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

Leave out all the rest by Linkin Park

Yes to Moon River. For two reasons, one being that I have a great picture of my late mother sitting on a rock by Moon River in Canada, her homeland. I have a picture of me there too. Secondly, I was on holiday with DH in Croatia and our hotel dining room was next to the hotel function room. There was a wedding and this was their first dance. The line "two drifters off to see the world, there's such a lot of world to see..." just hit a nerve and I snivelled through the rest of my dinner 🥲 We have since seen such a lot of [the] world.

Old and Wise by the Alan Parsons Project. So wistful and beautiful. Makes me cry.

Wave Across the Bay - Frank Turner
Floating In The Forth -Frightened Rabbit
Just about any Frightened Rabbit song
The Night Will Always Win - Elbow
Someone You Loved - Lewis Capaldi
For Good from the Wicked soundtrack
Under You - Foo Fighters
Into My Arms - Nick Cave

Nobody's Child. About an orphan who is blind and no-one wants to adop him

Also, Supper Time, by Ethel Waters
Listen to the intro by Dionne Warwick, as it outlines why this song is so devastating

why - annie lennox

angel from montgomery - bonnie raitt

Wind beneath my wings gets me everytime.

I Get Along Without You Very Well. The last line : "Except perhaps in Spring.....But I should never think of Spring.....For that would surely break my heart in two."

Songs that always make me feel emotional -

Don’t Give Up - Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush
Vincent (Starry Starry Night) - Don McLean
‘this world was never meant for one as beautiful as you’ gets me every time.

The Night We Met - Lord Huron
500 Miles - Joan Baez version
Flowers and Football Tops - Glasvegas
Awake - Josh Groban (picked it for my dads funeral)
How Can You Mend A Broken Heart - Al Green ( dad picked this for his funeral)
Wonderful Life - Black
Return To Innocence - Enigma
Hallelujah - Jeff Buckley version
Everybody Hurts - REM
First Time Ever I Saw Your Face - Roberta Flack

For some reason Canon In D by Pachelbel always makes me feel incredibly sad. It’s not even a sad song but it just does something to me.

Gladys Knight's "On the Radio" but that's because I always link it with the movie "Foxes" which used it as the theme.

Yep

Fields of Gold
Danny Boy/Londonderry Air
Wind beneath my wings
You raise me up
Oh, and totally agree on Puff the Magic dragon 😭

Plus the theme tune for The Littlest Hobo, Maybe Tomorrow - even reading the lyrics without the music gets me!

Nobody's Child gets me too. And also The Bonnie Lass O' Fyvie, even while I'm thinking, "Good girl, holding on to your boundaries."

100% to all five of these!

You're gonna go far. Noel kahan
Little wonders Rob Thomas

Love of my life by Queen-my late husbands funeral song.
A different corner George Michael.
I'll remember you -Elvis.
Forever Autumn-Justin Hayward.

Supermarket flowers-Ed Sheeran,
Streets of London-Don McLean.

In the ghetto-Elvis.

My friend in the 80s Chris, died of Aids...he "went home to die". He lost his partner to Aids.
I was a student nurse and lived next door to him; he was a charge nurse in theatres.
He introduced me to opera.
We used to read the librettos and listen to Maria Callas and drink Tio Pepe.
I miss him so, so much.

Bring him home from le Mis

Landslide - fleetwood mac

Slipping Through My Fingers, by ABBA! I listened to it on my DC1's first day of school and had a mini-breakdown 😂

Also love Go Easy On Me, by Adele, and This Woman's Work, which made me cry on the bus.

The one that gets me every time is Time after Time by Cyndi Lauper, just beautiful