Songs that make you sob

[ChrisChambersNeverMisses]

Sorry, I know this topic has been done before but...
Recently watched The Falling, and Florence Pugh sings Voyage To The Moon- it's only a brief moment, but I had never heard the song before and I cannot stop thinking about it. I've listened to Donovan and the Mary Hopkin version and I'm sobbing! Absolutely bawling my eyes out! It is such a sad sweet melancholy song. It's making me think of the DCs as babies and how little DD (4) is growing so big now...

Are there any songs that have given you the same reaction? I can't stop listening and crying!

Disclaimer- this may be a result of lockdown hysteria

Barbara Streisand "The way we were"....the first few notes my chest tightens and I'm gone.

This is the only song that does this for me.

December Song - George Michael

Read All About It - Emilie Sande

Slipping through my fingers.

And quite a lot of christmas carols.

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Tori Amos Winter. Makes me think of my relationship with my dad when he was alive.

Me too

@thesunwillout Ghosteen is incredible. It’s beautiful but every bit as heartbreaking as you’d expect and it’s very much about the loss of a child. I’m still in painful awe every time I listen to it.

I saw him on his “In Conversation with Nick Cave” tour last year, just him and his piano and the crowd asking questions, it was amazing. Some idiot man asked him if he’d seen the unintended benefits to his creativity in the fact he’d lost his son and I think a lot of people were just aghast at the question, Nick shut him down immediately.

Going to see him again on his arena tour next year.

Can I add 'Playboy Mommy' by Tori Amos

And recently 'Time To Say Goodbye' - it was played at a friend's funeral a couple of weeks ago over a montage of her photos. Destroys me just thinking about it.

The Drugs Don't Work, by The Verve. It played on the radio after we were told that my mums cancer treatment wasn't working. Always reminds me of those dark times.

My Immortal - Evanescence

Too Late To Apologise - One Republic

Break Your Heart - Natalie Merchant

I want to add -
Little Green, by Joni Mitchell.
The Mother, by Brandi Carlile.

Oh yes little green kills me it’s so beautiful!

Idiot Waltz by the Gun Club.

Happier by Marshmallow
It’s the video, I sobbed at that and now even the song without the video makes me cry now

Lippy kids by Elbow

You'll never walk alone - Gerry & Pacemakers- makes me blub, even more so over what happened at hillsborough

One Day In Your Life- Michael Jackson

Hurt - Johnny Cash

R Kelly - worlds greatest. It is a really positive song but also makes me cry

Ne me quitte pas. The Dusty Springfield version in 'Toast' where a young Nigel Slater dances with his dying mother. Gets me every time.

The band played waltzing matilda performed by the pogues (written by Eric bogle) it's a song about coming home after WW1

Switching Off - Elbow
Videotape - Radiohead (played at a friend’s funeral and completely broke me)
Samson - Regina Spektor
Go or Go Ahead - Rufus Wainwright
Light Years - The National
A Lady of a Certain Age- The Divine Comedy
Grace Cathedral Hill - The Decemberists

Some of these I purposely whack on when I need a good cry; others I can very rarely deal with hearing.

Love lilac wine by Jeff Buckley.

Ed Sheeran Photograph..played at my baby nieces funeral. A photograph is all I have. Forever missed , forever remembered . Sending you all a hug x

I will be there by Kate Melua.
My lovely mother in law was dying at the time this came out i remember it came on the radio while I was showering and I crumbled to the floor.

You're Not Right For Me by Emilia Mitiku.

Elvis Costello's cover of She.

I was here - Beyoncé
Supermarket Flowers - Ed Sheeran
Small Bump - Ed Sheeran

@Inmyownlittlecorner

Somewhere by Runrig & Julie Fowlis. My Mum died unexpectedly 2 days after her Birthday 18 months ago & it came on on in the car while we were on the way to say goodbye to her. It’s a beautiful song & very emotive.

One Day more from Les Mis always has me in tears & White Wine in The Sun by Tim Minchin. Have it All by Jason Mraz has made me emotional recently because I’ve got a DD going to Secondary School & it really sums up all of the things I want her to know.

@Inmyownlittlecorner are you me?! I adore Julie Fowlis, howl at One Day More and recently made a video of photos of DD for her 13th birthday with Mraz as the backing track. I can't watch it without crying. We always sob together at White Wine in the Sun too! I can't hear the line about passing round an infant daughter without crying.

I had to stop listening to that for about a year when my younger child, my daughter went off to university!