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What song makes you cry?

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Hairymunter · 23/02/2025 16:30

I saw the Hibs fans singing Sunshine on Leith after beating Celtic yesterday. I was bawling my eyes out. That song makes me cry every single time. And it's a happy song!! What song gets you every time?

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Iloveyoubut · 23/02/2025 18:00

Enigma52 · 23/02/2025 16:40

Everybody Hurts
REM

Better days are coming
Dermot Kennedy

I start chemo on Wednesday and I'm struggling to see " better days right now and my heart hurts because my hair is going to all fall out!

I’m so sorry you’re facing this. Good people on here if you ever need a place to vent 💐

Andylion · 23/02/2025 18:05

The Wish by Springsteen.
And for my fellow Canadians, Bud the Spud. (Yeah, I know but it’s its Pavlovian the way my eyes well up when he sings : the name on the truck shines up in the sun, “Green Gables."

Shufflebumnessie · 23/02/2025 18:07

Little wonders (these small hours) by Rob Thomas. It's featured at the end the Disney animation Meet the Robinsons, which was the first film we watched after our son was discharged from hospital having being seriously ill with Bacterial Meningitis.
The film has a lovely ending but I found the storyline so emotional. Even 12 years on I can't hear the song, or watch the film, without sobbing!

Enigma52 · 23/02/2025 18:08

@Iloveyoubut thanks. I appreciate it 🙂

GenerousGardener · 23/02/2025 18:10

The drugs don’t work by The Verve

This women’s work by Kate Bush

WaveAcrossTheBay · 23/02/2025 18:10

Craftysue · 23/02/2025 17:19

Days by the Kinks . My daughter chose it for my husband's funeral and it was one of his favourites - I can't listen to it now

I also had that at my DH’s funeral.

One More Light - Linkin Park
The Night Will Always Win - Elbow
Someone You Loved - Lewis Capaldi
Into My Arms - Nick Cave
For Good - from the Wicked soundtrack
Wave Across The Bay - Frank Turner
Almost every Frightened Rabbit song

Enigma52 · 23/02/2025 18:11

Streets of London
Ralph McTell

Arran2024 · 23/02/2025 18:11

Rock and Roll I Gave You The Best Years of My Life by Kevin Johnson, especially the line "and she tried to help me understand I'd never be a star". It's also one of my all time favourite songs and worth a listen if you've never heard it.

Cornflowers35 · 23/02/2025 18:11

Tell Laura I Love Her

All the best wishes @Enigma52 For Wednesday and beyond

catin8oots · 23/02/2025 18:15

MyShare · 23/02/2025 16:51

There you’ll be by Faith Hill.

It came on in the car on my way home from hospital when my baby son died.

The lyrics:

‘In my dreams, I'll always see you soar above the sky
In my heart, there'll always be a place for you for all my life
I'll keep a part of you with me
And everywhere I am, there you'll be’

Just got me. I bawled my heart out but this song has always made me cry. Whenever I hear it it transports me back to the worst day of my life 😪

This is one of the saddest things I've ever read. I do hope you and your family are doing well now

SineJoanie · 23/02/2025 18:16

Puff the magic dragon

LyndaSnellsSniff · 23/02/2025 18:28

Song to the Siren - This Mortal Coil version
Moments Of Pleasure - Kate Bush (the bit where she names people she has lost 😭)
Most of Enya's Watermark album
In This Shirt - The Irrepressibles
The last verse of Bridge Over Troubled Water

ginasevern · 23/02/2025 18:29

"Time in a Bottle" by Jim Croce. Reminds me of 1976 which was a turning point in my life.

TheThreeMiracles · 23/02/2025 18:32

Jealous guy
Who wants to live forever
Footprints in the sand
It's time to say goodbye
Fields of gold

user1469569516 · 23/02/2025 18:34

"Dignity." by Deacon Blue.
As a working-class Scot, it really touches my soul.

back2lifeback2reality · 23/02/2025 18:36

Closer by Nine Inch Nails makes me weep, but not from sorrow

poetrylover · 23/02/2025 18:40

Craftysue · 23/02/2025 17:19

Days by the Kinks . My daughter chose it for my husband's funeral and it was one of his favourites - I can't listen to it now

This is one of my favourite songs too. 💗

SchrodingersTwat2 · 23/02/2025 18:41

Welsh national anthem when sung at the football.

*I'm not Welsh.

Devilsmommy · 23/02/2025 18:41

Peter green need your love so bad. The most beautiful song ever

PeggyMitchellsCameo · 23/02/2025 18:41

spuddy4 · 23/02/2025 16:52

Photographs - Professor Green and Rag N Bone Man. The fact that real people sent in photos of their loved ones for the video gets me every time.

This was a hit when my dad was dying.
Even though he looked poorly, obviously, and I looked terrible myself (in a different way of course!? I listened to the advice in the song.
Took more photos.
Have one of us the day before he died it’s quite pointy he was in hospice care then.
After it was taken he told me to go home for a rest and I didn’t want to go. His code words to lighten the mood were….
Brexit, my arse!
So those were the last words my dad ever said to me, and the photograph reminds me of them, and him. So it’s sad but joyous.

Oldandcobwebby · 23/02/2025 18:43

Linux20 · 23/02/2025 16:46

Morningtown Ride by the Seekers. My mum used to sing it to me, she passed away when I was 8.

I'm so sorry you have gone so long without your mum. It must have been unbelievably hard.

I've got the same issue with that song. Thankfully, my mum didn't die when I was young, but I can still hear her singing it to me when putting me to bed fifty odd years ago. It brings back so many memories and absolutely slays me.

suburburban · 23/02/2025 18:43

I know it's not pc but two little boys

SleepyTraveller · 23/02/2025 18:44

When I Grow Up, from Matilda. In fact, Tim Minchin in general is pretty good at making me cry

PeggyMitchellsCameo · 23/02/2025 18:44

Enigma52 · 23/02/2025 16:40

Everybody Hurts
REM

Better days are coming
Dermot Kennedy

I start chemo on Wednesday and I'm struggling to see " better days right now and my heart hurts because my hair is going to all fall out!

Sending virtual MN hugs.
Will thinking of you.
❤️

AlmosttimeforChristmas · 23/02/2025 18:44

Here comes the sun
wuthering heights