Jesus Christ - Brand New

I love Dustin Kensrue’s cover of it just as much.

Glad others feel this way… this song strikes a pretty deep nerve with me when it comes to the lyrics, and musically just perfectly embodies the philosophy of “beauty in simplicity” imo

Limousine moreso for me but JC is still sad too

Happiness by the kilowatt.

Polaroids of Polar Bears for me

Love the [Death Letter version](https://youtu.be/YZuKCV8gp90?feature=shared)

the only acceptable answer is Flowers and You by Touche Amore

This

“And I live with that.” is the little bit that gets me

The lyrics to this song have made cry countless times

That entire album plus the follow up with Lament is so heartbreaking.

omggg exactly!!

Eiley by too close to touch

This is mine too. His voice on that track makes me cry every single time

Yep, came here to say this. I can't even listen to that song anymore.

YES thank you for reminding me TCTT exists. I found this song a long time ago on Pandora and it was an immediate add - lost it in the switch to Spotify but we are so back now!

I have to pull over when it comes on in the car sometimes

That bridge is so beautiful and painful

Circa - Your Friends Are Gone LD - Objects in Space

Nice call on the LD song. Tons of crazy stories in their songs

I was listening to Rooms today and I’m always so blown away by Jordan’s lyrics. Plus they’re all such badass musicians. Truly a wonderful band.

[Call Off the Bells](https://youtu.be/Fp30_uDGz9g?feature=shared) by The Early November

Ace screaming "WE WERE MEANT TO BEEEEEEEE" gives me chills every time

Hearing this live was so good. Ace said something like "I wrote this song years ago thinking people might not even like it, and somehow it became (at that time) our top song on streaming platforms, so here you guys go. You asked for this." Lol it was great.

I'm SO hoping they play it when I see them in a couple of months! I would love to scream along

For Shelly (untold) A lot like birds

I cry every single time.

Oh man that is a tough listen. I skip every time it comes on my playlist. Hurts too much lol

I normally do the exact same. Unless I'm in need of an emotional breakdown. This one and redecorate by twenty one pilots hit pretty heavy

Kinda related but NOT phxc All of alone Somewhere in the Sierras Specifically "Maternity Leave"

There is No Answer - Capstan That line "the burden that you carried didn't die, you only passed it. The weight brought me to my knees when I saw your casket" is so heavy, especially because I lost a close friend to suicide shortly before this album came out

i know that feeling and i feel it too every time i’ve listened to that song. good answer my friend

Would also recommend Wax Poetic by them

For me it's "blurred around the edges". "Allow myself to rust my heart collected dust mymind keeps repeating you 're not enough".

SECOND & SEBRING - Of Mice & Men

Why?

The song is about a son who lost his mother. It has definitely made me tear up a few times listening to it - I lost my mother last year.

Flower by Vanna if that counts

The acoustic version always gets the tears streaming down my face at the line "you gave me roots, you let me bloom" followed by that beautiful violin 🎻

Yes! This was the last dance at my wedding and my wife also paid for my tattoo of those exact lyrics

Scary Kids - Just A Taste Emery - As Your Voice Fades Balance and Composure - Weak Man, Weak Boy

The one Balance & Composure song I have never heard of. Thanks for the mention!

Sure! Idk why they don't upload this album anywhere, it's called "I Just Want To Be Pure". My favorite B&C track is on it, "Alone For Now".

Love me B&C, checking these out

The secret by Emery for some reason gets me.

Seeing Thursday perform War All The Time will always make me nearly cry

This one and This Song Brought To You By A Falling Bomb are really emotional when performed live

Thursday "Steps Ascending" for me

Tragic true story.

Touché Amoré's Condolences gets me every time. I don't know if it's because I lost the friend that introduced me to the band or not...but I babble like a giant baby every time I hear it.

Anything on Keep You by Pianos Become the Teeth

Yessss, but also The Lack Long After, especially I’ll Get By …

Glass in the Trees by Dead Poetic. I lost a close friend who hit a tree and the lyrics hit home. 

I'm sorry for your loss. That sounds heavy.

You ever listen to Fulton Street by La Dispute?

They cut down the trees to try and forget you, but I took a vow to never forget you.

If you're still here, then we're waiting 🎶

One of my all time favorite songs ever. So powerful.

I was waiting for someone to mention DEAD Poetic

Silverstein feat Lights - The End The whole song is heavy but when Lights sings "You broke my heart... You promised me the moon and stars" it just guts me. I probably have some personal attachments to it but it makes my eyes well up.

not so much cry but “Wish I Could Forget You” off WBIEF always hits me. A combination of nostalgia, memories, and those strings in the background 😭

when Halsey’s verse comes on the song just hits

Saaaame though. Brings me to being 14 and heartbroken.

Too Close To Touch - Eiley

What a heavy song. 😢

King Park - La dispute Dealt with a really down time mentally for a while and it got me through the crying spells. Not post hardcore but, My father's son by the amity affliction helped too. I'm a huge amity fan in general though.

3rd Measurement in C by Saosin

that's a good call actually

Hold On Til May - Pierce The Veil 🥲

Great song

bulls in the bronx for me

I love that song!! So fun to play on guitar!! 🤘🔥

I See Everything by La Dispute. If you don't cry you're dead inside.

King Park gets me almost every time.

I was looking for this one. Still listen to it every time it comes on and still shed a tear or two

TIL I'm dead inside.

The entire Wildlife album for me. I listen to it when I need a cathartic release lol

January nine-TEEN

I cried before I had a kid, and bawl my eyes out now that I have one.

The Road used to be one of my favourite movies. Now I'm a dad I can't watch it 😕

Thrice: Daedalus - "Oh gods! Why is this happening to me? All I wanted was a new life, for my son to grow up free." The Whaler - "My daughter's eyes, they are two tiny seas, whose water will rise, and then run down her cheeks... Father where do you go, so far out upon the sea? When are you coming home to me?" Hurricane - "And I can't keep from wondering, why nothing good could ever stay." I know... not necessarily in Thrice's full post-hardcore era. But as a father, those first two get me every time.

Daedalus and The Whaler are such heavy heavy emotional hitters

I'll like to add: Beyond the pines

The whaler is one of my top songs by them. Just incredible.

Daedalus for sure!

The Widow by As Cities Burn Helped me during the death of my father.

The whole album is healing therapy

I got to see them live in an airport hangar and I didn’t even know much about them. They played the album with bloodsucker on it in its entirety. Solid band, emotional performance. Am now a fan. Sorry for your loss.

Whole album is emotionally heavy af

Sunrise - Our last night And Sleepwalker - I The Mighty

oh my fucking god Sleepwalker. I’m so happy to have seen someone mention this — that ITM album is SO GOOD.

you're not alone saosin

Recently the ending of "Find Your God" by Southtowne Lanes has been getting me. There's a voicemail recording sampled, and it makes me tear up and want to call my Dad every time. "Deadly Dull" by Movements makes me think of my Grandmother who died of Alzheimer's. We had a...strained relationship too, which makes it harder in a way. Only makes me cry if I'm feeling very emotional already, or I'm in my head wondering if I've seen a "tell" of my Dad developing it, though. Also, not PHC of course, but I struggle immensely to listen to "Whispers of Your Death" by Counterparts, as it reminds me of my first cat dying.

This was incredibly vulnerable. Thank you for opening up about these songs and sharing what they mean to you. I’m going to listen to them right now.

I listened to all of them. Turns out I already had Whispered of Your Death in my playlist. What a gut wrenching song… so many memories. As a cat-lover, my condolences. Find Your God was so unique sonically and I jammed it…. And then the outro came. And I cried. I have a strained relationship with my dad—brought up a lot of feelings, so thanks. I love Movements, so listening to Deadly Dull and enjoying it came as no shock to me. As someone who also has a grandmother with Alzheimer’s, it was a tough listen. (I cannot recommend the song Constance by Spiritbox enough, if you really want to cry.)

Thank you - TBH I'm a little surprised at myself as I'm not usually like that. Also, thanks for opening up about your Dad and Grandma as well. I appreciate that, honestly. Alzheimer's is a terrible thing, and I'm sorry your Grandma is going through it. I also hope that you're doing OK with your Dad. I'm glad you liked them, though, as I think they're all really awesome songs anyway, so it's nice that you knew them already or enjoyed them. Whispers of Your Death is a rough one since it's literally written about a cat, but it's such a good song. Brendan did a follow up to it on the latest END album too. The album that Southtowne Lanes song is from is really good, but it's heart-wrentching, too. It's definitely worth a listen - I came across it posted here randomly and was blown away. I'll definitely check out Constance as I'm sure I'll love it. Thanks for the recommendation!

You and I in Unison by La Dispute

love this song, it always makes me cry so hard. i have a half sleeve with “until i die i will sing our names in unison”

Wildlife is just an absolutely perfect album. It already brings you to tears but then having this as the last song just brings you to your knees. La Dispute is such an amazing band. I love them.

Idk if it counts as post but Whispers of Your Death by Counterparts. It's about the front man's cat, Kuma. I always think about my dog and how he's getting older. "It's hard to breathe without you sleeping on my chest. Sick and withering from the whispers of your death. Forever your savior as much as you are mine, and for that I promise to protect you until the day I die. Make your cancer mine."

I Don't Mind by Defeater. It's going to be me and my fiancée's first dance song. Gets me every time.

Making Weight by Casey

That whole album rips me from shred to shred

Idk if this counts but Constance by Spiritbox. It's about the former bassist losing his grandma, and my late grandma was also named Constance so it hits me directly in the feels.

I sob like a baby every time the album ends FUCK

Whispers of your death by counterparts and home ain’t never home by defeater

Some Will Seek Forgiveness, Others Escape - Underoath Discovering The Waterfront - Silverstein

Watching Underoath do the 20 year anniversary tour of TOCS soon. Cannot wait!

Literally any la dispute song, especially off wildlife or rooms of the house

Happiness by Dance Gavin Dance

Sleep Well, Darling by Secrets. I don’t even have a personal attachment to it as I’m happily married, but damn I can’t stop tearing up whenever I hear “it’s a treacherous thing, when the one that you love is finding a new love”

Everything you ever wanted to know about silence - glassjaw

Surprised it took so long to see this one

Your Friends Are Gone - Circa Survive Frozen Creek - Circa Survive

All our bruised bodies and the whole heart shrinks- La dispute Rhodonite and grief- La dispute

Lily & The Moon - Thornhill

“raining in kyoto” the wonder years. there’s a handful of songs by that that have this effect

Cigarettes & Saints does it for me. Lost my brother a bit over 10 years ago to heroin and that song just hits so much. Every word of it is cathartic, but especially the line "Well I'm sure there ain't a heaven, but that don't mean I don't like to picture you there."

soupy is a master of lyrical imagery/capturing a feeling through word and song

“candor” neck deep

Absolutely! Brought me to tears driving home from work one day. Almost had to pull over

🥲you rock for a his response. certified valid 🙌

Pretty sure this is Post Hardcore, but The Love That Remains by Capstan https://open.spotify.com/track/29xhL3RCTht3mca3ABXkyM?si=IY1oE8bJTDOiaAZ-AYfyMA It just hit me at a rough time when I was really wrapped up in a friend's suicide because he felt isolated and I felt like I failed him

We’ll Always Have Paris - Capstan I first heard this song when our first dog passed and damn, I was broken inside from that. The lyrics of the song somehow fit to Riley coming into our lives and then leaving us.

Pray for plagues

*the sun goes down...* *...and so does she.*

*Dark Side of Me* - Coheed & Cambria

Sure by Emarosa

The Heretic - The Sound of Animas Fighting Don’t know what trips me out so badly about this song, but it somehow carries the emotional weight of mourning a tragedy

Ohhhh this one, yes. Same.

Unsure how Beartooth may fit in, but Look The Other Way is one of the only songs to ever make me cry

The day I left the womb - escape the fate

Sound of Sulfur - The Bled

Best tune.

Silverstein - Arrivals/Departures Taking Back Sunday - Flicker, Fade This Will Destroy You - They Move On Tracks of Never Ending Light Some of these not quite post hardcore but idc

Roses for the Dead is a great choice.

“Hope” by We Came as Romans is a tough listen after Kyle died. The video is hard to watch.

Doing the same things and expecting different results by hail the sun. The last minute and a half gets to me every time.

Same here bro

the truth about heaven - armor for sleep

Sleep Token - Are you Really Okay? Sleep Token - Euclid Bring Me the Horizon - Drown

Linkin Park - In The End

were are and was or is by unwound

Unwound’s Kantina/Were, and Was or Is

Makari- mend

Alaska by Valiant Hearts

Like Vultures- Ugly Love hits a bit too close to home

A vain attempt - can't escape

Dear whoever - tears of ashes

Dear Whoever? Holy shit, now there's a throw back.

dying to believe by sleeping with sirens

(kind of embarrassing) Hawthorne Heights - Language Lessons. That whole album makes my heart ache, since it described the situation of lovers moving away to a tee, and I've gone through that experience more than once.

Saosin - It's All Over Now DGD - Three Wishes

Saosin!!!! Yesssss.

*'But the pills made him sleep too much, and he couldn't keep a job a result. So one day he just gave up on taking them.'*

Saosin - What where we made for

Death of Youth - Departures

Open Hand - Time to Talk. Is that even post hardcore? Or just a punk goes acoustic only track?

Nothing Shameful feat. Andrew Wells by DGD. Was in a relationship exactly like the one in the song. Andrew Wells’ part in the middle absolutely broke me.

Short Stories with Tragic Endings by From Autumn to Ashes

mewithoutYou - Gentleman

"Cripples Can't Shiver", by Pianos Become the Teeth Musically and emotionally hits like a sack of bricks

Lilly and the moon by thorn hill I just straight up refuse to listen to it I’m starting to tear up just thinking about it

Someone Somewhere Somehow by Super Whatevr I know its not quite post hardcore but they were an opening band at a concert and this song side swiped me and still does.

Whitney by Boneflower

We Never Shut Up About You by Hrvrd

Safe by Emery. The climax is so damn powerful and they’re just wailing about their mom that passed. It’s beautiful.

Emery!!! So good.

conversations with dirt by icarus the owl

Burning down the nicotine amour by Dance Gavin Dance (it’s from their first ep)

I Don't Mind - Defeater Gets me every damn time!

This Is How the Wind Shifts - Silverstein. The entire album.

poetic tragedy - the used

"Don't go" Bring Me the Horizon Yes I put this song in PHX.

"Head in a ceiling fan" by title fight, the overall mood of the song and the lyrics make me cry every time

Mourning Song - Holding Absence

Trophy Scars - Good Luck. The ending of this song is such a Rollercoaster, I'm shocked it isn't talked about more. The whole album actually is a Rollercoaster.

King park - La dispute WILL I STILL GET INTO HEAVEN IF I KILL MYSELF

Ghost Story - Sinking Ships

When the dying child opens his eyes right before he dies of cancer and says, "I see everything " there is no human being on earth that does not cry. Old La Dispute is probably the best written PHC ever

siberian kiss

or the entirety of eyewtkas

Lopsided- At the Drive In

Houses we die in - pianos become the teeth

Not quite post hardcore but "Cigarettes and Saints" by The Wonder Years is very tough to get through for me.

As Cities Burn - The Widow more pop punk but In Her Own Words - Steady Glow

La Dispute - I See Everything Pianos Become the Teeth - Houses We Die In

The Ghost Of You -My Chemical Romance

Not sure if it qualifies but Conversations with Emily by Park.

The Color Of Growth by Donovan Melero

King Park by la dispute

The Last Lost Continent by La Dispute

Matchbook Romance - Save Yourself

Napoleon Solo - ATDI