okay let me put you on.
another love- Tom Odell
become the warm jet- current joys
Mad world- Gary Jules
If depression gets the best of me-Zevia
Adam’s Song- Blink 182
The day i left the womb- escape the fate
The night we met-Lord Huron
How to save a life- The Fray
Because of you-Kelly Clarkson
Just a dream- Carrie Underwood
Edit: for those who haven’t heard it, it’s a song about growing apart in order to come back together. However, the way it’s used in the movie “Encanto” is insanely sad. It’s used while telling the backstory of Abuela and how her and her husband got separated while trying to escape the Spanish(?) military with their three children. He died. She was left to raise three infants alone knowing that the love of her life was brutally killed
This is niche but there is a song on the kids show Bluey that breaks my heart for some reason. It’s called “I Know A Place (The Creek Song)” and while it’s truly lovely, I can’t listen to it because it sounds so melancholy.
An alcoholic homeless person who entertains people to get alcohol. His only friend is his pet dog and the dog dies. It’s a pretty song, but it’s very sad.
The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. That line the cook says about the sea being to rough to feed them, and then he says it’s been good to know ya. Gets me every time. I can only listen to the song maybe once every 5 years.
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Tears in heaven by eric clapton
Lick My Love Pump by Spinal Tap
Last kiss when covered by Pearl Jam
jhonny cash hurt
Don’t Follow – Alice in Chains
Cats in the cradle – Harry Chaplin 1974
Black – Pearl Jam
Jeff Buckley the entire Grace album. I sob
The Field Behind the Plow – Stan Rogers, or Teddy Bear – Red Sovine
El Condor Pasa
Build a home – Cinematic Orchestra
Who Knew by P!nk
Keep Me In Your Heart by Warren Zevon.
7 years by graham is always a good pick.
Passenger Seat by Death Cab for Cutie
sparks by coldplay
Nutshell by Alice in Chains
“Gone” by Asking Alexandria.
Elvis – In the Ghetto
Never meant to belong from the anime Bleach. If you’ve watched Bleach, you KNOW this song. Listen to the whole thing.
Fire and Rain – James Taylor
Runaway Train by Soul Asylum.
He stopped loving her today. George Jones
The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
That sad song in Shrek (sorry just heard it the other day) that goes “tied you to the kitchen chair, broke your throne and cut your hair”
Love, Me – Collin Raye
Somebody that I Used to Know – Gotye
Blood of Eden – Peter Gabriel
This Woman’s Work – Kate Bush
Comfortably Numb
Concrete Angel – Martina McBride
Whiskey Lullaby
I’m so lonesome I could cry, HW
okay let me put you on.
another love- Tom Odell
become the warm jet- current joys
Mad world- Gary Jules
If depression gets the best of me-Zevia
Adam’s Song- Blink 182
The day i left the womb- escape the fate
The night we met-Lord Huron
How to save a life- The Fray
Because of you-Kelly Clarkson
Just a dream- Carrie Underwood
tear jerkers. every. single. time
how does it feel? – citizen
Coldplay Fix You. I tear up every time
The night we met – Lord Huron
Lifehouse – Everything or Veela – Great Valley
The theme to “Mash”.
I dreamed a dream
“39” by Queen
how to disappear completely by radiohead
between the bars by elliott smith
One more light by Linkin Park
Fast Car by Tracy Chapman.
The fact that the cycle repeats…
Nothing by The Script.
For me pretty much encapsulates the hollow desperation of having your heart broken.
Dunno if it’s the saddest but its one of the realest.
Sam Stone
And All That Could Have Been – Nine Inch Nails
Gotye – Bronte. Because songs about dead pets always cheer up a room.
Where Have You Been? by Kathy Mattea. Makes me think of my late husband.
Missing You by Diana Ross, written by Lionel Richie. About Marvin Gaye’s murder. The way Marvin died was so, so cruel.
“Where you’ve been” by Kathy Mattea. I sob uncontrollably every time I hear it.
Stan by Eminem
Hurt by Johnny Cash
Cats in the cradle
The River by Bruce Springsteen
Joey by Concrete Blond
*Its about loving and bargaining with someone that has an addiction. Plus its inspired by a real life relationship the singer had with an alcoholic.
Cat’s in the Cradle, Harry Chapin
Breathe Me by Sia.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghPcYqn0p4Y
Dreaming of You by Selena.
‘I Know It’s Over’ – The Smiths
My Immortal by Evanescence
Anything by Sufjan Stevens, but particularly John Wayne Gacy, Jr., That was the worst Christmas ever!, Fourth of July and all of Javelin.
Sometime Around Midnight by The Airborne Toxic Event captures a very emotional feeling of breakups that makes you just feel like shit
Forever Autumn – Jeff Wayne and Justin Hayward.
Cats in the Cradle
“Hide and Seek” by Imogen Heap
You’ll Never Walk Alone
They Dance Alone by Sting
Johnny Cash’s cover of “Hurt”
Casimir Pulaski Fay by Sufjan Stevens
Adam’s Song by Blink 182
Everybody Hurts by REM
The living years by Mike and the Mechanicd, it’s a beautiful song
“Two Oruguitas” by Sebastián Yatra
Edit: for those who haven’t heard it, it’s a song about growing apart in order to come back together. However, the way it’s used in the movie “Encanto” is insanely sad. It’s used while telling the backstory of Abuela and how her and her husband got separated while trying to escape the Spanish(?) military with their three children. He died. She was left to raise three infants alone knowing that the love of her life was brutally killed
Bigger Than The Whole Sky or Ronan by Taylor Swift
I’m so lonesome I could cry and blue eyes crying in the rain
For my own personal reasons –
Like a stone – Audioslave
On Eagles Wings
Strange Fruit.
tears in heaven
She Talks to Angels
vienna by billy joel
Tom Waits-lullaby
One More Light by Linkin Park
In hindsight, it’s reflective of himself and hits 10x harder.
Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima by Krzysztof Penderecki. It’s like a scream frozen in time
Mahler’s Kindertotenlieder (German for “dead children’s songs”), largely because of Ruckert’s poems
Górecki’s Symphony No. 3, especially the second movement, which uses a text written by a teenage girl imprisoned during WWII
Little Talks by Of Monsters and Man;
Roads by Portishead – the live version
All My Love by Led Zeppelin. It was a song written by Robert Plant to honour his 5 year old son who died suddenly of an illness.
So Far Away – Avenged Sevenfold. Especially when paired with the video clip.
Fire and Rain by James Taylor
Gotye- someone I used to know
“Luka”, by Suzanne Vega. If i need to have a good cry, this one trashes me every time.
This is niche but there is a song on the kids show Bluey that breaks my heart for some reason. It’s called “I Know A Place (The Creek Song)” and while it’s truly lovely, I can’t listen to it because it sounds so melancholy.
Keep me in your heart for awhile by Warren Zevon recorded as he was dying.
NIN – Something I Can Never Have
Nick Cave – Into My Arms
Seasons in the Sun by Terry Jacks
Mr. Bonjangles
An alcoholic homeless person who entertains people to get alcohol. His only friend is his pet dog and the dog dies. It’s a pretty song, but it’s very sad.
She’s Leaving Home-The Beatles.
Pink Floyd—“Nobody home”
“I Can’t Make You Love Me” ~ Bonnie Rait
Pink Floyd – Wish You Were Here
Death Cab for Cutie – What Sarah Said
Zombie by the Cranberries
One More Light
Shadow Of The Day
Both by Linkin Park.
Mad World – Gary Jules & when it’s cold, I’d like to die – Moby
“Let her cry” gets me. So does Coldplay “How to save a life”.
Alone Again (Naturally) by Gilbert O’ Sullivan
Wake me up when September ends. Look it up
Eleanor Rigby – Died and was buried along with her name. Nobody came.
The night we met
Hear you me-jimmy eat world
Bright eyes- art garfunkel
Light behind your eyes- my chemical romance
Seasons in the sun – terry Jackson
One more light- linkin park
Hello- evanescence
I will always love you- dolly Parton
The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. That line the cook says about the sea being to rough to feed them, and then he says it’s been good to know ya. Gets me every time. I can only listen to the song maybe once every 5 years.
Little Talks by Of Monsters and Men. The woman’s lines sound like how my dad was the last year before he died, with Alzheimer’s.
It’s bittersweet but ubiquitous:
You are my sunshine
Brick by Ben Folds is up there.
What Once Was by Hers. They died on their first US tour as this song & album was released in 2009.
Numb -Linkin Park
Lightening Crashes – Live
Monsters- James Blunt
Sound of Silence – S & G or Disturbed’
Someone you loved- Lewis Capaldi
Time In A Bottle by Jim Croce
Bonnie Raitt ~ I Can’t Make You Love Me
Show Me The Meaning of Being Lonely – Backstreet Boys
No regrets.
Vincent by Don McLean – “starry, starry night…”
No surprises-Radiohead
Landslide – Fleetwood Mac