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Which song(s) make you cry?

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AbcXyz123456 · 22/02/2023 21:28

For me it's Celine Dion - Think Twice. Don't know what it is about that song but even as a fairly young child it always got me!

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DogSaysWoof · 22/02/2023 21:32

Blue ridge Mountain Song

It's about a young couple that meet, fall in love, get married,.set up house, spend their nights sitting on their porch..
then she takes ill and dies and leaves him alone.

One part of the lyrics goes:

They couldn't tell him what was wrong
But they just didn't know
It wasn't very long 'til Jesus called her home
And he got down on his knees
Said, "God, don't take my love from me"

Gets me everytime, it's so beautiful.

WishyWashtsWash · 22/02/2023 21:36

Dance with my father Luther vandross

Toms Diner Suzanne Vega only because I was so young when it came out an ex loved it and now I'm 50 and a responsible grown up it's just oh! I play it loud when my kids aren't home

bloodywhitecat · 22/02/2023 21:38

Pointless - Lewis Capaldi because everything does seem pointless without DH, I go through the motions of living but my heart's not in it.

1000 Years - Christina Perri because it brings back wonderful memories of our wedding day in May 21.

dudsville · 22/02/2023 21:39

I rarely cry to music, but the songs popular in my childhood, i.e. that my parents played during the time when we were all a family, make me so damn melancholic that i can't bear it.

GoldDuster · 22/02/2023 21:42

Little Donkey sung by a class of kids when one of them is one of my DC and I'm gone 🤣

mikado1 · 22/02/2023 21:43

Mio Babbino Caro

cornflakegeneration · 22/02/2023 21:43

Dire Straits - Romeo and Juliet

whattodo87 · 22/02/2023 21:45

Woman's work by Kate Bush

AccidentallyRunToWindsor · 22/02/2023 21:46

I'm sorry @bloodywhitecat 😢

Blur- no distance left to run. It's a pure heartbreak song and reminds me of some dark times in the past.

janedani · 22/02/2023 21:46

A thousand years. My sister died when her baby was 4 months old and she used to sing this too him 😢

VintageThoughts · 22/02/2023 21:49

Well James Blunt has just come up on my TikTok singing Monsters.

I've absolutely cried my eyes out and I'm not really a weeper. My dad is still healthy and well thank goodness but this song just destroyed me. I could cry now, just thinking about it. The video is so powerful.

TheLostNights · 22/02/2023 21:50

New song by Freya Ridings 'Face in the crowd ' got me earlier

ScottBakula · 22/02/2023 21:51

I agree with Dance With My Father, it's a very touching song .

Terry Jack's Season in the sun gets me as itcwas in the charts when a school friend was killed by a hit and run driver outside our primary school .
I dudnt make the connection when I was a kid but I heard it on the radio many years later and the memory of the accident and the school assembly the day after came flooding back out of no where .

America12 · 22/02/2023 21:53

Two little boys 😬

ScottBakula · 22/02/2023 21:53

cornflakegeneration · 22/02/2023 21:43

Dire Straits - Romeo and Juliet

I love this song and imo a very underrated DS song

Ihatethenewlook · 22/02/2023 21:54

Most of the songs in the snowman and snow dog movie

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AbcXyz123456 · 22/02/2023 21:56

whattodo87 · 22/02/2023 21:45

Woman's work by Kate Bush

Definitely this one too

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AbcXyz123456 · 22/02/2023 21:57

GoldDuster · 22/02/2023 21:42

Little Donkey sung by a class of kids when one of them is one of my DC and I'm gone 🤣

Awwww 😍🤣

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PinkPantherPaws · 22/02/2023 21:59

Wasn't expecting that by Jamie Lawson - I could well up just thinking of the lyrics.

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AbcXyz123456 · 22/02/2023 21:59

janedani · 22/02/2023 21:46

A thousand years. My sister died when her baby was 4 months old and she used to sing this too him 😢

Beautiful song. Aww so sorry to hear that. That made me well up.
It was actually listening to music with my 8 month old that got me thinking about this.

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AbcXyz123456 · 22/02/2023 22:05

bloodywhitecat · 22/02/2023 21:38

Pointless - Lewis Capaldi because everything does seem pointless without DH, I go through the motions of living but my heart's not in it.

1000 Years - Christina Perri because it brings back wonderful memories of our wedding day in May 21.

Sorry @bloodywhitecat that's so sad 😞

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VickerishAllsort · 22/02/2023 22:06

Slipping Through My Fingers by ABBA.
Tears and snot every time.

Pipsickl · 22/02/2023 22:07

cornflakegeneration · 22/02/2023 21:43

Dire Straits - Romeo and Juliet

this is my one too. The guitar bit at the end is just so sad and melancholy

TitInATrance · 22/02/2023 22:09

Together in Electric Dreams - Human League.

Vallmo47 · 22/02/2023 22:09

Bridge over troubled water by Simon & Garfunkel