only 11, he always played it in the car, I really miss him.

Faith Hill-There you'll be
'you were right there for me'
'I'll keep a part of you with me, and everywhere I am there you'll be'
Makes me cry overtime, I listened to it a lot after my Grandad passed away its such a sad song he was always there for me.

Coldplay-Fix you
'tears stream down your face, when you lose something you cannot replace' 'and I will try to fix you' such a sad song

Somethings not right- Lily Allen (Pan soundtrack)
Makes me cry every single time.
'We had forever, we never got it together. I waited for you, for you I made it better'
'Somethings not right, cause there aren't any stars in the sky tonight'

The whole of Its Been Awhile by Staind, Tulips by Bloc Party, Acrobat by Maximo Park, One Last Breath by Creed, Hurricaine by Theory of a Deadman, Numb by Linkin Park, Goodbye To You by Michelle Branch, Tomorrow and Why by Avril Lavigne, You Found Me by the Fray.

Not a big cold play fan but the “when you lose something you can’t replace” bit of fix you gets me bawling.

“Well I’ve been afraid of changing,
Cos I built my life around you”

Not sure if it's been mentioned but Days by the Kinks makes me well up every single time

Tomhardy, just saw you had posted it too. So sorry for your loss.

George Michael, You have been loved.

For what's the use in pressing palms
When children fade in mother's arms
It's a cruel world, we've so much to lose
And what we have to learn, we rarely choose

Kayleigh by Marillion

Foundations by Kate Nash.

"My fingertips are holding onto the cracks in our foundations.
I know that I should let go but I can't."

My ex forced me into a termination.
He dropped me at the train station and let me go on my own.
He then picked me up from the station once it was done and he asked me for a receipt as it was a private clinic.

That song was playing when I was waiting to go down to theatre.

Distant Sun by Crowded House.

Snow Patrol feat. Martha Wainwright Set the Fire to the Third Bar. My ultimate ‘get to me’ song- I have had to sit in my car and wait til it’s over before I can move whenever (rarely, but it has happened) i have heard it on the radio. I don’t know why, I have no back story, it just moves me.

Just listening to little wing by jimi Hendrix and there's something about the guitar towards the end that makes me feel so sad, I so wish that song didn't fade out!

Alter Bridge -In loving memory.
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In Loving Memory
Alter Bridge
LYRICS
Thanks for all
You've done
I've missed you for so long
I can't believe you're gone
You still live
In me
I feel you in the wind
You've got me constantly
I never knew what it was to be loved
Thanks for all you've done
I've missed you for so long
I can't believe you're gone and
You still live in me
I feel you in the wind
You guide me constantly
I never knew what it was to be alone, no
'Cause you were always there for me
You were always home waiting
But now I come home and I miss your face
So smiling down on me
I close my eyes to see
And I know you're a part of me
And it's your song that sets me free
I sing it while I feel, I can't hold on
I sing tonight 'cause it comforts me
I carry the things that remind me of you
In loving memory of the one that was so true
You were as kind as you could be
And even though you're gone
You still mean the world to me.

My favourite song. His voice is so beautiful.

Another one is by the same band, called Wonderful life. It’s very poignant for me as I had just broken up with my long-term boyfriend of 10 years the day before the concert. We still went and stood in each other’s arms sobbing as they played this song. It was as if he was singing it to us.

Close your eyes,
And just hear me sing,
One last long goodbye,
One last song before you spread your wings.
There's so much left to say,
And before this moment slips away
What a wonderful life,
For as long as you've been at my side,
And I want you to know,
I loved you so
Then the cold night calls,
And the tears fall like rain,
It's so hard letting go,
Of the one thing I'll never replace
And soon you will be gone,
But these words, they will live on
What a wonderful life,
For as long as you've been at my side,
And I want you to know,
I'll miss you so,
And though our days come to an end,
No, I'll never love like this again,
What a wonderful life my friend
And all that I am,
You let me be,
I will remember you,
For all that you've done,
And given to me

Love is touching souls
Surely you touched mine
Cause part of you pours out of me
In these lines from time to time

I agree about Sam Smith, absolutely beautiful voice.

My favourite line is in a Joni Mitchell song, A Case of You

Ghost Town by Adam Lambert

Died last night in my dreams
All the machines
Had been disconnected
Time was thrown at the wind
And all of my friends
Had been disaffected

It was released here while I was waiting for my mum to die, I couldn't be there and it took weeks 😞