Songs that deliver a gut punch

[IntelligentInputDarling]

Sorry for weird title.
Just wondering if there are any songs, when heard unexpectedly, has the power to hit you in the gut and render you an emotional wreck.
I heard Separate Lives (Phil Collins/Marilyn Martin) earlier today and the emotions it brought up are still with me now.

Songs eh. Powerful stuff.

oh that's a good song

Last year, The Bleachers released "Merry Christmas - please don't call" and it was a gut punch

I'm pleased to say this year I just enjoy it for the great song it is! Probably my favourite Christmas song ever.

there's a lot of songs that are a gut punch, though. But it tends to fade.

Sam Fender's "people watching" hit me very hard because I first saw it with the video. It wouldn't have been so difficult without it. Turned out it was my most listened to song on Spotify wrapped.

Caroline Says II by Lou Reed

Most of The Cure for me. Having grown up with them as my soundtrack, the last album about aging and loss was a real heart wrencher.

There a Communards song called ‘For a Friend’ it gets me every single time. Reminds me of my first ever gay friend who died when I was early 20’s.
also Sound of Silence by Art &Gaefubkel

@chunkyBoo I'm sorry for the loss of your friend.

Songs are funny things, some just hit you when you least expect it.

Jesus to a child, George Michael. Pass me the tissues ...

Dance with my father by Luther Vandross. I lost my dad 16 years ago but that one still gets me even just thinking about it 😢

I remember hearing Run by Snow patrol on the radio during its first play. My entire life was falling apart at the time and it just hit me like a ton of bricks & I sat in my car and broke my heart. Hearing it takes me right back to that moment and feeling even although life is much much better now. I try not to pay attention to it if I hear it

In dreams by Roy Orbison. Played at my beloved Granddad's funeral and I haven't listened to it since.

Spice Girls 2 Become 1.

It's not that I particularly like it, it's just that the sheer nostalgia when I hear it, kicks me in the guts.

Stole by Kelly Rowland (about a school shooting)
Tears in Heaven by Eric Clapton
Small Bump by Ed Sheeran

‘Empty’ by the Cranberries. Unfortunately, this song represents something very difficult that happened to me 30 years ago. It still has me in tears as soon as it starts, and transports me straight back to the experience like it was only yesterday. It’s an amazing song, though.

Kate Bush, This Woman’s Work. Associated with losing my darling baby girl. I can’t get through it now.

Unwritten by Natasha Bedingfield had me in absolute floods of tears today!

I was never a huge Spice Girls fan really but I agree with you on that. It transports me right back to Christmas Eve night out 1996, I can remember standing outside a particular nightclub, the feeling of the cold air hitting us, the feeling of being young and hopeful and with good friends after a fab and carefree night. Good times but a bittersweet feeling now I'm in my early 50s.

I Started a Joke by the Bee Gees, it gers me everytime

The Miracle of Love by the Eurythmics.

Im so sorry for your loss. This song gets me too xx

For me it’s Fields of gold by Sting and Everybody hurts by REM.

George Michael "Praying for time". It came up in my playlist when I was paying my respects to him at Highgate cemetery 😭

The Hollies, He ain’t heavy, he’s my brother.
Just makes me cry every time I hear it. A beautiful song.

Lover, You Should’ve Come Over - Jeff Buckley. I cry every time

Alone Again Naturally by Gilbert O Sullivan. The chirpiness of the sad lyrics are heartbreaking

Tom Waites singing Over the Rainbow. The first time I heard it I was so moved I had to sit down to listen to the end of it.

This

To me it’s a modern day hymn, makes me cry too