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

A 1000 years, played at my mums funeral

Pink Floyd, Shine on You Crazy Diamond. Played at my Husband's and youngest brother's funerals.

Say you won't let go
7 days
😭😭😭😭😭

Sunshine on my window by Gabrielle. I used to sing it to my kids when they were tiny.

Also Jonny Cash - Hurt

Sufjan Stevens - Blue Bucket of Gold (in fact the whole Carrie & Lowell album is the most desperately heartbreakingly beautiful thing I’ve ever heard)
Carmody - Being Without You
This Mortal Coil - Song To The Siren
Joy Division - Atmosphere
Queen - Who Wants to Live Forever
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here

Pyramid song - Radiohead
River - Joni mitchell
Woman's work - Kate Bush
Amy Winehouse's version of will you still love me tomorrow

Bloody Mother Fucking Asshole by Martha Wainwright. It's about her dad, and always falling short of his expectations. It's absolutely heartbreaking.

I'm cracking up
And you have no idea
No idea how it feels to be on your own
In your own home with the fucking phone
And the mother of gloom
In your bedroom standing over your head
With her hand in your head
With her hand in your head
I will not pretend
I will not put on a smile
I will not say I'm all right for you
When all I wanted was to be good
To do everything in truth
To do everything in truth

@TheresOnlyOneWayOfLife Better man was an emotional blast from the 90s for me on my playlist the other day. I'd not heard it in years. Ds's dad put it on a compilation tape for me when I was 18. 1994 that was. We lost touch, got back in touch, lost touch, got back in touch, lost touch, both got married and divorced, got back in touch, got back together 10 years ago, broke up, discovered I was pregnant, he cut contact. Ds is 8 and I've no regrets but that song 😭 I've been thinking of him a lot latent and it really got me whilst out walking and trying not to cry.

3 Doors Down - Here Without You
Lewis Capaldi - Before You Go
Keith Urban - Tonight I Wanna Cry
Michael Bolton - How Am I Supposed to Live Without You
Maria Mena - Home For Christmas
Avril Lavigne - Keep Holding On
Hinder - Bliss (I Don't Wanna Know)
Red - Hymn for the Missing

1000 years Christina perri

Moon river I think sung by Andy Williams?
Sitting on the dock of the bay by Otis Redding

- Mom, especially while I was pregnant with my first. She also sings Jealous of the Angels. She’s amazing.

Puff the magic dragon - every single time, fortunately not played on the Radio very often !

Luciano Pavarotti and Tracey Chapman - Baby Can I Hold You
Luther Van Dross - Dance with my father
Carole King - Will You Love Me Tomorrow
Abba - Slipping Through My Fingers
Van Morrison - Queen of the Slipstream, Days Like This, Have I Told You Lately

Song To The Siren - This Mortal Coil
Sunshine on Leith - The Proclaimers
Brothers In Arms - Dire Straits
Bridge Over Troubled Water- Simon & Garfunkel
Miss Clare Remembers - Enya
This Woman's Work and Moments of Pleasure - Kate Bush
Man Of The World - Fleetwood Mac

Instrumental pieces:

Nimrod - Elgar
Miserere - Allegri
Theme tune to In The Night Garden
Mist Covered Mountains - Mark Knopfler

Bridge over troubled water.... played at both my DBs funerals 😢

Dance with my father Luther Vandross
A place nearby Lene Marlin

Do they know it's Christmas 1984 version "tonight thank God it's them instead of you", that line gets me every time.
This woman's work - Kate Bush
The Meryl Streep version of "Slipping through my fingers"
Who will sing me lullabies by Kate Rusby is heart breaking
Songbird - Eva Cassidy
Your song - Elton John
Anchorage - Michelle Shocked
Girlfriend in a coma - The Smiths
Fade into you - Mazzy Star (reminds me of my ex who sadly took his own life)

We Don't Talk About Bruno

With you from the musical Ghost.

I'm pretty sure I still have PTSD from that musical. Broke my heart.

Alyssa Lies- can't remember who but very sad
Smile by anyone- great simple song

Holding back the years - Simply Red.

Hard not to shed a tear with that one.

Oh and another...

Jealous of the angels 😢

Tears in Heaven - Eric Clapton... Can't listen past the first two lines normally, reminds me of my dad.

Irish Heartbeat - Van Morrison

Never Let Me Go - Florence and the Machine, particularly the lines

The arms of the ocean are carrying me
So cold and so sweet
And all this devotion was rushing out of me
And the crashes are heaven for a sinner like me
But the arms of the ocean delivered me
And it's over and I'm going under
But I'm not giving up
I'm just giving in