Songs that have you sobbing

[StealthPolarBear]

Mine is dire straits, on every street.
When ddad told us he had cancer we left shortly afterwards and this came on in the car. Dad is a huge dire straits fan and this song just made me think of him, and how if he wasn't around I'd 'see' him on the street.
Morbidly, I decided it would be played at his funeral. Luckily I haven't had to break it put yet. But the first few bars have me in floods of tears.

Lovely thread - and for everyone having a little weep at memories.

Kate Bush - This womans work
Johnny Cash - Hurt
Have me bawling every time.

Coat of Many Colours - Dolly Parton. It reminds me of my mum who had very little but would have given us kids everything and more.
In the Ghetto - Elvis
Dance with my Father - Luther Vandross

Also, Beautiful South's Artificial Flowers

‘Wings’ by Birdy, ‘A Million Dreams’ from The Greatest Showman and ‘Chasing Cars’ by Snow Patrol all get me every time.

Take me home country roads
Days Kirsty Mccoll
Scarborough fair, Simon and Garfunkel
Annie's song

@MoreRainbowsPlease

Athlete Wires. My Ds2 was hospitalised on Christmas Eve when he was 3 weeks old. They didn't know what was wrong with him, but I was told he could die. This song seemed to be played a lot on the hospital radio and the words really resonated. It was Christmas, and I was looking at the christmas lights and tinsel reflected in his eyes. Running down the corridor to call DP to tell him he had been rushed off for a lumbar puncture. Whenever I hear the song I am instantly transported back to that time 12 years ago when I didn't know if I would get to leave the hospital with my baby.

Ds2 is now a very healthy 12 year old. But I cry whenever I hear that song. It is currently being used for a TV advert so I seem to well up quite a bit.

This is mine too. Very similar reasons. DS1. All 1lb10oz of him in his little plastic box for months on end. We didn't know he would make it until he was at least a month old and had stopped going blue and being re-ventilated. It breaks me every time. I'm sorry you went through it too.

I do have renewed love of the line 'looking at you now, you'd never know'. He's 15 now and a big, strapping boy. Deaf, but otherwise healthy.
Thanks to those wires.

Beautiful thread.

Mine relate to having my heart totally broken by my ex. So many I can think of but:

Lost On You - LP
Piece by Piece by Katie Melua
Try Again by Keane
You were meant for me - Jewel
Addicted - Kelly Clarkson
Against All Odds - Mariah Carey

I agree with PP about On My Own, and I love Samantha barks singing it - but not in the film! So much better on stage in my opinion, without the intro cut and where she really belts it out. I think my favourite version is Lea Salonga but Samantha Barks is a close second

Stars by Simply Red. Gets me every time. Jack and Sarah makes me tearful beginning to end 🥲. Love it.

Show me heaven / it must have been love roxette / never grow up Taylor swift x

Bring him home, from Les Mis. I watched 1917 recently and thought of all those mothers who lost their sons. Beautiful thread.

You Look Wonderful Tonight makes me teary every time, despite having no particular emotional connection to it.

I went to see Gabrielle Aplin live a few years ago and ugly cried all the way through 'Miss You' but I was in a delicate state at the time.

Can't Help Falling In Love With You reminds me of my Granddad and usually brings a tear to my eye. DP sang it to me early in our relationship and was a bit taken aback by my face!

Don't think anyone's mentioned this yet - "Goodnight, Travel Well" by the Killers

"Up above the world so high...
Stay, dont leave me;
The stars can wait for your sign -
Don't signal now"

Jackson Browne 'For a Dancer'

And (embarrassing!) 'Two Little Boys'

Ooh also How To Save A Life by The Fray and Achilles Heel by Semisonic are both songs that make me either sob or sparkle depending on my mood at the time.

They both bring back memories of dancing all night with friends, but also memories of absolute heartbreak.

Achilles Heel by TOPLOADER obviously! D'oh.

DND is the one I was thinking of by Semisonic.

I was going to post here to say Carry You by Tim Minchen too. My mother is 69 and in the latter stages of a complex and rare type of dementia. We were peas in a pod personality wise and “she” isn’t there anymore and it breaks my heart. Add to that all the separation due to her being in a (wonderful) care home and my siblings and I not being able to see her much/at all. I am suddenly very aware of her mortality.

So though we cannot be together
I know that I will carry you wherever I go
I will carry you
Lord knows
I will carry you
I will carry you

And reflected in your eyes
Is all my love and all my lies
Is all my promise and my pride
Is all my fear and all my fight
Is all my dread and my denial

Adele - Someone like you

Will Young - Leave right now

ABBA - Winner takes it all

I adore listening to sad songs. Two really silly ones that get me are Love my life by Robbie Williams, & Growing Up by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis. Also yes to slipping through my fingers, and I’ll add Hard Knocks by SeaSick Steve “Always let love in, even if it hurts you”.

Kenny Chesney There Goes My Life. Waaaaaaahhhhhh

The Scientist, Coldplay.

I had just finished getting ready to attend my boyfriend's funeral and this came on the radio. I had a few minutes of just being still and psyching myself up for the awful few hours ahead and this song takes me back. It's still too painful to listen to.

Touch me in the morning (versions by either Diana Ross or John holt)

Never Went To Church by The Streets.

"You tidied your things into the bin the more poorly you grew
I miss you Dad, but I've got nothing to remind me of you"

I remember listening to that 15 years ago thinking that would be the kind of thing my dad would do. And it was

Dire Straits - Romeo and Juliet
Art Garfunkel - Bright eyes