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

Beatles-let it be. Reminds me of df. Also this the instrumentals are incredibly overwhelming

Some stunning songs and lyrics on this thread. Have thought of some more since I first posted!

When I Grow Up from Matilda - all of it, really, just something about hearing children sing with such innocence that gets me but especially this part: "When I grow up I will be strong enough to carry all the heavy things you have to haul around with you when you're a grown-up"

If I'm the mood then Young Hearts Run Free by Candi Stanton can have me in tears - "young hearts, to yourself be true, don't be no fool when love really don't love you"

All To Well by Taylor Swift reminds me of what was simultaneously one of the best and worst times of my life - whenever I listen to it I'm transported back there and sometimes I struggle to make it through the whole song. "You call me up again just to break me like a promise, so casually cruel in the name of honest"

City by Sara Bareilles - I used to listen to it whenever I was feeling in lonely and if I listen to it now it stirs up all the same feelings. "In these deep city lights, girl could get lost tonight, I'm finding every reason to be gone, nothing here to hold on to, could I hold you"

Also, weirdly, Wild Ones by Flo Rida. Reminds me a wonderful summer spent with my friends, on the cusp of adulthood. It makes me terribly nostalgic but so happy at the same time.

To nominate for classics or move it, you just click on one of the posts and use the report button I believe. Then put the request in the text box.

I'm not sure Ants, you could try asking for it to be moved somewhere else, just not sure where. How do you nominate threads for Classics?

Adele is my "thing" at the moment. The middle-eight of When We Were Young made me a bit sniffly recently.

"It's hard to admit that,
Everything just takes me back,
To when you were there,
To when you were there.
And a part of me keeps holding on,
Just in case it hasn't gone.
I guess I still care.
Do you still care?"

The day before you came, by Abba. Their masterpiece, in my opinion.

Everybody hurts R.E.M. I had a music channel on when this video came on. The part where a old couple are in a car then only one was left. This was 10 years ago just after I lost my grandparents 6 months apart. I can't listen to that song without tears. Also slipping through my fingers by Abba.

Goodbye My Lover James Blunt

If you could read my mind by Gordon Lightfoot is very beautiful

Another yy for You Are My Sunshine - didn't realise it was such a sad song having just read the lyrics

Love Love Love by Of Monsters and Men

So I think it's best we both forget before we dwell on it
The way you held me so tight
All through the night
'Til it was near morning
'Cause you love, love, love
When you know I can't love you

That Look You Give That Guy by Eels (could watch the video for this over and over)

I never thought that I could be so bold,
To even say these thoughts aloud.
I see you with your man, and your eyes just shine,
While he stands tall and walking proud.

That look you give that guy, I wanna see
Looking right at me.
If I could be that guy, instead of me
I'd never let you down.

Speak To Me Someone by Gene
If You Could Read My Mind by Gordon Lightfoot

All of these make my top lip go a bit wobbly

so so many good songs on here. I've been googling lyrics all last night.

Eva Cassidy. Songbird

For you there'll be no crying
For you the sun will be shining
'Cause I feel that when I'm with you
It's all right I know it's right

And the songbirds keep singing
Like they know the score
And I love you I love you I love you
Like never before

To you I would give the world
To you I'd never be cold
'Cause I feel that when I'm with you
It's all right I know it's right

Omg cauliflower yes full on snot, tears and can’t breathe when I hear this song.
I didn’t hear the radio 4 episode was it recently?
Please can we have this put into classics we don’t want to lose this thread eh?

I remember this one from when I had my first baby. Used to watch prisoner cell block H when I was giving him his late night feed and the theme tune stuck in my head. I thought the words were so sad
m.youtube.com/watch?v=PTyy1byPyKQ

All of Patience by Take That.

We lost my grandad in 2006, on a Friday night. I heard this for the first time on the Monday morning. I was in complete shock, I remember I barely had any sensation in my hands. I felt like I’d completely shut down and my dp (now dh) just couldn’t understand why I wasn’t doing DIY in the house we’d bought 2 months earlier.

“My heart is numb has no feeling
So while I’m still healing
Just try and have a little patience”.

Did y’all hear the Soul Music episode on Radio 4 for You Are My Sunshine? Proper snot bubble sobbing.

Yy to You Are My Sunshine.

Haven’t read full thread but the one song that can bring me to a blubbering mess is ‘you are my sunshine’

YOU ARE MY SUNSHINE LYRICS
The other night dear, as I lay sleeping
I dreamed I held you in my arms
But when I awoke, dear, I was mistaken
So I bowed my head and I cried

You are my sunshine, my only sunshine
You make me happy when skies are gray
You'll never know dear, how much I love you
Please don't take my sunshine away

I'll always love you and make you happy
If you will only say the same
But if you leave me and love another
You'll regret it all some day:

You are my sunshine, my only sunshine
You make me happy when skies are gray
You'll never know dear, how much I love you
Please don't take my sunshine away

You told me once, dear, you really loved me
And no one else could come between
But now you've left me and love another;
You have shattered all of my dreams:

You are my sunshine, my only sunshine
You make me happy when skies are gray
You'll never know dear, how much I love you
Please don't take my sunshine away
In all my dreams, dear, you seem to leave me
When I awake my poor heart pains
So when you come back and make me happy
I'll forgive you dear, I'll take all the blame

You are my sunshine, my only sunshine
You make me happy when skies are gray
You'll never know dear, how much I love you
Please don't take my sunshine away

God I’m in tears yet again.

Chandelier by Sia is pretty incredible. I wish I could send it back in time for 18 year old me to listen to.

Seriously - this must be the most perfect pop song of the past 10 years.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=CcNo07Xp8aQ