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

Dance with my father by luther vandross has be bawling even though my dad is still alive.
holding back the years, simply red
Songbird, Eva Cassidy

Also Afire Love by Ed Sheeran

Comfortably numb by Pink Floyd... this was the walk in music to my dads funeral service. He was only 62. Ironic that he died from hypoxic brain damage due to cardiac arrest and this was one of his favourite songs. Such an amazing song but can't listen to it unless I feel like crying.

Time by Pink Floyd- the exit music to my dad's funeral and another of his favourite songs and so one of mine. Unbearably painful to listen to. The guitar solo gives me a crushing feeling in my chest it's so moving.

"Tired of lying in the sunshine, staying home to watch the rain
You are young and life is long, and there is time to kill today
And then one day you find ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun"

Roger Waters is a complete genius, baffles me how he wrote time when he was just 29.

Dancing Queen by ABBA. Oh, and Colors of the Wind from Pocahontas

The living years by Genesis. Makes me think about my Dad's death. Mike Rutherford wrote it, I think and it speaks so beautifully of regrets.

Feed the birds, from Mary Poppins. Every time.
I vow to thee my country.
Wherever you are, by Richard Marx (cheesy, I know!)
Somewhere from West Side Story

These are probably the main ones, but I’m sure there are other ones that get me going too 😂

Most of the ones that first came to mind have been mentioned so I’ll also add

Anna - The winner takes it all
adele - all I ask

Just saw another poster mentioned Cat Stevens - most of his songs make me cry. His voice and the lyrics 😭😭

Kate Rusby - Who will sing me lullabies.

Some songs about war, especially World War 1, are really heartbreaking: 'And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda'; 'Willie McBride'; 'Gallipoli'. Always make me cry.

In a different way, Leo Sayer's 'When I Need You' is really emotional for me, as it was the song that spoke to me during periods of health-related isolation, first as a chronically ill teenager, and then many years later during lockdown: 'But you know I won't be travelling/ (isolating) forever/ It's cold out, but hold out...'

Bright eyes, Art Garfunkel. Watership down, gahhhh.

Daughter by Sleeping at Last.
I listened to this so much when dd was bad with her anxiety.
Even as I type this and think about those days I am tearful.
She's 21 now, has a job, a boyfriend, friends, she's happy and healthy (with occasional panics) and is oblivious to the hours I spent in the car crying desperately worried for her future.

Oh, and a driving licence and car.
Am I proud...heck yeah...

Oh god, listening to Leonard Cohen almost always makes me tearful.

Just had Sunshine on Leith come on in the car. I honestly cannot sing along to this without wailing. Not a pretty sight/sound. Reminds me of my grandad 😢

Tell Laura I love her

Little Jimmy Brown

The Cedar Tree Song (see the tree how big it's grown) Honey - can't even read the lyrics...

Queen- These are the days of our lives.

Lovely lyrics. I always imagine Freddie Mercury in the video. He died not long afterwards.

Johnny Cash- Hurt - oh my goodness that song! So moving. I do like the Nine Inch Nails version too.

Without you- Nilson (the original).

Linkin Park, One more light

Beautiful boy. John Lenton wrote it for his son just before he died

The original of Without You is by Badfinger

m.youtube.com/watch?v=IGj24KHhMFw

I'm quite menopausal so it doesn't take much, but there's a couple of Lewis Capaldi songs that make me sob at the moment, and currently helping DC deal with a very emotional break up isn't helping.

Drivers Licence
Strangers

All Lewis Capaldi makes me do is yawn

Dos Orugitas from Encanto - listening to the Spanish version while reading the lyrics in English. Absolutely brutal in the most beautiful way.

The Last Farewell - Roger Whitaker.
Reminds me of my grandad, he was my absolute hero. I still can't believe he's gone