Songs that aren’t even ‘sad’ but make you emotional?

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Does anyone else find certain songs quite emotional for no particular reason?? I’m not talking about purposefully sad love songs.

Current one for me is Castle On The Hill by Ed Sheeran - it’s not even the most amazing song ever but literally gives me goose bumps and I feel myself welling up as I sing along in the car! Maybe it makes me nostalgic!!

Other one is Ocean Drive by Lighthouse family - makes me so sad!!

Anyone else?! Maybe it’s something to do with certain chords!

I don’t even have children so god knows how I’d be if I did!!!

Other ones this thread has reminded me of:
How to be dead - Snow Patrol
Kids - MGMT
Affirmation - Savage Garden
Anything David Gray
Viva Forever - Spice Girls

And almost anything by Jacob Banks. I love his voice and his version of Say Something is amazing.

The Totoro theme always makes me cry.

@decisionsindecisions yes that’s it!!

OP - I love that song too.

Julia Michael's-in this place. It's from wreck it Ralph but very deep!!

My husband always argues that How To Save A Life is supposed to be an uplifting song & I can't help but think we're listening to different things.

My emotional for no reason song is The One & Only by Chesney Hawkes & I literally cannot explain why!

That bloody Baby Mine song out of Dumbo, when his mum is locked up in the mad elephant trailer and is rocking him in her trunk through the bars. Waaaah! I don't even have kids ffs.

Two Menzingers songs: wild years and after the party
Meant to be all fun and nostalgic, and all like “ah we used to be all mad and cool”
Makes me weep

Have a little faith in me by John Hiatt.
Wonderful life by Black - a family member had died when that song came out. I felt it was a cruel joke and anything but a wonderful life. Still cant listen to it more than 20 years on.

Kygo- Stargazing. It was once the cool down song at body pump. No idea why but I'd end up just standing there every time with tears pouring down my face

There is a line in Hard knock life that properly gives me a lump in my throat...

"Santa Claus we never see...Santa Claus? Whats that? Whose he?"

BinkyBaa - me too!!

Also.. James - Sit Down. Heard at a very emotionally significant moment in my life and takes me immediately back to how I felt at that moment every time I hear it. Getting a lump in my throat just thinking about it.

Calypso by John Denver. DH was a keen diver and John Denver wrote this for Jacques Cousteau and his dive ship Calypso. Cousteau was his hero. It was played at DH's funeral, and I cry every time I hear it now.

Don't Stop Me Now by Queen. I watched a documentary many years ago about a man with EB, and I remember feeling so sad watching the plight of this poor man, and the pain he went through daily. He died and this song was played at his funeral in the documentary. Makes me well up and think of him every time I hear it.

@honeylulu that made me well up!!
My daft one is a Geri Halliwell song - Lift me up (sob!)

Didn’t Gary Barlow write Rule the World for his stillborn daughter?

In this world - Moby
Charity - Skunk Anansie
It’s my life - TalkTalk
How soon is now - The Smiths
Ode to my family - Cranberries
Precious - Depeche Mode
She Bangs the Drums - Stone Roses
Silence - Delerium

ForalltheSaints, Trick of the Tail album, Genesis, has that effect on me

Kissing you - Des’ree

Songbird- Eva Cassidy

Fun. We are young.

Played at a friends childs funeral.

Fucking chokes me every time.

Seven Years by Lukas Graham makes me cry every time

The lines “Most of my boys are with me/Some are still out seeking glory/and some I had to leave behind/My brother I’m still sorry”

Gets me right in the feels

Me too! I can usually hold it together until “I hope my children come and visit once or twice a month”. Then it’s tears all the way to the end.

Rockabye by clean bandit - love the song but can’t even sing along as I always get a massive lump in my throat. A mother’s love and what she will do for her child.

Here comes the rain - Eurythmics - nostalgia as reminds me of being a kid and feeling carefree dancing round the living room with my little sis.

All Woman by Lisa Stansfield - reminds me of my mum as she loved Lisa Stansfield but now as a mum myself the song resonates with me on a different level.

Like poster 2, Annie's song, John Denver.

Yes to the theme for In The Night Garden - I always imagine him ferrying a child’s soul away to heaven!

A weird one though - ever since I was a child (showing my age) I have an overwhelming reaction to the Arena theme tune (the credits had the name in neon floating in a bottle). I get really panicked and aware of my own mortality, I know it sounds daft but I have to avoid hearing it or I start crying, even writing this I’m getting tearful. Bit worried about some sort of repressed memory to be honest!