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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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coffeeandbiscuittime · 03/05/2019 10:11

After the gold rush - Neil Young
Keep on loving you - REO speedwagon
All out of love - Air supply
St Etienne -only love can break your heart
Kirsty McColl - a New England esp because of her tragic death , what a loss.

Loving arms- Paul Heaton and Jacque Abbott -

saywhatwhatnow · 03/05/2019 10:28

Nick Cave - The Ship Song

LadyOfTheCanyon · 03/05/2019 10:37

@Lastbustowhitehawk

It really is. Such a beautiful song with such a heartbreaking sentiment. I intend to have it at my funeral.

Thanks for you at the loss of your father.

StealthPolarBear · 03/05/2019 10:40

Level 42 running in the family. Something about the line "things that we were born to do".

AlbusSeverusMalfoy · 03/05/2019 10:43

Let Me Go by Gary Barlow.
Gets me everytime.

Prawnofthepatriarchy · 03/05/2019 10:51

"My first night alone without you" by Bonnie Rait.

When DH was dying at home (took a year) and my DC were little I used to go down into the basement in the middle of the night and howl as I listened to Everybody Hurts by REM. I found it incredibly comforting.

notacooldad · 03/05/2019 10:56

Black by pearl jam.
The end is poignant
"Yeah
I know someday you'll have a beautiful life
I know you'll be a star
In somebody else's sky
But why
Why
Why can't it be
Why can't it be mine'

I have known this feeling!!!

ChicCroissant · 03/05/2019 10:58

When I was your man, by Bruno Mars.

Awwlookatmybabyspider · 03/05/2019 12:04

Hello from the other side
Somebody that I used to know.

beenhereages1 · 03/05/2019 13:26

George Michael- can't make you love me

Skinandbones · 03/05/2019 13:44

You'll never walk alone, knew this song from being little.
My dm loved musicals and would take me to see them any chance we got. It was only when I saw this again as a teenager that I really understood the story.

Skinandbones · 03/05/2019 13:45

*from Carousel.

Thismummyruns · 03/05/2019 13:48

Candle in the wind

For obvious reasons, so poignant

PeakedTooEarly · 03/05/2019 13:54

Etta James I would rather go blind
Joany Armatrading Down to Zero

PeakedTooEarly · 03/05/2019 13:56

Anything by Johnny Hartman

elp30 · 03/05/2019 14:02

David Sylvian's "Before the Bullfight" is simply achingly beautiful and heartbreakingly sad.
It's about a couple in relationship that is breaking down but the protagonist still deeply loves his partner but knows they've come to the end.
I think many of us could relate to it.

"If I'm losing you, then there's nothing more than I can say.
The fighting is on, the battles are won or thrown away.
But if I could live safe and sound, in God given fields or mountains of steel, then here I'd stay...until you're gone".

alltoomuchrightnow · 03/05/2019 14:05

It Bites - The Ice Melts (Into Water)
Francis Dunnery - Jackal In Your Mind

alltoomuchrightnow · 03/05/2019 14:07

Gabriel / Bush - Don't Give Up

alltoomuchrightnow · 03/05/2019 14:08

and of course... Bright Eyes!

BlueMerchant · 03/05/2019 14:09

Rythem of the night- Corona
It's not over yet-Grace
Songs from this era remind me of my young, carefree wild days. I mourn my youthSad

BlueMerchant · 03/05/2019 14:11

Rhythm Grin

alltoomuchrightnow · 03/05/2019 14:12

I'll put link as being not mainstream people won't know it..
can't listen to this within crying! I played it a lot when a beloved pet died

Stravapalava · 03/05/2019 14:22

Under Pressure by Queen & David Bowie used to make me well up a tiny bit, but it came on the radio earlier and it just hit me that neither Freddie or David are still with us and I bawled like a baby.

RedRiverShore · 03/05/2019 14:41

If I didn't have your love - Leonard Cohen
This dream of you - Bob Dylan
When the deal goes down - Bob Dylan
Hurt - Johnny Cash

weediva · 03/05/2019 15:44

He lives in you from the lion king
Sometimes it snows in April - I'm another big Prince fan
Patience by guns n roses
A thousand years 😔
Big girls don't cry by Fergie
Sunshine on Leith