Puts a lump in your throat and makes you rethink your life?(lol)
Without you by Air Supply
Forever Young (specifically the youth group cover). Especially after hearing it played in a tribute to Philip Hughes in 2014. Life is so fucking unfair sometimes
2nd that. That song hurts.
The entire Frozen 2 soundtrack.
I’m sure I have a lot, but comes to mind:
EDIT: Sorry this turned into a big reply haha…
- Zombie (both the original and the 2016 Bad Wolves cover) , the second it opens, just visceral; it’s the same old thing, in [2026], in our heads…
- The Kids Aren’t Alright by The Offspring , I hate relating so hard to this as a generation, watching so many kids with promise just get smothered out surviving in a bleak “cruelest dream reality.” Oft by drugs and hopelessness.
- In the Arms of an Angel by Sarah McLachlan : My mom always cries if she hears this song because her late mom did too. Then my cousin sang it at my dad’s funeral so…Yeah, I don’t let that one play. Sorry, Sarah.
- Immortal by Marina and the Diamonds ; The entire song is beautiful and profound. “And if the earth ends in fire, and the seas are frozen in time, there’ll be just one survivor, the memory that I was yours and you were mine.” (Holy shit just typing that…)
- Pretty When I Cry by Silent Rival ; Such a beautiful song I thought was about a partner who taught the singer about true unconditional love… It’s about her late mother. It empowers me to fight to be there for those I love, and it sends a powerful message that we can be strong in our weakness.
- Dust in the Wind by Kansas ; anything about the fleetingness of life hits me hard.
- Memories by Maroon 5. I miss people…
Lots of happy songs too…Like they’re beautiful and wistful and lovely and I think I cry because I can’t imagine such peace… My wife likes these songs and I guess I kinda break imagining us getting to just unshoulder our burdens and truly live.
- Perfect by Ed Sheeran
- Just Too Good by Phil Wickham
- “Will the Circle Be Unbroken?” , a popular Christian hymn from 1907, made prominent in recent history by BioShock Infinite.
- On that note, Amazing Grace really is amazing, but it doesn’t help that it’s the ‘somebody died’ song now…
- The Prayer by many artists: Celine Dion and Andre Bocelli
- Prayer by Hayley Westenra
- In My Arms by Plumb (has some sweet remixes, but man, a mother’s love is truly something…our first is on the way and I really feel it now…)
- Somewhere Only We Know by Lily Allen
… Okay I’m sensing a theme here. Yeah, I’m a person of faith. Thinking of a refuge in my Father where I can stop worrying, stop fearing, stop fighting. Songs about pure and unyielding love, or lullabies , crush me instead of relax me for some reason. Maybe because the contrast with our present circumstances is so harshly defined and such respite feels like it can’t be had in this life.
- Brothers of Metal – Yggdrasil
- Order Ogan – Fields of Sorrow
- Sabaton – No Bullets Fly
I’ll have to check these out. I’ll add another Sabaton here:
- Christmas Truce
It’s powerful. The “true meaning of Christmas” has been satirized and watered down to death in our time…
…But there was a time it truly could stop a war. It could get people to lay down their guns and be brothers again.
Their “superiors” forced them back into battle. If we all snubbed our masters and just stopped fighting, what could we be?
La Dispute - King Park
Story of a an accidental shooting of a kid by another kid
Jamie Hay - Where Do The Missing Go?
The story of a missing child who was killed and buried by their parents
Red Tape Parade - Leap Year of Faith
(RIP Wauz) The last song my friend Wauz wrote before he died. His band finished recording it after he passed. The music video especially gets me recognising so many faces.
Cats in the Cradle
As I Am by dream theater
Dammit
The closest I have to that, is Hate Me by Blue October.
The night we met by lord Huron
“I had all and then most of you, some and now none of you” fucks me up every time, incredible songA Warm Place by Nine Inch Nails.
Something about this song takes me right back to a certain time and friend group in high school.
I’m the only one still standing after a loss this last winter and I can’t even think of listening to this track for a few more months.
RIP K.I.D. you and the rest of the tree people are missed.
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I’m sorry for your loss. Such a beautiful, unforgettable melody.
A Better Place, A Better Time by Streetlight Manifesto always fucks me up.
I mean not so much an emotionally break me down but tulls we used to know, elegy (which has a wierd life thing that happened), and further on. They definately have the power to shift my mood.
He stopped loving her today by George Jones.
The First Time ever I saw your face by Johnny Cash.
Fast Car by Tracy Chapman.
Fast car still chokes me up
