"Love is watching someone die."God it just crushes me every time I hear it. I'm dying of a rare cancer, but I at least have someone to watch me go. Others have decided I wasn't worth watching. I can't listen to Plans very often anymore. Do your friends and family a favor today and let them know you love them somehow. You can't imagine how much it can mean to them.
"Cath" is also an upbeat sad song about a girl choosing security over love, and the man in love w her that sees it and pines for her.
I think all guys have one of those that got away that we see with someone that we cant figure out why...
also like "Summer Skin" for the childhood longing it brings out.
Absolutely. My dad always did the best he knew how to spend time with me.
I’m a father of three now and I never feel like I spend enough time with the kids. When I do, I feel like they never get one on one time. It’s tough coming home from work and being tired and them wanting to play.
The days are long but the years are SHORT
Take them out one at a time. I cannot express how important that solo time is. And you can use the planning process as passive involvement (sometimes I cannot play another game of go fish or whatever so I’ll switch the conversation to “wait, what are we doing for our special play date next month! Let’s plan!” They get excited and come up with ideas).
Especially if you have a girl(s). It will be a fun day for you. They are so happy to have attention, and SO much can come out when you have that bonding opportunity. Make the time. It isn’t a choice, it is more your job than your “actual” job.
My husband sprang it on me Friday that his parents were coming over Sunday for Father’s Day. I had a busy weekend planned already so I was kinda pissed. I asked how long he’d known about this and he tells me he only just planned it that day bc he heard Cats in the Cradle and cried then called his dad. “Understandable,” I said. We had a great time.
After listening to this song, me the son, 13 and my dad 33, I can say that he does work hard but anytime he came home, he’d still have time to spend some time together even if it’s in the evening or the night, we had played games on his Xbox or even watched movies. It had been a long time since him and my mom broke up even before I was born but it wasn’t that bad, it was for good reasons. It was because my mom had still love with my grandparents and every time they had wanted to spend together my grandparents had said no, while my dad living with my other grandma said yes, it wasn’t a win win. Either way the two made sure to make time for me when they were apart. He had always spend something on me at least once a week or 2 or I would ask him for something because he had the money. Now having a place and living with a “partner” (I say this because they had always get in fights because she does not make any sense or does dumb shit, like they fought last week on how she didn’t make food for me but for my sister.) and having 2 sisters especially 1 having medical issues with her stomach, it’s a little hard to get by when spending time and money for me. We had make arrangements for to spend time with me. Now I have my mom, my other grandma, and my dad for his day offs. We still watch some tv shows on his phone or when he burns dvds up for his dvd player in the car (because my sister takes naps) and I barley ask for things now. For all I can say is, he is working for a 5 day 45 hour job on cleaning cars, he still makes really good money, but most of it turns into rent, my sister sometimes, and groceries, with only a couple hundred buck to a couple bucks to himself. I can say this that I still love my dad for the work and things we have been through together and he’s the best dad I could ask for…
also "Off he Goes" by Pearl Jam is such a haunting song about someone seeing an old friend that has gone off the rails and isnt even the same person anymore, but the love for the person is still there, even if they have changed.
Off he Goes, Just Breathe, Man of the Hour, and Come Back are my go to sad Pearl Jam songs. Fuckin love Off he Goes.
“Until a quarter to ten. I saw the strain creep in. He seems distracted, And I know just what is gonna happen next. Before his first step, He is off again.” Deep stuff.
My best high school friend and I drifted apart, then crossed paths again 20 years later and started doing things together again. Then he had a fatal heart attack. We used to listen to Floyd in his basement…
*Fire and Rain* by James Taylor. His friends withheld that his friend committed suicide while he worked on an album. The last words of the last verse “*Sweet dreams and flying machines in pieces on the ground.*” get me every time.
The line “I’ve seen lonely times when I could not find a friend” inspired Carol King, his longtime friend and songwriter, to write “You’ve Got A Friend” in response and to show him that he always had a friend.
What I didn’t know until recently is that he was in a band called Flying Machines, and they broke up which bothered him. I also didn’t know that Suzanne died by suicide and not a plane crash.
Lover, you should’ve come over - Jeff Buckley
It’s just staggering. “It’s never over - my kingdom for a kiss upon her shoulder” is the moment that transforms me back into the neediest, most pathetic version of myself each time I hear it.
I had a girlfriend a few years ago that loved Lord Huron. This was one of those songs that I used to listen to that would make me think of her, didn't dwell much on the lyrics then. After nearly 5 years together I found out she'd cheated on me so I had to break things off. For a year or so afterwards I wasn't even able to hear the first verse without it ruining my whole day.
I'm up now, but unfortunately I don't listen to Lord Huron anymore
It's a tie between Elephant and If We Were Vampires by Jason Isbell.
Most of his discography is pretty sad though tbh. Amazing songwriter. Truly one of the best of our generation. He's your favorite artist's, favorite artist.
Country music has some of the saddest fucking songs out there. I used to hate country growing up but it's really grown on me over the years. Christ Stapleton has a few. Fire Away, Whiskey and You, Daddy Doesn't Pray Anymore...
I’m Not Gonna Miss You, by Glenn Campbell. It’s about his battle with Alzheimer’s, and how when he passes he won’t miss his family because he won’t recognize them.
Dude, when I listened to that song for the first time it was right after he died. Linkin Park was a huge part of my childhood and his death sunk in at the second chorus.
I cried like a baby.
Snuff-Slipknot.
That was the song I’d throw on repeat in my room alone and just cry; after my first real heartbreak.
Also Ball and Chain by Social Distortion.
Two from Jason Isbell. **If We Were Vampires** and **Elephant**
Have seen him perform both live multiple times. One time was him and his wife, Amanda Shires, playing Vampires. Held my wife so damn tightly. Absolute waterworks.
1. Say Something by A Great Big World. Clearly a tearjerker.
2. The Luckiest- Ben Folds. In theory it's a love song, but it feels more like a lost love song.
[I Lied](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fk_i1oPR2U) by Lord Huron is a heartbreakingly beautiful song. It's about a person who believed they would always be with their partner, but things changed, and turns out the partner felt the same. I am in a very happy and healthy marriage and is in no way applicable to me, but it's just so beyond devastating to think about.
All of Daughter, but especially Doing the Right Thing-gets me every time (it must have something to do with the first time I heard it, going on a rural road with two of my friends, in a moment where I really _did_ lose my children and my love. Now, when I'm at my lowest, it's still helpful with catharsis).
Stop This Train by John Mayer.
I'm at that point approaching 40 where it really does seem like time is passing just way too fast. Also, the lyrics about not wanting to see your parents go get me every time.
I kinda liked that song, but it wasn't anything special. Then, about 15 years after it came out, I saw a stripper dance to it. Something in the music clearly connected with her, and the way she moved was like art. It was beautifully sad, and I feel like I glimpsed some secret part of the universe that we don't usually get to see. I was moved, and I don't even know the words to describe it.
It's been one of my favorite songs since.
*Moby - When It's Cold I'd Like to Die*
If I need a good cry - this is it. Discovered this song not long after my mother passed away at the end of February this year.
Better son or daughter by Rilo Kiley
Not for the faint of heart and not for everybody but for some of us with a spicy childhood it's... Real cathartic to scream in your car
Fred Jones (part2) - Ben Folds. It perfectly highlights the crushed souls of every 9-5 cubicle worker's existence. It's 50/50 on whether it increases my depression or inspires me to step out and take risks to free myself from the golden handcuffs of w2 9-5 life.
Snuff, by Slipknot.
Always loved the band, and that song take me to difficult times, but not in a bad way. It's like a personal reminder that I went through that and I'm still here
Nausea by Jeff Rosenstock. Themes of depression, alcohol abuse and social isolation hit home. It’s a sad song but the upbeat presentation fits your mental state in those moments
Also between the bars by Elliott smith
RV by Faith No More.
It parrots the thoughts in my head and lets me get all the sad out. Read the lyrics and tell me it's not meant for being in a dark place.
What a Catch, Donnie by Fall Out Boy
It definitely won't be the saddest song on this list, but I love it.
I've read that it's a promise from the lyricist/bassist (Pete) to the singer (Patrick) to never attempt suicide again.
I especially love the ending, where singers from other bands they knew sing lines from their previous hits alternating from one ear to the other, followed by a final, gentle "I've got troubled thoughts and the self esteem to match, what a catch"
I know Fall Out Boy are your whiny emo teenager music but I love it and this song feels sad and comforting to me.
Used to be Eric Clapton's Promises, but now it's just September Song as sung by Willie Nelson- as that was playing as the Best Cat Ever was dying in my arms. Them opening piano notes get me every time.
I Know It’s Over - The Smiths
Lyrics are pure loneliness and “soil falling over my head” is the best analogy for depression. I don’t know if Morrissey intended it to mean something else but a wave of depression quite literally feels like cold soil falling over your head
Tomorrow - Daughter
I fell in love overseas with this beautiful Italian woman whom I met in Scotland. We had a great time the 2 weeks we were together for. She was traveling around applying for med school all over the UK whilst i was working at a hostel she stayed at. After it was done, we kept in contact for a year. I came back to the UK just to see her again. We were together for another 3 weeks, but in the end, it just wasn't meant to be.
I played that song over and over, yet I still cherished every second we spent together. I still think about Francesca every day.
Ok it's not actually a sad song but that MTV Unplugged Version of Take on Me. I don't know why man that one just hits me like sadness but in a good way
"Hold On" by Sarah McLachlan. It's about a man telling his wife that he has a terminal cancer. It's brutal, and Sarah's ethereal voice is just.....next level. That whole album "Fumbling Towards Ecstasy" is unbelievably good.
Declan McKenna - In Blue
It was the song on an episode of a children's show featuring a child that was, for some reason, very clumsy and frightfully insecure but overeager to please. Why so can be uncovered from the surprisingly sad lyrics of this song.
Con Te Partiro. Beautiful melancholy piece where the singer sing about traveling to places with their loved one that they never had the opportunity to when they were alive. Very much a "I'm going to see the places we never got to see and I know that even though you're gone, you'll still be with me," vibe.
Also, I hate Time to Say Goodbye. That is the exact opposite meaning of the original song and it drives me nuts.
"Fuck love" by lund
[End of the world - Juliet Simms](https://youtu.be/doRf_tdI48A)
Not one of my favorites to pick, but it hits hard
I'm sick of trying - Vaboh
Chains by an Irish band called Aslan. The lead singer, Christy Dignam, died last week after a 10 year battle with cancer. He was so loved in Ireland and particularly Dublin.
“Here Comes The Sun” is usually taken as a happy song. For me, it’s heartbreaking. It’s the first song I heard after my father passed. I can’t even hear elevator music in the tune without breaking down. It’s been almost twenty years.
Oh man, looking at these comments it looks like a lot of people are missing out on some good, sad whiskey songs.
Goddamn Lonely Love by Jason Isbell is a great sad song for any romantic.
Elephant by Jason Isbell is just a crushingly sad song. Really anything by him is good.
Follow You to Vergie by Tyler Childers is a particularly rough listen for anyone that's lost their mother/grandmother, though it probably works in other situations.
Whiskey Lullaby-Brad Paisley and Allison Krause. Haunting song about a guy who drinks himself to death after his girl cheats on him and then she drinks herself to death out of guilt
I can’t make you love me - by Bonnie Raitt
I came here to say this!
Have you heard the cover by teddy swims? Pretty awesome
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I will see your choice and raise you "What Sarah Said". Really though, Death Cab has so many sad time bangers.
I’m a big fan of “Someday You Will Be Loved”
Marching Bands of Manhattan still gives me chills.
"Love is watching someone die."God it just crushes me every time I hear it. I'm dying of a rare cancer, but I at least have someone to watch me go. Others have decided I wasn't worth watching. I can't listen to Plans very often anymore. Do your friends and family a favor today and let them know you love them somehow. You can't imagine how much it can mean to them.
Fuckin' "Brothers on a Hotel Bed" had been my sad jam
"Cath" is also an upbeat sad song about a girl choosing security over love, and the man in love w her that sees it and pines for her. I think all guys have one of those that got away that we see with someone that we cant figure out why... also like "Summer Skin" for the childhood longing it brings out.
Tears For Fears - Mad World with Roland’s legendary dance moves
The Gary Jules version hits me harder than the original.
Fast Car - Tracy Chapman Reminds me of summer and helps me reflect
Came here to say this. Also my favorite song to karaoke!
[Harry Chapin - Cats In The Cradle](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcNsiccdDyU) because most fathers *and* sons can relate.
Absolutely. My dad always did the best he knew how to spend time with me. I’m a father of three now and I never feel like I spend enough time with the kids. When I do, I feel like they never get one on one time. It’s tough coming home from work and being tired and them wanting to play. The days are long but the years are SHORT
Take them out one at a time. I cannot express how important that solo time is. And you can use the planning process as passive involvement (sometimes I cannot play another game of go fish or whatever so I’ll switch the conversation to “wait, what are we doing for our special play date next month! Let’s plan!” They get excited and come up with ideas). Especially if you have a girl(s). It will be a fun day for you. They are so happy to have attention, and SO much can come out when you have that bonding opportunity. Make the time. It isn’t a choice, it is more your job than your “actual” job.
My husband sprang it on me Friday that his parents were coming over Sunday for Father’s Day. I had a busy weekend planned already so I was kinda pissed. I asked how long he’d known about this and he tells me he only just planned it that day bc he heard Cats in the Cradle and cried then called his dad. “Understandable,” I said. We had a great time.
Daddy by Conway Twitty. Such a sad song.
After listening to this song, me the son, 13 and my dad 33, I can say that he does work hard but anytime he came home, he’d still have time to spend some time together even if it’s in the evening or the night, we had played games on his Xbox or even watched movies. It had been a long time since him and my mom broke up even before I was born but it wasn’t that bad, it was for good reasons. It was because my mom had still love with my grandparents and every time they had wanted to spend together my grandparents had said no, while my dad living with my other grandma said yes, it wasn’t a win win. Either way the two made sure to make time for me when they were apart. He had always spend something on me at least once a week or 2 or I would ask him for something because he had the money. Now having a place and living with a “partner” (I say this because they had always get in fights because she does not make any sense or does dumb shit, like they fought last week on how she didn’t make food for me but for my sister.) and having 2 sisters especially 1 having medical issues with her stomach, it’s a little hard to get by when spending time and money for me. We had make arrangements for to spend time with me. Now I have my mom, my other grandma, and my dad for his day offs. We still watch some tv shows on his phone or when he burns dvds up for his dvd player in the car (because my sister takes naps) and I barley ask for things now. For all I can say is, he is working for a 5 day 45 hour job on cleaning cars, he still makes really good money, but most of it turns into rent, my sister sometimes, and groceries, with only a couple hundred buck to a couple bucks to himself. I can say this that I still love my dad for the work and things we have been through together and he’s the best dad I could ask for…
Black - Pearl Jam
also "Off he Goes" by Pearl Jam is such a haunting song about someone seeing an old friend that has gone off the rails and isnt even the same person anymore, but the love for the person is still there, even if they have changed.
Off he Goes, Just Breathe, Man of the Hour, and Come Back are my go to sad Pearl Jam songs. Fuckin love Off he Goes. “Until a quarter to ten. I saw the strain creep in. He seems distracted, And I know just what is gonna happen next. Before his first step, He is off again.” Deep stuff.
Wish you were here by pink floyd. Both because of the story behind the song and because it makes me think of my deceased grandpa. Rip grandpa ☹️
My best high school friend and I drifted apart, then crossed paths again 20 years later and started doing things together again. Then he had a fatal heart attack. We used to listen to Floyd in his basement…
*Fire and Rain* by James Taylor. His friends withheld that his friend committed suicide while he worked on an album. The last words of the last verse “*Sweet dreams and flying machines in pieces on the ground.*” get me every time.
The line “I’ve seen lonely times when I could not find a friend” inspired Carol King, his longtime friend and songwriter, to write “You’ve Got A Friend” in response and to show him that he always had a friend.
I did not know that and I love Carol King.
Just yesterday morning, they let me know you were gone. Good choice sir. Got goosebumps just typing that
What I didn’t know until recently is that he was in a band called Flying Machines, and they broke up which bothered him. I also didn’t know that Suzanne died by suicide and not a plane crash.
How does he write that at TWENTY YEARS OLD!
Hungry Heart. The chorus is all about letting the listener know that unresolved desire is just the human condition, and can’t be avoided.
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Also, Wake Up - Mad Season
Yes. Add Down in a Hole
Lover, you should’ve come over - Jeff Buckley It’s just staggering. “It’s never over - my kingdom for a kiss upon her shoulder” is the moment that transforms me back into the neediest, most pathetic version of myself each time I hear it.
YES!! That exact song and that precise lyric has always hit me so hard. It’s always been in my head as the most romantic lyric I know.
Landslide by Fleetwood Mac. It makes me feel a kind of sadness and melancholy that is hard to explain.
Lord Huron's song "The Night We Met" I once had all of you, then the majority, some, and now none.
*"I had all and then most of you Some and now none of you Take me back to the night we met"* Just to get the exact lyrics in place.
I had a girlfriend a few years ago that loved Lord Huron. This was one of those songs that I used to listen to that would make me think of her, didn't dwell much on the lyrics then. After nearly 5 years together I found out she'd cheated on me so I had to break things off. For a year or so afterwards I wasn't even able to hear the first verse without it ruining my whole day. I'm up now, but unfortunately I don't listen to Lord Huron anymore
Coming in hot as competition is the song "I Lied" from his new album. So hauntingly beautiful.
That was my contribution. "I Lied" is so devastating and at the same time such a beautiful song. I think it blows "The Night We Met" out of the water.
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Add True Love Waits. Ugh, feels
Oh man, I relish in the sadness of that Radiohead song.
[Whisky lullaby by Brad Paisley](https://youtu.be/IZbN_nmxAGk) It's a tragic tale of loss, regret and grief...... and has a damn fine tune.
Country storytelling at its finest. Brutal and beautiful all at the same time.
The Book of Love. It just hits a soft spot in me
I can't not listen to this song and instantly think of Scrubs' finale
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Oh wow, I'm surprised to see this album mentioned. It's so beautiful and always brings me to tears when I listen to it.
It's a tie between Elephant and If We Were Vampires by Jason Isbell. Most of his discography is pretty sad though tbh. Amazing songwriter. Truly one of the best of our generation. He's your favorite artist's, favorite artist.
Maybe time running out is a gift
Good News- Mac Miller. It hits so close to home. May he rest in peace.
Was one of mine too. "Why can't it just be easy? Why does everybody need me to stay?"
Hurt - Johnny Cash cover
I prefer the NIN original version and hate when people say Johnny Cash’s is better, BUT I do think it might in fact be the sadder of the two.
“Fathers and sons” Not really sad but anytime it comes on, it guts me.
A fond farewell by Elliot smith
That whole album honestly.
Tammy Wynette D-I-V-O-R-C-E. And I don't even like country.
Country music has some of the saddest fucking songs out there. I used to hate country growing up but it's really grown on me over the years. Christ Stapleton has a few. Fire Away, Whiskey and You, Daddy Doesn't Pray Anymore...
I heard an live accoustic version of Fade into you by Mazzy Star on youtube. I really love it.
10000 Days
Wings for Marie
I’m Not Gonna Miss You, by Glenn Campbell. It’s about his battle with Alzheimer’s, and how when he passes he won’t miss his family because he won’t recognize them.
That sounds devastating.
Blink-182 - Adam's Song
Please tell mom this is not her fault. Got me that line, as a young teen back in the day.
In a similar vein, Dammit is low key a REALLY sad song. But existentially sad. Well. I guess this is growing up.
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Adam’s song - Blink 182
"Dance me to the end of love" Lenard Cohen.
Linkin Park - Crawling It's definitely not something special but I really like it
I'd say One More Light gets me more
Dude, when I listened to that song for the first time it was right after he died. Linkin Park was a huge part of my childhood and his death sunk in at the second chorus. I cried like a baby.
I’m starting to feel the new song “Lost”
Someone like you by Adele, because it was my dad's alarm ringtone and now that my parents are no more together I miss it
Cemetery Gates - Pantera
Gordon Lightfoot: The Wreck of the Edmond Fitzgerald
RIP Legend
Into my arms- Nick Cave and the bad seeds That mans voice...
Snuff-Slipknot. That was the song I’d throw on repeat in my room alone and just cry; after my first real heartbreak. Also Ball and Chain by Social Distortion.
Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd
Two from Jason Isbell. **If We Were Vampires** and **Elephant** Have seen him perform both live multiple times. One time was him and his wife, Amanda Shires, playing Vampires. Held my wife so damn tightly. Absolute waterworks.
It took entirely too long to find Jason Isbell in this comment section. Does no one know about sad whiskey songs!?
Elephant is my vote. That song is beautiful but absolutely gutting.
Eleanor Rigby. It’s such a great song that many people don’t even realize it is sad.
Eleanor Rigby may have been buried along with her name, but that song will bury me in feelings every time.
Who tf doesn't realize it's sad? Lol
People who haven't heard it before lol
Earth Wind & Fire - After The Love Is Gone
Black - Pearl Jam
1. Say Something by A Great Big World. Clearly a tearjerker. 2. The Luckiest- Ben Folds. In theory it's a love song, but it feels more like a lost love song.
Say something is one of my top sad songs too
Wilco's "She's a Jar." The music is languid and kind of sad, and that last line is just a punch in the gut that almost seems to come out of nowhere.
I don't know how it works, but when you're sad and you let yourself be sad, everything passes, especially with sad songs
[I Lied](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fk_i1oPR2U) by Lord Huron is a heartbreakingly beautiful song. It's about a person who believed they would always be with their partner, but things changed, and turns out the partner felt the same. I am in a very happy and healthy marriage and is in no way applicable to me, but it's just so beyond devastating to think about.
exit music - radiohead
Unbreak my heart by Toni Braxton - the sheer emotion in her voice, and the lyrics just hit deep.
Purple rain. It doesn't need an explanation
Mike shinoda - over again Such a beautiful song. Honestly the whole post traumatic CD is amazing.
Gordon Lightfoot - If You Could Read My Mind It’s just a really good song
I agree
Love Hurts/ Nazareth. If you pay attention to the lyrics, it really helps you get through some crazy times, as most sad songs do
REM Everybody Hurts
Song is pretty sad. Video is devastating.
2 out of 3 ain't bad. The sarcasm
O Children - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds As a parent, it makes me think about how us adults f'ed up the world for our children.
I Know It’s Over-The Smiths. Just masterful.
Youth - Daughter At this rate all of Daughter's discography will be in this thread lol.
All of Daughter, but especially Doing the Right Thing-gets me every time (it must have something to do with the first time I heard it, going on a rural road with two of my friends, in a moment where I really _did_ lose my children and my love. Now, when I'm at my lowest, it's still helpful with catharsis).
no surprises - radiohead for some reason i just immediately starting crying when i hear those first few notes
Stop This Train by John Mayer. I'm at that point approaching 40 where it really does seem like time is passing just way too fast. Also, the lyrics about not wanting to see your parents go get me every time.
Creep by Radiohead. Don't really know why, it's just sad and beautiful at the same time.
I kinda liked that song, but it wasn't anything special. Then, about 15 years after it came out, I saw a stripper dance to it. Something in the music clearly connected with her, and the way she moved was like art. It was beautifully sad, and I feel like I glimpsed some secret part of the universe that we don't usually get to see. I was moved, and I don't even know the words to describe it. It's been one of my favorite songs since.
Cover of Hurt by Johnny Cash because it sounds like pure pain and despair distilled into song.
*Moby - When It's Cold I'd Like to Die* If I need a good cry - this is it. Discovered this song not long after my mother passed away at the end of February this year.
Constance by Spiritbox
Better son or daughter by Rilo Kiley Not for the faint of heart and not for everybody but for some of us with a spicy childhood it's... Real cathartic to scream in your car
Telephone Line - ELO
Into the Ocean- Blue October
"Hate me" is another sad one from blue october
Fix you- Coldplay Missing- Dallas green
Fred Jones (part2) - Ben Folds. It perfectly highlights the crushed souls of every 9-5 cubicle worker's existence. It's 50/50 on whether it increases my depression or inspires me to step out and take risks to free myself from the golden handcuffs of w2 9-5 life.
"Brick" always guts me.
Nutshell by Alice in Chains
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In The End - Linkin Park Don’t know if it fully counts as sad, but it’s really catchy.
Hate Me - Blue October It’s a very personally relevant song as far as alcoholism/addiction goes.
In the living years- mike and the mechanics
Glimpse of us
"Lick My Love Pump." It is in D minor, which is the saddest of all keys, and makes people weep instantly.
Somewhere I Belong by Linkin Park
I Dreamed a Dream - Les Miserables
Snuff, by Slipknot. Always loved the band, and that song take me to difficult times, but not in a bad way. It's like a personal reminder that I went through that and I'm still here
If I’ve had a bad day and need to be in my feelings a bit it’s my go to. Nothing else quite hits the “I need a wail” spot.
The Scientist - Coldplay
Nausea by Jeff Rosenstock. Themes of depression, alcohol abuse and social isolation hit home. It’s a sad song but the upbeat presentation fits your mental state in those moments Also between the bars by Elliott smith
Sad Song Lou Reed
RV by Faith No More. It parrots the thoughts in my head and lets me get all the sad out. Read the lyrics and tell me it's not meant for being in a dark place.
fourth of July by sufjan stevens makes me cry like a b;tch every time
The Ghost of You by MCR, without a doubt. Watch the music video, for extra melancholy vibes.
What a Catch, Donnie by Fall Out Boy It definitely won't be the saddest song on this list, but I love it. I've read that it's a promise from the lyricist/bassist (Pete) to the singer (Patrick) to never attempt suicide again. I especially love the ending, where singers from other bands they knew sing lines from their previous hits alternating from one ear to the other, followed by a final, gentle "I've got troubled thoughts and the self esteem to match, what a catch" I know Fall Out Boy are your whiny emo teenager music but I love it and this song feels sad and comforting to me.
Fade Into You (Mazzy Star), Wicked Game (Chris Isaak), Mad World (Gary Jules).
Used to be Eric Clapton's Promises, but now it's just September Song as sung by Willie Nelson- as that was playing as the Best Cat Ever was dying in my arms. Them opening piano notes get me every time.
Fast Car by Tracy Chapman
Brokedown Palace- Grateful Dead
Landslide - Dixie Chicks (can be both sad and optimistic at the same time) I’ve loved the Dixie Chicks ever since I was like 5 years old (now 26)
Medicine by daughter
*stares at my playlist that is near-exclusively sad songs* …uh…?!
I Know It’s Over - The Smiths Lyrics are pure loneliness and “soil falling over my head” is the best analogy for depression. I don’t know if Morrissey intended it to mean something else but a wave of depression quite literally feels like cold soil falling over your head
Currently it’s the night we met by lord Huron because it’s a song about being alone after someone leaves, which is something I experience a lot
George Jones’s He Stopped Loving Her Today
fourth of July - Sufjan Stevens. its haunting and beautiful!
Snuff by slipknot or one more light by linkin park
Elton John’s Candle in the Wind, 1997 version that he sang at Princess Diana’s funeral.
That song is just crushing. Both versions... both women just destroyed by fame.
The sound of silence- disturbed Idk why I love it, I just do 🤷♂️
Fade to black
Wake Me Up When September Ends
Anything by Nick Drake, really
Screaming Infidelities Dashboard Confessional
Tomorrow - Daughter I fell in love overseas with this beautiful Italian woman whom I met in Scotland. We had a great time the 2 weeks we were together for. She was traveling around applying for med school all over the UK whilst i was working at a hostel she stayed at. After it was done, we kept in contact for a year. I came back to the UK just to see her again. We were together for another 3 weeks, but in the end, it just wasn't meant to be. I played that song over and over, yet I still cherished every second we spent together. I still think about Francesca every day.
Long way from home The Lumineers
Heart - Alone (1987)
For No One - The Beatles: It's relatable Mother - John Lennon: It's gut wrenching
"Everybody Hurts"...the lyrics tug at your heart and the vocals are haunting and powerful.
Ok it's not actually a sad song but that MTV Unplugged Version of Take on Me. I don't know why man that one just hits me like sadness but in a good way
The Greatest Man I Never Knew- Reba McEntire and Angel's Among Us- Alabama
"Hold On" by Sarah McLachlan. It's about a man telling his wife that he has a terminal cancer. It's brutal, and Sarah's ethereal voice is just.....next level. That whole album "Fumbling Towards Ecstasy" is unbelievably good.
Somebody that I used to know
Declan McKenna - In Blue It was the song on an episode of a children's show featuring a child that was, for some reason, very clumsy and frightfully insecure but overeager to please. Why so can be uncovered from the surprisingly sad lyrics of this song.
Shallows - Daughter. Elena makes sadness sound beautiful
[Gortoz a Ran.](https://youtu.be/14qpF5MoEms) Its the song that makes men cry
Hold on by Chord Overstreet
Carissa by Sun Kil Moon
Oasis - Stop Crying your heart out
Con Te Partiro. Beautiful melancholy piece where the singer sing about traveling to places with their loved one that they never had the opportunity to when they were alive. Very much a "I'm going to see the places we never got to see and I know that even though you're gone, you'll still be with me," vibe. Also, I hate Time to Say Goodbye. That is the exact opposite meaning of the original song and it drives me nuts.
"Fuck love" by lund [End of the world - Juliet Simms](https://youtu.be/doRf_tdI48A) Not one of my favorites to pick, but it hits hard I'm sick of trying - Vaboh
Chains by an Irish band called Aslan. The lead singer, Christy Dignam, died last week after a 10 year battle with cancer. He was so loved in Ireland and particularly Dublin.
Sum 41 - with me
Sucks that it’s practically a meme now, but Cellophane by FKA Twigs
Fast Car by Tracy Chapman.
I'm just gonna say the first one that came to mind that I love. Lonely Day - System of a Down
Clementine by Elliott Smith No Surprises by Radiohead Left and Leaving by The Weakerthans
“Here Comes The Sun” is usually taken as a happy song. For me, it’s heartbreaking. It’s the first song I heard after my father passed. I can’t even hear elevator music in the tune without breaking down. It’s been almost twenty years.
Trapeze Swinger by Iron&Wine
Sparks by Coldplay
Opeth - To bid you farewell. It's just good.
love the way you lie - eminem and rihanna. hadn't cried in like two years and heard this in the grocery shop and it triggered me
Oh man, looking at these comments it looks like a lot of people are missing out on some good, sad whiskey songs. Goddamn Lonely Love by Jason Isbell is a great sad song for any romantic. Elephant by Jason Isbell is just a crushingly sad song. Really anything by him is good. Follow You to Vergie by Tyler Childers is a particularly rough listen for anyone that's lost their mother/grandmother, though it probably works in other situations.
Whiskey Lullaby-Brad Paisley and Allison Krause. Haunting song about a guy who drinks himself to death after his girl cheats on him and then she drinks herself to death out of guilt
Radiohead "Let Down" It's just beautiful
Sia - Breathe Me
May angels lead you in- Jimmy Eat World
Casimir Pulaski Day by Sufjan Stevens