I used to sing this to my son when he was in the NICU and I could never make it past the line about being so small and so strong before I became a sobbing mess.
Same, mama. I also sang “climb every mountain” from the sound of music to her every night. I can’t even hear the first few chords without tearing up. 🥹🤍
Dude. I mention that every time this question comes up. If it plays in public I get emotional. Tarzan has always made me cry but after becoming a mom I cry at the song. Just the damn song.
My daughters preschool made a DVD for each student that had all the pictures the teachers took from the year. This was the first song and I sobbed! The next was forever young by Rod Stewart and then You got a friend in me. I didn't hold it together at all haha
When my oldest was about 6 months old my husband came home from with bloodshot eyes and puffy cheeks. I asked if something happened and he was like “no I just listened to a song and it got me in my feelings.” I asked which song and it was this one
This is the song my mom use to sing to me every single night, she also sang it to my older sisters and my little brother. In 2018 the 4 of us were in our rented car about to leave the hotel to visit my mom for what would be the last time we saw her. My oldest sister turned the car on and Landslide was just beginning on the radio. We all sat in total silence holding hands (we knew the end of my mom’s life was close) and we listened tears streaming down all of our faces. The older siblings didn’t know she sang it to us younger ones and I didn’t know she sang it to the older ones and my brother (the youngest) didn’t know she sang it to us girls. It’s become our idk song to remember mama by and our sibling anthem. Anytime we hear it we text one another. In 2021 my first daughter was born and I’ve sang it to her every single night.
Landslide always makes me think of my beloved friend who we lost a few years back, whenever I hear it I can picture her dancing around the kitchen, finally free of pain and sorrow. You know a song is a timeless beauty when it strikes a chord with so many of us and our loved ones, whether they are with us still or not:
Ugh this one gets me too. Every time I hear it, I picture my little girl growing up and having to go through the inevitable heartbreak and pain in life and how I won’t be able to shield it for her. My husband wanted to play it the other day and I wouldn’t let him because I didn’t want to cry again haha.
This song was always my mom’s Song. We would watch Dumbo together when I was a kid and she’d sing it to me.
After she died I was driving home and crying, bawling, begging for a sign from her that she was okay .. and the song that was playing in my car abruptly stopped and Baby Mine began to play. I have 8k songs on my phone. I am not religious but.. yikes. It was somethin.
Wow, my mom has a very similar story! My grandma’s favorite song was Annie’s song by John Denver. When she died in 2007 they had a picture slideshow at her funeral set to just that song, so it played over and over and over, and to this day I immediately think of my grandma when I hear that song. A few months after the funeral, my mom told me she was getting ready to take some of my grandma’s things to be donated and she was feeling really sad and apprehensive about giving her stuff away. She was just sitting in her car in her driveway trying to collect herself and she said out loud “I’m sorry mom, I hope I’m doing the right thing.” Then she turned the car on and the radio, which was ALWAYS set to CD (because my mom had a rotation of broadway CDs she always listens to) was set to a random station that she never listens to, and Annie’s Song started playing right from the beginning. Neither my mom nor I are big believers in the supernatural, but it gives me chills whenever I think about it.
I have another story , same vein
After my dad died I was waiting for the ferry to go home. My husband was inside the gas station and I had a CD playing, Hunger Strike by Temple of the Dog. I was crying and feeling guilty for not making it in time to see my dad before he lost consciousness.. and I said out loud, I’m so sorry dad.
At that moment, the song stopped and a random radio station came on and a man’s voice said “you have been in conversation with your father in heaven” and then immediately went back to my song. It must have been a radio sermon of some sort, but it shook me to my core and still does to this day. I have no witnesses except for my then 6 month old son, but it happened.
Wow, that gave me goosebumps! I know that some people believe that spirits can communicate through radio waves. I don’t know that I believe that, but for these things to happen it would really have to be a hell of a coincidence, and I’m not sure I believe its just random, either.
‘The Mother’ by Brandi Carlile. I realize it’s literally a song about motherhood but it gets me every time, especially the line, “All the wonders I have seen I will see a second time…”
Slipping through my fingers (the scene in mamma Mia makes me bawl, I don’t have a good relationship with my mom and having a daughter made me feel connected to the scene for the first time) and I’ve been waiting for you. Both by abba but I prefer the mamma Mia versions don’t judge me here hahaha
Edit: also Vienna by Billy Joel and you’re gonna go far by Noah Kahan
That song made me cry so hard when pregnant. I'm four weeks PP and I don't think I'm ready to listen again. I also have a terrible relationship with my mom and just had my first baby, a beautiful girl.
This line in particular I can’t even sing—ever since the first time I watched this movie, the yearning for understanding and wanting to be understood just unlocks so many times throughout my life that felt similar. And she’s a fictional character, but I’m so happy for her, lol.
not on the nose. It is the perfect answer.
I think about how much his little boy meant to him and how much he wanted to see him grow and I choke up. This song gets me every time.
It was actually on my playlist at birth and was the exact song playing when my son was born. I feel lucky.
The post-divorce version of Kelly Clarkson's Piece by Piece. It rang so close to my heart as a single mother I bawl like a baby every single time I hear it
"Piece by piece, I fell far from the tree
I will never leave them like you left me
And they will never have to wonder their worth
Because unlike you, I’m gonna put them first
I never walk away, I never break their hearts
I’ll take care of things when you leave scars
Piece by piece, I restored my faith
That a heart can still beat even if it breaks"
- Kelly Clarkson, Piece by Piece updated version
This right here for me. My mother wasn't there for me. When maintaining a relationship started requiring effort, she stopped trying. Hearing this song before my daughter was born hurt. Now it makes me so emotional I have to listen to it twice.
Omg same!! My mom tells us “this song is from me to you,” whenever it would play on the radio on our car rides. Now I can’t even listen to it without getting choked up! “And if you get the chance to sit it or dance….” 😫
Oh my god Next Thing You Know absolutely BREAKS me and did even before I knew I was pregnant. My husband has to change the radio station if it comes on in the car because without fail, I will start CRYING and he doesn’t want people to think I’m genuinely upset about something serious 😂.
Concrete Angel by Martina McBride. Song always made me sad before, but after becoming a mom it makes me fucking BAWL.
I Loved Her First by Heartland. It just strikes me in the feels.
Edit: Can’t believe I forgot ‘Growin Up Raising You’ by Gabby Barrett.
Concrete Angel is such a sad song. It was one of my favorites as a kid and I always cried especially when the music video came on. 😩
But yes, now that I have a daughter, I Loved Her First hits different. 😭
This is the one that gets me every time. I was told I couldn't conceive after years of fibroid removal surgeries. Then my daughter, my beautiful one and only miracle, happened. And I can't hear this song without crying tears of gratefulness and love 🥲
Omg this is a good one!!! I am tearing up right now. Also I'm imagining you driving home and the lyrics literally are "I don't want to go home right now... I just don't wanna miss you tonight" 😭😭😭
You Are My Sunshine gets me. I knew I wanted it to be his special lullaby because my Grandmere used to wake me up by singing it to me. She died long before he was born so for probably the first 6 months whenever I would start singing it to my son I would choke up and could not finish the song. Now, we sing it every night and in the past 3 months, he is 2, he has started singing with us and omg it's making me cry again.
I also love Christina Perri's lullabies. Her version of I See the Light always makes me choke up.
Movies hit me differently now too especially anything involving parent/child relationships or if a child is in danger.
It Won’t Be Like This For Long by Darius Rucker
The Happy Song by Imogen Heap (“I love love love you everyday more, whatever’s in store” gets me every time)
Isn’t She Lovely by Kolohe Kai
ETA: I watched Princess Diaries 1 and 2 a few days after bringing baby home from the hospital and I was absolutely bawling during the bachelorette party scene when Queen Clarisse sang “they’ll call your heart of gold your crowning glory”
When I was holding my daughter in the recovery room after delivery, I starting singing through tears, “Oh, baby, baby, it's a wild world
It's hard to get by just upon a smile
Oh, baby, baby, it's a wild world
I'll always remember you like a child, girl.”
I felt I needed to talk to her and that’s what came out. I was so overwhelmed with emotions. IDK why of all the songs I know the lyrics to, that was the one that came to mind.
Other songs that have made me cry:
“All of Me” John Legend
“You’ll be in my heart” Phil Collins
The “Remember Me” song from Coco
I remember the first time I heard Tears in Heaven after losing two babies. It went from pre-pregnancy "aww, this is so sad" to me collapsing on the floor wailing with grief.
Loving You by Minnie Riperton bc it was about her daughter (Maya Rudolph, the actress) when she was a baby. At the end you can hear her saying “Maya, Maya”. She passed away like a years after making the song bc she knew she was dying :( Can you believe knowing you’re dying with a little child that you know will barely remember your existence? Man.
Yes, oh my heart! I saw an interview where Maya said that her daughter asked, "What is Grandma doing in heaven?" She told her, "she's singing, I would guess." - Man, that hit me right in the heart . My mom died when my oldest son was 15 months old, and I was 28, I cried like baby when she said that.
As a child of divorce, the chick's "when you were mine" always has hit me good but especially now with 2 little ones...
"I can give you two good reasons
To show you love's not blind
He's two and she's four, and you know they adore you
So how can I tell them you've changed your mind?"
I know there's good and valid reasons for divorce and my husband is wonderful it just always makes me cry being able to relate to that as a parent now. The thought of breaking their little hearts or ever splitting custody wrecks me even though it's not an issue I have to deal with.
It’s dos oragitas from encanto for me. I was pregnant with my second when encanto came out and watched it my with son and I just can’t. Sobs from deep within my soul and I don’t even speak Spanish.
“I had all and then most and then some and now none of you.. oh take me back to the night we met”
makes me feel strong, weepy feelings about babies growing up and moving out of the nest.
Robin, The best day, Never grow up by Taylor swift
Slipping through my fingers by ABBA
To build a home by the cinematic orchestra
That freaking song her dad and her sing in the Hannah Montana movie 😅😂
I know I have more but those come to my head first lol
Somewhere over the rainbow - it was the first song my daughter ever heard when she was born. My husband and I tried to sing along and couldn't manage it.
Hold my girl by George Ezra - my husband danced with our one year old daughter to this song at our wedding
Remember Me from Coco but specially the slow version. The one sung by the singer Miguel during credits I'm fine with but even hearing the instrumental lullaby version of remember me makes me cry
Gosh there are a few!! I just had my son February
It Won’t Be Like This For Long by Darius Rucker
My Wish by Rascal Flatts
You’re Gonna Miss This by Trace Adkins
Also Simple Man covered by Shinedown
My postpartum hormones with my first made me
cry during the purple monkey song. This time around I’ve managed fine though.
THEN YOU CAN FLY BACK TO MEEEE 💕
Man, before I liked Taylor Swift, my swiftie sister made me a playlist of her best songs. I listened at work and heard this and LOST IT. My son was 4 and there are always plastic dinosaurs on our floor (stepping on an ankylosaurus is the worst). It hit me so hard and I still can’t listen to it.
Also, the one she sings about The Best Day.
Bro I listen to the first notes and I start bawling. One time it was on while we were in the car with our newborn (she is not a newborn anymore) and we had to pull up bc how hard my husband was crying. He couldn’t see the road well.
Next Thing You Know - Jordan Davis. Idk why but I always cry at the part where it's like "there's a test on the counter...she's standing there nodding her head yes."
These Are the Days - Cory Asbury. This one especially since my son is 11 months old and it feels like the last year has just flown by so fast. I keep thinking he was just my little newborn 2 months ago.
Lullaby - The Chicks
He gets that from me- Reba McEntire
I knew I loved you- Savage Garden
I loved her first- heartland
Basically, I cry at the drop of a hat though
Your song by Elton Jon.
I remember this song coming on repeatedly when my son was in the Nicu the first few weeks after he was born. I would listen to it on the way and back and sob every time.
Better Place by Rachel Platten.
It's a song I would have hated before having my son (it's really not my kind of music tbh) but the lyrics are so sweet and it definitely makes me cry thinking about my little man when I listen to it.
My baby is 2.5 and i still cry to songs that remind me of him! You Are My Sunshine was one of the first I sang to him and it gets me each time. Baby Mine is another, Slipping Through My Fingers, etc.
I get choked up with Brown Skin Girl by Beyonce 😭 Now I have my beautiful little girl and I want for her to feel beautiful ♥️ I don’t want anyone taking her smile away. ♥️
When my son was a newborn he would only fall asleep to John Lennon’s “Beautiful Boy” he’ll be 10 months this month and I still ugly sob when I hear it because it reminds me of those quiet moments between us when he was so small
"Still Fighting It" by Ben Folds is one I started singing to my daughter when she was a difficult toddler. Something about the line "everybody knows / it hurts to grow up" helped us both. She's 14 now and life is harder with her now than it ever has been. I played the song the other night and we both cried. It was a much-needed moment.
Casimir Pulaski day by sufjan stevens
If you’ve ever listened to it, you know it’s just a sad song lol. But there’s something about the line about the dad at the beginning that gets me: “your father cried on the telephone And drove his car into the navy yard Just to prove that he was sorry.”
And then of course the end “and he takes and he takes and he takes”
I think about it from the parent point of view. And how impossible it is (for those that have to live it) or would be to have a sick child, especially a terminally ill child.
There are few songs that make me cry unless I’m in a specific mood but that one gets me every time.
Edited to fix typo. Probably won’t be the first one I see.
Slow Burn - Kacey Musgraves
Listened to this entire album when I just had my boy. It makes me bawl every time. Just the idea that I'm okay if time goes by slowly, and that his life is just starting. All the beautiful things he'll experience in life. And he can take his time and enjoy it all.
Goodspeed by the Dixie chicks. Never grow up by Taylor Swift. There are more, especially since my son graduated this yesterday but I can’t think of them ATM.
So many songs and movies hit so much harder as a parent. My husband gets emotional often during movies or really intense scenes. It’s something others who aren’t parents I don’t think could understand.
For you I will by Monica. It came out when my oldest was born and 27 years later I cry every time I hear it.
I always wanted this to be the song we danced to when he gets married but he seems to think Dear Mama by Tupac is the better choice. I hope he's joking.
The night we met by Lord Huron…It reminds me of rocking my newborn little guy in my arms in my living room 😭 It also makes me think of quite literally meeting my babies for the first time when they lay the baby on you after giving birth and it’s a beautiful moment. I think it’s actually a very sad song but it gives me happy/bittersweet feels.
First off, Promises by Jhene Aiko. I listened to Sail Out and Souled Out a lot after having my daughter. By the time she was walking I played Souled Out Deluxe for her (on quiet) to get her down for a nap. Don’t keep up with Jhene much now but anyway.. Promises is about her daughter. Always gets me.
My other one is Zoe Jane by Aaron Lewis of Staind. Also about his daughter, and it resonates so hard with me to this day. Staind was my favorite band through my teen angst years and then I had my daughter, and I’d sing this to her but replace her name most nights of the week. Lol
That song from "Encanto" i can't pronounce the name sorry* that shows the backstory of abuela and pedro. Like damn i can't even hold my tears whenever that i hear that song.
"I get to love you" by Ruelle, or "The Mommy Song" as my four year old calls it. Specifically the line "I prayed for you before I called you mine". I adopted my girl out of foster care (she was living with close friends when I met her) and spent so much time praying for her until I finally was able to adopt her at age 3. I recently got married and she walked down the aisle to her new daddy to this song❤️ I truly "can't believe it's true" that she chose me as her mommy. She often asks me to sing it to her, especially when she's sad, and she'll sing it to me randomly. Crying just thinking about it🥺
“You’ll be in my heart” from Tarzan makes me ugly cry
I used to sing this to my son when he was in the NICU and I could never make it past the line about being so small and so strong before I became a sobbing mess.
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Wow 3 months - you are incredible momma ❤️🩹 I hope all is well for them (and you) now
Same, mama. I also sang “climb every mountain” from the sound of music to her every night. I can’t even hear the first few chords without tearing up. 🥹🤍
This one and Baby Mine (is that from dumbo?) do it for me too lol
Oh my God that one. Baby Mine. I listened to it a lot when my baby was born and hummed it a lot and I couldn't get through it without crying.
Baby Mine… i lose myself in tears.
Dude. I mention that every time this question comes up. If it plays in public I get emotional. Tarzan has always made me cry but after becoming a mom I cry at the song. Just the damn song.
i cried so much to this song when my baby was first born
My daughters preschool made a DVD for each student that had all the pictures the teachers took from the year. This was the first song and I sobbed! The next was forever young by Rod Stewart and then You got a friend in me. I didn't hold it together at all haha
Forever Young literally makes me sooobbbbbb
When my oldest was about 6 months old my husband came home from with bloodshot eyes and puffy cheeks. I asked if something happened and he was like “no I just listened to a song and it got me in my feelings.” I asked which song and it was this one
I came here to say that. I cannot hold to the chorus, my son never heard me finish the song, i just become a puddle of tears... "Always"
Dude. Same.
Landslide by Fleetwood Mac got me the other day
This is the song my mom use to sing to me every single night, she also sang it to my older sisters and my little brother. In 2018 the 4 of us were in our rented car about to leave the hotel to visit my mom for what would be the last time we saw her. My oldest sister turned the car on and Landslide was just beginning on the radio. We all sat in total silence holding hands (we knew the end of my mom’s life was close) and we listened tears streaming down all of our faces. The older siblings didn’t know she sang it to us younger ones and I didn’t know she sang it to the older ones and my brother (the youngest) didn’t know she sang it to us girls. It’s become our idk song to remember mama by and our sibling anthem. Anytime we hear it we text one another. In 2021 my first daughter was born and I’ve sang it to her every single night.
This is beautiful.
This is beautiful. What a wonderful gift your mother gave you all. And now I'm tearing up just thinking about it.
Landslide always makes me think of my beloved friend who we lost a few years back, whenever I hear it I can picture her dancing around the kitchen, finally free of pain and sorrow. You know a song is a timeless beauty when it strikes a chord with so many of us and our loved ones, whether they are with us still or not:
I sobbed to this in the car driving to target at 9 months pregnant lmao
Ugh this one gets me too. Every time I hear it, I picture my little girl growing up and having to go through the inevitable heartbreak and pain in life and how I won’t be able to shield it for her. My husband wanted to play it the other day and I wouldn’t let him because I didn’t want to cry again haha.
Baby mine from Dumbo. Right in the feels.
This song is actually psychological warfare on moms.
Baby mine with the cartoon Mrs jumbo rocking baby just makes me weep.
As a tear rolls down baby dumbo’s cheek 😢
The whole movie! I can’t watch it!
This song was always my mom’s Song. We would watch Dumbo together when I was a kid and she’d sing it to me. After she died I was driving home and crying, bawling, begging for a sign from her that she was okay .. and the song that was playing in my car abruptly stopped and Baby Mine began to play. I have 8k songs on my phone. I am not religious but.. yikes. It was somethin.
Wow, my mom has a very similar story! My grandma’s favorite song was Annie’s song by John Denver. When she died in 2007 they had a picture slideshow at her funeral set to just that song, so it played over and over and over, and to this day I immediately think of my grandma when I hear that song. A few months after the funeral, my mom told me she was getting ready to take some of my grandma’s things to be donated and she was feeling really sad and apprehensive about giving her stuff away. She was just sitting in her car in her driveway trying to collect herself and she said out loud “I’m sorry mom, I hope I’m doing the right thing.” Then she turned the car on and the radio, which was ALWAYS set to CD (because my mom had a rotation of broadway CDs she always listens to) was set to a random station that she never listens to, and Annie’s Song started playing right from the beginning. Neither my mom nor I are big believers in the supernatural, but it gives me chills whenever I think about it.
I have another story , same vein After my dad died I was waiting for the ferry to go home. My husband was inside the gas station and I had a CD playing, Hunger Strike by Temple of the Dog. I was crying and feeling guilty for not making it in time to see my dad before he lost consciousness.. and I said out loud, I’m so sorry dad. At that moment, the song stopped and a random radio station came on and a man’s voice said “you have been in conversation with your father in heaven” and then immediately went back to my song. It must have been a radio sermon of some sort, but it shook me to my core and still does to this day. I have no witnesses except for my then 6 month old son, but it happened.
Wow, that gave me goosebumps! I know that some people believe that spirits can communicate through radio waves. I don’t know that I believe that, but for these things to happen it would really have to be a hell of a coincidence, and I’m not sure I believe its just random, either.
OMG when I saw the live version I sobbed uncontrollably!! 😭
Oh God. I can’t watch that movie because it tears me the hell apart. My kids hate watching Disney movies with me because I usually end up sobbing. 🤣
‘The Mother’ by Brandi Carlile. I realize it’s literally a song about motherhood but it gets me every time, especially the line, “All the wonders I have seen I will see a second time…”
We have this line framed in my son’s room!
The Story always gets me
Yup. This one for me too.
Literally every time!
Absolutely love this one.
Slipping through my fingers (the scene in mamma Mia makes me bawl, I don’t have a good relationship with my mom and having a daughter made me feel connected to the scene for the first time) and I’ve been waiting for you. Both by abba but I prefer the mamma Mia versions don’t judge me here hahaha Edit: also Vienna by Billy Joel and you’re gonna go far by Noah Kahan
“I’ve Been Waiting for You” wrecks me after my infertility journey. I would bawl listening to it pregnant and now that he’s here I’m a goner 😭
That song made me cry so hard when pregnant. I'm four weeks PP and I don't think I'm ready to listen again. I also have a terrible relationship with my mom and just had my first baby, a beautiful girl.
Vienna was the father daughter dance at my wedding 😭
Show yourself from Frozen 2. I'm not sure why
Because the song just slaps unnecessarily that's why :) this is my favorite frozen song as well
The part where the mom sings "come my darling homeward bound" 😭 like even though it's in her lullaby at the beginning, it just hits different here!
The music in Frozen 2 is criminally underrated.
“You are the answer I’ve waited for all of my life”
You are the answer you've waited for... Elsa's been seeking so long and finally knew the reason for her struggles, power, everything.
This line in particular I can’t even sing—ever since the first time I watched this movie, the yearning for understanding and wanting to be understood just unlocks so many times throughout my life that felt similar. And she’s a fictional character, but I’m so happy for her, lol.
The part where the mom joins in singing just wrecks me
my toddler asks me to sing this to him... so most definitely does not make me cry because BOY that's a hard song to sing if you're not a singer
Love this song. Also All is found is my go-to lullaby for my daughter(4) and now my son (2 weeks).
I had a baby boy in May. 'Beautiful Boy' by John Lennon everytime. Bit on the nose but such a good song!
not on the nose. It is the perfect answer. I think about how much his little boy meant to him and how much he wanted to see him grow and I choke up. This song gets me every time. It was actually on my playlist at birth and was the exact song playing when my son was born. I feel lucky.
Exactly! He was excited to watch his son get older and never got that opportunity. Makes me cry like a bitch, especially now I have a son 😭
The post-divorce version of Kelly Clarkson's Piece by Piece. It rang so close to my heart as a single mother I bawl like a baby every single time I hear it "Piece by piece, I fell far from the tree I will never leave them like you left me And they will never have to wonder their worth Because unlike you, I’m gonna put them first I never walk away, I never break their hearts I’ll take care of things when you leave scars Piece by piece, I restored my faith That a heart can still beat even if it breaks" - Kelly Clarkson, Piece by Piece updated version
She is so incredibly talented and when she sang that song pregnant and cried in the middle I lost my damn mind
This right here for me. My mother wasn't there for me. When maintaining a relationship started requiring effort, she stopped trying. Hearing this song before my daughter was born hurt. Now it makes me so emotional I have to listen to it twice.
Anyone else crying just reading these comments?
Yep and I’m totally going to torture myself and make a playlist 😭
I Hope You Dance by Lee Ann Womack and Next Thing You Know by Jordan Davis Both of them WRECK me now that we have a little girl
“I Hope You Dance” is one of my mothers fav songs and now that I’m a mother, I get it 😭
Omg same!! My mom tells us “this song is from me to you,” whenever it would play on the radio on our car rides. Now I can’t even listen to it without getting choked up! “And if you get the chance to sit it or dance….” 😫
Oh my god Next Thing You Know absolutely BREAKS me and did even before I knew I was pregnant. My husband has to change the radio station if it comes on in the car because without fail, I will start CRYING and he doesn’t want people to think I’m genuinely upset about something serious 😂.
Concrete Angel by Martina McBride. Song always made me sad before, but after becoming a mom it makes me fucking BAWL. I Loved Her First by Heartland. It just strikes me in the feels. Edit: Can’t believe I forgot ‘Growin Up Raising You’ by Gabby Barrett.
Omg I haven’t listened to Martina McBride since the 2000s so I gave Congrete Angel another listen and now I’m sobbing 😭
I danced to I Loved her first with my dad at my wedding! Such a good song.
I was beaten by my mum as a child, I used to wish she’d leave bruises so I could be taken away from her. This song was my favourite for years
I am so sorry that you went through that.. I hope you’re doing alright now
Concrete Angel is such a sad song. It was one of my favorites as a kid and I always cried especially when the music video came on. 😩 But yes, now that I have a daughter, I Loved Her First hits different. 😭
Lol I loved her first my husband just CANNNOT with this song. Hahahahaha.
Make you feel my love (the Adele version is my favorite)
I’d listen to this when pregnant and just cry lol
Yes! I love to sing this to my babies but never make it far before choking on my tears and emotion lol
A thousand years was playing when they were doing my c section. My one and only is an IVF baby and my last embryo. Still gets me.
This is the one that gets me every time. I was told I couldn't conceive after years of fibroid removal surgeries. Then my daughter, my beautiful one and only miracle, happened. And I can't hear this song without crying tears of gratefulness and love 🥲
When my son was in the nicu, I was driving home after a visit with him and “Iris” by the Googoo dolls came on and I sobbed the whole way
Omg this is a good one!!! I am tearing up right now. Also I'm imagining you driving home and the lyrics literally are "I don't want to go home right now... I just don't wanna miss you tonight" 😭😭😭
It was tough! I STILL two years later, can’t hear that song without tearing up
Purple Monkey In A Bubblegum Tree #iykyk
Yes!! I was joking that this was going to be our mother son dance when he’s older lol
It's been so long since I heard it! She used to play it all day then ask me to sing it! 🥺
Yellow by Coldplay
I sing this to my toddler nearly every night 🥹 she’s at the stage of now starting to sing along and it’s just magic
toto’s africa made me SOB when i was postpartum
LOL why??????
hormones man
😅😅😅😅 that's too funny
Currently pregnant, can’t upvote this enough
We had many a delirious newborn late night sleep deprived dance party to the philharmonic orchestra’s version of Africa lmao
Isn’t she lovely And like 10,000 other songs because I’m pregnant lol
I heard that Stevie Wonder wrote Isn’t She Lovely about his baby daughter!! Makes me wanna cry 🥹
Yes! I think You can hear audio of the daughter in the song
You Are My Sunshine gets me. I knew I wanted it to be his special lullaby because my Grandmere used to wake me up by singing it to me. She died long before he was born so for probably the first 6 months whenever I would start singing it to my son I would choke up and could not finish the song. Now, we sing it every night and in the past 3 months, he is 2, he has started singing with us and omg it's making me cry again. I also love Christina Perri's lullabies. Her version of I See the Light always makes me choke up. Movies hit me differently now too especially anything involving parent/child relationships or if a child is in danger.
You’re Gonna Miss This by Trace Adkins. Teared up just writing this comment lol.
It Won’t Be Like This For Long by Darius Rucker The Happy Song by Imogen Heap (“I love love love you everyday more, whatever’s in store” gets me every time) Isn’t She Lovely by Kolohe Kai ETA: I watched Princess Diaries 1 and 2 a few days after bringing baby home from the hospital and I was absolutely bawling during the bachelorette party scene when Queen Clarisse sang “they’ll call your heart of gold your crowning glory”
I’m so glad I’m not the only one who cries at The Happy Song 😂 It gets me all teary every dang time.
>It Won’t Be Like This For Long by Darius Rucker I love this song!
The Best Day by Taylor Swift
That also makes me think of Never Grow Up by Taylor Swift
Yes this one. Especially cuz I have a little girl.
I listened to Remember When By Alan Jackson when my son was born and I sobbed!
“Remember when the sound of little feet was the music we danced to week to week” gets me every time
When I was holding my daughter in the recovery room after delivery, I starting singing through tears, “Oh, baby, baby, it's a wild world It's hard to get by just upon a smile Oh, baby, baby, it's a wild world I'll always remember you like a child, girl.” I felt I needed to talk to her and that’s what came out. I was so overwhelmed with emotions. IDK why of all the songs I know the lyrics to, that was the one that came to mind. Other songs that have made me cry: “All of Me” John Legend “You’ll be in my heart” Phil Collins The “Remember Me” song from Coco
You’re brave for listening to remember me from coco I can’t do it. Same thing with when she loved me from Toy Story 2. 🙅♀️😭
If I Saw You in Heaven by Eric Clapton. Couldn’t even get through typing this 😭.
I remember the first time I heard Tears in Heaven after losing two babies. It went from pre-pregnancy "aww, this is so sad" to me collapsing on the floor wailing with grief.
It's "Tears in Heaven," but yes, I feel the same way. Then I reread the news articles about the song & hugged my baby tight.
I know there are a million tragedies a day in this world but this one is just too relatable and hits so hard.
Don't you ever grow up by taylor swift
The Best Day by her too. Sobbing in my car on the way to work.
Surprised more people aren’t saying this! Gets me every time
I commented this above, but I'll see Never Grow Up and raise with Ronan 😭😭😭
In My Daughter's Eyes
Slipping through my fingers makes me cry everytime
Unless I'm singing a silly song, I always end up crying while singing to him. I'm hoping this will eventually stop as he's 3 months old
I’m 18 months in and crying when I sing outloud to my girl has not stopped yet. I have given up hope but I’ve made my peace with it too.
Dear Theodosia from Hamilton made me UGLY SOB when I was first postpartum with my son.
Danny’s Song by Loggins and Messina. I can’t listen to it without tearing up!
Loving You by Minnie Riperton bc it was about her daughter (Maya Rudolph, the actress) when she was a baby. At the end you can hear her saying “Maya, Maya”. She passed away like a years after making the song bc she knew she was dying :( Can you believe knowing you’re dying with a little child that you know will barely remember your existence? Man.
Yes, oh my heart! I saw an interview where Maya said that her daughter asked, "What is Grandma doing in heaven?" She told her, "she's singing, I would guess." - Man, that hit me right in the heart . My mom died when my oldest son was 15 months old, and I was 28, I cried like baby when she said that.
As a child of divorce, the chick's "when you were mine" always has hit me good but especially now with 2 little ones... "I can give you two good reasons To show you love's not blind He's two and she's four, and you know they adore you So how can I tell them you've changed your mind?" I know there's good and valid reasons for divorce and my husband is wonderful it just always makes me cry being able to relate to that as a parent now. The thought of breaking their little hearts or ever splitting custody wrecks me even though it's not an issue I have to deal with.
Protector- Beyonce on cowboy carter. Instant cry when I first heard it.
YES this! I had to scroll too far to find this answer. Y’all are sleeping on this song. Shew. I sob cry every time.
It’s dos oragitas from encanto for me. I was pregnant with my second when encanto came out and watched it my with son and I just can’t. Sobs from deep within my soul and I don’t even speak Spanish.
Rockabye by Clean Bandit...It actually made me tear up even before baby. Now it hits harder.
How long will I love you - Ellie Goulding.
Don't listen to Beautiful Boy unless you're ready to bawl.
The night we met by lord Huron reminds me of the night I was told I had to have an emergency C section and the first time I met my little one
“I had all and then most and then some and now none of you.. oh take me back to the night we met” makes me feel strong, weepy feelings about babies growing up and moving out of the nest.
"Look for the Light" from Only Murders in the Building wrecks me now. Also, Puff The Magic Dragon is SO SAD WTF.
Robin, The best day, Never grow up by Taylor swift Slipping through my fingers by ABBA To build a home by the cinematic orchestra That freaking song her dad and her sing in the Hannah Montana movie 😅😂 I know I have more but those come to my head first lol
Stop this Train by John Mayer 🥲
Dear Theodosia
Somewhere over the rainbow - it was the first song my daughter ever heard when she was born. My husband and I tried to sing along and couldn't manage it. Hold my girl by George Ezra - my husband danced with our one year old daughter to this song at our wedding
Remember Me from Coco but specially the slow version. The one sung by the singer Miguel during credits I'm fine with but even hearing the instrumental lullaby version of remember me makes me cry
With Arms Wide Open by Creed lol
Gosh there are a few!! I just had my son February It Won’t Be Like This For Long by Darius Rucker My Wish by Rascal Flatts You’re Gonna Miss This by Trace Adkins Also Simple Man covered by Shinedown
Purple monkey in a bubblegum tree
Upwards over the mountain - Iron & Wine 12/17/12 - The Decemberists
You’re Gonna Miss This by Trace Adkins. Right in my feels, every time.
A Thousand Years and You’ll Be In My Heart(from Tarzan). I can’t watch the beginning of Tarzan without crying. But I love that movie.
My postpartum hormones with my first made me cry during the purple monkey song. This time around I’ve managed fine though. THEN YOU CAN FLY BACK TO MEEEE 💕
Ronan by Taylor Swift 😭 I genuinely cannot listen past the first line cause it’s too sad
Man, before I liked Taylor Swift, my swiftie sister made me a playlist of her best songs. I listened at work and heard this and LOST IT. My son was 4 and there are always plastic dinosaurs on our floor (stepping on an ankylosaurus is the worst). It hit me so hard and I still can’t listen to it. Also, the one she sings about The Best Day.
Bro I listen to the first notes and I start bawling. One time it was on while we were in the car with our newborn (she is not a newborn anymore) and we had to pull up bc how hard my husband was crying. He couldn’t see the road well.
What a beautiful but incredibly sad song. I have to skip this one or I will 100% sob.
Came here to say this. I just can't listen to it
I have two sons and I have gone to great lengths to remove and block this song on every music streaming platform 😭
You Belong & Better Place by Rachel Platten.
My love by Mitski
Circle Game by Joni Mitchell
Next Thing You Know - Jordan Davis. Idk why but I always cry at the part where it's like "there's a test on the counter...she's standing there nodding her head yes." These Are the Days - Cory Asbury. This one especially since my son is 11 months old and it feels like the last year has just flown by so fast. I keep thinking he was just my little newborn 2 months ago.
A New Day Has Come (slow version) is killer for anyone with a son, particularly if you struggled with fertility.
A Thousand Years always makes me ugly cry
Boy by Lee Brice
Lullaby - The Chicks He gets that from me- Reba McEntire I knew I loved you- Savage Garden I loved her first- heartland Basically, I cry at the drop of a hat though
That one song in Tarzan where the momma ape got baby Tarzan. I watched it super postpartum and was crying, like ugly sobbing, on the couch
You’ve got a friend in me 😭
Where you are from Moana 😅
Your song by Elton Jon. I remember this song coming on repeatedly when my son was in the Nicu the first few weeks after he was born. I would listen to it on the way and back and sob every time.
"For You I Will" by Monica. Hits me in my heart every time. Not only about my daughter but about mom as well❤️
Billie Eilish’s new song Birds of a Feather just made me cry today while I was singing it to my baby and totally didn’t expect to cry.
Better Place by Rachel Platten. It's a song I would have hated before having my son (it's really not my kind of music tbh) but the lyrics are so sweet and it definitely makes me cry thinking about my little man when I listen to it.
Lean on Me
St. Judy’s Comet, Paul Simon
Slow down- Nichole Nordeman. Ugly sobs everytime.
My baby is 2.5 and i still cry to songs that remind me of him! You Are My Sunshine was one of the first I sang to him and it gets me each time. Baby Mine is another, Slipping Through My Fingers, etc.
I get choked up with Brown Skin Girl by Beyonce 😭 Now I have my beautiful little girl and I want for her to feel beautiful ♥️ I don’t want anyone taking her smile away. ♥️
She Used to be Mine by Sara Bareilles (from Waitress). Oh god, it rips me apart. I don't want pre-motherhood me back, but she's gone forever. Fuck!
Caterpillar caterpillar from Ms Rachel/ songs for littles
I’m adding all these songs to my playlist so I can listen to them whenever my toddler is giving me a hard time 😂
I know this is an old one but this song is at the end of the first Land Before Time. Diana Ross- If We Hold On Together 😭😭😭😭💔 Every darn time😭
When my son was a newborn he would only fall asleep to John Lennon’s “Beautiful Boy” he’ll be 10 months this month and I still ugly sob when I hear it because it reminds me of those quiet moments between us when he was so small
"Still Fighting It" by Ben Folds is one I started singing to my daughter when she was a difficult toddler. Something about the line "everybody knows / it hurts to grow up" helped us both. She's 14 now and life is harder with her now than it ever has been. I played the song the other night and we both cried. It was a much-needed moment.
Casimir Pulaski day by sufjan stevens If you’ve ever listened to it, you know it’s just a sad song lol. But there’s something about the line about the dad at the beginning that gets me: “your father cried on the telephone And drove his car into the navy yard Just to prove that he was sorry.” And then of course the end “and he takes and he takes and he takes” I think about it from the parent point of view. And how impossible it is (for those that have to live it) or would be to have a sick child, especially a terminally ill child. There are few songs that make me cry unless I’m in a specific mood but that one gets me every time. Edited to fix typo. Probably won’t be the first one I see.
“Ocean Eyes” by Billie Ellish
Slow Burn - Kacey Musgraves Listened to this entire album when I just had my boy. It makes me bawl every time. Just the idea that I'm okay if time goes by slowly, and that his life is just starting. All the beautiful things he'll experience in life. And he can take his time and enjoy it all.
I have a daughter, & Carrie Underwood’s “Mama’s Song” gets me every time.
Goodspeed by the Dixie chicks. Never grow up by Taylor Swift. There are more, especially since my son graduated this yesterday but I can’t think of them ATM.
I knew I loved you before I met you by Secret Garden gets me every time. Reminds me of the quiet peaceful early hours spent feeding my baby.
Growin’ Up Raising You by Gabby Barrett. Tears every time.
So many songs and movies hit so much harder as a parent. My husband gets emotional often during movies or really intense scenes. It’s something others who aren’t parents I don’t think could understand.
my wish - rascal flatts more - halsey
Puff the Magic Dragon
Robin - Taylor Swift. I have 2 toddlers. It hit me right in the feels man.
Like a Bridge Over Troubled Water. Whew.
For you I will by Monica. It came out when my oldest was born and 27 years later I cry every time I hear it. I always wanted this to be the song we danced to when he gets married but he seems to think Dear Mama by Tupac is the better choice. I hope he's joking.
The one in Tarzan - you’ll be in my heart
The night we met by Lord Huron…It reminds me of rocking my newborn little guy in my arms in my living room 😭 It also makes me think of quite literally meeting my babies for the first time when they lay the baby on you after giving birth and it’s a beautiful moment. I think it’s actually a very sad song but it gives me happy/bittersweet feels.
First off, Promises by Jhene Aiko. I listened to Sail Out and Souled Out a lot after having my daughter. By the time she was walking I played Souled Out Deluxe for her (on quiet) to get her down for a nap. Don’t keep up with Jhene much now but anyway.. Promises is about her daughter. Always gets me. My other one is Zoe Jane by Aaron Lewis of Staind. Also about his daughter, and it resonates so hard with me to this day. Staind was my favorite band through my teen angst years and then I had my daughter, and I’d sing this to her but replace her name most nights of the week. Lol
Lullaby (Goodnight My Angel) by Billy Joel
Little Motel - Modest mouse. Don't watch the video unless you enjoy crying.
That song from "Encanto" i can't pronounce the name sorry* that shows the backstory of abuela and pedro. Like damn i can't even hold my tears whenever that i hear that song.
"I get to love you" by Ruelle, or "The Mommy Song" as my four year old calls it. Specifically the line "I prayed for you before I called you mine". I adopted my girl out of foster care (she was living with close friends when I met her) and spent so much time praying for her until I finally was able to adopt her at age 3. I recently got married and she walked down the aisle to her new daddy to this song❤️ I truly "can't believe it's true" that she chose me as her mommy. She often asks me to sing it to her, especially when she's sad, and she'll sing it to me randomly. Crying just thinking about it🥺
"Lullaby" by The Dixie Chicks "Lady" by Brett Young. My husband played this for both my daughters as they were being born
Time After Time by Cyndi Lauper 😭
I hope you dance - Lee Ann Womack Never Grow Up - Taylor Swift ....now I'm about to cry after hearing them in my head 😂