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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.

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PinkSparklyPussyCat · 02/12/2017 16:10

Perfect by Ed Sheeran. It was playing on the radio in the ward on the last day I saw my Mum.
Supermarket Flowers as we had it at her funeral.
Iris by the Googoo Dolls because of the words - ‘I’d give up forever to touch you ‘cause I know that you’d feel me somehow. You’re the closest to heaven that I’ll ever be and I don’t want to go home right now’
Take Me Home Country Roads as we had it at my Dad’s funeral.

MakeItStopNeville · 02/12/2017 16:18

I don’t know how well known the musical, Dear Evan Hansen is in the UK, but the song, “So Big/So Small” gets me every time. Basically tells her teenage son that she will always be there for him. Sniiffff! And another one for Moana, but I always blub at “I am Moana” when her Grandmother comes to her when she’s ready to give up.

Hidingtonothing · 02/12/2017 16:56

Port that's 'It was on a starry night' and it makes me teary too Smile

user1497997754 · 02/12/2017 16:56

Have yourself a merry little Christmas....frank Sinatra reminds me of my lovely dad
The party's over.....Nat king cole....my dad's favourite
Songbird...Eva Cassidy
Have I told you lately...van Morrison
When a man loves a woman...Percy Sledge
Sitting on the dock of the bay...Otis Reading
Dance with my father again..can't remember who sings this

PortBlacksandResident2018 · 02/12/2017 17:02

Thanks Hiding Xmas Grin

Erica891 · 02/12/2017 17:08

Somewhere over the rainbow. :( I feel like a child whenever I hear that song.

Nuffaluff · 02/12/2017 17:09

'Bright eyes ' by Art Garfunkel. The one that was on Watership Down with the rabbits.
But then I think of The League of Gentlemen and it ruins it.

ButtMuncher · 02/12/2017 17:12

Kate Bush's version of 'This Woman's Work'

TheVanguardSix · 02/12/2017 17:13

Green Arrow by Yo La Tengo.

I've always loved it but it was playing when I was hugging my then terminal brother goodbye in October on his birthday- we thought it might have been his last. They opened him up 2 weeks ago- 9 hour surgery mind- and learned that they'd misdiagnosed him. He has an incredibly rare, so rare, form of non-aggressive pancreatic cancer. Only about 10 or so cases. His life expectancy has gone from 1 year to a long life into old age, knock on wood. I keep crying. I can't seem to shake the horrible grief and embrace this indescribable happiness at his outcome.

I haven't stopped listening to Green Arrow since I last saw him. God I'm crying now... again ffs! Grin

FutureDays · 02/12/2017 17:18

Johnny cash version- hurt
Pearl jam version - last kiss

Helendee · 02/12/2017 17:24

'It was a very good year' by Frank Sinatra. It's about getting old and looking back over you

Helendee · 02/12/2017 17:25

Over your life. The line " But now the days grow cold, I'm in the autumn of the year" always has me blubbing!

maddiemookins16mum · 02/12/2017 17:34

Softly as you leave by Matt Monroe. It was the final song at my mum's funeral.

The80sweregreat · 02/12/2017 17:37

So many sad songs to list but somewhere over the rainbow makes me sob. Agree about Bridge over troubled. warers as well.

lizzieoak · 02/12/2017 17:38

Protection by Massive Attack w Tracey Thorn.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=Epgo8ixX6Wo

Helendee · 02/12/2017 17:43

Yes that one too Maddie. 😢

IceBearRocks · 02/12/2017 17:49

Supermarket Flowers by Ed Sheeran

Helena17 · 02/12/2017 17:55

Moon River and Blue Moon. :(

poisoningpidgeysinthepark · 02/12/2017 17:55

Fields of Gold for me too, and Winter by Tori Amos.

NorthStarGrassman · 02/12/2017 18:07

Like pps, Wires by Athlete, especially the line "First night of your life curled up on your own, looking at you now you would never know" (and even more so if I happen to be looking at ds at the time.

The Band played waltzing Matilda by Eric Bogle (although I think my favourite version is the Pogues) Particularly "I thanked Christ there was no one there waiting for me to grieve and to mourn and to pity".

MakeItStopNeville · 02/12/2017 18:12

TheVanguardSix That’s a brilliant post! What a great change for him and your family.

Sandyfeet101 · 02/12/2017 18:13

Yesterday by The Beatles

quirkychick · 02/12/2017 18:15

I cry very easily at somgs since having children too. I'm teary just reading this thread.

I love Winter by Tori Amos too, poisoning, so poignant and sad
Almost any Christmas Carol (was a bit rubbish when I was a primary teacher trying to teach carols in assemblies and trying not to sob)
So many saying These are the Days of our Lives, especially with the video
Bright Eyes, the whole of Watership Down is a sobfest
I also used to cry at Two Little Boys as a child

AllTheUserNamesAreTaken · 02/12/2017 18:36

Eva Cassidy, Fields of Gold - reminds me of when my Dad was in a hospice shortly before he died

Dance with my father
Ronan Keating - if tomorrow never comes

Sinead O'Connor - Silent night. Always makes me feel quite sad and emotional but not generally tearful

MrsFring · 02/12/2017 18:51

When Somebody Loved Me from Toy Story 2, written by Randy Newman I think. Poor little cowgirl!