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

Man of the hour and just breathe by pearl jam and both from my brother's funeral. I can't listen to them without weeping buckets.

A lot of mine remind me of when my dad died in September 2020.

My Way - Frank Sinatra/Matt Munro, was played at the funeral.
Alabama - Tracyanne and Danny
Stop crying your heart out - Oasis.
These are the days of our lives - Queen
Wake me up when September ends - Green Day.

When I was little, I used to bawl every time Memories by Elaine Page came on the radio. Used to drive my mother up the wall!

Hello again neil diamond
We've only just begun carpenters
knocking on heavens door guns n roses

I'm a crier
This woman's work is gorgeous (I love the maxwell version)
Say you won't let go by James Arthur made me cry when I was pregnant and emotional
In your atmosphere by John Mayer "without your voice to tell me, 'I love you, take a right'"
Walk of life by Dire Straits was played at my dad's funeral. I managed to make a photo montage of him to the song but haven't been able to listen to it since.

Can't listen to it without crying, my best friend's funeral song. He dies way too young tragically.
Love Thunder

The Morrisey version of Moon River
Winds of Change
Let Me Go - Gary Barlow
Abide With Me

Wrecking Ball by Miley Cyrus. The words really hit home when I was in a bad place.

Vincent - Don McLean

Across the stars - John Williams (it was the theme from attack of the clones, dreadful film but I think it's the best thing John Williams has in his mind bogglingly amazing catalogue. It's incredibly moving.

Odd one but the music box version of Despacito - I used to rock my daughter to sleep to it when she was a tiny baby, it brings back memories of her being all fresh smelling and sleepy from a bath, tiny yawns and new baby snuggles.

I'll also second , And So It Goes by Billy Joel that someone mentioned up thread

Apron Strings by Everything But The Girl. That visceral longing for a child breaks my heart. Tbh Tracy Thorn could sing anything and it would give me goosebumps.

Also In The Ghetto by Elvis - and as her young man dies 🥺 I always picture my two grown up sons who are still my baby boys out in the dangerous world.
Fucks sake I’m so wet!

This and the song by Luther Vandros about his dad (before my time but makes me cry).

Like many others This Woman's Work gets me every time. But the one that REALLY reduces me to a sobbing mess is this beauty by O'Hooley and Tidow. I just cannot listen without weeping.

<tissues at the ready>

I don't think any of these have been mentioned yet (which surprises me):

Radiohead - Creep. I need to turn this off as I will start crying irrespective of my mood or the situation. I find it so upsetting and sad, the self loathing is just palpable.

Elvis Costello - I want you. Heartbreak put into words.

The Verve - The drugs don't work. I'd not long split with a boyfriend who was utterly traumatised by losing his mum to cancer when he was 14 when I first heard this. Absolute gut punch, it gets me every time.

I'm stifling sobs here, hoping DS has now finally fallen asleep.

Days of our lives - Queen
Set fire to the 3rd Bar - Snow Patrol & Martha Wainwright

Shipbuilding - Elvos Costelloe
Come to me -bjork
Mirrorball - Elbow
Kindling (fickle flame) - elbow
Spit of you- Sam fender
Then I met you - Proclaimers
Don't get me wrong - pretenders
Washing of the water - peter gabriel

God yes, you have to be stone hearted not to cry at tears in heaven. For me, visiting hours by Ed Sheeran and wherever you are by military wives choir also guarantee tears. But so many songs with poignant lyrics set me off. If a song makes you cry even if you don't have any other sad associations with that song (like a funeral or similar) it's a genuine masterpiece in my view. Making you feel a powerful emotion like that is incredible.

He manages so much light in the darkness

Anchorage by Michelle Shocked
Days of our Lives by Queen
White Wine in the Sun by Tim Minchin
Wide Open Spaces by The (Dixie) Chicks (playing when my son was born)

The song I used to sing to my bump and then my daughter arrived. The Day before you came, ABBA x

Ooh yes, agree about Sufijan. All The Trees Of The Field Will Clap Their Hands really gets me too.

Tracy Chapman - Fast Car
Doobie Brothers - Listen to the Music
Nazareth - Love Hurts
Marmalade - Reflections of my Life

Or closest thing to crazy, Katie Melua, hearing that and thinking about my kids brings me to my knees x

Wires, Athelete. It's about his premature baby
😭😭😭

The one that got away- Katy Perry
The drugs don’t work- The Verve

Say Something - A Great Big World
All I Want - Kodaline
Hallelujah - Jeff Buckley
Run - Snow Patrol
This Years Love - David Grey
Skinny Love - Bon Iver
Handbags and Gladrags - Stereophonics

Honey
Seasons in the Sun
(I was a child of the 70s and both of these made me sad when they came on the radio, although I didn't know why)!