What songs stir your emotions?

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Driving home and One More light by Linkin Park was on. Gets me right in the feels every time I hear it!

Other songs that make me tear up are:

Wires by Athlete - my youngest child had sepsis as a baby and it takes me right back there every time!

Also Slipping though my fingers - Abba - I have daughters, enough said!

What songs properly stir your emotions?

Prince 1999

I liked it when it was released but it was about a time so far in the future it was almost unimaginable. But boy, were we going to party, party, party (because the nuclear threat was so very very real then)

Now, when I hear it, I just get lost in wondering where the time went and what the hell happened

The Fray - How to Save a Life. It was in the charts when an ex of mine took his own life and hearing it just breaks my heart.

Matt Monroe - Born Free. Played at my dad's funeral. Got used on an advert way too soon after and regularly had me in floods.

Suede - The Beautiful Ones. Reminds me of a friend who died.

Fleetwood Mac - Landslide. Aunt's funeral.

The Wannadies - You and Me Song. Another tune, another dearly departed friend.

You Are My Sunshine. Just because my nan sang it to me when I was little.

I'm sure there are some songs that don't make me completely maudlin!

Runaway Train by Soul Asylum always gets me. Sad lyrics, heartbreaking video of all those missing children!

Dave Pirner was a thing of beauty though! 😍

Eyes without a face by Billy Idol.
I loved it as a teenager.

Silence by Dave Thomas Junior, I've never heard a song that describes loss so perfectly.

So many. I feel music very intensely and can be completely sideswiped by certain songs!

Anthem, Leonard Cohen
Let Down, Radiohead
Evergreen, Faithless
Glacier, John Grant
Slave to Love, Roxy Music
Tunnel of Love, Dire Straits
Poison and Wine, The Civil Wars

The hymn How Great Thou Art, because we sang it at my father’s funeral.

Beethoven’s Adagio, Emperor Concerto

God, so so many, especially now that DP has passed away:

Noel Gallagher's HFB - Dead in the Water
Noel Gallagher's HFB - If I Had A Gun
The Kinks - Waterloo Sunset
Vance Joy - Missing Piece
Léon - Die For You
Texas - Halo
Johnny Flynn - Wandering Aengus
Skinny Lister - Rolling Over
Red Rum Club - Come Back, Anne Marie
Do You Really Wanna Know? - Sea Girls
Sweet Talking Woman - ELO

SIA Breathe Me

Kate Bush - This Woman's Work.
Loud and in the dark.
Goosebumps!

My anthems are:

Girl on Fire, Alicia Keys

and

Sexuality, kd lang

Songs about or linked to children being hurt or loss of a child, maybe not surprisingly

Wires (Athlete) is wonderfully written song -- I can't even listen to it.
Little Green, Joni Mitchell
No Son of Mine, Genesis
The classical music in Lorenzo's Oil used to do me in, took about 20 years to get over that one.

Grateful to say that there are too many songs that make me happy to list.

Sunshine on Leith. The Proclaimers.

'While I'm worth
My room on this earth,
I will be with you'

Always cracks me up.

I'm a soppy old sod.

I'm sorry for all those who've lost someone on this thread.
So many of these songs also make me cry! Especially PP mentioned Disturbed's version of Sound of Silence. I read somewhere that the Simon and Garfunkel version was the warning, and the Disturbed version is the despair that the warning was never heeded.

No laughing but from a distance the Christmas version every time I hear gets to me 🤷‍♀️

The Bette Midler version

Oh, loads! All of them pretty cheesy! Off the top of my head:

He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother

Bright Eyes

Moon River

One Day Like This

Never Enough from the Greatest Showman

Earth song - Michael Jackson.
Powerful.

Carpenters - Close to You
Roxy Music - Avalon
Al Martino - End of the World
Robert Palmer - Mercy Mercy Me
Debussy - Clare de Lune
Tina Turner - Let’s Stay Together
Duran Duran - Save A Prayer
Stranglers - European Female
Andy Mackay (Roxy Music) - Tara

The first 1-2 seconds of Avalon is enough to tingle my spine. That clever short unmistakable guitar stroke.

Dance with my Father, I am 60, Dad lived a long happy and productive life. Fit and active till a few weeks before he died aged 91. Have to run away if I hear it coming on the radio at work due to terrible racking sobs. Even having trouble typing this.

The Dambusters March (he was in Bomber Command in WW2).

I Will Always Love You, came on the radio while driving my eldest to London to start her grown up, independent life. Got all snotty.

Dear me, where are the tissues.

Recently it's the Ukraine Eurovision entry. Easy to get teary when I hear it, as it's about a sons love for his mother and makes me think of all the sons and mothers in Ukraine right now and what they must be going through. And also how the song could be about Ukraine and her people. It's very catchy too.

Time to Say Goodbye, Andrea Bocelli and Sarah Brightman. It’s a heart wringer!

How long will I love you - Ellie Golding. It was on the radio when my second was born via c-section. It was such a serene, healing moment for me. I had an awful traumatic first birth, dithered for years if to have another baby or not. Fraught second pregnancy. He was born in the middle of a heatwave, it was all so calm. The song came on the radio and he was pulled out. I looked at my dh and he just looked so relieved. It was our exhale. He was our exhale.

hallelujah - By L Cohen. Played at my cousin's funeral. He was 45 when he died and it broke my heart. We were so close. I can't stand hearing it and have to leave if it ever played on radio or whatever.

The last one is cheesy but bear with me. When my first ds was born it was hideous. Terrible birth. Stuck on the post natal ward for a week as my blood pressure was too high. Dh used to sing to our newborn ds in his croaky husky voice Rhiannas "we found love in a hopeless place". And it made me laugh so much, and then cry in equal measure. It is so not a tearjerker but it is to me!

@hullaballoo19 haven't rtft but I came on to say Lover, You Should Have Come Over as well. I think it's my all time favourite song!

Every generation blames the one before. The lyrics really resonate.

I cannot listen to this song!! So emotive and makes me cry my eyes out