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

Alone again naturally - Gilbert O'Sullivan. Brutal.

Oh.....probably! I don't know the Christina Aguilera one 🤔

Adele- hometown glory

Bridge over troubled water - Simon and Garfunkel
Nothing compares to you - Sinead o Connor
The hymn Abide with me
Nights in white satin - The Moody Blues

and countless others!

Another vote for Tears in Heaven.
Also ABBA Slipping through my fingers. DDs primary played it at their Y6 leaving assembly over a photo montage of their primary years. Not ashamed to admit I sobbed!!
November Rain is another. More the instrumental section than anything.

Boulder to Birmingham by Emmylou Harris
Sand and Water by Beth Nielsen Chapman
Somewhere Over the Rainbow
Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
Full of Grace by Sarah McLachlan
Tell Me There’s a Heaven by Chris de Burgh

Just double checked, the CA one is an original of hers, Mark Ronson on the credits also. It's a lovely song, a lot of her slow songs have references to her childhood and stuff that happened so o always feel like she means what she sings.

For the Good Times (Perry Como's Version). My late dad loved this.

How Great Thou Art (we had this as a hymn at my dad's funeral)

Dance with my Father - Luther Vandross

Oh, and Slipping Through My Fingers, of course!

Slipping Through My Fingers by ABBA, but it's the Mamma Mia version where Donna and her daughter are preparing for her wedding that really gets me.

I have a beautiful 16yo DD, we've always had a great relationship and I hate to think that one day soon I won't be seeing her every day. Just played it on Alexa, and yes, I'm crying.

Not so much the song on its own, but it has more tearyness when combined with different video clips, like scenes in a film or tv show, with the right clip and music, I'm teary

I judge myself for this but 'Dance with my Father' by Luther Vandross has me not able to hold back tears. I'm very lucky to have wonderful parents but they're getting to that age when health is starting to fail and the thought of them not being there any more just breaks me .

Most songs make me cry at the moment (thanks pending divorce!)

Sia - Breathe Me
Deer Tick - Goodbye Dear Friend
Pearl Jam - Man of the Hour
Pearl Jam - Indifference
Ben Platt - You Will Be Found (from Dear Evan Hansen)
Fleetwood Mac - Landslide
Bruce Springsteen - Land of Hope and Dreams
Macy Gray - I Try
Sarah McLachlan - Full of Grace

Geraldine by Glasvegas

Freebird - the extended version - DPs playing out song at his funeral last year.

Tremor Christ - Pearl Jam.

Everybody Hurts done by Il Divo? Mums choice when she passed.

Also Shirley Bassey I did it my way - also my Mums.

And Forever Autumn.

Shed loads actually.....

Ghost by Michael Stipe and an amazing female vocalist whose name I am ashamed to say escapes me.

And that track from Peaky Blinders about being stretched out on your grave.

Feck.

Tissue time.

God, I'm so glad this wasn't played at my DDs Y6 Leaver's Assembly 😨. I'd never have been able to show my face at the school again!!

She’s my favourite ever singer.
she has THE best voice. Her song ‘I’m ok’ is so sad, about her abusive dad.

Falling Slowly - Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová

My beloved dad was killed in an accident when I was 15 and my little brother was just 12. I'm now in my 40s and theres never been a day go by when I don't think of him.
He loved to play his guitar and sing these songs. They always make me shed a tear.

For you dad:

Brothers in Arms - Dire Straits
Bright Eyes - Art Garfunkel
Leaving on a Jet Plane
Twist and Shout - Beatles
Apache - The Shadows

I think she is amazing, there was a documentary about her called the Rise and Rise of Christina Aguilera on MTV many years ago, it was very moving. They also showed footage from when she was 9 and she was amazing then!

Freya Ridings - Lost without you
Christina Perri - A thousand years
Cold Play - Fix You

Pearl Jam - Just Breathe
Eva Cassidy - You Take My Breathe Away
Thunder - Better Man
Christina Perri - A Thousand Years (our grandson was born at 23 weeks and this is his song)
Amanda Marshall - Dark Horse
Joni Mitchell - Both Sides Now
Gaz Brookfield - Bigger Man
Fleetwood Mac - Songbird

Smile - as in 'Smile, though your heart is breaking...'

Listened to a Radio 4 program about it and was sobbing on my commute. It already made my cry, but the more I heard, the worse I got!

Florence and the Machine - Cosmic Love

Whitney Houston ' I will always love you'

Time to say Goodbye - Andrea Bocelli Sarah brightman

Thousand years .. Christina Perri