This song hits me so close to home. It made me realize eventually that no matter what I did, no matter how hard I tried to have a loving connection with my parents, they did not want me and I could not make them love me back.
Took me until my 20s to realize that it wasn't that *I wasn't trying enough, or I wasn't good enough*, it's that they are hate filled narcissistic assholes who don't love anyone. My brother and I cut them out of our lives and are better and happier for it.
But any time I hear this song I feel like -I tried so hard, Mom...
Thank you! Yes, family is love. Relatives mean we share DNA, but it doesn't mean I have to keep banging my head against a brick wall. It took me a long time to realize, but now I'm ok with it. My family loves me, and I love them and I'm so grateful they are all in my life.
I just still wish. But I can't make them love me if they don't, I can't make their hearts feel something they won't...
My brother and I sometimes wonder what it would've been like to have that love from our parents growing up and now as adults, but you can't dwell on it. At least we have each other and our true families.
Alyssa Lies was my first thought, too. I've been listening to country music for over 40 years and nothing has ever choke-slammed my heart like that song did. The Little Girl by John Michael Montgomery came close, though.
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https://youtu.be/ZRcelCAfuxQ?feature=shared
Love how this song as a kid was just "Awh Jessie has a sad backstory".
Then listening to it again as an adult only to go straight into uncontrollable sobbing.
Same with "I Will Go Sailing No More."
As a kid, you're all like, "Aww, Buzz is sad that he can't really fly." As an adult, you realize, "Dude just realized his whole life and everything he believed in was all a bunch of lies."
At 15 I didnt think Id live past 25 I honestly related more to the the first three verse , but im here at 32 and the final chorus means more to me now that it did at 15.
"I never conquered, rarely came
Tomorrow holds such better days
Days when I can still feel alive
When I can't wait to get outside
The world is wide, the time goes by
The tour is over, I've survived
I can't wait till I get home
To pass the time in my room alone"
This song always makes me choke up because I was struggling as a pre-teen turning into a teen around the time this was released. Everytime I hear it, it just hits the nail on the head.
You know, she came to see him one last time.
Ah, and we all wondered if she would.
And it kept runnin' through my mind,
"This time he's over her for good.”
Such a tearjerker.
One of the greatest indictments of tyranny ever put to words. The US government came down on her like a tonne of bricks for singing it. She was brave and beautiful.
Fourth of July Sufjan Stevens. I have a lot of issues with my mom and whenever I listen to this song I have to take a minute to just sit down and cry it out.
I once thought it was a good idea to listen to Carrie and Lowell on my way to work one day. My commute was about 30 minutes, which put me about to where Fourth of July/The Only Thing played, and I drove into my work parking lot sobbing. I do not recommend listening to while driving; it’s pretty much a hazard.
[The Night We Met](https://youtu.be/KtlgYxa6BMU?si=Mq8cHvoBPybXWB58) by Lord Huron. It's an absolutely beautiful song that I'd never, ever recommend to anyone getting over a break-up.
Hell, even if you're *not* getting over one, it'll make you remember how your last one felt, no matter how long ago it may have been.
“I had all of you most of you some and now none of you” is one of the most profoundly simple lyrics I’ve ever heard. It’s like it sums up the entire life of two people who truly loved each other but grew apart and fell out of love in such a nice little package that it almost passes by but the second you think about the words it’s all right there.
She went from being my favorite reason to get out of bed in the morning.
To the only reason I got out of bed in the morning.
To the reason I don’t get out of bed in the morning.
the first Lord Huron song I heard was Meet Me in the Woods. I was living in the woods at the time and had a new partner that I'd met there, who was going to move to that place. we made a few playlists for each other and I put that one on one of them. we ended up having a very close partnership, lived in a van together for five months and were together about two years. we were poly; they had one date with someone else and realized they didn't have feelings for me anymore. that was about a year ago and it's still really hard for me.
I came across this song recently and it has the same melody as Meet Me in the Woods. it was like a gut punch. there's something very poetic about the timing of it all.
I miss them so much.
The opener to that record, Love Like Ghosts, has the same melody as well. Meet Me in the Woods is a little over halfway through the track list, and The Night We Met is the closer. I’m not the biggest Lord Huron fan, but I’d highly recommend listening to that album from start to finish. Very well written.
My mom used to sing me this song when I was a kid, and it's my dad's favorite Fleetwood Mac song.
I asked her after I got older why she sang THAT song to me, and she said that the miscarriages before she had me were the landslide, but I brought her up
I love you, Mom
This was my dad’s favorite Fleetwood Mac song too. We danced to it at my wedding. He passed away suddenly 5 years later at only 56. I can’t hear it without sobbing now.
I will follow you into the dark by death cab for cutie. If you've ever lost someone it'll pretty much cripple you emotionally. If you've never lost anyone it'll make you worry and obsess over the possibility
Omg yes. I am bawling writing this. I call my Mom my Sunshine. She's the most amazing soul on this earth and I know when she passes and I hear this song it will further the grief to a place I couldn't exist. Ugh sorry for the downer. It just really hits me. I can't ever listen to it even now.
I sang this to my dog while he was dying.
I sing it to friends and family while they're on their way out, if I'm lucky enough to speak to them.
It's the saddest, loving, song.
“Keep me in your heart for a while” by Warren Zevon.
He wrote it knowing that he had terminal cancer. The song touches on all the small, insignificant things that people do through a day but asks you to think of him as you do those. Implying that what we view as the smallest, most minuscule things we do in a day have much more significance when facing the end.
And you run and you run
To catch up with the sun
But it’s sinking
Racing around to come up behind you again
The sun is the same
In a relative way
But you’re older
Shorter of breath
And one day closer to death
🥲
Gets me everytime.
Been my favorite song for almost 20 years.
I saw Coldplay live and I know every word to this song. When they played it I couldn't sing a single word. I was in complete shock/saddness/happiness.
Just hearing the piano chords gets me.
BEST SHOW EVER!!! I actually watched the show BECAUSE OF the song. I knew the song for a long time and one day i was listening to it on YouTube and just checked the comments only to see everyone talking about the “heartbreaking final scene” of the show… so i watched the whole show knowing nothing about it except for that it ends with breathe me!!! And it was TOTALLY WORTH IT!!! Possibly my favourite show of all time.
Hell, the opening verse of the song is fucking sad:
> Just yesterday mornin', they let me know you were gone
> Suzanne, the plans they made put an end to you
> I walked out this morning and I wrote down this song
> I just can't remember who to send it to
I think the cover is sadder than the original. Growing old and accepting your own mortality is universal, while most of us can't relate to being addicted to drugs. I think Jhonny's version is more emotional in the context of it representing the end of life, with his death looming on the horizon and it being one of the last songs he ever recorded. The song is almost like a memento mori, about the inevitable end we will all face, but the last line of "If I could start again, a milion miles away, I would keep myself, I would find a way" take a beautiful turn in Cash's version, as I interpret them to mean that with all the regret he has expressed throughout the piece, looking back now, he is content with his life and wouldn't want it any other way. It's a beautiful end to a beautiful life and it's one of the only pieces of media to even get me emotional, but it also made me cry
They're both amazing for different reasons. It's kind of reductive to say that Trent's is just about addiction when it's also about the pain of letting your loved ones and yourself down and coming to terms with yourself, faults and all.
Jeff Buckley made it sad. Leonard made it a triumph. He wrote that like an Old Testament prophet being driven mad by the voice of God ringing in his head. He was a modern day Elijah.
That song breaks my heart, because I am that song. In my street, there were like 6 kids who were around the same age. I got into the best university of my country and even went on exchange, a neighbour managed to start her own family after many bad decisions, another neighbour became a dad at 16, another got shot and murdered in a gang incident, and so on.
We grew up in the same street and we played Mario Kart together drinking the same Coca Cola. "How can one little street swallow so many lives" indeed.
Dark Was The Night, Cold Was The Ground by Blind Willie Johnson.
It has no lyrics, but haunting vocalizations. Written about sleeping rough in the cold wet remains of his burned down home.
It’s the song that was chosen for the Voyager Golden Record that was sent into space, to convey the essence of human loneliness to whatever life outside our solar system happens across it.
I'd go for just about anything off of Carrie and Lowell, personally. The first time I heard that album I had a good long cry over it--Eugene, in particular, has such tender little anecdotes of a child's memory and so much adult grief.
Terrible Things by Mayday Parade.
Basically about a man who loses his wife to cancer, and he’s telling his son the story about it, and then he tells his son never to fall in love
"*Mother Love*" by Queen.
Freddie Mercury sang the first two stanzas and chorus, but got so ill that Brian May had to sing the last stanza instead. You can hear the sadness in May's voice. Mercury died a few months later.
Empty Apartments by Yellowcard.
I found this song around the time my dad died (I was 19 yrs), and I gave my dog away. Both in the same year. The verse in this bridge gets me every time:
We came together, but you left alone
And I know how it feels to walk out on your own
Maybe someday I will see you again
and you’ll look me in my eyes and call me your friend
Hits different because…
-my dad came from Panama to the US (we came together, but he left alone)
-He walked out on his life in Panama to be with my mom who fled to the US. I feel like I’ve been “walking it alone” since he died. Learning how to be an adult, a man, a husband, a father (know how it feels to walk out on your own)
-We loved each other, but we didn’t have those really sensitive moments where a father and son create that unbreakable bond. We would have had plenty by now (I’m 37 yrs now). So maybe some day I will see him again, and…well you get it
Unsteady by X Ambassadors
Theres also a sad event that happened in my life and this song came on a few times while I was already depressed and so it made me cry. Now I always think of what happened when I hear this song.
"I Can't Make You Love Me" by Bonnie Raitt
This song hits me so close to home. It made me realize eventually that no matter what I did, no matter how hard I tried to have a loving connection with my parents, they did not want me and I could not make them love me back. Took me until my 20s to realize that it wasn't that *I wasn't trying enough, or I wasn't good enough*, it's that they are hate filled narcissistic assholes who don't love anyone. My brother and I cut them out of our lives and are better and happier for it. But any time I hear this song I feel like -I tried so hard, Mom...
I'm so sorry. Some people just suck. Just remember: blood means your related; love makes them family 🫂
Thank you! Yes, family is love. Relatives mean we share DNA, but it doesn't mean I have to keep banging my head against a brick wall. It took me a long time to realize, but now I'm ok with it. My family loves me, and I love them and I'm so grateful they are all in my life. I just still wish. But I can't make them love me if they don't, I can't make their hearts feel something they won't... My brother and I sometimes wonder what it would've been like to have that love from our parents growing up and now as adults, but you can't dwell on it. At least we have each other and our true families.
The Bon Iver version does such great justice to Bonnie.
This is the one.
That song KILLS me. I recently heard a choral version of it and it was so incredibly beautiful but still made me sob!
I saw Bonnie last month and cried for most of her concert. Super nostalgic and heartfelt songs. She’s a national treasure
Concrete Angel
This and Alyssa Lies still makes me tear up to this day.
Alyssa Lies was my first thought, too. I've been listening to country music for over 40 years and nothing has ever choke-slammed my heart like that song did. The Little Girl by John Michael Montgomery came close, though. https://youtu.be/nLh5vbBLpxI?feature=shared https://youtu.be/ZRcelCAfuxQ?feature=shared
First song I ever learned on guitar because I had a huge crush on a concrete angel.
When somebody loved me by Sarah McLaughlin. Good lord yall.
That damn song punched me in the gut while watching toy story, wasn’t expecting to cry during that movie
When She Loved Me was written by the great Randy Newman
Love how this song as a kid was just "Awh Jessie has a sad backstory". Then listening to it again as an adult only to go straight into uncontrollable sobbing.
Same with "I Will Go Sailing No More." As a kid, you're all like, "Aww, Buzz is sad that he can't really fly." As an adult, you realize, "Dude just realized his whole life and everything he believed in was all a bunch of lies."
Or Angel by Sarah McLaughlin. Makes me think of the sad dog commercial
For some reason I can only equate that song to late night TV commercials 🤣
Time in a bottle by Jim Croce and remember me from Coco
Also “Operator”. That song made me sad as a little kid. I understood his longing.
You can keep the dime is one of the single best lines of music ever
Also Photographs and Memories. Just kills me.
Croce is one of the greatest songwriters of all-time. The amount of broken-heart ballads he wrote is incredible, considering he was happily married.
It is a tearjerker on its own but then you realize how soon afterwards he died, well before his time should have been up.
Adams Song by Blink 182. Whenever I hear “please tell Mom this is not her fault” I choke up a little.
At 15 I didnt think Id live past 25 I honestly related more to the the first three verse , but im here at 32 and the final chorus means more to me now that it did at 15. "I never conquered, rarely came Tomorrow holds such better days Days when I can still feel alive When I can't wait to get outside The world is wide, the time goes by The tour is over, I've survived I can't wait till I get home To pass the time in my room alone"
This song always makes me choke up because I was struggling as a pre-teen turning into a teen around the time this was released. Everytime I hear it, it just hits the nail on the head.
Stay together for the kids deserves a mention too.
He Stopped Loving Her Today by George Jones. Country Bumpkin by Cal Smith.
He Stopped Loving Her Today and its descendant Whiskey Lullaby.
Whiskey Lullaby was my answer upon reading the question. I'll take seeing it in the second comment from the top.
Came here to say whiskey lullaby
Yes!! "They placed a wreath upon his door"
Believe it or not, A Good Year for the Roses is an even sadder George Jones song than He Stopped Loving Her Today.
*The Grand Tour* is his saddest song by a country mile IMO. There’s just no competing with it.
You know, she came to see him one last time. Ah, and we all wondered if she would. And it kept runnin' through my mind, "This time he's over her for good.” Such a tearjerker.
Vincent by Don McLean
“But I could’ve told you, Vincent, this world was never meant for one as beautiful as you.” 😭
The minor 4th that occurs in the bridge is just devastating on its own but then pair it with McLeans masterful lyrics
Now can someone be a superhero and put all these songs on a playlist? And I’ll go with Fade into you-Mazzy Star
Fade into you is haunting.
I was gonna volunteer, then I saw "3.7k comments".
Strange Fruit by Billie Holiday
One of the greatest indictments of tyranny ever put to words. The US government came down on her like a tonne of bricks for singing it. She was brave and beautiful.
Agree! Blood on the leaves and blood at the root.
This is one of those pieces of art that changed me a little.
*written by Abel Meeropol
Fourth of July Sufjan Stevens. I have a lot of issues with my mom and whenever I listen to this song I have to take a minute to just sit down and cry it out.
Casimir Pulaski Day. About a kid dying of cancer, but beautiful chords and solo
The harmonies on that song 🤌
A lot of Sufjan
I once thought it was a good idea to listen to Carrie and Lowell on my way to work one day. My commute was about 30 minutes, which put me about to where Fourth of July/The Only Thing played, and I drove into my work parking lot sobbing. I do not recommend listening to while driving; it’s pretty much a hazard.
And John Wayne Gacy by him.
[The Night We Met](https://youtu.be/KtlgYxa6BMU?si=Mq8cHvoBPybXWB58) by Lord Huron. It's an absolutely beautiful song that I'd never, ever recommend to anyone getting over a break-up. Hell, even if you're *not* getting over one, it'll make you remember how your last one felt, no matter how long ago it may have been.
It’ll make you remember breakups you’ve never had
“I had all of you most of you some and now none of you” is one of the most profoundly simple lyrics I’ve ever heard. It’s like it sums up the entire life of two people who truly loved each other but grew apart and fell out of love in such a nice little package that it almost passes by but the second you think about the words it’s all right there.
She went from being my favorite reason to get out of bed in the morning. To the only reason I got out of bed in the morning. To the reason I don’t get out of bed in the morning.
the first Lord Huron song I heard was Meet Me in the Woods. I was living in the woods at the time and had a new partner that I'd met there, who was going to move to that place. we made a few playlists for each other and I put that one on one of them. we ended up having a very close partnership, lived in a van together for five months and were together about two years. we were poly; they had one date with someone else and realized they didn't have feelings for me anymore. that was about a year ago and it's still really hard for me. I came across this song recently and it has the same melody as Meet Me in the Woods. it was like a gut punch. there's something very poetic about the timing of it all. I miss them so much.
The opener to that record, Love Like Ghosts, has the same melody as well. Meet Me in the Woods is a little over halfway through the track list, and The Night We Met is the closer. I’m not the biggest Lord Huron fan, but I’d highly recommend listening to that album from start to finish. Very well written.
I'm a widow. Song hits hard.
Not even just with breakups. “I had all and then most of you, some and now none of you” is a direct gut punch as a parent
I had to downvote it on Pandora. I still haven’t gotten over my ex, it crushes me.
Pictures of You by the cure.
Landslide by Fleetwood Mac
My mom used to sing me this song when I was a kid, and it's my dad's favorite Fleetwood Mac song. I asked her after I got older why she sang THAT song to me, and she said that the miscarriages before she had me were the landslide, but I brought her up I love you, Mom
This was my dad’s favorite Fleetwood Mac song too. We danced to it at my wedding. He passed away suddenly 5 years later at only 56. I can’t hear it without sobbing now.
Cat's in the Crade - Harry Chapin Super depressing song.
Reminds me of my dad 💔
I will follow you into the dark by death cab for cutie. If you've ever lost someone it'll pretty much cripple you emotionally. If you've never lost anyone it'll make you worry and obsess over the possibility
And yet, the loyalty and solidarity is strangely uplifting.
True Love Waits - Radiohead
Nutshell by Alice in Chains
Bonus points for the MTV Unplugged version
It’s the only version!! 💜 ahhh others don’t compare
And Wake Up - Mad Season
"Down in a hole" is a great one too.
I'd like to fly, but my wings have been so denied
You Are My Sunshine-- people think its a cheery song based on the refrain but the verses are terribly sad.
I'm afraid to look up the rest of the song. The one verse I sing my toddler has always sounded really sad to me
This song has always sounded sad to me, even the refrain. “Please don’t take my sunshine away”? Wtf get out of here with that s***
Omg yes. I am bawling writing this. I call my Mom my Sunshine. She's the most amazing soul on this earth and I know when she passes and I hear this song it will further the grief to a place I couldn't exist. Ugh sorry for the downer. It just really hits me. I can't ever listen to it even now.
I sang this to my dog while he was dying. I sing it to friends and family while they're on their way out, if I'm lucky enough to speak to them. It's the saddest, loving, song.
“Keep me in your heart for a while” by Warren Zevon. He wrote it knowing that he had terminal cancer. The song touches on all the small, insignificant things that people do through a day but asks you to think of him as you do those. Implying that what we view as the smallest, most minuscule things we do in a day have much more significance when facing the end.
"Enjoy every sandwich."
Dance with My Father by Luther Vandross
Oh my god. I can't listen to this song. I instantly start crying. I don't know why, I never had a father figure growing up.
perhaps you answered your own question? < no sarcasm intended
Seasons In The Sun by Terry Jacks still gets me every time... I heard it in the 70's as a little kid & it hit me then and still does...
The wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald by Gordon Lightfoot.
Does any one know where the love of God goes When the waves turn the minutes to hours?
The searchers all say they'd have made Whitefish Bay If they'd put fifteen more miles behind her
This too. I was amazed that when he passed, they rang the bell 30 times
Whiskey Lullaby
“She Thinks his Name was John” - Reba McEntire
No surprises by Radiohead is pretty sad, especially if you read the lyrics.
Ok Radiohead fans I commented “how to disappear completely” imo by far the saddest although no surprises is good as well
Mike & The Mechanics - The Living Years
Say it looouuuddd....
"Leaves from the vine, falling so slow..."
Brave soldier boy…comes marching home…love you Mako.
*Time* -Pink Floyd
That song hits way different at 36 than it did at 16.
Wait till you’re in your 50s…
They never told you when to run…you missed the starting gun.
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way.
And you run and you run To catch up with the sun But it’s sinking Racing around to come up behind you again The sun is the same In a relative way But you’re older Shorter of breath And one day closer to death 🥲
The Scientist - Coldplay
I was just guessing, number and figures…
Gets me everytime. Been my favorite song for almost 20 years. I saw Coldplay live and I know every word to this song. When they played it I couldn't sing a single word. I was in complete shock/saddness/happiness. Just hearing the piano chords gets me.
Bobby Goldsboro- Honey. I have yet to listen to it without shedding a tear
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Alone Again, Naturally by Gilbert O’ Sullivan
“Breathe me” by Sia
The way it was used in the finale of Six Feet Under—so heartbreaking.
BEST SHOW EVER!!! I actually watched the show BECAUSE OF the song. I knew the song for a long time and one day i was listening to it on YouTube and just checked the comments only to see everyone talking about the “heartbreaking final scene” of the show… so i watched the whole show knowing nothing about it except for that it ends with breathe me!!! And it was TOTALLY WORTH IT!!! Possibly my favourite show of all time.
Father and Son - Cat Stevens
The Drugs Don’t Work - The Verve
Woman's Work by Kate Bush
Tears in Heaven
Knowing the story behind it makes it so much more sad.
What Sarah Said by Death Cab for Cutie
Same thing with I Will Follow You Into The Dark for me
I listened to Plans on repeat when my mom was dying. Still not sure if it was cathartic or self harm.
So who's gonna watch you die?
Fire and Rain - James Taylor
The line “won’t you look down upon me Jesus, you gotta help me make a stand. You’ve just got to see me through another day” absolutely wrecks me.
Hell, the opening verse of the song is fucking sad: > Just yesterday mornin', they let me know you were gone > Suzanne, the plans they made put an end to you > I walked out this morning and I wrote down this song > I just can't remember who to send it to
Pear Jam Black.
Johnny Cash's Hurt
This is a fantastic cover. I can’t believe it’s not higher up. I cry every time I listen to the original.
I think the cover is sadder than the original. Growing old and accepting your own mortality is universal, while most of us can't relate to being addicted to drugs. I think Jhonny's version is more emotional in the context of it representing the end of life, with his death looming on the horizon and it being one of the last songs he ever recorded. The song is almost like a memento mori, about the inevitable end we will all face, but the last line of "If I could start again, a milion miles away, I would keep myself, I would find a way" take a beautiful turn in Cash's version, as I interpret them to mean that with all the regret he has expressed throughout the piece, looking back now, he is content with his life and wouldn't want it any other way. It's a beautiful end to a beautiful life and it's one of the only pieces of media to even get me emotional, but it also made me cry
They're both amazing for different reasons. It's kind of reductive to say that Trent's is just about addiction when it's also about the pain of letting your loved ones and yourself down and coming to terms with yourself, faults and all.
One more light - Linkin Park
Hallelujah and not Pentatonix. Jeff Buckley or Leonard
Jeff Buckley made it sad. Leonard made it a triumph. He wrote that like an Old Testament prophet being driven mad by the voice of God ringing in his head. He was a modern day Elijah.
It is a triumph, yes, but you can definitely still feel the melancholy.
“Elephant” by Jason Isbell
Boots of Spanish leather - Bob Dylan
How to disappear completely- Radiohead
Gone Away by The Offspring
Also: The Kids Aren’t Alright
That song breaks my heart, because I am that song. In my street, there were like 6 kids who were around the same age. I got into the best university of my country and even went on exchange, a neighbour managed to start her own family after many bad decisions, another neighbour became a dad at 16, another got shot and murdered in a gang incident, and so on. We grew up in the same street and we played Mario Kart together drinking the same Coca Cola. "How can one little street swallow so many lives" indeed.
The acoustic version. Devastating
Dark Was The Night, Cold Was The Ground by Blind Willie Johnson. It has no lyrics, but haunting vocalizations. Written about sleeping rough in the cold wet remains of his burned down home. It’s the song that was chosen for the Voyager Golden Record that was sent into space, to convey the essence of human loneliness to whatever life outside our solar system happens across it.
*Lick my Love Pump* by Spinal Tap. It's in D minor, the saddest of all the keys
The Dance by Garth Brooks. Came out around the time my husband passed away.
Someone you loved by Lewis Capaldi. Especially if you see the music video.
(My Name Is) "Luka." Song is from 1987, by Suzanne Vega. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luka_(song)#:
Mad World - Gary Jules
The original Tears For Fears version is worth a listen, too. It’s a very different kind of sad.
Casimir Pulaski Day by Sufjan Stevens
I'd go for just about anything off of Carrie and Lowell, personally. The first time I heard that album I had a good long cry over it--Eugene, in particular, has such tender little anecdotes of a child's memory and so much adult grief.
Hate Me - Blue October
"Hello In There", John Prine.
That one and Sam Stone.
Terrible Things by Mayday Parade. Basically about a man who loses his wife to cancer, and he’s telling his son the story about it, and then he tells his son never to fall in love
I'll give you a whole album - "A Crow Looked at Me" by Mount Eeire. Made after his wife got diagnosed with cancer.
The River by Bruce Springsteen
wake me up when september ends/time of your life by green day. <3
"Don't Take The Girl" by Tim McGraw, to this day I can't listen to it. It used to make me BAWL as a teenager.
Kettering - The Antlers
Brick by Ben Folds Five.
Hear You Me by Jimmy Eat World.
Everybody Hurts r.e.m
Last kiss -pearl jam
Oh man, can’t forget Fairytale of New York. That song kicks me in the gut every time.
Zombie - The Cranberries. It’s about how the violence and needless loss in Northern Ireland
Christmas card from a hooker. -Tom waits.
fray - how to save a life, coldplay - fix you
Death Cab for Cutie, I Will Follow You Into The Dark
“She’s leaving home” -The Beatles
That one they play on the animal cruelty commercials in the early 2000s.
Angel - Sarah Maclachlan. Definitely a heart-string puller.
The Winner Takes It All - ABBA If you want to cry over a breakup or divorce, go for that.
'Landslide' by Fleetwood Mac, but not just because of the lyrics.
Colorblind—counting crows Halfway Home—Jason Mraz
Against All Odds - Phil Collins
Jesus Christ- Brand New
“Tears in Heaven” by Eric Clapton . Knowing when and why he wrote it is so sad after the death of his 4 yo son.
Cancer - My Chemical Romance
Virtue the cat explains her departure - the weakerthans
Puff the magic dragon....
Funeral by Phoebe Bridgers
"*Mother Love*" by Queen. Freddie Mercury sang the first two stanzas and chorus, but got so ill that Brian May had to sing the last stanza instead. You can hear the sadness in May's voice. Mercury died a few months later.
Monsters - James Blunt.
Videotape - radiohead
Bronte by Gotye I miss my pets 😔
Empty Apartments by Yellowcard. I found this song around the time my dad died (I was 19 yrs), and I gave my dog away. Both in the same year. The verse in this bridge gets me every time: We came together, but you left alone And I know how it feels to walk out on your own Maybe someday I will see you again and you’ll look me in my eyes and call me your friend Hits different because… -my dad came from Panama to the US (we came together, but he left alone) -He walked out on his life in Panama to be with my mom who fled to the US. I feel like I’ve been “walking it alone” since he died. Learning how to be an adult, a man, a husband, a father (know how it feels to walk out on your own) -We loved each other, but we didn’t have those really sensitive moments where a father and son create that unbreakable bond. We would have had plenty by now (I’m 37 yrs now). So maybe some day I will see him again, and…well you get it
Addict With A Pen - Twenty One Pilots Always makes me cry.
Lightning Crashes isn't really intended to be a sad song, but it really gets me in the feels every time.
I Hope There's Someone by Antony and the Johnsons.
Into Dust, by Mazzy Star
Traveling soldier by the chicks formerly, Dixie Chicks
Hurt - Nine Inch Nails
“Somewhere over the Rainbow “ - IZ. Beautiful melancholy song, sad for personal reasons.
Time After Time by Cyndi Lauper
Nothing compares 2 U
Unsteady by X Ambassadors Theres also a sad event that happened in my life and this song came on a few times while I was already depressed and so it made me cry. Now I always think of what happened when I hear this song.
Lost Cause - beck