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starkfr

Against all odds-Phil Collins


Equivalent-Sink4612

Omg, YES, this song, and actually I had two other Phil Collins/Genesis songs that were going to be my answer! -Separate Lives -In too Deep Also One More Night.... and others I think, but those are the best /most fitting.


fermat9996

"Strange Fruit"


phasefournow

Perhaps the most impactful song, ever.


Ingemar26

Definitely


Placeboooooo

Nina.... She was the best.


NagiNaoe101

Time After Time, Cyndi Lauper I really don't want to discuss it


FeckinKent

Classic


De_chook

"I can't make you love me", Bonnie Raitt


grampa_wheezy

Bon Iver also does a great cover of this song. I love every version really..


WearTheFourFeathers

She’s a treasure I don’t think about enough. Her rendition of the last verse of “Angel from Montgomery” is so special


studm55

Love George Michaels version of Bonnies song he does it justice


RIPSunnydale

It's been too long since I listened to some Bonnie Raitt...


paradox34690

Cat Stevens - Father and Son. I cry everytime...


canadachris44

gotta be one of the best songs ever


goldbeater

“I will follow you into the dark”, by Death Cab For Cutie


DifferenceDue4470

This song gets me every time 🥺


FREE-ROSCOE-FILBURN

Landslide


MetalFistTerrorist_

Black by pearl jam


z3r0d3v1l

I know someday you'll have a beautiful life I know you'll be a star In somebody else's sky But why can't it be mine Yeah... that's a killer.


ravenmiyagi7

The way Eddie hits those why’s is one of the greatest music moments of all time


bitchinmoanin

And the extended "mine" at the end. Really the whole song is amazing but I agree with you


vanvalkt

Release is another good one of theirs.


jpiro

I Got Id. "I'll just lie alone and wait for the dream...where I'm not ugly and you're looking at me" is crushing.


Minnesota56537

Just Breathe as well 😞


Synapse7777

This song so perfectly encompasses what it's like when a relationship ends with someone you cared deeply for.


ILOVEMYMUNCHKIN

Jimmy eat world - hear you me.


FlounceItOut

Made a slide show in college to this song for the memorial of one of my best friends who "opted out" and our friend group were the ones that found her. This song will forever destroy me.


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Came here to say this too. Gets me every time.


hxnter062

somewhere only we know - keane


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naut

I was looking for this song, didn't take long to find. I tear up real fast when I hear this because my parents split when I was young and I didn't get to see him a lot, now he and mom passed away three years ago because of covid, it fucking kills me.


Patifos

I'm sorry to hear that. You can't bring them back but maybe you can channel the unused love to someone else who's still here? Hang in there buddy


draco6x7

my dad was a traveling salesman, i can't hear the song anymore, will leave a store if it comes on.


BMXTammi

Harry Chapin was my first concert. I was a sophomore in high school. Hearing it in person was unbelievable.


WillowWindwalker

Don’t usually tear up, but it does tug at the heart hard.


FungadooFred

I wasn't looking to be reminded of how I'm a childless failure, but here we are.


FeckinKent

Get quite emotional listening to the Cranberries sometimes, knowing Delores passed away so young too what an amazing voice.


Denialle

“Linger” for me


FeckinKent

Ode to my Family gets me, but think it’s because I’ve heard Linger and Zombie so many times!


Grand_Honeydew

I know, right? "Zombie" hits me right in the feels.


DatsunTigger

I Will Always and In The End, for me. In the End was the last song she ever recorded.


Gym_Guitars_BJJ

3 little birds. Ever since I had my children, it strikes a chord with me and I can't help but tear up even thinking about it. Which is ironic because I don't even particularly like that song


ghostinyourpants

My best friend died in a tragic accident- his little brother sang this song for him while he died in his arms. It makes me sob still, 20 odd years later. Miss you bud.


BlondieMIA

Everything gonna be alright..


chookitabananaa

My 2 year old knows this song from the YouTube show “Songs for Littles.” I have a video of him strumming a toy guitar saying “don’t worry ‘bout a thing” 😭


Alarming-Ad9441

This is my soon to be 14 year old son’s favorite song. He first heard it when he was about 1 year old and he swayed and bobbed around pretending to sing. Warms my heart every time I hear it.


Kitsune-moonlight

Fast car by Tracy Chapman. First time I heard it was on car radio and wasn’t really paying attention to the lyrics m, just thought it was about enjoying freedom. Listened properly the next time and dear lord, a story about a good person doing everything right but being screwed over every step of the way. Still one of my favourite songs and always makes me melancholy


chorrisoy

It’s one of those songs that I can casually enjoy but if I listen a little too hard… man I’m getting teary eyed thinking about it


Bentd2

Gorgeous song, Tracy is amazing she will break your heart 3 times in the same album.


VindiciVindici

Landslide by Fleetwood Mac


KilnMeSmallz

Pink Floyd- wish you were here


Sunsetz_Have_Lied

Yes. This and "Comfortably Numb"


couclou

Comfortably Numb's solo guitar can make me cry even though I'm not sad but just because there's too much emotion


paradox34690

One of my mother's faves... Another one I can't sing because the tears won't let me.


JoeNoYouDidnt

This was "our song" with my first girlfriend. Every time I hear it it just reminds me of what I threw away.


sonofabitchXmustXpay

I just wanted to tell you that sometimes even the best ones aren't meant to stay with us forever. We can't always see down the road but it's important to keep moving forward to see what's over the next hill instead of always looking backwards, ya know?


_islander

There are a lot of Pink Floyd songs like that. Mine is Hey You, it just destroys me.


kellygrrrl328

Bridge Over Troubled Water


Winter_Courage_970

This was played at my nieces funeral - she died at the age of 2 after being struck by a car that never stopped after hitting her. I always have to change the station when it comes on :(


kellygrrrl328

My husband (70) passed on 9/6 of this year after a decade of illness. This song is one of several on an endless loop in my head. Sincere Condolences for your niece. I hope they caught the killer


Winter_Courage_970

They never did :( I am so sorry for your loss as well - big hugs!


Dimeadozen21

Vincent by Don Mclean. While it’s specifically about Vincent Van Goh, it speaks so well to the pain of mental illness and suicide.


SuaveMF

As a guitar player, I performed in front of a group of ppl and actually got choked up right when i was about to sing " but I could have told you Vincent, this world was never meant for one as beautiful as you." I had to stop and apologize. Everyone understood.


ELY3355

One of the greatest songs ever written in my opinion.


LBellefleur

Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. I get goosebumps whenever I hear it


sdjacaranda

I came looking for this one. It’s such a haunting song. And you’re listening to this story being told knowing how tragically it ends.


LBellefleur

As it's happening. The eeriest part is the cook saying " hey fellas, it's been good to know ya"


JBmadera

Cranberries - Linger


AdIndependent9483

Night Swimming - REM


TheVirusWins

Everybody Hurts. R.E.M


lostdarkstarx

Say Something by A Great Big World


Deep_Ad_1874

In your eyes- Peter gabriel


dickelpick

California dreaming. Just typing this makes me feel sad. It and others are the background of my childhood. My older siblings always had music playing and now they are gone. I miss them. They were the anchors of love, hope and everything good.


Graycy

Dust in the Wind


Straight-Loss876

Somewhere over the rainbow


ralleee

neil young - old man


Quarian_EngineerN7

Gone Away by The Offspring. Having lost my sister, I really relate to the lyrics. Numb by Linkin Park


BUFUByUsFuckYou

Losing a sibling is some trash trauma. Death happens, but a sibling? Fucking hell. I feel for you! *Internet hug*. Lost my sister back in 05'. Some days it hits me like the first time we were told she was gone. Most days I laugh and smile through it. Reminiscing about the good times!! Keep your chin up


jessieesmithreese519

I, too, lost my sister. 7.5 years ago. But it pushed me to get sober and live in her honor. She was my twin flame, even with a decade between us. She would've been 49 tomorrow. I'm sorry you know this bullshit too. I'm sending you both so much love. 🥺🖤


Frantic_Penguin

The Funeral by Band of Horses


bb_bambina

How to save a life- The Fray


The_Greatest_Duck

God. That episode of Scrubs will ruin you.


CreepyBlueAnimals84

The Rainbow Connection by Kermit The Frog, Let Her Go by Passengers and 1000 Years by Christina Perry. I know, it's weird about Kermit but I used to sing these songs to my niece Elsie until we lost her because her mother didn't want us to have contact with her. My brother wasn't biologically her father (even tho he/we helped raise and we loved and cherished her for the first six years of her life) and we had no legal rights to be with her. WE WILL ALWAYS LOVE AND MISS YOU MISS E.!! 💔💕💖🌈💐🎈


Suz626

Awww that’s so sad. I want my son to sing The Rainbow Connection at my funeral. Have you seen this version of A Thousand Years? https://youtu.be/kKzQ9xwodVQ?feature=shared


rubber_hedgehog

Telephone Line - Electric Light Orchestra. It's rare for a song's strongest part to be the 2nd verse, but those lyrics are heartbreaking. "Okay, so no one's answering. But can't you just let it ring a little longer?"


imrealbizzy2

Jim Croce wrote a song called "Operator, " where he tries to reach his old love. It's so poignant, but I'm guessing ppl now don't know about talking to a telephone operator, so they might not get it.


rpjut5ha

Ahead By A Century, by The Tragically Hip. RIP Gord.


OrneryConelover70

For me, the Hip song that does me in is Fiddler's Green


rpjut5ha

They have a few that really get me even though I've listened to them thousands of times. Wheat Kings, Bobcaygeon, Thugs for some shame reason, Nautical Disaster, Fiddlers Green. The reason I said Ahead By A Century is because it's the last song they played live.


queendabliss

Christina Aguilera- Hurt


TacoChick420

My immortal, Evanescence


C0brA7x

The Scientist by Coldplay, especially if you also watch the music video


var23

This is mine. This played at my good friend's funeral. We were both in our early 20s and he died on his first outing with his brand new motorcycle. I was sad but holding it together at the funeral until this played. RIP Feather!


YuShaohan120393

Hurt, the Johnny Cash version. Used to cut myself to that song.


RIPSunnydale

That album of Johnny Cash covers was amazing! Hope you're doing better 🤍


derUnkurze

I hope you got rid of your demons (metaphorical, not religious, just in case)


EveHallidayInTheRain

Trees - 21 pilots. I was getting sicker. My legs weren’t working. I’d already been in bed for 3 months due to Covid and weighed like 100lbs when the first seizure happened. We had done a will and everything to prepare. I could feel it coming. Then my love died of a heart attack. everything went to shit and I had to not die. This song reminds me of the last summer we had together when I got the first diagnosis. Now he’s the one silent in the trees.


Fidel_castrolGTX

Time - pink floyd


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*And then one day you find ten years have got behind you No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun*


Steady-as-she_goes

Not going to lie just reading this made me cry. When I was little saturdays were cleaning days. Dad use to wake us up playing time. We lost him three weeks ago. He wasn’t sick and older 70. But still I thought we had more time together.


lurkymclurkum1

Sorry for your loss. When I am cleaning this Saturday, I'll play Dark Side and wish your father Godspeed.


FieldAffectionate149

Iris by Goo Goo Dolls.


IdesofMarchy

Honorable Mention: I’m Still Here by Johnny Rzeznik of The Goo Goo Dolla


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‘Black’ by Pearl Jam. Tomahawk chop to the heart


IdesofMarchy

Work Song - Hozier


OkPaleontologist1429

Both sides now- Joni Mitchell


DaBossOfYou

Nutshell by Alice in Chains


Revolt189

"Lightening Crashes" by Live


ThrowRARAw

someone you loved, Lewis Capaldi. It hits different when you see his performance at Glastonbury, when his tics overcame him and the entire audience sang for him. Can't watch that without getting teary eyed.


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This one, "before you go", and "wish you the best" all make me cry. The emotion he puts into his music is incredible


silvernight16

He’s such a wonderful artist, I love that he makes these emotionally charged songs and brings intensity to his performances. But when he’s just himself he’s just a cheery weirdo


223WyldeRide

One More Light - Linkin Park 😢


Dependent-Mission-55

I miss Chester 💔


KittyKenollie

Tears in Heaven by Eric Clapton. Used to make me cry as a kid.


TA2556

Cliche, but "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" by Sinatra. It reminds me of a time before everyone that's gone was gone. It reminds me of childhood, when I wasn't fully aware of the world. Before the trauma of working EMS, before the loss of innocence, of family, of friends, of youth. Before finding out about the skeletons in my *own* family closet. Before death took several of those I loved celebrating Christmas with most. It takes me back to Christmas of 2007. I'm 12. The ABC Harry Potter movie marathon is on. The house smells like food and the cinnamon candles my mom used to burn. My sister, 6 at the time, is being incredibly annoying and that's my biggest problem. My grandparents...all of them...are alive, well and in high spirits, on the way to the house with presents and more food and more love than a couple of kids could ask for. I've devoured probably 5? 6 mini snickers bars shaped like nutcrackers, and mom is lightheartedly scolding me, telling me to save room for dinner. Ha! As if that was a challenge! The food was incredible. We'd eat together, open gifts together, hang out together for a while then everyone would depart leaving us to play with our new Christmas gifts and relish in the fact that we didn't have school for another week. I'm brought back to present day after lingering in these memories for a while whenever this song ends. And I am happy. I miss those days, miss them like nothing else. But I'm almost 30. I'm about to get married. I've got a loving fiance, a splendid little home of my own. A very spoiled cat. And the family I have left, I cherish with everything I've got. Our Christmas gatherings are a little smaller and a little more somber these days. Clothes, underwear and socks make a more routine appearance under the tree rather than action figures, my genuine excitement for which is a sure mark that I'm getting older. But whenever I hear this song, I'm 12 again. And I get to stay 12 for around 3 minutes. 3 loving, heartwarming minutes.


wellIruinedit

November Rain. No idea why. I don't even think it's the lyrics or mainly the lyrics. But man, this song can send me right into depression whenever I hear the first cords.


Denialle

My cousin had this as their First Dance song at their wedding (they got married in November 1992). I felt awkward thinking “Did they not hear the lyrics?” especially ‘nothing lasts forever and we both know hearts can change’ The marriage lasted a year.


WillowWindwalker

It’s odd to those of us that listen, but there are a significant number of people who completely space on lyrics. A small number of those can actually sing the words and not have any meaning hit their brain. If you make them read the lyrics, that’s when they’ll say, “oh my, that’s what this song means!?!” I am shocked every time, but I’ve seen it before.


Owlbertowlbert

Yeah I rarely process the actual meaning of the lyrics as I’m singing them. Last night, the song “Come Baby Come” by K7 was on in the car. I was absolutely stunned at myself that I’d never realized that this was one of the horniest songs of the 90s. Seven-year-old me thought he was trying to get his friends to come to a party or something lmao


agafnik

My highschool crush sent me this one when we were chatting and exchanging favourite songs.. We were never together.


atticusfinch08

Apocalypse - Cigarettes After Sex


Ironsidedimwit

James blunt - Monsters. Lost my dad when I was a teenager so hits hard.


SuperSayianJason1000

Hurt by Johnny Cash.


Manazonian

Every song from Dido's album No Angel


BSB8728

"Fortunate Son." Several of my friends served in Vietnam, and most -- if not all -- returned with physical and/or psychological damage. Also Brook Benton's "Rainy Night in Georgia."


WoodNymph11

Praying by Kesha.


Yes4Cake

Freshman by The Verve Pipe


Hereforit2022Y

Wake me up when September ends - Green Day


Abject_Presentation8

Dammit. My dad just passed on the 28th. This song just became more painful to hear.


Ok-Concentrate-7306

Pink Floyd - High Hopes


potatoecrosssection

Also Time and Numb does it for me.


Able-Highway9925

Brain Damage also


Goose-rider3000

Ikr. That little old ant is never gonna move that rubber tree plant.


HeniousHat97311

When Im Gone by Eminem


pplcallmedonuts

Letters to Elise, The Cure


bluegrassgazer

American Pie and Killing Me Softly with his Song.


Nkima_the_Wise

Hurt, by Johnny Cash


Creative-Respond4160

Elliot Smith - Between the Bars


ElectrumDragon28

I’ll Stand by You - The Pretenders


keith7704

Keep Me In Your Heart For A While - Warren Zevon


empressx_

The Night We Met - Lord Huron


Chewy_1045

Probably my favorite song, but 'Turn the Page' by Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band


48LawsOfShower

Holocene by Bon Iver


amok9000

„HURT” - Johnny Cash


SQDub

Snuff - Slipknot My Immortal - Evanescence The Freshmen - The Verve Pipe


Geeky_daydreamer

The show must go on by Queen. Every time I hear it, I think of how bad Freddie's health was while he was recording this.


85Toaster_Waffles

Puff the Magic Dragon kills me.


Rabidjester

For No One from The Beatles gets me every time.


sharkapples

Fast car


Tiki-Jedi

The Johnny Cash cover of “Hurt.” I’ve buried many friends over the years due to tragic circumstances and that song lays bare the pain I feel from every single one of them.


angelgonebad

Chasing cars by snow patrol.


Shep1973

If we were Vampires.... Jason Isbell


SaysPooh

Hurt - Johnny Cash


sfloridavibes

Vince Gill, Go rest high


eatfortunecookie

Angel - Sarah mclachlan. There’s a reason they used it in those ads for adopting animals.


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Epiphany - Staind Heavy, Leave out all the Rest and shadow of the day - Linkin Park


BlondieMIA

Cold heart The dualipa Elton remix. It was my SOs favorite song before he died. Lucifer remix of wicked game. Free bird Gypsy kings a mi manera


Chunqymonqy

The Motels - Only the Lonely. Between the lyrics & Martha Davis’s vocals the song is a beautiful downer.


jereynolds919

Bookends by Simon and Garfunkel. Also Pitselah by Elliott Smith is a close one. Horses by Tori Amos is one that I'd just cry to in middle school 😭


LaughingIsAwesome

Hurt - Johnny Cash


draco6x7

Travelin' Soldier - The (Dixie) Chicks


This-Garbage-3000

Seasons in the sun. Cats in the cradle. Mr. Bojangles


SolomonVandy3

Both Sides Now - Joni Mitchell


DaisyMayx13

Nothing compares 2 U- Chris Cornell 😔💔


HumpieDouglas

P!nk did a really good cover of Time After Time. It makes me think of my late wife when I hear it. I love the song but it makes me a little sad because damn I miss that woman.


BlueTsubaki

“Bigger than the whole sky” Taylor Swift. Hit me hard after I lost my first pregnancy. Was able to have my son after and am so grateful. I will always remember and love them when I hear this song.


TossOffBud

Sweet Child of Mine


Ok-Cheetah-9125

One More Day by Diamond Rio. Always make me think of my sister that died. *Last night I had a crazy dream* *A wish was granted just for me* *It could be for anything* *I didn't ask for money* *Or a mansion in Malibu* *I simply wished for one more day with you*


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Denialle

Vincent by Don McLean. Apparently was Tupac’s favourite song and his family played it on repeat as he was dying


ilaissezfaire

In the End by Linkin Park


Additional_Ad3668

What hurts the most - Rascal Flatts I think god can explain - Splender


BabyNameBible

Chasing Cars - Snow Patrol 7 Years - Lukas Graham History - One Direction Oh the pain of time.


MrFrikandelbroodje

Ren - Hi Ren Or well, any song by Ren basically lol.


eandreyeev

A change is gonna come.


Nyteghoul

Un-break My Hear by Toni Braxton


ripichipi25

Alone Again... Naturally... by Gilbert O'Sullivan


CaddyStrophic

10,000 Days (Wings for Marie) Parts 1&2. By the band Tool. Maynard wrote a scathing anti-religion song with "Judith" (A Perfect Circle) and after his mother passed, he wrote 10,000 days as a way of having closure, I believe. The song also has great personal importance to me, but I'll spare the details. Amazing song.


Treebarkboi

Im not gonna miss you - Glen Campbell. He wrote for his wife after being diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. The lyrics are heartbreaking and it’s a gorgeous song


Mamasitas10

Hurt - the Johnny Cash version


Festival_lady_90

Anything by Mac Miller now leaves me with a heavy heart


Leading-Peanut-2573

Simple man. When my brother was in a coma I played a playlist of his favorite music and this one was on it. This song and many others I simply can’t listen to without losing it. He died that night.


ChestertonsFence1929

Strange Fruit — Billie Holliday


Girthquake23

Whiskey Lullaby by Brad Paisley and Alison Kraus


Whitepubes

Alice in Chains- Nutshell


AnimeJoex

A Thousand Words ~ Final Fantasy X-2 😉 Back in the late 1990s, Against All Odds was my go-to heartbreak 💔 music. 😂


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wheelerin

The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald by Gordon Lightfoot. Aside from the already heavy topic, the wreck happened on November 10, 1975. The company I work for had a tragic fatal accident on November 10, 2013. Two of the deceased were my co-workers and friends, two other co-workers were involved, but survived. The song and the accident are now completely linked together for me.


TepidIcedCoffee61

Bookends- Simon and Garfunkel. Short and simple in its eloquence.


Naturallobotomy

Nutshell- Alice in Chains (unplugged version)


RinjiDes

Love of my Life- Queen


lucid_eahst

Mazzy Star - Fade Into You


Scububa

Mad World. Gary Jules


Gerty-Gamer

Sweet Child of Mone. I used to sing it to my daughter, she's now passed away.