To ask what songs make you cry?

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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

Stay Gold Stevie Wonder

I've only listened to Slipping Through My Fingers once. Decided that was something I didn't need to live through again!
Just listened to the Tim Minchin one. Jeez. That touched me. I currently have a whole raft of songs, mainly by The Jam that I can't listen to, having lost my brother.

Ronan - Taylor Swift knocks me out at the first mention of plastic dinosaurs but the “what if I kept the hand me downs you won’t grow into” line makes me ugly cry every time.

Just the way you are - Barry White
I have always been a PITA but my mum used to say I love you just the way you are 😥

Gary Barlow - let me go.
The Tim Minchin one mentioned earlier gets me too - just thinking about it is choking me up!

Starmaker - Kids from Fame
Wires - Athlete
A Million Dreams - Pink
Away in a Manger
Forever Autumn - Justin Hayward
Fields of Gold - Sting
Raindrops Keep Fallin' on my Head -BJ Thomas
Puff the Magic Dragon

All remind me of people I have lost or the passage of time.

I'm so sorry for the devastating loss of your beautiful daughter x

Oo, also these are the days of our lives, Fredie. Just came on Smooth FM 😢

Letter to a John
Ani DiFranco

Trigger warning

"I was eleven years old,
He was as old as my dad.
And he took something from me
I didn't even know that I had"

I can't even think about this lyric without crying

Wind beneath my wings
Because you loved me
Love is all around (played at a funeral)

I'm not generally a big musical fan, but went to see Everyone's Talking About Jamie. Knew nothing about the song He's My Boy - but my god, hearing it for the very first time, I was struggling to suppress massive shoulder-shaking sobs, in the quiet theatre.

We played that for my big brother at his funeral.

That was one of my mums funeral songs 😢

She's Gone (Hall & Oates)
Bright Eyes (Art Garfunkel)
I'll See You Again (Richard Tauber)
Oh My Love (John Lennon)
Daniel (Elton John)
Both Sides Now (Joni Mitchell) (my late mum's favourite song)
Ombra Mai Fu (Enrico Caruso)
Electron Blue (REM)
Dancing Queen (ABBA)

I have a Pavlov response to the opening bars of Jealous of the Angels, by Donna Taggart. Instant tears.

Wrecked by Imagine Dragons. Lost somebody very dear? They get it...

Love is a losing game - Amy Winehouse
Eyes Shut - Years and Years

His Christmas albums have some sublime treasures. Some his best stuff is his Christmas music.

A song I hadn’t heard before last night while watching Queens of Country. Dolly Parton sang A Coat of Many colours. She had written it about her childhood where her mother had made her a coat out of so many rags of all colours, hence the name. They were incredibly poor, she wore it to school the next day and the children laughed and made fun of her. She tried to tell them that she was proud of the coat because her momma had made it but she said they just didn’t get it. I must admit I did have a little cry. It really touched my heart.
The other song is Fix You by Cold Play. We had played it at my mother’s funeral. She was absolutely riddled with osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis and she was crippled with it. We couldn’t fix her and she was such a lovely person, never moody. I used to call her my little sunny mumma.
she’s been gone 17 years and I still can’t hear that song without it bringing on the tears.

Seasons in the sun by Terry Jacks

Bright eyes by Art Garfunkle...... cry, every time I hear it

Del Amitri - nothing ever happens.

Takes me back very viscerally to early covid days, just after I dropped the kids at my (rather recently) ex's and was driving completely empty roads to my empty home with no plans and nothing to do and nobody to see. I was so broken by that.

Out here on my own Irene Cara

Dance with my Father by Luther Vandross has me wailing. I wouldn't mind but my dad's still alive!

Fix You, Coldplay