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To ask what song makes you cry

443 replies

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:
theredjellybean · 04/12/2017 21:51

Slipping through my fingers by ABBA... Sob sob sob

Allwashedup · 04/12/2017 21:56

No More Pain - Mary J Blige...came on the radio just after a dear friend passed away from a battle with cancer.

A Thousand Years - Christina Perri...heard this a lot on late night radio last summer when another loved one was diagnosed with cancer and sadly lost her battle a few months later Sad

Lymmmummy · 04/12/2017 22:02

Oh Danny Boy - no real personal reason just always has me on the edge of tears

theredjellybean · 04/12/2017 22:13

And at Christmas 'driving home for Christmas'... If I hear it in shops I have do run for it before I start sobbing.

And 'honey' by bobbi Goldsborough.. My mother used to play it when I was a child... And it was played at my twin's funeral. I didn't cry then.. Shock I think, but recalling my father, so grey and aged with tears on his cheeks when I hear that song, just breaks my heart

maddiemookins16mum · 04/12/2017 22:16

Oh blimey, 'driving home for Christmas' reminds me of..driving home for Christmas to my mum's back when I was single. It sets me off every year (DM died 4 years ago).

TammySwansonTwo · 04/12/2017 22:21

The weirdest ones are Hurt by Christina Aguilera and that song about shitty dads by Kelly Clarkson. Can't beat pop music really or either of these singers, but those songs push a button I guess!

Also, Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini by Shostakovich, and is there anyone who can make it through Adagio For Strings by Barber without becoming a blubbering mess?

PlumberIAmNot · 04/12/2017 22:50

Two Beds and a Coffee Machine by Savage Garden. It takes me straight back to a point in my life I'd rather forget when just about every word rang true.

Also I Loved Her First by Heartland which I danced to with my Grandad at my wedding reception after he walked me down the aisle and gave me away.

A slightly more unusual one is Candy by Cameo. A dear friend took his life at a young age earlier this year and this was played at his funeral. This song was a running joke in our friendship group with him always up and leading us in the dance routine whenever it came on. We all still dance to it (including at his wake) but now we all end up with tears streaming down our faces by the end of it. The same with the Cupid Shuffle which he was also renowned for leading us all in at any available opportunity.

StabbyBitchTheEvilWitch · 04/12/2017 23:12

Living years - mikey & the mechanics,
Heart wrenching sobs every time I hear it.

Pink - just give me a reason, it’s basically my life.

Tracy chapman - all that you have is your sole, one of my favourites.

There a lot, i will pretty much cry at any music depending on my mood, I’m a crier.

Luxanna · 04/12/2017 23:19

I have so many, a few more of mine.

Darren Hayes- Sing to Me
Erasure- Don't Say You Love Me
Queen- Who Wants to Live Forever
Hurts- Evelyn
ABBA- One of Us
Limp Bizkit- Behind Blue Eyes (Gothika soundtrack)
Gheorghe Zamfir - The Lonely Shepherd (Kill Bill soundtrack)

I cry really easily at music these days. A lot of the ones already mentioned get me too.

fustercluckery · 04/12/2017 23:30

Someone that I Used to Know by Gotye
Days by the Kinks, especially when Ray Davies sang it at Glastonbury with a full choir
Puff The Magic Dragon!

LoveDeathPrizes · 05/12/2017 00:10

Mary's Prayer from Three Men and a Little Lady!

This woman's work by Kate Bush

When I grow up from Matilda

cdtaylornats · 05/12/2017 00:45

Mothers, Daughters, Wives by The Corries

SteX · 05/12/2017 01:22

Darren Hayes - Words, Insatiable, meh loads of his songs reduce me to a blubbering wreck.
Shawn Mullins - Lullaby

SteX · 05/12/2017 01:24

And Kelly Clarksons Because of You. Just resonates through a deeply abusive childhood.

theredjellybean · 05/12/2017 06:56

Plumber.... Two beds and a coffee machine... I had forgotten that song... Oh help.. Crying thinking about it...

heidiwine · 05/12/2017 07:32

Last day on Earth: Kate Miller Heidke

Look down,
The ground below is crumbling.
Look up,
The stars are all exploding.
.
.
Between,
The dust and the debris.
There's a light,
Surrounding you and me.
.
.
And you hold me closer than I,
Can ever remember being held,
And I'm not, afraid to sleep now,

😭

Butteredparsn1ps · 05/12/2017 07:47

Another one reduced to a wreck by slipping through my fingers. The Winner takes it All gets me too, exacerbated by knowing that the ABBA couples were separating when they performed it.

19 by Paul Hardcastle.

herecomesthsun · 05/12/2017 09:49

Oh yes, fields of gold and slipping through my fingers.

Also a song Kanye West wrote alluding to his mother not seeing her grandaughter.

And the Grenfell Tower Bridge over Troubled Water

ThisisaNC · 10/12/2017 14:45

Evanescence - Everybody's Fool Xmas Sad

Allwashedup · 10/12/2017 15:14

Hymn To Her - Pretenders

VoluptuaSneezelips · 10/12/2017 17:23

Starting with the happier crying songs and then the sad crying songs.

Tim Minchin singing Lullaby, this song just cracks me up so much it has actually reduced me to tears on numerous occasions - dark humour for those with a baby who wont sleep.

Ari Gold singing Review My Kisses, makes me cry every time but in a good way. Just a stunning voice, so moving and you can just just feel the passion and the love. Such a beautiful version of the song.

David Bowie singing Bring me the Disco King, made me cry the first time i heard it on a soundtrack many years ago and even more now he's gone.

Simon & Garfunkel singing The Sound of Silence, makes me think of my home town. And the sign said "The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenement halls and whispered in the sound of silence"

Johnette Napolitano singing Save Me, such a raw and haunting song.

Johnette Napolitano - Suicide Note, very difficult song to listen to especially for those who have lost anyone to suicide or suffered with suicidal thoughts. The lines "And I wanted to believe, you would win, the war in your head, that I did not understand, I did not understand." Has me in tears now just writing about the song.

Cyndi Lauper singing Girls Wanna Have Fun, this was my big sisters favourite song and I had it played at her funeral. RIP our kid.

Kaleef singing Sands of Time, about one of the band members grief and dealing with loosing his sister, very much relate as im sure many others will and it has me in floods every time i hear it.

Art Garfunkel - Bright Eyes from Watership Down but this one makes everyone cry I think but doubly so for me as used to sing it with my mum all the time. RIP Mum.

bertsdinner · 10/12/2017 17:48

While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Beatles
Jealous Guy, Roxy Music version
Not a song, but Morning, from Griegs Peer Gynt.
Those Were the Days (?), sung by Mary Hopkins
El Condor Pasa, Simon and Garfunkle

2gorgeousboys · 10/12/2017 18:08

I have lots as I cry at the drop of a hat but at the moment:

Supermarket flowers by Ed Sheeran played at my grandma's funeral earlier this year, I'd not heard it before but 5 of her great grandchildren got together and chose it and it was just perfect.

You're my best friend Don Williams, again from my Granny's funeral and chosen as I remember my grandad singing it to her and waltzing her around the kitchen when I was a little girl. He sang it to her again at her funeral 😢

Drinking white wine in the sun Tim Minchin, my eldest is growing up and this time next Year will be at university and I'm already worrying if he'll know I'm always there for him.

I have a playlist on my phone "songs to make me cry" ☺️😢

ThisisaNC · 10/12/2017 18:11

Hah, my blarting is labelled 'Emotive'.

DavidBeckhamsleftfoot · 10/12/2017 20:48

For me it's 'Que sera sera.'

The Royle family episode 'The queen of Sheba' has it playing in a scene where Barbara does Nana's hair and it reminds me so strongly of my grandmother spending hours on my hair when I was a little girl and her passing.

Total mess in 0.2 seconds.

Also Poe Kare Kare Ana as she was a New Zealander and we played it at her funeral.

'You'll be in my Heart' from Tarzan as I sang it to my Son with Down Syndrome when he was little.