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?

Johnny Cash- Hurt
Sarah McLauchlan - Angel

Us against the world by Coldplay.
For me the words symbolise miscarriage and infertility, us against the world is me talking to my longed for precious and miracle baby.
It absolutely breaks me.

Baby Shark

Little wonders by Rob Thomas. Every time I watch Disney's Meet the Robinson I'm a blubbering wreck! The first time I watched it was very shortly after we'd nearly lost ds (15 months) to Meningitis. When the song came on at the end I just couldn't hold it together, and it still moves me to tears 5 years later!

Wires by Athlete. I was pregnant with DS when it came out and I couldn't listen to it when it was on the radio. Still gives me goosebumps.

Thank you For the Days by Kirsty McColl. Such a bittersweet song.

Oh and Good Grief by Bastille

Sia - Breathe Me gets me every time

Moby - Everloving ... just beautiful

U2’s Stuck in a Moment.

I was miserable, living abroad in my early 20s. I spoke to my mum on the phone and this was playing when I bought my ticket home. Comes up on shuffle at significant moments too.

Evanescence, my immortal.

The Green Fields Of France- The Fureys version. I never get desensitized to it, could listen to it ten times in a row and still burst into tears each time.

Wires by Athlete and All We Do by Oh Wonder both make me snotty-sob for no reason.

In The Bleak Midwinter

I weep at Belfast Child by Simple Minds. Stops me in my tracks. Absolutely adore that song with all of my being. Also some of the Queen songs recorded when Freddie was gravely ill. There is something haunting about The Show Must Go On and Who Wants to Live Forever. Shivers.

Gotta say that Jacques Brel's Ne Me Quitte Pas never fails to make me well up, especially the live version from the Olympia in Paris. And on her last tour Camille O'Sullivan did a rendition of Jacques Brel's Amsterdam which made me well up.

And as I am typing I have remembered Goodnight Saigon by Billy Joel. That one tends to get me too.

Plenty of other songs no one here would know (or would out me).

Johnny Cash - Hurt
Kate Bush - Woman's Work. So good.
Power of Love - Frankie goes to Hollywood

Piece by Piece (Idol version) by Kelly clarkson. It’s about her dad leaving when she was a child and she sings about how her daughter will never have to worry about not being loved because she will always put her first.

I had a lovely dad so don’t relate to it at all but it gets me every time!

Nana was a Suffragette. Not at all sure why but never fails to make me a bit sniffy.

Back to Black - Amy Winehouse
We are the Champions - Queen
Perfect Day - Lou Reed

Nick Cave - I Need You
The album the song is from was released after his teenage son died, so it’s particularly heartbreaking

Don't cry, guns n' roses. Funny in a way.

I just watched part of a documentary about Freddie Mercury and these are the days. So very very sad.

He was a legend.

George Ezra - Hold my girl

I saw him in Wembley late last year and sobbed my way through it

I had my earliest baby at 32 weeks so Wires makes sense to me. Plus my boy was born on Xmas day so it hits home even more.

When She Loved me (Jessie's song) from Toy Story 2.

Sand and Water by Beth Nielsen Chapman - it kills me every time

Also, Peter from Daughter from Tales from Shop Session. It draws parallels between Tinkerbelles love for Peter Pan to the love for the singer/songwriters) first love which turns out to be toxic partner.

A brilliantly written song, with vivid, heartfelt imagery. Beautifully haunting. Bittersweet melancholy. Just damn good writing.