Lines that break your heart

[nordstrom]

I'm just watching a Queen documentary on tv.

Many songs move me, but no single lyric breaks my heart like "I sometimes wish I'd never been born at all" . The utter, desolate sadness of that simple statement, socks me every time I hear it.

Sorry didn't realise it posted 3 times!

Why do you weep?
What are these tears upon your face?
Soon you will see
All of your fears will pass away
Safe in my arms
You're only sleeping

“A four foot box, a foot for every year” from Seamus Heaney’s poem Mid Term Break chokes me up every time. (His brother was four when he was knocked down and killed by a car, his coffin was four feet long)

I will not say 'do not weep' for not all tears are an evil - gandalf ROTK

"We've been loosing him since he lost her" Brad Paisley - dieing to see her

@darumafan I’m so sorry for your loss

Autumn Leaves

The falling leaves drift by my window
The falling leaves of red and gold
I see your lips the summer kisses
The sunburned hands I used to hold
Since you went away the days grow long
And soon I'll hear old winter's song
But I miss you most of all my darling
When autumn leaves start to fall

Chosen by my grandma for my grandads funeral. She had the Nat King Cole version. They had been married 55 years when he died.

“After all this time?”

“Always”

Sobbed like a baby on the train home reading it

"You make me want to be a better man ". As good as it gets

When I grow up
I will be strong enough to carry all
the heavy things you have to haul
around with you when you're a grown-up

From Matilda The Musical, it always makes me think the meaning is much deeper than it looks at first

Nature repairs her ravages - but not all. The uptorn trees are not rooted again; the parted hills are left scarred; if there is a new growth, the trees are not the same as the old, and the hills underneath their green vesture bear the marks of a past rending. To the eyes that have dwelt on the past, there is no thorough repair.

From the final chapter of George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss. It really resonates with anyone who has been bereaved.

The city streets are wet again with rain
But I'm walkin' just the same
Skies turn to the usual grey
When you turn to face the day
And love don't show up in the pavement cracks
All my water colors fade to black
I'm goin' nowhere and I'm ten steps back
All my dreams have fallen flat

Pavement Cracks - Annie Lennox

Deep in your eyes I recognised
Exhilarating sadness
And the summer slipped out unnoticed
From beneath your tears

By the Saw doctors

Used to listen to it after visiting my sister who was mourning her still born son.

Hazel: I don't know.
[the apparition reveals himself to be the Black Rabbit, and Hazel gasps]
Hazel: Yes, my lord. I know you.
Black Rabbit: I've come to ask if you'd like to join my Owsla. We shall be glad to have you, and I know you'd like it. You've been feeling tired, haven't you? If you're ready, we might go along now.
[Hazel looks at all the younger rabbits of Watership Down]
Black Rabbit: You needn't worry about them. They'll be all right, and thousands like them. If you come along now, I'll show you what I mean

Just the line, "you've been feeling tired, haven't you?" , normally gets me!

Wires - First night of your life, curled up on your own, as pps have said, for my little preemie in an incubator.

And Mumford and Sons - I will wait, mostly the line - you forgave and I won’t forget - for the baby I had at five months pregnant, when I had to agree to induction/TOP due to an open cervix and infection.

for everyone on here, some heartbreaking posts

You got wires, goin' in
You got wires, comin' out of your skin
You got tears
Making tracks
I got tears
That are scared of the facts

"And the storm is breaking, or so it seems.
We're too young to reason, too grown up for dreams" from Slave to Love by Bryan Ferry.
The Christmas carol Little Donkey gets me every time too, especially the line "little donkey, little donkey, had a heavy day"

Now she's collecting all the pieces of her love before the light gets dark
(Leave the door wide open - Black English/No)

Hold me like you never lost your patience
Tell me that you love me more than hate me all the time
(Lost on you - LP)

Looking better than a body has a right to
(Here you come again - Dolly Parton)

When you caught my eye, I saw everywhere I'd been and wanna go to
(An end has a start - Editors)

We've all been changed from what we were
Our broken parts left smashed off the floor
(Smokers outside the hospital doors - Editors)

In that moment you realize that
Something you thought would always be there
Will die like everything else
(When anger shows - Editors)

I'm proud of you boy
Look how far you came
proud of who you are
happy how you changed
I won't see you much more
But that's ok
I can rest assured
that you're happy
(ordinary lives - the slow show)

Child of a Day by Walter Savage Landor:

Child of a day, thou knowest not
The tears that overflow thy urn,
The gushing eyes that read thy lot,
Nor, if thou knewest, couldst return!

And why the wish! the pure and blest
Watch like thy mother o'er thy sleep.
O peaceful night! O envied rest!
Thou wilt not ever see her weep.

Jim Croce:
But there never seems to be enough time
To do the things you want to do, once you find them
I've looked around enough to know
That you're the one I want to go through time with

Marc Cohn:
And one day you may look at us
And say that you were cursed
But over time that line has been
Extremely well rehearsed
By our fathers, and their fathers
In some old and distant town
From places no one here remembers
Come the things we've handed down

Forever Young (The Bob Dylan one) – the whole song

Light Gatherer by Carol Ann Duffy. My beautiful and wonderful Dd will shortly be off to uni; I can still feel her soft newborn weight in my arms.
'You slept with the whole world held in your arms for a night-light, where I knelt watching.

Light-gatherer. You fell from a star into my lap, the soft lamp at the bedside mirrored in you.

And now you shine like a snow-girl, a buttercup under the chin, the wide blue yonder you squeal at and fly in, like a jewelled cave, turquoise and diamond and gold, opening out at the end of a tunnel of years.

I don't want to die, but I ain't keen on living either.

Robbie Williams - resonates so much with me as I really wouldn't commit suicide and the thought of leaving my kids without a mum would devastate me, yet at the same time, often I feel that I really would just like to be gone and to disappear forever.

Stormzy's rap at the start of the cover of Bridge Over Troubled Water for the Grenfell Tower victims. I find it heartbreakingly moving.

A poem one of my students posted in a discussion forum once:

The furthest distance in the world/is not the distance between life and death/but you don't know I love you when I stand in front of you

“All alone, I came into this world
All alone, I will someday die
Solid stone is just sand and water, baby
Sand and water, and a million years gone by …”

Beth Nielsen Chapman

So moving, but somehow also comforting. At least to me!

Cats i the cradle - my son was just like me - then it was used for a NI advert.

Growing up in England these people were monsters, not really human, this made them people, which was not the idea of the advert ad. I think is was only shown once outside NI and I can still remember seeing it on Tarrant TV