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 a Friend - the Communards

A really close friend of mine died when I was in my early 20's - he was one of my first ever gay friends (grew up in a small town where we were a bit sheltered), went to work in a hotel in London and met him, hit it off immediately - unfortunately he had previously had cancer, which returned a few years later, but he didn't get over it that second time 🥺 - I still cry now, 25.5 years later - RIP Patsy ❤️

Lyrics :-
I never cried the way I cried over you
As I put down the telephone and the world it carried on
Somewhere else, someone else is crying too
Another man has lost a friend, I bet he feels the way I do
And now I'm left without, I know your love within
As I watch the sun go down, watching the world fade away
All the memories of you come rushing back to me
As I watch the sun go down, watching the world fade away
All I want to do is kiss you once goodbye
Summer comes and I remember how we'd march
We'd march for love and pride, together arm in arm
Tears have turned, turned to anger and contempt
I'll never let you down, a battle I have found
And all the dreams we had, I will carry on
As I watch the sun go down, watching the world fade away
All the memories of you…

Another vote for fix you by coldplay. Not at first but since I heard the story behind him writing it I've been unable to listen without doing big ugly tears.

Also, You Have Been Loved and I Can't Make You Love Me by George Michael. More so since he passed.

Love Of My Life by Queen, but only Brian May's live version. He sings it at shows for Freddie and if you don't cry at it you are a heartless monster. Similarly Silver Springs by Fleetwood Mac, never paid it much heed until they did it on the Say You Will Tour and the pain in her voice when she sang it live just undid me. Ditto David Gray doing This Years Love or Sail Away.

Most recently randomly cried at Wet Sand by RHCP despite having heard it hundreds of times. Not sure what that's about!

Puff the Magic Dragon (embarrassing, but true)

Jeff Buckley's version of "Song to the Siren".

You Don't Bring Me Flowers - Streisand/Diamond

It used to be so natural
To talk about forever
But used-to-bes don't count anymore
They just lay on the floor 'til we sweep them away

Oh dear. Been listening to old top 40s on Mixcloud and Tom Jones - A Boy From Nowhere had me crinkly red faced crying. My late Mum was a huge fan, plus it's also reminding me of a lovely former stray cat we took in (also dead) and Mum described him as "our little boy from nowhere."

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I'm only half way through reading the thread and many of my sad songs have been mentioned already but one I haven't seen is 'altogether now' by The Farm. It's about such a poignant event it breaks me every time.

I cry at millions of songs but found myself for the first time sobbing to Vincent by Don McLean today - so that’s my vote.

I could have told you Vincent
This world was never meant for one as beautiful as you.

• goes off to have a little lie down

Somewhere over the rainbow - eva Cassidy- played at my DMs funeral
Fix you- coldplay - heard it the day after the funeral when I felt like I was completely broken
Ordinary World - Duran Duran.i had a serious MH issue and ED in my teens and I remember breaking down in tears when I heard this, and now I think of that frightened person that I was each time I hear it.
Chasing cars -snow patrol. On the radio one day mothers were talking about having lost their sons in conflict. I think a mum had lost her son when he served in Afghanistan and she chose this as a song to remember him. I find it really poignant every time I hear it.

Mr blue sky - ELO. Not exactly a sad song but I heard a piece on R4 a while ago and this was a song that a man really liked to sing along to and used to sing it with his little kids. He died when they were still little and it was played at his funeral, and they ended up recording a version of it.

Yes I blub every time it comes on the radio. Welling up now just thinking about it.

An crap. Googled it. Snivelling again (song #4)

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/226VYlVfWktrXfvxwP7xlZ0/six-life-changing-pieces-of-music

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SerenityNowwwww I love that song! When I saw ELO live a couple of years ago I cried the second they started playing it even though it isn't a sad song and has no connection to any sad stories for me. I think it's the power of music to make you feel so completely overcome that's what makes it so special.

I'm crap at remembering song titles or who sings them but there's one song that definitely makes me bawl. I think it's a Christmas song, it's about a boy who wants to buy his mother a pair of shoes but he can't afford them, she's dying and it's all he wants for Christmas - oh my God I've just started crying thinking about it!

Glacier - John Grant

Also, I unexpectedly found myself welling up during "Let it Go" from Frozen in the car twice

This workshop video of This is me from Greatest Showman always gets me too.

@custardbear

I love that song so much.

Coming around Again - Carly Simon

Fast car, Tracey Chapman always gets me.

@TrickOrRuddyTreat

SerenityNowwwww I love that song! When I saw ELO live a couple of years ago I cried the second they started playing it even though it isn't a sad song and has no connection to any sad stories for me. I think it's the power of music to make you feel so completely overcome that's what makes it so special.

Where did you see them? There are always concerts on tv and they look great fun (for us oldies!)

I'll add my vote for Boulder To Birmingham by Emmylou Harris that a previous poster mentioned. And to the list I'll add Forever Young by Alphaville. Sobbing a bit now just at the thought of both of them!

Ashes in Snow by a Japanese band called Mono. It’s so bloody powerful.

Where did you see them? There are always concerts on tv and they look great fun (for us oldies!)

At the arena in Newcastle on the 2018 tour. I was one of the youngest in the room but I was brought up listening to everything Jeff Lynne has ever done (thanks mum!) so I was also one of the most excited It was absolutely awesome and well worth the extortionate ticket price.

Also agree with all the Joni Mitchell, Kate Bush and Fleetwood Mac mentions.

Also Into My Arms by Nick Cave, and pretty much the entirety of his most recent Ghosteen record. It’s incredibly beautiful but also painful (in a good way).

Maggot Brain by Funkadelic.