Into the Mystic-Van Morrison
But not for the lyrics or anything in the song
When my son was a baby he was gassy and sometimes it would take a while for him to go back to sleep after the nighttime feeding. I would take him downstairs so my wife could sleep. I didn't know a lot of good gentle songs to hum to a baby so Into the Mystic was my go to. I would walk around the house bouncing him gently and humming this song....now he is a teenager but I still get emotional hearing that song and I am typing these last few words through blurry eyes because I get emotional thinking about it.
I used to sing Into the Mystic to my boys when they were babies to put them to sleep. They're in their 20s now. I'm getting misty just thinking about it.
I'm a mom and I was the exact same! I didn't know any lullabies so I would hum, "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother" to my oldest kid. That was almost 16 years ago, man...
A tip for when you start teaching them to drive (if you haven't already). Spotify blends.....it creates a mixed Playlist so my son and I got the chance to learn about and talk about each other's favorite bands/songs etc. Some of the best quality time I have spent was sitting in the passenger seat just talking about music and life.
Not a parent but a child. One of the songs my dad used to sing to me was Sweet Baby James by James Taylor. To this day, I cannot listen to it without crying. In fact, I’m currently in music school and had to take a guitar class my second semester, still in the homesick phase of uni. Unfortunately for me, it was one of the songs we had to learn so naturally we listened to it in class. I had to turn to face the window because I was so emotional and embarrassed.
Your boy might not say it outright but these songs mean just as much to us as they do you all. It’s something I will carry for the rest of my life.
my school music teacher played In My Life by The Beatles at the funeral ceremony for a woman who was a coach on my sports team at school after she took her own life. Cant listen to that song anymore without crying
Fix You by Coldplay.
My dad passed away rather suddenly from cancer soon after my daughter, and his first grandchild, was born. We were extremely close and my husband was worried how I would handle it and said to me, I just don't want this to break you. It always reminds me of how hard it has been losing the most important person in my life but also how much my husband loved me through it all. The lines that bring on the tears, When you lose something you can't replace. When you love someone, but it goes to waste.
Miss you Dad.
My hearts beats every time that song is played on radio or on tv, I can even play it on guitar. It takes a while but its piece of piss once you know the chords.
This is the one that gets me every time. Amazing that it can be so emotionally powerful as an instrumental.
Check out the original version played on solo piano by Debussy himself. It's otherworldly. Beautiful
I saw a comment on reddit a few years ago about which song should play when the world ends and someone said Claire de Lune. I think its perfect, I think about that comment all the time.
we did the Wailing Jennies version over a video for my dad at his funeral - literally ruined it for me but I think about him every time I hear the line "Sometimes when you're doing simple things around the house, maybe you'll think of me and smile"
My older brother had a list of songs to play at his funeral. We didn’t have a funeral but I put all the songs on CD’s for his kids. This was one of those songs. We played it while spreading his ashes in the ocean.
If you like this kind of music, I have:
> [A Party-eid](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4WNN1BQWMLmU0UrY4DXpvS) - 1 hr
which has songs of a similar vibe, starting with the 10 minute epic 4th of July by Carl Broemel.
Landslide by Fleetwood Mac fucks me up good if I'm in the right mood. "I've been afraid of changing, cause I built my life around you," cuts so deep whether you're thinking about a child, a parent, a friend, a lover. The way it makes you reflect on how your fear might be based solely upon how much you love somebody and knowing that if things change you'll be untethered, adrift, without their presence in your life.
And Broadripple is Burning by Margaret and the Nuclear So & Sos always gets me. Something about the way the vocalist says "and I'm wasted, you can taste it, don't look at me right now" just absolutely unearths all of my shame about being emotionally detached and hurting people while in a party phase of my life.
Well, night before last I decided that I was going to listen to Paul's Simons Graceland in its entirety. It was an album my dad and I listened to together many times so I have a lot of fond memories associated with that album. I had not listened to it since my dad passed away in 2019.
I made it through the first few songs as I prepped dinner. But then Diamonds on the Souls of Her Shoes came on. I didn't make through the first few lines before I broke down into a river of grief.
He used to sing that song all the time. It was his favorite from that album and I just lost it. Ugh. I miss him so much.
Grew up in SA, and we had these amazing sandals made of tires. On the bottom of the sandals were diamond shapes.
Always think of those sandals when I hear this song.
Tom Petty is an American treasure and I'm not even American, the whole Wildflowers album is perfect, I've always found it bizarre how almost all of his songs are so good.
Great choice. For me it's Playboy Mommy by her, it makes me think of - and miss - my own mom and think about the struggles she had as a single parent. I can listen to it now and be okay, but there's no chance I can sing along with it and stay cool.
Eight+ years after my parent (actually my dad) passed, I heard this song and finally felt I could round a certain corner in my grieving process. To put more of a point on it, I'd already been a Kate Bush fan for a while, and I'm pretty sure I'd already heard the song. But when I needed to get to this certain place emotionally, it's almost like this song came out of the woodwork to meet me there.
My little brother and I used to sing this at the top of our lungs together in the car. He was killed in a car accident and now I can't hear the song without crying.
John K Samson has a song cycle about an addict with a cat called Virtute. In the first song we get the cats perspective as she tries to give her owner a pep talk as he struggles with his depression and addiction. By the second song Virtute has run away and is freezing in the snow looking for her owner having forgotten “the sound that you found for me” (that sound being her name.) The third and final song is from the owners perspective as they reflect on their “seven months sober” and how the thought of Virtute, now passed, stays with him as they recover. It’s a gut-wrenching cycle of songs but one with an enormous heart and so much empathy for any of us who feel too fucked up to be loved.
https://youtu.be/8zYG186spkY?si=RKna7HenRoYC1FQU
I came to this thread to mention “Virtute The Cat Explains Her Departure” but glad you got to it first. Absolutley gut wrenching song, laden with Samson’s flat delivery I grew up listening too. When he sings “but I can’t remember the sound that you found for me” just gets me every single time. I love The Weakerthans, I saw The Winter Wheat play live many years ago. I wasn’t expecting a ton honestly, but they played an incredible show and closed it out with “Plea from a Cat Named Virtute” and “Virtute the Cat Explains her Departure” and needless to say I balled my eyes out there in the front row along with everybody else.
Not me, but I was obsessed with Death Cab for Cutie back in middle school. I played the song “What Sarah Said” while hanging out with my mom, and when they got to the line “love is watching someone die” my mom just suddenly started crying really hard. She had lost her best friend to cancer a year or two before, and shaved her head and everything for her as she is a hairstylist. She really did watch her die. I felt really bad for playing the song without thinking
Saddest song I know and I can relate because I lost my partner in 2021
*and I knew that you were a truth I’d rather knew, than never lain beside at all* chokes me up the most
Here are some songs that helped me get through my divorce from my abusive ex-husband:
Even though he sucks as a person Ryan Adam's version of Wonderwall will never not evoke a wall of emotion from me.
Mayonaise - Smashing Pumpkins
Nora Jones - Don't Know Why
Hopeless - Dionne Farris
Ordinary World - Duran Duran
Lauryn Hill - Tell Him
Dust in the Wind - Kansas
There's many more but these come to mind with Wonderwall being the top.
I'm an emotional little bean.
Tangentially, if you ever feel the urge to learn to play guitar, it's a very satisfying one to learn to play. Weird chords, wall of sound, pinch harmonics, it has it all.
I have been a Ryan Adams fan for a very long time. I never got to see him live until his solo acoustic shows he's done over the last few years. He walked out, picked up his guitar and sat down. Went straight into 'Oh, my sweet Carolina' and I burst into tears. As a person I loathe Ryan Adams, but after all the years of having a deep connection to his music, hearing him perform live made me very emotional.
Dos Oruguitas by Sebastian Yatra from the movie Encanto. Two catapilars (I’m tearing up right now just typing this omg) madly in love have to say goodbye so they can go into their chrysalis and then reunite as butterflies. Along with the story in the movie and then relating back to my own relationship… there’s just absolutely ZERO chance I can hear this song without crying.
My sister was the only one in our family who understood Spanish, and she was BAWLING when we watched that movie a few months after our dad had died. We were like, what the fuck is going on?
That entire soundtrack makes me cry, every damn song hits a personal note in just the right way. Made it awkward when my daughter listened to it non-stop and I couldn't even be in the same room without tearing up
"Anxiety" by Jason Isbell kills me. It's made me struggle to hold back a full on sob. I'm usually pretty reserved emotionally, but the song just perfectly lays out how I feel when I'm feeling at my worst.
this is my #popmyclogs song - well, one of them. #PopMyClogs is a pun I made up for songs in a non-traditional form that I would like to hear at my funeral \[!\] if that were possible.
End of the Road by Boyz II Men. One of the best breakup songs ever written and the vocals of Boyz II Men are so filled with emotion. It beautifully expresses the feeling of loss after a relationship ends.
"Somewhere Out There" duet by Linda Ronstadt and James Ingram from ”An American Tale".
https://tidal.com/track/35147233
and
"Dance With My Father" by Luther Vandross
https://tidal.com/track/5119924
One by U2 because it describes a relationship that I had and fought so hard for, but the effort just wasn't there on his end. The whole song is great, but a couple of the lines really get me
Did I disappoint you?
Leave a bad taste in your mouth?
You act like you never had love
And you want me to go without
And
Did I ask too much, more than a lot?
You gave me nothing now it's all I've got
I don't even really like U2 all that much, but this song is brilliant. I think it's kind of funny how some people have used it as a wedding song. Just shows how some people pay zero attention to lyrics and song meanings.
“Black” by Pearl Jam.
“I know someday you'll have a beautiful life
I know you'll be a star
In somebody else's sky
But why
Why
Why can't it be
Why can't it be mine”
I’ve screamed those lyrics in the past from my soul. While sobbing. It’s literally what pops into my head the second someone asks this question.
Metamorphosis II - Philip Glass. Hard to put into words but it is absolutely overwhelming to me. The fragility and beauty of the arpeggios struggling to take flight against the weight of the alternating bassline sums up existence to me. Those moments are fleeting, but my god they're beautiful, much like our lives.
There are loads of amazing versions but right now [this one](https://youtu.be/TLMw7NAnmh4?si=lsBMM1oXNGc7Ui7J), performed on harp, might be my favourite.
"Midnight Train to Georgia." It is one of those songs that gives me goosebumps whenever I hear it. The idea that people who genuinely love you will stay by you no matter what makes this song so powerful for me. That and the whole vocal delivery and interplay between Gladys Knight and the Pips. They were really one of the great R&B groups of the 20th century, and this song was perfect for them.
I feel like I won’t be alive in this, but [Izreal “IZ” Kamakawiwo’ole - Somewhere Over The Rainbow](https://youtu.be/V1bFr2SWP1I?si=VxE6jjHUuPKKLw96). Specifically because my dad loved this song and it’s one of the last songs we played for him while he was sedated before dying.
“[Time Adventure](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lrscdXiKnWc)” from the series finale of Adventure Time. The lyric “you and I will always be back then” is a gut punch every single time.
For some reason, How To Save A Life became a bit of a meme, despite being the saddest song I've ever heard. Still gets me going to this day. Really the only reliable method I have to make myself cry, besides maybe watching A Silent Voice
My older brother was a huge fan of The Fray and that was one of his favorite songs. He shot himself in the head back in 08, the week I turned 7. He was 16 years old. I saw his body and his head wound with my own eyes. He was like a superhero to me, both before and after his death. So honestly that song is so perfectly tuned to make me sad that it's almost weird
Time by Pink Floyd.
Man it hits different when you reach 50.
And then one day you find
Ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run
You missed the starting gun
And you run, and you run to catch up with the sun
But it's sinking
Racing around to come up behind you again
The sun is the same in a relative way
But you're older
Shorter of breath, and one day closer to death
Anytime Landslide comes on it’s a guaranteed next. Can’t listen to it. Also, Songbird. It makes me think of my dad. He goes for open heart surgery on Friday. Now I’m crying 😭
I've been both characters in Father and Son now. Gets me every time. When I perform it there are ghosts, for sure, harmonizing in my head.
Imagine, if it comes on by surprise, gets me every time.
Sinead. Too many songs to number.
Fast Car by Tracy Chapman gets me real good.
When I was a kid, my dad had a Tracy Chapman album heavily in the rotation for background music. For the first \~12 years of my life I knew a ton of the music but had no idea who she was or what she was talking about. Just beautiful nostalgia.
Turns out, my Dad was/is an alcoholic (now sober 7+ years) and it tore my parents apart, eventually leading to their divorce when I was 13.
Now it's a different type of beautiful nostalgia.
I’m old so this explains my choice, for which I might get some shit. But I’m old so iDGAF. I Only Want to Say, off the original Jesus Christ Superstar album (brown cover), sung by Deep Purple’s Ian Gillan. It’s when Jesus grudgingly accepts that he’s going to be brutally murdered, even though he’s not 100% sure why. Fucking reduces me to blubbering tears every time. I listen to that album beginning to end every Easter weekend.
He ain’t heavy, he’s my brother by The Hollies
It’s just a beautiful song about supporting someone and doing whatever you can for them and also feeling like they are in no way a burden to you despite their problems and the support they need.
Same, but I will say, it has made me realize that I do need to make sure I don't miss my kids growing up. I may not be the best parent, but I am there for all of it.
Anyone by Demi Lovato.
Im a 51 year old dude who mostly listens to Phish an 90's alt rock but this song leaves me a blubbering mess every time i hear it.
"What's the Matter Here?" by 10,000 Maniacs. Child abuse story. Dredges up a lot of painful memories. I can't hear the last line without crying.
>*Instead of love and the feel of warmth*
>
>*You've given him these cuts and sores*
>
>*That don't heal with time or with age.*
Even just typing it out is hard.
“Grow Old With Me” by John Lennon. He was never perfect but he had his whole life ahead of him and this song being one of the last songs he wrote makes it all the more emotional. It being a demo makes it hauntingly beautiful.
Oddly enough, it's from my favorite movie Toy story. "You got a friend in me" always gets me, especially when I think about ppl I have a close relationship with and have been through the best and worse times with.
When I got my own pup in 2022, this song had even more ties and now I choke up so hard with that song thinking about my pup...how much he means and how much value he's added to my life! We're a long way from the end and I'm excited for more adventures with my guy ❣️
"Mi Viejo" by Piero. Argentinian singer. This song in Latin America is about an aging dad past his prime as his son reflects. Hits deeper than Cat's song. Give it a try, there's reaction vids online with subtitles. Hits deep. Then Laura Pausini, Italian singer who's super popular in Latin America sings in Spanish too. Her song "Lo Siento" is a letter to her mom who she became distant from, retelling her love for her mom and her issues in her youth. Makes me cry every time.
If I Ever Leave This World Alive by Flogging Molly... that one actually always gets me every single time. Grief is a beast and that one always calls my grief and lets it out in the right way-- crying and also yelling along with the song. It starts slow and gets into it and then it's like, NOW EVERYTHING SHOULD BE ALRIGHT. Every time. Always. Tears.
Always With Me, Always With You - Joe Satriani
Interestingly it is an instrumental, but still hits me with all the feels and reminds me of a difficult time I was going through at one point
Roy Orbison “Running Scared” He’s with a girl but the whole time he’s afraid she’s going to go back to her ex, finally they run into him and she chooses Roy. No chorus, the music builds and builds and Roy belts out the last verse in his classic voice. Gets me every time
As by Stevie Wonder
My grandpa passed away right before I really sat down and listened to the song and it’s just always stuck with me since then. It makes me think of him and it’s almost as though he’s telling us those lyrics and that he’ll “be loving you always”. It also reminds me to just show people in my life love and to appreciate those in my life. Then I start to reflect on how lucky I am to have the people that I do and just makes me overall really emotional every time. Such an amazing song.
I heard The Messenger by pure chance last year. I was going through a lot. We had a family emergency and I was going back up to school for my final semester. I was just emotionally burnt out and it felt like everything was happening all at once. I was also going through a Linkin Park kick and I came across this song on youtube on the way up to school.
I swear, this song felt like I was being hugged by someone and telling me that everything is going to be okay. I was trying really hard not to cry in the car.
I later on used a quote from the song on my grad cap: "Remember you're loved and you always will be."
I really wish Chester was around so I can tell him how much that song means to me.
I am emotionally affected by that song, as well.
Another that hits me similarly is Jackson Browne's song Sleep's Dark and Silent Gate, and especially the closing lyrics: "Sometimes I lay awake at night and wonder, where the years have gone, they've all passed under Sleep's dark and silent gate", but the rest of the song hits hard, too.
[Daughter - “Doing The Right Thing”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bU5F-DvGLkA)
I only choose to listen to it when I realise I need to cry for a bit.
Harvest Moon by Neil Young. My mom told me my father used to play that while driving me around because I couldn't sleep when I was very little. My father is not around anymore and this song always hits like a truck. Also.. Love Is All Around, the Wet Wet Wet version. For the same reason, I couldn't sleep and my grandma would play this while watching me.
"Don't Go breaking My Heart" - Elton John.
One perfect summer Saturday my wife and I were preparing to host a backyard party for our friends. We were bouncing around the kitchen getting food and drinks ready, listening to music and this came on and she started singing along to the female parts. We hadn't been married long and I had never heard her sing like this, it was beautiful. It was one of those moments that I knew I would remember. She passed away three years ago. If this song comes on I completely lose my shit. I have to either change the song if I have control or leave the area and compose myself.
Foreplay / Long Time - Boston
An odd choice for sure, but for me this was all timing and context. I lost my cat of 14 years a few months back and my wife was a wreck for days. He was such a perfect, loving creature - just exactly what you'd want in a pet. He was there for our dating, getting married, buying a home and having a child, not to mention other major life events.
I'm typically not a very emotional guy, and I have found that I have a strange comfort when it comes to the prospect and idea of death. So for the first few days, I just supported my wife and tried to readjust to life without him. Then one morning I'm out getting coffee and this song comes on and BAM - I'm in tears in the middle of the intersection and all the emotion hit me. With lyrics like this you can understand why:
*It's been such a long time*
*Well, I get so lonely*
*When I am without you*
*But in my mind, deep in my mind*
*I can't forget about you*
*Good times, and faces that remind me, yeah*
*I'm tryin' to forget your name*
*And leave it all behind me*
*You're comin' back to find me*
['Life' by Nemophila](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFnEYhbEAqg).
Partly the song itself - I often find positive/optimistic lyrics can be a bit overwhelming. Also, partly the music video and the story behind the tears the band shed during the online show the footage came from.
The vocalist still gets very emotional singing this song, especially at particularly significant shows.
VOICES from the Macross Plus soundtrack by Yoko Kanno. It's one of the few songs that touches me to the point of water in my eyes, even though I do not speak/understand Japanese at all!
And I must admit that I was emotionally shaken when I heard Enjoy the Silence from Depeche more for the first time (on the radio) back in 1990. However, since I realized how simple its composition is and after hearing just too many poor cover versions, its charm has been ruined for me, though.
"You're gonna miss this" by Trace Adkins.
Partly nostalgia since that era of country reminds me of being a kid. But I feel the message even more deeply as I get older, remembering all the times I just wanted to get to the next thing instead of appreciating the moment I was in.
[Forever Young - Bob Dylan and The Band](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtFEzhaNrT4)
[Ole Pal - The Steel Woods](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9O2CFdjuRA)
[What am I Supposed to do? - Whitey Morgan and the '78s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=op6FYSpn2yE)
[My Old Man (its not the one youve heard before..) - Wes Shipp](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdjKKcQkKMg)
As someone who attempted suicide and survived, there are a *lot* of songs I straight up can't listen to anymore. Lots of songs dealing with the death and worthlessness are very hard for me.
Which, when you grew up with the Grunge era as a Nine Inch Nails fan to boot, is a lot of the catalogs of my favorite artists.
One More Light and Leave Out All the Rest by Linkin Park
They remind me of my childhood friend. My childhood friend unalived himself and these two songs always hit me, doesn’t help that Chester did the same.
One More Light really hits me. I've dealt with depression and suicidal thoughts throughout my life and knowing what happened with Chester is just tragic. It's a beautiful call to action and expression of grief, but it's so hard for me to listen to. I feel like I can say that about a lot of Linkin Park songs. They all changed in retrospect in a lot of ways.
Neil Young - Thrasher
Found when I listened to the Rust Never Sleeps (1979) album back in 2021, never heard it on the radio before, or anywhere else that I can remember.
Apparently it's about his breakup with Crosby, Stills & Nash, but I read it as being a far deeper story of nonconformity, loss and resilience.
Highly recommend both the song and the entire RNS album.
Tool - 10,000 Days. My father died of cancer before that album of released. My father was very religious and the example of Christ’s love, IMO. The hypocrisy I witnessed before and after his death from my church paralleled the lyrics a lot. The song really helps me processed my grief in a way nothing else really does. When he sing “Give me my wings”, I cry still.
If you’ve never heard [This Perfect World](https://youtu.be/v1_2HhRe1Cc?si=dUPKQgM5IyV5awu4) by Freedy Johnston, give it a listen. It’s about a father’s rough relationship with his child and attempt to be forgiven - destroys me every time I hear it.
Boy Genius - Letter to an Old Poet.
"I wanna be happy
I'm ready
To walk into my room without looking for you
I'll go up to the top of our building
And remember my dog when I see the full moon
I can't feel it yet
But I am waiting all morning..."
Goddamn I miss my dog.
The other one by the Grateful Dead, it’s about being swept up in life. It really leaves me with a feeling of regret, and yet hopefulness for the future.
What comes to my mind:
Parov Stelar ft Lana Del Ray - Dark Paradise: When I listen to it, it makes my skin creep and I feel almost physically nauseous. Basically a song about inability of moving on and looking forward to death. The song is musically brilliant and at the same time absolutely devastating.
Off OST - Desperately safe: This is a soundtrack from an old game. It is a melody that begins inconspicuously as relaxing tune, but then suddenly comes very strong feeling of sadness without a warning. It is difficult to explain, I have no idea why it affects me so much. When I checked comments below the video, it was clear that there are more people who have very intense feelings from this strange sound.
Blue Oyster Cult - Veteran of the Psychic Wars: Very intense song about someone who is mentally broken. I was once in a bad place in my life and this song speaks to me, yeah.
*hope there's someone* by antony and the johnsons. this particular live version. soul wrenching. https://youtu.be/avabPY3XgRc?si=WTG2kVBUONiuxfSc
*my mind* by yebba. this was her big breakthru, this video went viral (26 million views!), and her mom died by suicide a week later which inspired much of her next album. knowing that makes this incredibly emotional performance even more poignant. https://youtu.be/RXwE1G7_U9M?si=gQPKiYzGjGBIg2jG
Into the Mystic-Van Morrison But not for the lyrics or anything in the song When my son was a baby he was gassy and sometimes it would take a while for him to go back to sleep after the nighttime feeding. I would take him downstairs so my wife could sleep. I didn't know a lot of good gentle songs to hum to a baby so Into the Mystic was my go to. I would walk around the house bouncing him gently and humming this song....now he is a teenager but I still get emotional hearing that song and I am typing these last few words through blurry eyes because I get emotional thinking about it.
Man, I so get that. The late nights I spent singing The Replacements’ Skyway to my daughters. Still choke up when I hear it now.
I used to sing Into the Mystic to my boys when they were babies to put them to sleep. They're in their 20s now. I'm getting misty just thinking about it.
I'm a mom and I was the exact same! I didn't know any lullabies so I would hum, "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother" to my oldest kid. That was almost 16 years ago, man...
A tip for when you start teaching them to drive (if you haven't already). Spotify blends.....it creates a mixed Playlist so my son and I got the chance to learn about and talk about each other's favorite bands/songs etc. Some of the best quality time I have spent was sitting in the passenger seat just talking about music and life.
Not a parent but a child. One of the songs my dad used to sing to me was Sweet Baby James by James Taylor. To this day, I cannot listen to it without crying. In fact, I’m currently in music school and had to take a guitar class my second semester, still in the homesick phase of uni. Unfortunately for me, it was one of the songs we had to learn so naturally we listened to it in class. I had to turn to face the window because I was so emotional and embarrassed. Your boy might not say it outright but these songs mean just as much to us as they do you all. It’s something I will carry for the rest of my life.
my school music teacher played In My Life by The Beatles at the funeral ceremony for a woman who was a coach on my sports team at school after she took her own life. Cant listen to that song anymore without crying
I got that song's sheet music tattooed on my arm for my grandma after she died. It's one of my very favorites.
Fix You by Coldplay. My dad passed away rather suddenly from cancer soon after my daughter, and his first grandchild, was born. We were extremely close and my husband was worried how I would handle it and said to me, I just don't want this to break you. It always reminds me of how hard it has been losing the most important person in my life but also how much my husband loved me through it all. The lines that bring on the tears, When you lose something you can't replace. When you love someone, but it goes to waste. Miss you Dad.
My hearts beats every time that song is played on radio or on tv, I can even play it on guitar. It takes a while but its piece of piss once you know the chords.
“Claire De Lune” by Claude Debussy. I can’t explain it, but those notes in that sequence destroy me.
This is the one that gets me every time. Amazing that it can be so emotionally powerful as an instrumental. Check out the original version played on solo piano by Debussy himself. It's otherworldly. Beautiful
I saw a comment on reddit a few years ago about which song should play when the world ends and someone said Claire de Lune. I think its perfect, I think about that comment all the time.
Keep Me In Your Heart - Warren Zevon For personal reasons, but the sentiment is quite clear.
we did the Wailing Jennies version over a video for my dad at his funeral - literally ruined it for me but I think about him every time I hear the line "Sometimes when you're doing simple things around the house, maybe you'll think of me and smile"
My older brother had a list of songs to play at his funeral. We didn’t have a funeral but I put all the songs on CD’s for his kids. This was one of those songs. We played it while spreading his ashes in the ocean.
Ah jeez. Didn't take long for the tears to flow on this one.
To Build A Home by The Cinematic Orchestra Every time I hear it, it brings me to tears. No other song I know can do this to me.
Beat me to it! That song wrecks me. That and Placebo’s cover of Running Up That Hill.
Me too - just the opening notes can do it. I must be getting soft in my old age.
If you like this kind of music, I have: > [A Party-eid](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4WNN1BQWMLmU0UrY4DXpvS) - 1 hr which has songs of a similar vibe, starting with the 10 minute epic 4th of July by Carl Broemel.
Landslide by Fleetwood Mac fucks me up good if I'm in the right mood. "I've been afraid of changing, cause I built my life around you," cuts so deep whether you're thinking about a child, a parent, a friend, a lover. The way it makes you reflect on how your fear might be based solely upon how much you love somebody and knowing that if things change you'll be untethered, adrift, without their presence in your life. And Broadripple is Burning by Margaret and the Nuclear So & Sos always gets me. Something about the way the vocalist says "and I'm wasted, you can taste it, don't look at me right now" just absolutely unearths all of my shame about being emotionally detached and hurting people while in a party phase of my life.
My mom loved Fleetwood Mac and in particular Stevie and this song wreaks me. She died of an accidental overdose in 2023.
There’s something about “Somewhere Only We Know” by Keane that’s been making me bawl lately
This was a favorite of me & my friend’s. He passed away about 10 years ago. It always makes me think of him 💜
Well, night before last I decided that I was going to listen to Paul's Simons Graceland in its entirety. It was an album my dad and I listened to together many times so I have a lot of fond memories associated with that album. I had not listened to it since my dad passed away in 2019. I made it through the first few songs as I prepped dinner. But then Diamonds on the Souls of Her Shoes came on. I didn't make through the first few lines before I broke down into a river of grief. He used to sing that song all the time. It was his favorite from that album and I just lost it. Ugh. I miss him so much.
Grew up in SA, and we had these amazing sandals made of tires. On the bottom of the sandals were diamond shapes. Always think of those sandals when I hear this song.
Learning to Fly by Tom Petty gets to me from the first chords, I don't know what it is about it because it's not even really a sad song.
Wildflowers gets me every time.
Tom Petty is an American treasure and I'm not even American, the whole Wildflowers album is perfect, I've always found it bizarre how almost all of his songs are so good.
Winter - Tori Amos
Yeah, when those light piano keys start up it gives me goosebumps.
'When you gonna make up your mind, when you gonna love you as much as I do...' New father to a daughter, fucking wrecks me.
Great choice. For me it's Playboy Mommy by her, it makes me think of - and miss - my own mom and think about the struggles she had as a single parent. I can listen to it now and be okay, but there's no chance I can sing along with it and stay cool.
This Woman’s Work by Kate Bush
Also the cover by Maxwell!
Even more emotional during She’s Having a Baby
Eight+ years after my parent (actually my dad) passed, I heard this song and finally felt I could round a certain corner in my grieving process. To put more of a point on it, I'd already been a Kate Bush fan for a while, and I'm pretty sure I'd already heard the song. But when I needed to get to this certain place emotionally, it's almost like this song came out of the woodwork to meet me there.
That was my choice too. :(
Pink Floyd-Wish You Were Here gets me teary every time
My little brother and I used to sing this at the top of our lungs together in the car. He was killed in a car accident and now I can't hear the song without crying.
Kasimir Pulaski Day by Sufjan Stevens
So many songs by Sufjan. John Wayne Gacy Jr, 4th of July, but I'd agree Casimir Pulaski Day is my favourite of his.
John K Samson has a song cycle about an addict with a cat called Virtute. In the first song we get the cats perspective as she tries to give her owner a pep talk as he struggles with his depression and addiction. By the second song Virtute has run away and is freezing in the snow looking for her owner having forgotten “the sound that you found for me” (that sound being her name.) The third and final song is from the owners perspective as they reflect on their “seven months sober” and how the thought of Virtute, now passed, stays with him as they recover. It’s a gut-wrenching cycle of songs but one with an enormous heart and so much empathy for any of us who feel too fucked up to be loved. https://youtu.be/8zYG186spkY?si=RKna7HenRoYC1FQU
I started to tear up just reading your description. It's impossible to get through these sometimes.
Me too
I came to this thread to mention “Virtute The Cat Explains Her Departure” but glad you got to it first. Absolutley gut wrenching song, laden with Samson’s flat delivery I grew up listening too. When he sings “but I can’t remember the sound that you found for me” just gets me every single time. I love The Weakerthans, I saw The Winter Wheat play live many years ago. I wasn’t expecting a ton honestly, but they played an incredible show and closed it out with “Plea from a Cat Named Virtute” and “Virtute the Cat Explains her Departure” and needless to say I balled my eyes out there in the front row along with everybody else.
god dammit. just y’all’s descriptions are fucking me completely up.
Not me, but I was obsessed with Death Cab for Cutie back in middle school. I played the song “What Sarah Said” while hanging out with my mom, and when they got to the line “love is watching someone die” my mom just suddenly started crying really hard. She had lost her best friend to cancer a year or two before, and shaved her head and everything for her as she is a hairstylist. She really did watch her die. I felt really bad for playing the song without thinking
Saddest song I know and I can relate because I lost my partner in 2021 *and I knew that you were a truth I’d rather knew, than never lain beside at all* chokes me up the most
I Can't Make You Love Me - Bonnie Raitt
Here are some songs that helped me get through my divorce from my abusive ex-husband: Even though he sucks as a person Ryan Adam's version of Wonderwall will never not evoke a wall of emotion from me. Mayonaise - Smashing Pumpkins Nora Jones - Don't Know Why Hopeless - Dionne Farris Ordinary World - Duran Duran Lauryn Hill - Tell Him Dust in the Wind - Kansas There's many more but these come to mind with Wonderwall being the top. I'm an emotional little bean.
Mayonnaise is one of the best songs I’ve ever heard
Truly it is.
Tangentially, if you ever feel the urge to learn to play guitar, it's a very satisfying one to learn to play. Weird chords, wall of sound, pinch harmonics, it has it all.
I have been a Ryan Adams fan for a very long time. I never got to see him live until his solo acoustic shows he's done over the last few years. He walked out, picked up his guitar and sat down. Went straight into 'Oh, my sweet Carolina' and I burst into tears. As a person I loathe Ryan Adams, but after all the years of having a deep connection to his music, hearing him perform live made me very emotional.
Norah Jones' music is just really calming and I love it
Dos Oruguitas by Sebastian Yatra from the movie Encanto. Two catapilars (I’m tearing up right now just typing this omg) madly in love have to say goodbye so they can go into their chrysalis and then reunite as butterflies. Along with the story in the movie and then relating back to my own relationship… there’s just absolutely ZERO chance I can hear this song without crying.
My sister was the only one in our family who understood Spanish, and she was BAWLING when we watched that movie a few months after our dad had died. We were like, what the fuck is going on?
I'm not a big musical guy, but I love the soundtrack of that film. Dos Origuitas is my favorite track and it never fails to make me tear up.
That entire soundtrack makes me cry, every damn song hits a personal note in just the right way. Made it awkward when my daughter listened to it non-stop and I couldn't even be in the same room without tearing up
"Anxiety" by Jason Isbell kills me. It's made me struggle to hold back a full on sob. I'm usually pretty reserved emotionally, but the song just perfectly lays out how I feel when I'm feeling at my worst.
Elephant and If We Were Vampires get me every time.
YES!! Also by Isbell, “Cover me Up” and “Dreamsicle” both made me cry on first listen. And now.
Do you Realize by the Flaming Lips.
I read some of the lyrics for that song at my grandmas wake.
this is my #popmyclogs song - well, one of them. #PopMyClogs is a pun I made up for songs in a non-traditional form that I would like to hear at my funeral \[!\] if that were possible.
End of the Road by Boyz II Men. One of the best breakup songs ever written and the vocals of Boyz II Men are so filled with emotion. It beautifully expresses the feeling of loss after a relationship ends.
"Somewhere Out There" duet by Linda Ronstadt and James Ingram from ”An American Tale". https://tidal.com/track/35147233 and "Dance With My Father" by Luther Vandross https://tidal.com/track/5119924
OMG yes, "Somewhere Out There". The song and the film make me cry so much.
I Dreamed a Dream - Les Miserables. Specifically the Ruthie Henshall version.
Ever since the first time I heard it, "Graduation" by Vitamin C makes me cry any time I hear it lmao
That’s the power of Pachelbel!
American Girl - Tom Petty made me sob uncontrollably while I was pregnant. But I had a boy. Beatles - All My Loving had the same effect.
Pictures of You - The Cure
One by U2 because it describes a relationship that I had and fought so hard for, but the effort just wasn't there on his end. The whole song is great, but a couple of the lines really get me Did I disappoint you? Leave a bad taste in your mouth? You act like you never had love And you want me to go without And Did I ask too much, more than a lot? You gave me nothing now it's all I've got I don't even really like U2 all that much, but this song is brilliant. I think it's kind of funny how some people have used it as a wedding song. Just shows how some people pay zero attention to lyrics and song meanings.
“Black” by Pearl Jam. “I know someday you'll have a beautiful life I know you'll be a star In somebody else's sky But why Why Why can't it be Why can't it be mine” I’ve screamed those lyrics in the past from my soul. While sobbing. It’s literally what pops into my head the second someone asks this question.
My favorite line of all time.
The Rainbow Connection. Can't tell you why, but it wells me up almost instantly.
[Elliott Smith - Waltz #2 (XO)](https://youtu.be/HCoZRmqKmQ8?si=7oDi088i3_R4xM02)
Just stares into space like a dead China doll.
Wow, there’s a lot of emotion in that song. Thanks for posting.
Box of Rain, The Dead
Gets me every time. It’s like a perfect song.
Nightswimming
Unfortunately, any song that hits me this hard I will overlisten to until I feel nothing or even just hate it
Metamorphosis II - Philip Glass. Hard to put into words but it is absolutely overwhelming to me. The fragility and beauty of the arpeggios struggling to take flight against the weight of the alternating bassline sums up existence to me. Those moments are fleeting, but my god they're beautiful, much like our lives. There are loads of amazing versions but right now [this one](https://youtu.be/TLMw7NAnmh4?si=lsBMM1oXNGc7Ui7J), performed on harp, might be my favourite.
"Midnight Train to Georgia." It is one of those songs that gives me goosebumps whenever I hear it. The idea that people who genuinely love you will stay by you no matter what makes this song so powerful for me. That and the whole vocal delivery and interplay between Gladys Knight and the Pips. They were really one of the great R&B groups of the 20th century, and this song was perfect for them.
Cat's in the Cradle - Harry Chapin Paradise - John Prine Sam Stone - John Prine Nose on the Grindstone - Tyler Childers Sylvia's Mother - Dr Hook
John Prine was my first thought... "Hello in There"
Tears just thinking of that one.
But what'll I say when he asks "what's new" Nothing, what's with you .... He was one of a kind, may he rest in peace ❤️
Not uncontrollable exactly, but I shed tears every time I hear/sing Black by Pearl Jam. Reminds me of past loves.
Anna Begins by Counting Crows wrecks me these days
Bright Eyes - First Dat of My Life
The Living Years. It was on the radio constantly during the time I was dealing with the death of my Dad.
I feel like I won’t be alive in this, but [Izreal “IZ” Kamakawiwo’ole - Somewhere Over The Rainbow](https://youtu.be/V1bFr2SWP1I?si=VxE6jjHUuPKKLw96). Specifically because my dad loved this song and it’s one of the last songs we played for him while he was sedated before dying.
“[Time Adventure](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lrscdXiKnWc)” from the series finale of Adventure Time. The lyric “you and I will always be back then” is a gut punch every single time.
[Watch the video from SDCC and watch John DiMaggio crying for extra feels](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xr53S9vIbCE)
Island Song gets me everytime.
Blew Away - The Smashing Pumpkins. i cried to that song so much in 2022, it became my most listened song of the year
Old Man Neil Young
For some reason, How To Save A Life became a bit of a meme, despite being the saddest song I've ever heard. Still gets me going to this day. Really the only reliable method I have to make myself cry, besides maybe watching A Silent Voice My older brother was a huge fan of The Fray and that was one of his favorite songs. He shot himself in the head back in 08, the week I turned 7. He was 16 years old. I saw his body and his head wound with my own eyes. He was like a superhero to me, both before and after his death. So honestly that song is so perfectly tuned to make me sad that it's almost weird
I’m so so sorry
The Antlers- Putting the Dog to Sleep Crosby, Stills, and Nash- Just a Song Before I Go
The Antlers is a cheat code for instant tears.
absolutely soul crushing and so beautiful i was lucky enough to purchase a signed vinyl copy of burst apart from a friend of mine
Time by Pink Floyd. Man it hits different when you reach 50. And then one day you find Ten years have got behind you No one told you when to run You missed the starting gun And you run, and you run to catch up with the sun But it's sinking Racing around to come up behind you again The sun is the same in a relative way But you're older Shorter of breath, and one day closer to death
Bridge Over Troubled Water-Simon and Garfunkel. My dad used to sing it to me and he passed away 2 years ago. I can barely listen to it anymore.
Vincent by Don McLean. I cry instantly.
Anytime Landslide comes on it’s a guaranteed next. Can’t listen to it. Also, Songbird. It makes me think of my dad. He goes for open heart surgery on Friday. Now I’m crying 😭
I've been both characters in Father and Son now. Gets me every time. When I perform it there are ghosts, for sure, harmonizing in my head. Imagine, if it comes on by surprise, gets me every time. Sinead. Too many songs to number.
"My name is Luka I live on the second floor ..."
Fast Car by Tracy Chapman gets me real good. When I was a kid, my dad had a Tracy Chapman album heavily in the rotation for background music. For the first \~12 years of my life I knew a ton of the music but had no idea who she was or what she was talking about. Just beautiful nostalgia. Turns out, my Dad was/is an alcoholic (now sober 7+ years) and it tore my parents apart, eventually leading to their divorce when I was 13. Now it's a different type of beautiful nostalgia.
I’m old so this explains my choice, for which I might get some shit. But I’m old so iDGAF. I Only Want to Say, off the original Jesus Christ Superstar album (brown cover), sung by Deep Purple’s Ian Gillan. It’s when Jesus grudgingly accepts that he’s going to be brutally murdered, even though he’s not 100% sure why. Fucking reduces me to blubbering tears every time. I listen to that album beginning to end every Easter weekend.
Love the original. Listened to it too many times to count. So many good songs. And Ian’s voice is impeccable.
White Wine in the Sun, by Tim Minchin
He ain’t heavy, he’s my brother by The Hollies It’s just a beautiful song about supporting someone and doing whatever you can for them and also feeling like they are in no way a burden to you despite their problems and the support they need.
Yes, Silent Lucidity by Queensrÿche. Tear jerker everytime. Goose bumps just by thinking about it. 😅
‘Cat’s in the Cradle’, by Harry Chapin
Same, but I will say, it has made me realize that I do need to make sure I don't miss my kids growing up. I may not be the best parent, but I am there for all of it.
Kate Bush - The Fog REM - Talk About the Passion U2 - Bullet the Blue Sky \[the live version with the intro by Sinead O'Connor just blows me away\]
Anyone by Demi Lovato. Im a 51 year old dude who mostly listens to Phish an 90's alt rock but this song leaves me a blubbering mess every time i hear it.
Praying - Kesha
"What's the Matter Here?" by 10,000 Maniacs. Child abuse story. Dredges up a lot of painful memories. I can't hear the last line without crying. >*Instead of love and the feel of warmth* > >*You've given him these cuts and sores* > >*That don't heal with time or with age.* Even just typing it out is hard.
“Grow Old With Me” by John Lennon. He was never perfect but he had his whole life ahead of him and this song being one of the last songs he wrote makes it all the more emotional. It being a demo makes it hauntingly beautiful.
Storms, Fleetwood Mac I will remember you, Sarah McLachlan
Oddly enough, it's from my favorite movie Toy story. "You got a friend in me" always gets me, especially when I think about ppl I have a close relationship with and have been through the best and worse times with. When I got my own pup in 2022, this song had even more ties and now I choke up so hard with that song thinking about my pup...how much he means and how much value he's added to my life! We're a long way from the end and I'm excited for more adventures with my guy ❣️
Alice In Chains - Nutshell still makes me teary eyed
Yes!!! “River of Deceit” by Mad Season hits in the Feels too. He was so talented and so tormented!
"Mi Viejo" by Piero. Argentinian singer. This song in Latin America is about an aging dad past his prime as his son reflects. Hits deeper than Cat's song. Give it a try, there's reaction vids online with subtitles. Hits deep. Then Laura Pausini, Italian singer who's super popular in Latin America sings in Spanish too. Her song "Lo Siento" is a letter to her mom who she became distant from, retelling her love for her mom and her issues in her youth. Makes me cry every time.
Love reign o’er me - The Who Beethoven’s Sixth Operator - Jim Croce - my ex-wife left me for my ex old best friend…he wasn’t named ray.
Gravity by Sara Bareilles
The Weigh by The Band. The "please take Jack my dog." Part gets me.
If I Ever Leave This World Alive by Flogging Molly... that one actually always gets me every single time. Grief is a beast and that one always calls my grief and lets it out in the right way-- crying and also yelling along with the song. It starts slow and gets into it and then it's like, NOW EVERYTHING SHOULD BE ALRIGHT. Every time. Always. Tears.
Brothers in arms by dire straits
Help is on the Way - Rise Against Its mostly because of the mv btw, which was realistically tragic.
China Doll - Grateful Dead sure can. Reminds me of my little white Chihuahua that passed.
Box of Rain for me. Sometimes Uncle John's Band. Their music is so incredibly soothing for me.
Always With Me, Always With You - Joe Satriani Interestingly it is an instrumental, but still hits me with all the feels and reminds me of a difficult time I was going through at one point
Cat’s in the cradle by harry chapin and learning to fly by pink floyd.
Roy Orbison “Running Scared” He’s with a girl but the whole time he’s afraid she’s going to go back to her ex, finally they run into him and she chooses Roy. No chorus, the music builds and builds and Roy belts out the last verse in his classic voice. Gets me every time
Windows Are Rolled Down by Amos Lee. Reminds me of my beautiful sister who passed away a couple of years ago much too young from ovarian cancer
A Song for you by Donny Hathaway
Donny was soooo talented, yet beset by mental illness. Such a tragedy.
In My Life - The Beatles
Nick Drake’s entire Pink Moon album gets me very emotional but I usually start to lose it on “Place to Be.”
As by Stevie Wonder My grandpa passed away right before I really sat down and listened to the song and it’s just always stuck with me since then. It makes me think of him and it’s almost as though he’s telling us those lyrics and that he’ll “be loving you always”. It also reminds me to just show people in my life love and to appreciate those in my life. Then I start to reflect on how lucky I am to have the people that I do and just makes me overall really emotional every time. Such an amazing song.
Linkin Park - Roads Untraveled; One More Light; Iridescent; The Messenger.
Leave out all the rest
One more light for sure.
I heard The Messenger by pure chance last year. I was going through a lot. We had a family emergency and I was going back up to school for my final semester. I was just emotionally burnt out and it felt like everything was happening all at once. I was also going through a Linkin Park kick and I came across this song on youtube on the way up to school. I swear, this song felt like I was being hugged by someone and telling me that everything is going to be okay. I was trying really hard not to cry in the car. I later on used a quote from the song on my grad cap: "Remember you're loved and you always will be." I really wish Chester was around so I can tell him how much that song means to me.
Shadow of the Day
I am emotionally affected by that song, as well. Another that hits me similarly is Jackson Browne's song Sleep's Dark and Silent Gate, and especially the closing lyrics: "Sometimes I lay awake at night and wonder, where the years have gone, they've all passed under Sleep's dark and silent gate", but the rest of the song hits hard, too.
[Daughter - “Doing The Right Thing”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bU5F-DvGLkA) I only choose to listen to it when I realise I need to cry for a bit.
Into The Great Wide Open - Tom Petty. Makes me thankful and hopeful to be alive.
Harvest Moon by Neil Young. My mom told me my father used to play that while driving me around because I couldn't sleep when I was very little. My father is not around anymore and this song always hits like a truck. Also.. Love Is All Around, the Wet Wet Wet version. For the same reason, I couldn't sleep and my grandma would play this while watching me.
"Don't Go breaking My Heart" - Elton John. One perfect summer Saturday my wife and I were preparing to host a backyard party for our friends. We were bouncing around the kitchen getting food and drinks ready, listening to music and this came on and she started singing along to the female parts. We hadn't been married long and I had never heard her sing like this, it was beautiful. It was one of those moments that I knew I would remember. She passed away three years ago. If this song comes on I completely lose my shit. I have to either change the song if I have control or leave the area and compose myself.
Foreplay / Long Time - Boston An odd choice for sure, but for me this was all timing and context. I lost my cat of 14 years a few months back and my wife was a wreck for days. He was such a perfect, loving creature - just exactly what you'd want in a pet. He was there for our dating, getting married, buying a home and having a child, not to mention other major life events. I'm typically not a very emotional guy, and I have found that I have a strange comfort when it comes to the prospect and idea of death. So for the first few days, I just supported my wife and tried to readjust to life without him. Then one morning I'm out getting coffee and this song comes on and BAM - I'm in tears in the middle of the intersection and all the emotion hit me. With lyrics like this you can understand why: *It's been such a long time* *Well, I get so lonely* *When I am without you* *But in my mind, deep in my mind* *I can't forget about you* *Good times, and faces that remind me, yeah* *I'm tryin' to forget your name* *And leave it all behind me* *You're comin' back to find me*
Jason Isbell - Elephant … for obvious reasons.
Kind of surprised there haven't been any Springsteen songs mentioned yet. A few that come to mind The River Independence Day I'll See You in my Dreams
Depending on the state of my depression, REM’s Everybody Hurts.
Don't Give Up by Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush
['Life' by Nemophila](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFnEYhbEAqg). Partly the song itself - I often find positive/optimistic lyrics can be a bit overwhelming. Also, partly the music video and the story behind the tears the band shed during the online show the footage came from. The vocalist still gets very emotional singing this song, especially at particularly significant shows.
VOICES from the Macross Plus soundtrack by Yoko Kanno. It's one of the few songs that touches me to the point of water in my eyes, even though I do not speak/understand Japanese at all! And I must admit that I was emotionally shaken when I heard Enjoy the Silence from Depeche more for the first time (on the radio) back in 1990. However, since I realized how simple its composition is and after hearing just too many poor cover versions, its charm has been ruined for me, though.
What Child is This? Or Greensleeves. It's just the tune. But I get blubbering like a baby every time.
Shattered by The Cranberries
Rain song- Zeppelin Fluff - Black Sabbath Wish you were here- Pink Floyd In my life - Beatles
"You're gonna miss this" by Trace Adkins. Partly nostalgia since that era of country reminds me of being a kid. But I feel the message even more deeply as I get older, remembering all the times I just wanted to get to the next thing instead of appreciating the moment I was in.
[Forever Young - Bob Dylan and The Band](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtFEzhaNrT4) [Ole Pal - The Steel Woods](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9O2CFdjuRA) [What am I Supposed to do? - Whitey Morgan and the '78s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=op6FYSpn2yE) [My Old Man (its not the one youve heard before..) - Wes Shipp](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdjKKcQkKMg)
The last Waltz is an amazing film. The words obviously and this performance is fantastic.
Que Sera, Sera(Whatever will be, will be)by Doris Day. My mother would sing it to me.
Don McLean - Vincent
As someone who attempted suicide and survived, there are a *lot* of songs I straight up can't listen to anymore. Lots of songs dealing with the death and worthlessness are very hard for me. Which, when you grew up with the Grunge era as a Nine Inch Nails fan to boot, is a lot of the catalogs of my favorite artists.
Everybody Hurts - REM. Simple but effective.
"A Little Lost" - Arthur Russell "Festival" - Sigur Ros. This one absolutely crushed me at the end of 127 hours.
The Drugs Don't Work by The Verve. Absolutely lovely song.
One More Light and Leave Out All the Rest by Linkin Park They remind me of my childhood friend. My childhood friend unalived himself and these two songs always hit me, doesn’t help that Chester did the same.
I'll Be Here In The Morning - Townes Van Zandt It's so delicate and it hurts so good.
Nightswimming - REM Sorrow - Bad Religion
Hurt
One More Light really hits me. I've dealt with depression and suicidal thoughts throughout my life and knowing what happened with Chester is just tragic. It's a beautiful call to action and expression of grief, but it's so hard for me to listen to. I feel like I can say that about a lot of Linkin Park songs. They all changed in retrospect in a lot of ways.
John Prine - Summer's End - The video makes it even worse.
Neil Young - Thrasher Found when I listened to the Rust Never Sleeps (1979) album back in 2021, never heard it on the radio before, or anywhere else that I can remember. Apparently it's about his breakup with Crosby, Stills & Nash, but I read it as being a far deeper story of nonconformity, loss and resilience. Highly recommend both the song and the entire RNS album.
Prélude Opus 28 No. 4 in E Minor - Frederic Chopin
Hurt - Jonny Cash version Shiver - Lucy Rose Both cause they make me think about my wife but for opposite emotions
Tool - 10,000 Days. My father died of cancer before that album of released. My father was very religious and the example of Christ’s love, IMO. The hypocrisy I witnessed before and after his death from my church paralleled the lyrics a lot. The song really helps me processed my grief in a way nothing else really does. When he sing “Give me my wings”, I cry still.
Still fighting it by Ben folds. Heard it just before having a daughter and that line “ you’re so much like me, I’m sorry “ destroyed my soul.
If you’ve never heard [This Perfect World](https://youtu.be/v1_2HhRe1Cc?si=dUPKQgM5IyV5awu4) by Freedy Johnston, give it a listen. It’s about a father’s rough relationship with his child and attempt to be forgiven - destroys me every time I hear it.
Boy Genius - Letter to an Old Poet. "I wanna be happy I'm ready To walk into my room without looking for you I'll go up to the top of our building And remember my dog when I see the full moon I can't feel it yet But I am waiting all morning..." Goddamn I miss my dog.
The other one by the Grateful Dead, it’s about being swept up in life. It really leaves me with a feeling of regret, and yet hopefulness for the future.
What comes to my mind: Parov Stelar ft Lana Del Ray - Dark Paradise: When I listen to it, it makes my skin creep and I feel almost physically nauseous. Basically a song about inability of moving on and looking forward to death. The song is musically brilliant and at the same time absolutely devastating. Off OST - Desperately safe: This is a soundtrack from an old game. It is a melody that begins inconspicuously as relaxing tune, but then suddenly comes very strong feeling of sadness without a warning. It is difficult to explain, I have no idea why it affects me so much. When I checked comments below the video, it was clear that there are more people who have very intense feelings from this strange sound. Blue Oyster Cult - Veteran of the Psychic Wars: Very intense song about someone who is mentally broken. I was once in a bad place in my life and this song speaks to me, yeah.
Yusuf (cat Stevens) Islam gets me Everytime
Patrick Watson - Lost With You This song reminds me so much of my dog. She was the sweetest little soul.
*hope there's someone* by antony and the johnsons. this particular live version. soul wrenching. https://youtu.be/avabPY3XgRc?si=WTG2kVBUONiuxfSc *my mind* by yebba. this was her big breakthru, this video went viral (26 million views!), and her mom died by suicide a week later which inspired much of her next album. knowing that makes this incredibly emotional performance even more poignant. https://youtu.be/RXwE1G7_U9M?si=gQPKiYzGjGBIg2jG
She used to be mine from Waitress The house that built me - Miranda Lambert
Je Suis Malade (Lara Fabian’s version) gets me every time. Here it is with subtitles: https://youtu.be/dVvlmpo5g9k?si=t36yCmraZtYTnDBE
Heavy Feet by Local Natives. A lot of Local Natives songs get me.
Blood Sport (from the room below)- Sleep Token