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Songs that break your heart a little...

355 replies

Mammyloveswine · 01/05/2019 23:22

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...

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Moondancer73 · 05/05/2019 21:34

Should have been you by Imelda May. Fresh break up, words are so apt

Angelinthenightx · 05/05/2019 21:44

Take that - rule the world (my baby i lost at 20wks song)
Embrace - gravity
Leona lewis - better in time
Eric carmen - hungry eyes
Abba- one of us

Starlive23 · 05/05/2019 22:14

Pictures of you - the cure
In my life - the Beatles
Hallelujah - Jeff Buckley
At my most beautiful - REM
Black - Pearl Jam
Stop Crying your heart out - Oasis

All guaranteed to have me crying within a few seconds of opening chords!

Sarcelle · 05/05/2019 22:19

This Woman's Work, Kate Bush. Can't listen to this in public or in company. I blub like a baby.

Kate's Moments of Pleasure also gets to me.

The Rose - Bette Midler. Beautiful words.

Starlive23 · 05/05/2019 22:32

Oh and Cancer by My Chemical Romance, absolutely heartbreaking.

BestIsWest · 05/05/2019 22:34

Fire and Rain - James Taylor

top2patooties · 05/05/2019 22:39

Fast car Tracey Chapman

user1471550615 · 05/05/2019 23:41

There are so many, particularly ones connected to film/tv that evoke certain memories (I do tend to cry at a lot!) - Wind Beneath My Wings probably more than any other, also Say Goodnight Not Goodbye by Beth Neilsen Chapman

Take Me to Church by the Hoziers is one I still have to turn off if I can when I hear it. Listened to it twice (thanks to DH’s station surfing tendencies!) on our way to our first 12 week scan and thought it was a great song but as we were told I had miscarried at that scan it always brings back those memories

After the storm by Mumford & Sons is another as it reminds me of a friend who is no longer in my life

user1471550615 · 05/05/2019 23:45

Also, You Belong to Me. Heard it recently and had a cry at the thought of DS growing up. He’s only 3!

Miljah · 06/05/2019 00:19

'Nimrod' from Elgar's Enigma Variations.

My dad.

I now know why requiem masses were written.

Miljah · 06/05/2019 00:23

Annie's song, John Denver
Breathe, Pink Floyd

Miljah · 06/05/2019 00:24

So sorry to hear, User. I first became aware of Take me to Church watching Sergei Polunin dancing to it. Mind blown.

DeRigueurMortis · 06/05/2019 01:06

Crowded House - She Goes On

flamingoflamangos · 06/05/2019 01:38

Ben Howard - ‘I forget where we were’. The first line of the final chorus kills me.

It’s been mentioned a lot, but Nothing Compares by Sinead o Connor. Particularly because life hasn’t been kind to her.

HoppityChicken · 06/05/2019 01:47

Sade - By Your Side (this destroys me every time I hear it)
Amy Winehouse - Love Is A Losing Game
Kate Bush - This Woman's Work
Elvis Costello - Ship Building
Lisa Loeb - Stay (I missed you)
The Cranberries - Linger
Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush - Don't Give Up
George Michael - Different Corner
The Cars - Drive

NumbersStation · 06/05/2019 02:29

Buffy Sainte Marie - Goodnight.
For no-one - Beatles.

NumbersStation · 06/05/2019 02:35

Oh and 74-75 by the Connells.

Footsall · 06/05/2019 08:25

Joni Mitchell - both sides now

m.youtube.com/watch?v=aCnf46boC3I

It gets me right in the pit of my stomach and makes me long for my childhood when things seemed so simple.

CherryBlossom23 · 06/05/2019 15:55

Motherland - Natalie Merchant. Makes me miss home and my family there so much.

Youwantshoesinashoeshop · 06/05/2019 23:51

I have so, so many. I'm a terrible music weeper.

Who knows where the time goes ... Fairport/ Sandy Denny. Song of my childhood, as is She moves through the fair Also by fairport.
there she goes by the La's... failed early twenties romance.
Roads by Portishead. Almost cannot listen to this.
Perth by Bon Iver. Total heartbreak in a few simple bars. Soundtrack to a big relationship split.

Lots and lots by Elbow, but the top weepy from them has to be Great Expectations.

Afraid of nothing by Sharon van Etten. Every. Time.

The soundtrack to Brokeback Mountain, mostly by Gustavo Santoalalla. Absolutely haunting.

Youwantshoesinashoeshop · 06/05/2019 23:52

And almost eveything written by Joni pre-about 1983.

Youwantshoesinashoeshop · 07/05/2019 14:22

And finally, Father John Misty's When you're smiling and astride me which is nor an intrinsically a sad song but, it's such a great love song and it makes me well up for some reason.

DennisSkinnersMolotov · 07/05/2019 14:30

Wicheta Lineman by Glenn Campbell - just desperately beautiful.

June by Idles ("a stillborn is still born, I am a father")

Youwantshoesinashoeshop · 07/05/2019 16:05

Oh yes Wichita Lineman is such a great song. Universally loved, all my friends young, old, love it. Even the kids. Its weirdly timeless..

MyBlueMoonbeam · 07/05/2019 18:30

@Miljah

Nimrod' from Elgar's Enigma Variations.

My Mum & Dad - played at mum's funeral & maybe my Dad's (I was thought too young to attend at 10).
Dad was an RAF pilot.

💐 to you.