The most heart-wrenching song ever?

[andy-hughes]

I know this can vary from day to day, but most people have one song that make them cry if they are in the right (wrong?) frame of mind.

For years, mine has been Long Distance Love by Little Feat, but it has just been eclipsed by Jeff Buckley's Forget Her.

The sheer angst and agony he conveys, made all the more poignant by the personal demons that affected his work, and eventually took his life, is heart-breaking.

Your thoughts - or your own favourite?

[teag1rl]

Gone Away-The Offspring. Always has me balling

[scarletpimp]

"I Dreamed a dream" (from Les Miserables)...particularly when sung by Ruthie Henshell

[4getmenot]

Candlelight 911 remix, with the little girl who's daddy died in 911 :-(

[Gill 05]

Eric Clapton - "Tears In Heaven". A tribute to Claptons son Conor, who died in 1991, after falling from the 53rd floor of an apartment block aged just 4and a half. Reduces me to tears every time I hear it :-(

[B00]

I'm will Gill on this one- how you pick your life up after something like this is beyond me. The song's heart-breaking.

[andy-hughes]

That was one for me too Gill 05 and Boo, I heard EC perform it on TV just after his son had died, he played it sitting with an accoustic in his lap, and I was weeping buckets by the time he got to the end!

[gary baldy]

I Want You by Elvis Costello
Ship Building by Robert Wyatt
Save the Children by Marvin Gaye
Northern Sky by Nick Drake (in fact most of Nick Drake's back catalogue!)
and for some inexplicable reason Baby Can i Hold You by Tracy Chapman (must be something rooted deep in my subconscious because i can find no reason to find it so moving!)

[gary baldy]

By the way this must be the only question i have ever seen you post andy - something happening to prompt it maybe? (none of my business of course!)

[sheffwed39]

how about honey by bobby goldsboro.

[andy-hughes]

Hi gary baldy - no nothing at all, I just latched onto this song, and I'm playing it constantly. I love music that moves me like this, so I thought I'd check out everyone else's opinions.

Thanks for your concern - much appreciated!

[stoo_pid]

Nilsson - Without You. Gets me every single time

[ermintrude35]

..strange little girl - the stranglers...

..night swimminr - r.e.m...

...lullaby - the cure..

...I love N.Y.E - badly drawn boy..

...old red eyes is back - beautiful south

...the wind cries mary - jimi hendrix

...wires - athlete...

...hallelujah - leonard cohen

..no bravery - james blunt..

...the end - the doors

.....I guess I'm just a very emotional person...sniff...excuse me while I go find some kleenex..

...

[B00]

Just thought of another- Emma by Hot Chocolate.

[sithlord]

Ghosts - Japan

[kingrat]

*belfast child* simple minds

[Curlylox2006]

"I want to know what love is" by Foreigner. A classic.

[markieboy]

Music is very emotive, and personal, songs that effect me are. The Dark Is Rising, by Mercury Rev, and Going Back by Dusty Springfield, which i have requested be played at my funeral. I know it's not popular but the hymn Abide with Me, also stir's my emotions, while on this subject Peter Sellars famously had In The Mood played at his funeral, what song would bring a smile to your friends ?.

[Greedyfly]

Grace - U2 gets a lump in my throat

[luckyboy]

Nothing compares to u - sinead o'connor.

Jealous guy the version by roxy music.

Makes me think of john lennon.

And a very old one,

Supper time by ethel waters written by irving berlin about a lynching of a husband by a group of klansman in the racist south.

No matter what you're taste in music its as heart-renching as they come.

[zara 4]

Mine is most definately THE SCORPIONS and WIND OF CHANGE,its a memoriam song for me and i used to cry constantly when i heard it so i used to avoid playing it myself its only since the end of last year that i can listen to it without crying.