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

@lobster12 we've just watched Eurovision and I've fallen in love with your home town!

I hear you re 'The Living Years'.

Unchained Melody - reminds me of the film Ghost which had me inconsolable for hours after I watched it.

In the Ghetto

Swing Low Sweet Chariot

Fix You - I cried at it a few weeks ago when explaining the lyrics to DD7.

Numb Linkin Park as it describes the pits of depression I've experienced before.

Music deeply touches me.

Slipping through my fingers kills me. It reminds me of my mum, and some days I wish I could go back to being her baby again. And then it reminds me of my eldest who’s starting school and it’s gone so fast

'She Used To Be Mine' from 'Waitress'.

Unfortunately - 'Two Little Boys' by Rolf Harris. I find it unbearably moving, irrespective of the singer.

'To Sir, With Love' - Lulu.

'This Used To Be My Playground - Madonna.

And so many already mentioned: 'Days Of Our Lives'; 'I Can't Make You Love Me' (esp. sung by George Michael); 'Streets Of London'; 'Driving Home For Christmas'; 'This Woman's Work'; 'All Woman'; 'Father and Daughter'; 'The Living Years'.

And if I'm feeling particularly mawkish - 'Don't Take The Girl' by Tim McGraw and 'Standing Outside The Fire' by Garth Brooks, although 80% is the video. Which is terrible, but kills me every time. I was explaining it to someone in a pub once - who I really fancied - and started loudly sobbing "And then he falls over, right, and the mum comes running but it's the dad - the dad! - who gets there first, right, and helps him over the line . . . ' The whole pub went quiet. And it was in Margate, so . . .

DD is 17 and I've never been able to even contemplate listening to Slipping Through my fingers in all that time. And don't think I ever will!

And 'Arms Wide Open' by Creed.

Kaz Hawkins " lipstick and Cocaine " I came across her by accident on YouTube
You HAVE to listen to it, the live version
Her back story omg, I have never heard a voice with so much emotion

@TheSeedsOfADream

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.

💐

Husavik - My Home Town from the eurovision movie lol had me sobbing

Hear you me - jimmy eat world

Don't Dream It's Over by Crowded House - my late Dad's favourite song. Even the first couple of bars make me blubber. He died at Christmas so a lot of festive songs just make me cry too. I always wear headphones in shops from November onwards so I do't embarrass myself.

Decades by Joy Division, Love Is A Losing Game by Amy Winehouse and River Man by Nick Drake always have me in bits too but I'm not crying for myself, more for the singer and the sadness they must have felt.

This is me from Greatest Showman ??!?

James Blunt Monsters, written as he was losing his father. Sobbing!

Rockabye - Clean Bandit

She tells him "your life ain't gonna be nothing like my life
You're gonna grow and have a good life
I'm gonna do what I've got to do"

........

Now she got a six-year-old
Trying to keep him warm
Trying to keep out the cold
When he looks in her eyes
He don't know he is safe

It gets me every time. It has to be a contender for saddest Christmas number 1 ever.

Yesterday by the Beatles. Was played at my nans funeral

All I Want - Kodaline

Mad World - Gary Jules
I didn’t used to cry - but it just seems so poignant with all that has happened this year.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=4N3N1MlvVc4

Jesus to a child - George Micheal. Written about his partner who passed away.

That song off tee and mo about going to sleep. Especially since a mumnetter said a friend of hers had it at her sons funeral.

It was on a starry night which is a kids nativity song. I remember clearly sitting on Mrs Wordworths knee when it got to me as a 5 year ago old! Still does it now!

@HouseBeforeMarriage

This Woman's Work - Kate Bush

Yes definitely this!

I don’t want to talk about it, by Rod Stewart gets me too!

@Allmyarseandpeggymartin

Jesus to a child - George Micheal. Written about his partner who passed away.

That song off tee and mo about going to sleep. Especially since a mumnetter said a friend of hers had it at her sons funeral.

It was on a starry night which is a kids nativity song. I remember clearly sitting on Mrs Wordworths knee when it got to me as a 5 year ago old! Still does it now!

Yes that Starry Night carol gets me too. Sometimes Away in a Manger too!

One More Night - Phil Collins
Heaven for Everyone - Queen
Sweet Sixteen - The Fureys
Songbird - Eva Cassidy
Fields Of Gold -Sting
The Jurassic Park theme.
Soldier of Love - Asher Quinn
Titanic Soundtrack
Ghost Soundtrack
More Than This - Roxy Music

Pachebels Canon

*Pachelbel

The Portrait - Amanda McBroom

@MeMeMeYou Oh god yes - away in a manger! And little donkey!

What is it about kids nativity songs?