What song gets you every time

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For me it’s Bryan Adams - “Heaven.” It has such a powerful tug on my heart and soul. It says something profound. It’s so intimate and musically simple but beautifully composed. It feels raw somehow.

I have always loved it, will always love it. Never get tired of listening to it and feel the same deep pulls of profound emotion when I hear it.

What song has this effect on you?

Absolutely agree. There’s a hidden depth to his music and his lyrics since his passing. Grew up with Wham, soundtrack to my early twenties. So grateful I saw George play live ten years before he died. He waved at me! Bless him x

I've thought of another. Lose Yourself, by Eminem. It's not that it's sad but it's so powerful, a scream of rage against life's unfairness and his own weakness as a human being. The first time I heard it, I was absolutely transfixed.

It’s brilliant

Yep that one!

and I’m a north London girl (now in Somerset) so I know all the Irish pubs there, grew up around Kilburn/cricklewood, as an adult knew all the Irish pubs around Holloway/Archway

Love that song…the whole of Fisherman’s Blues is a corker.

I'm another one who chooses Tracy Chapman's "Fast Car", for the repeated cycle in the life of the person she is singing about.

Others... Ed Sheeran's "Small Bump" because it sounds hopeful until the last verse, when the pregnancy ends in a miscarriage. "Slide", by the Goo Goo Dolls, which sounds like a cheery song until you listen properly and realise that it's about a Catholic girl who gets pregnant outside of marriage, and has to decide between abortion and getting married. Forest Blakk's "I Hope You Know" is about going to live with (I think) his step-grandmother, who partly brought him up. Lewis Capaldi's video to "Wish You the Best" is the one that makes me cry, especially when the dog dies 😫

Good Luck by Basement Jaxx. 'You always had a sneer in your smile' breaks me every time 😥

Another vote for Wires by Athlete. Takes me back to having a baby in the NICU.

Someone mentioned cranberries ‘linger’ - always gets me when she says “I thought the world of you. I thought nothing could go wrong - but I was wrong”

Also Carly Simon ‘coming around again’ reminds me of PND in 1997 with my eldest

Another one for This Woman’s Work by Kate Bush. Gets me every time.

Also, Bigger than the whole sky by Taylor Swift. I have two beautiful children now but it reminds me of the two miscarriages I had before them. My two who never really were but were the whole world for a short time ❤I can’t listen to it because it takes me too viscerally back to how I felt at that time.

There’s a song from Tangled. I think it’s called ‘Now That I See You’ or something. It always makes me think about how I might have felt had I been able to have children.

The first chord of the guitar intro in Prince's "Purple Rain" floors me every single time. I don't know why it affects me so profoundly but it's like the emotional equivalent of a sucker punch to the solar plexus.

I agree

Me too for This Woman’s Work.

I listened to that when I was miscarrying. I hear you xx

So sorry to read the sad reasons behind everyone's choices. Such a beautiful song DestinedToBeOutlived. My ones are Asleep by The Smiths because of a suicide link, Drive by The Cars and, as of the past week, Early Days of Love by Brigitte Calls Me Baby. That last one really tugs on the heartstrings for me.

@Whattheduck that version of time to say goodbye was played as we exited the crematorium at my dads funeral. It’s beautiful

How do I say goodbye - dean Lewis always hits me in the feels. Especially as DP used it for his dad’s funeral. I’d rather he hadn’t as it is one of my fave songs and now it just reminds me of that day so I can’t even play it on a road trip with him . But it was a very lovely service and was a great relevant song.