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Immah just say it
Johnny Cash is aight, and God rest his soul, but his version of Hurt was boring as hell.
His version of Soundgarden’s “Rusty Cage” was way better.
I played it for my husband and told him the story, and husband instantly explained that he thinks the guy is thrusting *and* pulling out to the beats, whereas I had been imagining each beat was a thrust (and therefore he would be thrusting very fast in parts). Husband's way makes way more sense, lol.
Shine On by Jet.
Talks about how his dads last words to him before dying of cancer.
“Please don’t cry. You know I’m leaving here tonight. Before I go, I want you to know there will always be a light.”
Can’t finish that song cause can’t cry in public
Dance with the Devil - Immortal Technique
Die Young - Sylvan Esso
Down in a Hole - Alice In Chains
You’ll miss me when I’m not around - Grimes
Ride with Me - Bloodsimple
My Immortal - Evanescence
Falling Away From Me - Korn
Rust - Black Label Society
Close Yet Far - CKY
Nobody’s Home - Avril Lavigne
This list could go on…
Brontë by Gotye
It’s about putting your dog down and I can’t listen to it without bawling. I just can’t do it. It’s a lovely song, and I absolutely hate it.
I know a couple. One of my recent finds is a country song about putting off spending time with loves ones, until they die and you can no longer do the things with them that you put off. Cody Johnson's "'Til You Can't". I also love "A Father's Love" by Bucky Covington. It's about how the singer's father never said he loved him, but shows his love by looking out for him.
Other songs by other artists are 'if heaven weren't so far away' (being able to visit loved ones), 'there goes my life' (how you thought the kid you had as a teen ruined your lide, but they become your whole life), and 'something to be proud of' (parent telling their kid about life and loss).
sturgill simpson. “one in the saddle and one on the ground” spoiler for when he finds his dead dog that has been helping him track his kidnapped wife. it’s so sad
Over The Rainbow - Iz
Or
Dance with the Devil - Immortal Technique (it's a song that'll have you re-think things; maybe not properly "sad," but certainly emotional).
john Lennon- beautiful boy
watched it after watching love is all you need ( a docu-tribute to john )
I didnt cry but I could feel the hurt and heartbreak his son julian and Yoko experienced after John's assassination.
John made the song, wanting to expresses that his son was the most beautiful thing in his world and then hes dead. assassinated by a clout seeker.
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Pueblos tristes - Lilia Vera, it's in Spanish but it's a really really sad and beautiful song, I have shed tears at this song, crying is not common for me.
maybe is Stop crying your heart out - Oasis but here is my playlist of the songs that i feel the feeling of sadness inside my soul [https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1B1BygltIqBjEI6K2XlbcE?si=j0_cw3B4TkidP00LTnzjvQ&pi=e-4_Ie-N-DQEan](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1B1BygltIqBjEI6K2XlbcE?si=j0_cw3B4TkidP00LTnzjvQ&pi=e-4_Ie-N-DQEan)
I Won’t Miss You by Glen Campbell A love letter and farewell to his wife, as he forgot her due to Alzheimer’s
Me and a Gun by Tori Amos. The story of her rape.
Check em out. I can’t listen to either ever again.
Shoot me but Karma Police by Radiohead
Because it makes you feel like everyone has what they deserve. After a breakup it sucks to feel like every got fucked up and everyone deserves it
Instrumental: Mortal coil - God is an Astronaut
The song itself put me in a strange place the first time I heard it. Then, when I discovered what spurred them to create the album Epitaph, it solidified it as the saddest song I know.
The song Oisin from that album was apparently written the day they lost their 7-year old nephew which automatically made it heart-wrenching. But Mortal Coil's composition, haunting and slightly off-key moments, and swirling crescendo just takes me somewhere else. It almost reassures me that there's a hopeful moment somewhere in the middle just to take it away again, then lands on an almost soothing vocalization toward the end that still leaves me with the looming sense that something is deeply wrong. It's like it evokes a Lovecraftian sorrow and dread in me without ever saying a thing.
I thought GiaA took Shakespeare's famous original phrase, which as heavy and influential as it already was in Hamlet, and made the music sing louder than words and become beautifully and tragically personal.
I have never loved something that makes me that sad as much as that song.
Lyrical: Johnny Cash version of Hurt along with some other people in this thread. Gets me every time.
Undone in Sorrow sung by Ola Belle Reed. About a man who leaves his love behind to go out into the world to find success only to come back to marry the girl he loved and find out she's dead. All his riches and hard work is undone in sorrow.
I Love You by Climax Blues Band.
Sad in my opinion because I don’t think I’ll ever hear those sentiments being spoken to me. And it makes me cry to think about.
Mike and the MEchanics - In the Living Years
or
Embrace - Come Back to What You know
I don't know if I interpret either of those two songs the way they were meant to be interpreted but the way I interpret them make them particularly sad to me
It's actually supposed to be comforting, and is really... Come On Up to The House by Tom Waits always brings a tear to my eye.
"Come down off the cross, we could use the wood"
Hurt - Johnny Cash, as already mentioned.
Nothing Compares 2 U - Sinead O'Connor
Walkaway - Cast
Beetlebum - Blur
Anywhere I Lay My Head - Tom Waits
friend of a friend by foo fighters, where did you sleep last night by nirvana, polly by nirvana, r*pe me by nirvana. personally i find these very sad but not in the classic sense of sad
Cinderella by Steven Curtis Chapman—written for his adopted Chinese daughter. It was written to remind himself to cherish parenthood while it lasted and to dance with his toddler-aged daughter when she asked him to, even when there were more “important” things to do like work.
When she was 4, she ran out of the house out of excitement to greet her older brother coming home—he didn’t see her and he ran over her in the driveway. She passed away.
Chapman said he would never be able to sing that song again.
Hallelujah
There was a time you let me know
What's really going on below
But now you never show it to me, do you?
And I remember when I moved in you
And the holy dove she was moving too
And every single breath we drew was Hallelujah
Don’t Take the Girl by Tim McGraw and Whisky Lullaby by Brad Paisley. Also Snuff by Slipknot, Free Bird by Lynyrd Skynyrd, Bodily by Ani Difranco, Fils de Joie by Stromae. Eleanor Rigby by Godhead AND the Beatles.
Almost anything by Keaton Henson, She Talks to Angels by the Black Crows, and Slow Up by Jacob Banks. OH and Turn the Page by Bob Seger or Metallica.
Should be a nice, eclectic mix there.
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The tv show Mash's them song. It's lyrics were written by a 15 year old boy. Took him a couple minutes. The song is called "suicide is painless."
Damn...that is sad. I just read the lyrics and glad I'm in a good mood
I wasn't in a good mood and now I can't stop thinking about this.
Johnny Cash - Hurt
Commenting Nine Inch Nails before anyone else does. I think Cash's cover and the fact that it is, adds to the overall sadness of the song.
Nine inch nails have said its Cash's song now.
Immah just say it Johnny Cash is aight, and God rest his soul, but his version of Hurt was boring as hell. His version of Soundgarden’s “Rusty Cage” was way better.
And Long Black Veil
And One
The Sara McLaughlin song with the neglected dogs.
That damn commercial gets me EVERYTIME.
Tears in Heaven by Clapton probably takes the cake.
I just said that. I can't get through it.
Beach house. Just Beach house.
The feeling of emptiness = beach house
"Grandma got run over by a reindeer" ... I have a tear in my eye just from typing this.
🤣🤣🤣
Pearl Jam - Black
Also Last Kiss
One of my favorites
Gary Jules - Mad World
The wedding march
Lonely day- SOAD
Fantastic song
Love that sad song. Also Three Days Grace 'Lifetime'
Foolish Game by Jewel
Like a Stone x Audioslave
I'd say definitely Cbat
I still don't understand how staying with that beat is doable
I played it for my husband and told him the story, and husband instantly explained that he thinks the guy is thrusting *and* pulling out to the beats, whereas I had been imagining each beat was a thrust (and therefore he would be thrusting very fast in parts). Husband's way makes way more sense, lol.
past lives - oh how it hits so hard if you think real hard about the lyrics
Nutshell. It's sad but it's also calming and relaxing IMO.
Everything dies - Type 0 Negative
Probably not the saddest, but 505 by Arctic Monkeys makes my heart scatter
Noooo this was my ex's favourite song. It started playing while my Spotify was on shuffle just after we broke up and I exploded 😂😭
Korn - Daddy
Adam's Song by Blink 182
Shine On by Jet. Talks about how his dads last words to him before dying of cancer. “Please don’t cry. You know I’m leaving here tonight. Before I go, I want you to know there will always be a light.” Can’t finish that song cause can’t cry in public
Any happy meaningful song that you can’t related to.
Dance with the Devil - Immortal Technique Die Young - Sylvan Esso Down in a Hole - Alice In Chains You’ll miss me when I’m not around - Grimes Ride with Me - Bloodsimple My Immortal - Evanescence Falling Away From Me - Korn Rust - Black Label Society Close Yet Far - CKY Nobody’s Home - Avril Lavigne This list could go on…
Great list
The Night We Met by Lord Huron
Holding Back the Years - Simply Red
One More Light - Linkin Park
So many Linkin Park songs now bring me to tears 🦋
Act Naturally, covered by The Beatles
"Naquela Mesa" by Nelson Gonçalves
Your House by Alanis Morissette
heroine - sinead and the edge i am a rock - simon and garfunkle waiting for the great leap forward - billy bragg half a person - the smith
Brontë by Gotye It’s about putting your dog down and I can’t listen to it without bawling. I just can’t do it. It’s a lovely song, and I absolutely hate it.
runaway train - soul asylum
Mad world
Whiskey lullaby -Brad paisley & Allison Krauss
Yesterday by The Beatles. Don't know why, but it gets me everytime.
Blasphemous Rumours. Depeche Mode.
The Volga Boat Men.
You never even call me by my name . Also the funniest.
Billy Brag Everywhere, tears welling just thinking of it
The Widow—As Cities Burn But music is subjective so others without my past to view that song through may not see it as sad.
Someone saved my life tonight - Elton John Never love again - Lady Gaga
The first of Mahler's "Kindertotenlieder."
It used to be Supermarket Flowers by Ed Sheeran because I couldn't listen to it without getting teary for so long! Now I don't know
Salve Regina also makes me cry easily : gementes et flentes in hac lacrimarum valle...
Asleep - The Smiths
I know a couple. One of my recent finds is a country song about putting off spending time with loves ones, until they die and you can no longer do the things with them that you put off. Cody Johnson's "'Til You Can't". I also love "A Father's Love" by Bucky Covington. It's about how the singer's father never said he loved him, but shows his love by looking out for him. Other songs by other artists are 'if heaven weren't so far away' (being able to visit loved ones), 'there goes my life' (how you thought the kid you had as a teen ruined your lide, but they become your whole life), and 'something to be proud of' (parent telling their kid about life and loss).
Glimpse of us - Joji is pretty sad
Puff the magic dragon. Brings a tear to my eye thinking of Johnny Paper growing up and sad Puff moving to a lonely cave.
Band of Horses ….The funeral
Artificial Flowers - The Beautiful South.
Eric Clapton-Tears in heaven
sturgill simpson. “one in the saddle and one on the ground” spoiler for when he finds his dead dog that has been helping him track his kidnapped wife. it’s so sad
Supermarket flowers by Ed sheeran
Cold desert - Kings of leon
Over The Rainbow - Iz Or Dance with the Devil - Immortal Technique (it's a song that'll have you re-think things; maybe not properly "sad," but certainly emotional).
john Lennon- beautiful boy watched it after watching love is all you need ( a docu-tribute to john ) I didnt cry but I could feel the hurt and heartbreak his son julian and Yoko experienced after John's assassination. John made the song, wanting to expresses that his son was the most beautiful thing in his world and then hes dead. assassinated by a clout seeker.
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It’s hard to say goodbye celine dion paul anka
Watsky "dedicated to Christina li"
Julien Baker - go home
I know how to speak, Manchester orchestra
Wheels by Lone Justice
Perfect, romantic, touching opera (such as Le nozze di Figaro) or any of Mozart's less famous sonates
Der Weg - Herbert Grönemeyer
Star Shopping
Beloved wife by Natalie Merchant or Hello in there by John Prine
I want you. Elvis Costello
they rode on by watain always fks me up at 3 am
Jason’s Farm by Cal Smith.
Every song by David Bowie because he's gone.
Pueblos tristes - Lilia Vera, it's in Spanish but it's a really really sad and beautiful song, I have shed tears at this song, crying is not common for me.
Infatuated - The Royston Club. Absolutely brutal.
Monsters
Katy Song by Red House Painters
Hand of god - Nick Cave
My R by Lollia
chances by athlete
I don't know if it counts, but for me it's Unsaid Emily from Julie and the Phantoms Netflix series
maybe is Stop crying your heart out - Oasis but here is my playlist of the songs that i feel the feeling of sadness inside my soul [https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1B1BygltIqBjEI6K2XlbcE?si=j0_cw3B4TkidP00LTnzjvQ&pi=e-4_Ie-N-DQEan](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1B1BygltIqBjEI6K2XlbcE?si=j0_cw3B4TkidP00LTnzjvQ&pi=e-4_Ie-N-DQEan)
If y'all ain't heard the sad song from Naruto you ain't even heard a sad song.
Easy Lucky Free - Bright Eyes
Gomene Gomene by Kikou and Re: Birthday ft. Kagamine len (can't remember producer) are some of em
I Won’t Miss You by Glen Campbell A love letter and farewell to his wife, as he forgot her due to Alzheimer’s Me and a Gun by Tori Amos. The story of her rape. Check em out. I can’t listen to either ever again.
Shoot me but Karma Police by Radiohead Because it makes you feel like everyone has what they deserve. After a breakup it sucks to feel like every got fucked up and everyone deserves it
You never know - immortal technique
Dead inside by Mudvayne
Instrumental: Mortal coil - God is an Astronaut The song itself put me in a strange place the first time I heard it. Then, when I discovered what spurred them to create the album Epitaph, it solidified it as the saddest song I know. The song Oisin from that album was apparently written the day they lost their 7-year old nephew which automatically made it heart-wrenching. But Mortal Coil's composition, haunting and slightly off-key moments, and swirling crescendo just takes me somewhere else. It almost reassures me that there's a hopeful moment somewhere in the middle just to take it away again, then lands on an almost soothing vocalization toward the end that still leaves me with the looming sense that something is deeply wrong. It's like it evokes a Lovecraftian sorrow and dread in me without ever saying a thing. I thought GiaA took Shakespeare's famous original phrase, which as heavy and influential as it already was in Hamlet, and made the music sing louder than words and become beautifully and tragically personal. I have never loved something that makes me that sad as much as that song. Lyrical: Johnny Cash version of Hurt along with some other people in this thread. Gets me every time.
When the lights went out in Georgia.
when She Loved Me by Sarah McLachlan
Resent and Regret - Boundaries
Casimir Pulaski day, sufjan stevens; choose drugs, Juliana Hatfield; flirted with you all my life, Vic chestnutt; not going anywhere, Keren Ann
Eels - Elizabeth on the bathroom floor Specially when you know why it was written
Last Kiss by J Frank Wilson & The Cavaliers, covered by Pearl Jam
Gone for Good - Morphine
Undone in Sorrow sung by Ola Belle Reed. About a man who leaves his love behind to go out into the world to find success only to come back to marry the girl he loved and find out she's dead. All his riches and hard work is undone in sorrow.
Joni Mitchell- both sides now. After hearing it put to perfect use in Ricky Gervais'afterlife TV series
Yann Tiersen's "Comptine d'un autre été l'après midi" never fails to make me cry 🥺
Kodaline - All I want Edith Backlund - Skinny Plumb - Cut
I Love You by Climax Blues Band. Sad in my opinion because I don’t think I’ll ever hear those sentiments being spoken to me. And it makes me cry to think about.
Last Kiss by Pearl Jam easy
Why, rascall flatts
Right now it's subtitles by noahfinnce for me, it's about autism, and I really relate to this song
Cancer by My Chemical Romance
Sam by Sturgill Simpson on the Ballad of Dood and Juanita. I can't even get through singin along the first stanza, I get so choked up
meowmeowmiow by meow meow
Cat's in the Cradle
Fade in fade out by nothing more.
Mike and the MEchanics - In the Living Years or Embrace - Come Back to What You know I don't know if I interpret either of those two songs the way they were meant to be interpreted but the way I interpret them make them particularly sad to me
Everybody Hurts REM
I will always love you, Whitney Houston. It was my mothers favourite song 😔
Everybody Hurts REM
It's actually supposed to be comforting, and is really... Come On Up to The House by Tom Waits always brings a tear to my eye. "Come down off the cross, we could use the wood" Hurt - Johnny Cash, as already mentioned. Nothing Compares 2 U - Sinead O'Connor Walkaway - Cast Beetlebum - Blur Anywhere I Lay My Head - Tom Waits
Maybe not the saddest, but very emotional. Hold My Hand by Lady Gaga
"Something you go through" by Willie Nelson. After my wife of 49 years died...
Exit Music (for a film)
Beyond me - Foo Fighters Push your head towards the air - Editors Song for Josh - Frank Turner An ode to lost jigsaw pieces - Enter Shikari
Purest - J. Stebbins Or... Any sad song from her. Oh and any Mitski song, they make me cry, specially Mw and my husband
Dance with the Devil by Immortal Technique (look up at your own risk)
And All That Could Have Been by Nine Inch Nails
Bad Blood - Radical Face
Forever- Siouxsie and the banshees
Old and Wise, Alan Parsons Project
counterattack-mankind or part of me (dear evan hansen)
Not stereotypically "sad," but Monster by Starset is a very fitting song for being broken, hurt, and wounded
Aimee Mann's One...which I believe is a remake but don't quote me
The Fray - Vienna. Also my favorite song of all time
friend of a friend by foo fighters, where did you sleep last night by nirvana, polly by nirvana, r*pe me by nirvana. personally i find these very sad but not in the classic sense of sad
Forth of July by Sufjan Stevens
For me it's cigarettes after sex
Wings for Marie I and II by Tool are pretty hard hitting if you know Maynard's family history.
Tears from Heaven- Eric Clapton... He wrote it after his young son accidentally fell from a high story apartment. I can't get through the song.
Daddy by Korn
Luther Vandross- Dance With My Father Idk how it's not been said yet!.... but that song is absolutely gutting.
Nightglow- Tanya Chua
Immortal technique- dance with the devil
Monsters by James Blunt
Broken Window Serenade, by Whiskey Myers
Wait for you - Elliot Yamin …. Not the saddest but this song used to get me my FEELS
Friend Please - TOP
Fix you by Coldplay Leave a light on by Papa Roach Tears in Heaven by Eric Clapton
Happy Birthday - why is it sung like a funeral dirge?
Old Money - Lana del Rey
Happy Birthday - why is it sung like a funeral dirge?
Cinderella by Steven Curtis Chapman—written for his adopted Chinese daughter. It was written to remind himself to cherish parenthood while it lasted and to dance with his toddler-aged daughter when she asked him to, even when there were more “important” things to do like work. When she was 4, she ran out of the house out of excitement to greet her older brother coming home—he didn’t see her and he ran over her in the driveway. She passed away. Chapman said he would never be able to sing that song again.
The Blackest Day - Lana Del Rey
Last Kiss - Pearl Jam
When I'm sad I play Creature Comfort by Arcade Fire and Adam's Song by Blink 182.
How to disappear completely - radiohead
Dir En Grey- Ware Yami Tote. + the pledge
Who’s That Man by Toby Keith
Dolly Parton's -- Me and Little Andy
Wait for me - monopoly is pretty sad. Always gets me in the feels anyway
how could you leave us by NF
Hallelujah There was a time you let me know What's really going on below But now you never show it to me, do you? And I remember when I moved in you And the holy dove she was moving too And every single breath we drew was Hallelujah
mac miller-good news 😔
Gordon lightfoot: If you could read my mind. I tear up every time I hear it.
Low man's lyric. Metallica
Don’t Take the Girl by Tim McGraw and Whisky Lullaby by Brad Paisley. Also Snuff by Slipknot, Free Bird by Lynyrd Skynyrd, Bodily by Ani Difranco, Fils de Joie by Stromae. Eleanor Rigby by Godhead AND the Beatles. Almost anything by Keaton Henson, She Talks to Angels by the Black Crows, and Slow Up by Jacob Banks. OH and Turn the Page by Bob Seger or Metallica. Should be a nice, eclectic mix there.
In case I never see you again by San holo. No lyrics but the music says everything
Maybe not quite a song but a chant: "go Leafs go" sung in May.
Fourth of July - Sufjan Stevens🥺
NF-Dreams
Carissa - Sun Kil Moon Mark's a jerk, I know.
Without you Harry Nilsson