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Songs that make you cry/teary?

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Dipsydoodlenoodle · 04/07/2023 11:21

I've just been listening to Spotify at work in the office and the new song "0800 Heaven" has come on and I'm sat blinking away the tears...not really sure why.

The song "The Christmas Shoes" ALWAYS makes me cry (lyrics).

What songs give you that unintentiomal teary feeling?

Also to perk the thred up a bit, what song if you listen to it, just gives you a really happy feeling?

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PurpleFresias · 04/07/2023 12:33

@mushroo .. can't believe we share the same cry songs. I need to listen to your happy ones to see if we are in fact the same person Smile

TheaBrandt · 04/07/2023 12:33

Pretty much any carol live esp Silent night. My teens won’t come to carol services with me anymore.

I know you by heart by Eva Cassidy.

Mushroo · 04/07/2023 12:35

@PurpleFresias no way! Haha.

My happy ones are similarly eclectic!

Discretionassured · 04/07/2023 12:40

Songs that make me cry: Wires by Athlete, Silence by Dave Thomas Junior (used on the After Life soundtrack, it's heartbreaking 😢), In The End by Linkin Park (obvious reasons) and Then by The Charlatans.

Happy songs: One Way by The Levellers (takes me back to being 16 and getting ready to go out on a Saturday night) and Monkey Wrench by Foo Fighters.

BeverleyMacker · 04/07/2023 12:52

Cry
Victims by Culture club
This woman's work by Kate Bush
Bright eyes by Art Garfunkel

Happy
Starstruck by years and years
Boogie Nights by Heatwave
Move your feet by Junior senior

LadyEloise1 · 04/07/2023 12:55

Clarachuff · 04/07/2023 11:28

and the band played waltzing matilda performed by the Pogues..I always cry when I listen to it

An amazing song.
Likewise The Green Fields of France.
Sad

HotMessMama · 04/07/2023 13:19

Tears in Heaven - Eric Clapton
😭😭😭

Candycats · 04/07/2023 13:37

Small Bump by Ed Sheeran - stupidly first listened to it when I was pregnant, had me blubbing in the gym!

Brefugee · 04/07/2023 13:38

many but the one that always springs to mind is Excerpt from a Teenage Opera by Keith West (I think)

The "grocer jack" one. It makes me so sad.

orangegato · 04/07/2023 13:40

Emerson Ware - We used to be cool
Anthony and the Johnsons - I Hope there’s someone

YappyCamper · 04/07/2023 14:09

Home by Gabrielle Aplin

Something in the lyrics makes me think of my mum, who died literally decades before the song was released.

Newuser75 · 04/07/2023 14:15

Discretionassured · 04/07/2023 12:40

Songs that make me cry: Wires by Athlete, Silence by Dave Thomas Junior (used on the After Life soundtrack, it's heartbreaking 😢), In The End by Linkin Park (obvious reasons) and Then by The Charlatans.

Happy songs: One Way by The Levellers (takes me back to being 16 and getting ready to go out on a Saturday night) and Monkey Wrench by Foo Fighters.

Oh goodness, wires by athlete gets me too. It reminds me of my son who was very Ill as a newborn.

onlylovecanhurtlikethis · 04/07/2023 14:16

Mid divorce - only love can hurt like this

All for You - Cian Ducrot

Both divorce related and once this is all over I don't think they'll make me cry as much as they do now

Scalessayeek · 04/07/2023 14:20

Spanish Sahara- foals
Smile- Nat King Cole both associated with my mums funeral when I was 21

In this shirt- The Irrepressibles (haunting!)

AlbertCampion · 04/07/2023 15:05

Weepies:

Woman's Work by Kate Bush

Waterloo Sunset by The Kinks

Cold Water by Damian Rice

notacooldad · 04/07/2023 15:09

Ugly kids version of Cats in the cradle
The Men they couldn't hang' s version of The Green fields of France.

Awwlookatmybabyspider · 04/07/2023 15:20

Someone you loved. Lewis Capaldi. Beautiful song but it has me an absolute blubbering sobbing wreck. . My eyes are filling up just writing this.

Awwlookatmybabyspider · 04/07/2023 15:23

YY to Tears in heaven.

If tomorrow never comes.

12BottlesOfVintageChampagne · 04/07/2023 16:11

Fair by The Amazing Devil. Oof. Gets me every time.

WhamBamThankU · 04/07/2023 16:24

All I want - Kodaline

"All I want is nothing more, than to hear you knocking at my door"

I haven't seen my DD for over a year.

LadyWiddiothethird · 04/07/2023 16:31

My heart will go on....Celine Dion.

Dance with my Father....Luther Vandross.

Driving home for Christmas....Chris Rea.

All to do with the sudden death of my husband.

Gumbo · 04/07/2023 16:32

The Living Years - Mike and the
Mechanics

ThePoshUns · 04/07/2023 16:35

A Different Corner - George Michael makes me cry every time. It's so beautiful and so sad he isn't here to sing it anymore

Vetoncall · 04/07/2023 16:37

Days, the Kirsty MacColl version.

Vetoncall · 04/07/2023 16:43

Also Into the West by Annie Lennox.

Lay down
Your sweet and weary head
The night is falling
You have come to journey's end
Sleep now
And dream of the ones who came before
They are calling
From across the distant shore

Why do you weep?
What are these tears upon your face?
Soon you will see
All of your fears will pass away
Safe in my arms
You're only sleeping

What can you see
On the horizon?
Why do the white gulls call?
Across the sea
A pale moon rises
The ships have come to carry you home

And all will turn
To silver glass
A light on the water
All Souls pass

Hope fades
Into the world of night
Through shadows falling
Out of memory and time
Don't say
We have come now to the end
White shores are calling
You and I will meet again
And you'll be here in my arms
Just sleeping

And all will turn
To silver glass
A light on the water
Grey ships pass
Into the West

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