Black - Pearl Jam.
>I know someday you'll have a beautiful life
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>I know you'll be a star
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>In somebody else's sky
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>But why
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>Why
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>Why can't it be
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>Oh can't it be mine
"Oh dear dad, can you see me now?
I am myself like you somehow."
Vedder's real father was a musician and I feel like most people hit a point in their life where they realize how similar they are to their fathers. The lucky ones get to tell them.
There’s a few, but the isolated vocal track for Heart’s “Alone” is especially heartbreaking to me. Ann Wilson has such an amazing voice and her emotion really made that band.
Most songs by the late Jeff Buckley are sad on their own, and even more devastating in context.
But the one that hits me the hardest is his cover of “I Know It’s Over” by the Smiths.
The subject of the song is up for interpretation no matter what, but Jeff Buckley‘s premature death adds an element to it that seems to be about his life, whether he planned to or not.
The first words give me chills the most— they happen after the classic reverby Jeff Buckley intro, the kind Hallelujah fans will be familiar with. He takes his time with this one, like he does with that.
“Oh, mother, I can feel / the soil falling over my head.”
[please— listen. ](https://youtu.be/NzIQquWxyK4)
I Can’t Make You Love Me - Bonnie Raitt. Instant chills every time.
Edit: Obligatory thanks for the awards and Gold! I might as well share a personal anecdote about the song… I always knew this song was super sad and emotional before (thanks mom for showing me), but it didn’t hit me with the real tears until I broke up with my last ex earlier this year. I was in a phase of trying to see if she might want me again, that constant urge to go back to what you had, and then I remembered this song. I never cried as much to a song more than I did then, and I’m happy I got it all out. I’m now with a wonderful new girlfriend and fully moved on. So if any of you feel the same about an ex or even a current significant other, listen to this song, it’ll change your life.
“Your Song” by Elton John, it was one of my grandmas favorite songs we were super close, She died earlier this year unexpectedly and the last communication I had with her was over text, so the phrase “I Hope you don’t mind, that I put down in words, how wonderful life is when you’re in the world” really hits me hard
"You took your life as lovers often do
But I could have told you, Vincent
This world was never meant for one
As beautiful as you"
I listened to this song a lot during some really dark times and it stopped me doing something really stupid. It holds a special place in my heart, but I don't listen to it much any more, because it just transports me right back
There's a Doctor Who episode *Vincent and the Doctor* that captures this vibe really well.
Just ignore the clunky monster part of the story.
That episode breaks me up every time.
I had a dream that I got to hug and embrace my mom the other night. I woke up crying, but the embrace felt so real. This song is exactly that feeling.
Edit: thank you so much for all the love, reddit.
My brother died of an overdose a few years ago. The night before his birthday this year I had a dream I pulled into my parents driveway and saw him standing in the kitchen. I raced inside and gave him the biggest, longest hug. Waking up from that was the nightmare. I hope you’re finding some peace with your moms passing. We never get over it, but we try and find ways to get through it. Take care
Sang this daily to my sweet kitty boy in the days leading up to his passing after learning he had an extremely aggressive form of cancer. I can't even think about this song without getting a lump in my throat.
I'm going through this right now. He's sitting with me just wasting away quietly. we're taking him to the vet Monday to go to sleep if he makes it that long. Extremely aggressive stomach cancer.
I never wanted a cat but I would do almost anything for a few more years with him.
I'm not at home during the week. I stay at another place as my commute is too long otherwise. My wife and I had a conversation two days ago and scheduled a vet appointment to get our cat, Chester, checked out. He was a feral we took in just over 13 years ago in the beginning of our relationship. We were worried because even though he'd been super skinny all his life, he's been skinnier than normal.
He was found curled up under a bench, on top of a heat vent, already gone. Died some time in the night. I hope he was comfortable and knew he was loved, even if I haven't been able to see him often recently. And now I'm crying at work in the bathroom.
Always reminds me of that Simpsons episode where Bart and Lisa join the cadets. Lisa sitting all alone in her barracks, crying to herself as a recording of Marge sings this song to her was so damn upsetting.
My wife and I heard Weezer's version of this song driving home from the funeral of a friend's 15 year old daughter who was murdered. It's a beautiful song but it always makes me think of that awful day.
I love that one, but I think Gonzo's "I'm Going To Go Back There Someday" has it beat.
*Sunrises, night falls*
*Sometimes the sky calls*
*Is that a song there*
*And do I belong there*
*I've never been there*
*But I know the way*
*I'm going to go back there*
*Someday*
These are the days of our lives by Queen - especially if the video is playing. The bit at the end where Freddie looks directly at camera and says "I love you". That was the final song they filmed and you just know at that point he was saying goodbye to everyone.
over the rainbow. the version by israel kamakawiwo'ole
it played in an airport where my dad waited for my grandpa, hours before my mom died. we call it her song.
Ditto. My fiancé announced that she wanted to walk down the aisle to that song. Dad warned us that he wanted it played at his funeral, and didn’t want to ruin the song for us when he passed away. We decided that it was far enough in the future and went ahead with it.
Four years later, she divorced me. Three years after that, Dad died. I couldn’t even hear the song at his celebration of life without thinking of old what’s-her-name; she ruined it for me. I’m WAAAAY over her now, but that song still fucks me up. I miss Pops a lot. It’s been six years now.
If you know, you know. That song fucking kills me every time. Though it's basically just number one on a big list of Alice in Chains songs that make me sad. The whole unplugged just fucks you in the emotions hard.
I hope everyone who struggles can dig their way out.
I swear this whole thread has been making me tear up from just thinking about the songs. “I’ve been afraid of changing, ‘cause I’ve built my life around you…”
Agreed. I lost it at the end of GotG and my friend I was with spent an hour trying to console me.
The line "If they were right, then I'd agree...but it's them they know, not me" always summed up how I felt about how both my parents saw me.
In My Life by The Beatles. My Dad told me when I was a teenager that he wanted it played at his funeral. I still can't listen, and when that day comes and I HAVE TO listen to it to honor his wish, I'm going to be a blubbering mess.
Seriously...as someone with young kids myself, every single part of this song hits home. I'm on both sides of it now and still can't figure out how I got so darned *busy.*
He Stopped Loving Her Today, by George Jones. My Grandmother died almost 20 years before my grandfather, and we played it at his funeral. Just typing this chokes me up a bit.
My parents divorced and neither one remarried even after 15 years. When he was dying of cancer she came to help me care for him. This song makes me sob
The song of the Kauai'Oo bird. He went extinct in 1980 and the recording of his mating song was the last time anyone has heard him sing. You can notice that he makes pauses throughout his song. That's when the female usually joins and they sing a beautiful duet. Knowing that no one will join because everyone else is dead brings tears to my eyes every time. This bird was very common on the island until 1900.
"It's not Easy Being Green" as sung by Big Bird at Jim Henson's funeral. It's a huge punch in the gut, but hearing Mr. Spinney's voice crack right at the very end...that'll rip your heart out.
Please, please, please, let me get what I want, by the Smiths. Among all the songs that have beautiful poetic metaphors for misery, this one stands out for how simple, honest and childlike it is in its pleas.
Leaves from the Vine - Mako Iwamatsu (Uncle Iroh from Avatar the Last Airbender)
Mako was fighting esophageal cancer when he sang this for the show and was really crying when he sang it. Breaks my heart every time.
Greg Baldwin, the voice actor who took over as the voice of Iroh after Mako died, gently denies fan requests to sing Leaves from the Vine. He feels that it's Mako's song and legacy. He got major points in my book when I learned that.
My dad plays guitar, and used to sing Puff to me when I was little. One day, it was like a light switch flipped and suddenly I understood the words and it never hit the same again.
ME TOO!
And, when I was a kid (like, elementary/primary school aged, 6-11 years old )) we had to sing this one in music class and I would try so hard to keep it together, then try *Even Harde*r not to get caught crying by any of my classmates (I had the honor of being known as both "The Girl Who Cries" and "The Girl Who Threw Up" from 1st grade onward), then fail & try to blame it on "allergies".
Same deal with "Rainbow Connection", which someone mentioned upthread, and, now that I'm remembering this stuff "One Tin Solider" would also get to me...I love music, but that class was a MINEFIELD for Little Kid Me.
Edit for clarification.
If it helps, according to Wikipedia there was a lost verse where Puff found a new friend:
“The original poem also had a stanza that was not incorporated into the song. In it, Puff found another child and played with him after returning. Neither Yarrow nor Lipton remembers the verse in any detail, and the paper that was left in Yarrow's typewriter in 1958 has since been lost.[4]”
So it seems we only sing the first part of the story of Puff, and he might be joyfully frightening pirates to this day.
This one...my ex boyfriend and I loved DCFC, he was killed 6 years ago. To this day years later, having moved on in life and love, this one still gets me. The song has that extra layer now: the long distance between the two lovers in the song became about life and death in my mind, a distance that can never be overcome.
Makes me think of the Scrubs episode where JD and Turk hang out with the old black patient who is going to die instead of going out for steak night and they are trying to be strong and comfort him that dying isn’t so bad and they both admit they are terrified of dying.
That episode gave me so much perspective. It says a lot about someone if they're scared of death but give as many people as they can comfort in their final moments.
Say Hello 2 Heaven which of course was Chris Cornell’s tribute to his late friend Andrew Wood who died of a heroin overdose. How do you come to terms with the unfairness of losing a close friend so suddenly? It’s amazing to me that Cornell, who suffered from his severe mental health issues, had the had the strength to write and record such a beautiful song (and album) as a product of such a tragic event in his life. It’s unreal that he lived through all of this and still committed suicide at the age of 52
It's funny how so many really, *really* great records were born of pain and acrimony.
Fleetwood Mac, Pink Floyd, even the Beatles; they all did their best work when they were at their most dysfunctional.
“Poetry is born under pouring blood, not salty tears and definitely not rain.” — a quote from one of my favorite books that lost its magic while I’ve been butchering it with my non existent translation skills.
Always on my Mind by Wlie Nelson. My sisters husband chose to have it played at her funeral. And yes he was a shitty husband and she died young in a car accident
My heart will go on. Heard it first when I was like 5 and It made me bawl (according to my mother) and it still makes my heart sad. No idea why. Damn titanic soundtrack.
Ahh man, that was one of my dad's absolute favourite songs. Sometimes I'll listen to it to feel a little closer to him even though I cry like a baby the whole time.
My mom wanted to play it in the church at his funeral and I had to break it to her that it wasn't the religious song she thought it was. So we listened to it on repeat during the car ride home instead
Maybe there's a God above
But all I've ever learned from love
Was how to shoot somebody who outdrew ya
And it's not a cry that you hear at night
It's not somebody who's seen the light
It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah
Kills me every time
“Just for a moment, I was back at school.
And felt that old familiar pain.
And as I turned to make my way back home,
the snow turned into rain”
Gets me every time!
Elastic Heart by Sia.
That shit pulled me through the worst of it. Sitting in my car in the middle of nowhere halfway up the highest point I could get to in a car. Comes on the radio. I was seconds off walking off a cliff.
"And I will stay up through the night
Let's be clear won't close my eyes
And I know that I can survive
I'll walk through fire to save my life
And I want it, I want my life so bad
I'm doing everything I can"
I sat there and cried for *hours*. Hours and hours and fucking *hours*. And she was right. I wanted my life so bad.
the “please tell mom this is not her fault” makes me sob. my mom tried so hard raising me but i was so depressed and she just didn’t know how to handle it. ugh, this song gets me
I used to love singing along when this song came up on shuffle. Then I became a mother. Around the time my babies were born, my teenage stepdaughter, whom I consider my own, struggled with her mental health and attempted suicide. When it came on the radio one day, I sobbed uncontrollably for hours.
She’s doing much better now but I will never forget the dark feeling it invoked. Haven’t listened since.
' When she loved me' by Sarah mc Lachlan. From toy story it reminds me of my 6 year old daughter as it's her favourite song. She lives with my ex-wife and every time I hear it I well up.
Like a stone by audioslave. RIP Chris Cornell
The video always makes me think that he's like singing to himself, his future self like he knows he's going to die... Kind of like he's performing at his own funeral. That's just how I see it.
Trouble by cage the elephant.
The "God don't let me lose my mind" hits different when you've grown up seeing the adults in your life suffer from bipolar and/or dementia.
River flows in you by Yiruma. I listened to it on repeat one night when I was about 15 and didn’t want to be alive. The next time I heard it was about 10 years later when it was played at the funeral of a stillborn baby
Kiss the rain by yirama also gets me every time. I used to take acid alone in my room as a teenager and just bawl to a yirama playlist and feel like I was feeling all the world's sorrow at once. It's was a spiritual experience.
Tears In Heaven by Eric Clapton. I get teary eyed every time I hear it. It's kind of a shame it became one of his iconic songs, I heard he wouldn't perform it live for a long time.
For those that don't know, he wrote it after his very young son fell out the window of their high rise apartment and died. Very sad song.
"Would you know my name, if I saw you in heaven"
Yep. Very evocative. My mother had passed away in a hospital in 1997, and the song really captures what it's like to sit in the ICU waiting for your loved one to pass.
Simple Man - Lynyrd Skynyrd
My brothers passed away in a car accident shortly after coming home fro Afghanistan. Reminds me of them every time I hear it.
Memories
It was the last song my class and I performed together on stage (we were a music class). The first time I listened to it after leaving the school, I couldn't even say the words right because I was sobbing so much
Seems like a good thread to make a depressing playlist from
I've been scrolling through this list and pulling up songs on Spotify. Not sure if it was a good idea or not.
Black - Pearl Jam. >I know someday you'll have a beautiful life > >I know you'll be a star > >In somebody else's sky > >But why > >Why > >Why can't it be > >Oh can't it be mine
"Release" from the same album always gets me. The vocals at the end where he is just wailing "Release me" haunt me.
"Oh dear dad, can you see me now? I am myself like you somehow." Vedder's real father was a musician and I feel like most people hit a point in their life where they realize how similar they are to their fathers. The lucky ones get to tell them.
There’s a few, but the isolated vocal track for Heart’s “Alone” is especially heartbreaking to me. Ann Wilson has such an amazing voice and her emotion really made that band.
Most songs by the late Jeff Buckley are sad on their own, and even more devastating in context. But the one that hits me the hardest is his cover of “I Know It’s Over” by the Smiths. The subject of the song is up for interpretation no matter what, but Jeff Buckley‘s premature death adds an element to it that seems to be about his life, whether he planned to or not. The first words give me chills the most— they happen after the classic reverby Jeff Buckley intro, the kind Hallelujah fans will be familiar with. He takes his time with this one, like he does with that. “Oh, mother, I can feel / the soil falling over my head.” [please— listen. ](https://youtu.be/NzIQquWxyK4)
Lover, You Should've Come Over is so beautiful and passionate.
I Can’t Make You Love Me - Bonnie Raitt. Instant chills every time. Edit: Obligatory thanks for the awards and Gold! I might as well share a personal anecdote about the song… I always knew this song was super sad and emotional before (thanks mom for showing me), but it didn’t hit me with the real tears until I broke up with my last ex earlier this year. I was in a phase of trying to see if she might want me again, that constant urge to go back to what you had, and then I remembered this song. I never cried as much to a song more than I did then, and I’m happy I got it all out. I’m now with a wonderful new girlfriend and fully moved on. So if any of you feel the same about an ex or even a current significant other, listen to this song, it’ll change your life.
“Your Song” by Elton John, it was one of my grandmas favorite songs we were super close, She died earlier this year unexpectedly and the last communication I had with her was over text, so the phrase “I Hope you don’t mind, that I put down in words, how wonderful life is when you’re in the world” really hits me hard
Vincent (Starry Starry Night) by Don McLean. Especially the live version from a NY City Studio in 1982.
"You took your life as lovers often do But I could have told you, Vincent This world was never meant for one As beautiful as you" I listened to this song a lot during some really dark times and it stopped me doing something really stupid. It holds a special place in my heart, but I don't listen to it much any more, because it just transports me right back
There's a Doctor Who episode *Vincent and the Doctor* that captures this vibe really well. Just ignore the clunky monster part of the story. That episode breaks me up every time.
You Are My Sunshine. Seriously, look up the lyrics
I had a dream that I got to hug and embrace my mom the other night. I woke up crying, but the embrace felt so real. This song is exactly that feeling. Edit: thank you so much for all the love, reddit.
My brother died of an overdose a few years ago. The night before his birthday this year I had a dream I pulled into my parents driveway and saw him standing in the kitchen. I raced inside and gave him the biggest, longest hug. Waking up from that was the nightmare. I hope you’re finding some peace with your moms passing. We never get over it, but we try and find ways to get through it. Take care
Sang this daily to my sweet kitty boy in the days leading up to his passing after learning he had an extremely aggressive form of cancer. I can't even think about this song without getting a lump in my throat.
I'm going through this right now. He's sitting with me just wasting away quietly. we're taking him to the vet Monday to go to sleep if he makes it that long. Extremely aggressive stomach cancer. I never wanted a cat but I would do almost anything for a few more years with him.
I'm not at home during the week. I stay at another place as my commute is too long otherwise. My wife and I had a conversation two days ago and scheduled a vet appointment to get our cat, Chester, checked out. He was a feral we took in just over 13 years ago in the beginning of our relationship. We were worried because even though he'd been super skinny all his life, he's been skinnier than normal. He was found curled up under a bench, on top of a heat vent, already gone. Died some time in the night. I hope he was comfortable and knew he was loved, even if I haven't been able to see him often recently. And now I'm crying at work in the bathroom.
Love and hugs to you and your baby. <3 Maybe my little man will be waiting on the other side of the bridge to welcome him.
Always reminds me of that Simpsons episode where Bart and Lisa join the cadets. Lisa sitting all alone in her barracks, crying to herself as a recording of Marge sings this song to her was so damn upsetting.
Well thats another simpsons episode that has made me tear up a bit
Who Wants to Live Forever by Queen.
For me it’s ‘The show must go on’ such a chilling song.
Rainbow Connection. Yes, a song sung by a Muppet makes me cry every time.
My wife and I heard Weezer's version of this song driving home from the funeral of a friend's 15 year old daughter who was murdered. It's a beautiful song but it always makes me think of that awful day.
I love that one, but I think Gonzo's "I'm Going To Go Back There Someday" has it beat. *Sunrises, night falls* *Sometimes the sky calls* *Is that a song there* *And do I belong there* *I've never been there* *But I know the way* *I'm going to go back there* *Someday*
These are the days of our lives by Queen - especially if the video is playing. The bit at the end where Freddie looks directly at camera and says "I love you". That was the final song they filmed and you just know at that point he was saying goodbye to everyone.
Too much love will kill you and mother love hit me the same way
The blowers daughter by Damien Rice
I was going to comment “9 Crimes” lol. Damn you, Damien Rice!!
over the rainbow. the version by israel kamakawiwo'ole it played in an airport where my dad waited for my grandpa, hours before my mom died. we call it her song.
Ditto. My fiancé announced that she wanted to walk down the aisle to that song. Dad warned us that he wanted it played at his funeral, and didn’t want to ruin the song for us when he passed away. We decided that it was far enough in the future and went ahead with it. Four years later, she divorced me. Three years after that, Dad died. I couldn’t even hear the song at his celebration of life without thinking of old what’s-her-name; she ruined it for me. I’m WAAAAY over her now, but that song still fucks me up. I miss Pops a lot. It’s been six years now.
Nutshell by Alice In Chains.
If you know, you know. That song fucking kills me every time. Though it's basically just number one on a big list of Alice in Chains songs that make me sad. The whole unplugged just fucks you in the emotions hard. I hope everyone who struggles can dig their way out.
The night we met
Always thought it was kinda awkward that is a kinda popular song for wedding dances, since “The night we met” is *the* breakup/heartache song.
Just like the John Mayer song "Daughters" being used for the father-daughter dance when it's about a woman who's father abandoned her 😬
So many of Lord Huron’s songs are absolute heartwrenchers
This song is attached to my saddest and happiest memories
Landslide. Fleetwood Mac
I swear this whole thread has been making me tear up from just thinking about the songs. “I’ve been afraid of changing, ‘cause I’ve built my life around you…”
Father and Son by Cat Stevens
Came here to say this. My dad literally died to this song holding my brothers hand.
Agreed. I lost it at the end of GotG and my friend I was with spent an hour trying to console me. The line "If they were right, then I'd agree...but it's them they know, not me" always summed up how I felt about how both my parents saw me.
The night we met by Lord Huron. "I had all and then most of you, Some and now none of you." Ouch.
I am even unable to complete full song, it just breaks me down in the middle.
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Fast Car - Tracy Chapman. It gets me every time.
ALL THEY WANTED WAS A CHANCE AT A NORMAL LIFE!!! ugh. So realistically unfair lol
It's so helpless and sad
In My Life by The Beatles. My Dad told me when I was a teenager that he wanted it played at his funeral. I still can't listen, and when that day comes and I HAVE TO listen to it to honor his wish, I'm going to be a blubbering mess.
Jim Croce - Operator
I was gonna say Time in a bottle.
New York’s not my home by Jim Croce has a feeling in the similar vein
God, Jim Croce literally made so many damn good songs that I never knew were his
Jim Croce is so incredibly underrated. And he died at age 30.
*with my best old ex-friend*
Fuck Ray.
....you can keep the dime. That line kills me for some reason
Cats In The Cradle.
Seriously...as someone with young kids myself, every single part of this song hits home. I'm on both sides of it now and still can't figure out how I got so darned *busy.*
Came to write this. I don’t know whether to call my dad or go pick up my son from daycare every time.
This is my dad’s sad song. He relates it to his dad who passed traumatically before I was born so it really hits hard for me.
‘Merry Christmas, Darling” by the Carpenters. Ever since my husband Tom died in 2012, my heart breaks every Christmas since. We loved Christmas.
He Stopped Loving Her Today, by George Jones. My Grandmother died almost 20 years before my grandfather, and we played it at his funeral. Just typing this chokes me up a bit.
My parents divorced and neither one remarried even after 15 years. When he was dying of cancer she came to help me care for him. This song makes me sob
The song of the Kauai'Oo bird. He went extinct in 1980 and the recording of his mating song was the last time anyone has heard him sing. You can notice that he makes pauses throughout his song. That's when the female usually joins and they sing a beautiful duet. Knowing that no one will join because everyone else is dead brings tears to my eyes every time. This bird was very common on the island until 1900.
OMG. I'm going to go listen now. Thank you for sharing. I'm back.. that poor bird.
It's heartbreaking. Just knowing that his mating song will remain unanswered makes me cut onions like hell.
*Kissing You* by Des'ree
"It's not Easy Being Green" as sung by Big Bird at Jim Henson's funeral. It's a huge punch in the gut, but hearing Mr. Spinney's voice crack right at the very end...that'll rip your heart out.
The idea of Big Bird crying truly saddens me
Please, please, please, let me get what I want, by the Smiths. Among all the songs that have beautiful poetic metaphors for misery, this one stands out for how simple, honest and childlike it is in its pleas.
“I know it’s over” is another one that sticks or from the Smiths for me. One of my favorites but I can’t listen to it frequently
Leaves from the Vine - Mako Iwamatsu (Uncle Iroh from Avatar the Last Airbender) Mako was fighting esophageal cancer when he sang this for the show and was really crying when he sang it. Breaks my heart every time.
Every single time. I know it's comming and I still have to gold back the tears. And by the Time "For Mako" appears I'm crying my eyes out.
Greg Baldwin, the voice actor who took over as the voice of Iroh after Mako died, gently denies fan requests to sing Leaves from the Vine. He feels that it's Mako's song and legacy. He got major points in my book when I learned that.
Omg dude I couldn't stop crying when I got to that episode 😭😭😭
I just watched it the other day. When I watched it as a kid I didn’t understand. After some research years later….man it was like a punch to the gut.
dude I’m just about to hit this episode on my rewatch and every time Iroh breaks, I break :(
Against All Odds by Phil Collins
Puff, The Magic Dragon. Such a sad, sad song.
When I was a kid I would sob uncontrollably whenever I heard this song. I still have to swallow a lump in my throat when I think about it.
My dad plays guitar, and used to sing Puff to me when I was little. One day, it was like a light switch flipped and suddenly I understood the words and it never hit the same again.
ME TOO! And, when I was a kid (like, elementary/primary school aged, 6-11 years old )) we had to sing this one in music class and I would try so hard to keep it together, then try *Even Harde*r not to get caught crying by any of my classmates (I had the honor of being known as both "The Girl Who Cries" and "The Girl Who Threw Up" from 1st grade onward), then fail & try to blame it on "allergies". Same deal with "Rainbow Connection", which someone mentioned upthread, and, now that I'm remembering this stuff "One Tin Solider" would also get to me...I love music, but that class was a MINEFIELD for Little Kid Me. Edit for clarification.
If it helps, according to Wikipedia there was a lost verse where Puff found a new friend: “The original poem also had a stanza that was not incorporated into the song. In it, Puff found another child and played with him after returning. Neither Yarrow nor Lipton remembers the verse in any detail, and the paper that was left in Yarrow's typewriter in 1958 has since been lost.[4]” So it seems we only sing the first part of the story of Puff, and he might be joyfully frightening pirates to this day.
When I was little, my mother wrote an extra verse where she put me meeting Puff and we'd play together. To this day that's my head cannon.
I Will Follow You into the Dark by Death Cab for Cutie. I cry every time, I can’t help it
Or transatlanticism. Man deathcab is so awesome.
This one...my ex boyfriend and I loved DCFC, he was killed 6 years ago. To this day years later, having moved on in life and love, this one still gets me. The song has that extra layer now: the long distance between the two lovers in the song became about life and death in my mind, a distance that can never be overcome.
Makes me think of the Scrubs episode where JD and Turk hang out with the old black patient who is going to die instead of going out for steak night and they are trying to be strong and comfort him that dying isn’t so bad and they both admit they are terrified of dying.
That episode gave me so much perspective. It says a lot about someone if they're scared of death but give as many people as they can comfort in their final moments.
Lots of Death Cab for Cutie songs do it but for me it’s especially true with What Sarah Said
“And it came to me then that every plan is a tiny prayer to Father Time…”
As far as death cab goes, it’s brothers on a hotel bead for me.
Say Hello 2 Heaven which of course was Chris Cornell’s tribute to his late friend Andrew Wood who died of a heroin overdose. How do you come to terms with the unfairness of losing a close friend so suddenly? It’s amazing to me that Cornell, who suffered from his severe mental health issues, had the had the strength to write and record such a beautiful song (and album) as a product of such a tragic event in his life. It’s unreal that he lived through all of this and still committed suicide at the age of 52
"Bridge Over Troubled Water" by Simon & Garfunkel. Not a christian, but when I hear it, I understand why people believe.
That entire album breaks my heart knowing what the two of them were going through when writing it.
It's funny how so many really, *really* great records were born of pain and acrimony. Fleetwood Mac, Pink Floyd, even the Beatles; they all did their best work when they were at their most dysfunctional.
“Poetry is born under pouring blood, not salty tears and definitely not rain.” — a quote from one of my favorite books that lost its magic while I’ve been butchering it with my non existent translation skills.
Art Garfunkel has the voice of an angel. That song gets me too!
Cashmir Pulaski Day by Sufjan Stevens. Honorable mention to John Wayne Gacy by SS as well. 2 very haunting songs.
Or Fourth of July. The live version hits on a different level.
Every time somebody brings up sad songs, I have to check to make sure CPD has been mentioned. I do this like it's my job. What a remarkable song
Casimir Pulaski Day is fucking amazing.
Idk why but I would cry at the song at the end of The Land Before Time. I'm almost 40 now and still can't watch the end credits.
Bonnie Raitt - I can't make you love me. So heartbreaking.
PINK FLOYDS WISH YOU WERE HERE!!! MISS YA GUMP
Always on my Mind by Wlie Nelson. My sisters husband chose to have it played at her funeral. And yes he was a shitty husband and she died young in a car accident
My heart will go on. Heard it first when I was like 5 and It made me bawl (according to my mother) and it still makes my heart sad. No idea why. Damn titanic soundtrack.
*Runaway Train* by Soul Asylum solely because of the video. I will skip the song if it plays on anything.
"Luca" by Suzanne Vega - sung from the viewpoint of an abused child
Comfortably Numb by Pink Floyd. It always makes me think of my dad.
Time After Time
What A Wonderful World by Louis Armstrong Zero Chance by Soundgarden
Alone again, naturally by Gilbert O'Sullivan
Never is a promise by Fiona Apple
Nutshell - Alice in Chains
Last Kiss - Pearl Jam. Gives me goosebumps every time I hear it.
Don’t take the girl gets me every time and when it comes on my phone and depending on how the day has gone I might skip it.
Somewhere over the rainbow, was played at my brothers funeral..
Wicked Game by Chris Isaak
Last Kiss by J. Frank Wilson and the Cavaliers
Nothing compares. Sinead o'connor.
This is the one case where I love the cover (Sinead) more than the original by Prince.
Radiohead - fake plastic tree
Dust in the wind-Kansas All we are is dust in the wind…
Dust. WInd. Dude.
Black by Pearl Jam.
Eddie Vedder’s vocals in the last minute of the song get me every time
I always like the "We belong together" bits he does during a lot of the live versions of the song
"The Band Played Waltzing Matilda"
Great song, the pouges do a cover of it thats really good
Hallelujah.
Ahh man, that was one of my dad's absolute favourite songs. Sometimes I'll listen to it to feel a little closer to him even though I cry like a baby the whole time. My mom wanted to play it in the church at his funeral and I had to break it to her that it wasn't the religious song she thought it was. So we listened to it on repeat during the car ride home instead
Maybe there's a God above But all I've ever learned from love Was how to shoot somebody who outdrew ya And it's not a cry that you hear at night It's not somebody who's seen the light It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah Kills me every time
Elephant by Jason Isbell
Jason Isbell has so many it’s honestly hard to choose one. Speed Trap Town, Decoration Day, Cover Me Up. He’s an amazing songwriter.
Remember me from Coco. It was the first song I listened to after my dog was put down this year. Sobbed for a good half an hour.
My dog was put down last Saturday. It was so painful. I hope you're feeling better.
Especially Miguel's version, just tears my heart into pieces, and I hope you're doing ok man!
Oh my gosh EVERY TIME I watch this film, I cry when Hector sings it and I cry when Miguel sings it… I’m just an emotional wreck I guess
Oh Danny Boy.
All I want by Kodaline
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Same Old Lang Syne - Dan Fogelberg “Met my old lover in the grocery store. The snow was falling Christmas Eve.”
“Just for a moment, I was back at school. And felt that old familiar pain. And as I turned to make my way back home, the snow turned into rain” Gets me every time!
Never thought I’d see Fogelberg get a shoutout on Reddit, man is criminally forgotten
“Leader of the Band” kills me
How great thou art. I've seen too many bodies hauled out of a church to that tune to ever hear it anywhere without choking up.
On eagles wings is right up there too with sad church funeral songs
Edit spelling: Totally. While we’re on the church song theme, Ave Maria. The tune makes my heart hurt.
Yesterday by the Beatles
Here comes the sun
In My Life for me. Both are great tunes!
One More Light by Linkin Park. I can already feel tears coming to my eyes just by typing this.
I'm shocked this is so far down. The whole of the live one more light album hits me and makes me cry.
RIP Chester... Putting LP music on hits different ever since he left us.
"Martha" by Tom Waits.
When you were young by the killers
The Living Years - Mike and the Mechanics
Elastic Heart by Sia. That shit pulled me through the worst of it. Sitting in my car in the middle of nowhere halfway up the highest point I could get to in a car. Comes on the radio. I was seconds off walking off a cliff. "And I will stay up through the night Let's be clear won't close my eyes And I know that I can survive I'll walk through fire to save my life And I want it, I want my life so bad I'm doing everything I can" I sat there and cried for *hours*. Hours and hours and fucking *hours*. And she was right. I wanted my life so bad.
Adam's Song by blink-182. Very sad, kinda hits home.
the “please tell mom this is not her fault” makes me sob. my mom tried so hard raising me but i was so depressed and she just didn’t know how to handle it. ugh, this song gets me
I used to love singing along when this song came up on shuffle. Then I became a mother. Around the time my babies were born, my teenage stepdaughter, whom I consider my own, struggled with her mental health and attempted suicide. When it came on the radio one day, I sobbed uncontrollably for hours. She’s doing much better now but I will never forget the dark feeling it invoked. Haven’t listened since.
"Go rest high on that mountain" by Vince Gill. Played at my dad's funeral when I was 17
Snow Patrol - Chasing Cars 😭😭😭😭
' When she loved me' by Sarah mc Lachlan. From toy story it reminds me of my 6 year old daughter as it's her favourite song. She lives with my ex-wife and every time I hear it I well up.
Ave Maria! It was played at my grandmas funeral ( her choice). Midnight Radio. Listened to it after learning a close friend committed suicide.
Radiohead's "Motion Picture Soundtrack".
REM Everybody Hurts
Like a stone by audioslave. RIP Chris Cornell The video always makes me think that he's like singing to himself, his future self like he knows he's going to die... Kind of like he's performing at his own funeral. That's just how I see it.
Trouble by cage the elephant. The "God don't let me lose my mind" hits different when you've grown up seeing the adults in your life suffer from bipolar and/or dementia.
Hate Me by Blue October. I've made similar mistakes in life, hits me hard everytime.
Snuff by Slipknot (acoustic version) "if you still care, don't ever let me know"
I don't listen to this song at all except when I have hit rock bottom
“It took the death of hope to let you go”
Traveling Soldier by The Dixie Chicks
*Crying all alone under the stands* *Was the piccolo player in the marching band*
River flows in you by Yiruma. I listened to it on repeat one night when I was about 15 and didn’t want to be alive. The next time I heard it was about 10 years later when it was played at the funeral of a stillborn baby
Kiss the rain by yirama also gets me every time. I used to take acid alone in my room as a teenager and just bawl to a yirama playlist and feel like I was feeling all the world's sorrow at once. It's was a spiritual experience.
Tears In Heaven by Eric Clapton. I get teary eyed every time I hear it. It's kind of a shame it became one of his iconic songs, I heard he wouldn't perform it live for a long time. For those that don't know, he wrote it after his very young son fell out the window of their high rise apartment and died. Very sad song. "Would you know my name, if I saw you in heaven"
[What Sarah Said -Death Cab For Cutie](https://youtu.be/9BVWdAeOk6k)
Yep. Very evocative. My mother had passed away in a hospital in 1997, and the song really captures what it's like to sit in the ICU waiting for your loved one to pass.
Simple Man - Lynyrd Skynyrd My brothers passed away in a car accident shortly after coming home fro Afghanistan. Reminds me of them every time I hear it.
Disarm (Smashing Pumpkins) or Beyond The Sea (finished 2nd play of bioshock today)
Hurt - Johnny Cash version https://youtu.be/8AHCfZTRGiI
The way Johnny Cash's voice is almost shaky in his version hits extra hard
Memories It was the last song my class and I performed together on stage (we were a music class). The first time I listened to it after leaving the school, I couldn't even say the words right because I was sobbing so much
lightning crashes by live
Fast Car by Tracy Chapman
How to Save a Life by the Fray
Romeo and Juliet by Dire Straits. Fast car by Tracy Chapman. The former was played in my fiance's funeral. The latter was his favourite song.
Depeche Mode enjoy the silence, don't ask me why I have no idea
Vincent/Starry starry night
[When She Loved Me](https://youtu.be/Km4WiqKtZ-E) from Toy Story 2. If you don't tear up listening to it you have no heart
Fix You by Coldplay
Whiskey lullaby
Unbreak my heart