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To ask what songs make you cry?

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nibbledhiscable · 21/01/2023 19:00

I've got loads. Some played at DC's funeral

Eva Cassidy - Songbird
Fields of Gold
Somewhere over the rainbow

Kate Bush - Running up that Hill, Kate Bush - Woman's work

Pretenders - Stand by you

Sia - Alive

Amazing Grace, bagpipes

So many

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Piglet89 · 21/01/2023 21:47

The Luckiest - Ben Folds.

bereftmother · 21/01/2023 21:47

At my daughter's funeral last year we had "The Sound of Silence" sung by Disturbed. It is very bleak, but stunning. When we got her phone back from the police the last song she had listened to before she took her own life was "The Doctor Said" by Chloe Adams. I have only managed to listen to it once...

urrrgh46 · 21/01/2023 21:48

Thousand years - just makes me cry instantly

Super trouper (abba) played at my sisters funeral after she had taken her own life. It is one of my first memories of her - her playing abba and specifically super trouper. The words
"i'm like a super trouper, lights are gunna find me shining like the sun, smiling having fun, feeling like the number 1" seemed fitting given she'd had a 15yr battle with psychotic depression and paranoia.

Queen - days of our lives - I'm wing up just thinking of it!!

urrrgh46 · 21/01/2023 21:49

@bereftmother so sorry for you and your daughter. xx

Mulhollandmagoo · 21/01/2023 21:50

Days by Kirsty MacColl and when we were young by Adele 😢

Chickenvoicesinmyhead · 21/01/2023 21:50

bereftmother · 21/01/2023 21:47

At my daughter's funeral last year we had "The Sound of Silence" sung by Disturbed. It is very bleak, but stunning. When we got her phone back from the police the last song she had listened to before she took her own life was "The Doctor Said" by Chloe Adams. I have only managed to listen to it once...

💐

Blossomtoes · 21/01/2023 21:51

Imthegingerbreadwoman · 21/01/2023 21:30

Oh and veera Lynn we'll meet again. It was played at my nans funeral

Oh God, it must have broken you. 💐

Wild Mountainside by Eddie Reader

I’ll be Seeing You by Frank Sinatra which we played at Dad’s funeral and Mantovani’s Goodnight Sweetheart which we had at both my parents’ funerals. Both of them break my heart.

Okbyethen · 21/01/2023 21:53

Further by Don Broco. I have to skip it if I'm listening somewhere public as I'll just start crying!

WhenYouWalkThroughTheGarden · 21/01/2023 21:54

Had never heard it before but Perry Como - And I Love You So came on while I was in the car the other day and I was in tears at the lyrics and his voice.

Jourdain11 · 21/01/2023 21:55

My dad died after a car accident when I was 13, and he was in a coma for weeks. Basically we stayed at the hospital or near while his body shut down and I read and listened to the radio constantly - I just needed to have distraction so that I could basically forget who I was and not think of what was happening. I would say there are 20 plus songs which immediately take me back to that hospital waiting area and I get such dejà vu. I used to properly tear up if I heard them. Unfortunately some of them are, like, Britney Spears, and it's tricky to explain to someone why you have tears in your eyes over Oops, I did it again or Tatu!!

Nooriginalusername23 · 21/01/2023 21:58

Oh and Evanescence - Like you
😭😭😭

TurnADifferentCorner · 21/01/2023 21:58

When you are a King - White Plains
Don't look back in anger - Oasis
Walkaway - Cast

TheLostNights · 21/01/2023 21:59

Autumn leaves by Eva Cassidy.
Hurt by Christina Aguilera.
The first time ever I saw your face (Leona Lewis)
Nothing compares to you by Sinead O'connor
Angel by Sarah Mclouglan
Come what may (Moulin Rogue)
With you (Ghost)

MrsHughesPinny · 21/01/2023 22:01

Oh gawd, how did I forget ‘Brick’ by Ben Folds Five?! That one’s brutal on my feels!

Daisiesunderblueskies · 21/01/2023 22:03

Slipping Through My Fingers by ABBA. I can’t not look at my little blonde girl and think how quickly time is going by and soon she’ll be grown up

WillTimeCome · 21/01/2023 22:04

Bright Eyes by Art Garfunkel. Tears in my eyes writing it now. A very painful childhood song, because of the film, and then matched to a loss that I suffered recently. I can't get it out of my head and just brings me to tears.

WhatDoYouWantNow · 21/01/2023 22:08

Everybody Hurts - R.E.M.
Do They Know It's Christmas - Band Aid
Bohemian Rhapsody - my brother bought the record and he died that same day
Cry To Me - Solomon Burke
Days - Kirsty McColl - we had it playing at my mum's funeral
Dance With My Father - Luther Vandross

EsmeShelby · 21/01/2023 22:11

Good year for the roses - Elvis Costello
The first cut is the deepest - Rod Stewart

PugInTheHouse · 21/01/2023 22:12

urrrgh46 · 21/01/2023 21:48

Thousand years - just makes me cry instantly

Super trouper (abba) played at my sisters funeral after she had taken her own life. It is one of my first memories of her - her playing abba and specifically super trouper. The words
"i'm like a super trouper, lights are gunna find me shining like the sun, smiling having fun, feeling like the number 1" seemed fitting given she'd had a 15yr battle with psychotic depression and paranoia.

Queen - days of our lives - I'm wing up just thinking of it!!

When we saw Queen in June 21 they had an amazing video playing when they sang Days of Our Lives song and it was all clips from when they were younger in the band and it featured lots of clips of Freddie.

Sunsouttoday · 21/01/2023 22:15

She’s leaving home by The Beatles.
I left to live abroad at age 23 and remember my dad playing this on the drive back to the airport sometimes

ChiefAdjusterOfRubensShorts · 21/01/2023 22:17

Seven Cities - Solarstone
Nothing Is Forever - Ultracynic

IseeBrigadoon · 21/01/2023 22:19

Moving on by James

Imthegingerbreadwoman · 21/01/2023 22:21

Adding to my list...
Ed sheeran supermarket flowers

Marshmello33 · 21/01/2023 22:21

Yebba my mind
If you've ever been hurt/ cheated on you'll get it.

mamaduckbone · 21/01/2023 22:22

The Smartest Giant in Town from a CD of Julia Donaldson songs based on her books which we used to have in the car on repeat.

DS was a very advanced toddler and could sing it word perfectly at 2, which ddad was super impressed by the last time we al went on an outing together, just before he died. I remember having to pull over in the car shortly after, I was bawling so much.

I haven't heard it for years (that toddler is now a 6'6 rugby playing 17 year old) but I suspect it would have the same effect.