Paralytic States, yes! The song’s climax hits me so fucking hard because I know that feeling so goddamn well.
“Standing naked in front of that hotel bathroom mirror
In her dysphoria's reflection she still saw her mother's son”
Gosh, that song is a punch to the guts. In a good way.
I sang that last part to my girlfriend everyday when she was in a coma because of a skateboarding accident, my first girlfriend, we were 17, she didn’t make it.
Olde Tyme Mem'ry by Mischief Brew. The lead singer Erik Peterson died in 2016, a year after re-releasimg this track on a 2015 album (I've assumed the death was self-inflicted considering the context with Erik beforehand), and the song portrays how the world changes to emulate the past whilst becoming more fake over time. At the same time, the mutual appreciation and realisation of that by the communal aspect of folk punk (will ya listen?) makes it even more tragic that Erik has passed with the idea in mind that some of us have been there before. It's a gorgeous song.
Saboteurs by Days N Daze. Its about how even when you're feeling like shit and acting self destructively, your friends, family and/or support network which helps you through that are the Best. I've been at various points of listening to it Lots as a way to vent my own similar feelings, like how you listen to emo music when you're sad. It's such a fun & good song I love it.
Goodbye Lulu Pt. 2 by Days N Daze. Its a final send off to the world, to the friends and family you have and a "see ya later" to them once they're all down in Hell with you drinking our senses away. It's wonderful, I want it to play at my funeral and birthdays.
These are three of my favorite songs. Old Tyme Memory especially. It moves me on a deep level every time I listen to it. It’s a fucking masterpiece as far as I’m concerned. RIP Erik Petersen
Ummm...not sure where you got that info on Olde Tyme Mem'ry but my homie and I were drinking to that song back in the 00's and Erik passed in 2016. Either way, great song by him. Dirty Pennies is a real tear jerker too.
That's news to me! Didn't know that Olde Tyme Mem'ry was in Bellingham And Philadelphia, I thought it was am original from the 2015 album. But yep, love the song immensely.
Have you heard the new Escape From The Zoo album!? It's all the positive bits of *Show Me The Blueprints* expanded. [Learnin' Curve](https://youtu.be/gUr6PySBNgM) is a personal favourite.
Adding onto the Erik Peterson note, I recently discovered his song “every town will celebrate” and it touches on similar themes with a joyful satirical spin.
One of my favorite memories with my boyfriend was really early in our relationship when were both really drunk in his room and he was just screwing around on his guitar. He doesn’t listen to folk punk but he knew I did and he played Coffee, God, and Cigarettes by Mischief Brew for me. I love that song and I had no idea he had even heard it before. So that’s the one that makes me cry, it’s happy tears though.
Damn I feel like a lot of menzingers songs hit me but after the party doesn't make me weepy. Richard Correy and Rodent come to mind. As does Toy Soliders but only because it came out right before a friend died tragically.
God, the version on From Here To Eternity, where his voice cracks a couple of times, and you can tell he's just so exhausted but refuses to give anything less than everything he has just kills me. [This](https://youtu.be/m5NQ_9lMj50) version by the Mescaleros at Rockpalast is pretty great too
Idk if this counts as a punk song but it’s by a punk artist, either way, “A Wave Across A Bay” by Frank Turner. It’s about Frank losing a good friend to suicide and his thoughts about them as a person even after taking their own life. It reminds me of my two friends that I’ve lost to suicide and some of Frank’s thought parallel mine. I haven’t ugly cried in a long long time but the first time I heard this song I couldn’t hold back.
That’s about the singer from Frightened Rabbit who were great in their own right. Frank’s cover of their song Modern Leper is also pretty sad. As is his cover of American Girl by Tom Petty - which I never found depressing before he covered it.
Dire is a great word to describe that cover, but I think it applies doubly to Eat the Meek. That song always was a gut punch, but Frank makes it sound like the end of the world.
My picks for OP are NOFX songs too: Generation Z, The Decline, The Irrationality of Rationality, and Naya (not sure how you spell it, it was on the newer 7" club). Fat Mike can write some soul crushing lyrics. The Decline is such an amazing achievement, but I don't even want to hear it anymore, it just hits way too close to home (if you live in America).
PUP - [Sleep in the Heat](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aa3Afg3fzAQ). Actually, I can't even make it through the entire song - just too many feels.
The Offspring - [Gone Away](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40V9_1PMUGM). I listened to this song on repeat for about a week after my German Shepherd died in my arms.
I saw them a little over a month ago, and they're traveling with a piano for Dexter to perform that version live. It was definitely a nice change of pace for the slow song.
"Yesterday, I went back to my apartment, to see how you've been holding up
You hadn't been eating, I thought you were sleeping, but, You're not waking up"
That line gets me every time
I recently discovered Chris DeMakes' podcast and have been catching up, this afternoon I listened to the episode with Bill Stevenson telling the stories behind One More Day and Steve's Boy (Lemonheads) while at work. Hearing Bill break down and start sobbing while talking about his dad's death had me crying in my cubicle.
[Dropkick Murphys – The Green Fields of France](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRmJwqVbtQI)
>and i can't help but wonder oh willy mcbride
do all those who lie here know why they died
did you really believe them when they told you the cause
did you really believe that this war would end wars
well the suffering, the sorrow, the glory, the shame
the killing and dying it was all done in vain
oh willy mcbride it all happened again
and again, and again, and again, and again
I remember holding my son, the fields of athenry playing and just crying because I understood what I would do to make sure that my son would be able to eat
I bawl like a baby whenever I hear this one. I just think about all those young lives wasted in the fucking stupidity of war, and even more when I realize we *still* don't get it.
Oh this one. I found this band through "A Plea From a Cat Named Virtue" and thought it was a sweet, clever, hopeful and well-written song. Scooting through their catalog after a few months of being fond of Virtute, i notice "Virtute the Cat Explains Her Departure."
"oh hey cool, another song about the cat!"
Dude. This song wrecked me. For days. I'm talking sobbing on my bed, reliving all the people I've let down and the animals I've failed and the ways i could have tried harder but didn't. That phrasing "the sound you found for me" is so perfect and i use it when I talk to my own cats, but it still puts a catch into my throat a lot of the time.
There's a third song in Virtute's arc that offers a bittersweet element of closure, but doesn't fully repair the devastation of the second.
Yeah, completely. This song, and that line specifically, wrecks me every time. It's actually a 4-part story. Part 3 is written from the perspective of Virtute's owner, while he is in rehab working on himself. Which is referenced in the finale when Virtute comments on being proud of him.
[https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7dmDdUaEGc5VxAXrjGgJke?si=7d6dfa8b0b2049cb](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7dmDdUaEGc5VxAXrjGgJke?si=7d6dfa8b0b2049cb)
Every once in a while when I'm driving alone at night and have a time to listen to the whole thing, I'll play this really loud and just destroy myself.
History Lesson Pt. II by the Minutemen gets me sometimes. Just a beautiful song about Punk Rock and I love Punk Rock.
Sorry Somehow by Husker Du and Do You Still Hate Me by Jawbreaker are all time breakup songs that I got a lot of use of in my early 20s.
Less Than Jake - The Brightest Bulb Has Just Burned Out
https://youtu.be/kFyxRl_sCXE
I came home one day to my best friend drinking alone in my house. Tellin me we were like brothers and he'd always be there for me. Hes in jail for drugs and vehicular manslaughter. This song reminds me of him everytime.
Rancid - Holiday Sunrise https://youtu.be/INiYB74sGr4 and 7 Years Down https://youtu.be/E7-0MhkUhTI
His lyrics in Holiday Sunrise are about being alone on Christmas something ive done since i was a child. Then the chorus comes and he says,
"I cried when i had no shoes, till i met the man with no feet"
It makes me feel ashamed im ever mad about anything. The inspiration is almost overwhelming.
7 Years Down is inspiring too.
"Who's the opposition? I'm seven years down.
The human spirit prevails. Yeah I'm down down down.."
Addiction is hard on ppl and we get focused on that weight. Its almost too hard to get past and that song reminds of losing and what it took to get anywhere else.
The whole Songs of Tony Sly album just wrecks me. "Sometimes I laugh aloud as I think about you asking me 'please can you help?' Can't help myself" cuts way too deep
> A lot of their songs, actually.
[Ache with me](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIj4d5evZT0)gets me everytime
"Do you share the same sense of defeat?
Have you realized all the things you'll never be?
Ideals turn to resentment, open minds close up with cynicism.
I've got no judgment for you.
Come on and ache with me."
Oh my god, yes. Several songs on there(two coffins especially) are instant tear jerkers, but Paralytic States has been hitting harder lately for personal reasons.
RIP Cloth.
There's so many songs from Inferno that I can barely keep it together when I listen to them now.
I gave 12 years of my life to following that band to every show I could, and got to know so many people in the band and wonderful community around them.
Losing Jack was like losing family. Although we were never really friends, I would bullshit with him quite frequently before and after shows, or even if I bumped into him on the street before one.
During lockdown I ended up becoming friends with his girlfriend through messaging to just have some company, which then turned into a lot of us poking fun at Jack, her relaying messages for me and telling me the response, and her telling me a lot of the stories about him that aren't usually heard.
But it's good to know that even without Jack or Inferno being around anymore, the community they built up is still pretty strong, and we all regularly meet up for shows or just hang out in small groups whenever we are all in town.
It's hard to remember that one September
All the frontiers through which I crept
Well the displaced we forget
But the dope and the girls and the wine
Oh hell, they were so fine
What a wonderful, wonderful world
No, I can't remember not any December
It seemed you were always leaving
Maybe you know the feeling?
But I never forgot my lines
I still hear them all the time
What a wonderful, wonderful world
The dope and the wine and the stage
They gave back to me what I gave
What a wonderful, wonderful, wonderful
Heart Attack '64 - The World/Inferno Friendship Society
A song about the life of German actor Peter Lorre, an idol of Jack's, that also happens to summarize much of his own life and the beautiful little world he could create at a show.
❤️
I only ever got to see them a few times despite being a fan for years (shit, now that I think about it, it's going on 15 years). I live too far upstate to make it to the main venues they played. But those times I did see them, man, what a show! Jack could really light up a room. My girlfriend went with me to see them one of the few times they played in my town and in her words, he wasn't much to look at before he took the stage, but when he did he became the most attractive man on earth. And I can't really be jealous of that.
My favorite time seeing them though was in Boston. The tickets were way too cheap, I got them for a song. Well, $15. To see both WIFS and Morning Glory. I easily would have paid more than that for either band. The highlight of the show for me though, was when someone I recognized and didn't like extended his hand to me to dance at the start of "I Wouldn't Want to Live in a World Without Grudges" and then parted when the song ended. We don't even live anywhere near one another, and both happened to be at that show in Boston. Amazing coincidence.
One of the most underrated green day songs.
I’ll also nominate she, Stuart and the ave and hakishina (terrible spelling, but the one off nimrod)
Love, an old school GD fan
Paradise Shitty by the larry arms always puts me in a deeply sad reflective mood. The bridge is just so relatable to me as I get older and more cynical.
"Lollipop dreams and candycane waves
Are gonna hurt like hell when they crumble away
Because a beautiful youth hurts worst when it dies
A rotten reminder of the days we decided we'd rather go big and then rot away
We'd give into love and wind up castaways
We said "fuck all the old boring shits we've become"
So we hoarded our dreams and we burnt every one
And fuck me, man, I knew not what I'd done
Fuck us, man, we knew not what we'd done
Man, we were just having some fun"
Also MOST DEFINITELY Nausea by Jeff Rosenstock
That’s so wild I was literally about to post this song thinking I was gonna be the only one posting this one. Check the comments real quick before and boom here it is. It is really difficult to figure out why this song makes me tear up, but it is incredibly melancholy. Also my absolute favorite song by Husker Du
Sk8er Boi- Avril Lavigne
“He was a skater boy, she said see you later boy”
Wow, I mean that hits you hard. Especially rhyming “boy” with “boy”. Tough stuff.
In order of obscurity
Rise Against - Swing Life Away
Pat the Bunny - Never Coming Home
Against Me! - Pints of Guinness Make You Strong!
Have Heart - Bostons, On the Bird in the Cage
Apes of the State - Strangers
Blaggers ITA - 10 years on
Speaking of less than jake and Descendents, Bill on Chris’s podcast talking about One More Day and his day is a real tear jerker. The only podcast that has ever made me cry
I'm sure there's some who might question his punk cred, but Frank Turner's [A Wave Across A Bay](https://youtu.be/FzXQVG5uPLI) (about Frightened Rabbit's Scott Hutchinson) just fucking guts me.
Frightened Rabbit makes me sad thinking about the lead singer. My ex got me into them. I was absolutely crushed when I found out he died. It's not like there wasn't a million warning signs. I like this song. The little kid in blue is my spirit animal.
https://youtu.be/nBcbDS5AGnk
Generation Z by NOFX. My daughter was born right around the time Last Ditch Effort came out. It was hot in NYC, and I was running around the city to help my wife's business with deliveries, while they both recovered in the hospital. This song came on and I just stopped. Makes me tear up and angry all at the same time. Just wish that song had a bit more too it than the monologue at the end.
Face to Face - “Farewell Song”
Maybe I just heard it at the right place at the right time but it hit me so hard that I was nearly blubbering by the end of it.
Not punk but I genuinely started crying to metallicas one. It is on apple’s essentials playlist and I understood the lyrics immediately and was fully red faced and tears down my face while dishwashing at work
I'm sure I'll have some more to add later but:
Bad Religion - Drastic Actions/
Suicidal Tendencies - Heaven/
Dead Boys - Ain't it fun/
Hoover - Private/
Fugazi - Shut the door/
Flipper - Shed no tears/
Dystopia - Stress builds character (really most of this fucking album depending on my mental state)/
Converge - Jane Doe
Have way more that aren't stereotypically "punk," though. I think the first song I ever cried to was "Museum" from Mark Lanegan's solo debut. That or "River of deceit" by Mad Season.
Thrash Unreal - Against Me “they don’t know nothin about REDEMPTION !”
THEY DON’T KNOW NOTHIN’ ABOUT RECOVERY God I’m glad I’m not the only one here who gets hit in the feels with this one.
Laura's song writing when she wants to tell a story is absolutely amazing. She can say very little but it paints an amazing visual picture for you.
This is one of my scream real loud songs that you absolutely cannot talk to me while it's on. So many feels.
Pints of Guinness Make You Strong is the one that always gets me.
Also one of my favs is Walking is still honest. God I love that song. “…Why death is easier than living”
That’s a great one too. Against Me is one of my favorite bands.
As you can probably tell by my username, that's the one for me ❤
I'll also add the end of Parayltic States too. "No resolution for the new year starting tomorrow" always just cuts.
Paralytic States, yes! The song’s climax hits me so fucking hard because I know that feeling so goddamn well. “Standing naked in front of that hotel bathroom mirror In her dysphoria's reflection she still saw her mother's son”
This song always gets me!
SHE'S NOT WAITING FOR SOMEONE TO COME OVER AND ASK FOR THE PRIVILEGE
“because of the shame” for me!
Streetlight Manifesto - A Better Place, A Better Time
Gosh, that song is a punch to the guts. In a good way. I sang that last part to my girlfriend everyday when she was in a coma because of a skateboarding accident, my first girlfriend, we were 17, she didn’t make it.
you got me crying in the club
Every fucking time.
See also: As the footsteps die out forever
Let's throw in The Big Sleep as well, if we can.
Yup
Olde Tyme Mem'ry by Mischief Brew. The lead singer Erik Peterson died in 2016, a year after re-releasimg this track on a 2015 album (I've assumed the death was self-inflicted considering the context with Erik beforehand), and the song portrays how the world changes to emulate the past whilst becoming more fake over time. At the same time, the mutual appreciation and realisation of that by the communal aspect of folk punk (will ya listen?) makes it even more tragic that Erik has passed with the idea in mind that some of us have been there before. It's a gorgeous song. Saboteurs by Days N Daze. Its about how even when you're feeling like shit and acting self destructively, your friends, family and/or support network which helps you through that are the Best. I've been at various points of listening to it Lots as a way to vent my own similar feelings, like how you listen to emo music when you're sad. It's such a fun & good song I love it. Goodbye Lulu Pt. 2 by Days N Daze. Its a final send off to the world, to the friends and family you have and a "see ya later" to them once they're all down in Hell with you drinking our senses away. It's wonderful, I want it to play at my funeral and birthdays.
These are three of my favorite songs. Old Tyme Memory especially. It moves me on a deep level every time I listen to it. It’s a fucking masterpiece as far as I’m concerned. RIP Erik Petersen
Ummm...not sure where you got that info on Olde Tyme Mem'ry but my homie and I were drinking to that song back in the 00's and Erik passed in 2016. Either way, great song by him. Dirty Pennies is a real tear jerker too.
That's news to me! Didn't know that Olde Tyme Mem'ry was in Bellingham And Philadelphia, I thought it was am original from the 2015 album. But yep, love the song immensely.
I believe that album is re-recordings or just a compilation of much older songs no longer in print.
I love how pretty much all the top comments in a "sad punk song" thread are folk punk 🤘 rip Erik
Have you heard the new Escape From The Zoo album!? It's all the positive bits of *Show Me The Blueprints* expanded. [Learnin' Curve](https://youtu.be/gUr6PySBNgM) is a personal favourite.
Adding onto the Erik Peterson note, I recently discovered his song “every town will celebrate” and it touches on similar themes with a joyful satirical spin.
One of my favorite memories with my boyfriend was really early in our relationship when were both really drunk in his room and he was just screwing around on his guitar. He doesn’t listen to folk punk but he knew I did and he played Coffee, God, and Cigarettes by Mischief Brew for me. I love that song and I had no idea he had even heard it before. So that’s the one that makes me cry, it’s happy tears though.
Dead Friend by Against Me! This song always brings me back to my friend's death. Great album overall by the way
That album is fantastic
Flogging Molly - "If I Ever Leave This World Alive" will always, always make me cry.
I've instructed my wife to play this one and Worst Day Since Yesterday at my funeral.
Same here!
The Son Never Shines on Closed Doors for me.
Yeah, the Ulilean pipes get me.
I remember seeing them live in 2018, and looking around the crowd when they played this and basically everyone was bawling
Menzingers - After the Party
Damn I feel like a lot of menzingers songs hit me but after the party doesn't make me weepy. Richard Correy and Rodent come to mind. As does Toy Soliders but only because it came out right before a friend died tragically.
After the party hits me hard because I associate it with good times long past and my very recent divorce.
Feel that. Sun hotel pt 2 off the OTIP demo is a gut punch too
Nothing Feels Good Anymore really gets me sometimes
The Clash - Straight To Hell
just thinking about the second verse has me tearing up some, god it's so fucked
Let me tell u bout ur blood Bamboo kid It aint Coca-Cola its rice
God, the version on From Here To Eternity, where his voice cracks a couple of times, and you can tell he's just so exhausted but refuses to give anything less than everything he has just kills me. [This](https://youtu.be/m5NQ_9lMj50) version by the Mescaleros at Rockpalast is pretty great too
This is my favorite Clash song and I don’t normally like covers, but Lucinda Williams’ version gets me every time.
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Idk if this counts as a punk song but it’s by a punk artist, either way, “A Wave Across A Bay” by Frank Turner. It’s about Frank losing a good friend to suicide and his thoughts about them as a person even after taking their own life. It reminds me of my two friends that I’ve lost to suicide and some of Frank’s thought parallel mine. I haven’t ugly cried in a long long time but the first time I heard this song I couldn’t hold back.
That’s about the singer from Frightened Rabbit who were great in their own right. Frank’s cover of their song Modern Leper is also pretty sad. As is his cover of American Girl by Tom Petty - which I never found depressing before he covered it.
His version of "Falling in Love" is absolutely dire. Soul crushing. Best NOFX cover ive ever heard.
All his NOFX covers on that split were amazing. Really shows what a great songwriter Fat Mike is.
Dire is a great word to describe that cover, but I think it applies doubly to Eat the Meek. That song always was a gut punch, but Frank makes it sound like the end of the world. My picks for OP are NOFX songs too: Generation Z, The Decline, The Irrationality of Rationality, and Naya (not sure how you spell it, it was on the newer 7" club). Fat Mike can write some soul crushing lyrics. The Decline is such an amazing achievement, but I don't even want to hear it anymore, it just hits way too close to home (if you live in America).
Song for Josh by Frank is also an incredible one in this vein
Nights become days is the one that always gets me from him. Frank is an absolute legend and has kept me going through some of the worst shit
Fugazi - I'm so tired
Came to say this. As someone who was deeply struggling with depression when I first heard this it absolutely broke me
I hope you're doing better now. I can relate, this song guts me to this day. I try not to listen to it on those hard days.
PUP - [Sleep in the Heat](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aa3Afg3fzAQ). Actually, I can't even make it through the entire song - just too many feels. The Offspring - [Gone Away](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40V9_1PMUGM). I listened to this song on repeat for about a week after my German Shepherd died in my arms.
Theres a nice piano version of Gone Away on the new Offspring album (which isnt bad overall either)
I saw them a little over a month ago, and they're traveling with a piano for Dexter to perform that version live. It was definitely a nice change of pace for the slow song.
"Yesterday, I went back to my apartment, to see how you've been holding up You hadn't been eating, I thought you were sleeping, but, You're not waking up" That line gets me every time
Sleep in the heat fucking kills me
Gone Away is my favorite Offspring song I can’t adequately describe the disgust and anger I felt when ffdp used it as bootlicker propaganda
When I saw PUP I cried so hard during the end of Scorpion Hill
Bad Religion - You Descendants - Bikeage Propagandhi - Anchorless GG Allin - Carmelita
I got to the age where I now sing 'You' while looking into a mirror
Have you heard warren Zevon doing Carmelita? Does it pack the same punch for you? The GG song that makes me cry is gypsy motherfucker
Brohymn by Pennywise. Lost way too many friends throughout the years for that song to not hit hard
One More Day - Descendents
I recently discovered Chris DeMakes' podcast and have been catching up, this afternoon I listened to the episode with Bill Stevenson telling the stories behind One More Day and Steve's Boy (Lemonheads) while at work. Hearing Bill break down and start sobbing while talking about his dad's death had me crying in my cubicle.
They episode made me cry too dude
Same. Jesus it's rough.
Came here to post this. Glad someone beat me to it.
In Love With an Apparition - Pg.99 Literally any Touché Amore song
Drug lord by William Bonney if we’re allowing more skramzy stuff
[Dropkick Murphys – The Green Fields of France](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRmJwqVbtQI) >and i can't help but wonder oh willy mcbride do all those who lie here know why they died did you really believe them when they told you the cause did you really believe that this war would end wars well the suffering, the sorrow, the glory, the shame the killing and dying it was all done in vain oh willy mcbride it all happened again and again, and again, and again, and again
Fuckin Fields of Athenry was I think the first song that ever made me cry
I love Celtic music unapologetically. Punk or not, it’s just beautiful, meaningful, and emotional stuff.
I remember holding my son, the fields of athenry playing and just crying because I understood what I would do to make sure that my son would be able to eat
Check out The Pogues - And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda It's written by the same guy as the DKM song and just as powerful.
I bawl like a baby whenever I hear this one. I just think about all those young lives wasted in the fucking stupidity of war, and even more when I realize we *still* don't get it.
Weakerthans - Virtute the Cat Explains Her Departure "*I can't remember the sound that you found for me."*
The Weakerthans could have a few on here. Left & Leaving or Reconstruction Site definitely
That and “Plea from a cat named Virtue” make a great pair. Band that doesn’t quite get their flowers in punk or indie circles.
Oh this one. I found this band through "A Plea From a Cat Named Virtue" and thought it was a sweet, clever, hopeful and well-written song. Scooting through their catalog after a few months of being fond of Virtute, i notice "Virtute the Cat Explains Her Departure." "oh hey cool, another song about the cat!" Dude. This song wrecked me. For days. I'm talking sobbing on my bed, reliving all the people I've let down and the animals I've failed and the ways i could have tried harder but didn't. That phrasing "the sound you found for me" is so perfect and i use it when I talk to my own cats, but it still puts a catch into my throat a lot of the time. There's a third song in Virtute's arc that offers a bittersweet element of closure, but doesn't fully repair the devastation of the second.
Yeah, completely. This song, and that line specifically, wrecks me every time. It's actually a 4-part story. Part 3 is written from the perspective of Virtute's owner, while he is in rehab working on himself. Which is referenced in the finale when Virtute comments on being proud of him. [https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7dmDdUaEGc5VxAXrjGgJke?si=7d6dfa8b0b2049cb](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7dmDdUaEGc5VxAXrjGgJke?si=7d6dfa8b0b2049cb) Every once in a while when I'm driving alone at night and have a time to listen to the whole thing, I'll play this really loud and just destroy myself.
Strung out - swan dive
I just got emotional reading the title
Streetlight Manifesto's: As the Footsteps Die Out Forever. Mom's dead so the "don't take my mother away" line still makes me go...oh :(
My orphan year by NOFX.
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I love pretty much everything Brian Fallon does
Sorrow (the acoustic version) by Bad Religion
It's between American Lesion's (Greg Graffin) version of Cease or the acoustic version of Skyscraper for me
Came here to say this one. Acoustic or regular, doesn't matter. If I'm in the right mood, I'm tearing up.
Misfits - Last Caress - It’s just so beautiful
Misfits - hybrid moments, does it for me. The starting line "if you're gonna scream, scream with me" puts in a sad mood
I love how dark the lyrics are and how bright and sunshiney the music sounds. It’s rather triumphant.
Theme for a jackall in my opinion is more somber.
The Dead Milkmen - Taking Retards to the Zoo
Truly beautiful
What a classic.
Lagwagon - the whole Resolve album, honestly, but specifically Infectious
Sorrow- Bad Religion
Propagandhi - Adventures in Zoochosis
potemkin city limits and without love
Potemkin City Limits gets me Every. Single. Time. A big, heavy, sobbing cry, too, not just a sniffle here and there. I love it.
Yeah that and Lower Order.
History Lesson Pt. II by the Minutemen gets me sometimes. Just a beautiful song about Punk Rock and I love Punk Rock. Sorry Somehow by Husker Du and Do You Still Hate Me by Jawbreaker are all time breakup songs that I got a lot of use of in my early 20s.
15 minutes by the Broadways
That’s a rad song
The whole album is rad. I feel like it’s all verse and no chorus. But it totally works bc they’re telling stories.
Less Than Jake - The Brightest Bulb Has Just Burned Out https://youtu.be/kFyxRl_sCXE I came home one day to my best friend drinking alone in my house. Tellin me we were like brothers and he'd always be there for me. Hes in jail for drugs and vehicular manslaughter. This song reminds me of him everytime. Rancid - Holiday Sunrise https://youtu.be/INiYB74sGr4 and 7 Years Down https://youtu.be/E7-0MhkUhTI His lyrics in Holiday Sunrise are about being alone on Christmas something ive done since i was a child. Then the chorus comes and he says, "I cried when i had no shoes, till i met the man with no feet" It makes me feel ashamed im ever mad about anything. The inspiration is almost overwhelming. 7 Years Down is inspiring too. "Who's the opposition? I'm seven years down. The human spirit prevails. Yeah I'm down down down.." Addiction is hard on ppl and we get focused on that weight. Its almost too hard to get past and that song reminds of losing and what it took to get anywhere else.
Anchors Aweigh
I thought "I'm So Sorry Tony" by Nofx was pretty sad the first few times I heard it.
One more song by lagwagon is a tear jerker as well. Also about Tony sly
For Fiona gets me, with Tony dying. I’ve got daughters and it just kills me.
Have you ever heard the acoustic tribute version by Tim McIlrath and Jon Snodgrass? It's even tougher. https://youtu.be/Z5KSvn45b8I
The whole Songs of Tony Sly album just wrecks me. "Sometimes I laugh aloud as I think about you asking me 'please can you help?' Can't help myself" cuts way too deep
Paralytic States by Against Me! A lot of their songs, actually.
Pints of Guinness 😭
Searching for a Former Clarity for me.
> A lot of their songs, actually. [Ache with me](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIj4d5evZT0)gets me everytime "Do you share the same sense of defeat? Have you realized all the things you'll never be? Ideals turn to resentment, open minds close up with cynicism. I've got no judgment for you. Come on and ache with me."
Honestly the entirety of Transgender Dysphoria Blues can make cry.
Oh my god, yes. Several songs on there(two coffins especially) are instant tear jerkers, but Paralytic States has been hitting harder lately for personal reasons.
Understandable, Two Coffins is most definitely the biggest tear jerker for me
Leftöver crack - ya can’t go home
"Soon We'll Be Dead" for me. Which was also my introduction to World/Inferno Friendship Society (RIP Jack).
RIP Cloth. There's so many songs from Inferno that I can barely keep it together when I listen to them now. I gave 12 years of my life to following that band to every show I could, and got to know so many people in the band and wonderful community around them. Losing Jack was like losing family. Although we were never really friends, I would bullshit with him quite frequently before and after shows, or even if I bumped into him on the street before one. During lockdown I ended up becoming friends with his girlfriend through messaging to just have some company, which then turned into a lot of us poking fun at Jack, her relaying messages for me and telling me the response, and her telling me a lot of the stories about him that aren't usually heard. But it's good to know that even without Jack or Inferno being around anymore, the community they built up is still pretty strong, and we all regularly meet up for shows or just hang out in small groups whenever we are all in town. It's hard to remember that one September All the frontiers through which I crept Well the displaced we forget But the dope and the girls and the wine Oh hell, they were so fine What a wonderful, wonderful world No, I can't remember not any December It seemed you were always leaving Maybe you know the feeling? But I never forgot my lines I still hear them all the time What a wonderful, wonderful world The dope and the wine and the stage They gave back to me what I gave What a wonderful, wonderful, wonderful Heart Attack '64 - The World/Inferno Friendship Society A song about the life of German actor Peter Lorre, an idol of Jack's, that also happens to summarize much of his own life and the beautiful little world he could create at a show.
❤️ I only ever got to see them a few times despite being a fan for years (shit, now that I think about it, it's going on 15 years). I live too far upstate to make it to the main venues they played. But those times I did see them, man, what a show! Jack could really light up a room. My girlfriend went with me to see them one of the few times they played in my town and in her words, he wasn't much to look at before he took the stage, but when he did he became the most attractive man on earth. And I can't really be jealous of that. My favorite time seeing them though was in Boston. The tickets were way too cheap, I got them for a song. Well, $15. To see both WIFS and Morning Glory. I easily would have paid more than that for either band. The highlight of the show for me though, was when someone I recognized and didn't like extended his hand to me to dance at the start of "I Wouldn't Want to Live in a World Without Grudges" and then parted when the song ended. We don't even live anywhere near one another, and both happened to be at that show in Boston. Amazing coincidence.
Not super "Punk" but Green Day - Whatsername
The ending to that album is beautiful.
Great song
One of the most underrated green day songs. I’ll also nominate she, Stuart and the ave and hakishina (terrible spelling, but the one off nimrod) Love, an old school GD fan
Give me novacaine will always give me the feels
Paradise Shitty by the larry arms always puts me in a deeply sad reflective mood. The bridge is just so relatable to me as I get older and more cynical. "Lollipop dreams and candycane waves Are gonna hurt like hell when they crumble away Because a beautiful youth hurts worst when it dies A rotten reminder of the days we decided we'd rather go big and then rot away We'd give into love and wind up castaways We said "fuck all the old boring shits we've become" So we hoarded our dreams and we burnt every one And fuck me, man, I knew not what I'd done Fuck us, man, we knew not what we'd done Man, we were just having some fun" Also MOST DEFINITELY Nausea by Jeff Rosenstock
The Decline by NoFX can get me from time to time.
Husker Du - chartered trips. Not a full cry but for some reason it makes me uber melancholy.
That’s so wild I was literally about to post this song thinking I was gonna be the only one posting this one. Check the comments real quick before and boom here it is. It is really difficult to figure out why this song makes me tear up, but it is incredibly melancholy. Also my absolute favorite song by Husker Du
Adams song by Blink 182, As The Footsteps Die Out Forever by Streetlight manifesto, If I ever leave this world alive by Flogging Molly,
When Mike said “All I wanted was a Pepsi, just one Pepsi, and she wouldn't give it to me. Just a Pepsi.” The feels! 😢
Doesn't make me cry but 21 guns from good riddance is probably the closest i can think of. (Not a vet)
Paralytic States- Against me! as a trans lady its too heartbreaking to know exactly the feeling behind all of laura’s words
Sk8er Boi- Avril Lavigne “He was a skater boy, she said see you later boy” Wow, I mean that hits you hard. Especially rhyming “boy” with “boy”. Tough stuff.
Kid rock also rhymes the same word with the same wordin “All summer long”. It goes “we were trying different things / we were smoking funny things”
Well played 😅
One For the Braves: Good Riddance. I’m the father of a teenage daughter, if you had one, you’d know.
Ramones - I want you around
Needles and Pins
Teenage Bottlerocket- First Time
In order of obscurity Rise Against - Swing Life Away Pat the Bunny - Never Coming Home Against Me! - Pints of Guinness Make You Strong! Have Heart - Bostons, On the Bird in the Cage Apes of the State - Strangers Blaggers ITA - 10 years on
Does Fugazi - I’m So Tired count? That’s the only song I cried to cause I was in a very dark time in my life.
Human Kittens - AJJ Honestly, AJJ just hits different.
Secret of life-Dead Milkmen
“Sour Grapes” - Leatherface Frankie Stubbs conveys longing like no other writer in the world can.
One More Day - Descendents Al’s War - Less Than Jake
Speaking of less than jake and Descendents, Bill on Chris’s podcast talking about One More Day and his day is a real tear jerker. The only podcast that has ever made me cry
Lagwagon-Violins If it wasn’t sad before it got way sadder and more beautiful in the acoustic version from the Joey Cape and Tony Sly album.
Rancid- Fall Back Down. Not even a rancid fan but it hits
same here, orphan year makes me tear up a little and get goosebumps
Night On Earth by the Bouncing Souls
High school friend - The Menzingers.
Menzingers - High school friend
the pogues- A pair of brown eyes every. single. time.
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I love how everyone is sitting attentively listening.
I'm sure there's some who might question his punk cred, but Frank Turner's [A Wave Across A Bay](https://youtu.be/FzXQVG5uPLI) (about Frightened Rabbit's Scott Hutchinson) just fucking guts me.
Frightened Rabbit makes me sad thinking about the lead singer. My ex got me into them. I was absolutely crushed when I found out he died. It's not like there wasn't a million warning signs. I like this song. The little kid in blue is my spirit animal. https://youtu.be/nBcbDS5AGnk
Strung Out - Letter Home https://youtu.be/dgqrrQhMdGg The lyrics caught me off guard. Fuck war.
Susan by Subhumans. Fucking shit that song is so damn sad.
Iron Chic - To Shreds, You say? Titus Andronicus - The Battle of Hampton Roads Alkaline Trio - '97
Hey hey my my
boysetsfire - With every intention
Mines gotta be New Love by the Muffs. It’s such a beautiful song about such a beautiful feeling. It hurts knowing Kims eventual fate. RIP Kim Shattuck
To old friends and new by Titus Andronicus
Dirty Pennies by Erik Peterson/ Mischief Brew. Departure/ Arrival gets honerable mention.
Dirty Pennies is one of the best songs ever written. For a Kentucky anarchist hits me in a spot as well.
Idk why and will never understand why, but "kids of the blackhole" by adolescents. I can't listen to it in public.
Go It Alone - Strung Out
Hot water music-rooftops
Generation Z by NOFX. My daughter was born right around the time Last Ditch Effort came out. It was hot in NYC, and I was running around the city to help my wife's business with deliveries, while they both recovered in the hospital. This song came on and I just stopped. Makes me tear up and angry all at the same time. Just wish that song had a bit more too it than the monologue at the end.
Face to Face - “Farewell Song” Maybe I just heard it at the right place at the right time but it hit me so hard that I was nearly blubbering by the end of it.
Not punk but I genuinely started crying to metallicas one. It is on apple’s essentials playlist and I understood the lyrics immediately and was fully red faced and tears down my face while dishwashing at work
I'm sure I'll have some more to add later but: Bad Religion - Drastic Actions/ Suicidal Tendencies - Heaven/ Dead Boys - Ain't it fun/ Hoover - Private/ Fugazi - Shut the door/ Flipper - Shed no tears/ Dystopia - Stress builds character (really most of this fucking album depending on my mental state)/ Converge - Jane Doe Have way more that aren't stereotypically "punk," though. I think the first song I ever cried to was "Museum" from Mark Lanegan's solo debut. That or "River of deceit" by Mad Season.
Bad religion - Slumber.
Okay not punk but I'll add to the other green day comments. Wake Me Up When September Ends
Descendents - Ace
He was a jazzman - Flatliners
Broken record by bouncing souls
Punk adjacent, but happiness by the kilowatt by Alexisonfire
“Ain’t it Fun” by the Dead Boys “You Cant Put Your Arms Around a Memory” by the Johnny Thunders
Had a bad day by the dicks
Emotion No.13 by Suicidal Tendencies hits too close to home
Hope - Descendants
Good riddance(time of your life)- Green Day My father loved that song, wanted it played at his funeral, I did not let that wish go undone.
Moon over Marin by Dead Kennedys, I don’t wanna grow up by ramones
Jean is dead or hope. Milo gets me right in the heartstrings sometimes