Random songs that emotionally get you

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Came out of nowhere but music planning for friends wedding and Pachabels canon in d came up, and this then brought up Maroon 5 Memories (via Spotify) as chords are replicated so One Voice Children's Choir Covid song came up and showed the isolation we all went through,.my dc was 2 at that point and the song a bit cheesily brings back so many memories of the madness went through!

End of season music for RHOBH.

Audition (the fools that dream) from La La Land. It made me cry when I watched the film then it was played at my friends' 12-year-old daughter's funeral. I'm not sure I'll ever be able to listen to it again.

Let it Go from Frozen!

It was at its height when I going through my divorce and the kids were still v young and loved it. It was played A LOT. So I embraced it but when it's played now I feel so many emotions again (and the kids look at me like I'm odd)

All I Want - Kodaline

Just have a listen, it speaks for itself

Let’s Love by Sia and David Guetta

Ordinary world by Duran Duran - reminds me of my wonderful friend taken too soon. Wind beneath my wings has also been known to make my eyes dusty…

I wouldn’t Be by Kodaline absolutely kills me.

Take That - Patience.
The Fray - How to save a life.

These two songs came out around the time I was going through heart break. I'd been dumped by my BF of 6 years for a girl who we both worked with.

I was utterly heartbroken and everyone at work knew about it. It was a hard part of my life and took me a good long while to get over it. Whenever I hear these songs to takes me right back there and I still can feel how I felt all this years ago.

Another one is Lukas Graham - 7 years.

My husband and I had been trying to conceive for around a year when this song came out. Every month id come on my period and be so disappointed, thinking id never become a Mum. This song would come on the radio and id be in floods of tears.

‘Crazy’ and ‘Sweet Dreams’ by Patsy Cline

My mother used to sing her songs all the time when she was pottering around the house, she sounded just like her.
I sadly lost my Mum when I was 12 years old, just hearing these songs takes me right back to sitting on the settee, listening to her beautiful voice.

Elbow ‘One Day Like This’ reduces me to a sobbing wreck. Lots of happy and bittersweet memories.

Days by kirsty mcoll
In my life by the Beatles

Mr Bojangles

It's the bit where his dog up and dies and twenty years later he still grieves.

I'm not a dog person. I don't even really like dogs!

Cats in the cradle. Ugly kid Joe.

Time in a bottle. Jim Crose
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Open door Genesis

Young Forever (Jay-Z) - was playing on the radio loads in the days after my Mum died and it gets me every time I hear it.

White wine in the sun by Tim Minchin makes me sob every time

Let me go by Gary Barlow is heartbreaking

Somewhere only we know, gets me every time
Slipping through my fingers too since I’ve become a mum to a DD

Ultravox. Vienna reminds me of my daddy. Who died when I was young

My dh likes Voyage by Christy Moore. If I actually stop and listen, it chokes me.

Dsis always said she wanted ‘If tomorrow never comes” (Ronan Keating) at her funeral. She always did have execrable taste in music. I was the person who had to buy the CD (this was pre-streaming), which was embarrassing . But I can’t hear it now without crying. Slightly strangely, when I was driving back from the funeral, it was played on the radio.

Runaway Train by Soul Asylum
Awful time in my life when I first left home and my mother wouldn't speak to me.
We have a good relationship now but I still break if I hear it.

'We'll meet again'

I bawl every time. No where, no matter when 🤣

Try everything by Shakira 😂

I work in a school and the kids all learnt it in assembly - it was so cute and beautiful that I tear up every time I hear it now.

Mad World, from the Donnie Darko film. Kills me. I can't bear the bewildered unhappiness in it.

Children waiting for the day they feel good
Happy birthday, happy birthday
…
"Hello, teacher! Tell me, what's my lesson?"
Look right through me, look right through me

I’m kissing you by des’ree. I played it when I walked down the aisle when I married my ex husband. Heard it the other day for the first time. Made me emotional!

Just Like Heaven - The Cure, one of mine and DPs songs and I will be walking down the aisle to it next month! I always choke up at ‘show me how you do it, and I promise you, I promise that I’ll run away with you…’

Into My Arms - Nick Cave, incredibly beautiful song. It took 5 years of trying and lots of MCs to finally get DS2 last year. I used to listen to it a lot when I was feeling sad and then once he was born it took on new meaning.

‘I don't believe in an interventionist God
But I know, darling, that you do
But if I did I would kneel down and ask Him
Not to intervene when it came to you
Oh, not to touch a hair on your head
Leave you as you are
And if He felt He had to direct you
Then direct you into my arms…’

Finally, You’ve Got a Friend by Carole King. My mum sang this to me as a baby and growing up and I sing it to my boys now. It’s a beautiful song.

Clay by Goldfrapp. The true story behind it - WWII love story, forbidden love between two men at a time when it was illegal to be gay.
Give it a listen. Prepare to cry.,