Anyone else have songs, or bits of songs that make your heart hurt?

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Because they are 'that good'? I realise different songs may affect people differently

I have lots:

The last part of Do the right thing, Simply Red
The last part of Light my fire, Will Young
The whole of Sandstorm, Darude
The chorus of Love Love, Take That
The chorus of The Flood, Take That
The whole of Praying for time, George Michael
The whole of Sing Hallelujah, Dr Alban
The last chorus, to the end Confusion, ELO
The last bit, to fade, Rise, Gabrielle
All of Don't You, Simple Minds
All of Shine, Years and Years
All of Paradise by the dashboard light, Meatloaf
All of Home By The Sea, Genesis

Just off the top of my head

We played the opening theme to In The Night Garden at my 2 year old nephews funeral.
^Post my meaning
The night is black,
And the stars are bright,
And the sea is dark and deep

And someone I know is safe
And snug, and the're drifting
Off to sleep

Round and round, a little boat no bigger
Than you're hand, out on the ocean, far away from land.

Take the little sail down,
Light the little light.
This is the way to the night garden^

Beautiful words for beautiful boy.

Sorry. That was badly cut and pasted. I didn't spot the typo' s.

I'm 39 but was raised on a lot of Irish music. I love The Fureys. Their music is beautiful and haunting. I love When You Were Sweet Sixteen. We played it at my uncle's funeral.
My all time fave is their version of The Green Fields of France. It's about a 19 year old soldier killed in WW1.

Well how do you do, young Willy Mcbride,
Do you mind if I sit here down by your graveside,
And rest for a while 'neath the warm summer sun,
I've been walking all day and I'm nearly done.

I see by your gravestone you were only 19,
When you joined the great fallen in 1916.
Well I hope you died quick, and I hope you died clean.
Or Willy Mcbride, was it slow and obscene?
Did they beat the drums slowly,
Did they play the fife lowly?
Did they sound the death march as they lowered you down?
Did the band play "The Last Post" and chorus?
Did the pipes play the "Flowers of the Forest"?

Did you leave a wife or a sweetheart behind,
In some faithful heart, is your memory in shrine?
And though you died back in 1916,
In that faithful heart, you're forever 19.

Or are you a stranger without even a name,
Enclosed forever behind a glass pane.
In an old photograph, torn and battered and stained,
And faded to yellow in a brown leather frame?

Now Willy Mcbride, I can't help wondering why
Do those who lie here know why they died.
Did they really believe when they answered the cause,
Did they really believe that this war would end wars?

But the sorrow, the sufferin', the glory, the pain
The killing and dying were all done in vain.
But, Willy Mcbride, it all happened again, and again, and again, and again, and again

Did the pipes play the "Flowers of the Forest?"

Nick Drake - Northern Sky. Cant even listen to it now without crying

Anyone mentioned Ludovico Einaudi yet? Pretty much anything of his makes my chest tighten up, so much emotion, but 'Solo' in particular.

I have a few...

Johnny Cash's version of Hurt
Foo Fighters - Best Of You
Flogging Molly - If I Ever Leave This World Alive
Gerry & The Pacemakers - You'll Never Walk Alone (played at my fiancé's funeral)
Oasis - Champagne Supernova (above fiancé's favourite song)

Oh and also Gwen Stefani - Cool

I can't listen to The Islander by Nightwish without crying, every damn time!

The chorus of Higher Than Hope, also by Nightwish.
Red sun rising
Drown without inhaling
Within the dark holds hard
Red sun rising
Curtain falling
Higher than hope my cure lies.
First heard this song when I was 16 and suicidal. I still struggle with depression but haven't felt that bad in years.

The Last Song I'm Wasting On You by Evanescence. Fucking hell, just listen to it, the raw emotion in Amy's voice gets me right in my heart. But she LTB years ago and is happily married now, so it does have a happy ending.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=PXMM4jWO39U

Missing by Evanescence, how I feel about my marriage. I first heard it when I was 17 and had never had a boyfriend, and it made me cry then, now I can barely listen to it.

Please, please forgive me, But I won't be home again.
Maybe someday you'll have woke up, And, barely conscious, you'll say to no one: "Isn't something missing?"
You won't cry for my absence, I know, You forgot me long ago.
Am I that unimportant? Am I so insignificant?
Isn't something missing? Isn't someone missing me?

Even though I'm the sacrifice, You won't try for me, not now.
Though I'd die to know you love me, I'm all alone.
Isn't someone missing me?

Please, please forgive me, But I won't be home again.
I know what you do to yourself, I breathe deep and cry out:
"Isn't something missing? Isn't someone missing me?"
Even though I'm the sacrifice, You won't try for me, not now.
Though I'd die to know you love me, I'm all alone.
Isn't someone missing me?

And if I bleed, I'll bleed, Knowing you don't care.
And if I sleep just to dream of you, And wake without you there,
Isn't something missing? Isn't something...

Even though I'm the sacrifice, You won't try for me, not now.
Though I'd die to know you love me, I'm all alone.
Isn't someone missing me?

Loads of songs that have already been mentioned, but the weirdest one that makes me well up, even though I only have sons , is "Dear Daughter" by Halestorm.

The "go to sleep" song by teen and mo that they show on c beebies 😭

CranjisMcBasketball I was going to mention The Green Fields of France as well, especially the line
" Although you died back in 1916, in that faithful heart are you forever 19."
It makes me cry everytime I hear it.

The line about the "mute white crosses" gets me. I also love "She moved through the fair". Feargal Sharkeys version is beautiful. Also Scarlet Ribbons. Was used at my nanas funeral a week before it was featured during Nanas death on the Royle Family. I still can't watch The Queen of Sheba without thinking of my lovely nana.

"I'd rather live in his world than live without him in mine"
from Midnight Train to Georgia, Gladys Knight.

There are lots of songs that make me cry- but not necessarily because they are sad in themselves, but because they remind me of a certain time/person.

'Drops of Jupiter' by Train is one. It remind me of a friendship that was very intense, and when we fell out, it really affected me. I can't listen to it all without bursting into tears.

'The Scientist' by Coldplay -almost all of that album really- again, connected to the same friend, and the period after Ds was born.

And most of the songs on Pink's album 'Mizzunderstood'-

Perhaps most weirdly- 'Christmas rapping ' by the waitresses makes me cry. reminds me of Christmas's when I was a teenager, when things were simpler.

I think I'm far more affected by memories of the time when songs came out, than the lyrical content.
I mean, who cries when they hear 'King of wishful thinking'??

My main one is When She Loved Me by Sarah McLachlan, just the thought of it makes me cry; also Annies Song by John Denver, Ode to Billie Joe by Bobby Gentry and Both Sides Now by Joni Mitchell. Another one that always makes me stop, and listen is Sylvias Mother by Dr Hook. Its so sad.

@Actualal - I love that song, it makes me cry because it’s so true for me (lost my mum when my kids were small)

This Proclaimers song, After You’re Gone also sets me off

The love you leave
Will be there after you're gone
Will be there after you're gone
Still be there after you're gone

The air you breathe
Will be there after you're gone
Will be there after you're gone
Still be there after you're gone

The lochs and seas
Will be there after you're gone
Will be there after you're gone
Still be there after you're gone

Three score years and ten of joy and pain
Adds up to mayflies on the windowpane
The windowpane

The mystery
Will be there after you're gone
Will be there after you're gone
Still be there after you're gone

The lochs and seas
Will be there after you're gone
Will be there after you're gone
Still be there after you're gone
Gone

And now my kids are teens, this bit from Wherever you Roam by the Proclaimers makes me well up

And I'm not going to be there
And you won't always take care
But my love goes with you
Wherever you roam
No matter where you are in the world
You're still my boys
And you're still my girls
And my love goes with you
Wherever you roam

SharronBotts that is heartbreaking.

Suedehead and Every Day Is Like Sunday (Morissey), the True Romance theme tune (Hans Zimmer), Hurt (Johnny Cash) Brighteyes off Watership Down and heaps more which I can't think of.

Oh god, the Tee and Mo goodnight song! I was trying to explain to my parents why it makes me cry so much, so I played it to them and they both welled up!

Jack of all trades Springsteen

I'll mow your lawn, clean the leaves out your drain
I'll mend your roof to keep out the rain
I'll take the work that God provides
I'm a Jack of all trades, honey, we'll be alright
I'll hammer the nails, and I'll set the stone
I'll harvest your crops when they're ripe and grown
I'll pull that engine apart and patch her up 'til she's running right
I'm a Jack of all trades, we'll be alright
A hurricane blows, brings a hard rain
When the blue sky breaks, feels like the world's gonna change
We'll start caring for each other like Jesus said that we might
I'm a Jack of all trades, we'll be alright
The banker man grows fatter, the working man grows thin
It's all happened before and it'll happen again
It'll happen again, they'll bet your life
I'm a Jack of all trades and, darling, we'll be alright
Now sometimes tomorrow comes soaked in treasure and blood
Here we stood the drought, now we'll stand the flood
There's a new world coming, I can see the light
I'm a Jack of all trades, we'll be alright
So you use what you've got, and you learn to make do
You take the old, you make it new
If I had me a gun, I'd find the bastards and shoot 'em on sight
I'm a Jack of all trades, we'll be alright
I'm a Jack of all trades, we'll be alright

The song my sister wrote before she died, ( its on you tube if anyone's interested, Better that way by The hiding place.) Tge lyrics its better that I don't see your face and start feeling things all over the place get me every time.

Oh and how could I forget this one?
Fuckin perfect by Pink
Made a wrong turn, once or twice
Dug my way out, blood and fire
Bad decisions, that's alright
Welcome to my silly life
Mistreated, misplaced, misunderstood
Miss 'No way, it's all good', it didn't slow me down
Mistaken, always second guessing, underestimated
Look, I'm still around
Pretty, pretty please, don't you ever, ever feel
Like you are less than, less than fuckin' perfect
Pretty, pretty please, if you ever, ever feel like you're nothing
You're fuckin' perfect to me
You're so mean when you talk about yourself, you were wrong
Change the voices in your head make them like you instead
So complicated, look happy, you'll make it
Filled with so much hatred, such a tired game
It's enough, I've done all I can think of
Chased down all my demons, I've seen you do the same
Pretty, pretty please, don't you ever, ever feel
Like you are less than, less than fuckin' perfect
Pretty, pretty please, if you ever, ever feel like you're nothing
You're fuckin' perfect to me
The whole world's scared so I swallow the fear
The only thing I should be drinking is an ice cold beer
So cool in line, and we try try try
But we try too hard and it's a waste of my time
Done looking for the critics, cause they're everywhere
They don{t like my jeans; they don't get my hair
Exchange ourselves, and we do it all the time
Why do we do that? Why do I do that
Why do I do that?
Yeah, oh, oh baby, pretty baby
Pretty, pretty please, don't you ever, ever feel
Like you're less than fuckin' perfect
Pretty, pretty please, if you ever, ever feel
Like you're nothing, you're fuckin' perfect to me, yeah
You're perfect, you're perfect
Oh pretty, pretty please, if you ever, ever feel
Like you're nothin' you're fuckin' perfect to me
Brings back all the feelings of hurt and injustice of my mum throwing me out of the house and dispensing me at 16 because she believed a stranger over her own daughter, we made up but it still hurts 30 years later.