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The Ballad of Bill Hubbard/Amused to Death by Roger Waters. Fusilier Alfred Razzell's account of having to leave his dying friend in no man's land opens the album. He returns at the end to describe how, decades later he sees Hubbard's name on a war memorial and realises his body was found and recovered - that's when it gets me.

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Reach Out I'll Be There - The Four Tops
Crazy Baby - Joan Osborne

Reach Out was one of a set of songs I put on a tape & sent to someone. It led to a tumultuous period in my life.
Crazy Baby I discovered when I was at my lowest after everything then fell apart.
I can't listen to either song now.

I agree with Johnny Cash's version of Hurt too.

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[quote name='leschirons' timestamp='1458395534' post='3007242']
Meet on the ledge Fairport convention.
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I'm not a blubber, but this always brings a lump to the throat, as does Who Knows Where the Time Goes. Pink Floyd's When the Tigers Broke Free is a choker too.

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Disarm by The Smashing Pumpkins has always been really powerful but the cover by The Civil Wars adds another level..

[url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWWqoHZmUd0"]https://www.youtube....h?v=zWWqoHZmUd0[/url]

also, Day Is Gone by Noah Gundersen is heartbreakingly sad...

[url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQuuoD13Llw"]https://www.youtube....h?v=MQuuoD13Llw[/url]

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This one actually[i] did[/i] make me cry, but it was the beauty of the performance (with Rodney Crowell at Bristol Colston Hall):

http://youtu.be/l3LQeRqTBK4

And this one did when I played it to Mrs Axe - something about sharing it with another person:

http://youtu.be/Xad0Qyu__cE

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[quote name='DarkHeart' timestamp='1458257175' post='3006164']
I`ll add Take Thats `Rule the World` it was out when my last dog passed and we had a star named after her (probably not really but I have a certificate) and the lyrics get me thinking about her everytime I hear it cos Im such a softy!
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This song gets to me too -- at around about the time it came out, my mum was in the protracted process of closing her eyes and fading away, so for me the first verse is forever associated with that. It's a good song but no, I just can't listen to it.

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I find Baz Lurhmann's 'Everybody's Free (to wear sunscreen)' especially poignant. It always makes me think of my two older children who are now all grown up and making their own way in the world. They were both little when it came out and I could imagine me passing on similar advice to them, not to make the same mistakes I made. Now they're old enough to not need me and I always get this strange tightening in my throat when I hear it.

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There's a singer called Karine Polwart, who has a number of songs which make me cry, because they are just a really moving combination of music, melody and words.

Follow the Heron, and Waterlily, for example.

Also Adam Cohen's So Much To Learn is proper lump in throat stuff.

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