To have a song that makes me weep for no reason

[strawberrypig]

But for every reason! We all have a song that just gets to you, mine is Joni Mitchell's 'Both sides now' m.youtube.com/watch?v=aCnf46boC3I
So bitter sweet, reminds me of really sad times and really, really happy times too. What are your bitter sweet songs?

I’m not a fan of Coldplay generally, but “Fix you” always brings me close to tears, but that is probably because it reminds me of someone.

To answer the question, I would have to say “big ones get away” by Buffy Sainte Marie. Can’t explain why

Old money by Lana del Rey (but only sometimes)... and i do not even know what this song is all about. I guess because the tune is so sad.

Oh and Starry Starry Night by Don McLean gets me every time. "This world was never meant for one as beautiful as you" waaahhhhhh

The Final Countdown. But not in a good way.

I don't know what it is, but the song makes me feel instantly really dark and scared. It's so hard to explain. I feel like something should have happened when that song was played in the past to make me react that way, but as far as I remember there is nothing.

I cry at loads of songs because they move me or bring back memories, but The Final Countdown makes me cry because how dark I feel.

Vincent - don mclean for reminding me of university

I'll follow you into the dark - death cab for cutie for all those emotional times as a teen

Living years - Mike and the mechanics - for my dad

Angels - Robbie Williams and also Seasons in the sun - for my mum

Utopia - within temptation- my partner

Brighter than Sunshine - Aqualung

AIBU or aremost people on this thread mentioning songs that make them cry FOR A REASON (because they are sad)?

Oh and The Luckiest by Ben Folds is just so bitter sweet.

On a bus to St Cloud - just been listening to it, thinking of a friend taken too young, tears flowing
m.youtube.com/watch?v=WnHjoFkE6Ts

Radiohead, True Love Waits. Just don't leave, don't leave. John Martyn, Ways to Cry.

Michael Bolton's how am I supposed to live without you. Lord of the rings soundtrack silences me every time. Many Indian ghazals as well

Fight song by Rachel Pitman. I was living hours away from home and had a job I hated but couldn't leave, the bit where it says it's been 2 years I miss my home. It still makes me cry today and I've moved way closer to home 😂 but it used to gear me up for the day ahead and was My Fight Song 👊🏻👊🏻

My song is Wouldn't it be nice by the Beach Boys. No idea why but gets me very time. I have another which is Cannonball by Damien Rice.

Another Supermarket Flowers here, along with Castle On The Hill.

Avril Lavigne - When You're Gone

Simon & Garfunkel - Mrs Robinson

The Seekers - Georgie Girl

The La's - There She Goes

Florence & The Machine - Shake It Off

The last two are going to be my funeral songs

Rachel Platten*

@HourglassTigger I sobbed like anything first time I heard White Wine in the Sun, i love it.

Oh, and Pictures of you - the Cure, The Smiths - There Is a Light That Never Goes Out, The Doors - The End and Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart (the opening bars always catch me)

And Kings of Leon - Use Somebody,,,

I cry A LOT

Have people mentioning Seasons in the Sun heard the original? It’s Le Moribond sung by Jacques Brel, and is very different, quite jaunty.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=MB58PuNYO8o

I don’t have a crying song, but Bridge Over Troubled Water always gives me physical chills... I’m sailing right behind... beautifully performed, and a lovely image.

And yes to Hurt, Johnny Cash seems to put everything into it, and knowing how soon after that he died, it’s just so powerful.

Never is a long time- Roxette
Small bump by Ed Sheeran - the opening bars reduce me to a mess
And as many pp Baby of Mine Dumbo

Nimrod, and Intermezzo from Cavalleria Rusticana. Can barely get past the first bars of either before I'm sobbing.

Song for Guy.

@cheesenpickles yes to Avril and There she goes they get me every time 😢

True Love Ways - Buddy Holly

The Answer To Everything - Del Shannon

Your Swaying Arms - Deacon Blue

All That You Have Is Your Soul (and others) - Tracy Chapman

Most songs by Marc Cohn

Days Like This - Van Morrison

Old Friend (and others) by Lyle Lovett

La-Di-Dah - Jake Thackray

Bitter sweet symphony, but there are several in this thread that would nearly set me off