songs that make you cry

Bette Midler - the wind beneath my wings. It was playing the moment my mum passed away. We had the radio on in her room in hospital and as she took her last breath, it had just started playing.

You raise me up.

This was played at my Aunties funeral. She had picked it herself in her funeral plan. It was played just as her 4 sons lifted up her coffin to carry her out of the church. I think she must of picked it as a guarnteed tear jerker.

Womans work by Kate Bush is also a song that brings a tear to my eye. I think its mainly to do with the NSPCC adverts.

Oh Goodness, it's got to be Tears From Heaven by Eric Clapton because it's just so bloody sad.

The second one is One Sweet Day by Boyz II Men and Mariah Carey, because my friend had it played at her little boy's funeral (he was born the same day as my son). I can't listen to that without bursting into tears.

Hoobastank - The Reason. I first heard it after a major argument with MrJ and it made me think of when we had split up. I love the song but everytime I hear it now, I'm back in that time. if that makes sense.

Songbird - Eva Cassidy - played at my uncles funeral.

The Drugs don't work - the Verve. relates to my uncle. I heard it on the radio not long after he died of cancer. And the next thing I'm in tears.

Anything on William Shatner's album 'The Transformed Man'

I suspect I may need to get me coat... ?

"Goodbye to You" by Michelle Branch and "Prayer of St. Francis" - both played at my baby son's funeral. The first was played as my H, Dad, FIL and Brother lowered his coffin into the ground. We deliberately chose less well-known songs so that we could listen to them if we felt the need, but we wouldn't be ambushed by it coming on somewhere random.

Also "Tears in Heaven" and "Hallelujah" - I forget who thats by.

Mine would be dance with my father and Living years - Mike & the Mechanics.

Both because they remind me of my dad. I miss him so much.

The Jeff Buckley version of "Hallelujah", every time.

Quite a lot of the stuff on "OK Computer" for various reasons. "Long Distance" by Turin Brakes. And the Elgar Cello Concerto.

Hallelujah is by Jeff Buckley...fantastic song.

Mine would be "Something Inside So Strong" by Labi Siffre...gets me every sodding time. ?

Leonard Cohen but it's the Jeff buckley version that gets everyone....

"Wind beneath my wings" is one that gets me... and "He ain't heavy", My pal and his sister played it at their brother's funeral 7 years ago.

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this one makes me bawl too. it reminds me of our jolly deputy head doing an assembley and playing this, and then saying how he'd fallen out with his dad and he'd died and now it was too late to make up...and how we should never bear grudges with loved ones as you never knew what may happen. everyone was ?

and brights eyes by art garfunkel...for no reason whatsoever other than its soooooo sad

Wild is the Wind-Nina Simone

The drugs don't work-The Verve

Jealous Guy-Roxy Music

Natural Woman-Aretha Franklin

Thats who it is - I couldn't remember. Off to have a listen and a good weep now I think [:'(]

I have two.

Smoke by Natalie Imbruglia. It was playing on the radio when I was on my way to see my dad for the last time.

Wires by Athlete. It reminds me of my neice who was born 11 weeks prem and the lyrics just sums it all up, especially as she was born around Christmas time and the chourus says "I see Christmas lights reflect in your eyes"

Ih god I'm welling up now just typing it[:'(]

Gah - ashamed to say mine is a James Blunt song 'Goodbye my lover'. It was the first song I heard on the radio after my BIL committed suicide and I was on the way to my parents house to tell them. It then bugged me that I didnt know the song so had to download and listen to it ad infinitum until I was sick of it. Still makes me cry now though if I hear it.

Me too. It was always the soundtrack to the videos of starving orphans/abused children we were shown at Secondary school, usually CAFOD videos.

Makes me bawl my eyes out too

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I've just thought of another one, prompted by Strictly Come Dancing.

They're happy tears though, we got married in Ireland and the day after it was my cousin's 21st, he invited all the wedding party to his bash and he had a live band, one of my bridesmaids who has an absolutely amazing voice, got up and sang "It's Only Just Begun" to me and Mr Hole. Having heard it again just now it still makes me weepy.

I agree this is definately another one

Plenty of songs make me a little blue if I'm already feeling that way but the only one that regularly brings a tear to my eye is "These are the days of our lives" by Queen. The bit at the end where Freddie whispers "I still love you" does it to me every time. I remember watching the video and realising for the first time how ill he was and it brought a lump to my throat. Still does. Daft really. It's not like I knew him personally but I miss him anyway.

Minor Incident by Badly Drawn Boy - From the movie About a boy.

I love the film and the lyrics are lovely

There's nothing I could say to make you try to feel okay,
And nothing you could do to stop me feeling the way I do.
And if the chance should happen that I never see you again,
Just remember that I'll always love you.

I'd be a better person on the other side I'm sure.
You'd find a way to help yourself,
And find another door.
To shrug off minor incidents,
And make us both feel proud.
I'd just wish I could be there to see you through.

You always were the one to make us stand out in a crowd,
Though every once upon a while your head was in a cloud.
There's nothing you could never do to ever let me down,
And remember that I'll always love you.

Yep this too, much better than the John Lennon original, and also Rainbow Connection by Kermit the Frog...don't ask, I just love it.

I never have a real proper cry, i just get a bit weepy.

For me...Everybody Hurts by REM, was playing on the radio on the way back from hearing my dad had cancer. I still can't listen to it now 13 years later!

Also My Immortal by Evanescence...

For me, it's The Pilgrim by Nitin Sawney. It's the most beautiful and moving song so I am def having that one played at my funeral - (which hopefully won't be for a very long time!) But now I can't listen to it without freaking out about my own mortality!!

Wind Beneath my Wings is one for my mother as well (as someone mentioned already) She's still with me thank goodness but the time will eventually come i suppose when that song will have to do its duty.

Someone also mentioned Bright Eyes - that one gets me everytime as well. It was in the charts at the same time my parents abandoned me at home with a strict nanny (i was about 3) to bugger off on a THREE week holiday to America to Disney land and everything - without me. Three weeks is a lifetime at that age. Little as i was, i knew that the song was about goodbyes and i sobbed inconsolably for hours desperately missing my mother everytime i heard it played on the telly or radio. God, i have still never forgiven my parents for that - my nose is tingling at the memory. My mother still hasn't forgiven herself either, 30 yrs later. (i haven't let her!)

Also there's a song from the Lion King, "he Lives in me / he lives in you" which was a favourite of my little brother's best mate, Sundeep, who died aged 19 almost a yr ago. It was played at his funeral and memorial service and makes me weep for his loss at the very thought of the song.

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Oh, The Rainbow Connection is a definite weepy for me as well. I play it on the piano, it's a favourite of my family's - they all sing along, and i cried last week when i played and sang it to my baby son for the first time.

This does it for me too - it was very popular and on the radio a lot when my friends 15 year old son committed suicide. His father was the parish vicar and he threw himself off the church tower just after family service. A truly awful time and that song always reminds me of him

Mr Bojangles - Sammy Davis Jr

Talk Tonight - Oasis

Shadow of your smile (my Parents first dance at their wedding in 1969 & the song my Mum choose to say goodbye to my Dad,at his funeral)

Oh, Mr Bojangles REALLY gets me too...(and that story about Shadow of Your Smile very nearly made me cry, without even knowing the song...)

That one always gets me too, likewise 'Love Of My Life' such a sad song.

Another that makes me cry is John Lennon - Imagine. He was shot on the same day as my birthday, so it is always played on the radio/shown on telly at that time of year. I'm always over emotional on my birthday anway, but this song usually starts the tears flowing.

One that doesn't make me cry but leaves me 'uneasy' is Lou Reed's - Perfect Day. Not sure why, but to me it has an undercurrent feeling that gives me the shivers (lol, i'm weird I know).

I'd Wait for Life - Take That - off their Beautiful World album. During Xmas 2006 my dad was end stage cancer in hospital. We lived every minute in the hospital but one day I nipped home to get showered etc and this album was on. This song pretty much summed up how I was feeling.

Hurt - Christina Aguilera. Again - the words hit home one day during my dad's final stages when I was angry that cancer had done this to him.

Can't listen to either of these. In fact when I was at the Take That concert last xmas I spent the whole of this song sobbing my heart out into my husbands chest coz I couldn't listen to the words.

Stay by Shakespeares sister. Was number one when my friend died when we were 15. She was always singing it in the weeks before she died. I haven't listened to it since.

Lots of other songs make me cry too but I'm emotional like that anyway.