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...

When you were Young by the Killers and A Thousand Years by Christina Perri.

Bestiswest Yes to Fire and Rain. I welled up when it was played in a scene in the film Running on Empty
There is something so wistful about James Taylor’s voice, always a hint of sadness in whatever he sings. When I had a miscarriage at 11 weeks, I have always thought of that lost baby since as my Sweet Baby James.

Bryan Adams - star
Used to sob at it in the film jack as a teen, have played it lots a lot lately & still sob.

Oh and whoever said whisky lullaby thank you! Can't stop playing it!

Lullaby in Blue: Bette Midler

Honey

Temperance . James Taylor has such a beautiful voice. I’ve seen him live a few times and he’s amazing.

Jar of Hearts
Christina Perri

I love the way her voice breaks during the chorus

Who do you think you are?
Runnin' 'round leaving scars
Collecting your jar of hearts
And tearing love apart

You're gonna catch a cold
From the ice inside your soul
So don't come back for me
Who do you think you are?

Long Live The Queen by Frank Turner. Just after I lost my Dad, had me bawling for hours

Wichita Lineman is such a great song

Yy i love Glen Campbell - it's got my fave lyric :

And I need you more than want you
And I want you for all time ...

I love his lyrics to By the Time I Get to Phoenix

He's left his woman, and the song is a blow by blow account of everything she's doing every minute of the day - come on Glen, stop with the shitting about, man- up and give her your heart ffs!!

Landslide - Fleetwood Mac

Photographs And Memories
Jim Croce

Photographs and memories
Christmas cards you sent to me
All that I have are these
To remember you
Memories that come at night
Take me to another time
Back to a happier day
When I called you mine
But we sure had a good time
When we started way back when
Morning walks and bedroom talks
Oh how I loved you then
Summer skies and lullabies
Nights we couldn't say good-bye
And of all of the things that we knew
Not a dream survived

You Have Been Loved - George Michael

Moving on by James.

This came out around the time my grandad passed away. The video to the song helped explain his passing to our DS

Jim Croce is a class act, "Time in a Bottle" makes me well-up because the words are just so damn brilliant:

If I had a box just for wishes
And dreams that had never come true
The box would be empty
Except for the memory
Of how they were answered by you

Nice to see Jim Croce mentioned a couple of times. Yes, a class act, beautiful voice, and a tragic untimely death.

Both Sides of the Story by Phil Collins.
The lines '2 faces high in the shadows as they watch their mother and father fight' & '...and the brother shrugs to his sister and says "looks like it's just us from now on" ' always makes me weep as it reminds me of my childhood.

Coat of many colours. Dolly Parton
Fast Car. Tracey Chapman

Jesse - Janis Ian
Whispering Your Name - Alison Moyet
On A Bus To St. Cloud - Gretchen Peters
Infinite & Unforeseen - k.d. lang
You Have Been Loved - George Michael
Sometimes - Fascinating Aida (which is about Dillie Keane's friend who drowned)

My sister had execrable taste in music. When her car was broken into, most of her CDs were left behind (Cliff Richard featured fairly prominently ).

She had a life limiting condition and wanted Ronan Keating ‘If tomorrow never comes’ to be played at her funeral. In the days before downloads it took me a lot of shops to find it. I eventually tracked it down in a small independent shop - with the owner making some fairly scathing comments about her taste in music (I’d said it was for my sister - he obviously didn’t know she was dead).

Strangely , as we drove back from her funeral the song was playing on the radio.

I still can’t hear it without howling.

Enya, only time. Amazing song.

Agree. This song calms me and reminds me, as the lyric says, 'who will know where the road goes, what the heart knows, only time.' (I can feel myself welling up as I type that.)

Wild Child by also by Enya has a similar affect on me. 'Everything's in kilter, let the day go on and on.'

In the Ghetto by Elvis will have me crying, to the point where I don't want to listen to it.

Streets of London by Ralph McTell for the same reason above.

Protection - Massive Attack ft Tracey Thorn

Although most of Bowling for Soup's music is upbeat, now and again they release a track that gets you right in the feels, and "When we Die" is one of them.

"I can put back all the pieces,
They just might not fit the same..."

"I know it's been years now
And I don't look the same
And the hopes and dreams you had for me you thought went down the drain
And the room looks so empty where my pictures used to be
And I can't say that I blame you
But you can't blame me..."

The Baby by Blake Shelton and Woman by John Lennon ❤️

Alison Moorer - Is Heaven Good Enough for You
Leanne Womack - I hope you dance
Beth Neilsen Chapman - Sand and Water
Garth Brooks - The Dance
Faith Hill - There you'll be
The Fureys - When you were sweet 16 and The Green Fields of France
Jim Reeves - I won't forget you
Ed Sheeran - Supermarket Flowers
Billy Connolly's version of Coat of Many Colours

There are loads more and I'll post as I remember them 😃