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

For me it's read all about it by professor green. The lines "I wonder what I did to make you hate me, I wasn't even bad" and "if I ever have kids, unlike you, I'll never let them be without me". Bawl like a baby every time. My mother abandoned me and haven't seen her in almost 20 years and she's never met my babies or my husband

Also The Girl I Mean to Be from the musical of The Secrt Garden. It was dd1s song and dance solo before her life fell apart due to mental illness. Another girl performed it at a festival I was at with dd3 and tears were just pouring down my face.

I am such a soft sod I cry at loads of songs. When I was a little girl I used to cry at "The End of the World" Skeeter Davis, "Streets of London" Ralph McTell and "Honey" Bobby Goldsboro because they have such sad lyrics.

When I was 30 a work colleague was killed in an accident and the next day "Beyond the Blue Horizon" played. Its supposed to be a really hopeful song but at that moment I heard it about death and someone crossing over. When my mum died shortly after I couldn't listen to it without sobbing. Still can't

Zombie - The Cranberries is a difficult song due to its subject matter but also now after Dolores died. The Bad Wolves tribute is worth a watch too. I feel very sad watching it as a true tribute to a beautiful voice.

Flowers of the forest always does it for me - bagpipes. And being ex military Evening Hymn and Sunset absolutely RUINS me, especially if they hymn is "The day thou lord gavest has ended"

Last year my BIL took his life, I was many miles away when I happened and felt very much alone without the family around. I listened to "Crazy Diamond" on loop - because he was a tortured soul and crazy diamond.

A recent conversation with DH we discussed his funeral song. He has chosen "Love of my Life" Queen - as previously mentioned. And also "Guide Me Home" Freddie Mercury and Monserrat Caballe - I've listened to it. It breaks me now already.

Loads on here already so just adding one
Feel by Robbie Williams

@Tigresswoods

Johnny Cash. Hurt.

What have I become
My sweetest friend?
Everyone I know
Goes away in the end

Yup, this is the song that sets me off more than any other. I can't watch the video, he's just so old and so sad :(

We've only just begun The Carpenters
Mr bow jangles

The folks who live on the hill Peggy Lee
Stay with me Sam Smith

Stuck in a moment - U2, always has me welling up.

Great thread. Mine are

Late for the Sky (Jackson Browne) - when divorcing my exDH

This Blue World - Elbow. It’s not what the song is about, but somehow makes me think of very early mornings on a hospital ward.

Mothers Pride - George Michael. It was February 1991, and I didn’t want my son to be born during a war. He wasn’t, by a few days.

Nobody’s Hero - Rush. I don’t know why. I listen to them loud in the car and I can’t sing this one without my throat closing.

Need you now - Lady Antebellum. It was popular at the time I realised I was in love with my now DH and I thought I’d missed the boat.

I adore Joni Mitchell and Tori Amos. Little Green and Winter are two of my favourite songs but they don’t make me cry.

@fucknuckle

Speak To Me Someone by Gene. nobody else seems to know it but it makes me ugly cry every time.

I love that whole album.

Lullabye by Billy Joel
I spent many nights rocking my eldest listening to folk lullabys for hours. From about a week old we were told that there was something not quite right with him. We had many hospital visits and he never slept, I was always a little scared he might have something life limiting so I always blubbed at these lyrics
‘ Goodnight, my angel
Now it's time to dream
And dream how wonderful your life will be’
In the end he was diagnosed with a rare condition but he is beautiful,thriving and I no longer rock to calm him in the middle of the night. Still can’t listen to that album though especially this song.

Sorry, not read the thread so not sure if it’s been mentioned already but The Coventry Carol always makes me cry

I've now just listening to waiting for you - Nick Cave, after reading the thread, and I'm in bits.

Thousand years-Christina Perri

There you’ll be-Faith Hill

For Good-from Wicked

Baby Mine. We played it at the cremation of my baby lost mid pregnancy.

How long will I love you. Just makes me think about how much I love my kids!

Athlete - Wires

Thank you for this thread I've spent two days on and off reading and listening and making a playlist.

Lots of songs at different times for me. My Mum died in June (@Abraid2 you were so kind to me that week, I shan't forget ) At her funeral, which I had to watch on a videocast, we played her favourite version of her favourite song You Raise Me Up (Josh Groban) (and she so raised me up to be so much more) and Love Changes Everything (MB with il Divo- she loved her London shows)
Another one that always makes me happily cry is Westlife I'll see you again (YouTube farewell tour version when they are crying too)

Every year I make a video montage for my final year students- I co-opt their parents and get photos of them all growing up. The soundtrack is: Time of your life Green Day, Perfect Day Lou Reed, I lived One Republic, We Are Young- Fun, These Are the Days of our lives Queen, See You Again Whiz Khalifa and Wish You Well Whitesnake.
And every year I howl more than the year before.

Luther vandross. Dance with my father

Over the rainbow by Eva Cassidy

My way - Sinatra
Runaway train - soul asylum. I lost a baby when I was 18 and I played this song on repeat for weeks, maybe even months while I grieved. Still can’t listen to it without sobbing.

Tupelo honey by Van Morrison reminds me of my younger sisters. I cry every time I hear it. To Zion by Lauryn hill as well, I fell pregnant with DS1 in my last year of uni and everyone told me not to keep him and he’ll ruin my life. I still sing that to him to get him to sleep.

Never Enough from the Greatest Showman (very moving, more than sad)

Moon River

First of May, The Bee Gees

He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother

Bright Eyes

Baby Mine from Dumbo

If we hold on Together (from Land Before Time!)

Time to Say Goodbye

Songbird, Eva Cassidy

Brothers in arms

Got to page three and I’m crying just reading the thread!

I cry very easily (think Scott & Charlene getting married in Neighbours for those old enough) and many songs make me weep. Sometimes because of personal memories but sometimes because the lyrics are so beautiful.

Fix you by Coldplay holds no meaning for me personally but listening to the words and knowing why he wrote it makes me sob.

I've a few:

'She Makes My Day' by Robert Palmer - reminds me of my dearly missed DM, even typing this my eyes are filling up.

'Can You Feel The Love Tonight' by Elton John.

'This Guy's In Love With You' by Herb Alpert

'She' by Elvis Costello

'I Love You Because' by Jim Reeves