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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.

OP posts:
Paddybare · 03/12/2017 11:06

Tim Minchin - white wine in the sun. Especially the live version on YouTube.

Without fail makes me sob from about half way through. Even just thinking about it is enough sometimes!

eloisesparkle · 03/12/2017 11:18

Tears in Heaven Eric Clapton
Danny Boy -last verse
And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda
Green Fields of France

UnderslungBowlingBall · 03/12/2017 13:03

Not Perfect by Tim Minchin

DrKrogersfavouritepatient · 03/12/2017 13:04

Eric Clapton's "Tears in Heaven"

RubbishMantra · 03/12/2017 13:15

Wires by Athlete - I don't even have DCs!
Thank You by Alanis Morrisette
One Last Time by Ariana Grande - I start imagining how bittersweet it would be if my late DH was able to come back for one last time so we could say goodbye and all the stuff that was left unsaid.

Gingernaut · 03/12/2017 13:23

A Little Bit of Everything - Dawes. About all the little things and events that drive us.

A Million Years Ago - Adele. A song more suited to someone in middle age. An extraordinary song for someone so young to write.

What's It Gonna Be - Neil Diamond. Asking someone shy and life battered to trust again

Princecharlesfirstwife · 03/12/2017 13:33

First day of your life - Bright Eyes. Guaranteed tear jerker, especially if watching the video with it.

Raffles1981 · 03/12/2017 14:46

Sweet Marie - Hothouse Flowers
Million Reasons - Lady GaGa

No particular reason, although I was pregnant when I first heard Million, so I assume hormones play a big part there!

KaliforniaDreamz · 03/12/2017 16:46

Wonderfully moving thread. Big love to all of you.

Green Fields of France kills me too, 'In that faithful heart, are you forever nineteen?' oh god...

Scientist - Coldplay

Bitterest Pill - The Jam

Last Christmas is currently my sobfest. Loved George.

Away In a Manger.

Ave Maria.

so many really. x

Bonosglasses · 03/12/2017 17:14

🌺 🌺

A woman's work by Kate Bush. DH made a cd compilation of photos of our two DDs and put this music to it. Sobbed while watching it.

Time to say goodbye - Kathryn Jenkins. Played at my dm's funeral. It's my DHs birthday the day before my dm and a couple of years ago he was at work on his birthday so we went out for a meal the next night (which would've been dms birthday) and this song came on literally seconds after we'd raised a glass to her to say happy birthday. Just sat with tears pouring down my face. And am crying now just remembering.

Fix you - Coldplay. Back to dm again. Wish I could've fixed her but she was diagnosed with unoperable stage 4 lung cancer with liver and stomach mets after what the doctors thought was a chest infection/sinusitis. We lost her just nine weeks later.

Wow this is hard

Emlou07 · 03/12/2017 17:15

As you are by Rag n Bone man. He's a family friend so I am biased, but to me it gives me feels I didn't know existed! 😂

MyHairNeedsASnip · 03/12/2017 17:17

David Grey, Sail Away. It was on the radio as I got in the car after seeing my 6th baby with no heartbeat on ultrasound. Kills me every time.

Spangles1963 · 03/12/2017 17:45

One Day in Your Life by Michael Jackson always makes me feel a bit tearful.

Spangles1963 · 03/12/2017 17:48

And Seasons in the Sun (the original version by Terry Jacks) always brings a lump to my throat.

Champagneandthestars · 03/12/2017 17:55

Sunshine on my shoulders by John Denver - his voice is so real and authentic. Makes me think of my dad (who's getting on). Beautiful.

Nosleepmakesmetired · 03/12/2017 17:59

Amazing grace on bagpipes. When my granny died we were picking songs for her funeral but going through her old records. We put Her favourite on the record player and the only song that would play was that. I cry every single time I hear it. Or, all I have to do is dream by the everly brothers. We used to harmonise to that in her kitchen on a Sunday morning making soup.

Clueless1980 · 03/12/2017 18:00

Some beautiful and haunting music here, many with beautifully sad stories of loss attached to them. Some of mine:

Days by Kirsty MacColl

the instrumental version of this (Irish song - -Ar Eirinn Ni Neosfainn Ce Hi):

And this one that was played at my mammy's funeral - can't even hear the first line without the tears starting. "There is a place":

Clueless1980 · 03/12/2017 18:00

Some beautiful and haunting music here, many with beautifully sad stories of loss attached to them. Some of mine:

Days by Kirsty MacColl

the instrumental version of this (Irish song - -Ar Eirinn Ni Neosfainn Ce Hi):

And this one that was played at my mammy's funeral - can't even hear the first line without the tears starting. "There is a place":

Clueless1980 · 03/12/2017 18:01

Some beautiful and haunting music here, many with beautifully sad stories of loss attached to them. Some of mine:

Days by Kirsty MacColl

the instrumental version of this (Irish song - -Ar Eirinn Ni Neosfainn Ce Hi):

And this one that was played at my mammy's funeral - can't even hear the first line without the tears starting. "There is a place":

Clueless1980 · 03/12/2017 18:01

Some beautiful and haunting music here, many with beautifully sad stories of loss attached to them. Some of mine:

Days by Kirsty MacColl

the instrumental version of this (Irish song - -Ar Eirinn Ni Neosfainn Ce Hi):

And this one that was played at my mammy's funeral - can't even hear the first line without the tears starting. "There is a place":

Grilledaubergines · 03/12/2017 18:04

East 17 - “Stay”

The Pogues/KirstyMcColl - “fairytale of New York”

Maxi Priest - “wide world”

ELO - “Mr Blue Sky”

Grilledaubergines · 03/12/2017 18:06

...and Queen “days of our lives”

MinesaPinot · 03/12/2017 18:13

I am in bits reading this and am sending Flowers to all who have loved, lost, and who are grieving.

Some of mine:

If I loved you from Carousel - they were putting on a production at the Fairfield Halls in Croydon years ago, and some of the cast did an impromptu presentation in the Whitgift Centre. DH went off to the gents, and came back to find me crying in the doorway of Dolcis

You'll Never Walk Alone - Again from Carousel, and particularly when they sing it at the end.

Stardust - Nat King Cole
Broken - Jake Bugg
Who wants to live forever - Queen
Everybody hurts - REM
American Trilogy and In the Ghetto - Elvis

I am a dreadful crier though, it doesn't take much to set me off.

papooshka · 03/12/2017 18:15

Circle of life from the Lion King...gets me every time!

Hushabyelullaby · 03/12/2017 18:17

There You'll Be by Faith Hill, my sis sang this at my Mum's funeral and I'm in bits when I hear it.

Nothing Else Matters by Metallica, I love the song, and I don't cry because it's sad, but because it was the last song I danced with my husband to before I became a wheelchair user. It was the last dance at our Wedding, and it makes me think of dancing happy and carefree, with the the wonder of life and all its possibilities stretching out before us. I know it's selfish but I can't help it (just as an aside my life is much richer now I'm a chair user, it's just not what I (or anyone) would have imagined for themselves).