songs to cry to

[comeondover]

I need a good cry. What songs make you cry? I might make a playlist. The Disturbed version of The Sound of Silence gets the tears flowing for me, especially if I sing along loudly, although it's a marmite song here on mn.

@elm26 I’m so pleased you have your daughter.

@comeondover thank you for this thread. I wanted something similar recently and tried lots of Spotify playlists with similar names but they were all lots of very recent stuff that didn’t resonate.

Mine is the Joy Of Living, by Ewan McColl. He wrote it when he was dying and performed it with his wife, Peggy Seager.

Suzanne - Leonard Cohen
It'll Take a Long Time - Sandy Denny
Fast Train - Solomon Burke

There is a song called Flying Visit about a little boy asking for someone to play with. Makes me cry.

Ani Di Franco! I used to Iove her! Haven’t heard this song though!

Mimi's song from Mimi and the mountain dragon.

(Watched this film with 3 year old DD and we both had a little weep)

On the Nature of Daylight - Max Richter

I was trying to conceive a few years ago and a song that was out at the time was 7 years old by Lukas Graham.

I'd had a very early loss and was trying to get pregnant again. For about a year I used to hear this song and I used to cry my eyes out thinking I would never be a Mum.

Bryan Ferry's cover of Johnny & Rosie

Thank you all for even more amazing suggestions. I will listen through this evening.

I was listening in the car today to Natalie Merchant's album Ophelia. There are a few on there, including King of May, which she wrote as a tribute to Allen Ginsberg.

Peaceful afternoon - Rufus Wainwright

I immediately thought of a load of musical theatre songs but came on here and realised it’s a very different theme 🤣
I have a weird one - Wings by Little Mix. I think it’s the harmonies teamed with the defiant lyrics in the chorus that get me. Every time.

Eric Clapton tears in heaven
George Michael I can't make you love me

God give me strength, Elvis Costello, Old and Wise - The Alan Parsons Project

You Have Been Loved - George Michael

Oh Very Young - Cat Stevens

Moonriver
Somewhere
In the bleak mid winter
Have I told you lately that I love you
There you'll be

All remind me of my darling mum who I lost last year.

Levitate by Sleep Token
I don't feel it any more - William Fitzsimmons
Wake up- Mad Season
Euclid - Sleep Token
Kangaroo and Song to the Siren - This Mortal Coil

Mr Big, to be with you
Agree with Ophelia, love that album!
Richard and Linda Thompson the dimming if the day

Also, Puff the Magic Dragon!

When I found out Athlete - Wires was about a premature baby. 😭

I can't make you love me by George Michael

Teddy Thompson, Separate Ways.

Also, song for Guy by Elton John. Such a sad story behind it.

Cry Baby by Paloma Faith

This version of Space tipped me right over the edge when I first watched it. It's beautiful!

A song which has made me cry recently is The Girl that Never Was by James Blunt. Hit me right in the feelz! 😭