To ask what song makes you cry

[LloydColeandtheCoconuts]

For no reason.

Mine is Wings by Little Mix and I don’t really know why. I’m not even a fan of them, although they’re very cute. I’ve just listened to to the song and the tears are flowing. My DP is .
The other is God Only Knows but I understand why that would make me cry.

Anyway. what songs are guaranteed to make you have good cry.

Run, the Leona Lewis version. I sang it (badly) to my daughter for the 8 hours she was with me.

Dance with my father again by Luther Vandross!

The one that goes “Say something, I’m giving up on you” by Christina Aguilera and some serious looking guy at the piano.

Roar by Katy Perry

And Slipping Through My Fingers by ABBA. That scene in Mamma Mia when Meryl knows she’s losing her baby daughter.

Tender, by blur. I've sung it to all 3 dcs when babies, and i can't sing it myself without becoming a hooting, weeping mess now.

Hurt by Johnny Cash

And more recently Fast Love by George Michael by Adele - when slowed down it's such a poignant song especially when you now know George was grieving the death of his boyfriend. Made me cry on a bus.

ABBA "Slipping through my fingers"

Quite self explanatory really but gets me every time.
And all I want for xmas is you

This thread is breaking my heart but Thevanguardsix - what a bloody amazing, joyful story!

Hanson ( don't judge) Yearbook.
The lyrics are about a missing boy that disappears mysteriously and all that's left is his picture in the yearbook.

Some amazing songs on this thread. I am so sorry for all those who have lost loved ones . I forgot to add Fingers by Grant McLennan. A beautiful song by an artist much underrated in his lifetime. The background to a very sad separation in my past, “hey you, watch me fall through your fingers, I will slip away like sand” welling up just thinking about it

Dance with me Father for me too. I wish I could 😪

Sia. My love.

Hurt - Johnny Cash
Somewhere - Within Temptation
Just a Dream - Nelly
Lullaby - Nickelback
Brave - Idina Menzel
Who Lives Who Dies Who Tells Your Story - Hamilton
Whatever you want - Pink

Who knew - Pink...
Do not listen if you've lost anyone!

Send in the Clowns
He Ain’t Heavy he’s my Brother
Danny Boy
The Little Boy that Santa Claus Forgot
Turn Around (Kodak ad from 60s)
Hey that’s no way to say Goodbye (Leonard Cohen)
Lots of folk songs and of course Slipping throug my Fingers.

Oh and The Rose..is it Bette Midler?
“Some say love is like a river....”

"Don't want to miss a thing" by Aerosmith.

The rose- Betty Midler

Free - lighthouse family

Redemption song - Bob Marley

Feel my love - Adele

"Everything I own" by Bread. It reminds me of my Dad.

Apparently David Gates wrote it as a tribute to his Dad.

Oddly the most poignant of all, the one I want at my funeral, would be Those were the Days by Mary Hopkin. It takes me back to student days in Leeds in the sixties and to a particular pub near the University. How I identify with the line,”Is that lonely woman really me?”
Nowadays it isn’t but it was once, half a lifetime ago.

When I was younger everybody hurts by R.E.M., more recently how long will I love you and I’ve discovered a new one only this week, my arms are open by the script

Bon Iver - I can't make you love me. Every time I hear it I'm a mess

Here comes the sun by the Beatles, has me almost hysterical every time 😭😭😭

Somehow I've never heard slipping through my fingers before, just put it on Spotify, oh god 😭

December Song - George Michael
Do You Remember - Phil Collins

Sparkling I'm the same with Here comes the Sun, I love it, it just was a song that was played/sung to me as a little kid and brings back (happy) memories.
Jessie's song in Toy Story 2
One Fine Day, Madame Butterfly and very similarly Bring Him Home from Les Miserable (would love to see, but would end up a blubber mess, we used to have the album at home when I was younger)

So, sorry to hear some people's stories of loss