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.

A song for you by Donny Hathaway

That's a great song.

Hi Ren by Ren.

It just verbalises my son's battle with depression and ADHD and it just made me so sad.

My son is really into his music which made it all the more poignant.

Queen
days of our lives
Freddie was so ill in the video and I just think the lyrics too always get me , especially with current diagnoses in the family ❤️

A few, but probably the most recent is the song 'Survive' by Lewis Capaldi. I lost a dear friend back in August very suddenly and for some reason this song just kept appearing on my playlist at the time. I tend to associate songs with particular events/chapters of my life, so this one just reminds me of his death and it hurts, even though it is more about mental health struggles than losing someone.

Everything I own by bread raised a tear for me this week
Also queen love of my life, my gran played it at my granddad's funeral after she read a letter she'd written to him, she's one of the bravest women I know

Fairy tale of New York - you took my dreams from me when I first found you. I kept them with me babe. I put them with my own I built my word around you.
gets me every time.

Take that - rule the world. I’ll never hear it without thinking of the olympics closing ceremony when Gary Barlow had just lost his newborn daughter. Always brings a lump to my throat

Hearing Dolly Parton’s version of Hard Candy Christmas in a supermarket can make you well up at this time of year when you only popped in for milk

Angel but the Lorrie Morgan version - it was my Dad’s funeral song and it’s just beautiful and heartbreaking at the same time

You Have Been Loved by George Michael

On Tiptoe by The Fisherfolk, as we used to sing it in primary school. it takes me right back there and feels very poignant now.

Walking on the Moon by The Police, as more than any other song, it takes me back to living in the Netherlands in the early 2000s, which is weird as the song isn't of that time. I can't go back, not just because of Brexit, but because that time and my youth are well and truly gone.

Yes me too. Just been to see their tour film at the cinema.. it was a special for two nights.. went with my 20 year old Grandson.. was amazing.. we are seeing them live next August in September.. ( love them.. hence my name).

Family portrait pink, candle in the wind, the diana version, heal the pain George Michael

Supermarket Flowers - Ed Sheeran. Has me bawling everytime I hear it

The Amazon advert with the three elderly ladies sledging... the song punches me.. we had it at my sisters funeral 18months ago but the Bette Midler version.

I'm a fan of the metal band Sabaton. Their songs are about historical events. 1916 is about the Somme (and boys lying about their age to be there), Versailles about the Treaty of Versatile and pointing out how the hope was futile...

Fix You by Coldplay has been mentioned. Singing the Military Wives Choir cover version of this always got me. I found many of the songs a bit twee but that one...

Dance with my father - Luther Vandross

Show me Heaven - Maria McKee

Alone - Heart

All have different sentiments!

Breathe Easy by Blue. It just makes me feel really emotional.

Umbrella by Rhianna - it was always the first song the DJ played in the bar I worked in as a student before the doors opened. Just symbolised the deep breath before the hoards arrived and the bar queue became six people deep.

I will follow you into the dark - Death Cab for Cutie. Reminds me of a terrible relationship in my early 20s that set me down the path of supporting survivors of domestic abuse for the next 20 years.

viva forever by spice Girls- a moment in time. The last gasps of innocence on that awkward pre-teen to teenage time.

Dakota - Stereophonics. Chilling on then university lawn after exams, in love with life and carefree for the last time.

Seventeen going under by Sam Fender. My nephew died suddenly aged 26 and this was played in the operating theatre whilst he donated his organs. I actually can’t listen to it without crying.

Ohh I forgot "Take my breath away" - Berlin. Only a child when that was out but I've always loved it!

Shame, a duet between Robbie Williams and Gary Barlow. It’s a real punch

Yes to Empty & This Woman's Work ❤️

Also:

Blue Marbled Elm Trees - King Creosote
Street Spirit (Fade Out) - Radiohead
Northern Lad - Tori Amos
Terry's Song - Bruce Springsteen

Eva Cassidy fields of gold, was played at both my mother and sister’s funerals.

Sights by London Grammar, Lost without you by Freya Ridings.

Queen “days of our lives”. The video ( as it was on those days) of Freddie singing that was heart rending.

Don't give up - Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush