You instantly cry

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Just listening to Abbas slipping through my fingers'and can't avoid crying much to the kids amusement.

Also for me nannas speech to Barbara in the 'Royal family'when she says she just wished to be with her family and not in a home.

Also Daddy my Daddy in the railway children.

Also opening sequence of up

What's your weak point?

'Do not stand by my grave and weep...' (I think I shall, thank you)

My sister made us have this at one of our parents funeral (I forget which, they blur into a fog of tears anyway).

'I am not there, I did not die' (oh yes you bloody well did).

The ending credits of Love Actually - all the reunions at the airport has me howling every time - have spent 20 years saying goodbye at airports to people I love. Even now I cry at airports - watching people saying goodbye and watching people hug on reunion - my kids laugh at me every time.

Cars by Snow Patrol reminds me of my parents funerals (5 weeks apart)

Oh Captain my Captain - love it

Steel magnolias - at the funeral when she just can't bear to be touched she hurts so badly

Billy Joel's Lullabye - my baby boy's song

The sound of a Kings College choir boy singing the opening lines of "Once In Royal David's City" gets me every year.

And Freddie Mercury singing "Who Wants To Live Forever." This was played at the funeral of a close friend's grandfather and if I hear it I am transported back to that day and I can still see my friend's face so clearly, his grief etched all over it, and it makes me tear up.

Jojo moyes - the horse dancer. Had to stop reading it on my lunch break at work
Eight below (film about the huskies with paul walker) - I soaked a pillow watching that
The majority of Buffy! Especially prom where they play the Sundays wild horses
Black beauty
Greys anatomy. Can't remember which episode but I remember snivelling through it

Oh and this poem, I'm not sure why but everything she writes just makes me sort of catch my breath

“Every time I am lost ?
I look for you?
in crowds rushing past.
?It is a sick sense of security? having a person.
?My ninety-one year old grandmother?wakes up before her memory?
and looks to her left,?
imaging the ghost that? partnered her for sixty-six years.
You were the coffee stain? I never quite got out.?
Three years chasing shadows
?and half-hearted I love you’s.?
I am drawing blood? imaging you ?loving someone new.?
This was never supposed to be anything.?
This was never supposed to mean anything.”

All of your suggestions OP plus Les Miserables 'Bring him Home' where I need a box of tissues.

Every time I read To Kill a Mockingbird I cry when Mrs Dubose dies, or at least where Atticus explains how brave she was and how 'courage isn't a man with a gun in his hand'.

And the Nativity. Since I had DCs I can't believe a pregnant woman was turned away from the Inn and given a stable to sleep in.... Outrageous! I'm not religious, just female. 'Away in a Manger' makes me howl... So does In the bleak Midwinter'.

And Freddy Mercury singing 'These were the days of our lives'. Last thing he was filmed for and he was in pain. Not normally a Queen fan but it's really poignant.

Three songs:
Somewhere Over The Rainbow
Puff The Magic Dragon
Little Donkey.

The last has exactly the same effect on my squaddie db.

Army Dreamers by Kate Bush:

"Should've been a rock star, but he didn't have the money for a guitar, should've been a politician, but he never had a proper education, should've been a Father, but he never even made it to his twenties, what a waste.."

I am not from a military family, but I have two boys, and anything to do with soldiers makes me sob.

"The first time ever I saw your face" reminds me of when DS was born, I'm a blubbing wreck every time I hear it!
All of OBEM
Run by Snow Patrol because it reminds me of my best friend in Australia
Jerusalem because it was played at my Granny's funeral
So many others, I cry really easily!

The song 'For a friend' by the Communards:

"I never cried the way I cried over you
As I put down the telephone and the world it carried on
Somewhere else, someone else is crying too
Another man has lost a friend, I bet he feels the way I do
And now I'm left without, but you're here within
As I watch the sun go down, watching the world fade away
All the memories of you come rushing back to me
As I watch the sun go down, watching the world fade away
All I want to do is kiss you once goodbye"

The ending of Philadelphia when they're at Andy's wake and the Neil Young song is playing.
The ending of 'the Pursuit of Happyness' when Will Smith's character is choking back tears.
The ending of Goodnight Mr Tom when Will calls out 'Dad!'

Lots of film endings!

And the memory of my DS's first nativity when he ran over to me in the middle of his performance and gave me a massive hug and kiss. Sniff!

The childrens book stickman, every time I read it it dd I get a massive lump in my throat bit crazy I know! I should say I am 23 weeks pregnant and have been known to cry when there's no ice lollies left :)

Damn. I just watched 'Daddy, my Daddy' for the first time on YouTube. Now I'm crying. My Daddy died 6 years ago on Saturday.

Last episode of 6 feet under. Why did they have to kill off EVERYONE? It was agony. I just sat there sobbing.

OBEM most episodes.

When Inspector Morse died. I threw the book across the bed and broke down. DH thought it was hilarious.

Emma Thomson smoothing the bed in Love Actually.

The Night Before Christmas and Arthur's Christmas Cookies when it says, 'But he wrapped his presents for Mother and Father himself'. I can't read them to DS without crying. I think it's something to do with it being such an integral part of my own childhood Christmases.

Charlotte dying in Charlotte's Web. I had to get DS to read that chapter to me while I sobbed into his duvet. He thought I was mental.

Life's for the Living by Passenger. No idea why. That man is a poet though and his lyrics are so beautiful.

'All about you' by McFly. I used to sing it to DS when he was small enough to lift up (hefty lump now) and twirl him round the kitchen tiles. Oh that's it, I'm off.

Oh and a little girl singing 'Somewhere over the rainbow' at a summer-school show last year. I have no idea who she was. She was about 8 and had the most beautiful voice. I sat there trying to hide the fact I was sobbing. I told her parents afterwards that she had reduced me to tears.

When Judy Garland sings "Have yourself a Merry Little Christmas" in "Meet Me in St Louis". No-one else can sing that song like she did.

INeedSomeHelp that song always makes me cry too.

I used to love it, and I still do, but in the past it was a happy love and now it's a sad one. It's still a beautiful song, and will always be one of my favourites, but it makes me cry.

Most Christmas songs can do that to me now.

Wow, what a thread.... needed a good cry!
Mine...
Lots of films - Titanic being my favourite as soon as the music kicks in, I'm off!

Twelve Songs by WH Auden 'he was my north, my south, my east and my west....'

DD only 2 but the thought of her in school plays .... I'm going to be a wreck!!!

Friends, 'I got off the plane!'

The sma advert - 'take it from us, you're doing great!'

The John Lewis advert from a few yrs ago when the little boy was so excited to give his present.

The Sainsbury's Christmas ad from last year where the father comes home to surprise his children.

Good singers on shows like the voice. Kids schools plays. I have to concentrate on counting things or I will cry like a baby in the school hall . Also looking at photos of the kids when they were younger as it makes me realise how much they have grown up and how quickly their childhood is flying by. Sob sob.

That Macmillan advert on the tele where the woman sitting in the hospital room is thanking people that have made a difference and she thanks her little boy for being so brave. Moved me so much I texted a donation there and then. Very close to home.

The children's book Up In Heaven about a little boy who's dog has died and she's up in heaven watching him being sad, so she sends him dreams. I can't read it anymore.

The final Blackadder scene.

Definitely the Champions theme.

Steel Magnolias.

Watership Down.

Up.

The poppies at the Albert Hall.

Children singing. Especially at school, or at church. Even more so if it's Christmas carols.

God, most things, really. Especially since I had children.

Any of the links on this thread. Most of the posts on this thread.

I had to name change after this thread as was pm'd as outed but fuck it.

Slipping thru my fingers for my dd.

Still and always. Hope the thread was cathartic .

Thora Hird in Talking Heads

The book The Lovely Bones

Don't think I could watch/read either of them again.

Less upsetting, but still make me teary in a happy memory sort of way - My Way by Frank Sinatra, reminds me of my Dad and Danny Boy, reminds me of my ExH many years ago when we were very young and I loved him so - as the song says.

Love me do and all i need is love by the beatles. My sister loves them but they make me all emotional.

I also cry at big bridges and amazing buildings. Whyyyyyyy?????!!!

I agree with Steel Magnolias,
Hatchi (?sp)- proper sobs, from my DS2 and myself. Even worse because it was a true story.

Can't watch Watership Down even now, and The green Mile