What songs just make you swell with emotion?

[SuncreamInTheWinter]

Can share why if you want or just share the song name. Or add a link so we can listen.

Attended an online funeral today and they played Highland Cathedral and realised it is always one that gets me. I was at this Proms in the Park that's seen on the video and I cried then and cried today when I heard it.

Total placemarking. Will be playlisting tomorrow.

First time ever I have seen someone else say ‘Still’ by The Commodores. It’s just beautiful.

Feel so sad that someone has called out a poster for saying Celine Dion. Been on loads of these threads. Never seen that shit before. Behave.

And So It Goes, Billy Joel. Used recently in After Life
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Ride On, Christy moore

Fix you, I’m a foster carer and this one always gets me.
Also something inside so strong.

Going home.

Nearly every funeral I’ve been to in the past ten years has had this. It’s beautiful. I found it on YouTube and listened to the first few lyrics and I’m already welling up. Especially as it’s sung by a male voice choir.

‘Dance with my father again’ by Luther Vandross.

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Into my arms - Nick Cave
Fields of gold - the Sting version

and a couple of happy ones:
Pencil full of lead - Paolo Nutini
The love shack B52s

DH and I were talking about songs we'd have at our funerals. I started listing all the ones I wanted (these 4, plus a couple of others) and he said "Bloody hell babes, it's not Desert Island Discs!" 😂

Heal the world- Michael Jackson

Anything by Eva Cassidy

He ain't heavy, he's my brother - I can remember by late du sighing this late df and even thinking about the song makes me cry.

Epica - tides of time. Beautiful song, saw them at a gig, had never heard the song before and it did and does give me goosebumps every time.

Alanis morissette- forgiven. Remember signing along badly and loudly in the car and just starting to cry from the emotion.

He Ain’t Heavy, Bridge OverTroubled Water, Sounds of Silence, In my Life, Something and many more.

Also danced with my father - Luther vandross

Woman's Work by Kate Bush
White lace and Promises - The Carpenters
Supermarket Flowers - Ed Sheeran

Grace by Rod Stewart- for very sad reasons, but it’s also very lovely

Tears in Heaven by Eric Clapton, always makes me weep. I can't imagine living with that pain.

My Man from Funny Girl (film version)

Say Something. I was listening to it when I found out a friend had committed suicide. I can't listen to it at all, it seems unbelievable that such a relevant song was playing.

There are so many wonderful songs on this thread and I love hearing why people are so moved by them. It give me a reason to listen or re-listen to songs knowing what they mean to people.

It reminds me of the Steely Dan lyric from their very cool song, "FM":
"Nothing but blues and Elvis and somebody else's favorite songs"

For me, so many songs mean so much to me for various reasons. There are so many on a day-to-day basis so for today...

"Love Song" by The Cure

My best friend from childhood was a huge Cure fan but the day we heard this song for the first time in 1989 at age 19, she declared that she would play it at her wedding for her first song. In 1997, she and her darling husband danced to this song at their wedding. She unfortunately died due to complications from pneumonia in 2007, aged 36. Her husband played this song at her burial and he placed his ring and a photo of them on their wedding day and a photo of their two children at her gravesite. I can no longer listen to this wonderful song the same way again.

"Tomorrow" by U2

My sister was 19 and in university in 1981 and U2 were university radio staples in the US. She was a huge fan. I was only 11 in 1981 but I always loved listening to her music because it was cool and not what was heard on radio. She bought U2's album "October" for her birthday in October 1981, as it was a brand-new release. We anxiously put it on the turntable. When we heard this song, we stopped dead in our tracks. It is a song that Bono wrote about the loss of his mother in 1974. Larry Mullen Junior lost his mother in 1976. The emotion was raw and it hit a nerve in both of us. Our own mother had died in June 1981 after a four-year battle with cancer. The pipe playing and Bono's lyrics and vocal completely broke us. He put every emotion we had been feeling into a four-minute song. It has been 39 years since we lost her and heard this song for the first time and we still cannot listen to this song without being in complete tears.

"La son de La Negra"

My father was a professional musician of Mexican mariachi music for 60 out of his 75 years of life. He released singles in his home country and accompanied esteemed Mexican musicians in their live performances and their recordings throughout those 60 years. I once asked him what his favorite song was and why. He said that "La Son de La Negra" was what he played at the beginning of a gig and at the end. He said he never, ever tired of it. It was without a doubt, a song to raise the spirits and get a party going and when he played it at the end, it was a reminder to keep having fun. My Dad was a simple man. He loved life, he loved his family and his music was everything. When he passed away, over 100 mariachi musicians attended his graveside and they all played his favorite song, "La Son de La Negra" as a send-off. It was truly beautiful. I break into tears when I hear it because I love my heritage, the song and all the beautiful memories of my father.

Try this, it is John Farnham's You're the Voice with Mitch Tambo who is an Aboriginal singer.

It send shivers down your spine - was a Fund Raiser for Fire Fight Australia.

Elvis's You Were Always On My Mind. It was on an advert when I was a teenager and I found the cassette single in a bin at Woolies for 50p. Then my Nan died and the song was suddenly full of all the regrets I had that she didn't know just how much I loved her.

Bread and Roses, especially when it is sung in the film Pride.

Some good choices on this thread. I'm surprised no one has put this track on.

Luke Combs,Leaving. It's heartbreaking and uplifting at the same time. Just beautiful.

Songbird - Fleetwood Mac

Only You - Alison Moyet

Beautiful thread. Love loads of these and also:

All That You Have Is Your Soul – Tracy Chapman

On A Bus To St Cloud’s – Gretchen Peters

Bookends – Simon & Garfunkel

Always – Atlantic Starr

True Love Ways & That’ll Be The Day – Buddy Holly

Old Friend & Goodbye To Carolina – Lyle Lovett

While You See A Chance, Take It & Back In The High Life – Steve Winwood

Almost every song from Marc Cohn’s first two albums - eponymous & The Rainy Season (and some from his later ones too)

Martha & Where Angels Sing – Meat Loaf

Days Like This – Van Morrison

That’s When He Told Her – The Proclaimers

Bread – Make It With you

Slightly weird as the title isn't true about me but I Am From Austria by The Austria 3. I lived there for a few months and it still gets me every time I play it.

Louis Armstrong's Wonderful World - Oh, yes – and also We Have All the Time In The World.

Fields of Gray – Bruce Hornsby
As if it wasn’t already emotional enough, a dad made this video for his young son to go with the song – so, so very beautiful:

Landslide - Fleetwood Mac
Silver Springs - Fleetwood Mac
Love Will Tear Us Apart - Joy Division
Wichita Lineman - Glenn Campbell
The Lark Ascending

Debussy - Claire de Lune because it was my Mum's funeral music.
Borodin -String Quartet number 2 because it reminds me of my Dad.
Mahler - Symphony number 5 because I think its simply the most beautiful piece of music ever written.
Guns N Roses - Civil War. For the lyrics.