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...

Never been to me
Charlene

Used to identify with this song an awful lot

I challenge everyone to try and get through Dance with my Father by Luther Vandross without crying.

Every time it comes on I challenge myself not to cry, but I'm always bawling by the end.

Ruby don’t take your love to town -

The last line of the song begging her not to go.

'The Little Boy that Santa Claus Forgot' by Nat King Cole always gets me.

And 'Angel' by Sarah McLachlan, because a friend died in similar circumstances.

I feel a Spotify playlist coming on...

Mike and the mechanics - living years.
Just have to think of the song and I well up.

Evanescence - my immortal
evokes total emotion - ex used to sing it to me

Pink - family portrait & reason.
Love all of pinks music but these two I sob at

Tracy chapman - all that you have & the promise.
She's a legend!

Off to update my playlist & have a little cry

ForAllTheSaints
Agree with you comments about Difford and Tilbrook. Some Fantastic Place is one of my funeral songs

Nothing Compares To U - have to walk away from the radio as soon as the opening bars start. My heart momentarily stops.

Not a sad song, but the Hibernian fans rendition of Sunshine on Leith at their cup final always makes me catch my breath and ball my eyes out (and I am not a football fan)

Shipbuilding Elvis Costello's version. Wow

If you're reading this - Tim McGraw always gets to me.

Oh and Jess Glynn - take me home I sob like a baby while belting it out!

Say Something - Pentatonix cover

Genuinely was the song of my break up.

Never Gonna Love Again- Lykke Li
You can go your own way- Fleetwood Mac (this made me cry this morning)
All too well- Taylor Swift
Mellow Doubt- Teenage Fanclub
The sun ain't gonna shine any more-Walker Brothers
Do you realize-Flaming Lips
In the aeroplane over the sea-Neutral Milk Hotel

I'm such a cryer 😄

Singing my song....Christina Aguilera

You're not alone, both Olive and Astreae's version. Stirs up memories and the words mean something to me

Lookers - Menzingers
When you want something you can’t have - courteeners
It remembers - every time I die

What Sarah Said by Death cab for cutie. I'm permanently emotional listening to them but that song is intense.

Jean by Clean Cut Kid. In particular warning not to listen to it if you've recently lost an aged relative.

The last few songs of Eminem's revival album. It grabs me so hard I've been known to sob uncontrollably. At work

Nothing Compares to you - Sinead O'Connor's vocals pull the emotion out of every single syllable.

Righteous Brother's unchained melody. Played at a dear friend's funeral (she died when we were teenagers) and I cannot help but fall to pieces every time I even think about it. In fact, I'm crying now...

@abbey44 me too. The living years was a self fulfilling prophecy for me. By the time my first child was born we had been estranged years and he died after not speaking to me for a decade. I would find that difficult to hear now.

You can't unseat the apple by mylifestory - brutal

Save Me - Aimee Mann (Magnolia Soundtrack)

I Loves You Porgy - Nina Simone version. The sense of impending loss, for me it's about a specific man that got away...

The ones that get me in tears have already been mentioned but for the record:

The Living Years - I vowed when I heard that song that I would be open about my feelings with my child. So I try really hard to tell DS what he means to me every day. Not in a heavy way just a 'you know what, I'm so pleased we've got you' or 'I know we've had a row but I still love you and always will' - I just hate the idea that I will leave this planet without him or DH knowing how special they are. So I make sure I tell them.

Dance with my Father - a friend of mine, who has a DS a year younger than our DS, played this at her husband's funeral. Their son was 6 when her husband died, very young and very suddenly. Apparently her husband and son used to dance around the kitchen when her husband came home from work. Can't get to the middle of that song without tears.

Tears in Heaven - just because of the awful reason it was written by Eric Clapton. I can't imagine what he and his family went through.

Oh yes Jesus to a child by George Michael. All about his relationship with a partner who died of AIDS. So so sad and so relatable to anyone who has loved and lost.

After some very stressful years DH and I happened to hear Togetherness You and I by Dolly Parton. It described our relationship and the strength we found in each other so well. We had it for our wedding song and I still ball every time I hear it.

Dance with my father was Mum mums choice at my grandads funeral so that also sets me off.

I cry a lot at a lot of things!

I Guess that's why they Call it the Blues by Elton John tugs on my heartstrings a bit - "time on my hands could be time spent with you" It's the tune as well I think. Talking of Elton John, "Daniel" gets me every time too.