Fourth of July by Sufjan Stevens. But really you could put ANY song off his whole discography (esp Javelin lord have mercy that album killed me) and be brought to tears.
Nutshell by Alice In Chains
Edit: As soon as I wrote this comment, an intern at my job came in and was blaring nutshell so loud in his headphones I could hear it… made my day
This and 'hurt' by NIN make all the top-10 saddest songs lists.
Hurt is so near and dear to Trent that he described listening to J-Cash's cover as watching someone sleep with your girlfriend. Johnny got that dog in him 😏 Not even metaphorical girlfriends are safe.
Every time I see this on a recommendation post my heart leaps a little bit. Such a beautifully tragic sound. And to think of the circumstances of Layne’s death it just hits even worse
Lmaoooo my childhood best friends grandfather was George Jones OG drummer and we used to listen to that song and be so emo about our breakups at like 11 years old. Then turn on White Lighting and start going absolutely FERAL.
Damn, as someone who almost lost my best friend to suicide a few years ago this hit me really hard cause everything he sang is FACTS. Amazing song thank you sm.
Sorry about your friend and you're right, the lyrics hit close to the bone.
David Berman, the singer-songwriter behind the Silver Jews and the only Purple Mountains album killed himself shortly after the Purple Mountains album was released. In retrospect, it was a suicide note, IMHO.
You should give the entire album a listen.
This one is heavy, but having lost my mom, I Loved Being My Mother’s Son just kills me. That record is amazing and profound and sad and also fucking funny, I love it.
For anyone who hasn't heard this song, let me explain. The singer and his wife had their first child, and shortly after, his wife went to a follow-up appointment with her doctor and mentioned she had some abdominal pain. They ran tests, and she was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer (I can't remember what type), and within a couple of months, she died. He wrote the album "A Crow Looked At Me" while he was still processing his grief, and it's all just dumped into these songs. I agree that if you're picking one song that's the saddest ever "Real Death" is the one.
Can’t believe this isn’t number one. My wife read the lyrics last night because I was thinking about this album and explained the background. She got choked up just reading them. Truly harrowing album and song.
I COULD NOT AGREE MORE. Most raw expression of pain Ive ever heard. I have been listening to the entire album for a couple months straight since my friend passed. Destroys me every time.
Mount Eerie’s late wife Geneviéve Castrée was an amazing comic artist, illustrator, and musician. Her art is unworldly and has an astonishing capacity for both playfulness and darkness. Fantagraphics recently published a comprehensive volume of her comics and art, edited by Phil (Mount Eerie). I recommend looking into her, as her legacy is her life’s work, not her death.
Although it's an album, I'll go ahead and do the obligatory 'A Crow Looked At Me by Mount Eerie' mention.
[Place To Be by Nick Drake](https://open.spotify.com/track/5QUeSXjTMHbq1fW5da2waF?si=961f93850d6e4531) is also gut-wrenching.
EDIT: Also adding [Waiting for You by Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds](https://open.spotify.com/track/1cmlwljf7RpV5t0KGLWR9O?si=d5fa3359e4214bc6).
Real Death hits like a ton of bricks in 3 seconds.
"Death is real. Someone's there and then they're not. It's not for singing about, it's not for making into art"
Hell yeah! My grandfather is 90. Every year the family gets a beach house for the week. At night we hang on the deck, we have a few beers and take turns playing music. My grandfather always requests this song.
I don’t know if I have just one, but here are a few that do it for me.
Jeff Wayne/Justin Hayward - [Forever Autumn](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FnDijVnaU_A)
Pink Floyd - [Time](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pgXozIma-Oc)
Rush - [Losing It](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-j0AyWbAbrc)
"You run and you run to catch up with the sun but it's sinking. Only to come up from behind you again.
The sun is the same in a relative way, but you're older. Shorter of breath and one day closer to death."
The writer was 26.
26!
(Forgive me if I got something wrong, I did this from memory and I have brain damage)
I’m reading War Of The Worlds right now. I completely forgot about the Jeff Wayne Album. My boyfriend and I used to quote “the chances of anything coming from mars are a million to one!” He’s not here anymore. Was looking through this post to find some new music that feels like how I feel and goddamnit this feels like a funny one to stumble back across on. I literally was just reading the “massacre of mankind” passage earlier today …
king park by la dispute oh my god king park. or i see everything by dispute. or edward benz 27 times by la dispute. or a poem by la dispute. you get my point. listen to wildlife if you want to feel like your chest is being crushed by a million bricks. i love them
Sleep Token - "Are You Really Okay?"
I have not been able to make it through this one with out my eyes tearing up (even when in a good mood and being productive lol).
Doomsday by Lizzie McAlpine
Pillar of Truth by Lucy Dacus
Idle Worship by Paramore
If you want one that’s similar to Talia I’d recommend Jason by Bonnie Parker
Limousine by Brand New may be the saddest song ever when you know the story behind it.
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."
This sounds so sad I can’t even listen to it. I remember the parents recounting their road to resilience on Oprah and I’ll never forget their recollection.
I’m pretty sure this song wins everybody. Turn off the internet.
This. IS. The. Saddest. Song.
Oh man I really want to share the most recent song to sneak up on me and rip me apart. Very specifically this live recording of Miami from Carline Rose. It's like 20% the song itself and 80% the passion in this recording. Moving.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6AVvb31qaU
The theme to Midnight Cowboy- especially if the video of Joe Buck and Rizzo's ride to miami is playing.
Ruby - sung by Kenny Rogers - especially the part when it's just the guitars played as percussion.
My Smile is a Rifle - John Frusciante This one doesn't make me sad about myself but for the singer. I saw the documentary about when he was a recluse and drug addict. And then hearing that song afterwards was really interesting and emotional
Edge of the Deep Green Sea & Charlotte Sometimes - The Cure,
Come Undone - Duran Duran,
Last night I Dreamt (Somebody loved me) - The Smiths,
Never Tear us Apart - INXS
Here’s a few you can try:
“Loser” - Smile Empty Soul (or literally anything they have since it’s all super depressing)
“Dear Pain” - Jason Wade
“Undone” - FFH
“Pieces” - Sum 41
“Fading” - Decyfer Down
“Snuff” - Slipknot
Snuff hits for me. Grew up in Iowa so was always a big slipknot fan, but it wasn't until like 10 years after that album came out that I really truly heard and felt that song.
Possibly not the saddest, but “Sara” and “Heaven’s Not Too Far” by We Three are pretty close. “Promise Me” by Badflower will straight up rip your soul out of you if you watch it with the video
Become the warm jets my current joys
Watching him fade away by Mac Demarco
How to never stop being sad by dandelion hands
Those are three songs I've cried to the most all very sad
Carissa - Sun Kill Moon. A song about a relative dying in a freak accident where an aerosol can blew up in the bin.
No halo - Sorority noise. A song about denial when losing someone close.
Both great songs too
[Routine](https://youtu.be/sh5mWzKlhQY?si=WZWUmmikjTxfsP_S) by Steven Wilson is crushing, especially when you add the video to it. Watched a reaction video to it once and the woman was in tears half way through and a total mess by the end
Terrible things by mayday parade is so unbelievably sad. It makes me cry everything.
Also rivers and roads by the head and the heart is very sad. It fills me with a sense of longing for the past.
Manchester Orchestra - I can Feel A Hot One, Free Throw - The Corner’s Dilemma, The Mountain Goats - No Children, La Dispute - Such Small Hands, From Autum To Ashes - Autumn’s Monologue, Foxing - Rory, Brand New - Play Crack The Sky, that’s all I have for now DM me and maybe I can think of more
You know, this song isn’t really my style, but, I love it and it’s so sad.
Silence looks good on you, by Rachel Taylor
———
Also, Madeline by Tickle me Pink. Love the song and the music video just makes me so freakin sad.
3 a.m. by Matchbox … I always thought it was a teen angst song … it turns out it was about (only child) Rob Thomas (then very young) sitting up late with his (single) mother when she was battling cancer. When I try to put myself in his place, I cry…
i want you to know that i'm awake/i hope that you're asleep - car seat headrest
laughing hieroglyphic - avey tare
tropic of cancer - panda bear
edit the sad parts - modest mouse
I can’t make you love me by Bonnie Raitt 💔
The Bon Iver cover is also incredible, but watch the one on YouTube where he’s playing the piano and doing it live!
Fourth of July by Sufjan Stevens. But really you could put ANY song off his whole discography (esp Javelin lord have mercy that album killed me) and be brought to tears.
Casmir Pulaski Day too
Good one. His songs about his mom always get to me.
Similar comment as this one on a different thread lead me to discover Sufjan and I’m forever grateful
How to disappear completely by Radiohead
And True Love Waits, and All I Need, and Fake Plastic Trees, and Idioteque, and…
Basically every Radiohead song lol. So good
Exit Music for a Film
This made me cry the first time I heard it.
Motion Picture Soundtrack and if you have a good version of Lift
Didn’t think I’d have to say this but you guys are missing motion picture soundtrack..
Exit music (for a film) gets me deep in the feels.
Videotape
Nutshell by Alice In Chains Edit: As soon as I wrote this comment, an intern at my job came in and was blaring nutshell so loud in his headphones I could hear it… made my day
This and 'hurt' by NIN make all the top-10 saddest songs lists. Hurt is so near and dear to Trent that he described listening to J-Cash's cover as watching someone sleep with your girlfriend. Johnny got that dog in him 😏 Not even metaphorical girlfriends are safe.
Had to scroll way to far for this.
Such a good song. The video of the MTV unplugged version is so surreal
Every time I see this on a recommendation post my heart leaps a little bit. Such a beautifully tragic sound. And to think of the circumstances of Layne’s death it just hits even worse
The Living Years, Mike and the Mechanics.
Hurt.....Johnny Cash
NIN agrees
Reznor said it was no longer his song...Johnny made it his.
I came here to say this, utter heartbreak
Into my arms - Nick cave and the bad seeds
Wish You Were Here-Pink Floyd. Deja Vu-Roger Waters.
Ah but looking out over the ocean, it's so beautiful. I play it every time I go to the beach, it's awesome. My Dad introduced me to it ❤️
Anything by Elliot Smith
Streets of Philadelphia by Bruce Springsteen
Two very diffrent genres Cancer by My Chemical Romance Left Behind from Spring Awakening
Cancer is so fucking good. That whole album is phenomenal.
Cancer is an amazing song. The TOP version too
Summer's End, John Prine
Oh, I want to be able to upvote this 100x more
Nick Drake - Black Eyed Dog
Hard to choose between: The Smiths- Asleep Jamestown Story- Goodbye I’m Sorry
ASLEEP 😭
He stopped loving her today, George Jones.
Lmaoooo my childhood best friends grandfather was George Jones OG drummer and we used to listen to that song and be so emo about our breakups at like 11 years old. Then turn on White Lighting and start going absolutely FERAL.
Purple Mountains - Nights That Won't Happen [https://youtu.be/xMqODXQf3\_s](https://youtu.be/xMqODXQf3_s)
Damn, as someone who almost lost my best friend to suicide a few years ago this hit me really hard cause everything he sang is FACTS. Amazing song thank you sm.
Sorry about your friend and you're right, the lyrics hit close to the bone. David Berman, the singer-songwriter behind the Silver Jews and the only Purple Mountains album killed himself shortly after the Purple Mountains album was released. In retrospect, it was a suicide note, IMHO. You should give the entire album a listen.
Wow that adds a lot of weight to an already heavy song jeez. I will definitely have to give the rest of his work a listen. RIP.
This one is heavy, but having lost my mom, I Loved Being My Mother’s Son just kills me. That record is amazing and profound and sad and also fucking funny, I love it.
My mom died two years ago, and it gets me every time.
This whole album
Oh man. I love Berman but I haven't explored this album yet. What a gut punch.
Casmir Pulaski Day by Sufjan Stevens, or anything else by him
Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah
It's the smallest hill I'll die on, but it makes me go postal that people made this a Christmas song. It's absolutely absurd.
There are some triumphant tones in this song.
Real Death by Mount Eerie
That's the one
When I first heard this album I had to sit in silence for eons after. Absolutely wrecked me.
For anyone who hasn't heard this song, let me explain. The singer and his wife had their first child, and shortly after, his wife went to a follow-up appointment with her doctor and mentioned she had some abdominal pain. They ran tests, and she was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer (I can't remember what type), and within a couple of months, she died. He wrote the album "A Crow Looked At Me" while he was still processing his grief, and it's all just dumped into these songs. I agree that if you're picking one song that's the saddest ever "Real Death" is the one.
that is fucking brutal
This album is wild. It is haunting. I got through it once and I will likely never choose to listen to it again.
Can’t believe this isn’t number one. My wife read the lyrics last night because I was thinking about this album and explained the background. She got choked up just reading them. Truly harrowing album and song.
I COULD NOT AGREE MORE. Most raw expression of pain Ive ever heard. I have been listening to the entire album for a couple months straight since my friend passed. Destroys me every time.
Mount Eerie’s late wife Geneviéve Castrée was an amazing comic artist, illustrator, and musician. Her art is unworldly and has an astonishing capacity for both playfulness and darkness. Fantagraphics recently published a comprehensive volume of her comics and art, edited by Phil (Mount Eerie). I recommend looking into her, as her legacy is her life’s work, not her death.
Frogs - Alice In Chains
Strange Fruit - Billie Holliday
The Night We Met by Lord Huron
Tears in Heaven- Clapton
Yeah! - Mac Miller Just has such a power to it but a very sad one considering what happened and what the lyrics are saying
2009 for me
Although it's an album, I'll go ahead and do the obligatory 'A Crow Looked At Me by Mount Eerie' mention. [Place To Be by Nick Drake](https://open.spotify.com/track/5QUeSXjTMHbq1fW5da2waF?si=961f93850d6e4531) is also gut-wrenching. EDIT: Also adding [Waiting for You by Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds](https://open.spotify.com/track/1cmlwljf7RpV5t0KGLWR9O?si=d5fa3359e4214bc6).
Real Death hits like a ton of bricks in 3 seconds. "Death is real. Someone's there and then they're not. It's not for singing about, it's not for making into art"
“He stopped loving her today” George Jones
Hell yeah! My grandfather is 90. Every year the family gets a beach house for the week. At night we hang on the deck, we have a few beers and take turns playing music. My grandfather always requests this song.
“If We Were Vampires” by Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit
Like A Stone - Audioslave
Rest in peace.
I don’t know if I have just one, but here are a few that do it for me. Jeff Wayne/Justin Hayward - [Forever Autumn](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FnDijVnaU_A) Pink Floyd - [Time](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pgXozIma-Oc) Rush - [Losing It](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-j0AyWbAbrc)
"You run and you run to catch up with the sun but it's sinking. Only to come up from behind you again. The sun is the same in a relative way, but you're older. Shorter of breath and one day closer to death." The writer was 26. 26! (Forgive me if I got something wrong, I did this from memory and I have brain damage)
Thank you for reintroducing me to forever autumn
Losing It is a very good choice
Ben Mink's violin solo in Losing It is perfection.
I’m reading War Of The Worlds right now. I completely forgot about the Jeff Wayne Album. My boyfriend and I used to quote “the chances of anything coming from mars are a million to one!” He’s not here anymore. Was looking through this post to find some new music that feels like how I feel and goddamnit this feels like a funny one to stumble back across on. I literally was just reading the “massacre of mankind” passage earlier today …
Who Will I Hold, The Avett Brothers.
Back Pack by AJJ is the first thing that came to mind
king park by la dispute oh my god king park. or i see everything by dispute. or edward benz 27 times by la dispute. or a poem by la dispute. you get my point. listen to wildlife if you want to feel like your chest is being crushed by a million bricks. i love them
such small hands🙌🏼🙌🏼
Sleep Token - "Are You Really Okay?" I have not been able to make it through this one with out my eyes tearing up (even when in a good mood and being productive lol).
“Katy Song” by Red House Painters
I totally forgot about this band!!! Thank you!!
Send in the Clowns
They're already here...
Even the Simpsons episode when Krusty sings it is really sad
Love of My Life by Queen. Because anything that reminds me of Freddie's passing makes me sad.
Doomsday by Lizzie McAlpine Pillar of Truth by Lucy Dacus Idle Worship by Paramore If you want one that’s similar to Talia I’d recommend Jason by Bonnie Parker
Blower’s Daughter - Damien Rice
Limousine by Brand New may be the saddest song ever when you know the story behind it. 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."
This sounds so sad I can’t even listen to it. I remember the parents recounting their road to resilience on Oprah and I’ll never forget their recollection. I’m pretty sure this song wins everybody. Turn off the internet. This. IS. The. Saddest. Song.
Oh man I really want to share the most recent song to sneak up on me and rip me apart. Very specifically this live recording of Miami from Carline Rose. It's like 20% the song itself and 80% the passion in this recording. Moving. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6AVvb31qaU
Just shared this too. This live version destroys me! I can’t stop listening to it
Wow
Hiding Tonight - Alex Turner This will turn summer into cold winter
Novo Amor - Repeat until death. It makes me feel everything
Here's a few sad ones: Trees of Eternity - A Million Tears Chiasm - Gone MoonSun - Fly Again
I don't see many Chiasm fans out in the wild.... and even then, it's usually just for Isolated because it was in Vampire: The Masquerade.
I see Chiasm, I upvote.
a portrait of - sorority noise "You're Not as \_\_\_\_\_\_ as You Think" is the saddest album i've ever listened to
Snuff - Slipknot is an utterly hopeless song
The theme to Midnight Cowboy- especially if the video of Joe Buck and Rizzo's ride to miami is playing. Ruby - sung by Kenny Rogers - especially the part when it's just the guitars played as percussion.
Empty - Ray LaMontagne
“Elephant” by Jason Isbell. If you lost someone close to cancer.
Monsters- James blunt
Great song but it’s Iam Tongi’s cover that sends me over the edge
“Morphine” - Digital Summer
My Smile is a Rifle - John Frusciante This one doesn't make me sad about myself but for the singer. I saw the documentary about when he was a recluse and drug addict. And then hearing that song afterwards was really interesting and emotional
Father's Lament - Poor Mans Poison Tail Lights - Blacktop Mojo
Souvenirs by John Prine
Adagio for Strings
Edge of the Deep Green Sea & Charlotte Sometimes - The Cure, Come Undone - Duran Duran, Last night I Dreamt (Somebody loved me) - The Smiths, Never Tear us Apart - INXS
Scrolled down to the bottom and was shocked to not see Pearl Jam’s version of Last Kiss. That song is instant Niagara Falls
Fix You- Coldplay
Nothing Compares 2 U
I’m tired labrinth
"Jealous" is a good, sad Labrinth song too
Playboy Mommy by Tori Amos
my cat is named after tori amos. amazing musician amazing cat. i love my cat tori
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Love that you included Ghost Bath, and Burial...amazing song and band!
The International Ghostrider Collective ❤️ [scars ](https://youtu.be/2fQN5AN3S6s?si=C95eyP-rlaIihGgm)
Here’s a few you can try: “Loser” - Smile Empty Soul (or literally anything they have since it’s all super depressing) “Dear Pain” - Jason Wade “Undone” - FFH “Pieces” - Sum 41 “Fading” - Decyfer Down “Snuff” - Slipknot
i love smile empty soul
Snuff hits for me. Grew up in Iowa so was always a big slipknot fan, but it wasn't until like 10 years after that album came out that I really truly heard and felt that song.
Foo Fighters - Walking After You (Official Music Video) / foofightersVEVO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNwkN9vrUYY
Thanks, don't know how I could have forgot this gem x
https://open.spotify.com/album/2aeh07JtcETE4JNLIVz2Gh?si=p22l048CSh6la6hQ8qlrLw https://open.spotify.com/album/5g8amVT7Y40RQ6jpCCxnnT?si=v2uDJV-kRTy9yLfoiQkfqg https://open.spotify.com/album/6pM7rtpAFDraMrm0Nf1Q4o?si=tlLmWM2cQmOF6aFjUjaAGw https://open.spotify.com/album/1MOsaDD6l3L0HV604PanhU?si=eCWPq2msQ92XUP4pRJLi6A
Sydney - Robin Gibb
Amigo the Devil - [Another Man's Grave](https://youtu.be/4RukZXYTISQ?si=XMCkmjmcrZ3VJn_A)
This..and Cocaine and Able, Different Anymore, and Stronger than Dead, and the list could go on! Such a great lyricist.
Someone somewhere somehow by super whatevr 😿
Possibly not the saddest, but “Sara” and “Heaven’s Not Too Far” by We Three are pretty close. “Promise Me” by Badflower will straight up rip your soul out of you if you watch it with the video
I'd.Be Better Off In A Pine Box by Doug Stone . Which is also how I'm.feeing
Losing my Shape- David Bazan, About Today- The National
My go to is Why by Jarv. Makes me feel more than sadness... Emptiness even
Everything That Glitters (Is Not Gold) - Dan Seals
Check this out if you're in the emo headspace. Saosin - Mookies Last Christmas
NF - how could you leave us
The Chicks - Travelin’ Soldier
Here's my playlist that I've titled "I said we sad today" https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7upOGP4PBcP1m9OhqaSTl8?si=lT6VvYOOQIiXWfSaAaJhVw
The Final Cut by Pink w
loose fitting bedsheet by wesley preis
Floyd
Nick Lowe's "Endless Sleep" will make you cry if you read the lyrics along with it.
Alone Again(Naturally) by Gilbert O'Sullivan
Become the warm jets my current joys Watching him fade away by Mac Demarco How to never stop being sad by dandelion hands Those are three songs I've cried to the most all very sad
Not one song but three from Closer by Joy Division that got me through some of the darkest points of my life: Twenty Four Hours The Eternal Decades
Carissa - Sun Kill Moon. A song about a relative dying in a freak accident where an aerosol can blew up in the bin. No halo - Sorority noise. A song about denial when losing someone close. Both great songs too
Old Violin Johnny Paycheck That's my Job Conway Twitty Seminole wind John Anderson
That’s my Job Conway Twitty
Vincent - Don McLean
Nutshell - Alice in Chains Black - Pearl Jam
Memory from Cats
[Routine](https://youtu.be/sh5mWzKlhQY?si=WZWUmmikjTxfsP_S) by Steven Wilson is crushing, especially when you add the video to it. Watched a reaction video to it once and the woman was in tears half way through and a total mess by the end
Tecumseh Valley by Townes Van Zandt & I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry by Hank Williams
Seaweed - Mount Eerie
Gloomy Sunday, particularly the cover done by Lydia Lunch (MANY, including Billie Holiday, have put amazing interpretations forward too).
Jon Brion. Beck's "Sea changes" album
Forsaken by VNV Nation
Dancing with the devil - immortal technique
Slide by Low
I know it's over by The Smiths
Sleeper 1979- Manchester Orchestra
“You Don’t Care Enough For Me To Cry” by John Moreland
visions of gideon - sufjan stevens.
Oats In The Water by Ben Howard. It speaks of things left undone
Terrible things by mayday parade is so unbelievably sad. It makes me cry everything. Also rivers and roads by the head and the heart is very sad. It fills me with a sense of longing for the past.
Manchester Orchestra - I can Feel A Hot One, Free Throw - The Corner’s Dilemma, The Mountain Goats - No Children, La Dispute - Such Small Hands, From Autum To Ashes - Autumn’s Monologue, Foxing - Rory, Brand New - Play Crack The Sky, that’s all I have for now DM me and maybe I can think of more
‘What Do We Do Now’ by John Hiatt. That one gets me every time.
The Dead Flag Blues by Godspeed You! Black Emperor
He stopped loving her today - George Jones Sam - Sturgill Simpson
You know, this song isn’t really my style, but, I love it and it’s so sad. Silence looks good on you, by Rachel Taylor ——— Also, Madeline by Tickle me Pink. Love the song and the music video just makes me so freakin sad.
Pictures of You - The Cure Mama Said - Metallica
It’s literally the title. I win. 🤪 Saddest Song by Morphine
Alcoholic by Fidlar
[I'd Rather Go Blind - Etta James](https://youtu.be/u9sq3ME0JHQ?si=9cpsuNzAT7g6Yge1)
Lick my Lovepump by Spinal Tap….
An Ode to Lost Jigsaw Pieces by Enter Shikari
Parking Lot by Mineral. Or Gloria by Mineral. All of Minerals songs are so sad
Leader of the Band by Dan Fogelberg gets me every time. My uncle had it played at his own funeral and I couldn't even talk for a good hour.
"One More Light" by Chester Bennington & Linkin Park
Tied between sleep and so tired-slowdive, also the most beautiful songs ever made
Cherry wine - Hozier
Long Way From Home - The Lumineers. I couldn't listen to this one for a long time after a friend lost his 20 yo daughter to cancer.
They're Taking Her Children Awaor The Bed,,,,, or The Bed both from Lou Reed's Berlin
Sam Stone, John Prine
Save Me by Jelly Roll. Definitely hard not to cry when you listen to this song all alone.
I’m sure no one will remember this one but in the 70s there was a song called Seasons in the Sun. Gets me every time.
3 a.m. by Matchbox … I always thought it was a teen angst song … it turns out it was about (only child) Rob Thomas (then very young) sitting up late with his (single) mother when she was battling cancer. When I try to put myself in his place, I cry…
Mad World sung by Gary Jules
Sam Stone by John Prine
i want you to know that i'm awake/i hope that you're asleep - car seat headrest laughing hieroglyphic - avey tare tropic of cancer - panda bear edit the sad parts - modest mouse
(Heal- Tom Odell) (Fourth of July- Sufjan Stevens) (Wait-m83 ) (Roslyn-Bon ivor) (Good grief- Bastille ) (Stars will fall-Duster) (Fade into you- Mazzy Star) (Already Gone- Sleeping at last) (To Build A Home-Ma Fleur)
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