Saddest songs?

[CherryBlo]

Crying my way through Don McLean's The Grave and wondered what songs make you absolutely sob?
No particular emotional connection to the song either other than it was on a CD when I was younger, but the other songs on the album don't make me cry - it's just a genuinely heartbreaking song

Mike and the mechanics living years

When I was a child my mum used to listen to Joan Baez. I used to sob when she put the song Mary Hamilton on. I still remember the lyrics 'she put him in a tiny boat and cast him out to sea, he might sink or he might sing but he'll never come back to me'. Trauma.

Sleeping through my fingers i sob every time my daughter is only 4 🤣

Also best day by Taylor swift

Slipping through my fingers
Wind beneath my wings

This is me trying by Taylor swift

“Ne me quitte pas” by Jacques Brel.

(English version translated as “If you go away,” covered by numerous artists, but nothing touches the original.)

Puff the Magic Dragon. I can’t sing it either.

Swim not sing

Sometimes you can't make it on your own by U2

Dance with my father

I loved her first

Butterfly kisses

Blake Shelton.. The baby.

Unsteady - x Ambassadors

Radiohead - Creep (explicit version)

"What the hell am I doing here? I don't belong here..."

Signed - someone with bad depression.

My Dad's funeral song

I know Kate Bush’s ‘this woman’s work’ always gets mentioned on these threads but I think ‘moments of pleasure’ is very sad too.

Annachie Gordon - Nic Jones

Kanye West - only one.

Queen's "Days of our lives"

George Michael "Jesus to a Child" : 'with your last breath you saved my soul'

Tears in Heaven - Eric Clapton

More than words - Extreme; this was number one in the charts when I got married- we attended a best friend’s funeral the day before.

Dance with my Father- Luther Vandross. Heard this on the radio for the first time driving home from the hospital having lost my dad.

The Long and Winding Road - sang by George Michael at Linda McCartney’s memorial service, came across it on YouTube.

Mother by John Lennon, you can feel his pain
Wish you were here by Pink Floyd a lot of their tracks are quite sad, about Dave Gilmore’s dad who died in WW2
I know it’s over/This night has opened my eyes by the Smiths
Goodnight Saigon by Billy Joel
Say it ain’t so by Weezer

Go west "Goodbye girl"

'Blowout' from the same album for me.

'Hurt' by Jonhny Cash (yes I know it is a cover).
'Keep Breathing' by Ingrid Michaelson

One that never fails to make me cry.... 'Illusion' by VNV Nation

It's Too Late by Carole King came on the car radio at a point when I thought my world and my marriage were imploding (they didn't I'm glad to say) and I cried so hard I had to pull over. The words were so incredibly spot on for that period in my life. It was over a decade ago and I still get a lump in my throat when I hear it now.

Imagine dragons Wrecked