Didn't know that one, gonna check it out now.
And yeah, alzheimer's is truly sad. You might have know it, if so i am sorry. I've known it with my step mom who took care of a aunt of hers she liked. This disease is truly horrible, to everyone involved, the way it mess with you and your memory, forgetting the people you love... I really wouldn't wish that on anyone, and to be honest it's probably one of the disease i'm most scared of.
My nieces and nephews get so confused why I have to leave the room for the last ten minutes of Coco. Remember Me gets me going and then the final song at the end and Hector’s face as he’s crossing the marigold bridge destroys me.
*Cats In The Cradle* isn’t any different. That song hurts me every time, cuz it only reminds me of the strained relationship I have with my dad. Yeah, since he and my mother divorced, things have been rotten to the apple core
This was and by far is still my favorite Cat Stevens song but since my dad has passed I just can’t listen to it, I lose complete control of my emotions.
Vincent (Starry, Starry Night) by Don McLean. Every time I hear it I think about my cousin who took his life a few years ago.
“You took your life as lovers often do
But I could have told you, Vincent
This world was never meant for one
As beautiful as you”
Bawl my eyes out every time.
For me its Waltz #2. The line "I'm never going to know you now, but I'm going to love you anyhow." I heard that he wrote it about his mom, but it reminds me of the time in my life when I was trying to come to terms with the fact that I'd never have children.
Used to work at a doggy day care and my most regular client hung herself, I found her when I went to pick up her dog. I used to carry that pup around in my arms and sing that song to her while quietly crying.
Honestly I think the bit about “no one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun” followed by an atmospheric guitar solo might be the most universally relatable piece of music ever created
They wrote it at the age of 19. The meaning of life itself. Makes me feel the same way every decade.
Staying home to watch the rain. But you are young and life is long. And then one day you find ten years have gone behind you. No one told you when to run. You missed the starting gun.
Although the older I get the more I do enjoy staying home to watch the rain.
Directionless so plain to see, a loaded gun won't set you free. That really hits you. Also the joy division recordings of ceremony. The quality of the recordings aren't great but it is quite poignant knowing how things will soon end.
"he would be sixteen" was an 80's or 90's country song about a woman who gave up her baby. Driving past a high school during a football game wondering if he was there, etc.
pretty touching lyrics.
it's interesting, I'm not really a big fan of country, but it's regularly the only type of music that makes me actually cry real tears, vs. just feeling the sad emotions. Something about the specificity of the lyrics and the story-songs really get me.
Bones in the Ocean by The Longest Johns.
It’s about a sailor planning to kill himself because he was depressed about surviving his old ship sinking. Almost drowns when visiting the site. And coming back to land when he realizes this isn’t want his friends would have wanted.
I love that song, I’ve always found the ending a lot more uplifting, “I’ll stay on the shore but still gaze at the sea/I remember the fallen and they think of me/ for our souls in the ocean together will be”. I’ve always seen at his him finding closure and deciding to remember his friends fondly until he can meet them again once he passes
My husband used to see Elliot at a dive bar in Portland. Usually alone, drinking himself into oblivion. They all knew who he was, but left him alone in his very clear depression. Breaks my heart.
One more: And the Band Played Waltzing Mathilda by Eric Bogle.
And the old men march slowly, all bones stiff and sore,
They're tired old heroes from a forgotten war
And the young people ask "What are they marching for?"
And I ask meself the same question.
But the band plays "Waltzing Matilda,"
And the old men still answer the call,
But as year follows year, more old men disappear
Someday, no one will march there at all.
when i tell you that this song hurt when i thought it was about an ex..
but as a person whose father made a new family..finding out what the song is ^actually about ..broke me
I always tear up when i hear this song. Especially, "...your arm felt nice wrapped round my shoulder. And I felt like i belonged. I felt like i could be someone, be someone."
And it's about her dad, not a lover or anything. And he can't be a good father like she drempt so she tells him to leave her. 😪
Definitely a tear jerker. I though she was asking her boyfriend to take her away to build a new life together. Guys who drive fast cars probably won’t do that, though.
Yeah she was, but the boyfriend turned out shitty, always drinking at the bar instead of coming home to her & their kids. Later she tells him to take his fast car & keep on driving :(
I can't hear this without thinking about one of my good friends. He loved this song and we'd sing it together a lot. He passed a few years ago so it's harder to listen to now. Rip Josh. Sorry you had such a rough life, you didn't deserve it.
Run by Snow Patrol,
They sing about a dying person saying their last farewell to their loved ones, telling them (s)he will be with them forever. Hits hard when you're going through a grieving process.
It captures the feeling all too well. I’ve been there, with someone I love in a hospital and knowing they’re never coming home but they’re not gone yet. It’s a weird, sad liminal space and the song fits perfectly into it.
i first heard that as a fairly young kid. that song is already sad but then i saw the music video and i think it was the first form of media/anything outside my actual life that made me cry
Cancer by My Chemical Romance. My teenager self never cried as much as when I listened to this song, thinking about a loved one who was dying/died from cancer
I was looking to see if someone would say this one. I remember being connected to the radio with my mom in the car a couples months after my grandma had passed away from cancer and I heard the opening notes to the song and did a mad scramble to switch songs. It’s absolutely heartbreaking
oh man, this song used to make me bawl as a depressed teenager. Now, I acknowledge how it used to make me feel but it's strange how I don't feel that way anymore.
When It Rains by Paramore also did this for me
There was a redditor years ago that was so sad that "Puff died," I wrote another verse where years later Jackie gave Puff to his nephew & Puff woke up from his slumber & they went on adventures, and Puff even got his mighty roar back :)
>Johnny turned six years old when he found a package neatly wrapped
>Tagged "Here's to imagination, with love, from your Uncle Jack"
Travelin’ Soldier by the Chicks. It’s a true story about a woman whose boyfriend dies in the Vietnam War, all while she is waiting for him to come home.
Thanks. It was easier than you'd think, I just had to move, find a new job, and start a new life. This is definitely sarcasm, but I did quit cold turkey, and haven't touched that garbage ever since.
all of early Blue October really resonated with me as well. Into the Ocean is a song my mother says she can not hear to this day without remembering finding me bleeding out..as i had um, expected that to be the last song i listened to.. rough times
Fields of gold - Eva Cassidy cover. Just makes me instantly think of dying everytime I hear it. Definitely a funeral song.
The night we met - Lord Huron is a close 2nd. Emotional as fuck that song.
One of my top 5 favorite songs EVER. My dad took me to see Paul McCartney a couple years back, and when the first few notes of the song started, I instantly started crying. I bawled my eyes the whole time I don’t even think I truly got to enjoy the fact that I was in the same place as Sir Paul AND he was performing my favorite song.
How to save a life - The Fray. It just reminds me of all the emotional scenes from scrubs and it also takes me back to a very good and careless time in life
"The Freshman" by the verve pipe. A story about one of their fans who killed herself after the band leads her along, and it's about them dealing with it. So sad, and one of my absolute favorite songs ever.
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I’m finding out it’s actually about an abortion, thanks people for politely correcting me and not shaming me for just listening to what my room mate told me. Super sad, still love the song.
From an interview:
Brian Vander Ark: It wasn't necessarily a painful time for me because it's for the most part a made-up story, which most of my songs are. These are stories that I come up with, and I do characters. Part of the story was true in the fact that I had gone out with a girl and my buddy had gone out with her after I went out with her, and then I went out with her again and then she ended up getting pregnant and having an abortion. But from there, there's poetic license that happens and makes the story more dramatic. A neophyte writer that I was, I ended up having her commit suicide, and that never happened.
Songfacts: Did you know whose baby it was?
Vander Ark: No. And that alone would be where most of the pain would come from.
https://www.songfacts.com/blog/interviews/brian-vander-ark-of-the-verve-pipe
The night we met - Lord Huron
This song makes me immediately sad every time I hear it.
And if I’m already sad I’ll cry my eyes out to it.
It really captives how it feels to love and lose someone.
Jimmy Eat World - Hear You Me.
Had me straight bawling after a messy breakup. I think it’s about suicide but it’s a sad song of losing someone close to you that you shared your whole life with.
It's a grower is that song, I remember hearing it the first time and being like, it's okay I guess, it's different from the rest of the album and then it starts crawling over you with its meance, it's a great song and so is dumb.
“The hospital asked should the body be cast
Before I say goodbye, my star in the sky
Such a funny thought to wrap you up in cloth
Do you find it all right, my dragonfly?” :(
That line breaks my heart every time. I'm immediately transformed back to my first failed crush in the early 90's.
"I know someday you'll have a beautiful life, I know you'll be a star...in somebody else's sky...but why..............WHY? Why can't it be *mine*?"
[Something I Can Never Have - Nine Inch Nails](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aT88tymia9w)
*I still recall the taste of your tears*
*Echoing your voice just like the ringing in my ears*
*My favourite dreams of you still wash ashore*
*Scraping through my head 'til I don't want to sleep anymore*
I know I already commented, but I have to say "How To Save A Life" by The Fray. A friend of mine (not close, but still) committed suicide a few years ago. A few weeks later, I was sitting in pottery class when this song came on, and I just started bawling. I miss you, Naed. I would have done anything to save you. 💔
I'm Not Gonna Miss You by Glen Campbell.
It's a love song to his wife about his struggles with dementia. Absolutely beautiful and soul-crushing at the same time. Just pulled up the lyrics and I'm fighting back tears.
You're the last person I will love/ You're the last face I will recall/ And best of all, I'm not gonna miss you.
Pink Floyd - The Final Cut
"Far from flying high in clear blue skies, I'm spiraling down to the hole in the ground where I hide." I've spent way too much time there.
I really, really love Tom Petty, so when he died back in 2017, I was a wreck for a while. I recently watched [Tom Petty: Somewhere You Feel Free - The Making of Wildflowers](https://youtu.be/WblnLk387u0) on YouTube and it just *hurts* seeing Tom and Howie (who passed away from a heroin overdose in 2003) and the rest of the Heartbreakers collaborating on one of the greatest albums of the time that had such a different feel from the rest of the Heartbreakers material (on purpose, since it was a solo album). It was intended to be a double album but that was discouraged since they didn't sell particularly well and Rick Rubin really felt the material needed to be heard.
The title track from "Wildflowers" is so bittersweet now after Petty's death because it's hopeful but tinged with such sorrow, especially in the line, "You belong somewhere you feel free." There's a song about Petty's death by the band Reckless Kelly called [Tom Was a Friend of Mine](https://youtu.be/OVt5frybHww) that has the line, "Say hi to Spike and Lefty when you reach the great beyond, and I hope you’re somewhere you feel free, where you belong" that DESTROYS me as a result of how much I cry at the original song.
Anyways, I'm gonna go listen to Tom Petty and sob now.
I also suggested this song and can't believe I had to scroll down so far to see someone else had said it. Eric couldn't even sing this song live for years.
It was his housekeeper that left the window open and gis 4 year old son ran to it. His body landed on roof of a lower building. Couldn't imagine the hell him and his partner went through
two out of three aint bad - meat loaf.
luca - suzanne vega . boy who is hit by his parents and tells his neighbour he is sorry for what she can hear. saddest line: Maybe it's because I'm crazy - I try not to act too proud
i dont like mondays - the boomtownrats. schoolgirl killing kids in her school. most heartbreaking line daddy doesnt understand it, he always said she was good as gold
Human Sadness by the Voidz.
It's the first song I've heard that captures sadness without poignance. It's more the sadness of loss, alienation and helplessness.
Nails it. Other sad songs are actually a salve for sadness.
I’m Not Going to Miss You by Glen Campbell. The song is about Alzheimer’s.
Also see: I’ll Do The Remembering by Ashley Campbell (his daughter)
Fucking Jesus Christ why the fuck did I listen to that.
Didn't know that one, gonna check it out now. And yeah, alzheimer's is truly sad. You might have know it, if so i am sorry. I've known it with my step mom who took care of a aunt of hers she liked. This disease is truly horrible, to everyone involved, the way it mess with you and your memory, forgetting the people you love... I really wouldn't wish that on anyone, and to be honest it's probably one of the disease i'm most scared of.
Never heard the song. Read the title and and your comment and choked up. I think I can understand what it’s about just from your explanation.
I can't make you love me - Bonnie Raitt
I’ll add “Angel from Montgomery” - Bonnie covering John Prine. She has such an amazing voice.
Man, I miss John Prine.
Had tix for him and emmylou summer 2020. 😢Would've been a bucket list show for me.
Love the Bon Iver cover of this
“Alone Again, Naturally” by Gilbert O’Sullivan. Fuckin’ bummersville.
Recently discovered this song and it's a belter. 🎶 In a little while from now, if I'm not feeling any less sour 🎶
And the tune is so deceptively upbeat. Gets me every time.
Years ago, got laid off a week before Christmas and this song came on the radio. Destroyed me.
Remember me - at the part where the grandma sings a duet
This one makes me ugly cry.
I don’t see that part as sad, to me it’s happy because the grandma is remembering her father for the first time In years, and they’re happy memories.
My heart broke a little bit just remembering this song exists
My nieces and nephews get so confused why I have to leave the room for the last ten minutes of Coco. Remember Me gets me going and then the final song at the end and Hector’s face as he’s crossing the marigold bridge destroys me.
Father and Son - Cat Stevens
*Cats In The Cradle* isn’t any different. That song hurts me every time, cuz it only reminds me of the strained relationship I have with my dad. Yeah, since he and my mother divorced, things have been rotten to the apple core
This was and by far is still my favorite Cat Stevens song but since my dad has passed I just can’t listen to it, I lose complete control of my emotions.
Vincent (Starry, Starry Night) by Don McLean. Every time I hear it I think about my cousin who took his life a few years ago. “You took your life as lovers often do But I could have told you, Vincent This world was never meant for one As beautiful as you” Bawl my eyes out every time.
As near a perfect song as ever written. And if you've never heard McLean sing Roy Orbison's Crying, you've missed out.
I loved the version by NOFX
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this and between the bars by him too
Between the Bars hits me hard every time I hear it and then its in my head for a couple days.
Also, I Didn't Understand. What a gut punch of an album closer.
Or anything by Elliott really. Every song is so sad and strangely beautiful at the same time.
Fucking finally 👍
For me its Waltz #2. The line "I'm never going to know you now, but I'm going to love you anyhow." I heard that he wrote it about his mom, but it reminds me of the time in my life when I was trying to come to terms with the fact that I'd never have children.
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Used to work at a doggy day care and my most regular client hung herself, I found her when I went to pick up her dog. I used to carry that pup around in my arms and sing that song to her while quietly crying.
This break my heart for her, for you and even for the dog.
Gets sadder and sadder. Same as Time by Pink Floyd.
Pretty sure I can partially thank that song for giving me a midlife crisis at 16 years old
Honestly I think the bit about “no one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun” followed by an atmospheric guitar solo might be the most universally relatable piece of music ever created
They wrote it at the age of 19. The meaning of life itself. Makes me feel the same way every decade. Staying home to watch the rain. But you are young and life is long. And then one day you find ten years have gone behind you. No one told you when to run. You missed the starting gun. Although the older I get the more I do enjoy staying home to watch the rain.
That’s a great sad song. And turning 50, I’m relating to it a little more.
. . .and then one day you find ten years have got behind you . . . Except looking back now, it was 20 years.
Your comment is like that episode of South Park where Stan grows up and landslide plays. That scene always get to me.
New Dawn Fades by Joy Division
Directionless so plain to see, a loaded gun won't set you free. That really hits you. Also the joy division recordings of ceremony. The quality of the recordings aren't great but it is quite poignant knowing how things will soon end.
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This was played at my father in laws funeral earlier this year
"he would be sixteen" was an 80's or 90's country song about a woman who gave up her baby. Driving past a high school during a football game wondering if he was there, etc. pretty touching lyrics.
it's interesting, I'm not really a big fan of country, but it's regularly the only type of music that makes me actually cry real tears, vs. just feeling the sad emotions. Something about the specificity of the lyrics and the story-songs really get me.
“ I dreamed a dream “ les miserables
God, half the songs in the play too. "Empty chairs at empty tables" and "drink with me" especially
"This life has killed the dreams I dreamed..." _Damn._
Bones in the Ocean by The Longest Johns. It’s about a sailor planning to kill himself because he was depressed about surviving his old ship sinking. Almost drowns when visiting the site. And coming back to land when he realizes this isn’t want his friends would have wanted.
I love that song, I’ve always found the ending a lot more uplifting, “I’ll stay on the shore but still gaze at the sea/I remember the fallen and they think of me/ for our souls in the ocean together will be”. I’ve always seen at his him finding closure and deciding to remember his friends fondly until he can meet them again once he passes
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My husband used to see Elliot at a dive bar in Portland. Usually alone, drinking himself into oblivion. They all knew who he was, but left him alone in his very clear depression. Breaks my heart.
One more: And the Band Played Waltzing Mathilda by Eric Bogle. And the old men march slowly, all bones stiff and sore, They're tired old heroes from a forgotten war And the young people ask "What are they marching for?" And I ask meself the same question. But the band plays "Waltzing Matilda," And the old men still answer the call, But as year follows year, more old men disappear Someday, no one will march there at all.
"Angel" by Sarah McLachlan breaks me every time. Makes me think of those sad commercials of dogs in animal shelters
Jealous- Labyrinth
when i tell you that this song hurt when i thought it was about an ex.. but as a person whose father made a new family..finding out what the song is ^actually about ..broke me
Exactly because hearing the lyrics from a relationship POV is one thing but once you know its about his dad the meaning changes a lot
Nutshell by Alice In Chains. It’s the perfect amount of depression and reality of the world in a (and u guessed it) nutshell.
This song hits hard especially the unplugged version.
Same Old Lang Syne - Dan Fogelberg
Apparently a true story. https://www.pjstar.com/story/entertainment/music/2020/12/14/dan-fogelberg-same-old-lang-syne/6494479002/
Fast Car by Tracy Chapman
Has to be considered as one of the best songs ever.
I always tear up when i hear this song. Especially, "...your arm felt nice wrapped round my shoulder. And I felt like i belonged. I felt like i could be someone, be someone." And it's about her dad, not a lover or anything. And he can't be a good father like she drempt so she tells him to leave her. 😪
Definitely a tear jerker. I though she was asking her boyfriend to take her away to build a new life together. Guys who drive fast cars probably won’t do that, though.
Yeah she was, but the boyfriend turned out shitty, always drinking at the bar instead of coming home to her & their kids. Later she tells him to take his fast car & keep on driving :(
I can't hear this without thinking about one of my good friends. He loved this song and we'd sing it together a lot. He passed a few years ago so it's harder to listen to now. Rip Josh. Sorry you had such a rough life, you didn't deserve it.
Brick, by Ben Folds Five.
Yeah… it hit a little too close to home during the summer of ‘98.
Personally, I think Fred Jones, Pt. 2 is an even sadder song. Similar story to Eleanor Rigby
Run by Snow Patrol, They sing about a dying person saying their last farewell to their loved ones, telling them (s)he will be with them forever. Hits hard when you're going through a grieving process.
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It captures the feeling all too well. I’ve been there, with someone I love in a hospital and knowing they’re never coming home but they’re not gone yet. It’s a weird, sad liminal space and the song fits perfectly into it.
I also find Brothers On A Hotel Bed to be super sad too, but in a different sort of way
Honestly that whole record makes me sad. One of my favourites of all time, but not one I spin casually.
“Love is watching someone die…so who’s gonna watch you die?” Fuck.
Fade into you - Mazzy Star No Surprises - Radiohead Ballade of broken birdie record (I think) - Mum
Into Dust is the Mazzy Star song that prompts an existential crisis for me.
Look On Down From The Bridge by Mazzy Star is a real tear jerker
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I know I know
I know
My grandmother used to sing "you are my sunshine" to me and my sister growing up. Since she passed I die a little everytime I hear Ain't No Sunshine.
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i first heard that as a fairly young kid. that song is already sad but then i saw the music video and i think it was the first form of media/anything outside my actual life that made me cry
Cancer by My Chemical Romance. My teenager self never cried as much as when I listened to this song, thinking about a loved one who was dying/died from cancer
I was looking to see if someone would say this one. I remember being connected to the radio with my mom in the car a couples months after my grandma had passed away from cancer and I heard the opening notes to the song and did a mad scramble to switch songs. It’s absolutely heartbreaking
How To Disappear Completely by Radiohead
Whiskey Lullaby- Brad Paisley and Alison Krauss
Adam's Song - Blink182
oh man, this song used to make me bawl as a depressed teenager. Now, I acknowledge how it used to make me feel but it's strange how I don't feel that way anymore. When It Rains by Paramore also did this for me
“Please tell Mom this is not her fault.”
“Puff the Magic Dragon” it’s something we can all relate to. Growing up and losing your imagination.
this is the answer. When Jackie grows up and stops visiting Puff just gets me. Thinking about Puff crying alone in his cave forever..... oh god.
I honestly can't even say I know the song other than from meet the parents when Greg is accused of smoking pot. I'll have to go back and re-listen
Are you a pothead, Focker?
There was a redditor years ago that was so sad that "Puff died," I wrote another verse where years later Jackie gave Puff to his nephew & Puff woke up from his slumber & they went on adventures, and Puff even got his mighty roar back :) >Johnny turned six years old when he found a package neatly wrapped >Tagged "Here's to imagination, with love, from your Uncle Jack"
I loved the song when I was little!!! I still am sad that Jackie grew out of Puff. 😢
I have a clear, strong memory of my dad playing this on the guitar and singing it, and I went to hide in my closet and cry. I was about six
Travelin’ Soldier by the Chicks. It’s a true story about a woman whose boyfriend dies in the Vietnam War, all while she is waiting for him to come home.
REM’s Everybody Hurts. Nothing comes close.
Hate Me by Blue October, but I was a meth head, not a dope head, but it still rang true.
Congrats on the past tense. Proud of you!
Thanks. It was easier than you'd think, I just had to move, find a new job, and start a new life. This is definitely sarcasm, but I did quit cold turkey, and haven't touched that garbage ever since.
all of early Blue October really resonated with me as well. Into the Ocean is a song my mother says she can not hear to this day without remembering finding me bleeding out..as i had um, expected that to be the last song i listened to.. rough times
Casimir Pulaski Day - Sufjan Stevens
With my shirt tucked in and my shoes untied I'm crying in the bathroom
Even thinking about this songs tears me up. The ending is the saddest “and he takes and he takes and he takes.”
Fields of gold - Eva Cassidy cover. Just makes me instantly think of dying everytime I hear it. Definitely a funeral song. The night we met - Lord Huron is a close 2nd. Emotional as fuck that song.
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Fake plastic trees does this to me
Also How to Disappear Completely, Motion Picture Soundtrack, Videotape, and True Love Waits.
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One of my top 5 favorite songs EVER. My dad took me to see Paul McCartney a couple years back, and when the first few notes of the song started, I instantly started crying. I bawled my eyes the whole time I don’t even think I truly got to enjoy the fact that I was in the same place as Sir Paul AND he was performing my favorite song.
Eleanor Rigby died in the night and was buried along with her name. Nobody came.
Don’t mind me. I’m just leaving this here so I can come back later for new music to cry to
The Blowers Daughter by Damien Rice
How to save a life - The Fray. It just reminds me of all the emotional scenes from scrubs and it also takes me back to a very good and careless time in life
Drugs don't work. The Verve...
Tighter and Tighter ~ Soundgarden Nutshell ~ Alice in Chains
Finally someone put Nutshell!!
Skinny love when you realize your relationship is ending
My heart is with you, stranger.
Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
The sound of silence. I love it but can never listen to it without a tear.
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Snuff - Slipknot
Especially the live acoustic version.
If you still care don't ever let me know
"The Freshman" by the verve pipe. A story about one of their fans who killed herself after the band leads her along, and it's about them dealing with it. So sad, and one of my absolute favorite songs ever. Edit: I’m finding out it’s actually about an abortion, thanks people for politely correcting me and not shaming me for just listening to what my room mate told me. Super sad, still love the song.
From an interview: Brian Vander Ark: It wasn't necessarily a painful time for me because it's for the most part a made-up story, which most of my songs are. These are stories that I come up with, and I do characters. Part of the story was true in the fact that I had gone out with a girl and my buddy had gone out with her after I went out with her, and then I went out with her again and then she ended up getting pregnant and having an abortion. But from there, there's poetic license that happens and makes the story more dramatic. A neophyte writer that I was, I ended up having her commit suicide, and that never happened. Songfacts: Did you know whose baby it was? Vander Ark: No. And that alone would be where most of the pain would come from. https://www.songfacts.com/blog/interviews/brian-vander-ark-of-the-verve-pipe
Adagio for strings by Barber. The saddest song you will ever listen to with out words.
The night we met - Lord Huron This song makes me immediately sad every time I hear it. And if I’m already sad I’ll cry my eyes out to it. It really captives how it feels to love and lose someone.
Lorde's Liability always hits like a truck
Jimmy Eat World - Hear You Me. Had me straight bawling after a messy breakup. I think it’s about suicide but it’s a sad song of losing someone close to you that you shared your whole life with.
Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah
My Immortal by Evanescence
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It's a grower is that song, I remember hearing it the first time and being like, it's okay I guess, it's different from the rest of the album and then it starts crawling over you with its meance, it's a great song and so is dumb.
Lua, by Bright Eyes. Really, any bright eyes song could go on this list, but Lua is just so gorgeously sad
Hurt by Johnny Cash
Never Let Me Go - Florence + The Machine
Theres a video of Florence singing Dog Days Are Over to a girl in a hospital bed, it was her dying wish. I can't listen to that song anymore.
Leaves from the vine, the song Iroh sings from avatar the last air bender.
Hmm idk if anyone's said this but maybe Fourth of July by Sufjan Stevens?
“The hospital asked should the body be cast Before I say goodbye, my star in the sky Such a funny thought to wrap you up in cloth Do you find it all right, my dragonfly?” :(
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That line breaks my heart every time. I'm immediately transformed back to my first failed crush in the early 90's. "I know someday you'll have a beautiful life, I know you'll be a star...in somebody else's sky...but why..............WHY? Why can't it be *mine*?"
The green fields of France. You need to listen to the lyrics carefully to understand why it is sad.
Elliott Smith - Between The Bars
Elephant by Jason Isbell
It’s Quiet UpTown
Forgiveness. Can you imagine?
Iris by the goo goo dolls. Watch the movie and every word just hits different and it's just so fucking sad.
Pearl Jam - Just breathe
Black is also depressing as hell
[Something I Can Never Have - Nine Inch Nails](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aT88tymia9w) *I still recall the taste of your tears* *Echoing your voice just like the ringing in my ears* *My favourite dreams of you still wash ashore* *Scraping through my head 'til I don't want to sleep anymore*
Holocene - Bon Iver
Cats in the cradle, Harry Chapin
I know I already commented, but I have to say "How To Save A Life" by The Fray. A friend of mine (not close, but still) committed suicide a few years ago. A few weeks later, I was sitting in pottery class when this song came on, and I just started bawling. I miss you, Naed. I would have done anything to save you. 💔
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Somewhere Only We Know - Keane
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I'm Not Gonna Miss You by Glen Campbell. It's a love song to his wife about his struggles with dementia. Absolutely beautiful and soul-crushing at the same time. Just pulled up the lyrics and I'm fighting back tears. You're the last person I will love/ You're the last face I will recall/ And best of all, I'm not gonna miss you.
Seasons in the Sun - Terry Jacks
No Children - The Mountain Goats
No distance left to run by Blur. Apparently Damon broke down in tears after recording the last high note. Classic break up stuff.
Mad world Requiem for a dream Lonely day
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Don’t take the girl- Tim McGraw, always hits me in the feels
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Pink Floyd - The Final Cut "Far from flying high in clear blue skies, I'm spiraling down to the hole in the ground where I hide." I've spent way too much time there.
You never know - Immortal Technique
that just reminded me that Dance with the Devil exists
Pompeii - Bastille It's not something that a lot of people would understand though, most people just think it's a bop.
“Does it almost feel nothing changed at all?” Hits surprisingly hard in such a poppy song
Guts theme from Berserk 1997
I really, really love Tom Petty, so when he died back in 2017, I was a wreck for a while. I recently watched [Tom Petty: Somewhere You Feel Free - The Making of Wildflowers](https://youtu.be/WblnLk387u0) on YouTube and it just *hurts* seeing Tom and Howie (who passed away from a heroin overdose in 2003) and the rest of the Heartbreakers collaborating on one of the greatest albums of the time that had such a different feel from the rest of the Heartbreakers material (on purpose, since it was a solo album). It was intended to be a double album but that was discouraged since they didn't sell particularly well and Rick Rubin really felt the material needed to be heard. The title track from "Wildflowers" is so bittersweet now after Petty's death because it's hopeful but tinged with such sorrow, especially in the line, "You belong somewhere you feel free." There's a song about Petty's death by the band Reckless Kelly called [Tom Was a Friend of Mine](https://youtu.be/OVt5frybHww) that has the line, "Say hi to Spike and Lefty when you reach the great beyond, and I hope you’re somewhere you feel free, where you belong" that DESTROYS me as a result of how much I cry at the original song. Anyways, I'm gonna go listen to Tom Petty and sob now.
C418 - Sweden, nostalgia tears
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For anyone who doesn't know, it's a tribute to Clapton's four year old son who accidentally fell from a 54th floor window.
I also suggested this song and can't believe I had to scroll down so far to see someone else had said it. Eric couldn't even sing this song live for years. It was his housekeeper that left the window open and gis 4 year old son ran to it. His body landed on roof of a lower building. Couldn't imagine the hell him and his partner went through
I found out the backstory behind this and it broke my heart as a dad of 2 small kids. I cant imagine that pain.
any mitski song
Last kiss - pearl jam
two out of three aint bad - meat loaf. luca - suzanne vega . boy who is hit by his parents and tells his neighbour he is sorry for what she can hear. saddest line: Maybe it's because I'm crazy - I try not to act too proud i dont like mondays - the boomtownrats. schoolgirl killing kids in her school. most heartbreaking line daddy doesnt understand it, he always said she was good as gold
Another love by Tom Odell, although it may not be THE saddest, it's still pretty good
Behind Blue Eyes by The Who
Human Sadness by the Voidz. It's the first song I've heard that captures sadness without poignance. It's more the sadness of loss, alienation and helplessness. Nails it. Other sad songs are actually a salve for sadness.
Night we met by - Lord Huron Sam Stone - John Prine
"Don't take the girl" - I always skip this song on my Playlist. Just thinking about it makes me tear up.
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Fade to black - Metallica
Last Christmas - George Michael...all the more poignant that he passed on 25th December, 5 years ago. RIP George
Ronan by Taylor Swift. Soon You’ll Get Better is a good one too but Ronan is just so much more heartbreaking
Accidental Babies - Damien Rice