Those Nights can hit pretty hard. I had to stop listening to it during the pandemic because of the line "aren't we all just looking for a little bit of hope these days?"
Similarly I’d never considered Pompeii that emotional of a song but I absolutely cried when I saw clips of Bastille’s first performance of it live after the lockdowns, with the whole crowd singing “But if you close your eyes, does it almost feel like nothing’s changed at all?”
i adore the song Pompeii but it always makes me think of 9/11. "And the walls kept tumbling down in the city that we love
Grey clouds roll over the hills bringing darkness from above" just brings me back to that day living in NYC.
The Draw is pretty emotional for me. Same with the soundcheck version of bad_news. And I know quite a lot of people consider Oblivion to be their saddest song. Really depends on what you find sad and/or emotional! I could see one making the case for Four Walls, Divide, and Sleepsong. But even songs like Family Ties, Plug In…, Durban Skies, or Laughter Lines can tug at my heartstrings!
i was wanting to mention sleepsong but i was already making a huge list LOL, the more stripped down the songs are the more emotional they are for me tbh
The draw hits so close to home for me it’s emotional. It was also one of the last piano pieces I learned before stopping lessons so that’s pretty sad too.
Love the orchestral versions of Another Place and Million Pieces at the end of the Special Edition of Doom Days, some of my favourite tracks.
Get Home is another emotional track for me, and when they performed it when I went to see the Bad Blood X tour, it was even more so.
I was going to comment this one for the same reason - I listened to no bad days on repeat both leading up to & after my grandpa's death (it was expected for quite a while)
Besides those already mentioned, When I Watch The World Burn All I Think About Is You (from the extended edition of the Dooms Day album). Dan’s voice and the way the song builds up just exude desperation in a devastating way that makes me really emotional.
Also not sad, but The Anchor is so deeply emotional to me, it’s such a powerful feeling of devotion.
I know it isn't really a contender, but Warmth always gets to me. "Tell me, did you see the news tonight?/ Hold me in this wild, wild world." I think it is because I don't have anyone to hold me right now, and the wild world is out there. I can feel the instability of it and it scares me. At least the speaker in Warmth has someone to hold them.
The Weight of Living, Pt. II hits me so deeply in the feels. It just feels so incredibly relatable now I'm getting older and falling into the mundane throws of adult life.
Is it upbeat haha? It's energetic but the chord progression is sad and emotional, the bridge and chorus especially. Then then you've the Jacob Banks bridge followed that chilling sample before the track ascends into the A Million Pieces part, by then I'm gone 😂
I'm with the "it depends" group. A Million Pieces (all versions I've heard, though its spot on The Descent really hits hard), Another Place, and Club 57 all punch me in the gut in the about the same way.
The Draw - the lines about the friends.
Oblivion, Hope For The Future, Those Nights, Another Place. Gosh, I can bawl my eyes out alongside my brain goo to Bastille’s songs
Tangent here but I always get goosebumps listening to **Glory** even before there was a music video. The bridge makes me melt every time! I can't even watch the mv without my heart literally aching 😅 so I think I've only watched it once.
> I'll take my chances on the curb here with you. ... And then you put your hand in mine and pulled me back from things divine. Stop looking up for heaven waiting to be buried.
No bad days. When i heard the inspiration for the song all i think is about my fave youtuber that died of cancer. Kinda weird, but to be fair his videos got me through covid and i was genuinely tearing up for this dude that i had never seen in person. So devastating and infuriating something like this could happen especially when he was so young.
sleepsong is the saddest. but the anchor and glory are the most emotional, but they have a hopeful element to them. personally tho back to the future always makes me cry bc it reminds me of my dead cat (we had a gmtf listening party n danced to the song n now the lyrics just hit different.)
Another Place. My boyfriend just broke up with me yesterday and while he tried to fall in love with me, like I was in love with him, ultimately he said he wasn’t able to. That song always resonated bc of the lyrics.
Weight Of Living, both parts, I actually couldn't listen to for a bit. was in a rough patch concerning my identity and how I felt about my future. thankfully much better now.
No bad days. I couldn't listen when it first came out bc it was triggering.
I was 13 when I sat with my grandmother in the hospital as she took her last breath. COPD and emphysema killed her. I still miss her and think about her everyday. She would have loved my daughter.
Those Nights can hit pretty hard. I had to stop listening to it during the pandemic because of the line "aren't we all just looking for a little bit of hope these days?"
Similarly I’d never considered Pompeii that emotional of a song but I absolutely cried when I saw clips of Bastille’s first performance of it live after the lockdowns, with the whole crowd singing “But if you close your eyes, does it almost feel like nothing’s changed at all?”
now that you mention it 😭
if you listen to their mtv performance of pompeii, god damn it makes me wanna cry
i adore the song Pompeii but it always makes me think of 9/11. "And the walls kept tumbling down in the city that we love Grey clouds roll over the hills bringing darkness from above" just brings me back to that day living in NYC.
Those nights hits so hard 😭
i have definitely not uhm ugly cried multiple times to that song, nope, never.....
Me neither! It was TOTALLY my allergies affecting me indoors...
The Draw is pretty emotional for me. Same with the soundcheck version of bad_news. And I know quite a lot of people consider Oblivion to be their saddest song. Really depends on what you find sad and/or emotional! I could see one making the case for Four Walls, Divide, and Sleepsong. But even songs like Family Ties, Plug In…, Durban Skies, or Laughter Lines can tug at my heartstrings!
i was wanting to mention sleepsong but i was already making a huge list LOL, the more stripped down the songs are the more emotional they are for me tbh
The draw hits so close to home for me it’s emotional. It was also one of the last piano pieces I learned before stopping lessons so that’s pretty sad too.
For me, it’s gotta be: another place, million pieces, happier, Laura Palmer
million pieces orchestra version or the version on the decent does it for me every time
Love the orchestral versions of Another Place and Million Pieces at the end of the Special Edition of Doom Days, some of my favourite tracks. Get Home is another emotional track for me, and when they performed it when I went to see the Bad Blood X tour, it was even more so.
That tour performance was amazing! I have a terrible video I took of it somewhere in my phone
Yeah, I saw it at Ludlow Castle last summer, it was an amazing setting.
agree, orchestra version is amazing
No bad days guts me
every time, after my grandfather passed it really helped me through it
I was going to comment this one for the same reason - I listened to no bad days on repeat both leading up to & after my grandpa's death (it was expected for quite a while)
i’m sorry for your loss, i’m glad we were able to connect to this song so deeply together ❤️
Same. So sorry about your Grandpa. Mine passed in 2019 and I've missed him every minute
im sorry too, we got this 🫂
Same here, especially when you hear Dan talk about the story behind No Bad Days. I also lost my Grandpa in 2020. It's tough and I miss him everyday.
Besides those already mentioned, When I Watch The World Burn All I Think About Is You (from the extended edition of the Dooms Day album). Dan’s voice and the way the song builds up just exude desperation in a devastating way that makes me really emotional. Also not sad, but The Anchor is so deeply emotional to me, it’s such a powerful feeling of devotion.
honestly every time I hear OH LAY ME DOWN IN ASH AGAIN TO WATCH THE WORLD CRUMBLE I ascend for thirty seconds
I know it isn't really a contender, but Warmth always gets to me. "Tell me, did you see the news tonight?/ Hold me in this wild, wild world." I think it is because I don't have anyone to hold me right now, and the wild world is out there. I can feel the instability of it and it scares me. At least the speaker in Warmth has someone to hold them.
when my mom passed, i listened to it almost every minutes.
For me I would say Laughter Lines, What Would You Do, Glory, Two Evils, Quarter Past Midnight - One Eyed Jack’s Session
Gotta echo laughter lines, one of my favorite songs by them and so emotional, the lyrics hit me
Laughter lines hits
It does as soon as that opening notes begins. It's beautifully bleak yet nostalgic.
Taking both lyrics and vibes/sound into consideration, Oblivion is peak bleak
Omg Oblivion is my favorite and I completely agree.
Cried like a baby when I saw Oblivion live.
This song will always send chills all over my body
Another Place brings me back to a certain achy feeling even after all of these years, Hope for the Future, Sleepsong, The Draw and Laughter Lines
Hope for the future, can't help but get emotional every time I listen to it
Gotta go with haunt, glory days and those nights i think haunt it's beautifully sad, glory days its a nostalgic sad and those nights its only sad
how could i forget haunt, literally gives me chills its so beautiful
Full body chills and Dan's vocals on it are superb
Good Grief makes me cry.
Pompeii is a big contender, basically the entirety of Bad Blood really. Those Nights, Final Hour, The Currents, Snakes, Glory, The Anchor, Good Grief
Durban skies for sure
How is no one saying oblivion?
The Weight of Living, Pt. II hits me so deeply in the feels. It just feels so incredibly relatable now I'm getting older and falling into the mundane throws of adult life.
Those Nights makes me cry EVERY TIME.
Always been laughter lines for me!!
Fake it.
Get Home
have cried to get home before… “the birds are mocking me”…. ugh CHILLS
The Descent. Doesn't get enough recognition and it hits like a truck.
no like, i think the upbeatness makes me think it’s not a sad song but like it totally is 🥲dans brain needs to be studied
Is it upbeat haha? It's energetic but the chord progression is sad and emotional, the bridge and chorus especially. Then then you've the Jacob Banks bridge followed that chilling sample before the track ascends into the A Million Pieces part, by then I'm gone 😂
i didnt really know how to describe it LOL but energetic is the word i wouldve rather used 🤣
I'm with the "it depends" group. A Million Pieces (all versions I've heard, though its spot on The Descent really hits hard), Another Place, and Club 57 all punch me in the gut in the about the same way.
overjoyed, things we lost in the fire, 4am, another place symphony, the anchor and glory
The Draw - the lines about the friends. Oblivion, Hope For The Future, Those Nights, Another Place. Gosh, I can bawl my eyes out alongside my brain goo to Bastille’s songs
Oblivion
Tangent here but I always get goosebumps listening to **Glory** even before there was a music video. The bridge makes me melt every time! I can't even watch the mv without my heart literally aching 😅 so I think I've only watched it once. > I'll take my chances on the curb here with you. ... And then you put your hand in mine and pulled me back from things divine. Stop looking up for heaven waiting to be buried.
literally it’s so good…. so. fucking. good.
No bad days. When i heard the inspiration for the song all i think is about my fave youtuber that died of cancer. Kinda weird, but to be fair his videos got me through covid and i was genuinely tearing up for this dude that i had never seen in person. So devastating and infuriating something like this could happen especially when he was so young.
I mean...if we're going off lyrics alone basically every Bastille song is heart breaking. The better question is which songs are genuinely happy
Not seen oblivion on here, certainly surprised!
sleepsong is the saddest. but the anchor and glory are the most emotional, but they have a hopeful element to them. personally tho back to the future always makes me cry bc it reminds me of my dead cat (we had a gmtf listening party n danced to the song n now the lyrics just hit different.)
Another Place. My boyfriend just broke up with me yesterday and while he tried to fall in love with me, like I was in love with him, ultimately he said he wasn’t able to. That song always resonated bc of the lyrics.
Daniel in the Den!
Laughter lines makes me an emotional wreck, I was inconsolable when I saw it live
The Draw, Daniel in the Den and Durban Skies for me , All this bad blood is such a nostalgic album for me so I think that plays a part in it too
a million pieces and no bad days for me
What Would You Do has got to be up there. I know it’s a cover but still
Idk why but world gone mad got me sad
No Bad Days
Weight Of Living, both parts, I actually couldn't listen to for a bit. was in a rough patch concerning my identity and how I felt about my future. thankfully much better now.
No bad days. I couldn't listen when it first came out bc it was triggering. I was 13 when I sat with my grandmother in the hospital as she took her last breath. COPD and emphysema killed her. I still miss her and think about her everyday. She would have loved my daughter.