do you have a song that makes you sad //happy ?

[mrsfuzzy]

'boys of summer' is a song that tears me up although i do love it , because i met my first dh when i was 17, spent an idylic summer together and as soon i was 18 we married he was slightly older and in the army, he left to serve his country in conflict and shortly after i was informed that i was now a widow at 19, sorry, just writing this makes me teary even 33 years on, i first heard the song three years after he died, still sosad...

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If tomorrow never comes- Ronan Keating, was playing the very moment my 17 year old cousin's life support machine was switched off. As a result it was also played at her funeral. Fourteen years later and I still am in floods of tears if that song comes on.

The soundtrack to braveheart. (Wedding song)/ and pelagia's song from captain correli's mandolin makes me emotional and think of our wedding. Strangers in the Night is 'our song', we danced our first dance to it on our wedding day.

My cousin was a huge fan and the words were just so perfect. To this day I remember waiting in the family room having said goodbye and hearing it come on. Just as my poor Aunt was brought out devastated. I like to think it was my cousin's way of saying a last goodbye

"If Tomorrow Never Comes"

Sometimes late at night
I lie awake and watch her sleeping
She's lost in peaceful dreams
So I turn out the lights and lay there in the dark
And the thought crosses my mind
If I never wake up in the morning
Would she ever doubt the way I feel
About her in my heart

If tomorrow never comes
Will she know how much I loved her
Did I try in every way to show her every day
That she's my only one
And if my time on earth were through
And she must face this world without me
Is the love I gave her in the past
Gonna be enough to last
If tomorrow never comes

'Cause I've lost loved ones in my life
Who never knew how much I loved them
Now I live with the regret
That my true feelings for them never were revealed
So I made a promise to myself
To say each day how much she means to me
And avoid that circumstance
Where there's no second chance to tell her how I feel

If tomorrow never comes
Will she know how much I loved her
Did I try in every way to show her every day
That she's my only one
And if my time on earth were through
And she must face this world without me
Is the love I gave her in the past
Gonna be enough to last
If tomorrow never comes

So tell that someone that you love
Just what you're thinking of
If tomorrow never comes

Mercury Rev . .The Dark is rising
Neil Young. ..Harvest Moon
Flaming Lips ...Do you realise
all make me sob

To Where You Are (Josh Groban), One Sweet Day (Mariah Carey/Boyz2Men), The Warmth of the Sun (Beach Boys), Wish You Were Here (Pink Floyd), Old And Wise (Alan Parsons Project), and What A Wonderful World (Louis Armstrong) usually make me cry, but it's a good, cleansing cry. I've used these and others on memorial CDs for friends who have passed.

Happy songs include Walking on Sunshine (Katrina and the Waves), Valerie (the Mark Ronson/Amy Winehouse live version), Ain't No Mountain High Enough (Diana Ross), Feels Like Music (Tom Jones), Absolutely Fabulous (Pet Shop Boys with JS/JL), Dancin' in the Street (Bowie/Jagger), Livin' La Vida Loca (Ricky Martin) always perk me up!

Thanks for a great topic!

for all of you that have lost a loved one. I hope the songs remind you of happier times

This has already been mentioned up thread, but it's a different artist that makes me cry.

Songbird - Fleetwood Mac version.
I can't explain why, it's not tied to a particular memory or person, but I get that awful, can't swallow, gonna cry feeling every time I hear it.

Years ago I had a D&C and ended up having to spend the night in hospital. On a post natal ward. I spent the night trying to hide the sounds of all these beautiful baby noises with my iPod and found just jack Mourning morning. I cannot even think about it without crying.

I let you go so reluctantly.

I really want you to stay but I know you have to go.

Happy songs:
Pour Some Sugar On Me - Def Leppard, has to be LOUD and every word sung!
Sweet Talkin' Woman - ELO
Don't Stop Believing - Journey
When Can I See You Again - Owl City (from 'Wreck It Ralph' , great pop song)
Daydream Believer - Monkees, for the childhood nostalgia
Hi Ho Silver Lining - Jeff Beck
Defying Gravity - Idina Menzel

Sad stuff
My Immortal - Evanescence, I used to love singing this one, but the words are just so sad
Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again - from Phantom
Live Twice - Darius, sad lyrics again!
Tears In Heaven
I Dreamed A Dream - but NOT the Susan Boyle version, (sorry SuBo!). Anne Hathaway or Patti LuPone's renditions are both heartbreaking
Forever Autumn - Justin Hayward

And one for both categories:
Where Do You Go To My Lovely - Peter Sarstedt - I absolutely love this song, it reminds me of being a little kid, of long summer holidays, long journeys in the car and being with my mum. BUT now I'm an adult, the last verse always gets me - when he talks about them begging together as children, and how he's the only one who really knows her. It's poignant stuff

In The Living Years by Mike and the Mechanics absolutely slays me since my Dad died. It sums up our relationship perfectly. I've got about 10,000 songs on my iPod, so when it throws this one up, I always listen as I feel like it's my dad saying hello.

The second verse of Objects In The Rearview Mirror by Meatloaf sums up my stepdad. Violent and drunk and defeated. Horrible fucking bastard and it makes cry listening to someone else singing about my life.

Happier songs - always 59th Street Bridge Song by Simon & Garfunkel, Star Girl by McFly and Friday, I'm In Love by the Cure.

Zoom - Fat Larry's Band
The Golden Girls theme tune
Both make me happy-cry.

The whole of Paul Wellers Moseley Shoals album makes me incredibly sad as I've some very powerful memories attached to it.

Oh, and R Kelly's Ignition gives me ladyhorn. Awkward when it comes on in the car and you're lift sharing to a training course down the A19

Happy song: Heatwave by Martha Reeves and the Vandellas. There's such joyous abandonment in that song.

Most of the records I own are bloody miserable, I'd say 'Done with everything 'by an Australian band called Sodastream , I have to be feeling fairly mentally robust to listen to that one.

My Girl and We'll Meet Again, both make me well up within seconds!

Headlights by Eminem

Big gulping ugly cry effect.

My heart drops if I hear it when out and the off switch is out of my control.

Clair de Lune which I remember being played at my Grandad's funeral. Sky full of stars by Coldplay reminds me of the baby I lost. The NHS bridge over troubled water/fix you makes me well up too because I think of all the staff at that trust who treated me so gently and kindly when I had to have my erpc.

I rather like Let The River Run by Carly Simon on a day when I need an "up".

DS agrees with Dexter.

Losing my religion, REM, was played in all the bars/clubs in 1991 in Crete. Was on hols with a very good friend and we both loved the song. She died a few years ago and its only recently I can listen to the song with a smile rather than tears

Thought of more.
YY to somewhere over the rainbow.
It was playing just my beautiful mum passed away. And ironically. It was her favourite song.
Also YYY to if tomorrow never comes. I'm actually welling up just writing this.
YMCA. Might seem very unlikely as a tear jerker, but actually sit and take the words in.
Airplanes. (And when your plans unravel in the sand. What would you wish for if you had one chance.)
Everything I own.
Stay with me. (Don't fall asleep too soon. The angels can wait for a moment.)

Everybody hurts

to all of you who have lost someone.

'Don't stop me now' by Queen makes me think of my DB who died young. It makes me cry thinking of him but would have made DB very happy to hear it.

Also Johnny Cash singing 'Hurt' by NIN makes me cry for lots of reasons not least because it's one of the last songs JC recorded before he died.

Songs that would cheer me up there are too many to list (which makes me feel very lucky in itself) Anything I can dance badly to.

Oh and melancholy and wistful a good way - 'Who knows where the time goes' by Fairport Convention. Handy if I can't decide if I'm happy or sad.

songs can evoke so many emotions both good and sad, for everyone who has lost someone special, they may be gone but we still have the memories, time, is is said is a healer, may be it is for some but although life goes on, there are still times when you think what if....l know i do.

My DS once said to me "this is my song for you Mummy" about that Passenger one. Let her go. It's not really my type of thing but I love it now.

Solsbury Hill - Peter Gabriel
O Children - Nick Cave
Fall at your feet - Crowded House
This womans work - Kate Bush
Always a woman - Billy Joel
Pictures of you - The Cure
Helpless - Neil Young
Girl from the North Country - Bob Dylan & Johnny Cash

There are so many more but these are guaranteed to make me feel that happiness tinged with sadness feeling.

to all on here who have lost someone. I haven't listened to the song played at my Dad's funeral since I was about 14 as its too much.

Music can tap into so many emotions.

For me there are a few songs that make me pause.
I did a charity event in 2012 and a dvd was produced after it. It had an Icelandic song as a theme as well as Choclate by Snow Patrol. Each time I hear them they make me smile and put a spring in my step.

Human by The Killers reminds me of an incredibly bittersweet time and never fails to make me smile and cry at the same time.

Sad
When my morning comes around - Iris DeMent
Everybody's changing - Keane
Something to believe in - King Creosote
Don't give up - Josh Groban
The littlest hobo theme song

Happy
September - Earth, Wind & Fire
Silver lining - Kacey Musgraves
Ulysees 31 theme song