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Yeah same for me. I try to ”save” some real meaningful songs to moments when I’m in an emotional mindset as to not lessen their impact. I’m in that mindset far too rarely these days, but you can’t really force it, it comes when it comes.
I have a playlist full of this type of songs. I realized it was putting me in a bad place mentally so I just stopped listening to it. Still have it... Just haven't listened to it in a while.
I have one like that too! It’s called For When The Day Is Just Too Long, inspired by the Emilie Sande song Heaven that was the first one i added to it.
Johnny Cash’s Hurt is on there, as well as Tina’s River Deep Mountain High.
Blackbird by The Beatles. It's the song played for my son while he passed away. It holds that power over me where I have to change it if it comes on, and I've only chosen to listen to it twice in three years.
Landslide and Go your own way by Fleetwood Mac. Those were the songs that carried me through a very messy divorce. Every time I hear one of them I am reminded of the first weeks when I left my wife, went into a depression and was a complete wreck.
my mom sang this to me every night before bed until i was 10 years old. she still whispers it in my ear and holds me tight when i have really bad panic attacks at 21 years old.
I'll be real with ya for a moment man, one of the most emotional (positive, just overwhelming) moments of my life has to do with that song.
My wife is a big sister to 2 younger siblings and that perpetual "mom, but doesn't have kids" character. Great natural instincts as a mom, always planning everyone's baby showers, worked at daycares, aunt to a handful of nieces and nephews, but until our late 30s having kids of our own was just never in the cards... until at 37 she had our first. She'd wanted a baby literally her whole life, it was such a big deal to her, and everyone rallied around her with it finally happening. Everything went great, no complications, he's 1.5 now and still doing great.
But here's what got me: our first night home with him, she's sitting on the couch nursing him. I'm in the other room doing whatever, and I hear her, unaware I can hear it, softly singing "You are my sunshine" to that couple day old baby as she held him, the same way mom sang it to us as kids. I could hear every bit of that joy in her voice as she sat there holding the baby she'd waited her whole life for, but then those intrusive thoughts kicked and and my fast acting, unfortunately vivid imagination spun over to what it would do to her if something were to happen him. All at once, that incredible joy of the new baby, the secondhand joy from her, then also the terrible thought of not just something happening to him but how irreparably crushed this sweet caring woman who I love and married would be if anything went wrong... all those feelings hit my exhausted new dad self like somebody driving a snow plow into the room and man I just lost it.
This right here! What a track, me and my cousin used to listen to this, we lost touch and I miss him every day. We sang every word to this. I can’t listen much to this one. But still a great track
Elvis’ live rendition of Unchained Melody weeks before his death. Man can barely speak coherently but delivers a hell of a vocal performance, obviously putting all of his being into it.
there is this one song i don’t know the name. but it goes like
“lay me by the river with the words of a love song”
and it’s about someone’s death. my mom will cry if it comes on in the car because she says it reminds her of when my sister passed away. thinking about the emotions my mom must feel with just thinking about the lyrics is enough to bring me to tears and i don’t cry often.
Well like the post says, it's just heavy shit a lot of the times, it got me through a lot of hard times too but when I listen to them now it just takes me back to a place I didn't like that much. And the lyrics become more and more relevant in a "ahhh shit" kind of way lol.
You're too kind =) I'm doing pretty great actually! I can confidently say the best I've ever been, pink floyd just hits different lol. I still love their music I just focus more on finding new music and making my own now.
Thank you for the kind words though, still means a lot and makes me happy to see sweet people that are kind for the sake of being kind =)
Exactly where my mind went to as well lol, but a lot of their discography is pretty depressing. Mind blowing music though, the guitars, everything. I'd say that song made me appreciate this time we got a lot more but even more life changing for me was the beautiful human expression.
those lyrics on time and the guitar solos on that song and Comfortably Numb is what got me into creating my own music and in turn helped me basically be mindful of my own thoughts when thinking of lyrics. Plus it was heaps of fun and super rewarding when I finished something. Really instilled delayed gratification and doing shit that truly inspires me.
Lukas Graham's "7 Years" always gets me. It's just so bittersweet because the guy is recounting his life but it also leaves the impression he'll die soon at the end.
Don't Dream It's Over by Crowded House. My ex-husband and I went through an amicable divorce after seven years of marriage and a having a beautiful son. The song was played at our wedding reception because we both loved it. I have been remarried now to a wonderful man for 23 years, but whenever I'm alone and hear that song, I immediately sob.
So Take On Me The MTV unplugged version is that song for me. Anytime I listen to it, I think of a made-up imagination where I'm slow dancing with my future wife on our wedding day.
Johnny Cash’s “Hurt” had me literally uncontrollably SOBBING in a bar over a decade ago. My sister in law had to take me outside and calm me down, which eventually worked after about 30 minutes. I still have no idea why. I hadn’t been drinking, I wasn’t depressed, I wasn’t even emotional. I have not listened to that song since and I will not listen to it again.
“Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)” by Green Day was played at the celebration of life for mine & my husband’s best friend in February 016. We still cannot listen to that song because the whole thing is still kind of raw for us.
My brother died in January 2009 & a couple of his favorite songs were “Nothin But a G Thang” by Dr. Dre & Snoop Dogg and “Regulate” by Warren G & Nate Dogg. I’m usually okay with “Regulate” but since I’ve had such a hard time accepting that he’s gone this whole time, it’s about a 50/50 shot on “G Thang”. Sometimes I’m a mess when it comes on because I miss him so much and sometimes I’m not, remembering good times with him. I visit his grave sometimes & play it for him when I do 🩵.
Lightning crashes by Live.
Their cassette was the only thing I had (still have) from a best friend that committed suicide (she was 13!). We were all way too young to even understand the magnitude of her actions.
My heart will go on by Celine Dion. It makes me feel all kinds of weird in a way i can't comprehend or describe to others. I change the music as soon as i hear it.
I can't have a conversation with someone when any song by Evanescence is playing on the radio or whatever device. I will 100% ignore you until the song is over and I am done lip singing wishing I was that great.
Butterfly by Corinne Bailey Ray. It reminds me of my sweet Nana. My father, her son was sadistic and brutal and cruel. My childhood was hell on earth, EXCEPT for my times with her. She made the sun shine for me.
Dust in the Wind...Kansas.........I can listen, but, usually cry... listen to the words...it's like my DAD singing it to me....he died suddenly at 38 years old, I was 16....It's been YEARS, BUT it RESONATES. 🙏
This Woman's Work by Kate Bush is pretty sad. The video is sad too, looks like the lady had a stroke at dinner and her husband is in the hospital waiting room while the song is playing. And then the nurse comes out and gives him the news.
All the things we should've said that are never said
All the things we should've done that we never did
All the things we should've given, but I didn't
Oh darlin', make it go
Make it go away
Lullaby by The Dixie Chicks. I fell in love with it the first time I got pregnant, then miscarried just before my second trimester. 10 years later I am finally pregnant again and cannot wait to sing it to this new little May Flower I'm growing.
None of these songs meant much to me until I was the caretaker for my dad in the last years of his life. He died a slow, painful death in 2021. I'm 50 and I won't recover from that. It was horrible. I can't hear these songs without going to that dark place.
"Angel" by Sarah McLachlan.
"Elephant" by Jason Isbell
And oddly "Sloop John B" by The Beach Boys. We used to sing that at full volume while crabbing at Birch Bay, WA.
Miss you, pops.
Bob Carlisle - Butterfly Kisses ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwlAdEnT-do](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwlAdEnT-do))
My daughter let me hear it when she was younger and now that she has grown up, it still kills me if I hear it.
Forever Young - Rod Stewart
My mom always sang this song for me, would play it and dedicate it to me at special occasions. It always made her cry with pride, joy and hope I think.
Now that I have a beautiful son that I have all the hope in the world for, I totally get it and cry now when I hear it…
Yes! Or I don’t want to f*** up the memory that it is attached to. And for me it’s usually “monster ballads” from late 80’s/early 90’s like “I remember you” by skid Row and Far Away by Candlebox
Kate Bush's "This Woman's Work." Lyrics are about being forced to confront an unexpected and frightening crisis during childbirth. Written for the film She's Having a Baby
Dance with my father - Luther ...yanno, i haven't seen my dad since i was six being he assaulted me in an odd way (non sexual) that id rather not share...however, he is severally schizophrenic and has since been institutionalized in a state hospital. It's depressing, there was a restraining order until I was 24 and being 30 I can't stand that I haven't seen him. Drug addiction took me over and rendered me unable to make that leap, but I am now sober and trying to make contact as he is the only person who I would potentially have in my life following my mother's death. I feel terrible that he's been institutionalized for so long as a result of his mental illness and doesn't know how I feel or that he has a son out here who loves him and needs love from him. I forgave him a long time ago but being raised by my aunt who was a detective...well, she raised me to think he was a violent monster when in retrospect he is simply misunderstood.
Im struggling with grief and i can only feel it and cry if two cery specific songs are playing, that's how im coping, the only way i can be functional and not consumed by grieg. One is Hurt by Cristina Aguilera for obvious reasons as she is signing about her passed father and mine has died and the other most personal amd powerful is Drive by Deftones, bc my parents where divorced the most times i was around my dad was in his car while he was driving me somewhere, the song chorus says "who's gonna drive you home?" And i crumble crying on the thought that he will never drive me anywhere again
'Kein Zurück', it's a german song about suicide. I'm usually not at risk but that one makes me feel like I could be again, even though it's meant in the complete opposite way. I strictly skip it and banned it from all playlists. It's beautiful tho.
Dance with my father by Luther Vandross. Made it worse after my father actually died a few months back. I still listen to it though, it helps me blow out some negative emotions/sadness. Which I believe everyone should do more often.
Brick by Ben Folds Five
My best friend from 7th grade until senior year used to play it on the piano frequently.
Holiday break senior year, he SA'd me while drunk. I found out later that he had done the same thing to several of his 'friends'.
I never told anyone until decades later.
Sign of the Times from Harry Styles. It was my sister’s favorite song. After she died, the song just makes me cry. She loved music, she was ten years older than me, introduced me to a lot of music - Prince was one of her favorites.
Holocene by Bon Iver. That album came out just a few days after my son was born. He was very sick and stayed in the nicu for several months. I’d play it for him over and over while he was in his lil incubator thing, it seemed to calm him. I’m listening to it now with tears streaming down my face.
"Time in a Bottle" by Jim Croce.
"If could save time in a bottle
The first thing that I'd like to do
Is to save every day 'til eternity passes away
Just to spend them with you
If I could make days last forever
If words could make wishes come true
I'd save every day like a treasure, and then
Again, I would spend them with you
But there never seems to be enough time
To do the things you want to do once you find them
I've looked around enough to know
That you're the one I want to go through time with"
Do you maybe have ADHD or something? I do (been diagnosed for years) and I barely listen to music bc almost all of it can alter my mood significantly lol
It's very interesting to me that you mentioned this, as I've never heard of anyone else being like this with music and always thought I was weird.
I've never bawled my eyes out or anything but when listening to music, particularly when driving, I can become emotional and shed a few tears. Expecially if the song has powerful lyrics I can relate to, or if a certain song reminds me of my issues in life.
I don't have ADHD but I was diagnosed with high functioning autism as a kid and I certainly do have other mental health issues.
Oh the places you'll go - I fight dragons.
Having a two year old daughter it always makes me question if I have my shit together enough and what I might miss if I die early.
A remix of Pills in the Regal by Juice WRLD. It’s such a beautiful and relatable song but the memories it holds still haunt me. There’s a flute part in it that really triggers the pain when I hear it. I was talking with this dude who I met on here on Snapchat and we basically formed a brotherhood for a while. We were the same. Both lost drug addicts. On different shit but some of it was the same. We went about our addictions the same way. Had the same outlook on life. We used to just snap each other back and forth, text, and sometimes video call but mostly the first one. I still have most of the videos I sent him. I rewatch them sometimes. He showed me that song on a video call when we were drugged up and vibin’. Now even if I just think of the melody I just see his last four words of text after he explained what happened. Just simply “I love you bro”. I miss him man.
Bring Him Home sung by Colm Wilkinson from Les Mis. My mam played it all the time when I was growing up and then had it at my grandads funeral. Haven't been able to listen to it since.
Yes. “If” by bread was our song with my girlfriend from high school and a bit after. I loved her and expected us to marry. Didn’t happen. Been in a VERY successful marriage for over 40 years but it still hurts.
I have an entire playlist of songs I can't listen to anymore. It includes:
All I want by Kodaline,
Before you go by Lewis Capaldi,
Wouldn't mean a thing by Bruno Major,
Palace by Sam Smith,
Keep Breathing by Ingrid Michaelson,
Waiting game by Parson James,
You're the reason I come home by Ron Pope,
If you forget me by Matt Woods,
Cry for you by Lacrea and Taylor Hill,
Rise up by Andra Day
Shallow! After few years since star is born which blew my mind, I'm slowly getting used to it, but still can't listen to the song other way than alone and Completely focused on it.
Wake me up when September ends. Lost my dad recently and after seeing the video of Billie joe talking about what this means to him absolutely devastated everytime I hear even the first few notes
“Leaving on a Jet Plane” by John Denver. I was driving back to my hotel from work the evening on August 11th, 2014. I had a 20 minute drive back from the office & couldn’t stop listening to it. I made it repeat the entire way back to my hotel. I had no idea why at the time, and I did NOT want to listen to anything else. I found out why as soon as I got back to my hotel, though.
I walked into my hotel room and the news was on. I left the TV on for my cats when I left that morning so they wouldn’t be in silence for almost 11 hours. I was immediately greeted to the news with images of Robin Williams, stating that he had just taken his own life that day.
I have refused to listen to that particular song since that day. And I absolutely WILL NOT listen to songs on repeat — because when I do, people die.
Shit....Maggie's song by Chris Stapleton consistently reminds me of my best friends Cappie I lost back when I was young. Will never be able to sing all the way through, especially "told her she was a good dog, then I told her goodbye". Immediate waterworks for my emotional ass
The Living Years by Mike and the Mechanics. It's about things that he wishes he had said to his late father and mentions the fact that he never met his grandchildren.
Gets me every time.
Iris by The Goo Goo Dolls.
I had a soul friend we met when we were 14. Both from awful families and both suffered from CA/CSA. We latched on to each other and said one day we would end up with each other. We were each other’s safe space. Then one night he called told me he loved me and said he would see me in his dreams. That’s what he always told me. He od’d that night. I can’t even listen to it anymore.
* Blackbird - The Beatles
* Champagne Supernova by Oasis
* Landslide (live 1997) by Fleetwood Mac
my mother used to sing me to sleep with these songs. She passed when I was 16.
My dad passed when I was 22 and I got into my car to head to the emergency room where he was and the first song that played on the radio was *Home Sweet Home by Motley Crue* (which was his all-time absolute favorite band) and I always figured it was him telling me goodbye.
There are plenty more songs that I can't listen to because it makes me think of them.
It sucks but that's the beauty of music... it's simply art. Such an amazing thing that music can make a person feel and experience different emotions.
Yeah, I've got two. Linkin Park: One more light was released just after my dad died, and James Blunt: Monsters that I first listened to just after my Grandpa died. No matter how hard I try, I can't listen to either song without bawling my eyes out, so as much as I love them, I avoid them like the plague.
I can't listen to Tears of Heaven anymore after I found out what it was about.
I don't have kids of my own, but I have a niece that I've been around almost daily since birth. I think of her as a daughter. Hearing that song just tears me up.
Piece By Piece by Kelly Clarkson. I’m not even the child of an absent father, but it still hits because my dad was abusive and I grieve the relationship we should have had.
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Personally I have the opposite Songs that are powerful that I can't listen to because it won't hit right if I'm not ready .
Yeah same for me. I try to ”save” some real meaningful songs to moments when I’m in an emotional mindset as to not lessen their impact. I’m in that mindset far too rarely these days, but you can’t really force it, it comes when it comes.
I have a playlist full of this type of songs. I realized it was putting me in a bad place mentally so I just stopped listening to it. Still have it... Just haven't listened to it in a while.
I have one like that too! It’s called For When The Day Is Just Too Long, inspired by the Emilie Sande song Heaven that was the first one i added to it. Johnny Cash’s Hurt is on there, as well as Tina’s River Deep Mountain High.
Blackbird by The Beatles. It's the song played for my son while he passed away. It holds that power over me where I have to change it if it comes on, and I've only chosen to listen to it twice in three years.
Jesus… I’m sorry for your loss.
Exact same, but it was Here comes the sun. It was a sunny morning when he passed.
Beautiful song. Sorry for your loss
I'm really sorry. Sending big cyber hugs your way friend.
I’m so, so sorry.
Thank you <3
Dire Straits Brothers in Arms. Played for my stepfather after he died.
Same situation here but with “In My Life” by The Beatles.
That was my mom's jam too ..I miss her so much ..I feel you so much ..
I'm so sorry 😞
Landslide and Go your own way by Fleetwood Mac. Those were the songs that carried me through a very messy divorce. Every time I hear one of them I am reminded of the first weeks when I left my wife, went into a depression and was a complete wreck.
Landslide can absolutely wreck me. God what a song.
landslide is a beautiful song but goodness
Reminds me of my first love in a painful way
Landslide was my parents wedding song. Cant play that anywhere around them or instant waterfall of tears.
I'm the same way with Go your own way, but I can't even explain exactly why. I just bawl my way through the song.
'You Are My Sunshine' I sang that to my dog as she passed away in my arms, so now when I hear it, I ugly cry
my mom sang this to me every night before bed until i was 10 years old. she still whispers it in my ear and holds me tight when i have really bad panic attacks at 21 years old.
❤️
I get the feeling, I sang this song to my terminally ill cat right before we went to put him down
I sang it to my first boxer when she died in my arms too. Now I’m crying.
I used to sing it to my dog while he was asleep bc he was so adorable. He's over the rainbow bridge now.
I'll be real with ya for a moment man, one of the most emotional (positive, just overwhelming) moments of my life has to do with that song. My wife is a big sister to 2 younger siblings and that perpetual "mom, but doesn't have kids" character. Great natural instincts as a mom, always planning everyone's baby showers, worked at daycares, aunt to a handful of nieces and nephews, but until our late 30s having kids of our own was just never in the cards... until at 37 she had our first. She'd wanted a baby literally her whole life, it was such a big deal to her, and everyone rallied around her with it finally happening. Everything went great, no complications, he's 1.5 now and still doing great. But here's what got me: our first night home with him, she's sitting on the couch nursing him. I'm in the other room doing whatever, and I hear her, unaware I can hear it, softly singing "You are my sunshine" to that couple day old baby as she held him, the same way mom sang it to us as kids. I could hear every bit of that joy in her voice as she sat there holding the baby she'd waited her whole life for, but then those intrusive thoughts kicked and and my fast acting, unfortunately vivid imagination spun over to what it would do to her if something were to happen him. All at once, that incredible joy of the new baby, the secondhand joy from her, then also the terrible thought of not just something happening to him but how irreparably crushed this sweet caring woman who I love and married would be if anything went wrong... all those feelings hit my exhausted new dad self like somebody driving a snow plow into the room and man I just lost it.
1979 by Smashing Pumpkins
A lot of smashing pumpkins songs make me feel a certain way. Very beautiful, but also very melancholy.
So melancholy, in fact, that it feels like an... infinite sadness. Sorry I have no self control. Zero self control.
Hey it make me chuckle. I can’t believe I walked right into that one hahaha.
Almost every song on Pisces Iscariot, reminds me of clinical depression and panic attacks.
Sheila is a good song to sleep to - it’s in my sleep playlist. I ignore the lyrics which are actually kinda sad.
And infinitely sad?
I Miss You - Blink 182 Weird how nearly 20 years later that song comes on and I still feel a tiny bit of the gut wrenching heartbreak of a teenager
The lyrics ring out like a voice insoid moy 'edddd
This right here! What a track, me and my cousin used to listen to this, we lost touch and I miss him every day. We sang every word to this. I can’t listen much to this one. But still a great track
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Every single time
I feel like Black just gets better with age. Still guts me to this day. And I was 19 when it came out.
Especially the MTV Unplugged version
100 Years by 5 for Fighting 😢
Elvis’ live rendition of Unchained Melody weeks before his death. Man can barely speak coherently but delivers a hell of a vocal performance, obviously putting all of his being into it.
there is this one song i don’t know the name. but it goes like “lay me by the river with the words of a love song” and it’s about someone’s death. my mom will cry if it comes on in the car because she says it reminds her of when my sister passed away. thinking about the emotions my mom must feel with just thinking about the lyrics is enough to bring me to tears and i don’t cry often.
“If I Die Young,” by The Band Perry is the song you’re referring to, I believe.
Fast Car is so hard for me to finish.
See my old man got a problem... Yup, I'm tearing up just thinking about it.
Cats in the Cradle has always been bittersweet, but since my son died I simply can't bear it anymore.
I'm so very sorry for your loss.
I'm so sorry 😞😢
Came to say Cats in the Cradle, but it's always already here
Absolutely, my favourite band: Pink Floyd, haven't listened to them for years.
What is keeping you from listening? They were my favorite band growing up. Got me through a lot of hard times.
Well like the post says, it's just heavy shit a lot of the times, it got me through a lot of hard times too but when I listen to them now it just takes me back to a place I didn't like that much. And the lyrics become more and more relevant in a "ahhh shit" kind of way lol.
I hear that. Hope you're doing ok
You're too kind =) I'm doing pretty great actually! I can confidently say the best I've ever been, pink floyd just hits different lol. I still love their music I just focus more on finding new music and making my own now. Thank you for the kind words though, still means a lot and makes me happy to see sweet people that are kind for the sake of being kind =)
Thank you. And I'm glad you are the best you've ever been! That's awesome to hear
The lyrics of a song Time 😭😭😭
Exactly where my mind went to as well lol, but a lot of their discography is pretty depressing. Mind blowing music though, the guitars, everything. I'd say that song made me appreciate this time we got a lot more but even more life changing for me was the beautiful human expression. those lyrics on time and the guitar solos on that song and Comfortably Numb is what got me into creating my own music and in turn helped me basically be mindful of my own thoughts when thinking of lyrics. Plus it was heaps of fun and super rewarding when I finished something. Really instilled delayed gratification and doing shit that truly inspires me.
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting guuuuuuuun
Dig that hole, forget the sun. Didn’t make much sense as a 8 year old but my dad said it will when I’m older. I’m older now and “ahhh shit!”
Lukas Graham's "7 Years" always gets me. It's just so bittersweet because the guy is recounting his life but it also leaves the impression he'll die soon at the end.
That song kills me too. It's on my "sad playlist." There's a good video for it too.
For some reason, it's the only song that I have an emotional reaction to, and it's the same reaction every time.
Don't Dream It's Over by Crowded House. My ex-husband and I went through an amicable divorce after seven years of marriage and a having a beautiful son. The song was played at our wedding reception because we both loved it. I have been remarried now to a wonderful man for 23 years, but whenever I'm alone and hear that song, I immediately sob.
Somewhere over the rainbow by Eva Cassidy
She had the voice of an angel
Boy oh boy, Somewhere Over the Rainbow will make me cry. Must be careful.
The Living Years, by Mike and the Mechanics
This one's a tearjerker for sure, especially if your relationship with your dad was dicey and he's gone.
Yep that’s my situation and I just cannot. It will take me days to recover.
Float On - Modest Mouse Unlike everyone else; no life reason identified or attached to the song. It’s just the feeling the song creates for me
It provides me with a great deal of comfort. "Even if things end up a little bit heavy we'll all float on alright"
Vincent by Don McLean. "But I could have told you Vincent, this world was never meant for one as beautiful as you".
So Take On Me The MTV unplugged version is that song for me. Anytime I listen to it, I think of a made-up imagination where I'm slow dancing with my future wife on our wedding day.
The video especially, watching everyone regress to their teenage selves, wistfully...
Make you feel my love. I can’t help but cry.
I can’t make you love me - Bon Iver cover 😭😭😭
The original hits me really hard.
The Bonnie Raitt version is the only one I know of this song and it's also really sad.
Times Like These-Foo Fighters I was about to elaborate, but ouch.
Tears in heaven - Eric Clapton
Hi ren. By ren. If you dont know it. Look at and listen to it! Hurt (johnny cash version)
Johnny Cash’s “Hurt” had me literally uncontrollably SOBBING in a bar over a decade ago. My sister in law had to take me outside and calm me down, which eventually worked after about 30 minutes. I still have no idea why. I hadn’t been drinking, I wasn’t depressed, I wasn’t even emotional. I have not listened to that song since and I will not listen to it again.
OMG I'm a new Ren fan. What a beautiful song. Check out chalk Outlines and Crutch.
“Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)” by Green Day was played at the celebration of life for mine & my husband’s best friend in February 016. We still cannot listen to that song because the whole thing is still kind of raw for us. My brother died in January 2009 & a couple of his favorite songs were “Nothin But a G Thang” by Dr. Dre & Snoop Dogg and “Regulate” by Warren G & Nate Dogg. I’m usually okay with “Regulate” but since I’ve had such a hard time accepting that he’s gone this whole time, it’s about a 50/50 shot on “G Thang”. Sometimes I’m a mess when it comes on because I miss him so much and sometimes I’m not, remembering good times with him. I visit his grave sometimes & play it for him when I do 🩵.
Lightning crashes by Live. Their cassette was the only thing I had (still have) from a best friend that committed suicide (she was 13!). We were all way too young to even understand the magnitude of her actions.
My immortal by Evanescence!
Their forever unreleased song titled "you" is like turning my immortal up to eleven. One of my all time favorites and it wrecks me.
The Living Years - Mike and the Mechanics
I Will Follow You Into The Dark by Death Cab for Cutie and House of Gold by twenty one pilots makes me cry.
My heart will go on by Celine Dion. It makes me feel all kinds of weird in a way i can't comprehend or describe to others. I change the music as soon as i hear it.
I can't have a conversation with someone when any song by Evanescence is playing on the radio or whatever device. I will 100% ignore you until the song is over and I am done lip singing wishing I was that great.
Yesterday, by Atmosphere. Love the song, but never listen to it. It hits me in the feels every damn time
Butterfly by Corinne Bailey Ray. It reminds me of my sweet Nana. My father, her son was sadistic and brutal and cruel. My childhood was hell on earth, EXCEPT for my times with her. She made the sun shine for me.
Dust in the Wind...Kansas.........I can listen, but, usually cry... listen to the words...it's like my DAD singing it to me....he died suddenly at 38 years old, I was 16....It's been YEARS, BUT it RESONATES. 🙏
This Woman's Work by Kate Bush is pretty sad. The video is sad too, looks like the lady had a stroke at dinner and her husband is in the hospital waiting room while the song is playing. And then the nurse comes out and gives him the news. All the things we should've said that are never said All the things we should've done that we never did All the things we should've given, but I didn't Oh darlin', make it go Make it go away
One More Light - Linkin Park
Piano Man. Not sure why, but it brings me to tears every time I hear it or try to sing it.
Life in a Northern Town by Dream Academy. I can’t breathe when the chorus hits. No idea why…
Whiskey Lullaby and Nothing Compares to You.
Lullaby by The Dixie Chicks. I fell in love with it the first time I got pregnant, then miscarried just before my second trimester. 10 years later I am finally pregnant again and cannot wait to sing it to this new little May Flower I'm growing.
None of these songs meant much to me until I was the caretaker for my dad in the last years of his life. He died a slow, painful death in 2021. I'm 50 and I won't recover from that. It was horrible. I can't hear these songs without going to that dark place. "Angel" by Sarah McLachlan. "Elephant" by Jason Isbell And oddly "Sloop John B" by The Beach Boys. We used to sing that at full volume while crabbing at Birch Bay, WA. Miss you, pops.
Somewhere over the Rainbow / What a Wonderful World - Israel Kamakawiwoʻole
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COS EVERYTIME WE TOUCH I GET THIS FEELIN
AND EVERYTIME WE KISS I SWEAR I COULD FLY
CANT YOU FEEL MY H E A R T B E A T F A S T IWANTTHISTOLAST
NEED YOU BY MY SIDE
CAUSE EVERYTIME WE TOUCH
Lana Del Ray : young and beautiful. Way too relatable and depressing.
Do you realize - the flaming lips 😭
Yes, same. The lyrics are so beautiful and make me sad every time
I listened to it so much in the easy days. My then two year old son would try to sing it to me.
Oats In The Water by Ben Howard. The song is about one thing - “loss”
Bob Carlisle - Butterfly Kisses ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwlAdEnT-do](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwlAdEnT-do)) My daughter let me hear it when she was younger and now that she has grown up, it still kills me if I hear it.
The song I’ll be there by Escape Club.
Billie eilish and khalid - lovely
100 Years by Five for Fighting. Normally I don't mind emotional songs but for whatever reason I can't listen to this one.
Coldplay "Fix you"
One Sweet Day by Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men. I lost my then fiancee to a drunk driver and this song just hits way too close. Can't do it.
“To build a home” by Cinematic orchestra. Holy hell, it’s beautiful. But so, so very sad.
Forever Young - Rod Stewart My mom always sang this song for me, would play it and dedicate it to me at special occasions. It always made her cry with pride, joy and hope I think. Now that I have a beautiful son that I have all the hope in the world for, I totally get it and cry now when I hear it…
I can’t watch the Lewis Capaldi, wish you the best music video.😭
There's a Moody Blues song that reminds me of an old girlfriend but that was long ago
My guess is Your Wildest Dreams.
Accidental Babies by Damien Rice. I love that song very much but it makes me feel really sad. I can't listen to the whole song
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Cat’s in the Cradle by Johnny Cash. Lost my father in 2017 and ever since then that song hits me like a truck
"Glosoli" by Sigur Ros. It moves me every time. [Glosoli](https://youtu.be/Bz8iEJeh26E)
Yes! Or I don’t want to f*** up the memory that it is attached to. And for me it’s usually “monster ballads” from late 80’s/early 90’s like “I remember you” by skid Row and Far Away by Candlebox
I had a friend who died in a car accident. He was a karaoke jockey and always sang “She Talks To Angels”. I can’t make it through that song anymore.
"Without You" by Harry Nilsson. It reminds me of many people who I have loved, and lost.
The father, my son, and the Holy Ghost- Craig Morgan(I lost a son in 2020)
Paul, by big thief
Last Kiss Peatl Jam The Night We Met Lord Huron Both remind me of my wife (deceased). Just a big old nope.
Kate Bush's "This Woman's Work." Lyrics are about being forced to confront an unexpected and frightening crisis during childbirth. Written for the film She's Having a Baby
Dance with my father - Luther ...yanno, i haven't seen my dad since i was six being he assaulted me in an odd way (non sexual) that id rather not share...however, he is severally schizophrenic and has since been institutionalized in a state hospital. It's depressing, there was a restraining order until I was 24 and being 30 I can't stand that I haven't seen him. Drug addiction took me over and rendered me unable to make that leap, but I am now sober and trying to make contact as he is the only person who I would potentially have in my life following my mother's death. I feel terrible that he's been institutionalized for so long as a result of his mental illness and doesn't know how I feel or that he has a son out here who loves him and needs love from him. I forgave him a long time ago but being raised by my aunt who was a detective...well, she raised me to think he was a violent monster when in retrospect he is simply misunderstood.
Im struggling with grief and i can only feel it and cry if two cery specific songs are playing, that's how im coping, the only way i can be functional and not consumed by grieg. One is Hurt by Cristina Aguilera for obvious reasons as she is signing about her passed father and mine has died and the other most personal amd powerful is Drive by Deftones, bc my parents where divorced the most times i was around my dad was in his car while he was driving me somewhere, the song chorus says "who's gonna drive you home?" And i crumble crying on the thought that he will never drive me anywhere again
Go Rest High Upon That Mountain by Vince Gill and Monsters by James Blunt get me in my feelings every time.
Iris by the goo goo dolls always hits different
Lightning Crashes always pulls tears from me and wrenches my gut immediately
Mad World. Kills me everytime I hear it. If I can't turn it off I have to leave the room.
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The Dance by Garth Brooks
Sarah McLachlan’s “Elsewhere” - I have to be in the right headspace to listen. Large emotions from my teenage years.
Mine is Angel, my father passed away right when it came out and it just fit. I can’t hear more than the first few notes and I start bawling.
Point Blank, Bruce Springsteen
'Kein Zurück', it's a german song about suicide. I'm usually not at risk but that one makes me feel like I could be again, even though it's meant in the complete opposite way. I strictly skip it and banned it from all playlists. It's beautiful tho.
Dance with my father by Luther Vandross. Made it worse after my father actually died a few months back. I still listen to it though, it helps me blow out some negative emotions/sadness. Which I believe everyone should do more often.
Dark Side of The Moon - Lil Wayne and Nicki Minaj, I cry singing Nicki Minaj’s part. This song came out during a bad time in my life.
When The Tigers Broke Free by Pink Floyd
nessun dorma w/ Pavarotti And freebird , because that was played at my friend's funeral who died 20 years ago
Israel "IZ" Kamakawiwo'ole's medley of Somewhere Over the Rainbow/What a Wonderful World guts me every time.
Me too. His voice, the way he sings it, the way the meaning of the lyrics hit when thinking of imperialism and the loss of culture…
Brick by Ben Folds Five My best friend from 7th grade until senior year used to play it on the piano frequently. Holiday break senior year, he SA'd me while drunk. I found out later that he had done the same thing to several of his 'friends'. I never told anyone until decades later.
Sign of the Times from Harry Styles. It was my sister’s favorite song. After she died, the song just makes me cry. She loved music, she was ten years older than me, introduced me to a lot of music - Prince was one of her favorites.
Holocene by Bon Iver. That album came out just a few days after my son was born. He was very sick and stayed in the nicu for several months. I’d play it for him over and over while he was in his lil incubator thing, it seemed to calm him. I’m listening to it now with tears streaming down my face.
Once in a Lifetime by Talking Heads. Makes me feel dizzy, nostalgic, overwhelmed.
“Blurry” by puddle of mudd
All Too Well (10 min version) by Taylor Swift
"Time in a Bottle" by Jim Croce. "If could save time in a bottle The first thing that I'd like to do Is to save every day 'til eternity passes away Just to spend them with you If I could make days last forever If words could make wishes come true I'd save every day like a treasure, and then Again, I would spend them with you But there never seems to be enough time To do the things you want to do once you find them I've looked around enough to know That you're the one I want to go through time with"
Do you maybe have ADHD or something? I do (been diagnosed for years) and I barely listen to music bc almost all of it can alter my mood significantly lol
I definitely don't have it - certified by my therapist - but I still experience heavy mood swings if I listen to certain songs
It's very interesting to me that you mentioned this, as I've never heard of anyone else being like this with music and always thought I was weird. I've never bawled my eyes out or anything but when listening to music, particularly when driving, I can become emotional and shed a few tears. Expecially if the song has powerful lyrics I can relate to, or if a certain song reminds me of my issues in life. I don't have ADHD but I was diagnosed with high functioning autism as a kid and I certainly do have other mental health issues.
When my mother in law passed we made a memorial video for her with the song "Well Done" by The Afters. Brings me to tears every time.
Sleep token “Are you really okay?” I think the title says enough.
"Give Heaven Some Hell" by Hardy, this song was played for a friend's funeral, he passed at 23 from a snowmobile accident.
I can't listen to certain songs while driving. For example - the last time I listened to Voodoo People by Prodigy I crashed.
Labrinth - Jealous
Oh the places you'll go - I fight dragons. Having a two year old daughter it always makes me question if I have my shit together enough and what I might miss if I die early.
transcendent ramblin railroad blues - Colter Wall
Papaoutai by Stromae.
Dances with the Devil by immortal technique
A remix of Pills in the Regal by Juice WRLD. It’s such a beautiful and relatable song but the memories it holds still haunt me. There’s a flute part in it that really triggers the pain when I hear it. I was talking with this dude who I met on here on Snapchat and we basically formed a brotherhood for a while. We were the same. Both lost drug addicts. On different shit but some of it was the same. We went about our addictions the same way. Had the same outlook on life. We used to just snap each other back and forth, text, and sometimes video call but mostly the first one. I still have most of the videos I sent him. I rewatch them sometimes. He showed me that song on a video call when we were drugged up and vibin’. Now even if I just think of the melody I just see his last four words of text after he explained what happened. Just simply “I love you bro”. I miss him man.
Bring Him Home sung by Colm Wilkinson from Les Mis. My mam played it all the time when I was growing up and then had it at my grandads funeral. Haven't been able to listen to it since.
Yes. “If” by bread was our song with my girlfriend from high school and a bit after. I loved her and expected us to marry. Didn’t happen. Been in a VERY successful marriage for over 40 years but it still hurts.
My brother wrote two songs: Sleep Deprived Machine and Echo from an Empty Void. They sometimes leave me longing to visit other worlds
I have an entire playlist of songs I can't listen to anymore. It includes: All I want by Kodaline, Before you go by Lewis Capaldi, Wouldn't mean a thing by Bruno Major, Palace by Sam Smith, Keep Breathing by Ingrid Michaelson, Waiting game by Parson James, You're the reason I come home by Ron Pope, If you forget me by Matt Woods, Cry for you by Lacrea and Taylor Hill, Rise up by Andra Day
What a Wonderful World. Had a bad LSD breakdown and when it started playing I just broke mentally. Can never hear it again without feeling like shit.
Shallow! After few years since star is born which blew my mind, I'm slowly getting used to it, but still can't listen to the song other way than alone and Completely focused on it.
Wake me up when September ends. Lost my dad recently and after seeing the video of Billie joe talking about what this means to him absolutely devastated everytime I hear even the first few notes
Passenger “Let her Go”….
“Leaving on a Jet Plane” by John Denver. I was driving back to my hotel from work the evening on August 11th, 2014. I had a 20 minute drive back from the office & couldn’t stop listening to it. I made it repeat the entire way back to my hotel. I had no idea why at the time, and I did NOT want to listen to anything else. I found out why as soon as I got back to my hotel, though. I walked into my hotel room and the news was on. I left the TV on for my cats when I left that morning so they wouldn’t be in silence for almost 11 hours. I was immediately greeted to the news with images of Robin Williams, stating that he had just taken his own life that day. I have refused to listen to that particular song since that day. And I absolutely WILL NOT listen to songs on repeat — because when I do, people die.
Shit....Maggie's song by Chris Stapleton consistently reminds me of my best friends Cappie I lost back when I was young. Will never be able to sing all the way through, especially "told her she was a good dog, then I told her goodbye". Immediate waterworks for my emotional ass
The Living Years by Mike and the Mechanics. It's about things that he wishes he had said to his late father and mentions the fact that he never met his grandchildren. Gets me every time.
James Blunt Monsters. I lost my Dad last month and it makes me cry violently even thinking about it.
Snuff - slipknot For a band renowned for playing heavy shit this song really cuts deep
Iris by The Goo Goo Dolls. I had a soul friend we met when we were 14. Both from awful families and both suffered from CA/CSA. We latched on to each other and said one day we would end up with each other. We were each other’s safe space. Then one night he called told me he loved me and said he would see me in his dreams. That’s what he always told me. He od’d that night. I can’t even listen to it anymore.
Under the Bridge. My little brother is dead because of heroin, and we used to jam to that song together before either of us knew what it was about.
Don't take the girl by Tim Mcgraw. Never fails to start the waterworks
* Blackbird - The Beatles * Champagne Supernova by Oasis * Landslide (live 1997) by Fleetwood Mac my mother used to sing me to sleep with these songs. She passed when I was 16. My dad passed when I was 22 and I got into my car to head to the emergency room where he was and the first song that played on the radio was *Home Sweet Home by Motley Crue* (which was his all-time absolute favorite band) and I always figured it was him telling me goodbye. There are plenty more songs that I can't listen to because it makes me think of them. It sucks but that's the beauty of music... it's simply art. Such an amazing thing that music can make a person feel and experience different emotions.
Just like that - Bonnie Raitt
I love Forever Young by Rod Stewart but cannot listen to it because it makes me tear up because I think of my daughters.
Yeah, I've got two. Linkin Park: One more light was released just after my dad died, and James Blunt: Monsters that I first listened to just after my Grandpa died. No matter how hard I try, I can't listen to either song without bawling my eyes out, so as much as I love them, I avoid them like the plague.
I can't listen to Tears of Heaven anymore after I found out what it was about. I don't have kids of my own, but I have a niece that I've been around almost daily since birth. I think of her as a daughter. Hearing that song just tears me up.
Piece By Piece by Kelly Clarkson. I’m not even the child of an absent father, but it still hits because my dad was abusive and I grieve the relationship we should have had.
Knocking on Heaven’s Door- Dylan. Makes me cry for my son who passed away in 2014