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To ask what song makes you cry

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LloydColeandtheCoconuts · 02/12/2017 09:10

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 Hmm.
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.

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mermaidsandunicorns · 02/12/2017 23:17

Too much love will kill you by Queen
All for one - Bryan Adams/rod Stewart/sting

Sienna333 · 02/12/2017 23:17

Let her go by Passenger. Young girl died at work and her mum said this really resonated with her :(

Million years ago by Adele. I can just relate to it a lot and it makes me wishful and emotional.

Jakeyboy1 · 02/12/2017 23:20

Take a look at me now - Phil Collins
When we were young- Adele
Let me go - Gary Barlow's song about his baby born sleeping I know it's meant to be uplifting but I can't get past the first line without breaking down.

TheMathsTrainee · 02/12/2017 23:22

Oh yes Against All Odds by Ph8l Collins.....

Take a look at me now
There’s just an empty space....

TheMathsTrainee · 02/12/2017 23:23

Tears in heaven

Eric Clapton’s song about his boy...

Puppymouse · 02/12/2017 23:25

Ashamed of a couple of these but can't control what sets me off!

Justin Bieber - Nothing like Us (acoustic version) it's just really pure.
James Arthur - Safe Inside (First heard when someone special had to cancel us getting together because they were in hospital)
Slow Down - Nichole Nordeman (makes me reminisce for DD's teeny days)
Grace by Michael W. Smith - I'm not even religious but I have a Grace and I had this on the CD they played when she was born.
Face the Sun - James Blunt - reminds me of when my Granny and Grandpa died within a week of each other last year Sad

upaladderagain · 02/12/2017 23:29

The Rose by Bette Miller, and yes, Slipping Through My Fingers. My daughter is 30 now, but I vividly remember the moment I realised she wasn’t just my little girl any more, but her own wonderful person, and I sobbed.

timetobackout · 02/12/2017 23:32

When I fall in love Nat King Cole
The way we were Barbra Streisand

NK493efc93X1277dd3d6d4 · 02/12/2017 23:42

Welcome to my world - Jim Reeves

trickydickie · 03/12/2017 00:06

My eyes - Travis. Reminds me of my four children, so not sure why I cry but makes me think and remember them as babies/toddlers.

MissClareRemembers · 03/12/2017 00:12

Song To The Siren - This Mortal Coil (life changingly beautiful)
This Womans Work - Kate Bush
Moments Of Pleasure - Kate Bush
Nimrod - Elgar
Misère - Allegri (it’s 11 minutes long and I don’t think I breathe the entire time)
Watermark - Enya
Wicked Game - Chris Isaac
Landslide - Fleetwood Mac

Oddish · 03/12/2017 00:13

Little Green by Joni Mitchell, about giving her baby up for adoption, makes me sob 😢

ScreamingValenta · 03/12/2017 00:17

When I need you, by Leo Sayer

Hendrytastic · 03/12/2017 00:34

Wonderful Tonight - Eric Clapton
Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
Lilac Wine - Jeff Buckley (This verse gives me a lump in my throat every time:
When I think more than I want to think
I do things I never should do
I drink much more that I ought to drink
Because it brings me back you)
Take it to the Limit - The Eagles (particularly the line "You can spend all your time making money, Or you can spend all your love making time")

The last three make me cry, but I love to listen to them sometimes, because they're beautiful songs, but the first one affects me in a way I can't control because it reminds me of someone no longer here. Even thinking about it is making me tear up! If it plays while I'm in public I need to go and hide in the nearest bathroom until it's over, because it's never just a dignified tear or two, it's whole torrents, wet cheeks, dripping off my chin, the lot!

mrsharrison · 03/12/2017 00:50

Hendry I'm with you on jb's Lilac Wine.

CaledonianQueen · 03/12/2017 01:09

Ronan Keating 'If tomorrow never comes' my lovely seventeen-year-old cousin adored Boyzone, as the Doctors switched off her life support machine, this song came on the radio. We all agreed it was lovely dc saying goodbye. My Aunt chose to play this at dc funeral and I was immediately in floods of tears. Even today, fifteen years on, I still burst into tears if I hear that song.

Treeballarae · 03/12/2017 01:38

Green Day: Good Riddance, The Streets: Dry Your Eyes and strangely, this week, Up The Junction By Squeeze

wishiknewthen · 03/12/2017 01:40

Lots but the one that affects me the most is Runaway Train by Soul Asylum. I used to think it was just a catchy song until I watched the video. Challenge anyone not to be in tears..
May need to watch it a couple of times to get the full impact and keep watch on the young mother dressed in white pushing the buggy...

Lindah1 · 03/12/2017 02:30

Since having children it's Ellie Gouldings "how long will i love you ", can't last more than a couple of lines before descending into a blubbering mess!

ladybird69 · 03/12/2017 04:37

The bangles Eternal Flame came on the radio just after id Just given birth to DS1 after 28 hrs labouring as he was postierur presentation and not even the epidural worked! I just crumble every time I hear it.
Slipping through my fingers for obvious reasons and winner takes it all- ABBA writes such heartbreaking songs.

Booie09 · 03/12/2017 07:04

Paul Weller I should have been there to inspire you. "In those moments before I sleep when I'm truly alone to see"

roseblossom75 · 03/12/2017 09:45

Your Heart Will Lead You Home.
It's the song that plays at the end of The Tigger Movie.
I never imagined at the time how poignant the lyrics would turn out to be.
It was back in the year 2001. My eldest child was just two years old.
We were in the middle of the long process of waiting for his diagnosis but by then he had lost all eye contact and had no understanding of speech at all.
The Tigger Movie was one of the few things that captured his attention.
I think he was drawn to the brightly coloured characters.
When the song played at the end though he would always come to sit on my knee, wanting me to rock him to the music. It was one of the rare moments he sat still on my knee and it was so precious.

It s only now my eldest son is a handsome young man of 18 years old with the mind of a baby, having never spoken a word in his life that I realise just how precious the memories are associated with that song.

My son sadly lives in adult residential care due to the level of care he needs (he is a gentle young man but has no sense of danger).
My 4th child has a different unrelated disability and much as I would love to I am unable to manage my eldest sons needs with my youngest child's additional needs (also have two healthy children in between).

The song to The Tigger Movie never fails to make me cry and always makes me think of my boy and how I would love nothing more for him to come home to me.

quirkychick · 03/12/2017 09:47

Circle of Life from the Lion King
Miserere mei deus by allegri for me too. A lot of Gregorian chants, which are just beautiful
Adagio in G minor by Albinoni (we used to use it in "serious" assemblies and used it after 9/11)

I'm going to have to listen to a lot of these and just sob.

LinoleumBlownapart · 03/12/2017 10:16

Loads that have been mentioned
Seasons in the Sun - Terry Jacks to the poster that couldn't remember.
Three Babies -Sinead O'Conner.
Sometimes it Snows in April - Prince

MadMags · 03/12/2017 10:54

Queen - These Are the Days Of Our Lives
Elbow - One Day Like This
Peter Gabriel - The Book Of Love
Bette Midler - I Think It's Gonna Rain Today

Also loads from Musicals but (and I hate that she did Evita)

Madonna's You Must Love Me