Songs that break your heart a little...

[Mammyloveswine]

James Morrison just came on my Spotify playlist "the pieces don't fit anymore".

What a song! I feel like im re-living all my past breakups...

Tears in heaven Eric Clapton for obvious reasons.
Chasing cars Snow Patrol it was played at my uncles funeral, whenever I hear it I see my lovely Auntie.
Angels Robbie Williams its was filmed for the Christie’s advert when my lovely mum was fighting so bravely for her life.

Also the Abba Slipping through my fingers.

Yes - I love seeing my daughter grow up and become more and more herself. But I miss that little girl at the same time.

I can't say I enjoy having a good cry these days, and listening to some of these really set me off.
I tend to turn the tunes off nowadays.

Please Don't Say You Love Me - Gabrielle Aplin
Reasons Unknown - The Killers

& the classic One Night Only

Perfect, Ed Sheeran. It should be too schmaltzy for me but it plays a lot in the cafe near work and my heart constricts a little bit every time I hear it.

This Woman's Work by Kate Bush

And I admit (with the anonymity of the internet) that Pavarotti singing Nessun Dorma - that bit at the end where he just belts it.....makes me tear up every time

Joy Division's Love Will Tear Us Apart, mainly because of Ian Curtis.
REM Everybody Hurts
The Get Up Kids I'll Catch You
An early Damien Rice one that I'd know if I heard it

Probably more, I cry at a lot of music. I've cried reading all your lists!

Moby's Why does my heart feel so bad and porcelain, REM Leaving New York and Make it all ok, Gabrielle's out of reach and Travis' Driftwood. You can guess who got their heart broken a lot during the 90s!

Absolutely The Living Years, Arms of the Angels, This Woman’s Work.

@AuldJosie — YY to sometimes when we touch! And @NewYearNewUnicorn — I love I Hope You Dance (in that sort of painful way) and I was surprised nobody had mentioned it. But then again I don’t know most of the songs on here, perhaps because I am American.

Some that I don’t think have been mentioned on here yet:

To Make You Feel My Love — I’m partial to the Garth Brooks version or the original Bob Dylan but Adele is good too

I Will Remember You - Sarah Maclachlan

Love’s Recovery - Indigo Girls

Two Out of Three Ain’t Bad - Meatloaf

Boys of Summer, The End of the Innocence - both by Don Henley.

This Year’s Love - David Gray

Hallelujah - who hasn’t sung this? They all get me

Hard Habit to Break - Chicago

Like A River - a semi-obscure Carly Simon song. If you’ve lost your mother it’s heartbreaking.

Sometimes Love Just Ain’t Enough —Patty Smyth and Don Henley (I’m really not a massive Don Henley fan!)

As an expatriate Scot, Caledonia by Dougie McLean always gets me. Paulo Nutini version great too. He sounds half cut while he’s singing it. Brings back all those family New year parties and get togethers with relatives long gone.

Pink Floyd Wish you were here. This one took me by surprise a couple of years ago. Hadn’t listened to it for decades then there it popped up and tore my heart out. My teenage years weren’t brilliant and from 45 years distance this song took me back there.

Rockabye by clean bandit
I had a shit childhood, DV aimed at me and my mother, from my druggy/alcoholic, abusive father and the chorus gets me every time. Knowing i need to do better for my children.

She tells him "ooh love"
No one's ever gonna hurt you, love
I'm gonna give you all of my love
Nobody matters like you
She tells him "your life ain't gonna be nothing like my life"
You're gonna grow and have a good life
I'm gonna do what I've got to do"

And:

Now she gotta a six year old
Trying to keep him warm
Trying to keep all the cold
When he looks her in the eyes
He don't know he's safe when she says
"Ooh love"
No one's ever gonna hurt you, love
I'm gonna give you all of my love
Nobody matters like you

It's my life by Bon Jovi came out a couple of weeks before I left my abusive ex. It got a lot of airtime on the radio. Whenever I hear it I'm back in my friend's car (she helped me leave) with just my toddler and a carrier bag, riding over the pennines to my new life. The fact that it still gets me now shows how much that kind of experience gets under your skin. 19 years free at the late May bank holiday.

Romeo and Juliet - Dire Straits
Bright Eyes - Art Garfunkel

Supermarket Flowers / Castle On The Hill also get me every time even though Castle is uplifting, but it's always the bit about the friends who raised him, always makes me think of childhood friends, the ones who didn't make it especially... (I'm quite a bit older than Ed)

Seasons in the sunny terry Jax absolute classic

So far away by Carole King

Angel, the true meaning has close meaning to me.

David Gray, This years Love. My wedding song ♥️♥️

Enya, only time. Amazing song.

Garfunkel, bright eyes.

The wind beneath my wings. Beaches kills me 😢 I could never imagine leaving my children.

I could probably carry on for hours 😂

One of my faves, so sad 😥 x

A Whiter Shade of Pale- I cannot listen to it at all.

Old and Wise by The Alan Parsons Project.

These two don't break my heart a little- they destroy it and stomp all over the remains.

Oh, and for all you saying the Eric Clapton original of Tears in Heaven, please listen to The choirboys version.

Answer and Please dont Go (think the video was heartbreaking too)

Wish you were here by Pink Floyd
Champagne Supernova by Oasis
Heaven Can Wait by Meat Loaf

Yes to "Wish you were here", also Johnny cash "Hurt"

In This Heart - Sinead O'Connor. Just so beautiful with the male voices and the harmonies.
That'll Do - Peter Gabriel. I think it's the brass band and the simplicity of the message.

And weirdly, a musical theatre song from Wicked, which is far from my favourite musical, but the song For Good about the transformative power of a friendship and what we learn from each other. Reminds me of someone I treasured who died suddenly and I wish she had known how much she helped me find my way.

"As an expatriate Scot, Caledonia by Dougie McLean always gets me."
You read my mind and I also choke up at O' Flower of Scotland. You can take the girl out of Scotland....
Keane Somewhere only we know
Waterboys Faerie Child is so haunting