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.

Johnny cash. Hurt.

Bitter Sweet Symphony Verve brings back bitter sweet memories. Makes me emotional every time.

I think everyone will have different associations for different songs.

Eva Cassidy’s Fields of Gold was played at a close family member’s funeral and will make me weep.

Bigger Than the Whole Sky by Taylor Swift - don’t know what she personally was writing it about, but for me it’s about miscarriage.
And I actually can’t listen to Ronan by Taylor Swift. It was written using words from a blog by a woman whose 3 yr old son died of cancer. She’s credited as a writer (Swift did it with her permission) and all proceeds from the song go to charity.

Into My Arms Nick Cave and
Nothing Compares To You Sinead O'Connor

Ahhhh so many i love a sad song...

Cyndi Lauper- time after time
Everything but the girl-missing
The Sugababes - too lost in you
The spice girls - viva forever
U2-sometimes you cant make it on your own
The source ft candy statton- you've got the love ( heard this at my rock bottom and it broke me)
.. I could go on..

Yellow and Fix You by Coldplay. Dry Your Eyes Mate by the Streets. Marjorie by Taylor Swift.

I never really used to cry at songs but since my DC was born (over 3 years ago now) I'm an emotional wreck. Some of the songs that have destroyed me recently are Sam Fender - People Watching, Clean Bandit - Rockabye, Golden from KPop Demon Hunters... Can't think of any more right now but there are a lot of songs I can't make it through these days!

@mellongoose I'm so sorry for your loss x

@The1990club Your songs are on quite a few of my sad playlists!

@FerrisWheelsandLilacs Yellow was on driving home just now, not even joking.

Me too.

@DollopOfFun @CurlyhairedAssassin
I feel exactly the same about that song.
Also not a SG fan but that track, and Viva Forever are two of their songs that make me go all nostalgic, for those very reasons.

@Chiefangel @Whylurkwhenicanjoinin I love that song too.

"Cry for help" by Rick Astley with an amazing gospel choir. Superb.

Dust in the Wind by Kansas. My husband died this summer and this song literally causes me physical pain when I hear it.

George Michael, Father figure

Hello in There John Prine
The Circle Game Joni Mitchell
Don't listen if you have parents.

A few..

To See A Friend In Tears by James Dean Bradfield
Eleanor Rigby by the Beatles
There By The Grace of God by the Manic Street Preachers
Bring Him Home from the musical Les Miserables

I was going to say Ronan too. My son had cancer last year, he's in remission now thankfully but I heard it for the first time on YouTube having no idea it was a song about a child who died of cancer and it definitely got me.

everything by john prine

Those lines from the song To See A Friend In Tears gets me every time:

"So on the streets there are reminders, Of death that waits behind it all..." 😢💔

And those lines from the Manics song:
"And all the drugs in the world
Can't save us from ourselves
Victims with the saddest hearts
Passing by the grace of God
There by the grace of God '

I feel so empty and emotional listening to those, as they are absolutely poignant and powerful to me, representing how I feel about life after being harmed permanently by an off label antipsychotic. l relate so much to it and how the drug didn't save me from myself 😞

When my Dad died, I listened to Queens "Made in Heaven".

My way - a family members karaoke song and played at his (far too soon) funeral

heavens to Betsy - Jackson Dean - heard it on the radio for the first time and instant tears

Romeo and Juliet by Dire Straits. Reminds me of happy, carefree days when I was 18/19 and going out and discovering the world. Bittersweet now that I am old and jaded.

Springsteen’s ‘Bobby Jean’: We liked the same music, we liked the same bands
We liked the same clothes

Reminds me of a late friend, we hung out as teenagers and listened to Springsteen all the time

If I want cheering up, I listen to "I believe in a thing called love" by the Darkness.

Bones in the Ocean by The Longest Johns. I just can't.

Forever Autumn, Justin Hayward (from War of the Worlds) and Wish you were here by Pink Floyd. They were mum and dad's fav songs respectively and played at their funerals. I immediately think of them and feel very sad when I hear them, but also fond memories.