John Lennon - Grow Old With Me (sadly, not for the reasons John intended)

'Streets of Philapdelphia' is the Springsteen song. Neil Young also performed a song for the soundtrack, just called 'Philadelphia' - it's really poignant, moreso than the Bruce song IMO.

Yes... but for me, Eva Cassidy's arrangement and performance is the definitive version... better than the original by Sting himself I think. Wonderful.

Oh, here's an even sadder one... Dido's Lament from the Purcell Opera Dido and Aeneas. It is about Queen Dido, who cannot face life without the love of her life and finally, she dies (kills herself) of a broken heart.. I like the words she sings as she is about to die... they are simple but compelling; guaranteed to bring tears to your eyes if you play it late at night sat on your own. Hayley Westenra's version ends her Odyssey album, it just fades away gently at the end and you just want to sit there in silence.

(Repetitions omitted).
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Evanescence ~ My Immortal.
Ozzy & Kelly Osborne ~ Changes
Boyz 2 Men & Mariah ~ One Sweey Day
Simple Plan ~ Perfect.
Michael Bolton ~ When I'm Back on My Feet.
P Diddy & Faith Evans ~ I'll Be Missing You.

I'm ashamed to admit this but also Ronan Keating ~ If Tomorrow Never Comes Cheesy I know, but still makes me think.

Concrete Angel - Martina Mcbride

(I guarantee this'll make you weep)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLwwy-g2wkc

Winter - Tori Amos

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqauKbARSvc
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That was the first song I thought of.

Also, Everybody Hurts by REM gets me and Fields of Gold (Eva Cassidy version).

Evanescence - My Immortal
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOTglWNPPJo
Queen - The Show Must Go On
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ADh8Fs3YdU
The Smiths - Asleep
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LK8H7Qn3ifA
Mariah Carey - Vanishing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5tgYRgNm8s
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Sarah McLaclan - Angel

Is that the one with the lyric "In the arms of the angels"?
If so, I LOVE that song!!
TH

Evanescence- My Immortal- first heard it when I had just been dumped by the man i thought I was going to spend the rest of my life with (we are back together now) and I had to pull over in the car as I was crying so much I couldn't see!

Also Goodbye My Lover by James Blunt and Fields of Gold by Eva Cassidy- I remember when it was used in a Cancer Research ad a couple of years ago and would always leave me in a snivelling mess.

Radiohead High & Dry
The Carpenters Close to You
Coldplay Dont Panic/In My Place/Fix You/Trouble
The Feeling Rose
Queens Days of our lives
Eva Cassidy Fields of Gold
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Five random ones I've just thought of:

Rapsodia - Andrea Bocelli
Hello - Evanescence
The Grave - Don McLean
Athair Ar Nearmh - Enya
The Winner Takes It All - ABBA

goodbye my lover-james blunt
let me go- midge ure
dance with my father-luther vandross

It is. The song is in the movie "City of Angels" (Meg Ryan and Nicholas Cage).

Rainy Days & Mondays - The Carpenters
Every Rose Has Its Thorn - Poison

Tears in Heaven by Eric Clapton

He wrote it after his son fell out of his mother's apartment window

http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=1274

*Everybody hurts* by REM but that has now been overplayed to death so doesn't do it for me anymore

*If you don't know me by now *by simply red (this is probably a cover)

Winner Takes is All - Abba

John Lennon - Imagine
The Verve - The Drugs Don't Work
R.E.M. - Everybody Hurts
Keane - On A Day Like Today

Has anyone seen Love Story with Ali McGraw and Ryan O'Neal? The theme music is very sad:

The original music score by Francis Lai:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iqfk_bv715w

And Andy Williams singing it (not a fan of his, but this is not bad as at least you get the words accompanying it):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxEazBfPVFg

That song is heartbreaking

Funeral Song sung by Sinead O'Connor at the end of Veronica Guerin.

She's like the wind - Patrick Swayze/Dirty Dancing.
Never fails ... even set me off when I saw Noel (ex Hearsay) performing it in What a Feeling at our local concert hall.

Eva Cassidy - Songbird <------- This one in particularly!!
Eva Cassidy - Fields of Gold

a few that always chokes me up

protection by everything but the girl - so haunting, and tracey thorns voice is chilling.

hope theres someone - antony and the johnsons - what a strange yet compelling and heartbreaking voice - listen to it and dare u not to have a lump in ur throat.

lovers spit - the feist version.

Here's a few that appeal to me:

Spandau Ballet's best song imo:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjHoY-XDUK0

The Blue Nile at their best:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0wkO0aTtec

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPWSlQp7TqI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GecEJqi2shs
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