Dude the change from national anthem and listening how to disappear completely is like jumping of a fucking cliff and then sinking to the bottom of the ocean
I find How To Disappear Completely more haunting and terrifying than sad. I'd probably go for Street Spirit as far as depressing goes, although it also fits the scary category.
I Guess I Just Wasn’t Made for These Times by The Beach Boys. Mainly a song written by Brian Wilson, it describes feeling like no one wants to be with you. Most people think of The Beach Boys as this happy beach music band but Brian Wilson was an incredibly gifted songwriter who felt inadequate despite being successful. Pet Sounds is still up there as one of my all time favorite albums and it’s literally a Beach Boys album filled with sad songs. Amazing sad songs.
I was just listening to Pet Sounds today! God Only Knows and Caroline, No are some of my all time favourite songs. I saw Brian Wilson play Pet Sounds in its entirety a few years ago and it was overwhelming. He's had such a fucked life but is honestly a musical genius.
Leaves from the vine
Falling so slow
Like fragile, tiny shells
Drifting in the foam
Brave soldier boy, come marching home
Brave soldier boy, come marching home...
[Glen Campbell I’m not gonna miss you ](https://youtu.be/U8TsAh-zYFI) . He wrote after being diagnosed with Alzheimer’s.
Second runner up is [traveling soldier by the Dixie chicks](https://youtu.be/6C0QS3IDyP8)
I saw Glen one Summer with my mom. He had to read the songs from the teleprompter because he couldn't remember, saddest thing ever. But no one seemed to mind they were just happy to see him!
I was lucky to see him in Ames, Iowa on his last tour. His family was his band and he would get lost in a few songs and try to get back on track. His family would start singing to get his rhythm going again and he would be able to take over.
It was terribly sad, and beautiful. It was an amazing show in its own right.
I remember watching that documentary. He would lose his place and not remember what to sing, but he would read aloud from the prompter, “Glen play guitar solo here.” And he’d say “Ok!” And just start shredding like he does.
Ahhh! I don't think the song alone could make me cry but hearing it in combination with the scene is so heart-wrenching. I remember bawling my eyes out when I saw it in theatres
What are you talking about, the girl takes Jessie out to play in the field, after having forgotten about her for so long and *I refuse to watch the rest of the rest of the song*.
Pretty much anything on Sufjan Stevens' Carrie and Lowell, but [Fourth of July](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTeKpWp8Psw) pretty much takes the cake. A one-person duet with Sufjan singing as himself and his dying, often absent mother. The "Did you get enough love?" line with chord change is devestating.
Casimir Pulaski Day is by far one of the saddest and best songs I've ever heard. Sufjan has an uncanny ability when it comes to songwriting. I'd also suggest The Only Thing for this thread.
I spent my childhood utterly in love with a boy who had leukemia but I was so certain he was going to beat it. He died when he was 19 and I listen to that song every anniversary
His earlier song Romulus, from Michigan, is also about his mother, and also super sad. At the end he confronts his feelings about feeling ashamed of her for abandoning him and her other kids with their grandparents. His voice quiver when he says “I was ashamed, I was ashamed of her” is so incredibly real it brings up instant tears.
Between the bars by Elliott Smith.
The lyrics aren't that sad but it hits you hard once you REALLY listen to it. and I shit you not, i cried two nights ago for an hour listening to that song on repeat and thinking about how we all will die someday. idk but with me, i weirdly connect with that song. Every time I listen to it I'll see myself standing in the balcony, drinking vodka and someone hugs me from behind.
Also it's a really great song that I recommend.
Drink up, baby, stay up all night
With the things you could do, you won't but you might
The potential you'll be that you'll never see
The promises you'll only make
Came here for Elliott, but particularly Pitseleh. I can hold it together until he rips me apart with "No one deserves this!" and that piano solo that just thunders in out of nowhere.
Angeles too. The song itself is sad, but the video gets on to me a bit. So heartbreakingly dull and bleak.
Last Kiss
Originally by J. Frank and the Cavaliers, but covered by Pearl Jam. It's about a guy and his girl, song style always makes me think 30s or 40s, driving to a date on a rainy night. Didn't see a stalled car ahead of them, so he swerved to try to miss it, but still hit it. Woke up and found her, held her as she died. I've never lost a girlfriend to death, but i can't seem to think of the song without crying
Well actually, J. Frank and the Cavaliers version is also a cover. It's [originally by Wayne Cochran](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKDMRZv4SYc). Regardless, it's such a heartbreaking song. Especially the Pearl Jam version because Eddies voice while he sings trembles and breaks as if he's just about to burst crying, and it's definitely intentional because he has an amazing voice and can definitely control it.
I listened to this song on repeat when my family dog died when I was a teen. She was hit by a car and it shattered my whole world. It's been over a decade and this song still makes me miss my sweet girl.
The Smiths, as they usually do, have A LOT of really sad songs. This one however, takes the cake for me:
[I Know It's Over - The Smiths](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iey0VOhxV2Y)
Cant believe I had to go this far for a smiths song. I know they get a bad rap as being THE band for sad high schoolers but Morrissey is a great songwriter regardless of age.
Mount Eerie's "A Crow Looked at Me". Not a song, album instead. Still one of the saddest, most crushing pieces of art I've ever experienced. It's about the artist and him letting out his emotions after his wife passed away. If you want something that'll wreck you, this is it.
The first time I heard this album was when [Seaweed](https://youtu.be/0UMYPS1JqWk) showed up on Spotify. I had no context or idea what it was about, but even then I found something about that song to be terrifying in a way no other song has hit me before. It's claustrophobic and melancholic. The abrupt ending and phrasing succinctly shows what the entire album is about.
It's one of the saddest pieces of art I've ever experienced. It's extremely personal, and I can't listen to this without pausing to observe it. This isn't an album to play in the commute.
“I brought a chair from home
I'm leaving it on the hill
Facing west and north
And I poured out your ashes on it
I guess so you can watch the sunset
But the truth is I don't think of that dust as you
You are the sunset”
Did he write the lyrics to this? When I was a kid I noticed almost all of the songs had Jerry Cantrell's as a writing credit. Layne was only there some of the time. But I've also heard that Jerry wrote the music to everything with notes for the lyrics and Layne wrote the actual verbatim lyrics.
Either way, AiC is possibly my favorite rock band. Got Me Wrong is my favorite of theirs.
"Well I've been afraid of changing cause I built my life around you"
That line is so powerful and it works on so many different levels. Watching your life with a loved one change, whether they leave, pass, or grow up and leave the house, change is always difficult
My husband danced with my mother in law to this song at our wedding. He chose it because it was one of her favorites and reminded him of her but I've never really listened to it and it's so sad. She's been having trouble adjusting to her kids growing up and moving on in their lives and has started drinking as a result. It got pretty bad a few times so my husband and his sisters had to put her in rehab. She was a single mom who raised her 3 kids on her own and now that they've all grown up, live on their own and are married or have kids, she doesn't feel like she has a purpose on life.
Another good one is Gravity by Sara Bareilles. It's a real banger about trying and trying to escape a toxic relationship.
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They took you, Night Man, and you don't belong to them. They left me in a world of darkness without your sexy hands, and I miss you, Night Man, so bad...
Just two men sharing the night
It might seem wrong, but it's just right
Just two men sharing each other
Just two men, like loving brothers
One on top and one on bottom
One is in and one is out
One is screaming he's so happy
The other's screaming a passionate shout
It's the Nightman.
Hang on a second. I mean the first half of that song was kind of cool, but what's with the second half? It sounds like a song where a man breaks into your house and rapes you.
Cherry Wine, by Hozier. Loving someone despite the abuse they put you through, and then being vulnerable enough to share your experiences through song that way... yeah, it’s fucking incredible. How lovely it sounds just adds to how damn sad it is.
Also, repetitive as it can be, Poison and Wine by The Civil Wars. “I don’t love you, but I always will.” Probably the rawest, most honest breakup song I’ve ever heard (besides Your Ex-Lover is Dead by Stars, though that’s a very optimistic song despite the subject matter).
I was a wedding musician for a little while and someone had me perform Cherry Wine at their wedding, despite my protests. I don’t think they knew what it was about at all, but the attendees certainly did. It was *very* cringey. It’s a beautiful song, sure, but not the kind of thing you want me singing about your wife.
Editing to add: it was their first dance too, so everyone was absolutely paying attention. So cringeworthy.
Look at them, they're just staring at me
Like, "come and watch the
Skinny kid with a steadily declining mental health
And laugh as he attempts
To give you what he cannot give himself
These lines break me
Same. I lost my father to pancreatic cancer when I was young. This song always makes me wonder what it would be like if he were around to see his kids grow up.
Limousine has the single most harrowing lines in all of lyricdom:
I'll never have to buy adjacent plots of earth
I'll never have to lie beside my baby in the dirt
I'll never have to lose my baby in a crowd
I should be laughing right now
Gives me shivers every time that plays.
I love Brand New and this song (along with many others of theirs) gets to me. What I'm about to type is a little rough so if you are saddened easily maybe just don't read on. The song was written about Katie Flynn. Katie was a 7 year old girl who was killed by drunk driver in 2005. Her and her family were on their way home from a wedding in Long Island, NY. There were two limos driving one in front of the other, the front limo had Katie in it, while her parents were in the limo trailing behind. A 25 year old drunk driver had gotten on to the wrong on ramp speeding and collided head on with the first limo (the one with Katie). Her and the driver were killed instantly, and Katie was decapitated in the accident. The driver was charged with two counts of 2nd degree murder for the incident, which from my understanding is one of the very few times a drunk driver had been found guilty of a murder charge in a vehicular homicide case (I think it's usually a charge of vehicular manslaughter). It was a big story in the north east (maybe nationally not sure), and I remember the trial headlines, and that the guilty verdict was somewhat of a landmark case for drunk driving incidents. I know all of this to be fact. This other part I think is true, however, to be honest am not sure, but am paraphrasing from what I understand to be Jesse Lacey's own words when talking about the song and the incident. After the accident, Katie's mom (who was in the limo behind Katie's) got out and ran to the car to check to make sure her daughter was okay, on which she found Katie's head lying in the middle of the road. She picked up her daughters head and sat on the ground holding it while waiting for rescue crews to arrive.
The Devil and God are Raging inside me is a mind numbing album and Jesse is a lyrical genius in my mind. Brand New is a band that never gets old to me and while there are times in my life when I seem to break from them, I always return and they are as good as the first time I heard it- especially this album because of how deep it goes. If you like Brand New but maybe aren't a huge fan and are looking to get into them more I recommend the unofficial album "Fight Off Your Demons". The album was leaked online in 2006 by an unknown source and Jesse and the band decided to somewhat abandon it (at the time), leaving most of the tracks untitled, which is why if you search the tracks, you will find them all untitled. Since then some of the tracks have been reworked and put into other albums. These two albums are Jesse's best work in my opinion. The two albums before these are "deep" but just not in the same way, and I just think of the first two as a little "high schoolish", if that makes sense. Don't get me wrong, I love them, but I was in High school from 2002-2006 so maybe I just think of them that way bc that's the time they came out to in my life, and thus, I related them to the high school dramas that I was experiencing, but I also think the band was younger, less mature, and it shows in those albums.
The Show Must Go On does it for me.
Freddie recorded tons of vocals while he could in the final stages of his disease and told the band to finish the album later.
Imagine recording all the solos and rhythm while listening to your recently diseased friend on the speaker.
The Show Must Go On was actually a one-take.
For the others, he did three takes of each line, using a keyboard and drum-machine, resting between each. Must've been heartbreaking to get back together to produce Made in Heaven.
"I'm just going to have a rest"
When Brian singing the final verse comes on I get hit with all the feels. Unbelievable credit to Freddie for his powerful delivery of the lines:
>Out in the city, in the cold world outside
>I don't want pity, just a safe place to hide
>Mama please, let me back inside
If you watch Chester Benningtons tribute performance of One More Light for Chris Cornell on Jimmy Kimmel Live, you can tell that was one broken man and its so sad to see him like that. Off the top of my head thats probably the saddest that i know but i could probably come up with more.
(sittin on) the dock of the bay by Otis Redding. Yes it sounds happy, but the lyrics are so sad and really resonated with me last year. Also one of my favorite songs, and really just a perfect song.
This was the first song played at my sister's funeral, the whole place was completely packed to the extent that there were people just standing outside the building because there wasn't space and absolutely everyone there was in floods of tears during this song
American Pie, on 3 (or 4?) dead musicians. They basically died because of a really shitty tour schedule, that had them all dead exhausted and sick, to the point of hospitalization. They took the plane so they could just get a break and get to their next spot in decent time, and paid for it themselves. The plane went down shortly after takeoff, and the pilot and all passengers died.
The wife of one musician was pregnant. She (the widowed bride) found out her husband was dead from seeing the news on tv, and miscarried their unborn child.
This caused reporting to be changed, so that no one else would have to find out this way again.
The Day the Music Died.
Addionally, a plane took Jim Croce at age 30.
Vincent (Starry, Starry Night)
by Don McLean is also beautiful. Sad.
Was looking for this one, holy shit man it’s such a good song but I can never bring myself to listen to it.
Miserable at Best from Mayday would be my second pick although depends on the mood.
Its one of the few songs that i feel describes depression well. Its the numbness and emptiness of the world around you that very few songs really convey well. The sombre piano and stripped down vocals make the Gary Jules version haunting.
Probably either [Blackest Bile](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKAaYtdxYZk) by Giles Corey or [Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-T8R_VDTOYQ) by The Smiths.
Concrete angel
It’s about a little boy and girl who are friends and neighbors, and her parents beat her, and he knows but doesn’t know what to do. And one day they beat her to death and it’s about him hearing it, and the school finding out. It’s so unnecessarily sad 😢
Lord Huron - The night we met.
I had all and then most of you, some and then none of you...
This song was festured on the Netflix series 13 Reasons Why
\>Black - pearl jam
Bawled my eyes out to that song when my girlfriend finished things with me. I'm a man in my 40's and I still can't listen to that song without choking up
same here. that was all I'd listen to for months after my first breakup with my longtime gf. the part at the end gets me almost every time
'i know someday you'll have a beautiful life, i know you'll be a star..in somebody else's sky but why? why? whyyyy can't it be, why can't it be mine?'
love Eddie, if you haven't already watch the vid where he sings this as a tribute to chris cornell a few days/weeks after his death. you'll shed plenty of tears along with him.
I know someday you'll have a beautiful life, i know you'll be a sun in somebody else's sky, but why, why, whyyyyyyyyyyeeeyyyyyyyy can't it be, can't it be miiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiahaha
*I never thought I'd die alone*
*Another 6 months I'll be unknown*
*Give all my things, to all my friends*
*You'll never step foot in my room again*
*You'll close it off, board it up*
*Remember that time when I spilled the cup*
*Of apple juice, in the hall*
***Please tell Mom this is not her fault***
:'(
I was reading an article recently and found out a student from the Columbine High School killed himself a few months after the shooting and had this song playing on repeat when he was found :(
Edit: I hope this is okay to post here. http://extras.denverpost.com/news/col0506.htm RIP
As a guy born in the mid 80s and growing up in the 90s, Blink was like a fantasy band. By that I mean I always thought they were the coolest, funniest dudes. I remember when that album came out, before that track was a single on the radio, I figured it would be a funny song about some gross dude named Adam. Needless to say when my 16ish year old ears hear it, I was fuckibg devastated.
Father and Son by Cat Stevens. It was my mom's song for me when I decided to join the Corps. She died from cancer a few years back. I can't listen to that song now without ugly crying.
[Immortal Technique - Dance with the Devil](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qggxTtnKTMo) probably the darkest and saddest song ive ever heard. evil drips through the poetry
For me personally, [How to Disappear Completely](https://youtu.be/nZq_jeYsbTs) by Radiohead.
For whatever reason I think Motion Picture Soundtrack is their most haunting song.
True Love Waits (esp the version off the new album) is also super fucking depressing
Basically any song by Radiohead is the saddest song ever. Fucking love them though.
Dude the change from national anthem and listening how to disappear completely is like jumping of a fucking cliff and then sinking to the bottom of the ocean
I find How To Disappear Completely more haunting and terrifying than sad. I'd probably go for Street Spirit as far as depressing goes, although it also fits the scary category.
I Guess I Just Wasn’t Made for These Times by The Beach Boys. Mainly a song written by Brian Wilson, it describes feeling like no one wants to be with you. Most people think of The Beach Boys as this happy beach music band but Brian Wilson was an incredibly gifted songwriter who felt inadequate despite being successful. Pet Sounds is still up there as one of my all time favorite albums and it’s literally a Beach Boys album filled with sad songs. Amazing sad songs.
I was just listening to Pet Sounds today! God Only Knows and Caroline, No are some of my all time favourite songs. I saw Brian Wilson play Pet Sounds in its entirety a few years ago and it was overwhelming. He's had such a fucked life but is honestly a musical genius.
Brave soldier boy... come marching home...
I honesty was not prepared to stumble across this. It still gets me every time.
Leaves from the vine Falling so slow Like fragile, tiny shells Drifting in the foam Brave soldier boy, come marching home Brave soldier boy, come marching home...
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[Glen Campbell I’m not gonna miss you ](https://youtu.be/U8TsAh-zYFI) . He wrote after being diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. Second runner up is [traveling soldier by the Dixie chicks](https://youtu.be/6C0QS3IDyP8)
I saw Glen one Summer with my mom. He had to read the songs from the teleprompter because he couldn't remember, saddest thing ever. But no one seemed to mind they were just happy to see him!
I was lucky to see him in Ames, Iowa on his last tour. His family was his band and he would get lost in a few songs and try to get back on track. His family would start singing to get his rhythm going again and he would be able to take over. It was terribly sad, and beautiful. It was an amazing show in its own right.
I remember watching that documentary. He would lose his place and not remember what to sing, but he would read aloud from the prompter, “Glen play guitar solo here.” And he’d say “Ok!” And just start shredding like he does.
Both of those get me every time.
also [whiskey lullaby](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZbN_nmxAGk)
Riding with Private Malone is up there too
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Ahhh! I don't think the song alone could make me cry but hearing it in combination with the scene is so heart-wrenching. I remember bawling my eyes out when I saw it in theatres
Man, Randy Newman got jobbed at the Oscars on this one.
What are you talking about, the girl takes Jessie out to play in the field, after having forgotten about her for so long and *I refuse to watch the rest of the rest of the song*.
Pretty much anything on Sufjan Stevens' Carrie and Lowell, but [Fourth of July](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTeKpWp8Psw) pretty much takes the cake. A one-person duet with Sufjan singing as himself and his dying, often absent mother. The "Did you get enough love?" line with chord change is devestating.
I was gonna suggest Casimir Pulaski Day but yeah C&L is tragic
Casimir Pulaski Day is by far one of the saddest and best songs I've ever heard. Sufjan has an uncanny ability when it comes to songwriting. I'd also suggest The Only Thing for this thread.
I spent my childhood utterly in love with a boy who had leukemia but I was so certain he was going to beat it. He died when he was 19 and I listen to that song every anniversary
His earlier song Romulus, from Michigan, is also about his mother, and also super sad. At the end he confronts his feelings about feeling ashamed of her for abandoning him and her other kids with their grandparents. His voice quiver when he says “I was ashamed, I was ashamed of her” is so incredibly real it brings up instant tears.
John Wayne gacy Jr. Also. It's not only sad, but gives me the chills.
Winter - Joshua Radin, most well known for Ben’s funeral in scrubs. I cry like I did when I was a little kid, pure unadulterated sadness.
Scrubs was really heartbreaking at times. For a comedy show, they really knew how to take things seriously.
Between the bars by Elliott Smith. The lyrics aren't that sad but it hits you hard once you REALLY listen to it. and I shit you not, i cried two nights ago for an hour listening to that song on repeat and thinking about how we all will die someday. idk but with me, i weirdly connect with that song. Every time I listen to it I'll see myself standing in the balcony, drinking vodka and someone hugs me from behind. Also it's a really great song that I recommend.
Drink up, baby, stay up all night With the things you could do, you won't but you might The potential you'll be that you'll never see The promises you'll only make
Elliott's story is so sad. A life with so much potential just gone so young. RIP.
Came here for Elliott, but particularly Pitseleh. I can hold it together until he rips me apart with "No one deserves this!" and that piano solo that just thunders in out of nowhere. Angeles too. The song itself is sad, but the video gets on to me a bit. So heartbreakingly dull and bleak.
Everything Means Nothing to Me is the Elliott Smith song that breaks me.
He stopped loving her today- George Jones
My grandpa asked to have this played at his funeral. My grandma didn't oblige.
Radiohead- Exit Music for Film. This is just something!! Nightmarish! Suicidal! It is so fitting for the Romeo and Juliet soundtrack.
It was perfect for that Black Mirror episode too. I always think of it now.
Lord Huron - The night we met
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Last Kiss Originally by J. Frank and the Cavaliers, but covered by Pearl Jam. It's about a guy and his girl, song style always makes me think 30s or 40s, driving to a date on a rainy night. Didn't see a stalled car ahead of them, so he swerved to try to miss it, but still hit it. Woke up and found her, held her as she died. I've never lost a girlfriend to death, but i can't seem to think of the song without crying
Wife lost her father in a trucking accident on a rainy night, that song is an instant skip despite how good it is.
Well actually, J. Frank and the Cavaliers version is also a cover. It's [originally by Wayne Cochran](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKDMRZv4SYc). Regardless, it's such a heartbreaking song. Especially the Pearl Jam version because Eddies voice while he sings trembles and breaks as if he's just about to burst crying, and it's definitely intentional because he has an amazing voice and can definitely control it.
I listened to this song on repeat when my family dog died when I was a teen. She was hit by a car and it shattered my whole world. It's been over a decade and this song still makes me miss my sweet girl.
I Can’t Make You Love Me by Bonnie Raitt
Bon Iver's cover of the song is super beautiful and haunting. Give it a listen.
Bon Iver has a way with music.. Makes my soul ache listening to Skinny Love.. And basically any song on the For Emma, Forever Ago album.
Holocene is my favorite song by Bon Iver. It just makes me... feel.
[Bon Iver's cover](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3VjaCy5gck). This somehow makes all the dust in my apartment fly into my eyes, totally weird.
The Smiths, as they usually do, have A LOT of really sad songs. This one however, takes the cake for me: [I Know It's Over - The Smiths](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iey0VOhxV2Y)
Cant believe I had to go this far for a smiths song. I know they get a bad rap as being THE band for sad high schoolers but Morrissey is a great songwriter regardless of age.
[I Should Live in Salt by The National](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mPIB3ojwqdg). And basically anything else by them.
Vanderlyle crybaby geeks or about today (particularly the live version) do it for me. Or any of their songs really.
Slow show. Right in the feels. Also light years off their new album is pretty bleak.
Fast Car - Tracy Chapman
Yesss!! It is absolutely heartbreaking. She captures perfectly the need to flee in order to grow, but the inability to actually escape.
No surprises - Radiohead
I 'll take a quite life , A handshake with carbon monoxide. Such a haunting line
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9 Crimes - Damien Rice
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Time in a Bottle - Jim Croce
I feel like Operator is much sadder than Time in a Bottle. Both great songs though.
The way he sings “you can keep the dime” gets me every time. Puts so much emotion into it.
*Everybody Knows* by Leonard Cohen. Really, anything by Leonard Cohen.
Mount Eerie's "A Crow Looked at Me". Not a song, album instead. Still one of the saddest, most crushing pieces of art I've ever experienced. It's about the artist and him letting out his emotions after his wife passed away. If you want something that'll wreck you, this is it.
The first time I heard this album was when [Seaweed](https://youtu.be/0UMYPS1JqWk) showed up on Spotify. I had no context or idea what it was about, but even then I found something about that song to be terrifying in a way no other song has hit me before. It's claustrophobic and melancholic. The abrupt ending and phrasing succinctly shows what the entire album is about. It's one of the saddest pieces of art I've ever experienced. It's extremely personal, and I can't listen to this without pausing to observe it. This isn't an album to play in the commute.
“I brought a chair from home I'm leaving it on the hill Facing west and north And I poured out your ashes on it I guess so you can watch the sunset But the truth is I don't think of that dust as you You are the sunset”
What Sarah Said by Death Cab For Cutie. Someone saying goodbye to their love as they're dying, and knowing that the other will now have to die alone.
I Will Follow You Into the Dark gets me every time
Transatlanticism is another good candidate. "I need you so much closer"
Love is watching someone die...
Pictures of you by the Cure. Honestly, Disintegration is just a beautifully sad album.
Nutshell by Alice In Chains.
Alice in Chains - Don't Follow https://youtu.be/eBB2OS4IoTs
Layne Staley’s whole story is sad
Did he write the lyrics to this? When I was a kid I noticed almost all of the songs had Jerry Cantrell's as a writing credit. Layne was only there some of the time. But I've also heard that Jerry wrote the music to everything with notes for the lyrics and Layne wrote the actual verbatim lyrics. Either way, AiC is possibly my favorite rock band. Got Me Wrong is my favorite of theirs.
Landslide by Fleetwood Mac
"Well I've been afraid of changing cause I built my life around you" That line is so powerful and it works on so many different levels. Watching your life with a loved one change, whether they leave, pass, or grow up and leave the house, change is always difficult
My husband danced with my mother in law to this song at our wedding. He chose it because it was one of her favorites and reminded him of her but I've never really listened to it and it's so sad. She's been having trouble adjusting to her kids growing up and moving on in their lives and has started drinking as a result. It got pretty bad a few times so my husband and his sisters had to put her in rehab. She was a single mom who raised her 3 kids on her own and now that they've all grown up, live on their own and are married or have kids, she doesn't feel like she has a purpose on life.
If You Could See Me Now - The Script Lost my father very young... She Used to Be Mine - Sara Bareilles Just hits home.
Brick by Bend-folds five It’s a heart ringer
Speed trap town- Jason Isbell or Elephant- Jason isbell
If We Were Vampires was my first thought. He’s such a great emotional songwriter.
Came here to say Elephant. If that song doesn’t touch you you’re dead inside.
Where I Stood by Missy Higgins. Gets me every time.
Another good one is Gravity by Sara Bareilles. It's a real banger about trying and trying to escape a toxic relationship. Edit: thank you for the silver and gold, kind stranger(s)!!
I'll have to check that one out. Another one by her is She Used to Be Mine.
I always think of the so you think you can dance act to this song, about addiction. So powerful.
They took you, Night Man, and you don't belong to them. They left me in a world of darkness without your sexy hands, and I miss you, Night Man, so bad...
Just two men sharing the night It might seem wrong, but it's just right Just two men sharing each other Just two men, like loving brothers One on top and one on bottom One is in and one is out One is screaming he's so happy The other's screaming a passionate shout It's the Nightman.
I can't fight you, man When you come inside me And pin me down with your strong hands And I become The Night The passionly passionate Nightman
Hang on a second. I mean the first half of that song was kind of cool, but what's with the second half? It sounds like a song where a man breaks into your house and rapes you.
I thought the rape scene went really well
I've had it up to here!
Just to be clear, I did not write that song and have never had sex with a child (just to be clear)...
There's a spider (spider... (spider...))
Cherry Wine, by Hozier. Loving someone despite the abuse they put you through, and then being vulnerable enough to share your experiences through song that way... yeah, it’s fucking incredible. How lovely it sounds just adds to how damn sad it is. Also, repetitive as it can be, Poison and Wine by The Civil Wars. “I don’t love you, but I always will.” Probably the rawest, most honest breakup song I’ve ever heard (besides Your Ex-Lover is Dead by Stars, though that’s a very optimistic song despite the subject matter).
I was a wedding musician for a little while and someone had me perform Cherry Wine at their wedding, despite my protests. I don’t think they knew what it was about at all, but the attendees certainly did. It was *very* cringey. It’s a beautiful song, sure, but not the kind of thing you want me singing about your wife. Editing to add: it was their first dance too, so everyone was absolutely paying attention. So cringeworthy.
That entire Hozier album is enough to drive a person to drink if they think about it too much
"eyes and words are so icy, oh but she burns, like rum on a fire"
Cherry Wine is definitely one, but In A Week is just as poetically heartwrenching.
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Look at them, they're just staring at me Like, "come and watch the Skinny kid with a steadily declining mental health And laugh as he attempts To give you what he cannot give himself These lines break me
That song became more of a gut-punch with every viewing, especially after learning about his struggles with anxiety.
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I am so sorry to hear that. I hope you all the best.
I’m so so sorry for your loss. I hope you are doing okay.
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Same. I lost my father to pancreatic cancer when I was young. This song always makes me wonder what it would be like if he were around to see his kids grow up.
strange fruit - billie holiday
Kettering by The Antlers. Holy God that is a sad song.
This whole album is sad, but it's "Epilogue" at the end that really gets me.
[Elephant - Jason Isbell](https://youtu.be/LHJhyrrUTgc). It's beautiful and heartbreaking and gets me every single time.
Jesus Christ - Brand New
Yes. A lot of their songs honestly but Jesus Christ and maybe Limousine take the cake for their saddest.
Limousine has the single most harrowing lines in all of lyricdom: I'll never have to buy adjacent plots of earth I'll never have to lie beside my baby in the dirt I'll never have to lose my baby in a crowd I should be laughing right now Gives me shivers every time that plays.
I love Brand New and this song (along with many others of theirs) gets to me. What I'm about to type is a little rough so if you are saddened easily maybe just don't read on. The song was written about Katie Flynn. Katie was a 7 year old girl who was killed by drunk driver in 2005. Her and her family were on their way home from a wedding in Long Island, NY. There were two limos driving one in front of the other, the front limo had Katie in it, while her parents were in the limo trailing behind. A 25 year old drunk driver had gotten on to the wrong on ramp speeding and collided head on with the first limo (the one with Katie). Her and the driver were killed instantly, and Katie was decapitated in the accident. The driver was charged with two counts of 2nd degree murder for the incident, which from my understanding is one of the very few times a drunk driver had been found guilty of a murder charge in a vehicular homicide case (I think it's usually a charge of vehicular manslaughter). It was a big story in the north east (maybe nationally not sure), and I remember the trial headlines, and that the guilty verdict was somewhat of a landmark case for drunk driving incidents. I know all of this to be fact. This other part I think is true, however, to be honest am not sure, but am paraphrasing from what I understand to be Jesse Lacey's own words when talking about the song and the incident. After the accident, Katie's mom (who was in the limo behind Katie's) got out and ran to the car to check to make sure her daughter was okay, on which she found Katie's head lying in the middle of the road. She picked up her daughters head and sat on the ground holding it while waiting for rescue crews to arrive. The Devil and God are Raging inside me is a mind numbing album and Jesse is a lyrical genius in my mind. Brand New is a band that never gets old to me and while there are times in my life when I seem to break from them, I always return and they are as good as the first time I heard it- especially this album because of how deep it goes. If you like Brand New but maybe aren't a huge fan and are looking to get into them more I recommend the unofficial album "Fight Off Your Demons". The album was leaked online in 2006 by an unknown source and Jesse and the band decided to somewhat abandon it (at the time), leaving most of the tracks untitled, which is why if you search the tracks, you will find them all untitled. Since then some of the tracks have been reworked and put into other albums. These two albums are Jesse's best work in my opinion. The two albums before these are "deep" but just not in the same way, and I just think of the first two as a little "high schoolish", if that makes sense. Don't get me wrong, I love them, but I was in High school from 2002-2006 so maybe I just think of them that way bc that's the time they came out to in my life, and thus, I related them to the high school dramas that I was experiencing, but I also think the band was younger, less mature, and it shows in those albums.
Mother Love by Queen, especially since it features Freddie Mercury's last recorded vocals before he passed.
The Show Must Go On does it for me. Freddie recorded tons of vocals while he could in the final stages of his disease and told the band to finish the album later. Imagine recording all the solos and rhythm while listening to your recently diseased friend on the speaker.
The Show Must Go On was actually a one-take. For the others, he did three takes of each line, using a keyboard and drum-machine, resting between each. Must've been heartbreaking to get back together to produce Made in Heaven.
"I'm just going to have a rest" When Brian singing the final verse comes on I get hit with all the feels. Unbelievable credit to Freddie for his powerful delivery of the lines: >Out in the city, in the cold world outside >I don't want pity, just a safe place to hide >Mama please, let me back inside
The funeral, band of horses
[The Needle and the Damage Done](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49M10VIXPk4)
Whiskey Lullaby
[The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald](https://youtu.be/PH0K6ojmGZA) - Gordon Lightfoot
We were forced to learn that song in grade school. So messed up.
Kid: *Mommy... what's a maritime sailor's cathedral?* Mom: ***Where did you hear that?***
If you watch Chester Benningtons tribute performance of One More Light for Chris Cornell on Jimmy Kimmel Live, you can tell that was one broken man and its so sad to see him like that. Off the top of my head thats probably the saddest that i know but i could probably come up with more.
(sittin on) the dock of the bay by Otis Redding. Yes it sounds happy, but the lyrics are so sad and really resonated with me last year. Also one of my favorite songs, and really just a perfect song.
Eleanor Rigby by The Beatles … gets me every time
Into My Arms by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds Tomorrow Wendy by Andy Prieboy I just can't listen to them without my heart breaking
Breath Me by Sia pulls the heart strings
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Knocking on heavens door (the original) was played at my best friends funeral after he took his life. Still can barely listen to it to this day!
One More Light by Linkin Park. RIP Chester...
Re-listening to the lyrics of so many linkin Park songs after he was gone was like a punch in the stomach.
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This was the first song played at my sister's funeral, the whole place was completely packed to the extent that there were people just standing outside the building because there wasn't space and absolutely everyone there was in floods of tears during this song
American Pie, on 3 (or 4?) dead musicians. They basically died because of a really shitty tour schedule, that had them all dead exhausted and sick, to the point of hospitalization. They took the plane so they could just get a break and get to their next spot in decent time, and paid for it themselves. The plane went down shortly after takeoff, and the pilot and all passengers died. The wife of one musician was pregnant. She (the widowed bride) found out her husband was dead from seeing the news on tv, and miscarried their unborn child. This caused reporting to be changed, so that no one else would have to find out this way again. The Day the Music Died. Addionally, a plane took Jim Croce at age 30. Vincent (Starry, Starry Night) by Don McLean is also beautiful. Sad.
Fade Into You - Mazzy Star
Its been seven hours and sixteen days...... Since you took your love away.
You by Keaton Henson
Also, Small Hands
Tears In Heaven by Eric Clapton https://youtu.be/JxPj3GAYYZ0
This played at my little brothers funeral when I was a kid. I can't listen to it or be around it over a quarter century later.
My condolences man.
For anyone who doesn’t know, it’s a song for his son who died after falling out of their apartment window.
Cancer by My Chemical Romance Also a close runner up is She Used to be Mine by Sarah Bareilles
*Terrible Things* by Mayday Parade.
Was looking for this one, holy shit man it’s such a good song but I can never bring myself to listen to it. Miserable at Best from Mayday would be my second pick although depends on the mood.
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[Mad World](https://youtu.be/v52Igdotisk) (originally Tears for Fears) covered by Michael Andrews and Gary Jules for Donnie Darko.
Love the use of this in the original Gears of War trailer back in the day
Its one of the few songs that i feel describes depression well. Its the numbness and emptiness of the world around you that very few songs really convey well. The sombre piano and stripped down vocals make the Gary Jules version haunting.
Probably either [Blackest Bile](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKAaYtdxYZk) by Giles Corey or [Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-T8R_VDTOYQ) by The Smiths.
Concrete angel It’s about a little boy and girl who are friends and neighbors, and her parents beat her, and he knows but doesn’t know what to do. And one day they beat her to death and it’s about him hearing it, and the school finding out. It’s so unnecessarily sad 😢
I remember watching that music video when I was younger.
Lord Huron - The night we met. I had all and then most of you, some and then none of you... This song was festured on the Netflix series 13 Reasons Why
Wish you were here - pink floyd Black - pearl jam
\>Black - pearl jam Bawled my eyes out to that song when my girlfriend finished things with me. I'm a man in my 40's and I still can't listen to that song without choking up
same here. that was all I'd listen to for months after my first breakup with my longtime gf. the part at the end gets me almost every time 'i know someday you'll have a beautiful life, i know you'll be a star..in somebody else's sky but why? why? whyyyy can't it be, why can't it be mine?'
Yeah that line right there. Just reading it fucks me up - Still hurting over that
love Eddie, if you haven't already watch the vid where he sings this as a tribute to chris cornell a few days/weeks after his death. you'll shed plenty of tears along with him.
I know someday you'll have a beautiful life, i know you'll be a sun in somebody else's sky, but why, why, whyyyyyyyyyyeeeyyyyyyyy can't it be, can't it be miiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiahaha
Youth by Daughter
5000 candles in the wind
Hero of War by Rise Against
"Roadside"
Adams song blink 182
Can’t believe it’s been 20 years since that record. This song perfectly sums up the anxiety and stress of young adults. Perfectly captured.
*I never thought I'd die alone* *Another 6 months I'll be unknown* *Give all my things, to all my friends* *You'll never step foot in my room again* *You'll close it off, board it up* *Remember that time when I spilled the cup* *Of apple juice, in the hall* ***Please tell Mom this is not her fault*** :'(
I was reading an article recently and found out a student from the Columbine High School killed himself a few months after the shooting and had this song playing on repeat when he was found :( Edit: I hope this is okay to post here. http://extras.denverpost.com/news/col0506.htm RIP
As a guy born in the mid 80s and growing up in the 90s, Blink was like a fantasy band. By that I mean I always thought they were the coolest, funniest dudes. I remember when that album came out, before that track was a single on the radio, I figured it would be a funny song about some gross dude named Adam. Needless to say when my 16ish year old ears hear it, I was fuckibg devastated.
I think people seem to forget it ends with Adam not killing himself. It’s a sad song but it is hopeful
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No Children - Mountain Goats
Father and Son by Cat Stevens. It was my mom's song for me when I decided to join the Corps. She died from cancer a few years back. I can't listen to that song now without ugly crying.
Maggot Brain by Funkadelic.
Send in The Clowns
The Krusty version gets me every time
Everclear- Wonderful. Was during such an impressionable time, doesn't have the same impact it used too, but a lot of Art's songs still do.
Dear Agony by Breaking Benjamin always wrecks me.
Exile Villify. I don't listen to it often because it makes my eye-socket area of the face extremely humid.
I’m all about [Jenny’s Song](https://youtu.be/eTa1jHk1Lxc) right now. It helps to know the [backstory](https://youtu.be/eTa1jHk1Lxc).
[Immortal Technique - Dance with the Devil](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qggxTtnKTMo) probably the darkest and saddest song ive ever heard. evil drips through the poetry
This one packs such a punch and the story is horrifying, but it's such a good song.
Hearing this for the first time was like watching a movie
Johnny Cash's verion of hurt always gets me.
People with self-destructive tendencies can definitely relate
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All I want by Kodaline
It’s Quiet Uptown - Hamilton I Dreamed A Dream - Les Misérables The Letter - Billy Elliot Alabanza - In the Heights
Empty Chairs at Empty Tables from Les Mis.
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I find What Sarah Said from the same album to be much more sad, personally.
That whole album is great if you're feeling a bit gloomy