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Songs that have you sobbing

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StealthPolarBear · 09/12/2020 00:24

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.

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WitsEnding · 09/12/2020 14:57

Electric Dreams.

Flackattack · 09/12/2020 16:29

Tears in heaven - the song, the lyrics, the story . . .

frugalkitty · 09/12/2020 16:38

James Blunt 'Monsters' for me. My Dad has Parkinson's and it's like we lose a little bit of him every day, and it's so incredibly sad. One line of the song is 'while you're sleeping, I'll try to make you proud' and I just can't bear to think that one day soon that's happening to me. I love my Dad, everyone should be as lucky as I've been to have such an amazing one.

VetOnCall · 09/12/2020 17:34

Days by The Kinks

Thank you for the days
Those endless days, those sacred days you gave me
I'm thinking of the days
I won't forget a single day, believe me
I bless the light
I bless the light that lights on you, believe me
And though you're gone
You're with me every single day, believe me...

changed1 · 09/12/2020 17:48

Mama - Il Divo
One last time - Ariana Grande

KatnissNeverseen · 09/12/2020 17:57

December Song ( I Dreamed of Christmas ) ~ George Michael

HighHeelBoots · 09/12/2020 18:00

Days but Kirsty MacColl singing. It reminds me of my Dad
Pogues Thousands are Sailing
Hurt Johnny Cash

AccidentallyOnPurpose · 09/12/2020 18:06

There are many. But my two main ones,especially if I'm in the need of a good cry are "Whiskey Lullaby" - Brad Paisley and "You can let go now ,Daddy" by Crystal Shawanda. You can let go allows me to do the grieving I couldn't do when my dad passed away ,whenever I feel the need to.

christmasmiserymary · 09/12/2020 18:10

Never enough from the greatest showman.

bluedomino · 09/12/2020 18:19

Behind the wall by Tracy Chapman. It's chilling.

goldielockdown2 · 09/12/2020 18:41

Jeff Buckley's version of I Know its Over

Gingernaut · 09/12/2020 18:45
Haunting
Letsgomaths · 09/12/2020 18:52

It’s not well-known, but a song called The Cat Carol is one of the saddest Christmas songs I’ve ever heard. Cat lovers, beware!

KatnissNeverseen · 09/12/2020 19:16

Heartless ~ The Fray

ladybee28 · 09/12/2020 19:29

Cassidy's Over the Rainbow

And then John Martyn, Couldn't Love You More

The sound of his voice alone reminds me of my first big love, but this song – and this version specifically – reminds me of what it felt like to lose him.

ladybee28 · 09/12/2020 19:34

Oh gosh, and my dad used to play Marc Cohn's Things We've Handed Down for me all the time when I was a kid, and it gets me leaking from the very first chords...

7Days · 09/12/2020 19:48

Days but with Luke Kelly singing it.
Such a voice.
My dads favourite and we lost him at only 49.

Nohootingchickenssleeping · 09/12/2020 20:04

Sailing by Rod Stewart.

My grandmother was a refugee and she requested that song at her funeral. Can’t listen to it.

Blueuggboots · 09/12/2020 20:10

The sunshine of my smile by Mike Berry
Country roads take me home by John Denver.

SaintWilfred · 09/12/2020 20:13

[quote StillMedusa]This.. especially now.
The line 'These are the people who'll make you feel safe in this world' makes me cry every time.
And this year my own DS1 is 9000 miles from home (in Oz and can't come back) and the song says it all [/quote]
This is mine too. I came on here to mention it.

I am someone's blued eyed (not so infant) daughter and I have been 5000 miles from home, planning my travel back for Christmas, to the people who make me feel safe in this world.

It makes me sob everytime I hear it.

Wotrewelookinat · 09/12/2020 20:15

Athlete ‘Wires’. Reminds me of when our prem DTwins were in SCBU (they’re fine and strapping teenagers now).

RossPoldarkFan · 09/12/2020 20:17

Hurt by Johnny Cash is the saddest song I have ever heard.

Ffsnosexallowed · 09/12/2020 20:19

Sunshine on Leith - played at 2 good friends' funerals - both of whom died much too young. One of them had had it as her first dance at her wedding. I just can't listen to it.

EdwardCullensBiteOnTheSide · 09/12/2020 20:24

Iris by the Goo Goo Dolls
Turning Page by Sleeping at Last
And these next two only because they really bring back memories from being young, Impossible Love by UB40 and A Good Heart by Fergal Sharkey

Confusedandshaken · 09/12/2020 20:36

Back in the days before making a playlist was an easy digital task my DH made a mixtape for me called "Songs that make Confused go Boo Hoo Hoo'. It contained a lot of the songs mentioned here and it was very effective.

One I haven't seen mentioned is an Irish song called The Lights Of Rosslare Harbour. I used to travel back to the U.K. from Rosslare after visits to my GPs (now long dead) and this song reminds me of those tearful journeys and breaks my heart every time.

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