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Awesker002
03/17/24 4:00:30 AM
#51:


Waiting Around to Die by Townes Van Zandt

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MyMainAccount
03/17/24 4:01:51 AM
#52:


MyMainAccount posted...
Alone Again (Naturally) - Gilbert O'Sullivan
https://youtu.be/vXL7y6km0a8?si=YPFayAyyo64MgMgI

Dust in the Wind - Kansas
https://youtu.be/zVokojoF_lY?si=6JSv2Kx0Ntb2F68U

What could be sadder than a song about loneliness, a lonely man who doesn't know why he bothers to live who reminisces about the sadness of his mother upon the passing of his father that suggests perhaps we're all truly alone, that loneliness is the human condition and any companionship is fleeting at best?

A song that suggests nothing means anything. And it has a hauntingly beautiful violin solo.


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ItsNotA2Mer
03/17/24 4:03:28 AM
#53:


Nine Inch Nails - Leaving Hope

https://youtu.be/R-aEUmz32f4?si=aa1odb2HBgGY4NMk

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GuerillaGorilla
03/17/24 4:08:01 AM
#54:


Stressed Out by 21 Pilots
https://youtu.be/pXRviuL6vMY?si=Nq9r6it6DoLbOP2r

Just saw that it's at 2.8B views. How sad our society is when this is so relatable.

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Kradek
03/17/24 4:12:53 AM
#55:


Probably an atmospheric black metal song. It's like the most beautifully depressing sounding genre lol, though it is by design.

In a different metal genre, an artist called Ihsahn has some dark, often beautifully sad lyrics, one of my favorites is the chorus from Twin Black Angels.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PD2UcOkr-ec

What would it be, how would it feel
If the ideals of self were real?
Is it a cure, or is it disease?
Would I know emptiness from peace?
Tracing the fears back to the start
Raptures to tear the world apart
Written in scars that never heal
This is the deal
This is the deal

Sleep Token is also a master of evoking emotions.

My example for them is a little different because while they do write some beautifully sad lyrics (the creator of the project based it around a messy divorce he was going through), my actual selection is based off a comment I read on YT for the song Levitate.

The chorus goes:

Will you levitate
Up where the angels inhabit?
Will you levitate
Where I won't reach you?

And the reason that is so sad to me is because there was a comment from a father who played the song as his young son's funeral and says he can't listen to the song anymore without crying. As anti-religious as I am (the lyrics clearly describe such), I still have a heart and after reading that comment I honestly can't even think about the song without thinking about that comment.

I've been searching for the YT video that had the comment, I can't seem to find it and I know I didn't make it up, so not sure what to say. Don't know if he deleted it or if YT removed it cause it dealt with death of a child or something. However the song has a sad enough feel in its own right.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVpY7_Lnwxw

Oh man, almost forgot about Zeal & Ardor.

They have a song called Stranger Fruit (also the name of their second album) which talks about the subject, however I think the saddest song on that album is the final track which is not only sad instrumentally, but also lyrically because it's about accepting that we are bound to die alone. The song is Built On Ashes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reUg8U5o20k

Like a strange fruit, that's out of season
Oh, you are bound to die alone
You will swing free on the breeze then
Oh, you are bound to die alone
(You are bound to die alone)
At the end of the day with the lights out
Oh, you are bound to die alone
(Oh)

At the end of it all, there is no doubt
Oh, that you are bound to die alone
(We are bound to die alone)

Don't, darling, die on me now
(Don't, darling, die on me now)
We'll dig this grave close to your home
(We'll dig a grave close to your home)
Don't you fix your eyes on me now
(Don't you fix your eyes on me now)
We never said you'd come back home
(We never said you'd come back home)

They're coming closer just to kill us
Don't cry, don't cry on me now
No, they ain't ever gonna help us
Close to his grave we'll build our home
They're coming closer just to kill us
Don't you fix your eyes on me now
You know they're never gon' help us
We never said you'd come back home

Another from them on the same album is called You Ain't Coming Back. Powerfully sad instrumentation with lyrics about saying your final farewells cause "you ain't coming back"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tWGD-EAgNQ

All these days gonna pass like a grass fire
Don't let anybody tell you that you're safe
One of these days I'ma head for the last mile
So don't let anybody tell you that you're safe

These are the eyes that saw them die
These are the hands that dug their graves
So don't let anybody tell you that you're safe
So don't let anybody tell you that you're safe

You gotta let go, let go, let (tell your father you ain't coming back)
You gotta let go, let go, child (tell your mother that you're gonna die)
You gotta let go, let go, let (and let them know you're gonna be awhile)
You gotta let go, let go

Tell your father you ain't coming back (let go, let go, let go now)
Look at your home for the last time (let go, let go, let)
Tell your brother that you're gonna die (let go, let go, let go now)
And let them know you're gonna be awhile (let go, let go, let)

Tell your father you ain't coming back
Look at your home for the last time
Tell your brother that you're gonna die
But don't let anybody tell you that you're safe

If I'm able to these are the 2 songs I'd like to be the last songs I listen to.

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AldousIsDead
03/17/24 4:13:50 AM
#56:


Beautiful and sad. A song about a lot of things, but I think it's about death and letting go.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mJs2hGnf0m0

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vycebrand2
03/17/24 4:19:57 AM
#57:


The Carnival is over-Dead can Dance. I found it in between the time my friend passed and putting her to rest. What I got from it was that. We knew what was coming, we tried to make the best of it. The end came, and that we will see each other again someday. Sitting, talking and watching the world go by.
https://youtu.be/mPDLJ1UU2Uk

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DUKLegend
03/17/24 4:26:49 AM
#58:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUFJJNQGwhk

Anybody who has watched "This is Us" will recognize this one.
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Guide
03/17/24 4:37:22 AM
#60:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7ik3DICZ6k

this is my sad lad song for sad lad times

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GuerillaGorilla
03/17/24 4:52:15 AM
#61:


[LFAQs-redacted-quote]

Guess people like bad lyrics then.

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Bugmeat
03/17/24 5:47:53 AM
#62:


It may not be the saddest song that I have ever heard, but this is the first one that cones to mind. It always gets me a little emotional.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7LXpnNKNxJI&pp=ygUHZHIgaG9vaw%3D%3D


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0Renegade
03/17/24 5:59:22 AM
#63:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oG_ulvqvaOk

i can't think of the saddest song i've ever heard but this is pretty sad and depressing to me its in my playlist for sad songs

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03/17/24 6:02:03 AM
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Glob
03/17/24 6:11:42 AM
#64:


I cant believe that nobody has mentioned The Drugs Dont Work by The Verve.
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2Pacavelli
03/17/24 6:16:27 AM
#65:


https://youtu.be/YLUh70zp0LE?si=4kD72C5Nh17W5coj

This is up there on the list
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SomeLikeItHoth
03/17/24 6:33:39 AM
#66:


Give this one a listen

https://youtu.be/IHqCmdBUSyo

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TyVulpine
03/17/24 6:45:27 AM
#67:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5eEQJZm7ZM

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Sheiky-Baby
03/17/24 7:26:14 AM
#68:


Alone Again, Naturally

I avoid listening to the song.

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gator71
03/17/24 7:56:24 AM
#69:


Violet's In A Pool by Tamaryn

https://youtu.be/vZeWAFrMXI0?si=0cKIrB43YTY5I_co
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Shadow_Don
03/17/24 8:05:55 AM
#71:


Surprised nobody mentioned this

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IuUDRU9-HRk&pp=ygUlY2hyaXMgY29ybmVsbCBub3RoaW5nIGNvbXBhcmVzIHRvIHlvdQ%3D%3D

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EyeWontBeFooled
03/17/24 8:18:06 AM
#72:


bigtiggie23 posted...
If you've known someone with cancer this one can get to you
https://youtu.be/XF4Q61OgvhI?si=ujD5nA2LzbT5wYIf
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I feel this song.

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A5modeu5
03/17/24 8:32:25 AM
#73:


Concrete angel I think

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Awesker002
03/17/24 9:11:19 AM
#74:


https://youtu.be/nOubjLM9Cbc?si=HDxdBbfqC8mfv69X

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Smiffwilm
03/17/24 9:15:52 AM
#75:


First thing I thought of anyway:

https://youtu.be/YZ9w6ON5ao0?si=Ncn0hUlLJGlPfOK3

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R1masher
03/17/24 9:18:40 AM
#76:


Johnny Vash, Sunday morning coming down

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Ser_Jaker
03/17/24 9:19:37 AM
#77:


Maybe the one in my sig.
Life Eternal. One of the most depressing songs of time. The lyrics were left behind in a suicide note left by the vocalist that the band turned into a song.

https://youtu.be/B3RfBqycTDg?si=qPA-qF6j-Ewv5p2d

One of the most power metal songs of all time. Very bleak and grim sounding.

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Tyranthraxus
03/17/24 9:25:13 AM
#78:


Torgo posted...
Most people will say NIN

Hurt isn't even the saddest NIN song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3pUFmkKdgc


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lilORANG
03/17/24 9:27:03 AM
#79:


I always go with Fire and Rain
https://youtu.be/EbD7lfrsY2s?si=jGJRHPkOcxxRfuyN

But I've been known to throw this on repeat when I'm down
https://youtu.be/fdXQucDOed8?si=OGYMRzhFl_HZtQCK

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kurdt032
03/17/24 9:27:58 AM
#80:


Kradek posted...
Probably an atmospheric black metal song. It's like the most beautifully depressing sounding genre lol, though it is by design.

In a different metal genre, an artist called Ihsahn has some dark, often beautifully sad lyrics, one of my favorites is the chorus from Twin Black Angels.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PD2UcOkr-ec

What would it be, how would it feel
If the ideals of self were real?
Is it a cure, or is it disease?
Would I know emptiness from peace?
Tracing the fears back to the start
Raptures to tear the world apart
Written in scars that never heal
This is the deal
This is the deal

Sleep Token is also a master of evoking emotions.

My example for them is a little different because while they do write some beautifully sad lyrics (the creator of the project based it around a messy divorce he was going through), my actual selection is based off a comment I read on YT for the song Levitate.

The chorus goes:

Will you levitate
Up where the angels inhabit?
Will you levitate
Where I won't reach you?

And the reason that is so sad to me is because there was a comment from a father who played the song as his young son's funeral and says he can't listen to the song anymore without crying. As anti-religious as I am (the lyrics clearly describe such), I still have a heart and after reading that comment I honestly can't even think about the song without thinking about that comment.

I've been searching for the YT video that had the comment, I can't seem to find it and I know I didn't make it up, so not sure what to say. Don't know if he deleted it or if YT removed it cause it dealt with death of a child or something. However the song has a sad enough feel in its own right.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVpY7_Lnwxw

Oh man, almost forgot about Zeal & Ardor.

They have a song called Stranger Fruit (also the name of their second album) which talks about the subject, however I think the saddest song on that album is the final track which is not only sad instrumentally, but also lyrically because it's about accepting that we are bound to die alone. The song is Built On Ashes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reUg8U5o20k

Like a strange fruit, that's out of season
Oh, you are bound to die alone
You will swing free on the breeze then
Oh, you are bound to die alone
(You are bound to die alone)
At the end of the day with the lights out
Oh, you are bound to die alone
(Oh)

At the end of it all, there is no doubt
Oh, that you are bound to die alone
(We are bound to die alone)

Don't, darling, die on me now
(Don't, darling, die on me now)
We'll dig this grave close to your home
(We'll dig a grave close to your home)
Don't you fix your eyes on me now
(Don't you fix your eyes on me now)
We never said you'd come back home
(We never said you'd come back home)

They're coming closer just to kill us
Don't cry, don't cry on me now
No, they ain't ever gonna help us
Close to his grave we'll build our home
They're coming closer just to kill us
Don't you fix your eyes on me now
You know they're never gon' help us
We never said you'd come back home

Another from them on the same album is called You Ain't Coming Back. Powerfully sad instrumentation with lyrics about saying your final farewells cause "you ain't coming back"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tWGD-EAgNQ

All these days gonna pass like a grass fire
Don't let anybody tell you that you're safe
One of these days I'ma head for the last mile
So don't let anybody tell you that you're safe

These are the eyes that saw them die
These are the hands that dug their graves
So don't let anybody tell you that you're safe
So don't let anybody tell you that you're safe

You gotta let go, let go, let (tell your father you ain't coming back)
You gotta let go, let go, child (tell your mother that you're gonna die)
You gotta let go, let go, let (and let them know you're gonna be awhile)
You gotta let go, let go

Tell your father you ain't coming back (let go, let go, let go now)
Look at your home for the last time (let go, let go, let)
Tell your brother that you're gonna die (let go, let go, let go now)
And let them know you're gonna be awhile (let go, let go, let)

Tell your father you ain't coming back
Look at your home for the last time
Tell your brother that you're gonna die
But don't let anybody tell you that you're safe

If I'm able to these are the 2 songs I'd like to be the last songs I listen to.

Guys check out this metal song metal is a real genre it's so legit guys it's technical guys please

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kurdt032
03/17/24 9:29:28 AM
#81:


How To Disappear Completely

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action52
03/17/24 9:36:30 AM
#82:


https://youtu.be/XeBD3rcAMFw?si=1I4QnNkFVl0QXY4S

I wonder how many people here have even heard this song lol

But I think it's probably the only song that has brought me to tears multiple times just by listening to it.

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action52
03/17/24 9:37:07 AM
#83:


Sheiky-Baby posted...
Alone Again, Naturally

I avoid listening to the song.
This one is really sad too, especially the last verse.

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Neoconkers
03/17/24 9:48:47 AM
#84:


something from A Crow Looked At Me, probably Ravens

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Baron_Ox
03/17/24 10:03:51 AM
#85:


on the top of my head, probably Prince - Sometimes it Snows in April:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ikZgBhSMSUM

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josifrees
03/17/24 10:08:10 AM
#86:


https://youtu.be/oJpHneqR9TU?si=uVyj7LeS05rHX68B

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Jackal4
03/17/24 10:11:53 AM
#87:


This is the singing of the Kauai 'O'o bird. Recorded in 1987, this is a male calling out for a mate, not realizing that he is the last individual of his species.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDRY0CmcYNU

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haloiscoolisbak
03/17/24 10:12:10 AM
#88:


Warren Zevon's "Studebaker" really speaks to me nowadays, lyrically. About being a no hoper dude basically

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Perthboy
03/17/24 10:13:07 AM
#89:


Wendy Matthews - The Day You Went Away.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXjyX9eb-DE

Spice Girls - Viva Forever

https://youtu.be/3wkuqRFXNvI?si=VK1hkAnZjZcYFXDG

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Kaldrenthebold
03/17/24 10:45:29 AM
#91:


https://youtu.be/ukkncg7Zam4?si=z6KlakgMeKlFRMjX

Not that this is particularly sad, but I listened to this when my cat Duffy passed away a bunch of years ago. The theme of wanting your little baby bird to come home just got me for some reason. It's now my go to sad song when something passes that I loved

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ai123
03/17/24 10:57:18 AM
#92:


Slint- Good Morning Captain

https://youtu.be/CuqEpjcBfaU

The 'I MISS YOU' scream at the end.

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IqarP15
03/17/24 11:44:32 AM
#93:


Alabama 40 hour week.

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kurdt032
03/17/24 11:49:52 AM
#94:


Perthboy posted...
Spice Girls - Viva Forever

Shout

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trappedunderice
03/17/24 11:59:26 AM
#95:


Warning - watching from a distance is another
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kinetika_
03/17/24 12:05:05 PM
#96:


Damn! Too many songs in here got me close to tears. Here are my two:

https://youtu.be/pegS1wSezK8?si=jXxby5_fZkLRKFYa

https://youtu.be/oIIxlgcuQRU?si=YWDjTr_sEGZtCGUc

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loafy013
03/17/24 12:24:51 PM
#97:


Harry Chapin - Cats in the Cradle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcNsiccdDyU

Twisted Sister - I Believe in You
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPYOg8K2Rx4

Tool - Wings for Marie and 10,000 Days (sadness may only occur if you know the backstory)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THs1ooomLtE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJq9y9xPKWs

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Sheiky-Baby
03/17/24 12:36:32 PM
#98:


Another one:

Sing for Absolution - Muse

Another song I can't listen to.

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Kradek
03/17/24 3:34:00 PM
#99:


kurdt032 posted...
Guys check out this metal song metal is a real genre it's so legit guys it's technical guys please

Metal has some of the most beautiful music with amazing musicianship if you are more open-minded to it than "that screamo shit", as many close-minded nonthinkers are. It has the most diverse subgenres out of any form of music.

Like, I bet you think all those songs I posted are being screamed, when they're actually being sung with very nice and soothing vocals to fit the mood.

It also has the best musicians, along with jazz, and those are the only 2 genres that don't punish their musicians for showing their skill and ability in songwriting, like pretty much every other genre where basic ass listeners (such as yourself) can't handle it.

But hey, thanks for shitposting.

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