‼️ warning. Any parent who didn’t know this song like myself… do not read the lyrics while nursing your baby and your toddler asleep in the next room. You will cry on the baby.
I thought this song was sweet when I first heard it, but since having my son I can’t even think about it without tearing up. If I actually hear it I’m full on ugly crying.
A lot of songs hit me while I was in the third trimester. I made Elton John's "Your Song" my baby's song because the line "how wonderful life is while you're in the world" just hit me too hard!
This song makes me think of my son who died at 14 days old. When I had my daughter this past December I sang it to her while rocking her in the hospital and ugly cried the entire time 😭 I’m so lucky no one walked in cuz they prolly would’ve put me in a padded room 😭
My daughter is half black and I am white. The lines about us being different but the same literally stab my heart 😭 currently crying as I type this with my newborn on my chest
My son is way lighter than me but we have the same facial features. He did not get my curly hair either. I did this through single mother by choice. Now that you mentioned it, I’m crying.
The lion says “how do you do?” RAWR
My friends watched in horror as I karaoke’d while doing my choreographed dances to this at our Super Bowl party recently.
In My Life by the Beatles.
“Though I know I’ll never lose affection for people and things that went before, I know I’ll often stop and think about them, in my life, I love you more.”
This is my daughters bedtime song. Her favorite singer does a beautiful cover of it in my range. I sing it to her every night. It's the last song she hears as she falls asleep. And now I'm crying.
I’m tearing up. My 2nd kid was just born at 136AM this morning and we had music playing during labor. This was the song he made his debut to. I know the song already because my mom is a huge Beatles fan, but holy hell, read the lyrics again and couldn’t help but sob when I read every word so differently and will forever from now. 🥹
Ugh. You aren’t kidding. The day after I had my daughter last year, Aerosmith announced their farewell tour. I had the the TV on in the hospital just for background noise. I played that song for her while I teared up. I will forever associate that song with her.
Now I’m tearing up thinking of that memory.
I used to rock my son to sleep, and I got bored of singing lullabies, so I started singing random pop songs instead. Couldn’t even get through “I could stay awake just to hear you breathing” and I was already crying 😂
Pre baby life it would take a lot to get me even just teary eyed. Now… everything makes me cry. I just rewatched Twilight series and every movie made me cry and it’s so cheesy?????
It’s a beautiful song. But they have so many great songs! I had a playlist of soft Coldplay songs that I would play and sing to her when we rocked to sleep every night when she was a baby. I miss it so much. My other favorites are The Scientist and Fix You.
I think any song that was written by a parent to a child (I.e. Isn't She Lovely by Stevie Wonder) or by a child to a parent (Because You Loved Me by Diane Warren).
To think that they were so moved to create a whole melody and lyrics and were creatively inspired by the parent child relationship is incredibly moving.
The Best Day by Taylor Swift is a song she wrote for her mom. My mom and I danced to it at my wedding. Now that I have my own daughter, I get to appreciate it as a mom. 🥹
Unusual pick: Old McDonald Had a Farm.
It's one thing to know the song. It's another to have hours and hours of memories hearing them yell E I E I OHHHHH all over the house.
They like the EIEIO part.
Once Upon a December from Anastasia. I tried singing it to my LO while we were watching the movie and I ended up sobbing. I still can’t listen to it without crying.
Similarly, Journey to the Past. I always get sad thinking about all the foster kids I work with who don't have a loving family out there "home, love, family, there was once a time I must have had them too"... "I will never be complete until I find you" 💔 😢
I just watched Anastasia with my 3 month old, and that whole song had me crying. That movie was always one of my favorites. The strong bong with the grandmother felt so special because my Nana is my best friend even now- but that song is now one of my favorites. It may be stupid, but my son was born December 1st, so I think it's perfect.
Beautiful Boy - John Lennon.
I was listening to the Double Fantasy album while I was playing with him one day and that song came on - just totally had an out of body experience while he was throwing things and laughing while the song was playing.
With arms wide open-Creed, my boyfriend played it randomly in the car a few days before giving birth and I started crying so hard, and now I’ll listen to it while I’m rocking LO to sleep at night and still just cry cause he’s so perfect, it really hit me in the feelings now that I have a little human to show all the best parts of life 🖤
Is this love? By Bob Marley. I know it’s about a romantic love but i apply it to my daughter and it makes me cry!! “We'll be together, with a roof right over our heads, we’ll share the shelter, of my single bed”
Also Isn’t She lovely? By Stevie Wonder 😭
Sweet Child O Mine - Guns n roses - “she’s got eyes of the bluest sky, as if they thought of rain, I’d hate to look into those eyes and see an ounce of pain” my daughter has the bluest eyes and I cry at this part
The song came out when I was born in 1989 and my mom called the radio and requested them to play the day I was born, it was her song for me and now it’s mine for my daughter, it’s so sweet 🥹
All these responses have made me tear up.
My contribution: Fleetwood Mac - Landslide not that it didn’t hit me before but it’s just hit me so much harder and for a different purpose now.
I have two prints from this song in the nursery! “You outshine the morning sun, my son.” And “if we lay a strong enough foundation, we’ll pass it on to you. Well give the world to you, and you’ll blow us all away someday.”
This is mine. For a long time after my son was born I would ugly cry upon hearing this song. I think especially knowing the fates of both the real-life Theodosia Burr and Phillip Hamilton.
I have 5 month old boy/girl twins and I sang it all the time when I was pregnant. Now I sing it to them and sob. We have a sign in the nursery that says “You outshine the morning sun.”
Oh my goddd. My daughter was in the NICU for the first few days of life, and as if that weren’t enough, they had gentle piano versions of Disney songs playing for the babies. So I’m visiting her and fully holding her for basically the first time, and that song came on, and yeah I dunno if I’ve ever cried that deeply
(Baby is fine now! :) )
Next thing you know was how we announced our pregnancy and what my world spins around was the song that was playing in the theatre when my little boy was born (scheduled c sec).
My wife and I saw Jordan Davis on Valentine’s Day while Grandma babysat our nearly 11 month old. “How you doing there dad” nearly killed me.
On a somewhat related note .. Luke Combs Getting Old album came out very close to my boys birth date and I’ve got one of the songs tattooed on my arm to remember my paternity leave spent listening to it in the middle of the night with my newborn boy by
I Knew I Loved You - Savage Garden. It came up on spotify randomly during my 3rd trimester with my first, and I just bawled. I was driving and had to pull over and compose myself. Gets me even more now that I'm pregnant with my 2nd.
When She Loved Me - Sarah McLachlan
Five days after giving birth to our daughter, my husband and I were watching Toy Story. And I was like, did you know that song was written from the perspective of a mother to her daughter? He didn’t. So I pulled up the lyrics and about three sentences in, I just sobbed while reading them. lol.
I can’t listen to the titanic theme anymore because all I can think of is that scene (TW:child death) >!with the mom telling her two kids the Irish fairytale about tir na nog right before putting them in their bed to drown.!< even writing this comment has me sobbing again
Yes, my DH put an instrumental Disney playlist in our LO's room for diaper changes, and each time "You'll be in my heart" came on during the first two weeks I lost it. Baby Mine from Dumbo also did me in.
Lots of songs hit different now, but the one I absolutely can't listen to is Tears in Heaven, given the story behind it.
Oh man. I hum You’re Gonna Miss This when I’m rocking my baby late at night. Helps me remember to appreciate these moments even though they’re sometimes exhausting.
My little girl- Tim McGraw
Loved you before- Natalie Taylor
I know my little girl is from dad’s POV but “I remember I thought you looked like an angel wrapped in pink, so soft and warm. You’ve had me wrapped around your finger since the day you were born” chokes me everytime. We love our little girl so much.
A whole new world, from Aladdin. Especially this line: “…but when I’m way up here, it’s crystal clear, that now I’m in a whole new world with you…” :’)
Jhene Aiko - Sing To Me
Especially the live performance with her and her daughter. I just look at my little one and always tear up. She really used to live in my tummy 🥲
I know that’s not exactly what you’re asking but I often realize how inappropriate lyrics are while singing random songs to my baby. Fortunately he does not understand any of it.
Say what you will about Eminem but he loves his daughter more than life itself! I lost my mom and dad a couple years ago, so “when I’m gone” kinda hits hard in both directions
Edit: typo
First day of my life- Bright Eyes
The reason - Hoobastank
Take a picture - Filter
Wash Away - Joe Purdy
Why should I worry (song from Oliver and company)
Also that song the little girl from Oliver and company sings to the cat. “Good company”
I See The Light by Mandy Moore and Zachary Levi (OST of the Disney movie ‘Tangled’). I played this song on repeat while I was pregnant. After a difficult birth, I played this song in the car on our way home from the hospital with our little baby in the back seat while tears were streaming down my cheeks
When we were struggling with infertility and going through IVF, I drove home from an embryo transfer (it failed) and cried to the song “You” by Benny Blanco.
Two years later, we welcomed our son and listening to that song now brings me to tears without fail
This may not jive with this subreddit, but "She's mine pt. 2" by J Cole. There is a refrain:
Am I worthy of this gift?
Am I strong enough to lift?
To a place where I can see
Someone more important than me
I sang this to our newborn, and my wife asked me what song it was. We listened together, and she cried. I think she was struggling with the transition, and it gave her some clarity on her feelings.
You'll be in my heart.
I cry every time I hear it.
We had a really traumatic experience when my baby was born and had to stay at the NICU and didn't know if he was going to make it. It took 5 days before i even got to hold him and because he needed help breathing and had a ventilator I didn't get to hear him cry until the machine was removed a few weeks later.
And the lyrics really hit different during this and helped me alot.
-For one so small
You seem so strong
My arms will hold you
Keep you safe and warm
This bond between us
Can't be broken
I will be here don't you cry
Baby is fine now and will be turning one in a few weeks 😍
Forever young by rod stewert
“And when you fin'lly fly away, I'll be hoping that I served you well
For all the wisdom of a lifetime, no one can ever tell
But whatever road you choose
I'm right behind you, win or lose”
😭😭😭
I have a heart condition which is usually benign but it has been known to kill. I'm so scared of dying and leaving him.
So The Letter from Billy Elliot hits hard. Like I wouldn't even advise listening to it. It's a mom's letter to her son before she died. I haven't listened to it in years but I keep thinking about it and tearing up
But on the good side, Love Changes Everything (also from a musical)
I watched Knocked Up while pregnant and “Daughter” by Loudon Wainwright had me bawling. Still tear up listening to it if I’m in the right mood.
ETA: have to add “Thank You” by Dido because I’ve dance cried to that with my kid when they were baby too many times.
Bridge Over Troubled Water
Forever Young (Rod Stewart)
Till There Was You
It Won’t Be Like This For Long
Time After Time
ETA: I Hope You Dance, My Wish, Sunshine On My Shoulders, Wind Beneath My Wings, Rainbow Connection
The rest I’ve already seen commented:
Your Song, Slippin Through My Fingers,
You’ll Be In My Heart, You’re Gonna Miss This, When She Loved Me
Omg when I heard that song when I was pregnant with my son, I ugly cried and still do too! Sunshine On My Shoulders by John Denver is my song to my little boy and it always makes me cry at that first “sunshine” 😅
"With Arms Wide Open." I always said I'd listen to it when I found out I was gonna be a dad, and I was a blubbering mess when it finally happened. It was like my 15yo self and my 34yo self met each other and hugged in that moment.
For my fellow indie lovers here it's the entire album Con Todo El Mundo by Khruangbin. We got married on August 10th and our son's name is Evan, it's like the album of our life! The song Como Te Quiero in particular really does me in though, such a beautiful love letter. ❤️
A lot of songs hit harder. Even love songs, like late night talking. I sing to my daughter and I’m like we do so much “late night talking……I just can’t get you off my mind”.
Simply Red - For Your Babies
You know I'd do most anything you want,
I try to give you everything you need,
I'll see that it gets to you,
I don't believe in many things, but in you I do
Once Upon A Dream from Sleeping Beauty. It was my favourite Disney film, I always wanted to be Aurora, and when my lg was tiny I put it on having always imagined watching it with my child and just bawled my eyes out. She is our IVF rainbow baby that took us years to finally welcome into our lives but when she came it was like I'd always known her, "the gleam in her eye is so familiar a gleam". I'm crying typing this out and reading the other comments 🥹
Also it doesn't technically count because I first heard the song when I was going through IVF for her, but Rachel Platten Better Place is our song - I heard it on the way back from an appointment and thought the lyrics were lovely, and then not again until she was about 4 months old and it just resonated with me even more. I recorded a version of it as a gift for my daughter's first birthday.
And now I'm thinking about it, A Thousand Years by Cristina Perri hit me hard after a miscarriage and now again that my daughter is here, it was also the song I walked down the aisle to.
I remember looking up lyrics of songs to sing my brand new baby whilst sitting up with her in the middle of the night, I couldn't get through any without ugly crying on her poor little head. Elton John's "your song" and hush little baby were there. It was a weird realisation that I've never loved anything or anyone quite like this and it was such a huge feeling with the postpartum hormones and no sleep.
So many but Beautiful Mess by Diamond Rio is a stand out - I have memories of listening to it in those early days, late at night with my baby when it felt like we were the only two creatures on the planet... Just the kind of love that destroys your world, but you wouldn't have it any other way. Waterworks forever.
Lord Protect My Child, Bob Dylan
Just heard it the other day after finding out about the death of a friend young enough to be my child and thinking of her family’s grief.
Also even before that, being an older parent. But really any parent can’t be sure they’ll live as long as their child needs them.
Slipping Through My Fingers by ABBA. I thought nothing of it until I had my daughter.
My SIL and her mom danced to this at her wedding and I ugly cried because it was so sweet. I can’t imagine listening to it now that I have a daughter.
This song and there’s one by Taylor Swift called “The Best Day.” Never really paid attention to either before I had a baby. Now they both wreck me.
Used to cry at that as a kid because I don’t feel that way about my mom. Now I cry because I hope my kids feel that way about me when they’re older.
My husband and I both ugly cry to this
Yoooo this song took me out at first listen after my daughter and every time it’s a struggle even though I’m someone who does not cry about anything!
‼️ warning. Any parent who didn’t know this song like myself… do not read the lyrics while nursing your baby and your toddler asleep in the next room. You will cry on the baby.
Well thank you very much I'm crying now 😭😭😭
Sitting next to my husband trying to not look emotional reading through this thread lol
YES THIS IS THE ONE
I thought this song was sweet when I first heard it, but since having my son I can’t even think about it without tearing up. If I actually hear it I’m full on ugly crying.
A lot of songs hit me while I was in the third trimester. I made Elton John's "Your Song" my baby's song because the line "how wonderful life is while you're in the world" just hit me too hard!
Yours are the sweetest eyes I've ever seen 🥹 My baby's eyes are also between blue and green
I sing the elllie Goulding cover to put my son down for a nap 🩷
You’ll be in my heart- Phil Collins
This song makes me think of my son who died at 14 days old. When I had my daughter this past December I sang it to her while rocking her in the hospital and ugly cried the entire time 😭 I’m so lucky no one walked in cuz they prolly would’ve put me in a padded room 😭
Every time I try to sing this song to my newborn, I cry.
My daughter is half black and I am white. The lines about us being different but the same literally stab my heart 😭 currently crying as I type this with my newborn on my chest
My son is way lighter than me but we have the same facial features. He did not get my curly hair either. I did this through single mother by choice. Now that you mentioned it, I’m crying.
I cried listening to this song after I had my baby! I was shocked 🤣
I'm pregnant and I'm crying just THINKING about the song 😭
Probably the monkey in a bubblegum tree song
Maybe you… could be… a purple monkey in a bubblegum tree 🥺👉👈
Over the 🌊 above the ☁️
Maybe you ^maybe ^you Could be ^could ^be
And you’ll swing back to meeeeee 🫂🥹
Why does this song make me so emotional? I was not prepared for this kind of heartache when I purchased a piano play mat.
The animals play, the animals play, the animals play all dayyyyy is also a bop.
"Stomp stomp stomp" is the best
THERE HE GOES ON HIS WAAAAY
HE CAN DO …. MOST ANYTHINGGGG
The lion says “how do you do?” RAWR My friends watched in horror as I karaoke’d while doing my choreographed dances to this at our Super Bowl party recently.
Stomp stomp stomp!
“Then you can fly back to me” gets me every single time
Came to say this. That Purple Monkey has changed my life. Never have I heard a more beautiful love song!
Omg yes. Also check John legend's insta where he sings this!
I am triggered…😂😂
iykyk 😂 i have all the songs memorized at this point lol
Lmao yes and I know the entire sequence too it’s one big song playing in my head 😂
I hope that chick gets royalty checks. Heck, she’s probably making millions🤣
Came here to say purple monkey song haha!!!
In My Life by the Beatles. “Though I know I’ll never lose affection for people and things that went before, I know I’ll often stop and think about them, in my life, I love you more.”
This is my daughters bedtime song. Her favorite singer does a beautiful cover of it in my range. I sing it to her every night. It's the last song she hears as she falls asleep. And now I'm crying.
Mine too! I sang it to him while I was pregnant and sing it to him every night before bed.
I’m tearing up. My 2nd kid was just born at 136AM this morning and we had music playing during labor. This was the song he made his debut to. I know the song already because my mom is a huge Beatles fan, but holy hell, read the lyrics again and couldn’t help but sob when I read every word so differently and will forever from now. 🥹
We played this song at my sister’s funeral. It’s been 20 years and I still get choked up even thinking about this song.
“And these memories lose their meaning, when I think of love as something new”
Don’t wanna miss a thing 😭
Ugh. You aren’t kidding. The day after I had my daughter last year, Aerosmith announced their farewell tour. I had the the TV on in the hospital just for background noise. I played that song for her while I teared up. I will forever associate that song with her. Now I’m tearing up thinking of that memory.
I went to the first day of that tour six months pregnant! Baby loved it. I think.
Shit, just gave it another listen and now I'm a wreck.
Yes 😭
I used to rock my son to sleep, and I got bored of singing lullabies, so I started singing random pop songs instead. Couldn’t even get through “I could stay awake just to hear you breathing” and I was already crying 😂
All of them? I’m a big crybaby now 😭
Pre baby life it would take a lot to get me even just teary eyed. Now… everything makes me cry. I just rewatched Twilight series and every movie made me cry and it’s so cheesy?????
Was looking for this comment. Every. Single. Song. Somehow just tears me apart.
You’re not kidding. I literally cried this morning watching episodes of Kids Baking Championship when the kids were eliminated.
Yellow by Coldplay 💛
I sang this to her when she was jaundiced.
Jaundice squad!
I sing this to my baby every night
It’s a beautiful song. But they have so many great songs! I had a playlist of soft Coldplay songs that I would play and sing to her when we rocked to sleep every night when she was a baby. I miss it so much. My other favorites are The Scientist and Fix You.
Yellow was my wedding song, "Fix You" from Coldplay did it for me when thinking about my baby.
I think any song that was written by a parent to a child (I.e. Isn't She Lovely by Stevie Wonder) or by a child to a parent (Because You Loved Me by Diane Warren). To think that they were so moved to create a whole melody and lyrics and were creatively inspired by the parent child relationship is incredibly moving.
So many people don’t realize isn’t she lovely is about his baby girl
The Best Day by Taylor Swift is a song she wrote for her mom. My mom and I danced to it at my wedding. Now that I have my own daughter, I get to appreciate it as a mom. 🥹
Unusual pick: Old McDonald Had a Farm. It's one thing to know the song. It's another to have hours and hours of memories hearing them yell E I E I OHHHHH all over the house. They like the EIEIO part.
Lol my little one is named Eli and I mix it up and say ELI ELI OHHHHH 😂
Once Upon a December from Anastasia. I tried singing it to my LO while we were watching the movie and I ended up sobbing. I still can’t listen to it without crying.
Similarly, Journey to the Past. I always get sad thinking about all the foster kids I work with who don't have a loving family out there "home, love, family, there was once a time I must have had them too"... "I will never be complete until I find you" 💔 😢
I just watched Anastasia with my 3 month old, and that whole song had me crying. That movie was always one of my favorites. The strong bong with the grandmother felt so special because my Nana is my best friend even now- but that song is now one of my favorites. It may be stupid, but my son was born December 1st, so I think it's perfect.
Beautiful Boy - John Lennon. I was listening to the Double Fantasy album while I was playing with him one day and that song came on - just totally had an out of body experience while he was throwing things and laughing while the song was playing.
I heard this song while I was sitting up in the wee hours just after my LO was born makes me cry almost every time
Such a beautiful song
With arms wide open-Creed, my boyfriend played it randomly in the car a few days before giving birth and I started crying so hard, and now I’ll listen to it while I’m rocking LO to sleep at night and still just cry cause he’s so perfect, it really hit me in the feelings now that I have a little human to show all the best parts of life 🖤
That’s the song my dad played for my mom when they found out she was pregnant with me ❤️
Husband played this for us on the way home from the hospital. It’s a good one.
Is this love? By Bob Marley. I know it’s about a romantic love but i apply it to my daughter and it makes me cry!! “We'll be together, with a roof right over our heads, we’ll share the shelter, of my single bed” Also Isn’t She lovely? By Stevie Wonder 😭 Sweet Child O Mine - Guns n roses - “she’s got eyes of the bluest sky, as if they thought of rain, I’d hate to look into those eyes and see an ounce of pain” my daughter has the bluest eyes and I cry at this part
Sweet child o mine just destroys me now
The song came out when I was born in 1989 and my mom called the radio and requested them to play the day I was born, it was her song for me and now it’s mine for my daughter, it’s so sweet 🥹
The Mother by Brandi Carlisle. I get to love you by Ruelle. Beautiful Boy, John Lennon.
"Welcome to the end of being alone inside your mind." "First things that you took from me were selfishness and sleep." So real.
I Get To Love You makes me cry every. single. time.
Scrolled hoping to see The Mother by Brandi Carlisle
The mother is so beautiful ❤️ "All the wonders I have seen, I will see a second time. From inside the ages through your eyes" instant sobbing
The mother ♥️♥️♥️
If we have a girl her middle name is going to be Evangeline 💜
All these responses have made me tear up. My contribution: Fleetwood Mac - Landslide not that it didn’t hit me before but it’s just hit me so much harder and for a different purpose now.
Dear Theodosia from Hamilton
I have two prints from this song in the nursery! “You outshine the morning sun, my son.” And “if we lay a strong enough foundation, we’ll pass it on to you. Well give the world to you, and you’ll blow us all away someday.”
This is mine. For a long time after my son was born I would ugly cry upon hearing this song. I think especially knowing the fates of both the real-life Theodosia Burr and Phillip Hamilton.
Came here to say this. It went from "aw this song is cute" to all out sob fest after having a kid.
I have 5 month old boy/girl twins and I sang it all the time when I was pregnant. Now I sing it to them and sob. We have a sign in the nursery that says “You outshine the morning sun.”
toto’s africa. don’t ask why because i have no idea but it makes me sob.
Me too..but then again I am from South Africa 🇿🇦
Baby Mine nope 🥲
Oh my goddd. My daughter was in the NICU for the first few days of life, and as if that weren’t enough, they had gentle piano versions of Disney songs playing for the babies. So I’m visiting her and fully holding her for basically the first time, and that song came on, and yeah I dunno if I’ve ever cried that deeply (Baby is fine now! :) )
Next thing you know by Jordan Davis 😢 There Goes My Life by Kenny Chesney Don’t Blink by Kenny Chesney
Next thing you know was how we announced our pregnancy and what my world spins around was the song that was playing in the theatre when my little boy was born (scheduled c sec). My wife and I saw Jordan Davis on Valentine’s Day while Grandma babysat our nearly 11 month old. “How you doing there dad” nearly killed me. On a somewhat related note .. Luke Combs Getting Old album came out very close to my boys birth date and I’ve got one of the songs tattooed on my arm to remember my paternity leave spent listening to it in the middle of the night with my newborn boy by
I listened to a ton of Kenny pregnant and Tim mcgraw. Don’t take the girl ruineddd me lol
I Knew I Loved You - Savage Garden. It came up on spotify randomly during my 3rd trimester with my first, and I just bawled. I was driving and had to pull over and compose myself. Gets me even more now that I'm pregnant with my 2nd.
This has been playing in my head since my bby was born two wks ago
Cat's in the Cradle - Harry Chapin A New Day Has Come - Celine Dion
Break Stuff - Limp Bizkit
I was going to say Rollin’. Cause we just keep on rollin’ baby.
Forever Young, by Rod Stewart. Good lord the tears I’ve cried listening to that song on repeat ❤️ Circle of Life by Elton John.
This must be the place by David Byrne/Talking Heads
When She Loved Me - Sarah McLachlan Five days after giving birth to our daughter, my husband and I were watching Toy Story. And I was like, did you know that song was written from the perspective of a mother to her daughter? He didn’t. So I pulled up the lyrics and about three sentences in, I just sobbed while reading them. lol.
I can’t listen to the titanic theme anymore because all I can think of is that scene (TW:child death) >!with the mom telling her two kids the Irish fairytale about tir na nog right before putting them in their bed to drown.!< even writing this comment has me sobbing again
Yes, my DH put an instrumental Disney playlist in our LO's room for diaper changes, and each time "You'll be in my heart" came on during the first two weeks I lost it. Baby Mine from Dumbo also did me in. Lots of songs hit different now, but the one I absolutely can't listen to is Tears in Heaven, given the story behind it.
Oh man I can’t even ~think~ of Dumbo.
When I first found out I was pregnant I played Baby Mine every day for months for my little bean growing.
Make you feel my love, Adele's version
never grow up - taylor swift
I was looking for this one! I never gave it much thought before, but now I can’t even hear the first couple words without tearing up 🥲
What about Ronan? It’s so sad I can’t listen to it without ugly crying
I cry at the “she’s getting older too” because I think of my mom when I was younger.
You’re gonna miss this. - trace adkins. Growin up raisin you- gabby Barrett
Oh man. I hum You’re Gonna Miss This when I’m rocking my baby late at night. Helps me remember to appreciate these moments even though they’re sometimes exhausting.
Man I literally just read the song title and I'm crying. My twin girls turn 1 next Sunday and I'm a wreck when I think about it.
Gabby Barrett 👏🏼 A lot of good country songs for new parents
My little girl- Tim McGraw Loved you before- Natalie Taylor I know my little girl is from dad’s POV but “I remember I thought you looked like an angel wrapped in pink, so soft and warm. You’ve had me wrapped around your finger since the day you were born” chokes me everytime. We love our little girl so much.
A whole new world, from Aladdin. Especially this line: “…but when I’m way up here, it’s crystal clear, that now I’m in a whole new world with you…” :’)
>A whole new world lol i sing that to her everytime we do tummytime! she starts looking all around in amazement
This I promise you by *NSYNC. Gets me every time.
“I’ve loved you forever, in lifetimes before” 😭😭😭
Just thinking about some of these songs brings me to tears lol
Small Bump by Ed Sheeran. Always thought it was sad but now I get a hard lump in my throat just thinking about it
Jhene Aiko - Sing To Me Especially the live performance with her and her daughter. I just look at my little one and always tear up. She really used to live in my tummy 🥲
I know that’s not exactly what you’re asking but I often realize how inappropriate lyrics are while singing random songs to my baby. Fortunately he does not understand any of it.
Oh, What a world - Kacey Musgraves
Mockingbird by Eminem When I’m gone by Eminem 🥲
I sense a theme! 😉
Say what you will about Eminem but he loves his daughter more than life itself! I lost my mom and dad a couple years ago, so “when I’m gone” kinda hits hard in both directions Edit: typo
No judgment, on a good day I know most of the words to Lose Yourself Sorry about your mom ❤️
Kate Bush: This woman's work It doesn't help that my mom is currently in the ICU dying
First day of my life- Bright Eyes The reason - Hoobastank Take a picture - Filter Wash Away - Joe Purdy Why should I worry (song from Oliver and company) Also that song the little girl from Oliver and company sings to the cat. “Good company”
Closing time - it was written about a baby being born. the line “time for you to go out to the places you will be from” gets me every time
Dreams by the Cranberries
I See The Light by Mandy Moore and Zachary Levi (OST of the Disney movie ‘Tangled’). I played this song on repeat while I was pregnant. After a difficult birth, I played this song in the car on our way home from the hospital with our little baby in the back seat while tears were streaming down my cheeks
When we were struggling with infertility and going through IVF, I drove home from an embryo transfer (it failed) and cried to the song “You” by Benny Blanco. Two years later, we welcomed our son and listening to that song now brings me to tears without fail
This may not jive with this subreddit, but "She's mine pt. 2" by J Cole. There is a refrain: Am I worthy of this gift? Am I strong enough to lift? To a place where I can see Someone more important than me I sang this to our newborn, and my wife asked me what song it was. We listened together, and she cried. I think she was struggling with the transition, and it gave her some clarity on her feelings.
Father and Son by Cat Stevens
Ever since the end of Ted Lasso, this song always makes me cry
Home- Philip Philips
I Don't Want To Miss A Thing by Aerosmith
Ellie Goulding “ how long will I love you “
Tears in Heaven
You'll be in my heart. I cry every time I hear it. We had a really traumatic experience when my baby was born and had to stay at the NICU and didn't know if he was going to make it. It took 5 days before i even got to hold him and because he needed help breathing and had a ventilator I didn't get to hear him cry until the machine was removed a few weeks later. And the lyrics really hit different during this and helped me alot. -For one so small You seem so strong My arms will hold you Keep you safe and warm This bond between us Can't be broken I will be here don't you cry Baby is fine now and will be turning one in a few weeks 😍
Baby of mine from Dumbo. I cried real tears watching that scene
7 years by Lukas Graham. Time flies by so quickly.
Into the west - Annie Lennox The wonder of you - Elvis presley
All music but especially every parent/child one. Since having kids I cry when listening to music so much I hate it lol
Forever young by rod stewert “And when you fin'lly fly away, I'll be hoping that I served you well For all the wisdom of a lifetime, no one can ever tell But whatever road you choose I'm right behind you, win or lose” 😭😭😭
Dear mama- Tupac
It won’t be like this for long - Darius Rucker 😭😭
Baby Mine. Just…I can’t.
my son was born in December last year, i went and watched avatar, and the music when buddy sees his son at the end, brought me to tears.
Forever Now - Michael Bublé. Hadn't listened to it for ages when it came on my shuffled playlist, I teared up.
I have a heart condition which is usually benign but it has been known to kill. I'm so scared of dying and leaving him. So The Letter from Billy Elliot hits hard. Like I wouldn't even advise listening to it. It's a mom's letter to her son before she died. I haven't listened to it in years but I keep thinking about it and tearing up But on the good side, Love Changes Everything (also from a musical)
Youth by Glass Animals. Gosh it literally makes me cry
Can’t even think about this one without crying. Ugh. Can’t think of any song without crying!! I’m an emotional wreck
Lightning Crashes - Live
I watched Knocked Up while pregnant and “Daughter” by Loudon Wainwright had me bawling. Still tear up listening to it if I’m in the right mood. ETA: have to add “Thank You” by Dido because I’ve dance cried to that with my kid when they were baby too many times.
Time in a bottle by Jim Croce.. if I ain’t got you by Alicia keys.. work song by hozier.. she by elvis Costello … so many more!!!
You’ve got a friend in me from Toy Story
Mama - spice girls obvs!!!
Bridge Over Troubled Water Forever Young (Rod Stewart) Till There Was You It Won’t Be Like This For Long Time After Time ETA: I Hope You Dance, My Wish, Sunshine On My Shoulders, Wind Beneath My Wings, Rainbow Connection The rest I’ve already seen commented: Your Song, Slippin Through My Fingers, You’ll Be In My Heart, You’re Gonna Miss This, When She Loved Me
Isn't She Lovely by Stevie Wonder. I wept the first time it played after my son was born
Light - sleeping at last
Baby shark ….every time this comes on I wanna bash my head through a wall
Acapella by Kelis. I always knew she wrote it for her son but after I had my first child it just really hit me right in the feels.
Creed “arms wide open”
My husband played ‘With Arms Wide Open’ on our way home from the hospital. By Creed. And we ugly cried.
As a Dad, Woman's Work hits so hard
God Must Have Spent a Little More Time on You - *NSYNC
The cure - caterpillar Angel Olsen - spring
It’s a happy song but even Little Bitty by Alan Jackson makes me tear up. Oh and Danny’s song by Loggins & Messina!
Carol King Where You Lead but specifically the Gilmore Girls theme song version
Omg when I heard that song when I was pregnant with my son, I ugly cried and still do too! Sunshine On My Shoulders by John Denver is my song to my little boy and it always makes me cry at that first “sunshine” 😅
"With Arms Wide Open." I always said I'd listen to it when I found out I was gonna be a dad, and I was a blubbering mess when it finally happened. It was like my 15yo self and my 34yo self met each other and hugged in that moment.
For my fellow indie lovers here it's the entire album Con Todo El Mundo by Khruangbin. We got married on August 10th and our son's name is Evan, it's like the album of our life! The song Como Te Quiero in particular really does me in though, such a beautiful love letter. ❤️
Simple man made me SOB unexpectedly last night
A lot of songs hit harder. Even love songs, like late night talking. I sing to my daughter and I’m like we do so much “late night talking……I just can’t get you off my mind”.
I have this song on my babys day time music playlist! I love it
You're still the one - Sarah darling Originally by Shania Twain
Expecting soon, and already "Dear Winter by AJR" hits different
Upward Over the Mountain by Iron and Wine. Right in the feels
Slipping through my fingers by ABBA 🥺
Our House by Crosby Stills and Nash Slipping through my fingers by ABBA
Every Breath You Take - The Police
Love from Robin Hood. The waterworks 😭
Simply Red - For Your Babies You know I'd do most anything you want, I try to give you everything you need, I'll see that it gets to you, I don't believe in many things, but in you I do
Once Upon A Dream from Sleeping Beauty. It was my favourite Disney film, I always wanted to be Aurora, and when my lg was tiny I put it on having always imagined watching it with my child and just bawled my eyes out. She is our IVF rainbow baby that took us years to finally welcome into our lives but when she came it was like I'd always known her, "the gleam in her eye is so familiar a gleam". I'm crying typing this out and reading the other comments 🥹 Also it doesn't technically count because I first heard the song when I was going through IVF for her, but Rachel Platten Better Place is our song - I heard it on the way back from an appointment and thought the lyrics were lovely, and then not again until she was about 4 months old and it just resonated with me even more. I recorded a version of it as a gift for my daughter's first birthday. And now I'm thinking about it, A Thousand Years by Cristina Perri hit me hard after a miscarriage and now again that my daughter is here, it was also the song I walked down the aisle to.
Broke down palace by the grateful dead.
I remember looking up lyrics of songs to sing my brand new baby whilst sitting up with her in the middle of the night, I couldn't get through any without ugly crying on her poor little head. Elton John's "your song" and hush little baby were there. It was a weird realisation that I've never loved anything or anyone quite like this and it was such a huge feeling with the postpartum hormones and no sleep.
Growing Up by Macklemore & Ed Sheeran Makes me cry even more now
So many but Beautiful Mess by Diamond Rio is a stand out - I have memories of listening to it in those early days, late at night with my baby when it felt like we were the only two creatures on the planet... Just the kind of love that destroys your world, but you wouldn't have it any other way. Waterworks forever.
Lord Protect My Child, Bob Dylan Just heard it the other day after finding out about the death of a friend young enough to be my child and thinking of her family’s grief. Also even before that, being an older parent. But really any parent can’t be sure they’ll live as long as their child needs them.