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

Wires-Athlete

Came on the car radio while bringing our dd home from hospital after fighting sepsis/pneumonia/meningitis at birth.

Dh and I had to pull over and clung to each other with relief

Two Little Boys - yes, I know all about Rolf Harris, but the lyrics get me every time.

Oh and our national anthem (I'm welsh) I have never heard it and not cried.

So Sorry for the loss of your son

Wild mountain thyme, Gerry rafferty version. Jolene by Ray La Montagne

It was a very good
Frank Sinatra

I only heard it for the first time around ten years ago, gets be crying every time !!

Into the Mystic by Van Morrison.

Played at my stepmum’s funeral. She died at 44 of breast cancer, when I was 24, and I distinctly remember her and my dad dancing around the kitchen to it a few years earlier when I was home from uni, them idly commenting that it would be their funeral song.

I’m not a crier, but that memory floors me every time.

Forever Young - there was a version out when my mum died and it was on the radio a lot so reminds me if her a lot, and it felt apt, she'll be forever young. I don't hear it much anymore, but it always seems to randomly pop up when I could use a mum hug.

Pachobel in D canon. I wondered why I was crying at my friends wedding years ago .I had it for my dads funeral more recently as it was a favourite of his too . Beautiful but hauntingly sad .
also Elvis Presley Can’t help falling in love with you and You were always on my mind .
snow Patrol Run

Oh, keep on rocking girl..😥

There are many, some of which I don't dare listen to anymore...

Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Bon Iver - I Can't Make You Love Me
Morphine - The Saddest Song
John Grant - Where The Dreams Go To Die
Sibylle Baier - The End
Rufus Wainwright - Dinner At Eight
Elliot Smith - Going Nowhere, Pitseleh and pretty much everything else by him
Tom Waits - Martha
Grouper - Clearing
Spiritualized - Broken Heart

And of course the whole of Carrie & Lowell by Sufjan Stevens

Oh and the Keane song that Lily Alan covered .Somewhere only we know I think

'Dry Your Eyes, Mate' by The Streets. It paints such a clear picture of the emotions of losing someone, for me, at least.

Death cab for cutie - I will follow you into the dark 😭

Goodbye my lover - James Blunt.

Was in the charts when my husband left me. I was 8 months' pregnant with our second child.

Still punches me in the stomach when I hear it.

In My Life. The Beatles.

Bridge over Troubled Water
My dad used to sing it to me when I was a child, always said that the second verse made him think of me "sail on silver girl". He died far too young. Even after all these years, even when I sing it with choir, my voice breaks on that line.
More up to date Visiting Hours, Ed Sheeran. Me and dh were lying in bed on Sunday morning just imagining having a Sunday lunch with our parents, and what we would give for just one more of those days. Later we were in car when it came on. Literally had to pull the car over!

How do I say goodbye by Dean Lewis
Dance with my father Celine dions version

Precious Child by Karen Taylor Good

Do posters prefer Eva Cassidy to Christine McVie for Songbird?

It used to make me feel sad but then I listened to Christine McVie on Desert Island Discs and she said she probably wouldn't have written it if there hadn't been a line of coke and a bottle of champagne involved. Now it makes me happy.

Also Ed sheeran- small bump

Also, Tell Laura i love her (family used to play this like it was a nice song &
i’m still traumatised years later)

and

Martina McBride - in my daughters eyes

Queen days of our lives
Goo Goo does Better days
Bette midler wind beneath my wings
Alexander O’Neil dance with my father

Softly as you leave me - Matt Monroe
Hurt - Johnny Cash

Bizarrely Ed Sheeran's castle on the hill. Specifically the line "these people raised me" no idea why except it's about growing up and I have growing teens....

Also what the world needs now is love sweet love, it's the only thing that there's just too little of. Sang it with my choir during lockdown and it just seemed so apt.