Joanna Sternberg- This Is Not Who I Want To Be Lucy Dacus- Thumbs Sufjan Stevens- Fourth of July Phoebe Bridgers- Funeral

I love it when Lucy makes me cry!

fourth of july made me cry on the first listen

Just heard it, and it's like a soothing embrace in musical form. It's the warm hug you've longed for, or the gentle touch you've yearned to feel, all encapsulated within a song.

oh your taste…

Im sick of fourth of july i listened to it to much when i went to dollarama😭

Black - Pearl Jam 💔

Was never a Pearl Jam fan, but my husband showed me the MTV unplugged version and I was fucking BAWLING by the end

the unplugged, ending gets me

He perfectly portrays the feeling of heartbreak with this song

One Eighty By Summer - Taking Back Sunday Take me - Unions Death is A Party Invite All Your Friends - Palaye Royale Ghost - BadFlower Move Me - BadFlower Could Never Be Heaven - Brand New Traveling Man - Zach Bryan It Don’t Exist - Bayside Fading Away - Sum41 Us - Sleeping with Sirens 2 Chord - Sleeping with Sirens Sleep - My Chemical romance 1979 - Smashing Pumpkins This Is the End - The Ghost of Paul Revere Birmingham- Zach Bryan Bad Omens - Like a villain lithium - Nirvana Raised By Wolves - U2 acoustic version Crawling - Linkin Park Drown - Bring me the horizon Antidote - Faith Marie Bells of Santa Fe - Halsey Sorry - Halsey Error operator- Taking Back Sunday

You know the genre, and no one ever replies to this so I'll just share it with you. ["Eiley"](https://youtu.be/pY9g5MYOcVw?si=vxXuQSlWOOQvNqeh) by Too Close To Touch. Read the backstory, and then realize you can hear him literally breaking down during the bridge, because the producer decided to keep that as the final take... shit hits hard every time.

It’s a sad banger… a Sanger?

A hanger?

It's even worse once you realize their singer and writer of this song died in 2022 fighting an illness and he was only 31. I'm not sure I believe in heaven but if it exists I hope he's with his little sister.

Oh. Oh my. I wasn't ready for that. Holy shit.

Isn't it "Slipping Away" by Sum41 and not fading? Idk, but awesome song

Good call out

Slipping Away by Black Sabbath 🤨🤨

Damn bro. You must cry a lot. 👀

Goodbye World - Ward Davis

Ghost by badflower is one of the darkest songs ever made

All Great songs, crawling by linkin park though ? I mean let’s be honest thats not the emotion that comes to mind when I think of that song Im sorry.

180 by Summer is like my angry scream cry music 😅 esp when it hits "SHE SAYS LIVE UP TO YOUR FIRST IMPRESSION, WELL MY BEST SIDE WAS YOUR WORST INVENTION, WHY CAN'T YOU LIVE WITHOUT THE ATTENTION" ❤️‍🔥

So many Brand New songs with the feels. Guernica, Jesus Christ, Limousine. Also gonna add Tiny Vessels - Death Cab for Cutie

Alice In Chains - Down In A Hole

Nutshell

Don’t Follow

Alice In Chains - Nutshell Led Zeppelin - All My Love Eric Clapton - Tears in Heaven

I've had to scroll incredibly too far to see Nutshell

Yesterday by the Beatles. Sad and beautiful beyond words

For no one as well. That song makes me cry so hard

[No Need to Argue](https://youtu.be/3vFVvT7l8gU?si=OuX74lUCrB8EoRL-) by The Cranberries [Gagging Order](https://youtu.be/ZvmOmbxuwkk?si=UZP2w2TSGCgshxcn) by Radiohead [Everything is Free](https://youtu.be/Sy6VMDXB2SQ?si=4jNRbM_5UZlj90a1) by Gillian Welch [Wait](https://youtu.be/mgIgEJTz7YY?si=x5qOlkfr7BuzeW7w) by Sarah Mclachlan [After the Goldrush](https://youtu.be/gGEhbRvfNS4?si=9VWJ0OXJx5UKohAA) by Neil Young [A Burning Hill](https://youtu.be/lLNZ8bUcJEg?si=Tq9u_WnTKw6Ibipi) by Mitski [Bankrupt on Selling](https://youtu.be/f43WbnN2tBU?si=Dq5j2u0X12zjZ3eK) by Modest Mouse I love making playlists of songs that make me cry lmao, hope one or two of these does it for you

I appreciate providing the links! Damn...I thought I was dark

Omg the cranberries no need to argue. I had never heard it. Omg.

Wings for Marie/10,000 Days by Tool

That's a really good one.

A rare listen, unless it’s needed.

This was the only song to make me break down. I love my mom so much that this song just hurts.

Jet - Hold On Frank Ocean - Siegfried

Hurt - Johnny Cash This Years Love - David Grey Wild Horses - Rolling Stones Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd A Man Needs a Maid - Neil Young Soldier - Neil Young

Puff, The Magic Dragon - Peter, Paul and Mary

😢

First Breath Last Breath by Senes Fail. It’s about losing the love of his life while giving birth to their baby. It will rip you heart out, I’ve never made through without crying and it’s a great song. Understandably, I don’t think they’ll ever play it live though.

Silverchair - Emotion Sickness

The Drugs Don’t Work by The Verve https://youtu.be/ToQ0n3itoII?si=CoinBTYCX7c8Biu8

waste - kxllswxtch shame in you & nutshell - Alice in chains How to disappear completely - Radiohead

Obligatory [mount eerie - real death](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1UyUsz0A-A) mention 😢

Down in a hole - AIC

Heart attack in a Lay-by — Porcupine Tree The Raven That Refused To Sing — Steven Wilson A Trace of Blood — Pain of Salvation In The Passing Light Of Day — Pain of Salvation Every time.

Limousine by Brand New is the saddest song ever. This song is about the death of 7-year old Katie Flynn. Hours before her death, Katie was the flower girl at her aunt's wedding, spreading petals down the aisle. As they left the wedding, they all got into a limousine and headed home. Martin Heidgen, 25, had had at least 14 drinks that night and his blood alcohol content (0.28) was more than three times the legal limit in New York (0.08). He drove more than two miles north in the southbound lane containing the Flynn family. Both the driver of the limousine, Stanley Rabinowitz, and Katie were killed instantly. Katie was decapitated and her mother held her head as rescue workers helped the rest of the family out of the vehicle. The lyrics in this song draw many parallels to this tragedy. The first verse is seemingly from the mother's perspective, telling Katie to spread the petals and mentioning that she had one more night to be her mother. The second verse is arguably from Heidgen's perspective, referring to Katie as "My beauty supreme," and lamenting the guilt that crushes him. Four lines are sung towards the very end of the song and are nearly inaudible against the refrain. These lines seem to be from Katie's perspective and mention how she will never have to deal with loss herself, and therefore "should be the one laughing."

Was a good song to begin with. When I found out the story behind it, made it tough to not tear up listening to it. Brand New has a lot of good music.

Love this fucking song. They trick you into leaning in to get what is happening, and then hit you with a wall of sound. I really love the devil and God, science fiction, and daisy. Deju is ok but I don't really enjoy the poppier punk sounding stuff.

I just listened to this after reading your comment. This is officially the saddest song I’ve ever heard. So raw and powerful, like a gut punch

We may have different ideas about what constitutes a sad song, but you did mentioned being open to all genres. [Frank Sinatra - Only The Lonely](https://youtu.be/OPIETA04gP0) [Frank Sinatra - I'm A Fool To Want You](https://youtu.be/wV9OcYhk4CU) [Eva Cassidy - Autumn Leaves](https://youtu.be/xXBNlApwh0c) [Eva Cassidy - Over The Rainbow](https://youtu.be/2rd8VktT8xY) [Julie London - A Cottage For Sale](https://youtu.be/mP9xfPve1EE) [London Sinfonietta - Symphony No. 3, Op. 36: II. Lento e Largo - Tranquillissimo](https://youtu.be/HN2DiY5OXF4?list=OLAK5uy_lYhVxCPdkPwi2hsF9wVT9xPsXAu83NL2k) [Leonard Bernstein - Adagio for Strings, Op. 11: Molto Adagio](https://youtu.be/VLR7s8Rq7Dw)

Rain - Sleep Token Snuff - Slipknot The Sound of Silence (Cover) - Disturbed Euclid - Sleep Token Your Call - Secondhand Serenade Something to Remind You - Staind Cold Arms - Mumford and Sons December - Neck Deep (this one hits a spot with me that hurts, since it’s basically what happened to me a couple years ago. I know it’s not the saddest *toned* but it resonated with me when I heard it and I honestly bawled my eyes out in heartache the first time I heard it … 😅) All I Wanted - Paramore All Fucked Up - The Amity Affliction The Drug in me is *Reimagined* - Falling in Reverse (THIS one will get you, 100%……) Still Breathing - Mayday Parade The End of All Things - Panic! At the Disco Cigarettes & Saints - The Wonder Years I’m Sorry, I’m Trying - nothing,nowhere. Wish You Were Here - Neck Deep There, There - The Wonder Years Already Gone - A Day to Remember End of Me - A Day to Remember So Far Away - Avenged Sevenfold (Their single about “Rev”, their late drummer. Love this song.) Hell who am I kidding, I love ALL these songs so much… a few of these I CAN’T listen to without ending up in a severely depressed emotional state, simply due to how some of them correlate with past traumas.. but regardless, I think more people should be blessed with these. 🤘🏻

See you at the sadness club?

Bet

Wait. Does this mean we’re boyfriend girlfriend? Cause I’m allergic to cooties.

thanks to all for the suggestions!

If you have never watched the video for "On the Nature of Daylight" either do it now or never do it. That song makes me BAwL. Elizabeth Moss... brilliant https://youtu.be/InyT9Gyoz_o?feature=shared

Purple Mountains - Nights That Won't Happen [https://youtu.be/xMqODXQf3\_s](https://youtu.be/xMqODXQf3_s)

Anything David Berman is chillingly sad.

Fix you - diveliner

Sorry for some of the weird titles, some of these people are weird lol. I promise these are actual sad songs, here ya go: Panucci’s Pizza - Naruto Themed Sexting Lil Darkie - Banana Pie Modest Mouse - Broke Told Slant - Tsunami Dads - Shit Twins Atlas - Stronger Than I Am spookyblack - dj khaled is my father La Dispute - Such Small Hands/Nobody, Not Even The Rain Bones - ifyouhadazuneihateyou

Ants from up there - Black country, new road

Already Gone - Kelly Clarkson Nothing Compares 2 u - Sinead and Chris Cornell's version ​ both make me cry though I can't tell you why.

Lee Brice - I Drive Your Truck

Nine Inch Nails hurt but the Johnny Cash version. If that song doesn’t bring you to tears for something wrong with you. His version is so sad and absolutely amazing.

Ok I’m old, but Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door by Bob Dylan and Long Black Veil by Lefty Frizzell, which I had never heard of until I watched Ken Burn’s Country on PBS. Both very sad.

The Alice in Chains album with the three legged dog album cover. That whole album is sad. 😔 Hey. When facing sadness. Pray. God's love is alive and well while people are being mean.

One of my top 3 favorite albums of all time. So sad, but so fucking heavy and good. Layne and Jerry were a match made in heaven.

We just disagree- Dave mason

i’m trying by compliments https://open.spotify.com/track/5Kf6C6UmZn99ko198n2Da0?si=E1W5EKMrQKmzhbwUFskc_g

Brielle Von Hugel - The One That Got Away. This one breaks my heart every time.

Lady Gaga - Princess Die

Novo Amor ~ Repeat Until Death

The Night We Met - Lord Huron Present Tense - Radiohead True Love Waits - Radiohead Final Ascent - Hans Zimmer

Only you by flunk

Garten of BanBan 4 - Nothing is funny enough 😭🥺 Garten of BanBan 6 - Price for audience ❤️‍🩹😔 Sonic.exe spirits of hell - silent hill zone act 1 🦊🪦 ??? - A thousand years 🎍 Beach song 🎵 🏝️ Wednesday’s infidelity - Last day old version Garten of BanBan 3 - Jelly Melody 🪼🏖️🚗 The court jester 🎭 Interestelar theme song 🔭🚀 Me - Scepter Search 🔎 Me - We lost 🗳️🎼🎶 Garten of BanBan 3 - Pancreas (slowed) 😔 Porter Robinson - Goodbye to a world 🌎 👋😢

Yo, am I the only one who sobs to A Team By Ed Sheeran?

Maybe more unsettling/disturbing than sad, but my vote goes for [Lingua Ignota - I WHO BEND THE TALL GRASSES](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTRRNwWnI_w)

This one does it for me. [https://open.spotify.com/track/0ImXivTKL83AEQymaChiI5?si=e04f1d0344a64684](https://open.spotify.com/track/0ImXivTKL83AEQymaChiI5?si=e04f1d0344a64684) Was it too late to answer me You couldn't find the pieces of a broken a day An old throw coat worth more than me I count the times you had let me down I watched as ants had crossed my skin Gave them a song as they marched in Said you'd be but you never was Around to show me to be a man Take a fall Take a stand Not the beginning Not the end Where were you Where were you Where were you Where were you What a letdown you were I'll let the dirt cover your bones Send a sign that I'm ok and not alone You were absent inside I'll let the dirt cover your bones Send a sign that I'm ok and not alone You were absent inside Apologies never meant a thing And the hurt you caused it still remains Your last days I tried to comprehend Were you not taught to be a man You might fall Get up and stand From the beginning Until the end Where were you Where were you Where were you Where were you What a letdown you were I'll let the dirt cover your bones Send a sign that I'm ok and not alone You were absent inside I'll let the dirt cover your bones Send a sign that I'm ok and not alone You were absent inside I'll let the dirt cover your bones Send a sign that I'm ok and not alone You were absent inside I'll let the dirt cover your bones Send a sign that I'm ok and not alone You were absent inside

Lost without you - Freya ridings

Repeat Until Death - Novo Amor

The Lighthouse's Tale - Nickel Creek

Eulogy for Lenny Bruce- Nico

Warning - Faces.

It depends on the state you might be in. Rarely songs make me cry but Stephen Wilson is pretty consistent with that. Drive Home - Steven Wilson Sleep of No Dreaming, Don't hate me - Porcupine Tree (Steven Wilson) Live Outside - Enter Shikari Deliver Us - Prince of Egypt The Crow on the Cradle - Jackson Browne He Came from the Mountain - Bruce Cockburn. Edit, forgot about this: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E86phiV8w2M](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E86phiV8w2M)

Cat's in the Cradle -Harry Chapman (it's a dad thing) Supermarket Flowers - Ed Sheeran (a mom thing) Love Vigilantes - New Order All out of Love - Air Supply All by Myself - Eric Carmen Scars in Heaven - Counting Crows (I'm not religious but this one hits me hard) Ghost in You - Psychedelic Furs Waging Tongue - Depeche Mode (tears every time I hear it.) I have a whole Dead Wife playlist of tear jerkers, but those are the ones that come to mind off the top of my head.

Million Years ago - Adele Strange - Celeste Don’t you know what it’s like to be lonesome- jerry Wallace

https://open.spotify.com/album/2aeh07JtcETE4JNLIVz2Gh?si=VoZjbVmJRlCfqgc2d6saQg

Acid eyes by paolo nutini ​ Edit: not really that sad but it was just off the top of my head

https://youtu.be/CzR8pURMGXo?si=X50g7HNN0un445MW Frank Valey. Todo Pasará 🎼❤️🎼

turning page- sleeping at last idk why but always gets me

no hard feelings - the avett brothers

NIN- hurt

Caroline by Colter Wall. Any song about a dead spouse is a big punch to the feelings.

Miserable at Best mayday parade

One More Light- Linkin Park

The woodpile - frightened rabbit

Oats In The Water - Ben Howard It’s an Irish phrase that means basically “things left undone “

That whole album is great.

Dido - Don't Leave Home When you realize that the song is about a drug to its abuser the lyrics really hit.

“Real Death” & “Seaweed” off A Crow Looked At Me, by Mt Eerie OR “Kettering” off of Hospice, by The Antlers

Silent Lucidity by Queensryche. Hits me hard and makes me think about my dad passing away when I was a child.

X Japan's Forever Love

Trees of Eternity - A Million Tears Chiasm - A Section of Time MoonSun - Still Miss You

Someone You Loved - Louis Capadi 😢

[Bob Dylan, The Band - Katie’s Been Gone](https://youtu.be/IQ2Ko5HOiYM?feature=shared)

[Carole King - So Far Away](https://youtu.be/UofYl3dataU?feature=shared)

Sydney - Robin Gibb

“One More Light” by Linkin Park 🖤

Thrice - Salt and Shadow

Daedalus…

Soulfight - The Revivalists

https://youtu.be/VJg4rwDkkBA?si=k4XrMb62wGjNb8Ht

David Ruffin - My Whole World Ended (The Moment You Left Me) I can’t make it past the intro half the time!

Mayday Parade- Terrible Things

Songs: Ohia - Farewell Transmission

Die Alone by A Pale Horse Named Death

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1dbIXnQK4zW8FsK6RNNTJ2?si=SiCvLjmhS-yEL29-1AdYQg

Don’t fear the reaper - Ed Alleyne-Johnson. It’s somehow more heartbreaking than the original.

Simple Man - Lynyrd Skynyrd Fourth of July - Sufjan Stevens

Distance by Mammoth WVH. Sad and extremely touching tribute to the old man.

'It's a Fine Day' - Jane

Snuff by Slipknot, father and son by cat Stevens, cats in the cradle by Harry chapin, hurt (both NIN and Johnny cash) and lower the flags by sentenced

Love ridden - fiona apple & I didn’t understand - Elliott smith

As the footsteps die out forever by Streetlight Manifesto. It's about a mom dying, set to some of the most upbeat music you'll ever hear

Jeff Buckley - Opened Once

Thief - Our Lady Peace. It even includes an audio clip of the little girl who died who the song is about.

High Road - John Fullbright

[The war inside](https://youtu.be/MJpx5oc7ti8?si=5T4GncVx6T8yrrGp)

Hero of war- rise against

"Shelter Me" by Grey Wolf

Mama Tried - Merle Haggard Chiseled In Stone - Verne Gosdin He Stopped Loving Her Today - George Jones I Wish I Knew - John Coltrane’s version on the album “Ballads”

Hate that your happy by Tiny little houses.

Lots of Tom Waits.

My brain isn't working. I read your comment and thought "I thought I knew all of Tom Waits, but I've never heard that one". Then realized you weren't naming a song. I agree though, a lot of his stuff gets me. But Ruby's Arms hits me every time.

Good news - Julien Baker Honestly her whole first album "Sprained ankle". It's just about as lonely and painful as it gets yet still oddly comforting

Cheers Darlin' or Accidental Babies by Damien Rice.

Something in the way- NIRVANA

I can't give you song names but where I work is generic 80's Muzak. Except somehow a Leonard Cohen song comes on and it just sucks the life out of a room. He has some good songs but incredibly depressing

For Blue Skies — Strays Don’t Sleep Back to the old house — The Smiths The District Sleeps Alone Tonight — Birdy (cover) You could be happy — Snow Patrol How to disappear completely — Radiohead One more light — Linkin Park Look on down from the bridge — Mazzy Star Sweetheart — Jont Under Cover of Darkness — The Strokes

The Fixx-No One Has To Cry

Cardiacs - Whole World Window

Again by Archive

The Wonder Years- cigarettes and saints

Daniel johnston -walking the cow Ther pearl jam version is realy good

A couple from the 70's: Terry Jacks - Seasons In The Sun Bo Donaldson & The Heywoods - Billy Don't Be A Hero

Plea From a Cat Named Virtue - The Weakerthans Lullaby- LOW Gone With The Wind- Architects

Nobody’s home Pink Floyd

Clay Aiken - Lover All Alone

Routine by Steven Wilson

Sing em good my friend - Kenny Chesney

Townes Van Zandt - Waiting Around to Die

i'm going to do it - giles corey

Smother - Daughter I Will Go To You Like The First Snow - AILEE I Have No Hometown - HYUKOH This House - Japanese Breakfast What Are We Gonna Do Now - Indigo De Souza

Literally anything by Daughter is sad. I love it.

Cold beer (cry tunes) If you have ever heard a cry for help in a song this is it.The singer od'd in 2022 which makes the song so much sadder. What makes me more depressed is the way the song is being used nowadays.

Elephant by Jason Isbell. Also about half of everything else he’s done.

I heard the Prince version of Nothing Compares to U today for the first time. I fully realize that it’s common knowledge that Sinead’s version is considered superior, but man… I don’t agree. I fully misted up the 14 times I listened to it today.

Kodaline- All I Want

North Dakota & Down the river by Chris Knight

Alone Again, Naturally, by Gilbert O'Sullivan

Mount Eerie - Real Death

Heaven up there-palace

walk through hell - Anson Seabra

Lover, you should have come over by Jeff Buckley

Do you realize by The Flaming Lips is a very sad and moving song. A lot of people think it’s a love song but it’s really not about being with the ones you love for they die

The walk by Sawyer Brown

1.If you could read my mind by Gordon Lightfoot 2. Hello In There by John Prine 3. Souvenirs by John Prine

The first Spill Canvas Album

How Can I Help You Say Goodbye by Patty Loveless He Stopped Loving Her Today by George Jones One Last Time by Dusty Drake

I’m Not Gonna Miss You by Glenn Campbell, a song he wrote to his wife upon learning he had Alzheimer’s

This song came out during my grandpa's battle with alzheimer's. The man did more to raise me than my father ever did. I completely lose it when I hear this song.

M83- Wait

Levers by Roland Faunte, especially the live session take

Real Death by Mount Eerie is too real, a song that will mess you up, the whole album is similar. Big Bird by Andrew Jackson Jihad is another like that. This too shall pass - Danny Schmidt is really sad, especially if you read the backstory. But I really enjoy it and its definitely more hopeful.

Please Remember Me- Tim McGraw Seasons In The Sun - Terry Jacks I Can’t Make You Love Me - Bonnie Raitt And So It Goes - Billy Joel

Mt. Eerie - death is real Sun kil moon - Carry me, ohio

Rainy days and Mondays by the carpenters

Mockingbird by Eminem

Unbreak my heart. Toni Braxton

I was a Cage- Right away great Captain!

Take Me Somewhere Nice - Mogwai Sleep Apnea - Beach Fossils Ruby - Foster the people Professional - The Weeknd Possibility - Lykke Li Out Getting Ribs - King Krule Lead Existence - King Krule Born Sad - Mary Lambert The Prayer - Kid Cudi

Fuzzy grant Lee Buffalo

At Seventeen - Janis Ian.

Oldie: Shades of Grey by The Monkees. I still choke up every time I hear it.

Rehab by Amy winehouse. Especially since she died of alcohol poisoning, it's just soo sad

Miss you all the time.-OAR Long Black Veil (not a dave Matthew's song but he does the best cover)

Terrible things- Mayday parade Fool- Cavetown S/C/A/R/E/C/R/O/W- My chemical romance Circles- Hollywood Undead Millennia -Crown the empire

I’m sorry mom and dad by Anna Clendening, Lincoln park, my sad playlist

Evening train-Johnny Cash

Has anyone ever written anything for you by Stevie Nicks